Kevin Leeson

The Midtown movie that changed NYC’s sidewalks and plazas is coming to theaters "The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces" “The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces” will be rereleased Sept. 26. [ more › ]

The Midtown movie that changed NYC’s sidewalks and plazas is coming to theaters https://gothamist.com/news/the-midtown-movie-that-changed-nycs-sidewalks-and-plazas-is-coming-to-theaters

A few years back, someone stuck a Great Lakes Hyperloop sticker on a downtown bike rack. I could never tell if they were trying to be ironic or provocative.

Celebrate Park(ing) Day! September 19th 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Enjoy refreshments and activities while learning about the reclamation of parking spaces for public use!

…and Cleveland State's chapter of the American Planning Association will celebrate the event on campus.
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KSU's Master of Landscape Architecture Program presents Park(ing) Day 2025! — Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative You’re invited Park(ing) Day 2025! Play a round of mini-golf and vote on your favorite project!

#ParkingDay (www.myparkingday.org) is on Friday, and as usual, there will be two events in Cleveland. Students from Kent State's CUDC will be setting up on Prospect Avenue.

Chartle - A daily chart game Guess the country in red by analysing today's chart

Launch day 🚀

We’ve just released @chartlecc.bsky.social - a daily chart game!

Your job is to guess which country is represented by the red line in today's chart. You get 5 tries, no other clues!

Play today, come back tomorrow for a different chart with new data and share with your chart friends 📈

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Our friends at CPL scanned and posted the entire document.

Looks like a milkweed tussock moth caterpillar.

Data Days Cleveland The 6th annual Data Days CLE! Join us as we spark conversation and ideas, and build capacity in the space where data, information, and civic life intersect.

Got a cool project you'd like to share with the folks at the @datadayscle.bsky.social‬ conference or workshop this fall? Submit your session ideas by Friday, July 18.

A quote from The Hunting of the Snark For instance, take the two words fuming and furious. Make up your mind that you will say both words, but leave it unsettled which you will say first....

At the start of today's Guardians-Giants game, announcer Matt Underwood couldn't decide whether he wanted to say afternoon or evening, and it came out of his mouth as "afterneen."

That's a exceptional portmanteau, and it aligns perfectly with Lewis Carroll's description.

Curtis Heritage Education Center Curtis Heritage Education Center. 242 likes · 46 talking about this. Curtis Heritage Education Center (CHEC) is a 501(c)3, non-profit organization.

Seems like a museum is selling off parts of its collection to fund its operations. I don't like the way that sounds.

A Venn Diagram with three circles labeled Midwest, Great Lakes, and Rust Belt. In Midwest only is Kansas City. In the overlap of Midwest and Great Lakes are Chicago and Minneapolis. In the overlap of all three are Cleveland, Milwaukee, and Detroit. In the overlap of Midwest and Rust Belt is St. Louis. In Rust Belt alone is Pittsburgh. In the overlap of Rust Belt and Great Lakes is Buffalo. There is nothing in Great Lakes alone.

a modest proposal

📢 Big news! #ACTCongress is happening June 28! 🎉

Our first-ever virtual #unconference, shaped by YOU. We'll hold our first board election, vote on the budget, & dive into participant-led sessions on our #civictech community's future.

RSVP on Eventbrite!
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Inhailer Radio: Indie Music Countdown & Cincinnati's Independent Radio Legacy Inhailer Radio is Cincinnati independent radio. Founded in 2017 to fill the void left by beloved radio station WNKU.

The 2025 Indie 500 starts in one hour!

Come for the guest DJs (like me and someone from The National), stay for the tunes, stream here:

www.inhailer.com/2025indie500

Internet Roadtrip Let's take a streetview roadtrip

I made a streetview roadtrip simulator where we all vote on a direction every 10 seconds

Also we have to vote to change the radio station. Enjoy!

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Every Kid Counts: Why the Fight for a Fair 2030 Census Matters More Than Ever • Michigan Advance The first United States Census was taken at the dawn of the nation in 1790, under George Washington’s presidency and then-Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson (Census). The Census is the oldest continu...

Kelli Bowers of @michleague.bsky.social: "Preparing and advocating for the 2030 Census shouldn’t begin in 2029. It begins today. Protecting our data is protecting our democracy, and we must act to ensure that every person is seen, valued and counted."

YouTube video by Rob Elliott Don't let us get sick

Jill Sobule's cover of Warren Zevon's "Don't Let Us Get Sick" never fails to break my heart.

Don't let us get sick, don't let us get old
Don't let us get stupid, all right?
Just make us be brave and make us play nice
And let us be together tonight

We finally got our union made stickers for the @civictechallies.bsky.social!

If you want to support our work - make a donation here and we'll send you a sticker! Include your email in the donation note and we'll reach out!

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#civictech

We just brought Data Days over to Bluesky-- follow us at @datadayscle.bsky.social . Take our survey to let us know how Data Days CLE can best help you with #data and #civictech in 2025. Go to datadayscle.org for the survey.

Great to have you back! Looking forward to reading more good stuff.

HAPPY NATIONAL #POETRY MONTH, PARTY PEOPLE. 30 days of juicy poems coming your way starting... now.

Sign up here to have an albino passenger pigeon lovingly deliver one to your email inbox each morning: groups.google.com/u/2/g/april-is

Or follow along here. And/or on Tumblr! april-is.tumblr.com

A ‘New’ Frank Lloyd Wright House Has Risen in Ohio. But Is It Legit? Six decades after the death of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, his final residential design has been built in Ohio, just east of Cleveland.

Not so fast, says the architect's foundation. news.artnet.com/art-world/ne...

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YouTube video by Gary Jules Official "Mad World" (feat. Gary Jules) - Official Music Video

According to Wikipedia, Tears for Fears released "Mad World" on September 20, 1982. Michael Andrews and Gary Jules released their cover as a single 7,756 days later, on December 15, 2003. March 10, 2025 is 7,756 days after that.

How would you spend Cleveland’s 2025 budget? Refund Cleveland shows residents how to navigate the budget and tell elected officials how they want to see the city’s money spent in 2025.

Big thx to @skora.bsky.social for updating this nifty budget tool that allows you to share your version of the @cityofcleveland.bsky.social budget with your council member. Don't know your council member? The tool has an answer to that, too! Read all about it 👉
signalcleveland.org/what-costs-m...

It's nice that the Wayback Machine preserved the evidence. 🗺️

Cleveland, OH Forwarding the interest of Awesome in the universe, $1,000 at a time.

Got an idea to make Cleveland a more awesome place, but need some funding to get your project off the ground? Then you should apply for a $1,000 grant from the Cleveland chapter of the Awesome Foundation—but don't wait too long. The deadline to apply for the next round of grants is March 1.

I still miss Indies. 😢

Here's the museum's press release.