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We're Going Places: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame |
| Published: November 13, 2007, 2:28 pm |
| Tags: ohio, cleveland, museums, tipper gore, we re going places, chrissie hynde, rock and roll hall of fame |
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A proud Ohioan told me - on discovering my plans to visit to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland - that there are more Halls of Fame in Ohio than any other state, as if they were some natural phenomenon. He, it should be noted, lived in the shadow of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, which rises out of the trees at the side of the Interstate like an enormous lemon squeezer, so it's prossible he does think of them in that way. Perhaps it just makes it easier to live in a state which is carving a niche as a nostalgia landfill if you pretend.Cleveland, for those of you who've never had the pleasure, is America's Hull: gorgeous turn-of-the-last-century architecture as testament to a glorious, wealthy past housing store proclaiming their willingness to take welfare cheques as a reminder of a more recent hard times; a vibrant downtown and signs of gentrification trickling outwards to the suburbs.The Hall of Fame is part of a manifestation of the familiar arts-as-motor-of-regeneration [ Full article ] |
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