For the first time in nearly 50 years, since Scene was founded in July of 1970, there will be no print edition this week.
We have made the decision to pause the print product for a variety of reasons, all obviously tying back to the coronavirus pandemic.
Scene, like other altweeklies, serves its readership with both timely news as well as stories and advertising based on gathering together, for concerts, meals, events and parties.
It is those very things that, by edict of the state of Ohio or through voluntary decisions, have now been put on old to help curtail the spread of the coronavirus. To prevent as many deaths as possible, to help flatten the curve and assure that our healthcare system maintains the ability to deal with and treat patients, we can not get together. And we can not, in good faith, ask staff to come to the office, ask drivers to distribute a paper, or suggest in any way that anyone should be leaving their houses except for all but the most necessary of reasons. We are all responsible for each other.
Ohio has been a leader in taking aggressive measures to help slow the spread of the pandemic, and those measures have arrived with an astounding frequency since the middle of last week. News is changing not by the day but by the minute.
We will continue to report and publish online like normal, even if these are not normal stories or times, including ways you can support local businesses and each other.
By working together and listening to the experts, we will come out the other side of this, and whenever that day arrives, we’ll get back to printing and get back together. Until then, stay the fuck home.
This article appears in Mar 11-17, 2020.
Oh no! No more streetside propaganda like when they put a drawing of a kkk guy on the cover to scare everyone (actual photos of course could not be found).
Looking forward to seeing those scene street boxes disappear soon too.
Greta Tburg smiles but then frowns again at the millions and millions of trees already hacked down and grinded up so we could read the bloviated opinions of scene’s immature writers.
All of you suck…and the rest of the trolls who will be posting multiples of your horseshit? You suck in advance.
“The Incredible Shrinking SCENE” has been dwindling away for a LONG time now…used to be something like 72 pages…then maybe 60…this year at 48…and recently down to 40. So now it’s down to zero.
This might be the excuse that was needed for it to disappear for good.
So cheer up, trolls…maybe it’ll never come back, Now that they’ve pulled the plug, it may not be plugged in again. Cheer up, asshats…there are also pundits predicting that pro sports as we know them may be gone for a very long time, and will never be the same again. Are you jerks gloating about that, too?
Where should we get a job? Clevedotcom and scene aren’t hiring, restarants are closed. I guess we’ll just sit back and collect our universal basic income.. they can just load it up onto the chip in our hands or onto the digital tattoo on our foreheads.
Who’s WE, asshat? You and what army?
And you-know-who rhymes with the J-word, jah shure, you betcha!
The haters migrated here in droves , starting last month. SCENE would have probably had to pull the plug on reader comments within a few months, maybe by the end of the summer, more likely by the beginning of the summer. With so many idiots having so much time on their hands because of this crisis, it’ll probably happen in another month. Maybe two.
This comment section is the absolute last outlet for presenting a different point of view to the public than the mainstream media narrative. They have shut down any other dissent. They can write whatever they want (or are told) with no repercussions. They do not answer the phone or return emails just like our elected officials.
Sorry it hurts you to read words that you dont agree with. We “army of trolls” are literally the only one telling you the truth.