David W. Martin, Author at Cleveland Scene

Fade Away

He was a superhero at Ohio State. But Jimmy Jackson’s NBA career glistens no more.

Developer Bart Wolstein cries green in his quest for a superstore.

Long hours, weeping families, dead bodies. The unenviable trade of the young mortician.

A clubland prince battles the demons of his father’s murder.

Charter schools were a nice idea . . . if the goal was poor results.

Think prisons are stocked with rapists and murderers? Meet Jabar Butler, shoe salesman and minor-league coke dealer.

Small private schools like Notre Dame College learn to be aggressive, b-e-aggressive.

After a scrape with the law, Terry Barbu unveils his latest pleasure dome.

For seven years, the U.S. has claimed Algimantas Dailide helped the Nazis slaughter Lithuanian Jews. He maintains he was a clueless bureaucrat.

‘Citizens’ group’ braying for legal reform is really a front for big tobacco.

Cheap Trick’s Tom Petersson explains why a No. 1 song isn’t such a good thing.

Wilbert’s; Theme song for Cleveland; Bash Rolling Stone; Cleveland Jazz Orchestra