Contact
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E-mail is preferred, attachments are fine. Please send to ONE of the following addresses (spamming the whole staff will NOT help your chances):
music@clevescene.com
arts@clevescene.com
events@clevescene.com (for the Get Out section and listings)
dining@clevescene.com (for all restaurant- and food-related info)
news@clevescene.com
Snail mail: 1468 W. 9th St., Suite 805, Cleveland, OH, 44113.
Staff Directory
PUBLISHER
Chris Keating
216-802-7250, ckeating@clevescene.com
EDITORIAL
Vince Grzegorek, editor
216-802-7254, vgrzegorek@clevescene.com
Douglas Trattner, dining editor
dtrattner@clevescene.com
Jeff Niesel, music editor
216-802-7210, jniesel@clevescene.com
Eric Sandy, staff writer
216-802-7231, esandy@clevescene.com
Sam Allard, staff writer
216-802-7282, sallard@clevescene.com
Hannah Franklin, staff writer
216-802-7234, hfranklin@clevescene.com
CLASSIFIED SALES
Gregg Kelley, classifieds account executive/Adult
216-802-7229, gkelley@clevescene.com
Adult Advertising, 216-802-7228
RETAIL ADVERTISING AND PROMOTIONS
Jenna ConForti, marketing director
216-802-7260, jconforti@clevescene.com
John Crobar, senior account executive
216-802-7230, jcrobar@clevescene.com
Shayne Rose, account executive
216-802-7258, srose@clevescene.com
Dave Berosia, account executive
216-802-7226, dberoisa@clevescene.com
Angela Lott, house account manager
216-706-7332, alott@clevescene.com
Chris Battusnik, account executive
216-802-7262, cbattusnik@clevescene.com
Kelly Robusto, account executive
216-802-7290, krobusto@clevescene.com
BUSINESS
Brian Painley, business/hr manager
216-802-7270, bpainley@clevescene.com
Don Kriss, circulation director
216-802-7208, dkriss@clevescene.com
PRODUCTION
Steve Miluch, production manager
216-802-7240, smiluch@clevescene.com
Gina Scordos, creative direcetor
216-802-7241, gscordos@clevescene.com
Brent DeWitt, layout editor
216-802-7236, bdewitt@clevescene.com
About Us:
In 1970, Richard Kabat saw an opportunity for an entertainment-centric weekly and launched Cleveland Scene with a loan from his brother. Then he and his inexperienced staff held on long enough to catch one of the last waves of money to wash over Cleveland, the rock-and-nightlife boom of the '70s and '80s. Scene and music would become almost synonymous.
Two decades later,history repeated, sort of. When The Cleveland Edition, a rabble-rousing alternative weekly, closed for good in 1992, attorney Richard Siegel recognized the void that paper’s demise would leave in the oligarchic Rust Belt town. So he started the Free Times.
In 1998, both Free Times and Scene were bought by rival national chains. Scene grew beyond its music-centric focus, making it and Free Times direct competitors. The rivalry was fierce and at times nasty. In 2002 Scene's owners bought the Free Times and left it for dead, only to see it rise again under new ownership and resume the fight.
The stalemate finally ended in the summer of 2008, when Scranton, Pa.-based Times Shamrock bought both papers and merged them under the still-powerful Scene name. And today the new Scene retains the best of both award-winning predecessors, widely recognized as Northeast Ohio’s best source of hard-hitting journalism, compelling feature writing and insightful commentary. Scene is distributed every Wednesday at more than 1,500 locations across Northeast Ohio.
