CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Its publisher knew next to nothing about the publishing business. Its first editor loathed all forms of music except obscure jazz. And its most prominent writer could be bribed by hot pizza. Somehow, however, it worked. It was The Scene, Cleveland`s free weekly entertainment paper. And if you were young, into rock music, particularly in the 1970s and `80s, and wanted to know what was going on, you read every word of it. In late 1969, Rich Kabat, the operator of a local promotions company, heard rumors that Cleveland After Dark, a paper that chronicled the city`s nightlife, was shutting down. Though Kabat had no experience in the newspaper business, he decided to publish a...
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