-By Nate Brown Many of the houses are vacant on the street, with windows boarded or nonexistent and gang tags marking the exteriors and laying claim to the half-empty neighborhood. An old school building, long abandoned, sits defiantly in the rough area on the east side of Cleveland, its parking lot full. On a cold, slushy MLK Day evening, what used to be a school gymnasium is lit by holiday lights of green, orange, blue, red and pink. A state-of-the art mixing board adds to the hazy glow illuminating the large, open room. Like a gunpowder haze over a recent battlefield, sweetly acrid smok...
