Laura Putre, Author at Cleveland Scene

A Midwinter’s White Dream

Cleveland’s black actors say the Play House is giving them the shaft.

10 tips for living vicariously through rockers and rappers.

These days no one dares leave home without a camcorder.

A smoking mom is a big name in puff films.

The once-raucous People’s Art Show now barely makes a peep.

Mike Baker hopes an all-black crowd will buy into his barbed humor.

The city’s Squeaky Clean Patrol dips into its bucket of paint — and wipes out a legendary urban art gallery.

Parma stays true to its all-white ways.

Could Cleveland and hair metal be breaking up at last? Talk amongst yourselves.

Cleveland’s spoken-word readings get real mundane real fast.

A Cleveland architect wants to develop the lakefront. But not the part in his backyard.

Hip pro-lifers hope to catch a new wave of recruits.