roue, lives of the saints & neil blender were the bands that performed for this homeless grapevine benefit that raised five hundred dollars.

the photos are here (more, soon to be uploaded.)

this monday there was a robbery that resulted in a double murder. two blocks from where i work and less than
a mile from home.

sad story to hear around the holidays, the
article is below courtesy of "guardian UK".

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Young Mother, Clerk Slain During Robbery

Wednesday December 15, 2004 9:16 PM

CLEVELAN (AP) - A young mother who went into a deli to buy baby formula
was shot to death in a holdup along with a store clerk. Police
searched for three men.

The robbers entered Tony’s Delicatessen on Monday and shot Jorge
Santiago, 36, as he fumbled with the register, police said.
They shot Rebecca Cordoves, 21, in the back as she ran away.

The robbers never got the register opened but fled with an
undisclosed amount of money from the deli owner.

Cordoves’ husband, with the couple’s infant and year-old daughters in
the car, had dropped his wife off in front of the deli during
a snowstorm, and then drove around the block. He found her
lying on the sidewalk.

“She was on her back, looking up at the sky,” Francisco Cordoves
said. “I remember yelling, `Call help! Somebody please
help!”’

Police followed footprints in the snow, but the tracks disappeared in
an alley.
–

a great clevelander died today, daniel thompson whom suffered from leukemia and earned the title of cleveland’s poet laureate. he will be missed.

photo from 2001 tremont cultural fesival at lincoln park.