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Cleveland Magazine •

Pride in the CLE Celebration Drew Thousands Downtown This Weekend

Jaden, a second-time attendee at the parade, said it felt much longer than the 2025 event, “which is obviously a good sign.”When the parade wrapped up, attendees made their way to Malls B and C for the festival, which included a variety of vendor booths, food trucks and performances on two stages. Entertainers like the Cleveland Ballet, the Cleveland Pride Band, the Cavs Dance Team, North Coast Men’s Chorus and many others kept the energy high.One couple, Austin and Andrew (and their dog, Archie...
Cleveland Magazine •

“Lights, Camera, Action!”: Lake Erie Ink Celebrates 10th Anthology of the Teen Book Project

A library is typically characterized by its silence, with librarians shushing guests and conversation discouraged. In mid-May, Cleveland Public Library MLK Branch saw the opposite. Excitement and chatter buzzed through the lobby as upbeat pop music blared through industrial-sized speakers. Parents and teachers eagerly lined up at a folding table to purchase their copies of a newly released book by their favorite authors: their kids. Lake Erie Ink is a nonprofit organization that cultivates an en...
Cleveland Magazine •

Orlando Watson Shakes Up Tri-C JazzFest As Its New Executive Director: Q&A

Cleveland Magazine: What does it mean for JazzFest to be its youngest and first African American executive director?Orlando Watson: It’s all what representation stands for. When I was 14 or 15 years old, studying here at summer camps, I was studying with legendary guys, all Caucasian. I don’t take it lightly. If I had somebody like me, I could see what life could be as an artist and executive, and my world would’ve opened up even more. So, I’m happy to be that, especially in my hometown. CM: As...
Raider Student Media •

Handling Tough Losses

Being an athlete is a formative experience in almost every person’s life. Those that are lucky enough to play a sport from the pee-wee to the collegiate levels are changed forever, carrying the lessons they’ve learned through everything they do long after their athletic career ends. From young ages, athletes learn how to work on a team, how to push themselves to their limits, how to work harder than ever before and how to be coachable. But as these athletes get older, and these games become more...
Raider Student Media •

Timothée Chalamet’s Oscar Gimme: Marty Supreme

Anyone who has scrolled through their social media app of choice in the last few months has been force-fed the bright orange ping-pong ball marketing for Marty Supreme. Essentially, Timothée Chalamet has been in character as Marty Mauser for the last year, and it is finally coming together now that the movie is out. Blimps, stunts, skits, rap cameos, Wheaties boxes, jackets, and sphere-headed groupies later, Marty Supreme had generated an audience long before Christmas Day. Chalamet led most of...
Raider Student Media •

The Power and Strength of Women in Sports

The month of March, as many of us (should) know, is also known as Women’s History Month. This recognition started uncomfortably recently, in February of 1980, when President Jimmy Carter was urged to dedicate a week to women’s history to fight against the lack of education on women in schools. It took another seven years for National Women’s History Week to become Women’s History Month by law. Today, we celebrate women much more regularly, but this month is one that allows us to reflect much mor...
Raider Student Media •

Mount Union Performing Arts’ Latest Project: “Signals”

This semester, performing arts students at the University of Mount Union are participating in the opportunity of a lifetime. Rachel Dean, composer, pianist, and music director with performance experience all over the world, and Ian LeRoy, 2014 Mount Union grad and music director, pianist, and vocal coach, are in Alliance all the way from NYC to guide these students through the process of writing an original musical. That’s right­—lyrics, melodies, ideas—completely original.I spoke with a few stu...
Raider Student Media •

RSM Students Attend Annual National Student Media Convention

At 7:30 am, on Wednesday morning, Oct. 22nd, Cooper Reed, Ally Ivey, Gavin Patterson, and I piled into our advisor Lynn’s car to make our way to the airport. The ride there was quiet, with Lynn speaking to each of us individually, but none of us really talking to one another. We arrived at the airport, got to our gate quickly, and waited patiently for our boarding time. Our flight was smooth (with some typical difficult plane seat neighbors who had clearly spent some time at the airport bar), an...
Raider Student Media •

Cleveland State student voices of WCSB Silenced on World College Radio Day, October 3, 2025

On Friday, October 3, while student-run radio and media stations across the country were celebrating their access to expression on World College Radio Day, the students of WCSB at Cleveland State were attempting to save years of history as they were escorted out of their own studio by Cleveland State police.  That morning, the station joined a Zoom call with university administration where it was announced to them that Ideastream would be taking over their FM waves with JazzNEO programming. It w...