Cleveland Centennial!

July 1985 was pretty epic, as it included such iconic, news breaking events such as Live Aid, the premiere of Back to the Future , and the m...

Merrill Markoe & David Letterman "The David Letterman Show" October 24, 1980 (NBC TV) Had some folks over last night to celebr...

The DDT-V All-Stars (Can you spot Doug Dieken?) Fred kept us honest. Any expression of ego was roundly mocked. We were kids, making a cheap ...

There was a time I wanted to be an actor. During the 1990s I was even attached to a talent agency in town, and did all the requisite thin...

Nick Koesters, Allen Branstein & self (Beck Center for the Arts, 1999) The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) was either:...

Pete & Dud in Cleveland (Spoiler for the Netflix series "The Crown" ahead.) My mother stayed with us one evening before ...

If he had lived, James Maury "Jim" Henson (September 24, 1936 – May 16, 1990) would be seventy-seven years old today. My pare...

Shannon McNamara, Arthur Grothe Photo by Anthony Gray " The version of Lysistrata you are about to witness comes at a time of...

From 1983 and 1986 a number of Bay High School students (and a few graduates who never really got away) produced a half-hour comedy progr...

The comedian and I first met in early 1992. A mutual friend knew him from Los Angeles, when he was trying to make a go of things and livi...

I do not hate Monty Python. I hate people who love Monty Python. And by that I mean, I hate people who love Monty Python but don't ...

Crystal Palace, St. Louis "The third Compass to play St. Louis, again at the Crystal, was produced in the spring of 1962 and featu...

Melvin Helitzer (October 18, 1924 - April 11, 2009) remains a legend at Ohio University, where for decades he was the professor of the H...