Broadway Your Way: PlayhouseSquare's KeyBank Broadway Series

  Selecting shows is a challenge theatres face every season. While the process includes seeing and reading the productions they’re considering, it’s not always fun and games. A season needs to be built from scratch that speaks to the theatre’s entire audience while embracing their mission. PlayhouseSquare makes it seem effortless, though, when you look at their just-announced KeyBank Broadway…

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Carried Away by the Cleveland International Film Festival

The Clue Into Cleveland giveaway to win two tickets to Market at the Foodbank ends this Thursday. Enter here for a chance to attend Harvest for Hunger’s annual benefit. When it’s cold, gray and wet outside, there’s nothing that lifts my spirit like seeing a movie. Bundling up and heading to a theatre so I can be whisked […]

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Lake Erie Monsters: My First Cleveland Hockey Game

A bit of blogkeeping: Have you entered the Clue Into Cleveland giveaway to win two tickets to Market at the Foodbank? You have until next Thursday for a chance to attend Harvest for Hunger’s annual benefit. It’s hard for me to believe but it was 5 years ago this month that Scott and I moved to Cleveland. […]

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Giveaway: Win 2 Tickets to Market at the Foodbank!

If you’ve gone grocery shopping recently, you’ll likely have noticed that the Cleveland Foodbank’s Harvest for Hunger is in full swing.  Adding a $1, $5, or $10 donation to your groceries is a fast and easy way to help reach this year’s goal of providing food for 16 million meals. You can also help reach this goal while celebrating a night […]

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25+ Reasons to Buy Tickets to Chefs for Chardon

As I mentioned last week, Cleveland’s chefs are standing in solidarity this coming Monday, March 19, with two events to support the victims of the Chardon High School shooting. Although the eastside Chefs for Chardon is sold out, you still have a chance to get tickets to Dinner in the Dark’s event on the westside. […]

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Harvest for Hunger: Hunger is closer than you think

The last couple of years have been a difficult wakeup call for many.  With an unstable economy, issues such as hunger and people’s inability to afford food have become more widespread and pressing than in recent decades. In our own region it’s a signficant and growing concern, with the Cleveland Foodbank’s distribution rate up by 59% in the last three years and a recent article in the New […]

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Four Roses Bourbon Tasting at Crop Bistro

A bit of blog-keeping / update to last week’s mention of the Chardon Healing Fund: On March 19th, Cleveland chefs are hosting a pair of events on the East and West sides of the city to help the victims of the Chardon High School tragedy. In Moreland Hills, over 15 chefs will be hosting a tasting-style event […]

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Jump Back Ball 21: One Last Trip Through the Looking Glass

Another Jump Back Ball is in the books!  This past Saturday was the culmination of a lot of people’s hard work and months of planning. And after spending the last few weeks living and breathing nothing but Jump Back Ball, I needed to take some time to step back and recover before I posted my pictures.  Better late than never, though.  […]

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