Aug 10, 2023 · More than 60 entertainers will take the stage at the Beachland Ballroom this weekend, starting tonight, for the 11th annual International Ohio Burlesque Festival.The festival runs today, Thursday, Aug. 10 through Saturday, Aug. 12. More than 60 entertainers from around the world will perform burlesque, drag, variety, and vaudeville each evening, led by Bella Sin, who founded the Ohio Burlesque ...

Nov 3, 2022 · The bar from the New York Spaghetti House Transformed into a restaurant, the New York Spaghetti House welcomed headliners like Jimmy Durante and W.C. Fields.A few years later Mickey Rooney and Red Skelton joined their ranks.. Greek and Turkish residents from today’s Gateway neighborhood were made welcome—with the restaurant being one of the few places in town where patrons could be seen ...

Jun 6, 2023 · Verbena Shoppe, Café, and Dry Bar will take over the former Cleveland Tea Revival space in Ohio City this summer.

Jan 22, 2025 · Ghost signs, faded hand-painted advertisements from the 19th and early 20th centuries, can be found throughout America, including Cleveland. Photographer Jeff Christner shares some his favorite relics of a bygone era.

Nov 9, 2023 · The automotive, aerospace, and electronics company that would eventually become Thompson, Ramo Wooldridge, better known worldwide as TRW, was a large presence in Cleveland for 100 years—beginning as a small manufacturing company and evolving into a giant in the automotive, aviation, aerospace, and other industries.. As the company grew and thrived, in 1985 it built a 480,000-square-foot ...

Dec 21, 2022 · Charlotte Morgan is a writer, journalist, and teacher who lives in Cleveland. She teaches composition and rhetoric at Cleveland State University and has just completed her first book, a memoir called “Glenville: My Side of Paradise,” which examines race, place and the influences that change place.

Nov 4, 2020 · About the Author: Jen Jones Donatelli As an enthusiastic CLE-vangelist, Jen Jones Donatelli enjoys diving headfirst into her work with FreshWater Cleveland. Upon moving back to Cleveland after 16 years in Los Angeles, Jen served as FreshWater's managing editor for two years (2017-2019) and continues her work with the publication as a contributing editor and host of the FreshFaces podcast.

May 16, 2024 · In August 2023, Cinematheque co-founder John Ewing announced his pending retirement—a subsequent press release stated that Ewing had screened more than 9,000 films on the Cleveland Institute of Art campus since the repertory theater launched in 1986. Yet, Ewing believes he’s been a bit shortchanged. The Cinematheque director, who is leaving the institution on June 30, says he has shown at ...

Jul 21, 2022 · The Cleveland Play House complex as built in 1927 with the Brooks Theater in the foreground complex as built in 1927 with the Brooks Theater in the foreground The final cost was $2 million in an era when prominent architects Meade & Hamilton routinely designed substantial Tudor homes in the area for $ 25,000.. Roundwood Manor had 54 rooms and was lavishly furnished with antique furniture and ...

Oct 12, 2024 · One of only 19 such works in the world, Cleveland’s Lone Sailor Statue now has a permanent home along Cleveland’s waterfront. The Lone Sailor Statue’s official unveiling last Saturday, Oct. 12 included a ceremony and ribbon cutting at the new Lone Sailor Monument Plaza in Voinovich Bicentennial Park.The Great Lakes Science Center hosted the Lone Sailor statue for three years, and ...