Shaker Square & Larchmere
Shaker Square - photo Bob Perkoski
This streetcar neighborhood has everything an urban resident could ask for. Food, drink, entertainment, shopping, public transport and even one of Northeast Ohio’s best farmers markets all are within a few tightly clustered blocks. Shaker Square, with light rail trains zipping right through the middle of it, is home to some of the area’s best restaurants, a movie theater and weekly (year-round) farm market. Around the corner, eclectic Larchmere Boulevard is dotted with one-of-a-kind retail, antiques shops and eateries.
The beloved Loganberry Books is celebrating its 30th anniversary this weekend. Known for its large, eclectic collection of books and unique atmosphere, the store has become a community hub for readers and popular for its various events and book clubs. Owner Harriet Logan reflects on the store's history and the importance of physical bookstores in the digital age.
This summer a new trend in outdoor entertainment—public concerts in private yards—swept through Northeast Ohio. Hosts invited both friends and strangers onto their properties to hear the sounds of local musicians like Blue Lunch, Jackie Warren and Forecast, Moises Borges, and the Jim Rangel Trio. It sounds like a trend that may continue.
Literary Cleveland, the community of writers bringing people into the world of words with writing opportunities, with hold its annual Inkubator in September. Tickets go on sale this Thursday, Aug. 1.
The Saint Luke's Foundation, The City Club of Cleveland, Bike Your Neighborhood Cleveland, and the Greater Cleveland Urban Film Festival will present a free film screening of “Bike Vessel” this Friday, with a community bike ride with Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb on Saturday, to raise awareness, spark inspiration, conversation, and promote health equity through cycling.
The Saint Luke's Foundation announced this week that it has granted more the $1.4 million in grants to 11 area organizations that are working toward strengthening Cleveland neighborhoods.
Literary Cleveland has opened applications for its yearlong Breakthrough Writing Residency program to support emerging writers in Greater Cleveland who have a passion for writing and a commitment to their manuscripts, but who have not yet published a book. This year, the six residents will receive monthly stipends of $200 over the course of the year.
Literary Cleveland last week published an online special issue of blackout poetry tied to the solar eclipse in its literary journal “Gordon Square Review.” After receiving more than 150 submissions for the Blackout Poetry Contest, 15 finalists were published. Lisa Turner was named the winner, with Sarah Ferrato and Sarah Nichols named as runners up.
To celebrate its 21st anniversary, Shaker Arts Council is hosting a fundraiser and family fun day in May at Edwin's Too. To celebrate Shaker Heights' dedication to the arts, the organization has opened a call to artists for submissions.
The 13th Short. Sweet. Film Fest returns to Shaker Square, featuring nearly 300 short films from 23 countries across four screens at Atlas Cinemas. The event includes a diverse genre range, filmmaker appearances, local talents, and international works, promising something for all. Highlights include Mayfield Heights native Anne Hu’s 'Lunchbox' and the Swiss film 'Lose me not.’
EDWINS founder Brandon Chrostowski is on a seemingly endless mission to feed and help people around to who are in need—from the homeless in Cleveland to Ukrainian and Israeli refugees. Earlier this month he traveled to Djibouti, Africa to cook for people living in a refugee camp in Ali Addeh.
This weekend, the Nature Center at Shaker Lakes and the Shaker Historical Society will host a Historical Homes & Building Tour, with presentations from local historians on the 1960s fight to stop construction of freeways over the wetlands and greenspace in Shaker Heights and Cleveland Heights.
Six writers have been named to Literary Cleveland's 2023-24 Breakthrough Writing Residency cohort, in which they have free yearlong mentorship, support, and opportunities to develop book-length projects.
Stories—written. oral, and through music—can transform lives, change minds; teach, or make us laugh, cry, or scream. Cuyahoga Arts & Culture celebrates five nonprofits that elevate voices and let people be heard.
Garlic is king at the 14th annual Cleveland Garlic Festival this weekend at Shaker Square—a celebration of all things garlic that benefits the nonprofit North Union Farmers Market.
This week, Loganberry Books celebrated 20 years in its current location—the former Nash Motors dealership, among other former iterations. Read about how she turned a huge warehouse into the warm, inviting bookstore it is today.
EDWINS founder Brandon Chostowski is offering $250 in credit to use in his restaurants and shops to anyone who turns in a gun in an effort to reduce gun violence in Cleveland.
Lake Erie Ink released its seventh annual teen anthology last week with 147 contributions of nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and art, making it LEI's largest collection of area teens’ creative works to date.
EDWINS Leadership Restaurant and Institute founder Brandon Chrostowski may have been passed over for the James Beard Award for outstanding restauranteur, but he still sees the nomination as a "huge win" for his mission. And he had a blast in Chicago.
In August, Cleveland's City Planning Commission approved a new master plan designed by Burten, Bell, Carr Development to lift the Buckeye neighborhood from the swamp of disinvestment, structural racism, and population loss it has dwelled within for years.
As fall approaches, the season is ripe for upcoming film festivals. Three festivals that focus on unique and timely topics are already beginning.