A weekly roundup of the most important newsmakers in town.
1. Dan Gilbert: The Cavs owner joins other bajillionaires in pledging to donate half his wealth to charity. By proxy, via your casino losses, you’ll also be donating half of your wealth to charity, so feel good about that.
2. Mustaches: American Greetings announces a new greeting card line that will have fancy mustaches spewing audio greetings to recipients. Sadly, rat-tails are still waiting for their moment in the sun.
3. Marcia Fudge: The congresswoman seeks the chairmanship of the Congressional Black Caucus. Meanwhile, Dennis Kucinich will seek chairmanship of a group of stuffed animals at his house.
4. Jim Brown: The former Browns running back manages to thrust himself into the media spotlight by giving a few interviews and making nice with the team. In exchange, the media once again kindly refuses to call Jim Brown a woman-beater.
5. Machine Gun Kelly: Cleveland’s favorite rapper is touring Europe. See, kids, your parents are wrong when they say hanging out in the food court at the Strongsville mall will get you nowhere.
This article appears in Sep 26 – Oct 2, 2012.
Well, you almost got it right. Machine Gun Kelly wrapped up his European Tour with a sold out show in London on September 25th. He is now back in the U.S., preparing for the release of his first major label album, “Lace Up,” which goes on sale nationally on October 9th. Pre-sales activities have landed the album as high as #5 on the iTunes charts, currently hovering around 10-15 (note, these are pre-orders of an album that has yet to be released). Some local FYE’s (Tower City, for one) have temporarily halted presales due to concerns about availability. Beginning October 9th, the album will be carried by Best Buys nationwide, and at various other retailers on a market by market basis. Greater Cleveland FYE’s are carrying it.
Following the release and a short series of midwest shows, MGK will take off on a national tour with Rick Ross and other members of Ross’s Maybach Music Group (“MMG”) label. The tour will hit the Wolstein Center on November 21, 2012.
Way to go on your “coverage” of a local artist though. The Strongsville Mall shot really had me guffawing. [And no, I don’t work for the artist, just a fan who knows how to use the internets].
Gilbert can donate half his wealth to charity and still make a fortune. That guy has more money than he knows how to spend thanks to his little casino cash cow. Well, the city gave Gilbert a casino in exchange for him getting us a sports title. Now lets see him deliver on his end of the deal I guess.