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A Rust Belt Boom Town Powers Down

Randy Fox | Posted 03.02.2013 | Travel
Read More: Photography, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, g.c. Murphy, u.s. Steel, Brick Alley, Mckeesport, Fantastic Deejays, Huffington Post Travel, Industrial, Randy Fox, Rust Belt, National Tube Company, American Elegy, Mckeesport Pennsylvania: The End of a Rust Belt Powerhouse and What Was Once Our Country's Fastest Growing Municipality, Mon Valley, Travel News
Randy Fox

The ensuing years have not been kind to the former manufacturing hotbed. Seeing it now, it's hard to imagine the bright future that, once upon a time, seemed to await this growing municipality.

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Autumn Comes To The Rust Belt

Randy Fox | Posted 11.25.2012 | Travel
Read More: Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry Ohio, James Wright, Clairton, Industrial, Armco, Ohio, Butler, Factories, And Uncertain Futures, Alliance, Pullman Standard, Pennsylvania, Randy Fox Photography, Aliquippa, Randy Fox, Ambridge, Pittsburgh, American Elegy, Autumn Comes to the Rust Belt: High School Football, Youngstown, Duquesne, Monessen, Destinations, US Destinations, Travel Blogs, Travel News
Randy Fox

As autumn sets in to the Rust Belt, I'm always reminded of the lines written by James Wright, a poet, who was raised around the factories in Martins Ferry, Ohio. Yes, many of the mills are long gone, but the ritual is largely the same.

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Steampunkinetics: The Art Of Steampunk

Posted 07.26.2012 | Arts
Read More: Afa Ny, Video, Time Travel, Industrial, Wild Wild West, Afa Gallery, Slideexpand, Technology, Steampunk, Machine, Bruce and Melanie Rosenbaum, New York Art, Steampunkinetics, Arts News

"Steampunkinetics" brings the spirit of the sub-culture to an art gallery after over 30 years of influencing pop culture, aesthetics and our lifestyle...

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Creativity Is the New Economy

Richard Florida | Posted 08.27.2012 | Business
Read More: Economic, Creativity, Skills, Industrial, Wages, Economy, Training, Jobs, Manufacturing, Service Sector, Innovation, Recession, America, The Rise of the Creative Class Revisited, Work, Prosperity, Richard Florida, Capitalists, Creative Class, Business News
Richard Florida

It's common to say we are now living in a post-industrial information or knowledge economy. But the shift is actually deeper and more thorough-going than that.

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Shadowplay in Brooklyn (PHOTOS)

Jade Doskow | Posted 02.20.2012 | New York
Read More: Architecture, Gritty, Industrial, New York City, Late Night, Red Hook Brooklyn, Brooklyn, Slidefreestyle, Photos, Photography, Exposure, New York News
Jade Doskow

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WATCH: City Launches 'Site Selector' Website To Connect Businesses With Available Real Estate

Posted 11.26.2011 | Chicago
Read More: Chicago Real Estate, Transparency, Video, Industrial, Economy, Apps for Metro Chicago, Chicago Business, Site Selector, Real Estate, Web-Based Mapping, Chicago Mapping, World Business Chicago, Chicago News

The city's economic development agency unveiled a web-based mapping tool Monday that helps pair prospective Chicago businesses with available real est...

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Urban Decay Lures Hollywood To Gary

Posted 10.17.2011 | Chicago
Read More: Gary, Gary In, Industrial, Filming, Chicago News

When Gary, Indiana was booming, the city’s factories belched a constant cycle of smoke and steel. When the industrial hub thirty miles south of Chic...

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China Hikes Power Prices In Attempt To Counter Threatening Shortage

Posted 07.30.2011 | Business
Read More: Commercial, Agricultural, Coal Imports, Power Prices, Industrial, Profit Margins, Jianguang Shen, China, Business News

BEIJING (Jim Bai and Tom Miles) - China has raised power prices for industrial, commercial and agricultural users in some regions by about 3 perce...

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WATCH: The High Court Of Design: Milan's Salone Internazionale

Constantin Bjerke | Posted 07.06.2011 | Arts
Read More: Minotti, Fair, Dedon, Exhibition, Italian, Chair, Furniture, Decorative, Brand, Industrial, Salone, Design, Lighting, Showcase, Salone Satellite, Lissoni, Milan, Campana, Kartell, Fiera, crane.tv, Designers, Marva Griffin, Product, Omer Arbel, Arts News
Constantin Bjerke

The Salone Internazionale del Mobile is for design what the Venice Biennale is for art and architecture. It's ...

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The Earth Is Totally Hip

Reverend Billy | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Life After Shopping, Hip, Natural Disasters, Reverend Billy Talen, Activism, New York City, Industrial, Environment, Green, Earth, Tabloid, Culture, Green News
Reverend Billy

The one question I return to: from the center of our vast population, can we human beings reach out to the thing that created us?

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Atari Teenage Riot Reactivate at Gramercy Theater

Salvatore Bono | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Reunion, CX Kidronik, Industrial, Germany, Kanye West, Nine Inch Nails, Alec Empire, Nic Endo, United Nations, Digital Hardcore, Gramercy Theater, Atari Teenage Riot, Un, Atr, Concert, New York News
Salvatore Bono

Though lineups may have changed, the band's message of anarchy and disdain for politicians is still the same. The band could have not picked a better time to come to the city that never sleeps.

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