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Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner	Advance Publications (Newhouse Newspapers)
Editor	Debra Adams Simmons
Founded	1842
Headquarters	Plain Dealer Plaza 1801 Superior Avenue Cleveland, Ohio 44114-2198  United States
Circulation	271,180 Daily (As of September 2009[update])[1] 428,000 Sunday (As of July 2008[update])[2]
Official website	cleveland.com plaindealer.com

The Plain Dealer is the major daily newspaper of Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It has the largest circulation of any Ohio newspaper and was a top 20 newspaper for circulation in the United States as of September 2009.^[1] As of 31 March 2011 (2011 -03-31)^[update], for the preceding six-month period, the newspaper reported an average daily paid circulation of 254,372 and a Sunday paid circulation of 403,001.^[3]

As of May 2006^[update], The Plain Dealer had more than 785,000 readers on weekdays and 1 million readers on Sunday.^[4] The Plain Dealer's media market, Greater Cleveland, is ranked #1 in the country for Sunday newspaper readership percentage (75.4% of total adults) and #2 in daily newspaper readership percentage (62.6% of total adults), second only to The New York Times in the weekday editions.^[5]

History and ownership[link]

The Plain Dealer's editorial headquarters in downtown Cleveland.

The newspaper was established in 1842, less than 50 years after Moses Cleaveland landed on the banks of the Cuyahoga River in The Flats, and is currently owned by Advance Publications (Newhouse Newspapers).^[6] The Plain Dealer is under the direction of Terrance C.Z. Egger, who serves as President and Publisher, Robert M. Long, Executive Vice President, as well as Debra Adams Simmons, who serves as Editor, replacing Susan Goldberg.^[7] The paper employs over 1,500 people.^[8]

The newspaper was sold on March 1, 1967, to S.I. Newhouse's newspaper chain, and has been under the control of the Newhouse family ever since.^[9] The paper was previously held by the trusts of the Holden estate, and operated as The Plain Dealer Publishing Company, part of the Forest City Publishing Company, which also published the Cleveland News until its purchase and subsequent closing by its major competitor, the Cleveland Press, owned by the E.W. Scripps Company, in 1960.^[10]

On December 18, 2005, The Plain Dealer ceased publication of its weekly Sunday Magazine, which had been published uninterrupted for over 85 years.^[11] The demise of the paper's Sunday Magazine was attributed to the high cost of newsprint and declining revenue, and the PD reassigned the editors, designers and reporters to other areas of the newspaper. It also assured readers that the stories that would formerly have appeared in the Sunday Magazine would be integrated into other areas of the paper.

Awards[link]

In 2005, Connie Schultz won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary.^[12] It was the first Pulitzer for The Plain Dealer since 1953.^[13] Schultz announced a self-imposed sabbatical from her column in February 2006, to work on her husband Congressman Sherrod Brown's (successful) run for U.S. Senate.^[14] Schultz returned to print in January, 2007,^[15] but resigned on September 19, 2011.^[16]

In 2008 and again in 2009, columnist Regina Brett was a Pulitzer finalist for commentary.^[17]

Other recent awards have included a "2003 Editor of the Year" honor for Doug Clifton, given by Editor & Publisher, the industry newsletter. E&P cited Clifton's efforts to energize The Plain Dealer's reporters and newsroom as quick and extremely successful; they had been languishing for years beforehand.

Between 2001 and 2010, The Plain Dealer's photography staff was named Staff of the Year ten consecutive times by the Ohio News Photographer's Association.^[18]

The Plain Dealer has been a consistent top-ten finisher in the Society for News Design annual "Best of Newspaper Design" competition.

Pricing, distribution, circulation[link]

The daily paper costs 75 cents at the newsstand, 55 cents for home delivery, and the Sunday/Thanksgiving edition is $2 for newsstand, $1.75 for home delivery. These prices only apply to The Plain Dealer's home delivery area, which are the Northeast Ohio counties of Cuyahoga, Lake, Geauga, Portage, Erie, Ottawa, Summit, Ashtabula, Medina and Lorain. The Plain Dealer is however, available all over the state at the newsstand, including the state capital, Columbus, and anywhere in the US or world via US mail service. The newspaper reported daily circulation of 252,608 and Sunday circulation of 348,324 as of September, 2010.^[19]

Bureaus[link]

The Plain Dealer operates a variety of news bureaus. In addition to its local metro reporters and columnists, The Plain Dealer operates a bureau in Columbus, at the state capital, that focuses on state-wide news and reporting. The P.D. also operates a Washington bureau that reports on national news and events, focusing on the actions of and stories relating to the Ohio delegation in the U.S. Congress.

Major sections[link]

The Plain Dealer is organized into several major sections, depending on the day of the week. The Sunday edition is, as with any major U.S. daily newspaper, the largest edition of the week. The current organization took effect July 1, 2008.^[20]

Major sections printed in most editions include:

All editions[link]

News 

Includes Front Page, International and National News (including Washington, D.C.), editorial/op-ed page.

Metro 

Local news for Cleveland and Northeast Ohio, obituaries and death notices, local, national and international weather.

Business 

Local and national business news, stocks, bonds.

Sports 

Cleveland and national sports news and commentary. The sports section focuses its beat reporters on the Browns, Cavaliers, Indians, Cleveland State Vikings men's basketball, Mid-American Conference football and basketball and Ohio State Buckeyes football and men's basketball.

Diversions 

Includes comics (printed in full color in almost all daily editions, black & white is quite rare), TV listings, and the Dear Abby advice column.

Classifieds 

Home, auto, jobs, other classified advertising.

In addition to these sections, various work week editions include special sections such as:

On October 8, 1922, The Plain Dealer, published an article written Royal S. Copeland telling Clevelanders to "Eat Candy as a Part of Your Daily Meal and Enjoy the Best of Health."

Inside and Out 

Home and garden section, with articles relating to home improvement and decoration. (Thursday)

Friday! Magazine 

Weekend magazine featuring movie reviews, event calendars, restaurant reviews and other cultural/nightlife pieces. (Friday)

Style & Taste 

Articles and stories about the latest trends in fashion and food (Wednesday)

PDQ 

"Lighter" feature section aimed at younger readers. (Monday)

Sunday Plain Dealer[link]

Sunday editions include, in addition to the major sections above:

Travel 

detailing travel tips.

Homes 

detailing homes in the area and housing trends.

Sunday Arts 

expanded arts section.

Discontinued sections[link]

The Plain Dealer Sunday Magazine 

was discontinued as of December 18, 2005

Style 

was discontinued and merged into Style & Taste as of July 1, 2008^[21]

Taste 

was discontinued and merged into Style & Taste as of July 1, 2008

Arts & Life 

was discontinued and merged into Diversions as of July 1, 2008

Style[link]

The Plain Dealer employs a modern styling of a daily newspaper, and the P.D. itself has undergone dramatic stylistic changes in the past few years to update the print edition's look. Weekday and Sunday editions regularly feature front pages with content boxes on the upper part of the page detailing news inside. The physical width of the paper has been reduced in recent years as well, a trend throughout the newspaper industry.

Employees[link]

Executive staff and editors[link]

• Terrance C.Z. Egger, President and Publisher
• Robert M. Long, Executive Vice President
• Debra Adams Simmons, Editor
• Elizabeth Sullivan, Editorial Page Editor
• Daryl Kannberg, Deputy Managing Editor/Operations
• Chris Quinn, Metro Editor
• Debbie Van Tassel, Assistant Managing Editor/Features
• Randy Roguski, Business Editor
• Roy Hewitt, Sports Editor
• David Kordalski, Visual Editor
• John Kroll, Director of Training and Digital Development
• Ted Diadiun, Reader Representative (ombudsman)

Columnists[link]

• John Campanelli - pop culture
• Joe Crea - food
• Regina Brett
• Brent Larkin
• Michael McIntyre
• Phillip Morris
• Kevin O'Brien
• Donald Rosenberg - fine arts
• John Soeder - pop music
• Thomas Suddes - Ohio politics & government
• Bill Livingston - sports
• Terry Pluto - sports/religion
• Bud Shaw - sports
• Michael Heaton - "Minister of Culture"
• Sheryl Harris - consumer affairs
• Teresa Dixon Murray - personal finance

Criticism and controversies[link]

Political leanings[link]

The Plain Dealer has been criticized by liberal columnists for staking out generally conservative positions on its editorial page, despite serving a predominantly Democratic readership base. In 2004, most notoriously, the editorial board voted to endorse John Kerry. However, it was overruled by then-publisher Alex Machaskee, who ordered the board to write an endorsement of George W. Bush. Ultimately, editorial page editor Brent Larkin managed to talk Machaskee into withholding an endorsement.^[22] The news coverage is generally more neutral, with national and international news often culled from wire services, including the New York Times'.

The paper had also been accused of being too soft on Sen. George Voinovich, and in the 2004 election cycle for the U.S. Senate, not providing fair coverage, if any, to Voinovich's opponent, State Sen. Eric Fingerhut, a Democrat.^[23]

Publishing concealed weapons permit holder lists[link]

In 2005, the newspaper twice published lists of concealed weapon permit holders from the 5 counties around Cleveland. Editor Doug Clifton defended the paper's decision, sparking a feud with a pro-carry lobbyist group. State Senator Steve Austria called it abuse of the media access privilege, saying publishing these names would threaten the safety of the men and women who obtain these permits. An Ohio gun rights group then published Mr. Clifton's home address and phone number.^[24]

"Held stories" controversy[link]

Wikinews has related news: Newspaper refuses to utilize leaked documents in article

The Plain Dealer made national headlines in the summer of 2005, when editor Douglas Clifton announced that the newspaper was withholding two stories "of profound importance" after Judith Miller of The New York Times and Matthew Cooper of Time Magazine were ordered to reveal confidential sources who had provided information on Joseph Wilson's wife being a CIA operative. The decision to compel the reporters to reveal sources was seen in the news media as a license to go after reporters and newspapers in the courtroom for not revealing confidential informants and a violation of the trust between reporter and said informants. Clifton was vilified in the news media as "having no backbone" and he himself even admitted that people could refer to him as "chickenshit." Clifton told the national press that while he and the reporters involved in the story were willing to be jailed for not revealing sources, the legal department of the Plain Dealer Publishing Company was worried that the newspaper itself would be sued and strongly opposed the printing of the stories. "Talking isn't an option and jail is too high a price to pay", Clifton said.^[25]

The controversy ended when the Cleveland Scene, an alternative weekly Cleveland newspaper, published a similar story, thus allowing The Plain Dealer to print the withheld story. The story turned out to be on former Mayor Michael R. White's federal corruption probe, which was leaked to the press by an attorney on the case. The second withheld story has yet to be revealed.^[26]

Music critic sidelined[link]

On September 17, 2008, The Plain Dealer's music critic of 16 years, Donald Rosenberg, was told by the paper's editor, Susan Goldberg, that he would no longer be covering performances of the Cleveland Orchestra. Rosenberg had been critical of orchestral performances under its conductor Franz Welser-Möst, although his reviews of Welser-Möst as a conductor of operas had been positive. Terrance C. Z. Egger, president and publisher of the paper, is also on the orchestra's board.^[27]

Welser-Möst is no stranger to robust criticism; during his tenure at the London Philharmonic Orchestra London critics gave him the nickname "Frankly Worse than Most".^[28] In December 2008, Rosenberg sued Cleveland's Musical Arts Association, the newspaper and several members of their staffs, alleging a conspiracy to have him demoted.^[29] Rosenberg dropped a number of claims against the paper in 2009,^[30] and in August, 2009, a jury rejected the remaining claims.^[31]

Shirley Strickland Saffold[link]

In March 2010, the Plain Dealer reported that approximately 80 comments had been posted to articles on its web site by an account registered to the email address of Shirley Strickland Saffold, a judge sitting on the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas.^[32] Several of the comments, posted under the pseudonym lawmiss, discussed matters that were or had been before the judge.^[32] Although the judge's 23-year-old daughter Sydney Saffold took responsibility for the postings, the paper was able to use a public records request and determine that the exact times and dates of some of the postings corresponded to the times that the corresponding articles were being viewed on the judge's court-issued computer.^[32] The revelation led one attorney, who had been criticized in the postings, to request the judge recuse herself from a homicide trial in which he represented the defendant.^[33] Ohio Supreme Court Acting Chief Justice Paul E. Pfeifer subsequently removed Saffold from the case.^[34]

In April, the judge sued the paper, its editor Susan Goldberg, and affiliated companies for $50 million, claiming violation of its privacy policy.^[33] In December 2010, Saffold dropped the suit against the newspaper, and reached settlement with Advance Internet, the Plain Dealer affiliate that ran the newspaper's website.^[35] The terms of the settlement were undisclosed, but included a charitable contribution in the name of Saffold's mother.^[35]

Cleveland.com[link]

The Plain Dealer is the major news contributor to Cleveland.com, the regional news, event and communication portal run by Advance Internet. The paper does not operate its own editorial website, but does run a separate website for the business side of the newspaper, including advertising. Cleveland.com also features news from the Sun Newspapers, which are a group of smaller, weekly, more suburban-oriented newspapers in the Greater Cleveland metro area also owned by Advance Publications. The Sun Newspapers are the largest chain of paid weekly newspapers in the country.

The quality of the site (as well as other Advance Internet sites) is regularly criticized by the staff, newsroom staff and locals.^[36] The website was recently redesigned as a result.^[37]

Politifact Ohio[link]

In July 2010, The Plain Dealer launched Politifact Ohio, a website that analyzes issues relevant to Ohio and the greater Cleveland area. The feature is produced in conjunction with its creator, the Tampa Bay Times.

References[link]

Further reading[link]

• Tidyman, John (2009). Gimme Rewrite, Sweetheart: Tales From the Last Glory Days of Cleveland Newspapers. Cleveland, OH: Gray & Company, Publishers. ISBN 978-1-59851-016-4

External links[link]

	Cleveland, Ohio portal
	Journalism portal

• The Plain Dealer on Cleveland.Com (Editorial Site)
• The Plain Dealer on Cleveland.Com (Mobile Site)
• Cleveland Plain Dealer (Business Site)
• Politifact Ohio
• The Plain Dealer article in the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History
• Andy Netzel (April 2009). "Critical Sinking". Cleveland Magazine. http://www.clevelandmagazine.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=E73ABD6180B44874871A91F6BA5C249C&nm=Arts+%26+Entertainment&type=Publishing&mod=Publications%3A%3AArticle&mid=1578600D80804596A222593669321019&tier=4&id=10C70AA481314E21AB8171EB81ACCB4B. Retrieved 2010-05-17.  (in-depth discussion of the Rosenberg lawsuit.)

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Harvey Pekar
Born	Harvey Lawrence Pekar (1939-10-08)October 8, 1939 Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Died	July 12, 2010(2010-07-12) (aged 70) Cleveland Heights, Ohio, United States
Occupation	Comic book writer, filing clerk, music & literary critic
Nationality	American
Genres	Underground comics
Subjects	Autobiography
www.harveypekar.com

Harvey Lawrence Pekar ( /ˈpiːkɑr/; October 8, 1939 – July 12, 2010) was an American underground comic book writer, music critic and media personality, best known for his autobiographical American Splendor comic series. In 2003, the series inspired a critically acclaimed film adaptation of the same name.

Pekar described American Splendor as "an autobiography written as it's happening. The theme is about staying alive. Getting a job, finding a mate, having a place to live, finding a creative outlet. Life is a war of attrition. You have to stay active on all fronts. It's one thing after another. I've tried to control a chaotic universe. And it's a losing battle. But I can't let go. I've tried, but I can't."^[1]

Early life[link]

Harvey Pekar and his younger brother Allen were born in Cleveland, Ohio to Saul and Dora Pekar, immigrants from Białystok, Poland. Saul Pekar was a Talmudic scholar who owned a grocery store on Kinsman Avenue, with the family living above the store. As a child, Harvey's first language was Yiddish, and he learned to read and appreciate novels in the dialect.^[2]

Harvey Pekar graduated from Shaker Heights High School in 1957, then attended Case Western Reserve University, where he dropped out after a year. He then served in the United States Navy, and after discharge returned to Cleveland where he worked odd jobs before being hired as file clerk at Cleveland's Veteran's Administration Hospital. He held this job even after becoming famous, finally retiring in 2001.^[3]

Career[link]

[edit] American Splendor

Pekar's friendship with Robert Crumb led to the creation of the self-published, autobiographical comic book series American Splendor. Crumb and Pekar became friends through their mutual love of jazz records^[4] when Crumb was living in Cleveland in the mid-1960s. Crumb's work in underground comics led Pekar to see the form's possibilities, saying, "Comics could do anything that film could do. And I wanted in on it."^[5] It took Pekar a decade to do so: "I theorized for maybe ten years about doing comics."^[6] Pekar laid out some stories with crude stick figures and showed them to Crumb and another artist, Robert Armstrong. Impressed, they both offered to illustrate, and soon Pekar's story "Crazy Ed" appeared in Crumb's The People's Comics, and Crumb became the first artist to illustrate American Splendor. The comic documents daily life in the aging neighborhoods of Pekar's native Cleveland. The first issue of American Splendor appeared in 1976.

Pekar's most well-known and longest-running collaborators include Crumb, Gary Dumm, Greg Budgett, Spain Rodriguez, Joe Zabel, Gerry Shamray, Frank Stack, Mark Zingarelli, and Joe Sacco. In the 2000s, he teamed regularly with artists Dean Haspiel and Josh Neufeld. Other cartoonists who worked with him include Jim Woodring, Chester Brown, Alison Bechdel, Gilbert Hernandez, Eddie Campbell, David Collier, Drew Friedman, Ho Che Anderson, Rick Geary, Ed Piskor, Hunt Emerson, Bob Fingerman, Brian Bram, and Alex Wald; as well as such non-traditional illustrators as Pekar's wife, Joyce Brabner, and comics writer Alan Moore.

Stories from the American Splendor comics have been collected in many books and anthologies.

[edit] American Splendor film

A film adaptation of American Splendor was released in 2003, directed by Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman.^[7] It featured Paul Giamatti as Pekar, as well as appearances by Pekar himself. Pekar wrote about the effects of the film in American Splendor: Our Movie Year.

In 2006, Pekar released a four-issue American Splendor miniseries through the DC Comics imprint Vertigo.^[8] This was collected in the American Splendor: Another Day paperback. In 2008 Vertigo released a second "season" of American Splendor that was collected in the American Splendor: Another Dollar paperback.

In addition to his autobiographical work on American Splendor, Pekar wrote a number of biographies. The first of these, American Splendor: Unsung Hero (2003), documented the Vietnam War experience of Robert McNeill, one of Pekar's African-American coworkers at Cleveland's VA hospital.

Other comics work[link]

On October 5, 2005, the DC Comics imprint Vertigo released Pekar's autobiographical hardcover The Quitter, with artwork by Dean Haspiel. The book detailed Pekar's early years.

In 2006, Pekar released another biography for Ballantine/Random House, Ego & Hubris: The Michael Malice Story, about the life of Michael Malice, who was the founding editor of OverheardinNewYork.com^[9]

Pekar was the first guest editor for the collection The Best American Comics 2006 published by Houghton Mifflin, the first comics collection in the "Best American series" series.

In June 2007, Pekar collaborated with student Heather Roberson and artist Ed Piskor on the book Macedonia, which centers around Roberson's studies in the country.^[10][11]

January 2008 saw another biographical work from Pekar, Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History, released through Hill & Wang.

In March 2009, Pekar released The Beats, a history of the Beat Generation, including Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, illustrated by Ed Piskor.^[12] In May 2009 he released Studs Terkel's Working: A Graphic Adaptation.

In 2010, Pekar launched a webcomic with the online magazine Smith, titled The Pekar Project.^[13]

Theater, music and media appearances[link]

In the late 1980s, Pekar's comic book success led to eight guest appearances on Late Night with David Letterman. His confrontational style and overt on-air criticism of General Electric (which owned NBC) led to the show banning him as a guest until the early 1990s.

Pekar was a prolific record collector as well as a freelance book and jazz critic, focusing on significant figures from jazz's golden age but also championing out-of-mainstream artists such as Birth, Scott Fields, Fred Frith and Joe Maneri. Pekar won awards for his essays broadcast on public radio. He appeared in Alan Zweig's 2000 documentary film about record collecting, Vinyl.^[14] In August 2007, Pekar was featured on the Cleveland episode of Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations with host Anthony Bourdain.^[15]

While American Splendor theater adaptations have occurred before,^[16] in 2009, Pekar made his theatrical debut with Leave Me Alone!, a jazz opera for which Pekar wrote the libretto. Leave Me Alone! featured music by Dan Plonsey and premiered at Oberlin College on January 31, 2009.^[17]

In 2009, Pekar was featured in The Cartoonist, a documentary film on the life and work of Jeff Smith, creator of Bone.^[18]

Personal life[link]

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Pekar was married from 1960 to 1972 to his first wife, Karen Delaney. His second wife was Helen Lark Hall. Pekar's third wife was writer Joyce Brabner, with whom he collaborated on Our Cancer Year, a graphic novel autobiography of his harrowing yet successful treatment for lymphoma. He lived in Cleveland Heights, Ohio with Brabner and their foster daughter Danielle.

Death[link]

Shortly before 1 am on July 12, 2010, Pekar's wife found him dead in his Cleveland Heights, Ohio, home.^[3] No immediate cause was determined. Pekar had been diagnosed with cancer for the third time in his life and was about to undergo treatment.^[3][19] In October 2010, it was determined that Pekar's cause of death was an accidental overdose of antidepressants fluoxetine and bupropion.^[20] Pekar was cremated and buried in Lake View Cemetery, next to Eliot Ness.^[21]

Posthumous work[link]

According to a September 2010 New York Times article, many Pekar works are planned to be released posthumously:^[21]

• Harvey Pekar’s Cleveland – A graphic history of the city of Cleveland, Ohio and Pekar's upbringing there. Illustrated by Joseph Remnant (Zip Comics).
• Huntington, West Virginia, "On the Fly" – Stories of Pekar promoting the 2003 American Splendor film (Random House).
• Harvey and Joyce’s Big Book of Marriage – Co-authored by Joyce Brabner (Random House)
• Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me – Pekar's thoughts on Zionism and Israel. Illustrated by JT Waldman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

Awards[link]

• 1987: American Book Award for the first American Splendor anthology^[3]
• 1995: Harvey Award Best Graphic Album of Original Work (for Our Cancer Year)^[22]

Bibliography[link]

• American Splendor: The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar (Doubleday, 1986)
• More American Splendor (Doubleday, 1987) ISBN 0-385-24073-2
• The New American Splendor Anthology (Four Walls Eight Windows, 1991) ISBN 0-941423-64-6
• Our Cancer Year, with Joyce Brabner and Frank Stack (Four Walls Eight Windows, 1994) ISBN 1-56858-011-8
• American Splendor Presents: Bob & Harv's Comics, with R. Crumb (Four Walls Eight Windows, 1996) ISBN 1-56858-101-7
• American Splendor: Unsung Hero, with David Collier (Dark Horse, 2003) ISBN 1-59307-040-3
• American Splendor: Our Movie Year (Ballantine Books, 2004) ISBN 0-345-47937-8
• Best of American Splendor (Ballantine Books, 2005) ISBN 0-345-47938-6
• The Quitter, with Dean Haspiel (DC/Vertigo, 2005) ISBN 1-4012-0399-X
• Ego & Hubris: The Michael Malice Story, with Gary Dumm (Ballantine Books, 2006) ISBN 0-345-47939-4
• Macedonia, with Heather Roberson and Ed Piskor (Ballantine Books, 2006) ISBN 0-345-49899-2
• American Splendor: Another Day (DC/Vertigo, 2007) ISBN 978-1-4012-1235-3
• Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History (Hill and Wang, 2008) ISBN 978-0-8090-9539-1
• American Splendor: Another Dollar (2009) ISBN 978-1-4012-2173-7
• The Beats (2009) ISBN 978-0-285-63858-7
• Studs Terkel's Working: A Graphic Adaptation (2009) ISBN 978-1-59558-321-5
• Circus Parade by Jim Tully. Foreword by Harvey Pekar. Introduction by Paul J. Bauer and Mark Dawidziak. (Kent State Univ. Press, 2009) 978-1-60635-001-0
• Huntington, West Virginia "On the Fly" (2011) ISBN 978-0-345-49941-7
• Yiddishkeit: Jewish Vernacular and the New Land, with Paul Buhle (2011) ISBN 978-0-8109-9749-3

References[link]

External links[link]

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• Harvey Pekar's official website Redirects to New Line Cinema's official website for American Splendor
• "Harvey Pekar, ‘American Splendor’ Creator, Dies at 70" William Grimes, The New York Times, July 12, 2010
• "His Everyday Life Was in His Comics" Stephen Miller, The Wall Street Journal, July 13, 2010
• Interview on The Sound of Young America: MP3 Link
• New York Press Interview
• Walrus Comix interview
• Article by James Hynes about Pekar's last appearance on Late Night with David Letterman
• Harvey Pekar at the Internet Movie Database
• List of American Splendor collaborators
• Archive of Pekar's Jazz Reviews for the Austin Chronicle
• Another archive of Jazz reviews
• November 10, 2005 Interview on Fresh Air with Terry Gross
• Profile of and Commentaries by Pekar on WKSU-FM, Kent, Ohio
• Preview of "The Beats"
• Boppin' With Pekar, a one-hour public radio program on jazz history with Harvey Pekar, Jerry Zolten and Phoebe Gloeckner
• Online obituary for Harvey Pekar
• "Harvey Pekar dead: American Splendor comic writer was 70" Terence McArdle, The Washington Post, July 13, 2010
• Video: Harvey Pekar talks about Toby Radloff
• "Tribute in La Cucaracha"

Maximilian Dimoff (born June 23, 1968) has been the principal bassist of the Cleveland Orchestra since 1997.^[1] He has appeared with the orchestra at their summer venue, the Blossom Festival, performing Koussevitsky's Concerto for Double Bass. He attended Northwestern University, where he studied with Jeff Bradetich.^[2] Mr. Dimoff and Mr. Bradetich now comprise the double bass department faculty at the Cleveland Institute of Music.^[2] Before joining the Cleveland Orchestra, he served as the principal bassist of the San Antonio Symphony, and section bass in the Grant Park Symphony and the Seattle Symphony.^[3][1] Mr. Dimoff has presented master classes at the Manhattan School of Music and several universities.^[1]

References[link]

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Dj LORD (born Lord Aswod in Savannah, Georgia), is a DJ and turntablist.^[1] In 1999, Dj LORD joined the hip-hop group Public Enemy on their 40th World Tour ^[2] replacing Terminator X.^[3] Soon after, Dj LORD had his own performance segment within the Public Enemy show. While DJ battles and hip hop has been at the foundation of his career, Dj LORD also works in the drum and bass arena. The career of Dj LORD and the art of turntablism is documented in the DVD, ‘DJ LORD - The Turntablist Chronicles’, released in 2004.^[4]

In addition to Public Enemy, Dj LORD is currently touring solo as well as with Flavor Flav in his solo effort and touring art exhibition Arts, Beats + Lyrics.^[5] He has previously performed with rock band Confrontation Camp and recently dubstep giants TrillBass.

Battle Career Highlights[link]

• 2004 – DMC U.S. Finalist ^[6]
• 2004 – DMC Cincinnati Regional Heat Champion ^[7]
• 2004 – Numark/Guitar Center Southeast Champion ^[8]
• 2004 – KoolMixx Atlanta Battle Champion ^[9]
• 2003 – KoolMixx Atlanta Battle Champion ^[10]
• 2003 – Breaklanta 3 Battle Champion ^[11]
• 2002 – Breaklanta 1 Battle Champion ^[12]
• 2002 – Pioneer/Promo Only CDJ1000 CD Turntable Champion ^[13]
• 2001 – DMC Phoenix Arizona Regional Champion ^[14]
• 2001 – Guitar Center/Stanton Southeast Battle Champion ^[15]
• 2000 – Guitar Center/Vestax Southeast Battle Champion ^[16]
• 2000 – KoolMixx Atlanta Battle Champion ^[17]

External links[link]

• Official Dj LORD Website
• Dj LORD Twitter
• Dj LORD YouTube
• Dj LORD MySpace
• Official Public Enemy Website
• Public Enemy MySpace

References[link]

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