The lavish Hippodrome, with entrances on both Euclid and Prospect avenues, hosted Enrico Caruso and Sarah Bernhardt before it degenerated into a B-movie house. Demolished in 1981, its location is now a parking lot. But download one of the walking tours Coleman narrates to your MP3 player or iPod, and she'll tell you that the 3,500-seat showplace -- once the world's second-largest theater (next to the Hippodrome in New York) -- opened in 1908 with a spectacle that included horses diving into an onstage water tank.

The Hip is a destination on a 13-stop, 0.9-mile, 37-minute walk along lower Prospect Avenue and West Fourth Street, one of five free tours she would love Clevelanders to take to learn more about their city.

Go to www.cityprowl.com, an easily navigated site, to download maps and audio files for the downtown tours that also include the arcades, the Warehouse District, bank lobbies and Public Square.