Playing favorites: FreshWater celebrates 500 issues with our favorite mastheads
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Top: Our very first mast in September 2010 - Ingenuity Fest -- Bottom: October 2010 - Scott Colosimo of Cleveland CycleWerks
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Top: February 2011 – Dancer Kenya Woods -- Bottom: February 2011 – Intermuseum Conservation Association
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Top: April 2011 – Nicloe McGee of Collective Upycle -- Bottom: June 2011 – Theresa Gorski of Vision Yoga
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Top: September 2011 – Barroco Grill -- Bottom: July 2011 – City view from the Old Leff Electric Building
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Top: July 2012 – Edgewater Park -- Bottom: August 2012 – Cleveland Veledrome
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Top: May 2012 – Cleveland Mounted Police at Rivergate Park -- Bottom: August 2012 – Cleveland steel mill
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Top: March 2013 – Peter B. Lewis Building -- Bottom: April 2013 – Cleveland Public Library stairwell
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Top: May 2013 – EXXopolis Luminarium -- Bottom: August 2013 – Play Me I’m Yours
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Top: August 2013 – Circle of Animals – Zodiac Heads at the Cleveland Museum of Art -- Bottom: September 2013 – Artist Veronica Zak - Art City project at the Agora
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Top: March 2014 – Cleveland skyline with shipping crates -- Bottom May 2014 – Dazzle the District at Playhouse Square chandlier lighting ceremony
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Top: July 2014 – Rhinestone Folies at the Beachland Ballroom -- Bottom: August 2014 – Terminal Tower cityscape
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Top: October 2014 – Ingenuity Fest -- Bottom: November 2014 – Hullabaloo 3, Yellowcake Fashion Event
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Top: October 2014 – The Sam Laud freighter on the Cuyahoga -- Bottom: December 2014 – Black Lives Matter protest
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Top: February 2015 – Cupid’s Undie Run -- Bottom: April 2015 – Morrison Dance – DanceWorks at Cleveland Public Theater
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Top: July 2015 – Night Market -- Bottom: August 2015 – Car Kulture in Lakewood
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Top: August 2015 – Rainbow over Cleveland -- Bottom: October 2015 – Cleveland Lakefront Nature Preserve
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Top: June 2016 – Cracking Art at the Lake Erie Science Center -- Bottom: June 2016 – Cleveland Cavaliers 2016 NBA Championship Parade
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Top: June 2016 – The new Public Square opening -- Bottom: May 2016 – Piast - Polish Folk Dance Ensemble - One World Day
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Top: October 2016 – Cleveland Indians in the World Series -- Bottom: October 2016 – Makeshift Sanctuary by artist Dana Depew
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Top: January 2017 – Waterloo Arts Fifth Annual DayGlo Show -- Bottom: May 2017 – Legos at Wizard World
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Top: March 2017 – Frozen light house on Lake Erie -- Bottom: March 2017 – Station Hope
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Top: May 2017 – Up House at Rooms to Let -- Bottom: March 2017 – Parade the Circle
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Top: July 2017 – Ohio City Stages in Hinge Town -- Bottom: August 2017 – Port of Cleveland
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Top: November 2017 – Cleveland Museum of Art -- Bottom: August 2017 – Cleveland Public Library Mini Maker Faire
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Top: February 2018 – Brite Winter fire performer -- Bottom: April 2018 – Lincoln and the Fountain of Eternal Life on Cleveland's Mall A
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Top: May 2018 – PRIDE in the CLE -- Bottom: July 2018 – Yayoi Kusama - Infinity Mirrors at the Cleveland Museum of Art
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Top: July 2018 –Judy's Hand Pavilion by artist Tony Tasset in Uptown -- Bottom: August 2018 – Blue Angels - Cleveland National Air Show
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Top: October 2018 –Edgewater Park Pier -- Bottom: December 2018 – Playhouse Square
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Top: January 2019 – The frozen Cuyahoga -- Bottom: February 2019 – Cleveland Orchestra at Severance Hall
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Top: May 2019 – The Dreamer's Bal - Ingenuity Cleveland -- Bottom: June 2019 – Lake Erie Sunset
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Top: July 2019 – CPL 150th Anniversary Celebration -- Bottom: June 2019 – Ohio City Farm Sunflowers
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Top: September 2019 – Anhedonia Delight - The 4th Annual Drag Showcase -- Bottom: September 2019 – The Love Bus
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Top: October 2019 – Wyland’s “Song of the Whales” mural restoration -- Bottom: February 2020 – Da’Shaunae Marisa mural in Public Square
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Top: May 2020 – Wade Oval Lagoon and CMA -- Bottom: July 2020 – Voices of CLE - Artist Glen Infante mural in Public Square
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Top: March 2021 – Beneath the Detroit – Superior Bridge -- Bottom: May 2021 – Red Line Greenway Trailhead
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On Thursday, Sep. 30, 2010, FreshWater Cleveland published it’s very first issue. We introduced ourselves, then-managing editor ran our very first I Live Here (now) installment on serial entrepreneur Marc Canter, and Diane DiPiero reported on the pending 2011 debut of the Syrian Cultural Garden, among a slew of other stories.
On Thursday, Dec. 8, more than 11 years later, FreshWater marked it’s 500th issue. Today makes 502 issues.
Managing editors and news and features writers have come and gone—and sometimes returned again—but two things have remained a constant:
First, FreshWater has always been committed to reporting on What's Next in and around Cleveland—offering a fresh wave of stories covering Northeast Ohio's most creative people, businesses, organizations, and neighborhood developments.
Second, managing photographer has been with FreshWater since Day One—capturing people doing what they love or performing their duties; celebrating Cleveland’s landscape (both natural and urban); and since January posting candid portraits in our #StreetsofCLE series.
And, each Thursday since Sep. 30, 2010, Perkoski has created a new masthead. Today, we celebrate Perkoski’s unique and creative view of our fair city with our personal favorite mastheads from the 502 he has done. For our complete masthead library, click here.
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