Shaker Heights
When it comes to politics, Katie Paris is true blue. A longtime veteran of national politics, Paris has spent the last year zeroing in on the political scene a bit closer to home—right here in Ohio. In 2019, Paris founded Red Wine & Blue, a grassroots organization geared at rallying suburban women to vote and affect change.
Just like most of Cuyahoga County, Cleveland's inner-ring suburbs are expecting a wave of potential evictions and foreclosures because of the coronavirus. But officials are trying to provide assistance wherever they can in Shaker Heights and South Euclid.
During the coronavirus quarantine, many out-of-work performers took to their own front yards to entertain their neighbors. Two Greater Cleveland entertainers turned the quarantine gigs into regular performances.
With shrinking populations and more community need, Lakewood and Shaker Heights School Districts are completing facilities master plans to accommodate students and residents—just in time to ponder the reopening of the schools during a pandemic.
When local day camps began cancelling sessions this summer, one young entrepreneur took it upon herself to bring camp to the kids in her Cleveland Heights neighborhood with Kamp Kate.
As restaurants and bars re-open, Cleveland Heights business owners and city officials are working together to come up with new ways to social distance while mingling outside.
The renovations planned for the Nature Center at Shaker Lakes' Stearns Woodland Trail will create a natural learning wonderland, complete with a treehouse.
Dave Ocker and Kyah Fernandez lost their restaurant jobs after COVID-19 hit. But saw it as an opportunity to start a nonprofit cocktail delivery company that benefits first responders on the frontline.
Chef Doug Katz sees hope in Cleveland's restaurants surviving COVID-19 with new innovations in dining out.
Pulsar Eco Products and partner KMK are producing 2.5 million masks a week and donating thousands of them to local businesses and senior care organizations.
The Nature Center at Shaker Lakes isn't letting the coronavirus crisis wipe out its annual plant sale. It's heading online this year for a full month, and so far, orders are up.
Mere weeks after opening Picnic Hill Market Cafe in Shaker Heights, the owners are shifting gears due to the coronavirus.
As the Cleveland International Film Festival prepares the details for a streaming version of this year’s canceled event, we spoke with four filmmakers proud to have been chosen for #CIFF44.
Our monthly "Free Stamp" feature rounds up the freshest free events in Cleveland. Due to the coronavirus crisis, we changed this to an all-indoors edition. This feature is powered by Cuyahoga Arts & Culture.
Shaker Heights illustrator Derf Backderf has a new book coming out in April. "Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio" will arrive less than a month before the 50th anniversary of the tragic event.
The newest place for Cleveland's movers and makers to convene is Wildroots Modern Market, making its debut at the Van Aken District Feb. 9.
Picnic Hill Market Cafe is the first of several new dining options coming to Fairmount Circle, near the campus of John Carroll University.
Cleveland's only dedicated gluten-free restaurant continues to grow on the heels of a successful pop-up dinner series, which has now extended to dinner service on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays.
Chef and restaurateur Douglas Katz's newest restaurant, Zhug in the Cedar-Fairmount District, combines flavors from the historical spice trade routes that passed through the Middle East.
In honor of FreshWater Cleveland's own podcast debut, we've rounded up five local podcasts that deserve a spot on your proverbial playlist—from seasoned storytellers to intrepid investigators.