If you are into graffiti art and you haven’t stumbled upon Train Ave. on Cleveland’s near west side – you are missing out.

We took some photos of the ever-evolving interior of the D.I.Y. pad on Cleveland’s Westside known as “Tower 2012”.

Wearing cowboy hats, boots, big belt-buckles and enough denim to gain Canadian citizenship, we’d gone out on that journey on a Friday night to document the culture of suburban cowboy-themed bars, but instead found ourselves witnessing the end of the modern country-western renaissance…

If you live in the suburbs, you certainly don’t want to be “that” neighbor. There’s one on every block, you know, the “bad” neighbor, the one who aids and abets the dreaded dandelion.

Sometimes I can’t sleep because I get the lyrics of “God Bless America” stuck in my head…

Land of Pierogies, Polka and Bowling

We have compiled a list of important ways to earn “BUM PROPS”…

“Is that art!? What does that mean!? Can you tell me!? You can’t tell me, can you!?”

U.S. Programs Playing Catch-Up With Mexican Television

“What you white kids doin’ down here – YOU GONNA GET SHOT!”
- spoken by a child riding by on a BMX in the summer of ‘06 on Manhattan Ave.