My Mega-Regional Easter Basket: Pittsburgh IS a Great Lakes City!

I have had several recent conversations with some of Pittsburgh’s self-identified regional taxonomists who disagree with GLUE’s categorization of the burgh as a Great Lakes city. I will be the first to admit we are not dealing with a cut and dry categorization here.
The term “Rustbelt” is pejorative and anachronistic but attractively gritty in [...]

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Go to Cleveland on May 14th

As costs rise and Williamsburg feels more and more like the Upper West Side, older industrial cities in the Upper Midwest are becoming increasingly attractive to artists of all stripes. Toledo, Cleveland, Erie, Detroit – you name it. Sticky cities are making waves with industrial space that has been adaptively reused by artists who want [...]

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Calling All Great Lakes Filmmakers

Inspired by Chris Ivey’s work here in Pittsburgh, Jacob David and Joel Washing’s work in Toledo, and Sultan Sharrief’s work in Detroit, it seems clear to me that GLUE needs to amass information about all the independent filmmakers choosing to do their work here in the Great Lakes region rather than in NYC or LA. [...]

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GLUE Scores “Quick Hit” Editorial in Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel

Thanks to Sonya Jongsma-Knauss for tipping Milwaukee readers off to GLUE

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GLUE Network Member to Premiere Feature Film in Detroit

“Bilal’s Stand” debuts at the Michigan Theater April 3rd
From Writer, Director, and GLUE-er Sultan Sharrief… “Bilal’s Stand” tells the story of an inner-city high school student who works at his family’s long-owned taxi stand. ‘The Stand ‘ has been the source of all money and activity for the family for sixty years, and it looks [...]

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Detroit FREEP: Again with the Federal Policies!

On Tuesday, the Detroit Free Press published an Op-ed by GLUE friends John Austin and Bruce Katz of The Brookings Institution arguing that a change in federal policies could have a real and lasting benefit to Detroit and Michigan. But their assessment is by no means limited to one state.
All of the things Detroit and [...]

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Advice from Milwaukee on How to Get Published

The following email helpfully reminded us how important it is to be original when we contact the press. The sample letter we provided in our toolkit is only a sample. Thanks, Sonya! May all Great Lakes city newspaper staff be so responsive!
From Sonya’s comment:
We letter editors tend to pass over obvious [...]

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Hungry for a List of GLUE City Letters to the Editor Pages?

Fear not.
In the interest of making resources available to any and everyone who wants to revitalize our cities, we’ve created a mega-region-wide list for your use in our toolkit.

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Great Lakes Presidential Debate

When: Late September
Where: Post-industrial city in swing state TBD
Who: Republican Senator John McCain and Democratic Senator X
What: A Presidential debate focused on the unique issues facing America’s Great Lakes region: water, population decline in urban centers, making an imperfect (at best) transition from sole economic reliance on heavy industry, and more.
Not so fast… As [...]

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