Hasta La Creative!

“Hide your badges,” a motorist at a red light helpfully yelled out to a group of us standing at the intersection of Euclid Avenue and East 9th Street in downtown Cleveland on Tuesday afternoon, “so you’re not a target!”

My fellow pedestrians, judging from the badges hanging from lanyards looped around their necks, were Republican National Convention delegates. (RNC press badges look different than delegate badges, but I still took the motorist’s advice and tucked my credentials into my pocket.) They were heading to the Quicken Loans Arena, like I was.

Though the city and the estimated 50,000 visitors here for the RNC have been on edge for fear of convention-related violence, so far disturbances have been minimal. One notable bit of drama covered by the local media: On Tuesday morning a group of three protesters who snuck onto the grounds of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame engaged in an an act of unauthorized outdoor advertising: They hoisted a banner reading “DON’T TRUMP OUR COMMUNITIES” between two of the museum’s flagpoles (firemen promptly arrived on the scene with a ladder truck to remove the signage and the police arrested the protesters).

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