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Contents

April 2022 volume 51 / issue 4

ON THE COVER

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OUR 50 BIGGEST MOMENTS Cleveland Magazine launched 50 years ago this month. In honor of our anniversary, we delve into what we see as the 50 most extraordinary moments of the past 50 years — and what they mean to all of us.

Edited by Sheehan Hannan and Colleen Smitek Mural by Garrett Weider Photographed by Angelo Merendino Cover collage by Dakarai Akil

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FROM OUR FOUNDER LUTE HARMON SR. CONVERSATION

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TAKE A HIKE It's time to hit the trail.

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RISING STAR Cleveland native Alexis Floyd dishes on her role on the Netflix show, Inventing Anna.

WILDFLOWERS AND WATERFALLS Head to Hocking Hills for a spring adventure.

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ZHUG! Chef Douglas Katz's latest offering is a breezy, tasty tribute to Middle Eastern Mezze.

PIZZA GUIDE Everything you need to know to find the very best 'za in town.

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47 “Cleveland” (ISSN 0160-8533) is published monthly for a total of 12 issues per year by Great Lakes Publishing Co., 1422 Euclid Ave., Suite 754, Cleveland, OH 44115. / Periodical postage paid at Cleveland, Ohio. Postmaster: send address changes to Cleveland, 1422 Euclid Ave., Suite 730, Cleveland, OH 44115. / Subscription rates: U.S. $16.99 one year, $28.99 two years, $36.99 three years / All subscriptions are subject to state of Ohio sales tax of 8% based on publisher county of origin. / Copyright 2022 by Great Lakes Publishing Co. All rights reserved. / Reproduction or use, without written permission, of editorial or pictorial content in any manner is prohibited. Title registered in U.S. Patent Office. / Printed in the United States. / Unsolicited manuscripts cannot be returned unless accompanied by a properly addressed envelope bearing sufficient postage. The magazine accepts no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, artwork or cartoons.

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SHOP LOCAL Three spring earrings from local makers and artisans.

SLOW STYLE Drift Lab in Cleveland embraces natural dyes to create one-of-a-kind looks.

LOOK BACK It was 1982, and Cleveland Magazine went big to celebrate 10 years.

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From Our Founder

Our Mission promoting Northeast Ohio as the “Best Location in the Nation” to grow a business. Part of my job was to see what other cities were doing to promote themselves.

Across my desk would come chamber of commerce magazines that were dull and boring — and city magazines from Chicago, Philadelphia and Boston that were bright and sassy.

And Cleveland didn’t have one.

After discussing with my wife, Susan, we decided to start a magazine together, and the next step was to look for investors.

Talk about luck. My first call was to Oliver F. Emerson, the printer of my employer’s company magazine. After a luncheon meeting, he said he would talk to some friends and, if they liked the idea, we would have our magazine.

Thirty days later, 22 of Emerson’s friends had become investors. They were united in wanting to make Cleveland a better place to live and work — and believed a lively magazine would change the image of the city as the “mistake on the lake.”

Toward the end of our first year, Lady Luck paid us another visit. Mike Roberts, city editor of The Plain Dealer, agreed to become our editor. Within weeks he was building a staff of writers and artists who would create a publication that Forbes named “one of the 10 best magazines” in the country.

With the help of talented writers such as Ned Whelan, the magazine became known for its profiles of politicians, personalities I N 1 9 7 1 , I WA S A N A D M A N

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Flip to page 54 to check out our 50 biggest moments of the past 50 years.

ILLUSTR ATION BY G ARRE T T WEIDER / PHOTO BY ANGELO MERENDINO LUTE HARMON SR.: THOM SHERIDAN

and mobsters as well as our coverage of the suburbs, restaurant reviews and annual most interesting people issue.

News anchor Wilma Smith was on the cover so often she asked if she could share in profits from newsstand sales.

While I am grateful for the wonderful and talented people with whom I have worked the past 50 years, the question today is: Where does a city magazine go from here?

To begin, I must say that to be part of a second-generation business (my son, Lute Harmon Jr., is now the president of Great Lakes Publishing) is about as good as it gets.

That said, for the answer to the question, we must look to the mission of a city magazine: to be a voice of the city it serves. Today our mission is more important than ever because it is more important than ever that Cleveland continues to grow and prosper.

It was 50 years ago that Cleveland began the greatest 25-year period of growth in its history. That accomplishment was built on a shared past and a common purpose — to drive Cleveland forward.

Now would be a good time to remember the values that made our city what it is today: hard work, collaboration, innovation and respect. And, of course, a mission of that importance deserves an important voice — and, hopefully, another 50 years.

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Spring Cleaning In case you haven’t noticed, things look a little different around here this month. For the first time in more than a decade, Cleveland Magazine has undergone a redesign. For the past four months, art director Erin Stinard has led the effort, taking the magazine down to the design studs before building it up to the sleek, modern pages you see in front of you.

Below are Stinard’s thoughts on the redesign.

Q. What magazines (or other forms of media) did you use as inspiration?

A. Texas Monthly, Entertainment Weekly and GQ are the three publications that I look at the most. Their use of white space and typography treatments are what I turned to for inspiration.

Q. Which part of the old design were you most sad to see go?

A. I’m surprised to say this, but I think I’ll miss the old color palette.

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Q. What was your favorite part of the redesign?

A. The new nameplate/logo for Cleveland Magazine. That was the most collaborative part of the process, and it’s a big change.

That part really came down to the wire, but that’s what makes it fun.

Q. What was the toughest decision you had to make?

A. Picking a font! The headline font that we went with — Flecha Bronzea L from R-Typography — was one I kept going back to. But there are so many fonts out there that it’s easy to go down a rabbit hole looking at absolutely everything.

She’s one of our own — and now she’s at the top of the masthead of one of the biggest magazines in the country. Liz Vaccariello, a Cleveland native and former Cleveland Magazine editor, has been named the new editor of People magazine after two decades working in New York City for a handful of publications, including Reader’s Digest, Parents and Real Simple. “In many ways, I’m going back to my journalism roots,” says Vaccariello.

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which means it’s a great time for your feet to hit the trail — and the Cleveland Metroparks is making that easier than ever with its 2022 Trail Challenge. The rules are simple: Hike 10 different trails to win a Trail Challenge sticker and 20 trails to receive a special prize yet to be announced. Keep in mind that this isn’t just about hiking. Kayaking, biking and, for the first time ever, horseback riding, are all on the table. Guided hikes led by naturalists are also a great way to gain insight into Cleveland’s ecosystem and meet other nature lovers in the community. “The trail challenge can be their guide to creating adventure in their backyard,” says Metroparks outdoor recreation manager Rachel Nagle. “If you have a stressful day, just go out there and take a deep breath.”

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Sometimes the hardest part of a new challenge is knowing where to start.

These four routes range from leisurely stroll to day-long trek.

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2-mile Paddle Lake Erie at Wendy Park. Splash your way to Cleveland's historic Coast Guard Station, looping around the inner harbor to head back to the beach.

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ATTACK INVASIVE SPECIES Garlic mustard is an invasive plant that appears early in spring, blocking sunlight and consuming nutrients that other plants need. The good news is the plant is easy to spot and pull out. The bad news is there are a lot of them. Join the fight by volunteering to pull garlic mustard at Brecksville Reservation on April 22. clevelandmetroparks.org PLANT A TREE With Northeast Ohio’s tree canopy beginning to vanish, tree planting is a major focus this year at Holden Forests & Gardens, which is striving to have 15,000 trees planted by 2025 through its People for Trees initiative. holdenfg.org SAVE THE TURTLES The spotted turtle is in trouble in Ohio.

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he local filmmakers behind The Hunting, a recently released horror movie, wanted more than the average middle-of-nowhere setting. They wanted the community they filmed in to feel like a character, to have real roots. Their solution: Make a movie right here in Northeast Ohio. Director Mark Hamer recalls wanting to create something the cast and crew could be proud of, because the location of the film wasn’t some random place; it was home.

Although Cleveland has served as the filming ground for several major Hollywood productions — such as The Avengers and Judas and the Black Messiah — the filmmakers behind The Hunting took things a step further. They wanted their film to rely exclusively on local talent and assets. As a part of that mission, Brecksville-based Garage Creative Studios produced the film with vice president and creative director Mark Hamer in the director’s chair.

“The goal was to really do a Cleveland production,” Hamer says. “From the very beginning when we first started talking about it, we knew this is something we wanted to do in Cleveland.”

The Hunting reimagines the traditional werewolf trope as a small-town detective and a nature conservationist who work together to uncover the mystery behind a man’s gruesome mutilation. The further they delve into the investigation, the closer they come to the truth about the monster. Without spoiling the plot, Hamer reveals that the werewolf becomes a metaphor for the post-traumatic stress disorder commonly experienced by combat veterans.

“It was really important to us to be able to do that,” Hamer says. “Just providing a little bit of awareness on the PTSD with some of our veterans, and just giving them respect.”

The movie, shot in November and December 2020, was filmed largely in Mantua in Portage County with a cast filled with local actors and icons.

Peyton Hillis, the former Cleveland Browns running back who will forever be known

for gracing the cover of Madden 12, makes his acting debut in a lead role alongside Solon High School graduate Joelle Westwood. Hamer and producer Heather Terrance Ryan specifically sought out a former NFL player to play detective Connor Ryan because they wanted someone who matched the physique and pasFormer Browns running sion intended for back Peyton Hillis is the character. one of the familiar Hillis mirrored faces in The Hunting. that vision well and brought a willingness to experiment that bolstered his performance. His NFL background made him receptive of direction, and Hamer commended Hillis for his interest in the nuances of the character, such as wondering what he would’ve eaten for lunch or how hard he might run.

Westwood cited the film’s familiar setting as a comfort that she leaned into during her first full-length film.

“It was nice because I got to shoot and then I’d come home and stay with my mom,” Westwood says.

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Change of Fortunes: After a table reading in Los Angeles, Rhimes rented out a restaurant for the cast one night.

Floyd was shocked when the Uber pulled up in front of Osteria Mamma, the very restaurant she used to work at. “It was an extraordinary moment,” Floyd says.

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Anna, Invented We go one-on-one with Cleveland native Alexis Floyd, the breakout star of the hit Netflix series Inventing Anna.

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n the Netflix series Inventing Anna, created by hit producer Shonda Rhimes, a con artist who goes by the name Anna Delvey masquerades as a German heiress and bilks New York elites out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. One of the most intriguing characters on the show, which is based on true-life events, is Neff Davis, a hotel concierge played by Cleveland native Alexis Floyd. Davis becomes friends with Anna and sticks with her through her arrest and trial — even as others fled.

We checked in with Floyd to see how she prepared for the breakout role, her take on Anna and Neff’s relationship and what’s next for the 2012 Hawken School graduate who first appeared on the small screen in Freeform’s The Bold Type in 2019.

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Making It: After graduating from Carnegie Mellon University with a degree in theater, Floyd worked as everything from an office administrator to a hostess at an Italian restaurant in Los Angeles. “I know what it’s like to be as pleasant and present as you can with the guests while underneath the desk you are texting your landlord because you need just five more days to get rent together,” she says.

On Friendship: One of the questions in the show is whether Neff and Anna could have a real friendship. “I think it’s complicated,” Floyd says. “Both Neff and Anna had this sort of quiet confidence that speaks for itself, and that’s part of why they became friends.” But Neff was also hurt deeply by Anna’s betrayal and how she treated others of a different class and race. Floyd wanted to portray “the difficulty of wanting to be close to a person, admiring her power, but also putting up boundaries for safety and health.”

Accuracy: Playing Neff, Floyd says she wasn’t “trying to necessarily do an imitation. I was trying to celebrate the things about her that I find so special.” Nevertheless, Floyd was nervous what the real-life Neff would think of the portrayal.

She needn’t have worried. After the show premiered, Davis posted a photo of herself with Floyd on her Instagram page and wrote, “I just wanted to give flowers to 'NEFF.' She is phenomenal in Inventing Anna, and I had the pleasure to get to know her beautiful spirit."

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Talking the Talk: One of the real-life Neff’s most distinctive traits is her rhythmic, colorful voice. To nail the accent, Floyd, who got to know Neff well during the shooting of the production, recorded their conversations, then spent hours walking around New York City, listening to — and trying out — Neff’s voice.

“I probably looked really interesting talking to myself like that,” she laughs.

Cleveland Love: Floyd wasn’t the only one with Cleveland connections on set. Julia Garner, who plays Anna on the show, also has Cleveland roots. Garner’s dad grew up in Shaker Heights, and her husband, Mark Foster, lead singer of the band Foster the People (the two met at the Sundance Film Festival), graduated from Nordonia High School. “There was something sweet that we got to share that Cleveland energy,” Floyd says. She thinks their Northeast Ohio connection is one of the reasons why the two bonded so well, on and off screen. “There’s a closeness there that we didn’t have to fabricate, and that came easy to us.”

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Q. What is your role?

A. One is thinking through the process of transitioning to another operator, a nonprofit or cooperative ownership by the vendors. But in the meantime, how do we make the market as healthy as it can be so that whoever the next operator is doesn’t just get immediately overwhelmed? I see myself as a little bit of a bureaucracy buster and as a facilitator.

Q. What could be improved at the market?

A. We have so many multi-million-dollar projects that it’s hard to figure out what to do first. Do you choose the roof, the electricity or the plumbing? You need to make a choice year by year. Stakeholder engagement is necessary to figure out what to prioritize. Tenant association president Don Whitaker is excellent at reminding people that we’re one market.

Q. What challenges are unique to the West Side Market?

A. Part of why it’s stayed is because it is so grand, opulent and beautiful. But that also means that there’s so much that goes into maintaining the building and keeping it going. I think that will always and forever be a challenge. Another one — and I think this makes the market more interesting and healthier — is that it is 70-100 small businesses who are all operating under one roof but have their own individual needs.

Q. Thanks to proposed legislation to grant a liquor license, we might one day be able to buy a beer, sit back and enjoy the space. Is there pushback from vendors?

A. Vendors are more open to change than I would have anticipated. They want the market to succeed. So if that means having a liquor license for the market, I think vendors are open to it. With food, it goes back to infrastructure. There are only a few spaces that we can rent out with a kitchen hood, and we don’t have a commercial culinary kitchen.

in the empty second-floor locker room at the West Side Market. With high ceilings, original subway tile walls and a bank of windows overlooking its bustling first floor, the space could host a wedding, gala or even a business lunch. “This place needs that,” says Trivisonno, adjusting the blazer over her West Side Market T-shirt. Instead, it’s one of the market’s most-cited examples of underutilization. What’s standing in the way? Money. The market, currently at a 32% vacancy rate and declared "in crisis" by a recent study, needs an estimated $30 million in general improvements. We strolled the floor with Trivisonno to see what the city has in store for the beloved, struggling 1912 landmark.

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A. It’s an important part of Clevelanders’ pride. That’s why they bring their family members here. That’s why they visit on the weekends. They’re proud of the architecture, the small businesses, the history. This is somewhere that people feel a real sense of Cleveland identity.

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Koehler said the Intel courtship highlights the importance of site preparedness. “We in Northeast Ohio have had a shortage of large, readily marketable sites,” he says. “We have to double down to identify those sites that make us more nimble. You need a dynamic inventory of readily available land, urban areas, rural areas and everything in between.”

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“For us as a region, it’s about crafting the strategy to take advantage of this opportunity,” Shah says.

The Intel move dovetails with the idea that the area should work to attract advanced manufacturing, a plan that was already in motion, Shah says, noting that Ernst & Young opened a Center for Advanced Manufacturing in October.

Intel has an extensive supplier network — some 140 companies — and Shah says it’s his job to make Northeast Ohio more attractive to them. But Intel already does business with dozens of Northeast Ohio suppliers, including Nordson, Parker Hannafin and Swagelok.

The proximity to suppliers is important, Shah notes. And make no mistake, a short drive up Interstate 71 isn’t an inconvenience, especially when international vendors are having problems logistically. “Being two hours away is not a barrier,” he says.

With a $20 billion Intel plant headed to Ohio, we ask experts to take stock of how the investment could pay off locally.

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It’s estimated the facility will sit on 1,000 acres, potentially employing 7,000 people during construction and 3,000 Intel employees when completed. And, although it’s in Licking County, the effects will ripple statewide, including in Northeast Ohio. We talked to three area experts about what this might mean.

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BILL KOEHLER, CEO, Team NEO

Intel coming to Ohio was a triumph for JobsOhio, the state’s economic development agency. But the ball started rolling when Lorain councilwoman Mary Springowski made contact with Intel about a potential plant in her city.

Team NEO, one of the six network partners for JobsOhio in the state, realized they couldn’t make that happen, but that didn’t mean it couldn’t happen elsewhere in the state. “We had three days to hunt down a location based on Intel’s parameters,” Koehler says. “It was important for Ohio to win.”

Zorman notes that most semiconductor manufacturing can be found domestically in Silicon Valley and the Southwest and in nations along the Pacific Rim — all areas that can be climate challenged, especially compared with the Midwest.

For years, politicians and academics have bemoaned the “brain drain,” of young people leaving the state after growing up or going to college here. The new plant could stem that tide.

“Students who graduate from Case Western, Cincinnati or Ohio State looking for jobs in the semiconductor industry don’t have to leave,” he says. “They can find opportunities here.”

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pups,” explains Hocking Hills naturalist Jeff Large. “Skunks will be out and about gathering as much food as they can to make up for the dormant days of winter.”

Luckily, I do not cross paths with any harbingers of foul odor during my hike.

Instead, my visit is accompanied by a joyful chorus of flitting birds overhead.

I spot an abundance of spring flora, including fiddleheads unfurling their fronds and colorful blooms peeking from beneath the undergrowth.

I am not quick at identifying wildflowers, with the exception of the threepronged trilliums that emerge from shady spots on the trail, but Large tells me that Jack-in-the-pulpit, Dutchman’s breeches, dwarf ginseng and pink lady's slippers are common finds.

Spring also signals the arrival of culinary delicacies, such as ramps and morels between April and May. It’s legal to pick morels in Hocking Hills State Park, so long as you don’t leave the trail to do it — and, of course, amateurs should not be deciding between poisonous and safe mushrooms.

Kindred Spirits at Cedar Falls has a taste of the real deal without the worry or work. The restaurant, spa and inn is a boutique bed-and-breakfast property notched out of Hocking Hills State Park’s eastern border.

When available, chef Matt Rapposelli uses foraged ingredients, including morels from the property. Unlike the earthy taste of many mushrooms, morels have a nutty, buttery flavor, which tastes more like pine nuts or cashews. Sauteed in butter, onion and garlic, they’re even better.

After a day of hiking the Hills, I’ve earned every bite of my delicious dish, served in a cozy and intimate 1840s cabin. I can’t pass up a bourbon, either, since my bed is less than 200 feet away.

Accommodations range from yurts and geodesic domes to cabins and off-property vacation homes.

I’ve stayed in all of the inn’s room categories, but there’s something special about the new domes. Mine is a spacious den of luxury that opens over a tree-lined hill, ideal for spotting wildlife wandering through.

And when the giant curtain closes, I’m enveloped in a quiet cocoon of tranquility until I’m ready to emerge for my next spring awakening.

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which opened in December in Chagrin Falls, melds centuries-old styling with modern tastes to offer suburbanites an adventurous and accessible menu. Hitting the middle of that Venn diagram is the standout spider roll ($15). This mega roll (technically called a futomaki) pops with cheerful colors and competing consistencies. The star is tempurabattered soft-shell crab, delicate and gooey inside and perfectly crispy outside, poking out the ends of the roll. It’s paired with crunchy slivers of cucumber and smooth avocado cream cheese, then wrapped in a full sheet of nori, covered with sweetened rice and speckled with bright red fish roe. “The whole thing is a really nice contrast of textures,” says chef Eric Stout.

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Bell Tower Brewing 310 Park Ave, Kent 330-663-2255 belltowerbrewing.com

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ent is more than just a place for college kids to party. Forty minutes south of Cleveland, the town is famous for politics and rock ‘n’ roll. Visitors hike Cooperrider-Kent Bog Nature Preserve, shop Main Street’s Acorn Alley and dine at long-standing eateries Ray’s Place or Taco Tontos.

It even has a community of engaged residents, like lifers Ryan Tipton and Jennifer Herman. Yet, the craft beer wave, which washed over Ohio since the 2000s, took a while to get the memo. “I’d say there was a hole,” Herman remembers.

Consider that hole filled. In October, Tipton and Herman, general manager and head brewer, respectively, co-founded Bell Tower Brewing Co. with designer and Ryan’s wife, Bridget. The trio created a staggering two-floor temple of brew across a 9,000-squarefoot, 150-year-old cathedral in the West River neighborhood. Visitors commune over traditional beer made from fresh, local ingredients and elevated brewpub food, such as grilled cheese on house-made focaccia, in pews transformed into booths.

“I didn’t want to ruin what was already good about it,” says Bridget. “I wanted legibility between the things that are old and new. The things that we added aren’t fake old.”

After first meeting at a homebrewers’ event, Tipton, a member of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, ran into Herman, a homebrewer. She was giving a speech to the chamber about why there was no fresh beer in Kent. Nearby North Water, a trendy

artisan brewery, hadn't yet opened, though MadCap Brewery, a ‘40s machine shop on Crain Avenue, had in 2016.

“I had a bunch of partnerships fall through,” says Herman. “Then I almost died in a car accident.”

The near-tragedy gave her a renewed sense of purpose. “I told myself, You are here to brew beer.” Years earlier, the homebrewer failed when she first tried, but she was fascinated and resilient. Today, she's a certified beer judge, a cicerone (like a sommelier for beer) and former employee of Market Garden Brewery. All that was left was to paint her own masterpiece.

Yet, Herman's approach to brewing is more about science than art. Total control of process converges with the chaos of yeast, a substance about as mysterious to scientists as the human brain.

“The magic of fermentation is absolutely invigorating,” says Herman.

Other breweries attract clientele with fruit-forward beer or hard seltzers. Bell Tower is doing it with tradition. Across 12 drinkable options, Herman shows a dedication to the classics, such as lagers, saisons, Schwarzbier and ales.

The Spirit of the Bell ($6) is a straw-colored, low-alcohol pilsner that shows Bud Light drinkers what they’re supposed to be drinking. The team gets adventurous with the Decembre ($6), a farmhouse saison seasoned by French rye and freshly grated Indian peppers. A California common, a maltier and even more fermented style, rolls out this spring. Meanwhile, Herman continues to celebrate the magic of fermentation with spirited and non-alcoholic cocktails from house-made kombucha. Try it in a seasonal margarita ($9).

Herman believes beer brings people together and kombucha can cure what ails them. Maybe the world would be a better place if more churches and breweries shared this principle.

“Old-school beers were enjoyed with that semblance of celebration,” says Herman. “That was lost a little bit. The craft beer movement pushed style and flavor instead of paying attention to the four ingredients that actually make the beer.”

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For restaurateur Douglas Katz, it was the latter. For 20 years, he earned acclaim for his flagship restaurant Fire Food & Drink in Shaker Square as well as Chutney B., a gluten-free stall in Van Aken Market Hall, and Fire Spice Co., a chef-driven home cooking concept that produced recipe and spice boxes. By 2021, the pandemic had forced Katz to close them all. Chimi, a South American ghost-kitchen; the forthcoming Amba, the Hingetown Indian spot set to open any day; and Zhug, a Mediterranean and Middle Eastern small plates eatery in Cleveland Heights which opened and closed throughout the pandemic, remained.

“Fire was my baby,” Katz says of the fine-dining spot that treated the kitchen like a stage with an audience of hungry onlookers. “But it was also 20 years of research and development for what I’m doing now.”

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of the restaurant allowed Katz to experiment with the Indian food that has us so excited for Amba and the Middle Eastern cuisine that inspired greatness in Zhug.

His other projects informed Zhug, too.

While he says it “was a dumb idea because people don’t want to cook at home,” Fire Spice Co. was an adventure through the intricate world of global spices, including those that are now essential to Amba and Zhug such as sumac and curry.

Meanwhile, the Thai- and Indian-leaning Chutney B. is where he honed his recipe for zhug — the spicy, chutney-style hot sauce, not the restaurant. He knew the blend of fresh cilantro, lemon and serrano chilies was powerful enough to be a centerpiece.

“If you love spice, if you love aromatics, this is the element that goes on your hummus, your bread, your rice, your shrimp,” he says. “It’s a condiment that just brings us over the top.”

Still, he wanted to dive deeper. So, in November 2018, Katz and business partner Todd Thompson took a At Cleveland Heights' food-focused trip Zhug, meld spicy, to the Holy Land savory Mediterranean as research for mezze to build the Zhug. perfect bite.

The markets of Israel are disorienting, colorful and inspiring. Vendors scream over honking taxi cabs, blaring Mizrahi music and murmuring crowds to draw you into veggie stands or let you know your shawarma is ready. As you stroll the modern metropolis of Tel Aviv or the ancient cobblestone streets of Jerusalem, colorful market halls with dozens of tiny eateries appear seemingly out of nowhere like you’ve stepped through the magic brick walls of Harry Potter. Vivid and vibrant dishes are held by thin sheets of serving paper.

For Thompson and Katz, it was a brainstorm of typhonic proportions.

“We had 10 to 12 experiences a day that were mind blowing,” says Katz. “There was so much excitement about food.”

They returned with an iPhone full of inspiration. Hummus. Eggplant spreads.

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plays a gamey and smokey role that’s meant to be spread out and treated with no more importance than the speckles of sumac or the moat of spicy chili oil.

If being a decent human isn’t enough incentive, be nice to the waitstaff, which on any given night could include Katz, who is known for bouncing around the room greeting and informing guests.

Selfishly, you’re going to need a friend in high places when you inevitably run out the complimentary naan bread. This spongy vessel is a vital conduit for the concoctions that make eating through Zhug’s menu so much fun.

Roll one up with smoked pastrami short rib ($19), duck fat potato tostones ($9), and leeks and feta ($12). Mix lutenitsa ($7), a spicy eggplant spread, with a dollop of zhug and pour it atop the house-made falafel ($11), served with tahini and sesame seed. Indulge that childlike desire to play with your food and build the perfect bite. There are a million of them to be had.

One can’t-miss is the smoked octopus ($18), another dish that is as easy on the eyes as it is on the taste buds. Cut like sausages, the buttery mollusk sits equal with dark purple potatoes, olives and bubbles of saffron aioli.

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And did we mention hummus? Likely, that’s where you’ll start when you dig into the menu at Zhug. Katz knew this would be his focal point, and he was meticulous about achieving the perfect velvety texture and umami-rich flavor. After exploring 12 worldwide purveyors of tahini, the essential creamy ingredient from toasted sesame seeds that’s reminiscent of peanut butter, he found one under his nose from Ohio-owned Seeds of Collaboration, which sources from Israel.

“Co-founder Dana Harary came in and gave me a sample, and it was the best thing I’d ever tasted,” says Katz. “It’s what makes our hummus so amazing.”

If you’ve been stalking Zhug on Instagram, you’ll likely go for the picturesque nigella seed and burnt onion hummus ($13), which offers an explosion of flavor from the charred-but-sweet onions, bitter nigella seeds and tangy, citrusy sumac.

But we were wowed by the curried lamb and apricot hummus ($16). The Clevelander in me was expecting a tender hunk of well-seasoned, pull-apart lamb or maybe a pink, pan-seared lollipop.

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Whether it's the tumeric in the carrotbased Zhug No. 1 cocktail or the potatoes in the octopus dish, no ingredient is an afterthought for chef Douglas Katz.

“Most people serve octopus as a tentacle on a plate,” says Katz, “but it’s such a rich thing that if we cut it into little discs, you have so much more to experience.”

While many seafood restaurants wear “never frozen” like a badge of honor, Katz, an ambassador for Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch program, a group of chefs dedicated to supporting sustainable fishing practices, is proud that his is frozen on the boat the second it’s caught by a purveyor in West Australia. This affords maximum freshness as well as minimizing the environmental impact. Other stellar dishes, such as the horseradish-spicy Pacific lingcod cakes ($16) or the chili-hot butter roasted shrimp ($15), which comes in a fiery butter broth we could bathe in, take a similar approach. Once the octopus hits Zhug’s kitchen, it’s slowly braised, cooled and then smoked for several hours. The ingredients, including the tender, charred octopus, are arranged delicately in a pool of olive oil for one of the restaurant’s most impressive platings.

“The presentation is so important,” says Katz. “You experience food’s beauty with your eyes first.”

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Another unique find, one that’s maybe a bit underappreciated, is the eggplant moussaka ($16). This vegan dish is like a Mediterranean casserole with light and airy yet substantial layers of tomato, feta, lentils and oregano.

Drinkers and non-drinkers alike would miss out by skipping the cocktail menu.

Sips that are refreshing and fruity but not overly sweet use crossover ingredients to perfectly complement your spread, driv-

ing home the ethos of fun and fusion. The tiki lover in me enjoyed the Zhug No. 1 ($12), which uses white rum, carrot juice, mango juice, turmeric and ginger to present an earthy take on the style. My pregnant wife enjoyed the non-alcoholic Gazoz No. 2 ($9), which tasted like Christmas in California with blueberries, strawberries and cardamom syrup.

“I’m not necessarily using a traditional method or recipe, but I am using the same flavors,” says bar manager Noah Biddle.

It all culminates in an excellent experience that feels effortless. Despite opening in November 2019 and going through two prolonged COVID-related shutdowns, Zhug has earned acclaim in Esquire’s best restaurants issue and chef Michael Symon called it “one of the best

and most thoughtful restaurants in the country right now.” Spoiler alert: You’ll likely see it in the pages of our Best Restaurant issue next month.

Zhug feels effortless. But that doesn’t mean it was. Long before the heartbreaking closure of three businesses, the trip to Israel, the search for the perfect hummus, four iterations of the menu and shutdown after shutdown, Katz was on the path to some of his best work — even if he didn’t know it yet. Now with Amba growing, Chimi thriving and a desire to expand all three concepts to more communities, this is far from the end of the road.

Hopefully, the journey doesn’t just change you but makes you better. It certainly did in Katz’s case.

“I thought Fire was going to be my whole life,” says Katz. “When it closed, it gave me so many new opportunities in my life to experience a new phase where I can learn so much more and grow a company in a way where there is passion in each place. It’s just one step at a time.”

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CLEVELAND’S BEST PIZZA JOINTS CHATTY’S PIZZERIA

WHY WE LOVE IT: Located near the Cleveland Metroparks Huntington Reservation, Chatty’s offers scenery nearly as beautiful as its famous burrata-topped thick-crust pizzas. TRY THIS: The potato pizza ($16) comes with an oil-and-garlic base topped with ricotta, mozzarella, rosemary, bacon, roasted potatoes and caramelized onions. 28611 Lake Road, Bay Village, 440-471-4485, chattyspizzeria.com

DANNY BOY’S PIZZA

WHY WE LOVE IT: Come here for the specialty New York-style pies made with a top-secret tomato sauce. TRY THIS: Hate the Yankees? The Chicago deep dish pizza ($11.50-$17.50) offers a thick reprieve from New York-style with a whole sausage patty across its base.

Various locations, dannyboyspizza.com

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CITIZEN PIE

WHY WE LOVE IT: Owner Vytauras Sasnaukas wants to bring people together over his wood-fired Neapolitan pizzas. He has been practicing his craft since his childhood in Lithuania and now offers 18 specialty pies with a sourdough crust made in house daily. TRY THIS: The Collinwood's ($15) spicy sausage, salami, red onions and hot green chiles bring the heat while the Cali olives and mozzarella chunks bring the funk. 15710 Waterloo Road, No. 1660, Cleveland, 216-417-2742; 2144 W. 25th St., Cleveland, 216-860-1388, citizenpie.com

216-298-4484; Lucky’s Market, 11620 Clifton Blvd., Cleveland, facebook.com/edisonspizzakitchen

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WHY WE LOVE IT: Simplicity is the mantra of this pizzeria on the falls.

Owner Eddie Tancredi, formerly of the acclaimed Distill Table, sweats every detail at his Naples-style shop. TRY THIS: The carciofo ($12) is a simple, elegant dish with bacon, spinach, herb oil and artichoke. 13 Bell St., Chagrin Falls, 440-600-2001, etalianpizza.com

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WHY WE LOVE IT: Inspired by his time in New York City, chef Vincent Morelli brings this American style to Cleveland.

Impeccable ingredients sit atop a crispy Neapolitan crust, and the menu of snacks has an otherworldly wood-fired bread, citrus olives and duck prosciutto. Shop elevated lifestyle products in the lobby. TRY THIS: Add anchovies ($4) (don’t knock it 'til you try it) to the tomato pizza ($14), topped with extra-virgin olive oil, breadcrumbs, Parmesan cheese. 5010 Lorain Ave., Cleveland,

WHY WE LOVE IT: This jam-packed late-night slice has kept us coming back after our romps through Tremont for the past 15 years. TRY THIS: You've had pepperoni and even olives, so try the hot bacon spinach pizza ($21.95-$24.95), a white pie with bacon, fresh spinach, feta cheese, spicy crushed red pepper and hot bacon dressing.

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WHY WE LOVE IT: This once-exclusive ghost kitchen is taking Detroit-style pizzas to the next level. Look out for its brick-and-mortar spot in Brooklyn this spring. TRY THIS: The OG 'roni ($20-30) twists tradition with Ezzo Sausage Co. pepperoni, white truffle oil and Mike’s Hot Honey on a crispy sourdough crust.

LONGO’S ITALIAN RESTAURANT AND PIZZERIA

WHY WE LOVE IT: Since 1969, Longo’s has been serving Mentor with traditional Midwestern-style pizza and Italian fare in a casual atmosphere with a full-service bar in two locations. “There’s a lot of labor involved in doing things from scratch,” says owner Joe Longo, “but that’s how we’ve always done it. And that’s something we’ll never change.”

TRY THIS: The old-school joint proves it can do modern fare well with the California veggie pizza ($11.49-$18.99) with garlic sauce, fresh spinach, broccoli, Roma tomatoes, provolone and ricotta cheese. 8907 Mentor Ave., Mentor, 440-974-8282; 7314 Lakeshore Blvd., Mentor, 440-946-8222, longospizza.com

5741 Memphis Ave., Cleveland, 888-474-9922, instagram.com/goodmealjane

HARLOW’S PIZZA

WHY WE LOVE IT: Meant to be eaten immediately, these Neapolitan pizzas are topped simply with fresh ingredients before taking a 60-90-second spin in an 800-degree wood-fired oven. TRY THIS: The Leonardo ($14) with mozzarella, extra-virgin olive oil, garlic, pistachios, grape tomatoes, fresh arugula and sea salt. 14319 Madison Ave., Lakewood, 216-712-6502, harlowspizza.com

IL RIONE PIZZERIA

WHY WE LOVE IT: The Gordon Square spot serves up a New York-style pie with a thin, crispy crust that measures up to 18 inches. TRY THIS: The clam pie ($24$32) is loaded with middleneck clams, pecorino Romano, parsley, garlic and oregano. 1303 W. 65th St., Cleveland, 216282-1451, ilrionepizzeria.com

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WHY WE LOVE IT: For more than 60 years, this Little Italy staple has worked to provide thin pizza and homemade Sicilian cooking. “My grandparents wanted to keep a lot of their traditions and sharing food with people was very important,” owner Nancy Scaffidi told us before she passed away last year at 89. “They showed love through their food.” TRY THIS: Go classic with the sausage pizza ($9.95$11.95).

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WHY WE LOVE IT: This dark, rustic Italian restaurant offers five specialty New York-style pies and a buildyour-own option in an intimate atmosphere. "I grew up with the Marotta family,” says general manager Alexandrea Quinn. “You feel like you’re family here.” TRY THIS: The Molta Marotta ($18-22) pairs pesto with artichoke hearts, peppers, spinach and mozzarella.

2289 Lee Road, Cleveland, 216-932-9264, marottas.com

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WHY WE LOVE IT: Since 2019, this nonprofit pizza parlor from the West Side Catholic Center has supported Cleveland's homeless population by employing and training them. Now, it has partnered with Edwins Leadership & Restaurant Institute to offer management experience to graduates of its program for formerly incarcerated adults. TRY THIS: Balsamic reduction balances the Wildcat's ($12-$24) meatballs, basil and veggies. 3223 Lorain Ave., Cleveland, 216-281-5252, ohiocitypizzeria.org

SAUCY BREW WORKS

WHY WE LOVE IT: Interesting toppings such as honeycomb and confit duck put a Cleveland spin on New Haven-style "apizza." Sip the white light Belgian white ale with lemon and peach. TRY THIS: The funghi ($12-$22) gets funky with assorted mushrooms, ricotta, goat cheese, tarragon and truffle Parmesan. 2885 Detroit Ave., Cleveland, 216-666-2568; 400 Park Ave., No. 170, Orange, 216-293-7773, saucybrewworks.com

COURTESY IL RIONE PIZZERIA

WHY WE LOVE IT: From vegan to Thaiand Caribbean-inspired pies, this ambitious pizzeria in Chardon Square makes its dough from scratch and sources all of its ingredients locally.

Each bite is light and airy. TRY THIS: The wild mushroom ($20-$32) is topped with an exotic blend of shiitake, portobello and moon mushrooms as well as chevre, roasted peppers and red onions.

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WHY WE LOVE IT: Ohio Pie Co.'s "Ohiostyle" pizza is a mix of regional favorites that owner Nick Robson found during his time touring in a punk band. These pies sport a medium Columbus-style crust with sweet sauce spread over top of the cheese instead of underneath, for a lighter finish. TRY THIS: The Heart of It All ($12-$22) is basically a deluxe finished with a drizzle of housemade garlic oil. 1315 ½ Pearl Road, Bruns-

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WHY WE LOVE IT: Chef Dennis Tomori uses his grandmother’s recipe to create thin-crust pizzas at his Lakewood shop. Tomori prides himself on a perfectly cooked crust. “Every time I came to Cleveland, I could never find a place to eat pizza the way I wanted it,” says Tomori. The result is a gorgeous, Italian-thin pizza topped with fresh ingredients that leave minimal crust. TRY THIS: We've always known pizza is great for breakfast, but the egg pizza ($13.99-$17.99) takes it a step further by breaking a large egg atop a medley of bacon, Parmesan, arugula and truffle oil. 15621 Madison Ave., Lakewood, 216-712-

WHY WE LOVE IT: This modern pizza parlor prides itself on one-of-a-kind Neapolitan pizzas. Each ball of dough is handmade daily by owner Marc-Aurele Buholzer and then sent into a 900-degree wood-fired pizza oven imported from Naples, Italy. “We produce a pretty unique vibe and culture within our pizzeria itself,” says Buholzer. “It’s something that sits very in between a casual and a fine dining experience that lends itself well to the style of pizza.” TRY THIS: Keep it simple with the margherita pizza ($16) with tomatoes, fresh basil and Buffalo mozzarella to let the dough shine. 12421 Cedar Road, Cleveland Heights, 216-229-8383, verocleveland.com

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Callie Plemel’s home office, she knows it makes for a good Instagram post. Illuminating the blue-gray shiplap wall, Amber Lewis rug, shelved trinkets and various ribbons of warm gold that balance the design, the natural light reveals a space that invites the busy mind to slow. It’s an environment that welcomes leaning back, sipping a hot cup of tea and watching the world whittle on beyond the window. But it also gives ample space for the day’s demands. It’s “light and airy but still a little moody,” Plemel, an assistant prosecutor by day, DIY designer by night, says of her aesthetic. “I do not feel at rest until I’m happy in the space that I’m in. It gives me a great sense of peace to come home and love what it feels like and looks like.”

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While house hunting, the Plemels looked for rooms ripe for renovation.

Rest and recoup may be Plemel’s inspiration but crafting a space to fit her family’s functional and aesthetic needs is where she finds joy.

“Creating is more fun,” Plemel admits.

“We walked into this house, and I knew we loved the layout and we love the neighborhood. And I knew I wanted to change everything else about it.”

Embracing boldness, Plemel bought a gold-trimmed mirror for the hallway off the foyer. Like a full moon, its gentle gaze peers from a table decked with woven baskets, a textured lamp and burgundy faux foliage.

The bedroom also pulses with plush reminders of Plemel’s attention to texture. Gray, woven blankets thrown before perky pillows and a wooden side table whisper more of a cozy, winter vacation home than everyday living.

“I’m always cognizant of different textures and colors, but still being neutral enough that it goes with everything,” Plemel says. “I’m constantly trying to mix different ones for something that’s cohesive, but not something everybody would do.”

The star of the show — propelling Plemel’s Instagram from a couple thousand to over 163,000 followers — is easily the home office. Described by Plemel as an Ikea hack resurrected from Billy Bookcases the original owners left behind, it’s garnered more than 10,000 likes. The Plemels built a desk between the bookcases, which were originally coal black, using a butcher block countertop.

They then seamlessly blended desk, wall and shelves together by blessing the three with Benjamin Moore’s Boothbay Gray.

The blue-gray shade anchors the office’s backdrop. Shades of cream and gold lace through the shelves, while a push pin map, recording the places the Plemels have traveled apart and together, breaks up the vertical panels.

“By far that’s our favorite space,” says Plemel. “There’s just an extra reward when you’ve done it yourself.”

Unifying the house is Sherwin-Williams’ Alabaster — a choice made after running several swatches of varying whites across the walls. Ultimately, Plemel's home feels more like a sanctuary.

“We can walk through the door and say, this is ours, we did this,” she says.

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Looking for a statement stud? Noble Fawn Jewelry’s Alicia Costello uses polymer clay to craft these large, flowershaped earrings. She then manipulates the clay into a twisty, checkerboard pattern. The bold pieces are also available in a bright teal and classic black and white. “I truly think they go perfect with something fancy or even just your favorite T-shirt,” Costello says. noblefawnjewelry.com

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Slow Style Jessa Boeke and Sarah Pottle host hands-on workshops to raise awaraness about natural dyes and fibers. much about the origin of our clothing. The shirts we put on our backs, although right against our skin, are usually separated mentally from the journey they went on to get to us.

Sisters Jessa Boeke and Sarah Pottle are aiming to change that.

And it happened more or less by accident. While working on furniture reupholstering projects, they found themselves falling short of materials that caught their eye. “We were looking for textiles that we actually liked but couldn’t really find anything that met our taste,” says Boeke. “And so we startMOST OF US DON’T THINK

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The rabbit hole led the sisters to open Drift Lab in 2012, a natural dye studio located on their family farm in Medina that showcases the possibilities of natural materials, instead of synthetic dyes and plastic fibers.

“It’s just one small part of readjusting and reassessing an incredibly destructive industry,” says Pottle.

That fixation on natural fibers inspired the sisters to launch Rustbelt

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Formerly called Cleveland Clinic Children’s Gala, the Derby Day Soirée is the signature fundraising event for Cleveland Clinic Children’s.

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Fibershed in 2017, a collective to support locally grown textiles within a 250-mile radius of Cleveland — and it starts with hands-on education. Most people have no idea, for example, that microplastics and dyes come off our clothes in the washing machine, often ending up in our lakes, rivers and even our drinking water.

“People are disconnected from where their clothing comes from,”says Pottle.

For the sisters, reconnection comes one workshop at a time.

If you can show someone how to dye a bandana using fresh picked flowers, it might mean one less order placed on Amazon. If you can teach someone how to use the humble onion to give their socks a new hue, it might just inspire them to think a bit more about their footprint on this earth.

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For a beginner-friendly project, try using onion skins, which create a subtle yellowish or beige color. “You just basically make a tea out of the onion skins in a pot,” says Boeke.

“You’ll see all of the color from the onion skin go into the water.”

Avocado Pits

No need to throw out your avocado pit after making your morning toast; it could be used to give your clothes a glow by simmering them together in hot water.

“It’ll create like a pink or like a rose color,” says Boeke.

Flowers

Create a natural dye garden in your backyard by planting flowers such as black knight scabiosas (purple) or tango cosmos (orange) and then use a steaming process to transfer various colors into your clothing.

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t’s been 50 years since Cleveland Magazine launched. Those five decades, like any epic story, are filled with moments of glory and defeat. Crime and punishment. Renewal and reinvention. Heartache and, yes, we’ll call it love.

In the following pages, we’ve highlighted what we see as the 50 moments that have defined us — the city and the magazine — since our first issue came out in April 1972.

If you’re a true Clevelander, you likely have your own thoughts on this list, and we want to hear them.

The characters include the likes of George Forbes, Jane Scott, Bernie Kosar and Michael Symon — all marked by an extraordinary passion both for their craft and their city.

The setting includes our downtown, neighborhoods, waters, institutions, fields, businesses, theaters and parks, as well as the highways that led some to greener pastures while simultaneously putting prosperity out of reach for others.

The villain, as always, is pride and greed.

And the hero is anyone who loves this city enough to be angry about injustice yet excited for our future. The hero keeps both the faith and the fight, no matter how bad the weather, the score or the world around them. The hero recognizes our faults — they can still see the flames — but also knows that we, as a city, have enough heart to heal all wounds.

The Clean Water Act Becomes Law

BY JILL SELL

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We Clevelanders take responsibility for the day when a polluted, ugly Cuyahoga River burned in 1969. Although it wasn’t actually the river that went up in flames — more like oil-soaked debris — national media shorthanded the event to sound as if the water was ablaze.

But we also want some credit for igniting change in the American mindset. Clevelanders, horrified by the negative national publicity, came together to stop killing our waterway. Other American cities heard the wakeup call.

“Clearly the river catching on fire had an influence on the Clean Water Act and the development of our nation’s environmental consciousness,” says Kurt Princic, Ohio EPA’s northeast district chief, noting that Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes testified for the passage of the act. “Over time we learned it was no longer jobs versus fish. We learned we could have a robust economy and environmental protection.”

How are we doing now? The first comprehensive water quality survey of the Cuyahoga River was in 1967 when not one fish was found between Akron and Cleveland. In 2017 (the most recent survey), 76 different fish species and 134,000 individual fish were identified, according to the Ohio EPA. Still, we have a way to go. Jade Davis, vice president of external affairs for the Port of Cleveland, says 200 tons of flotsam and jetsam were pulled from the river by his agency alone in the past five years.

“We can even get past the point of the river being an AOC — area of concern,” adds Davis.

“Even thinking that would have been impossible back in the days of the Cuyahoga River fires.”

Also, without the act, today’s recreational opportunities would not be possible. No kayaks, canoes, standup paddleboards. Fewer tourist dollars, less outdoor exercise for residents. For Cleveland, the burn is in the past, the spark is in the future.

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BY LINDA FEAGLER

Pass under the glittering lights of the marquees and it’s easy to forget that 50 years ago this grand complex had a date with the wrecking ball. That death knell was silenced by Ray Shepardson and his 1970s campaign to save the theaters.

The result is nearly 50 years of moments to remember.

We’ve watched a cavalcade of luminaries like Tony Bennett, Bob Dylan and Diana Ross take center stage. I’ve had the chance to see a litany of unforgettable shows — including Jesus Christ Superstar and Hamilton.

My husband and I still joke about “our theatrical debut” 10 years ago during a performance of Hair. Before the finale, cast members invited the audience to join them on stage. When an actor approached us, we demurely shook our heads and shrank into our seats. But refusal wasn’t an option. Before we knew it, we were joyously clapping, swaying and singing “Let the Sun Shine In” on stage like we belonged up there.

That light of inclusion continues to beam brightly at Playhouse Square.

“Ray and I would walk through these theaters together while they were being restored,” says retired Cleveland State University theater professor Joe Garry.

“Ray would say, ‘I see great stars being on this stage. What do you see?’ And I’d say, ‘I see young faces in the audience.’”

Playhouse Square is proof positive that dreams can and do come true, especially when we’re gathered together under the light of a giant chandelier.

Linda Feagler joined Cleveland Magazine in 1995. Now a freelance writer, she has served as Playhouse Square’s playbill editor for 16 seasons.

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1973 George L. Forbes Is Sworn in as Council President

BY ERICK TRICKEY

George Forbes is much more than the chairs he threw. Journalists of a certain age still love to tell stories of Forbes’ ferocious anger: chairs heaved at political rivals Mike White and Jeff Johnson and the time he physically threw reporter Roldo Bartimole out of a meeting.

But Forbes’ outsized reputation for a hot temper, emphasized by a mostly white press corps, distracts from his huge importance to Cleveland politics. His election as city council president in 1973 cemented the rise of Black political power in the city, two years after Carl Stokes’ barrier-breaking terms as mayor had ended.

It made Forbes the indispensable figure of Cleveland City Hall in the 1970s and 1980s: a steady foil during Dennis Kucinich’s tumultuous mayoralty and an influential governing partner to Mayor George Voinovich. Forbes’ ascension to the council presidency also established an unwritten rule in Cleveland politics: If the mayor was white, the council president would be Black — and vice versa.

The rule lasted 49 years, until this January, when the city, now twothirds majority-minority, swore in Justin Bibb and Blaine Griffin. The ascendancy of Black political power that Forbes wanted for nearly five decades is complete.

Erick Trickey, who worked at Cleveland Magazine from 2002 to 2015, now teaches journalism at Boston University.

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Since then, Clevelanders have taken an almost perverse pride in it. Nearly a half-century later, you can even buy 10-cent beer night T-shirts.

Vince Guerrieri is a journalist in the Cleveland area. He wants to go back in time and tell 11-year-old him about getting to interview Doug Dieken for Cleveland Magazine.

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After a lengthy trial, federal Judge Frank Battisti found that the Cleveland Metropolitan School District had presided over unconstitutionally segregated schools. A subsequent program of desegregation, which included busing children across town and lasted until 1998, spurred white flight from the district and hastened Cleveland’s suburbanization, inadvertently creating the very conditions it had sought to remedy.

Populist candidate Dennis Kucinich, all of 31 years old at the time, won an improbable election and became Cleveland’s “boy mayor.”

He fought with the city’s banks to maintain control of Cleveland’s in-house electrical utility, Muny Light, but the battle resulted in the city’s disastrous 1978 default. The coastal chuckleheads, predictably, had another good laugh at our expense.

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In March 2014, I was breezing, buzzed, through a Cleveland beer festival when the sight of a Kelly green T-shirt stopped me. I recognized the face on it, a mug shot: “Danny Greene’s ‘Enforcer’ Imperial Stout." Naming a beer after a violent gangster? That seemed poised on the edge between bonkers nostalgia and poor taste. (The Market Garden Brewery beer was later renamed.)

And yet I recognized Greene’s mug shot because I’d told a version of Greene’s true-life outlaw legend in this magazine, on the occasion of Greene’s Hollywood-ization in the movie Kill the Irishman. My article stood upon a far greater body of work: Cleveland Magazine’s epic 1970s stories on organized crime. They included Greene and gangster Shondor Birns — who put out a hit on Greene, then died in a car bomb, probably set or planned by Greene, in 1975.

Soon after, a bomb blew up Greene’s Collinwood home but failed to kill him.

The magazine’s stories also recounted the violent competition set off by the death of aged mob boss John Scalish — a war that saw Greene vie for control of the local rackets. When hit man Ray Ferritto staked out Greene on Mafioso orders before killing him with a car bomb in Lyndhurst on Oct. 6, 1977, he reportedly identified Greene from a photo in Cleveland Magazine’s April 1977 issue.

Greene’s murder backfired. Prosecutors dismantled the Mayfield Road Mob. Why does Greene’s legend last? Maybe it’s the chilly Mafioso codes — our Godfather story. Maybe it’s Greene’s love of Celtic symbolism, like the Irish flag he flew by the remains of his bombed house. Maybe it’s both: the bygone Irish-Italian blood feud and Greene’s reputation for Robin Hood-esque bravado. Either way, of all our many gangster stories, Greene’s is the one Clevelanders most love to tell. ERICK TRICKEY CLEVELANDMAGAZINE.COM

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The worst blizzard in living memory buried Northeast Ohio in snowdrifts, stranded truckers on highways, iced ships in on Lake Erie and gave Clevelanders of a certain vintage a perennial rejoinder whenever anyone complains about the snow: “Suck it up bucko, 1978 was so much worse!”

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just went through the whole West Side and took so many houses. The reason we lived where we lived was that everything we needed was on Lorain Avenue, and it just took all those stores — grocery stores, ice cream stores, mom-and-pop stores. It was the death knell for a lot of neighborhoods. It was so sad."

Cleveland Planning Commission chair Lillian Kuri offers a broader perspective.

“The ramifications of I-90 are huge,” she says. “My opinion is that the traffic needs never met the impact it had. If you really look at the cost benefit of segregating us from neighborhoods and the lake and people, it could have been designed differently. It could

have not been as harmful as it was.”

Now, says Kuri, we’re considering big-ticket projects to reconnect the city — one example being the proposed $229 million pedestrian land bridge over the Shoreway in downtown Cleveland.

Way back when, my brother and I didn’t know or think about any such things. Once the highway opened, we would still sit in that boysenberry tree.

Only we were watching cars race by. We were watching what everyone said was progress.

Cleveland Magazine editor Colleen Smitek believes, highway or not, there was no better place to grow up than on red-brick Fernway Avenue in West Park.

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When I was just learning to walk, giant backhoes came to dig the massive trench that would become Interstate 90 right behind the boysenberry tree in my West Park backyard.

The process was not fast. I know because I remember the thrill of flying down the McKinley Road entrance ramp on my bike. I was 5 years old by then — and the new interstate was open to the neighborhood for a couple of weeks before going into service. It was a kind of thank you, my parents recollect, for all the noise and dirt during the years of construction.

At first, only a flimsy snow fence separated me and my 3-year-old brother from the danger that lurked behind our house.

Enraged, my mother called The Cleveland Press, which sent out a reporter to chronicle our plight. She also called WJW-TV8’s Tim Taylor. A real fence was put up just days later.

But how would the highway change the rest of our lives? How would it change Cleveland?

My mom grew up in a family without a car on West 82nd Street and answers those questions without hesitation. “It

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The Deer Hunter Is Released The Deer Hunter is a hauntingly beautiful movie shot partially in Tremont and framed by both the steel mills of Cleveland and the jungles of Vietnam.

Clocking in at just over three hours — including a 51-minute wedding scene filmed at St. Theodosius Cathedral and Lemko Hall with real Russians and real booze — the film racked up five Academy Awards thanks to the work of Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep, Christopher Walken and others.

But it’s also a time machine, transporting both those who lived it and those who came later to halfa-century-ago Cleveland, a town built on the twin pillars of steel and community.

The central message of the film is straight-forward:

The Vietnam War was a new kind of hell. It killed 427 men from Cuyahoga County (about one in every 35 who went) and injured some 2,000 more. The lucky ones — like De Niro’s character — returned home to live the same life with the same people, except the girls were wearing black, not pink, and his best friend had no legs and he could no longer pull the trigger when hunting deer.

Beyond that, the film is open to interpretation in the same way all the best art is. The Deer Hunter’s closing scene — an impromptu “God Bless America” following a funeral — is either a sign of hope or a miserable joke. Being Clevelanders, we’re apt to think both.

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The Indians wanted no part of recreating a 1938 stunt by throwing softballs off the top of the Terminal Tower to celebrate its 50th anniversary in 1980.

Cleveland Cavaliers owner Ted Stepien had no such qualms.

On June 24, 1980, a lunchtime crowd of about 5,000 gathered below the Terminal Tower as Stepien threw softballs from the top.

One dented a nearby car. Two others injured spectators, breaking one’s wrist.

Finally, one of Stepien’s players caught a ball.

For his stunt, Stepien ended up a little light in the wallet, settling a lawsuit by the woman who broke her wrist. Compared to some other bad decisions Stepien made, this one was minor. VINCE GUERRIERI

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Press sports writers were the best between New York City and Chicago. And so as not to leave anything to chance, Seltzer employed a dog editor, not to mention a science editor who won the Pulitzer Prize. It left a war memorial on Public Square. And it crippled the political party system.

Michael D. Roberts is a former city editor of The Plain Dealer and a longtime editor of Cleveland Magazine. He recently published a book, Cold Beer, Hot Type and Bad News about his experiences as a journalist.

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For more than a century, The Cleveland Press served the town as the very soul of the city. Dedicated to covering criminal misdeeds and mischievous government, its 104-year span left a mark on the town well beyond its 1982 demise.

Once touted by Time Magazine as one of America’s 10-great newspapers, it gave to its readers like few papers. It often did good, but occasionally bad, as well. The paper was embraced by hundreds of thousands of followers.

The force behind the paper was a diminutive man with a broad reach and understanding of Cleveland’s fractured community. In his day, Louis B. Seltzer and The Cleveland Press were the most powerful of entities here.

Using the newspaper, Seltzer elected public officials at all levels, drove a public agenda that changed the face of the town and waged war against crime, corruption and municipal incompetence. It championed the country’s largest urban renewal program, the Erieview district, only to see it fail miserably.

In wartime, it treated readers like family, encouraging their faith and consoling them through tragedy.

Seltzer had a keen sense of what Clevelanders wanted in their afternoon newspaper, and that revolved around its neighborhoods and the ethnicities of the people who dwelled in them.

Cleveland, having never amalgamated into a city, was dominated by a patchwork of ethnic communities. The question for politicians and for The Press was how to unite these communities for their own purposes. Seltzer figured it out.

Each year, The Press sent a reporter to Europe to visit the villages and towns where readers’ relatives resided. Published accounts of these trips yielded a loyalty that motivated Cleveland’s ethnic communities to support the paper’s political candidates and civic ventures.

The Press was outstanding in its day-to-day coverage of the news. It left The Plain Dealer and the then-Cleveland News bewildered and behind in trying to compete for news stories.

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In some ways, the Michael Stanley Band’s Aug. 25, 1982, sold-out show at Blossom Music Center was just another night at the Cuyahoga Falls shed.

For years fans had filled increasingly larger venues to hear Rocky River-native Michael Stanley and his seven-man group play songs about the places, situations and subjects to which they could so easily relate — cuts like “Lover,” in which Stanley ponders a breakup while driving down a snowy Ohio Turnpike and “In the Heartland,” which chronicles the happenings at various Cleveland locations at exactly 10:35 p.m. one night.

But something about this particular evening seemed different. The Michael Stanley Band was playing Blossom four nights in a single week! Fans — even hardcore ones who’d seen multiple shows during multiple-night stands — marveled at it as they stood in lines to buy drinks and T-shirts. The band’s 1980 album Heartland had yielded a Top-40 hit, “He Can’t Love You.” And “In the Heartland,” off their 1981 effort North Coast, had climbed to No. 6 on Billboard’s Top Tracks chart.

The Michael Stanley Band packed 74,404 people into Blossom over Aug. 25, 26, 30 and 31, 1982 — an attendance record that still stands. And the popularity that fueled those sellouts propelled Stanley into a multifaceted career that would make him a bright enduring thread in Cleveland’s cultural fabric after the group disbanded — a stunning development precipitated

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A Christmas Story is released and becomes the gift that keeps giving.

It was a sensation to see it filmed in Tremont. It’s a happy reminder of what it was like to shop downtown at Higbee’s, which opened in 1860 and endured until 1992. And it’s given us the Christmas Story House — which you can rent on the big day for $4,995 — leg lamps and a story that captures the spirit of a perfectly imperfect Christmas.

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Michael Stanley set records and stole hearts.

by record label EMI dropping them and marked, appropriately enough, by an unprecedented 12-night goodbye at the Front Row Theater during the 1986-1987 holiday season.

By November 1987, Stanley had begun a multi-Emmy-winning gig co-hosting WJW-TV8’s edition of the syndicated PM Magazine, winning over viewers with an on-camera presence that was both polished and down-to-earth. (Those who knew him best said he never turned down a request for an autograph or photo.) The voice that sold so many records and concert tickets put him in the afternoon drive-time seat at classic rock station WNCX-FM in 1990, a job he would hold for three decades.

At the same time, Stanley solidified his status as Cleveland’s poet laureate by continuing to write, record and perform, even as he bravely faced one health crisis after another with Cleveland-you’ve-gotto-be-tough grit. He and his band, The Resonators, remained popular enough to become a tradition, whether it was during a holiday stand at what is now MGM Northfield Park or a summer amphitheater show.

The sellouts continued after Stanley’s death from lung cancer at age 72 last year. Tickets for three December celebration-of-life concerts at MGM Northfield Park were snapped up faster than any previous show in the venue’s history.

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By 1985, the Kardiac Kids were a memory for Browns fans. A new hero was needed. And as it turns out, he was only about 75 miles away.

Bernie Kosar was hailed for his talent and on-field IQ while at Boardman High School, but his unorthodox sidearm throwing motion scared off most nearby colleges. He ended up going to the University of Miami and was hot enough that multiple teams were looking at him as a first-round pick. But he had other ideas.

Kosar wanted to play for the Browns.

His family wanted him to play for the Browns.

And general manager Ernie Accorsi wanted him to play for the Browns. (Owner Art Modell preferred Doug Flutie, who’d beaten Kosar on a memorable Hail Mary touchdown pass.)

So they engaged in a little sleight-of-hand. Kosar filed his paperwork at the end of April — not for the regular draft, but for the little-known supplemental draft. By then, he would have graduated college (a condition at the time to be draft eligible). And the team with the first pick in the supplemental draft that year? None other than the Browns, who’d traded for the pick.

The rest, as they say, is history. Kosar became one of the most popular players in Browns history. He could never take the Browns to the Promised Land, but he earned a ring as a backup for the Dallas Cowboys after Bill Belichick unceremoniously cut him. And even today, as the kids who wore No. 19 jerseys back then are getting fitted for bifocals, he remains one of the most beloved figures in Cleveland sports. VINCE GUERRIERI

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David and Richard Jacobs purchased the underdog Cleveland Indians, whose decades of up-and-down struggles were later immortalized in 1989’s Major League. The brothers launched a period of rebuilding that included the construction of Jacobs Field, forever known to locals as "The Jake."

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Shooters Opens in the Flats In the 1980s, the West Bank of the Flats was an industrial wasteland of derelict warehouses and salt mines.

Then, in 1985, a Riverfest celebration showed the area’s potential.

Rather than ignore our industrial heritage, we could embrace it. Two years later, the Nautica Complex opened, including Shooters, a Key West-influenced bar and restaurant. Reviews were not kind. “No one considers Shooters a serious restaurant ,” The Plain Dealer wrote in 1987.

But you didn’t go there for the food; you went for the suddenly cool cocktail of industry and alcohol served on hot summer nights.

Winter is hell on Lake Erie’s frozen shores, but summertime on the river is breezy and pleasant. And Shooters, with its plentiful outdoor decks and docks, was the place to enjoy it. You could get sloppy drunk while the barges chugged past hauling pig iron down to the mill. You could dance under the glow of the Detroit-Superior Bridge.

Soon, bars sprouted up all along the West Bank, which quickly became a destination for bachelor parties, post-game shots and even visits by pro athletes. Indians players could be found in the late 1990s rocking at Tribe Jam, and Charles Barkley infamously got into a fight at the Basement in 1996.

That year, Cleveland’s bicentennial, was the peak. The bars had grown less exclusive. And there were fights, culminating in three deaths in a month. At the same time, other neighborhoods were on the rise.

“The Flats was hard to maintain because it relied on single use for bars and restaurants,” says Tom Yablonsky, who recently retired from Downtown Cleveland Alliance.

But to paraphrase Huey Lewis — another ’80s icon — the heart of the Flats never stopped beating. The West Bank is on the upswing again, thanks to the Towpath Trail, the aquarium and other recreational opportunities. And it, too, has benefited from Clevelanders looking to downtown as a place to live, not just work. And after it all, Shooters is still there — just waiting for the next party to start. VINCE GUERRIERI

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Long before West 25th Street was a hot spot, brothers Pat and Dan Conway saw Ohio City’s potential. Since the inaugural tapping of Great Lakes Brewing Co. Dortmunder Gold Lager, then called the Heisman, the state’s first microbrewery has anchored a growing industry and its neighborhood with a community-driven approach. Its Christmas Ale defines the genre.

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Ground Is Broken for Key Tower

The groundbreaking was held for Key Tower, the headquarters for KeyCorp, Cleveland’s most storied financial firm. When completed in 1991, the 57-story skyscraper, the tallest in Ohio, stood as a glassand-steel statement on Cleveland’s past and future economic relevance.

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When Tower City opened in 1990, it was not only the most luxurious shopping experience between New York City and Chicago. It was also a statement made in green and black marble: After decades of struggle, Cleveland had once again arrived.

There was Gucci, Fendi, Godiva — and many more — that would surely draw in enough money from the suburbs to succeed.

“It was a beautiful dream,” says Evelyn Theiss, who reported on fashion for The Plain Dealer at the time. “But it was a little hard to believe that people would regularly drive in from the East Side, which was where most of the money was.”

The luxury stores were, of course, the first to go. Then the national chains.

The pandemic winnowed down the retail offerings even further and the oncedazzling Tower City became a blend of abandoned storefronts and stragglers.

“It’s almost like when we think back, Did that really happen? Did Cleveland really have a Barneys?” Theiss asks.

But revival is on the horizon with a simpler, local version of luxury, including experiential shopping propped up by social media campaigns and influencer events. Today, you’ll find high-end streetwear and retailers like Shoe MGK, Xhibition and 360 Clothing Studio.

So what’s different this time around?

Instead of trying to draw shoppers from the ’burbs, Tower City is opening its doors to the more than 20,000 people who now live downtown — and are looking not so much for the luxury brands of old as they are a place to shop that’s laden with history and yet also looking forward.

Arbela Capas is an associate editor at Cleveland Magazine and is constantly trying to live her best Carrie Bradshaw life in Cleveland.

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Bob Hope Sings "Thanks for the Memories" at Cleveland Stadium

The Era of Big-Ticket Projects Begins On a perfect day in 1994, with President Bill Clinton, Bob Feller and Gov. George Voinovich throwing out ceremonial first pitches, Jacobs Field opened. Fans accustomed to dirt painted green at the old Cleveland Stadium now saw a lush outfield and perks like the Terrace Club.

Best of all, you didn’t have to worry about sitting behind a pole.

Long called the Mistake on the Lake and taunted for the river catching fire, Cleveland was being heralded as the Comeback City — thanks largely to massive projects coming to fruition.

This new era started May 8, 1990, when voters approved a sin tax to fund an ambitious project — a downtown arena for concerts and the Cavaliers as well as a baseball-only stadium.

You could almost feel it in the air.

It mixed with the breeze coming off the lake, and it was something new. A little like hope and fun mixed with a deep sense of history. It was pride.

“It really generated massive amounts of people coming downtown,” says Joe Marinucci, who recently retired as CEO of the Downtown Cleveland Alliance.

Jacobs Field’s opening coincided with the best streak of Cleveland baseball in 40 years. Then, in the fall of 1994, Gund Arena opened. The following year, the I.M. Pei-designed Rock & Roll Hall of Fame opened on the lakefront, giving Cleveland a destination of international stature.

Near the Rock Hall was the Great Lakes Science Center and North Coast Harbor. Nearby, Cleveland Stadium was razed and, on its site, a new football stadium was built for a new football team.

Not so long ago, people scurried home from downtown. Now, many want to live their lives there. They want to see their favorite team triumph (or, this being Cleveland, struggle), grab a drink with friends or rest their heads after a long night. And they want to do it all downtown.

The new stadiums provided the spark that set the downtown fervor ablaze. But we Clevelanders, the people who fill the seats and buy the beers and rent the apartments, are the ones who have kept the fire going.

And that’s something that once seemed as crazy as the idea of a river catching flame. VINCE GUERRIERI

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Bob Hope, who grew up in Cleveland, marked the last Indians game at Municipal Stadium by crooning “Thanks for the Memories” with special lyrics like, “They’ll always make our hearts cheer no matter where they play.” Now, with Hope gone almost 20 years, that meeting-of-legends moment remains pitch perfect.

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1994 In the summer of 1994, the world got to hear Cleveland. In a year that featured rap coastal elites Nas and Snoop Dogg tearing up the charts with Illmatic and “Gin and Juice,” respectively, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony told the story of Cleveland with Creepin on ah Come Up. Sure, the album had the usual rap tropes, but it also spoke of life in Cleveland in the early 1990s — something that didn’t go unrecognized by Cleveland’s residents.

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As a baby boomer and life-long fan of Cleveland baseball, it took almost 40 years for my Field of Dreams to come true and obliterate season after season of small crowds, last-place finishes and little hope.

And, boy, how the 1995 team changed all that.

Jacobs Field had opened the year before — and it didn’t take long for the Indians to become one of the best teams in baseball. Sellout crowds. Star players. Memorable comebacks, seemingly on a nightly basis. It all added up to a season many of us never thought we’d live to see. Led by talent that included Albert Belle, Jim Thome, Carlos Baerga and Kenny Lofton, the team clinched the division in early September and finished with a 100-44 record.

Like so many of us who’d attended hundreds of games at the old stadium, it was a new experience to see a great team and thousands of screaming fans.

The thrilling wins led to our hometown boys securing a playoff position for the first time in my life. Game one of the Division Series against the Boston Red Sox was no easy victory. Two rain delays and 13 innings later, it ended shortly after 2 a.m. following Tony Peña’s home run. Delighted by the win, I highfived fans around me and took a joyous ride home on the RTA Rapid. It was only after I opened my garage door that I realized I’d be back in the car three hours later to go to work.

Like me, the city didn’t sleep for the next several weeks, because we were so wrapped up in the daily drama. Beating Boston and the Seattle Mariners led to another first for me: seeing a World Series game in Cleveland. On Oct. 24, 1995, the Indians faced the Atlanta Braves. My sportswriter husband came down from the press box to share the emotional pre-game ceremony with me. The Indians won the 4-hour game, which, of course, led to another night of no shut-eye. But who cared? We were on top of the world.

Bob DiBiasio knows this better than anyone. The team’s senior vice president of public affairs grew up in Lakewood and understands how special the resurgence was.

“It was a magical year,” says DiBiasio, who’s been a member of the team’s front office for 43 seasons. “We were celebrating our beautiful, intimate, urban baseball-only ballpark, and had a championship-caliber baseball team for the first time in 40 years. Anytime you experience something like that, it’s destined to forever become an indelible part of your memory bank, heart and soul.”

The Indians would go on to lose the series. But that didn’t tarnish the euphoria of seeing the unbelievable actually happen — and lead to a 455-game sellout streak that lasted from June 12, 1995, to April 4, 2001. LINDA FEAGLER

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Fighting Fire: Carey grew up in a mod-

est Old Brooklyn household and came of age in the 1970s, when the city was a favorite punchline in comedic routines like Tonight Show host Johnny Carson’s opening monologue. “The way people deal with that kind of stuff is to use humor and jokes,” he says. “I developed this specifically Cleveland-ish sense of humor, where it’s self-depreciating and you don’t take anything too seriously.”

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The Drew Carey Show Premieres

Drew Carey’s The Drew Carey Show put his native Cleveland in living rooms across the nation during the sitcom’s nine-season run on ABC. He’s said that his character — a bachelor employed as assistant director of personnel at a fictional department store set in the historic Halle Building — was what he might have been if he hadn’t become a successful comedian, writer and actor. The 63-year-old Carey, now in his 15th year hosting CBS's The Price Is Right — a game show that, like Cleveland Magazine, is celebrating its 50th anniversary — talked to us about his comedic roots, setting the sitcom in the city, and why he can’t move back home.

the-world attitude put a chip on Carey’s shoulder that years of success haven’t knocked off. Viewers of The Price Is Right got a glimpse of it recently after a contestant won a car. “I was making jokes about taking CBS’s money,” he recalls. “And I said to the audience, ‘It just feels great to stick it to The Man!’” He thinks of those occasional bursts as “the Cleveland in me coming out.”

Always Us: Carey never considered

setting The Drew Carey Show in any city other than Cleveland. “Pittsburgh kicks our ass in football, Chicago’s a bigger city — it gets more of everything, you know what I mean? Detroit has Motown,” he says in a singsong tone. “You just get sick of hearing about all these other cities. That’s kind of what Drew, in the show, was fighting against all the time.

It was, like, him thinking, Oh, you think you’re better than me? and trying and failing and always keeping a good attitude about it anyway.”

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The Browns beat the Cincinnati Bengals in the last-ever game played in Cleveland Stadium before Art Modell took the franchise to Baltimore. Fans started stadium demolition early, ripping out seats and urinals on their way out. Just another example of the tradition of mild lawbreaking in the name of Browns memory making.

legalized weed, I would be back,” Carey half-jokes. He professes a love for his hometown and its people. But his work schedule limits the time he can spend in the childhood home he owns to visit friends and relatives, maybe taking in a Guardians game. “I just like walking down the street because that’s the street I walked down,” he says, thinking of his childhood. Retirement, he adds, isn’t in his immediate future. “I might do The Price Is Right until I croak.”

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The day Lola opened, chef Michael Symon borrowed $200 from his father. The Tremont restaurant needed cash in the register, and Symon and his wife, Liz, had only $8 left in their account. “We opened Lola for $125,000," Symon says. Talk about a payoff. Over the next 20 years, Symon would earn national recognition, help spark a downtown renaissance by moving to East Fourth Street and put Cleveland on the culinary map. We talked to Symon, who appears on the Food Network’s Burgers, Brew & ’Que and owns Mabel’s BBQ, about Lola’s legacy.

Build What You Love: Lola, whose kitchen pumped out food until 1 or

2 a.m., was modeled after the off-hour hangouts of New York City chefs.

“We wanted a place where we could go wearing jeans and T-shirts and still have killer food,” he says. “We wanted to create an environment that had those things that we love so much in other cities.”

Inspiration: Symon created a menu that reflected his roots as the grandson of an Eastern European pipefitter. “He would buy all the offcuts. I fell in love with those offcuts, and they became a very prominent part of my cooking at that time.”

Taking the Leap: “I didn’t want to go downtown because I loved Trem-

ont so much,” Symon says about the move he made in 2007. But creating two distinct restaurants, Lola downtown and Lolita in Tremont, intrigued him. “Lola was an ode to Cleveland and my father and my grandfather, and Lolita was more of an ode to my mom, who is Greek and Sicilian.”

On the Map: Winning Iron Chef in 2008 skyrocketed Symon to new

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By the early 1960s, Cleveland was living on a constant edge of tension. Its Black community had grown exponentially and was restless over the lack of education, housing and representation.

The situation culminated in the 1965 Hough Riot, a lesson to the town’s leaders that Cleveland was in need of dramatic change. And in its hour of consternation, it turned to a Black man named Carl Stokes to restore order to a broken city. Stokes narrowly won the 1967 mayor’s race to become the first Black leader of an American city. Two years later, his brother Louis became the first Black man in Ohio to be elected to Congress, where he served until Jan. 3, 1999. A quiet man, Louis did not project the robust nature of his brother. Yet the two of them, each in his own way, helped create a lineage of minority leadership that still exists today, breaking the white monopoly on high-level power in Cleveland.

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acclaim — and took Cleveland with him. He remembers being asked what his signature dish was. "When I said pierogi, they looked at me like I had seven heads.”

Lola Goodbye: Some speculated that Symon, who is expanding

Legacy: “We didn’t set out to change the way people feel about eating

in downtown Cleveland. We didn’t say ‘Oh, let’s help gentrify this neighborhood.’ That’s things that customers and other people talk about. We just wanted to open a great restaurant and make people happy. Most importantly, we wanted a restaurant that reflected the city.”

One of Cleveland Magazine senior editor Dillon Stewart's biggest regrets is that he never had the chance to eat at the original Lola.

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Mabel’s BBQ with a second location, used the pandemic as an opportunity to close Lola. Not so. “We were honestly getting plans together to redo the whole thing. We just couldn’t figure out how to do fine dining in that type of atmosphere. It wasn’t the time to sink a million dollars into renovating a restaurant. Emotionally, it was the toughest decision we ever made. But the pandemic just crushed us.”

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Drew Carey stood in front of 73,000 screaming fans, looked into the television cameras and let loose. “I want to send a message to anyone whoever made fun of Cleveland, a message to anyone whoever told a Cleveland joke or laughed at a Cleveland joke: You can now officially SHUT UP!” And the crowd erupted, chanting “Cleveland Rocks,” the theme song of Carey’s sitcom that started right as the Browns left. It was a weekly nod to Cleveland on TV that filled the hole in our viewing schedule but not our hearts.

And when the chanting softened, Carey pushed his big, black glasses up his nose and introduced the 1999 Cleveland Browns. He introduced the team like they’d never left, and, maybe, that’s why those words landed so hard. Cleveland Browns. Our Brownies. They were back.

The old rituals returned: Sundays with dad.

Barking at passersby at the grocery store. Rushing home from church and marking myself unavailable for the work schedule.

For years, we were subjected to looking backward. While the NFL moved forward, we looked to Bernie Kosar and Brian Sipe. We tried to ignore the Ozzie Newsome sitting in Baltimore and focused on the Ozzie Newsome in our memories.

Before the game started, a video played featuring Big Dawg kidnapping our No. 1 draft pick, quarterback Tim Couch, who then had the franchise history of Jim Brown and Reggie Rucker “downloaded” into his brain. The Browns understood the importance of reminding fans that this was the same franchise, even if so many of the players were new.

And it still felt a lot like Cleveland football at first.

On the opening drive, the Browns held the Steelers. By the end of the game, it was a 43-0 embarrassment. Tim Couch entered the game and his first pass was picked off.

But it was football again in Cleveland.

I was barking at the TV. I’d tell folks on Monday that the Browns were going to struggle for a couple years, but we’re back. The Browns. The Cleveland Browns.

I didn’t care how bad we were. I cared that I had my team back. And football, as long as it was in Cleveland, could never truly break our hearts again.

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Andy Netzel has had Browns season tickets for far longer than he served as an editor at Cleveland Magazine. He now works in management in one of the tall buildings in downtown Cleveland.

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BY BECKY BOBAN

Even on a chilly day, customers sit at tables topped with flowers at Ohio City’s Mitchell’s Ice Cream. The largest of nine locations, the flagship store is where it all comes together — service, community and flavorful imagination, scooping the CLE a sweet spot in Ohio’s ice cream pantheon.

Slow Start: On Oct. 6, 1999, broth-

ers Pete and Mike Mitchell, then 27 and 22 years old, opened their first location in Westlake. Although the space served only “the occasional customer," the brothers were present from open to close, returning at night to the one-bedroom apartment they shared down the street. “I think some of our customers felt bad for us because they thought these guys aren’t gonna make it,” says Mike.

Fortitude: Pete and Mike fully intend to keep their business in Cleveland. “I don’t know where we’ll go in the next 20 years,” Mike says. “But I do know it’s going to be driven by the same values.”

Becky Boban is an assistant editor with Cleveland Magazine whose favorites are Cleveland history and Mitchell’s vegan pistachio.

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Before its restoration, the Cleveland Arcade felt about as good as anything 109 years old. Tar webbed the massive skylight together and, when it didn’t, chicken wire saved pedestrians from falling glass. Birds fluttered in, snow floated down, but sunlight was stoppered. A humid funk shrouded the architectural masterwork’s interior. An 18-month, $60 million historic revamp saw workers atop scaffolds nearly 100 feet tall replacing 1,800 glass panes. The ceiling was restored, mosaics retouched and steel frame replaced with aluminum. Cast again in sunlight, the trusses’ gryphon sentinels watched over the distinguished landmark’s preservation and ultimate transformation into the region’s first Hyatt Regency Hotel. BECKY BOBAN

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The Cuyahoga River connects us as much as it separates us — an ever-visible reminder of our east-west divide. Yet the curving path of the Cuyahoga is what we all share.

Head south of the city and you see the river as the central artery of the Cuyahoga Valley. Congress designated these nearly 33,000 acres as a national park in 2000, setting aside an oasis of green between two cities defined by industry.

Gaining national park status gave it prominence and permanence, bringing it into the company of Yellowstone and Yosemite, Grand Teton and Grand Canyon. Of course, there are no mountains nor geysers, no bears nor buffalo. Instead, you see the Ohio that once was and is now again.

A historic pathway follows the route of the Ohio and Erie Canal that reshaped our nation. A 60-foot waterfall rushes in a quiet gorge. Wooded trails cross a landscape carved over eons. Cuyahoga Valley National Park is where one can witness the roots of Northeast Ohio and see how it grew from the waters of our crooked river. JIM VICKERS

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Most people slip quietly into retirement. Not Jane Scott. The longtime rock journalist’s departure from The Plain Dealer in April 2002, a month before her 83rd birthday, was a milestone covered by such media outlets as Good Morning America, The Associated Press, The Washington Post, even the BBC. It was easy to understand why. The Cleveland native nicknamed “the world’s oldest teenager” was a warm, kind, colorful quirk in an oh-so-cool youth-oriented industry once dominated by men. Her retreat from Cleveland’s music scene was a bittersweet moment for fans who’d been reading her columns, concert reviews and features since they were tweens.

Scott fell in love with rock music as a 45-year-old society writer-turned-teen page scribe covering the Beatles’ 1964 Public Hall appearance. When the group returned to play Cleveland Stadium two years later, she interviewed Paul McCartney — and went on to score audiences with everyone who was anyone in the genre.

She shopped for a blue Corvette with Jimi Hendrix, had a beer with the Doors’ Jim Morrison, sang “California Girls” with the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson as he played a piano in the

lounge of what is now the Renaissance Cleveland Hotel. The likes of Bob Dylan, Jon Bon Jovi, Bono and Bruce Springsteen — her favorite — welcomed her backstage as if she were an old friend. For many, she was one of the first journalists to interview them or critique a performance. She had an eye for talent. One of her most-quoted reviews was of a 1975 Springsteen show at the Allen Theatre: “His name is Bruce Springsteen. He will be the next superstar.”

At the same time, she developed her own fan base. She graciously chatted with readers who stopped her wherever she went — a degree of popularity that could make walking through a concert venue to her seat a long process, as I discovered during our 16-year friendship. (Her trademark blond bob and bright red glasses made her easy to spot.)

When Plain Dealer editors talked in 1987 of giving her beat to a younger writer, 126 colleagues petitioned them to reconsider, and radio station WMMS-FM rallied behind her. Age certainly never kept her from doing her job. She sloshed through the mud at Woodstock ’94, ventured into mosh pits and trekked through endless parking lots and shed lawns.

After Scott died in 2011, her family commissioned former Cleveland Institute of Art president David Deming to create a sculpture of her now displayed at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame's library in Cuyahoga Community College. The likeness, accurate right down to the slightly asymmetrical smile and ticket stub pinned to the jacket, sits on a simple oak bench for two, a pen in one hand forever poised to begin scribbling on a reporter’s notebook held in the other. LYNNE THOMPSON

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Our sports messiah had finally arrived, in brilliant white robes no less, but heartbreak was ahead.

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By then, we knew what inevitability looked like and it did not look like this. It did not look like the young man in the white suit, white shirt, white necktie, a uniform that looked too big for him and yet for that very reason seemed the right size.

We knew what inevitability looked like.

We knew it from Earnest Byner and the burning river and the long struggle of the steel mill and the wry nightly declarations of Joe Tait.

Or I did, anyway. You could hardly blame me. My first job was as a ball boy for those Cleveland Cavaliers. My first boss was Ted Stepien. My first exposure to professional basketball was in a perpetually desolate Richfield Coliseum, watching a team drag through the longest losing streak in NBA history, night after night tending to men of unfathomable promise as they sat in their wooden cubicles, ice bags taped to their knees, faces blank. They never seemed angry or bitter. Just resigned.

I watched it that night with my 8-year-old son, the two of us sitting together at the end of the bed, the glow of the television lighting our faces. June 26, 2003. By then, my son had lived half his life believing in the absolute promise of LeBron James, who played basketball at the school across the street from his own

school, whose image from the hometown newspaper was Scotch-taped to his bedroom door, whose cousin played on his Little League team.

We all knew what was about to happen. It had been two months since those draft-lottery ping pong balls had dropped, Cleveland emerging first from the randomized lot. Two months since team chairman Gordon Gund had announced who the choice would be. It would be him, “the kid from Akron,” “The Chosen One,” the most promising athlete in the world, the one from a place whose narrative had hardened into a generational fact: the greater their promise, the more likely they’ll leave.

League commissioner David Stern’s voice came through the television speaker. “With the first pick in the 2003 NBA draft … the Cleveland Cavaliers select … LeBron James.”

We knew that’s what we were going to hear and yet with the syllables of that name, the boy sitting beside me erupted as though he himself had been chosen, backflipping onto the mattress, screaming, little fists raised in victorious clench, no idea how improbable this was. All I could do then was hope.

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Harvey Pekar got us because he was one of us.

In American Splendor, his iconic series of comic books, and the 2003 movie about him, Pekar truly captured what it is like to be a Clevelander, a Midwesterner, a Rust Belter, in all its everyday splendor.

The Downtown Cleveland Alliance is formed, putting oomph behind the development of entertainment districts like East Fourth Street and pushing downtown toward a residential future.

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David Giffels' most recent book is Barnstorming Ohio To Understand America.

A Kid Named Cudi Is Released

July 17,

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Before Scott Mescudi became a household name, he was just a Cleveland kid named Cudi. In the summer of 2008, Mescudi released A Kid Named Cudi. It shot his career into hyperdrive and defined hip-hop in the 2010s. The 17-track mixtape is a dreamy concoction, the story of a young man finding himself in a world that is becoming unrecognizable. Its lyrics are weighty, touching on depression, addiction and death. But it felt honest to the city of Cudi's birth. As Cleveland was struggling and changing, so was Cudi.

Henry Palattella is an associate editor at Cleveland Magazine. He once tried out for a professional basketball team. He didn't make it.

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After months of speculation surrounding his free agency, LeBron James appeared on a live ESPN special titled “The Decision,” where he announced, “I’m taking my talents to South Beach” before departing the Cleveland Cavaliers to join the Miami Heat.

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As students at Case Western Reserve University, Anthony and Joe Russo couldn’t finance the films they wanted to make, so they used their credit cards. Years later, when they made it big, they could have easily forgotten those early days. But they didn’t. And with the Russos’ 2014 hit, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, they put their beloved city on the biggest screen in showbiz.

Story Board: Captain America’s famous

Shoreway car chase scene snarled traffic for what felt like eons. But it was worth it to see familiar sights in the film, like the Flats, downtown and The Cleveland Museum of Art. “When you’re thinking about a largescale cinema, the details of Cleveland are just something that speak to us very strongly,” says Anthony Russo, who codirected the film with his brother, Joe.

Connection: Captain America set off a Hollywood love affair with Cleveland’s sights that continues today. Several movies released last year, including Judas and The Black Messiah, The Marksman and the Russos’ most recent project, Cherry, have hints of the city throughout.

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a bright future for Cleveland film. “We’re very hopeful,” says Russo. “The big dream — and this is something we’ve all been talking about for years in the film community — is getting dedicated film stages in Cleveland and state-of-the-art stages. That’s the real point that we need to get to.” ARBELA CAPAS

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Jimmy Dimora was untouchable. He ruled Cuyahoga County — the government and the Democratic Party, which were synonymous — throughchumminess, crass humor and fear. And he won his last election easily.

Then Dimora’s empire collapsed, on July 28, 2008, when FBI and IRS agents raided his office. Sordid tales of bribery followed: Nearly $250,000 in cash and prizes — casino trips, thousand-dollar dinners, strippers, hookers and a backyard tiki paradise. Voters, disgusted, threw all the bums out, approving an entirely new county government.

The last time I saw Dimora — July 31, 2012, in Akron’s federal courthouse — he’d just been sentenced to 28 years in prison on 33 counts of bribery, extortion, racketeering, tax evasion and fraud. Crossing the courtroom slowly, with a walker, his once-formidable frame stooped, Dimora was defiant and bitter. “You’re good storytellers,” he sniped at the FBI agents who’d worked to put him away. Even today, as he pursues yet another appeal, Dimora doesn’t believe he did anything wrong.

Cleveland disagrees. Dimora’s conviction ended the local era of deep corruption masked as mere cronyism. Frank Russo, the million-dollar-bribed county auditor; sheriff Gerald McFaul, who forced his employees to raise campaign funds; and Nate Gray, whose payoff-pocketing consultant shtick tainted the legacy of his pal, Mayor Mike White — all exploited a permissive culture that Cleveland purged a decade ago. Now, no politician wants to risk the sort of sentence Dimora is serving.

Even the recent investigations into county executive Armond Budish prove how much has changed. They turned up low-level wrongdoing and made Budish (who wasn’t charged) look incompetent.

County prosecutor Mike O’Malley was among those who investigated in the sort of probe his predecessor, Bill Mason, used to claim his office was ill-equipped to do. Mason, now Budish’s chief of staff, reportedly threatened O’Malley with a primary opponent unless he dropped the investigation (which Mason denies).

But the inquiry didn’t stop, the story came out, and Budish announced he wouldn’t run for reelection. Once untouchable, Cleveland’s politicians are now accountable — and replaceable. ERICK TRICKEY

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In 2015, Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus recounted the years they’d lost to Ariel Castro’s cruelty in their book Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland. It's a tough read, a dark catalog of the crimes that earned Castro a prison sentence of life plus 1,000 years. But the memoir, written in part from the 1,200-page diary Berry kept in captivity, is also a narrative of perseverance. It includes anecdotes about Berry and DeJesus watching TV news segments about their disappearances. Since their miraculous escape, Berry has taken to the airwaves herself at WJW-TV8, where she reminds Cleveland not to forget the women locked in a house somewhere, waiting for others to look inside. ERICK TRICKEY

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It began, as these things often do, with a tragic misunderstanding.

On Nov. 29, 2012, at around 10:30 p.m, Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams were driving a rattletrap 1979 Chevy Malibu downtown when the car backfired. A nearby police officer radioed in what he thought was a shots-fired call, setting off a chase of mind-boggling proportion.

Sixty-two police cars revved after the single Malibu, speeding faster than 100 mph. The chase ended with a car crash in the parking lot of a middle school. In 18 frenzied seconds, 13 officers peppered the Malibu with 137 bullets, killing Russell and Williams. They were unarmed.

The grotesque spectacle of the chase, its scale and recklessness, became for many Clevelanders part of a pattern of profound injustice. It catalyzed a movement that would come to be called Black Lives Matter. When one officer, Michael Brelo, was acquitted for firing 49 of the 137 shots, protests erupted downtown.

Mike DeWine, then Ohio’s attorney general, said the case represented “a systemic failure." That finding was echoed by the Department of Justice, which started an investigation of the entire police department that resulted in a consent decree to overhaul it. In 2021, voters chose to go still further, passing Issue 24, which instituted additional policy changes.

After 137 shots, Clevelanders for the first time in a long time looked critically at their police department. They haven’t looked away since. SHEEHAN HANNAN

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Samaria Rice says she’s tired.

She’s running a foundation dedicated to children. She’s writing a memoir. She’s advocating for police reform — and she’s still trying to get justice for her son. “It’s not easy,” she says. “I’m just a mom, you know.”

But, over the past eight years, Rice also has become a formidable activist.

No mom has a bigger platform than Tamir’s. From Cleveland. “I’m always gonna fight against the police and the government,” she says. “At the end of the day, the system is corrupt. It’s broken.”

Rice never thought that police brutality would touch her life. When she let her kids off the porch in Cudell on Nov. 22, 2014, she worried about the older teenagers at the recreation center across the street, not the police. “I never thought I would send two children out of the house and only one would come back,” she says.

We all saw what happened next, captured on grainy surveillance video: Tamir playing with a toy gun with no orange safety tip. A squad car arriving. An officer shooting Tamir within two seconds. Then came more shock, grief and outrage as a grand jury declined to indict Timothy Loehmann and his partner.

When the legal system didn't provide the justice Rice sought, Rice pursued it for her son on her own. But twice the Department of Justice has declined to pursue a civil rights investigation. Rice is undeterred. Though her fight is now national, she hasn't forgetten it started here. She has been a consistent voice for change in Cleveland. “I had never attended a city council meeting until my son was murdered,” Rice says. “But now that I am engaged, and I am listening … I participate in everything I can.”

Tamir would have turned 20 this year. With some of the $6 million she won in a lawsuit against the city, Rice bought a building on St. Clair Avenue. The Tamir Rice Afrocentric Cultural Center should be open next year.

Rice doesn’t sound tired. She sounds fearless. Listening to her, one still dares to dream that the city where Tamir was killed can learn from its mistakes. But Rice knows Cleveland isn’t there yet. That’s why she's building a place where children can feel safe and create art, like Tamir used to do.

Rice is doing everything she can to protect those children for one simple reason: "I know I live in Cleveland, Ohio."

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Jacqueline Marino is a former associate editor of Cleveland Magazine. She is now a professor of journalism at Kent State University.

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Occasionally, I scroll down to the bottom of my television’s DVR list and replay the Cleveland Cavaliers vs. Golden State Warriors Game 7 that I have yet to delete. I recorded the matchup as I watched it that June evening in 2016, even though I remember thinking at the time it was probably bad luck to do so. If you’re from Cleveland, you understand.

Each time, I fast-forward to midway through the fourth quarter, when it is still an anyone-can-win game. As the minutes tick by, I search for the moment in which the impossibility of recovering from a 3-1 series deficit becomes inevitability.

It’s not LeBron’s chase-down block.

It’s not Kyrie knocking down that three.

Hope begins to emerge after the LeBron free throw that puts the Cavs up by four with 10.6 seconds left. Yet the Cleveland sports fan knows how bad breaks seem woven into moments like these. But then Steph misses. Golden State rebounds.

Mo Speights throws up a miss.

Buzzer. Elation.

It all feels preordained. Everything about LeBron's draft, departure, return and accompanying promise to deliver a championship to the city coalesces in five words, screamed from the middle of a basketball court in Oakland to the universe: “Cleveland, this is for you!"

That win changed this city. It seems trite unless you have experienced how the anvil of disappointment has dropped on us over the years. Unless you have seen how fast hope can evaporate.

It is why so many of us gathered downtown after the win for a parade unlike any this city had ever seen. It was not only a celebration but an exorcism of our sports grief and confirmation that, yes, this really happened — to us.

Ohio Magazine editor Jim Vickers is still patiently waiting for a Browns championship parade.

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The Republican National Convention turned downtown into a raucous, high-security party, with conventiongoers and curious Clevelanders mobbing every available venue, protesters filling Public Square and cameras filming every street corner. On stage at the stadium then called Quicken Loans Arena, Donald Trump accepted the Republican party nominee for president and went on to win the election, ushering a new brand of populism into the Republican party and changing the landscape of American politics.

Trump buzzed into town in a helicopter.

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The moment the curse was lifted and the drought ended. Our finest moment.

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These days, about 2.5 million visitors use the 93mile Towpath Trail each year, including an increasing number of city dwellers who now have safer, more convenient access to the trail. With recent extensions, the Towpath also binds and connects neighborhoods to Lake Erie, the Cuyahoga River, Cleveland Metroparks and the Cuyahoga Valley National Park But the work is not done, says Cleveland Metroparks CEO Brian Zimmerman. “I firmly believe other park districts and more communities will want to become connected to the Towpath,” he says, “The Towpath Trail has stood the test of time as a connector.”

The Towpath Trail also gives Clevelanders a new view of the Cuyahoga River, which Ronayne notes has been “somewhat elusive in the city.”

But his favorite view from the Towpath Trail?

“Coming out of Tremont, overlooking the steel mills, because it tells the story of Cleveland.” JILL SELL

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Tiger swallowtail butterflies with black-andyellow velvet wings. Graceful feathery ferns tucked into woodlands. Huge moss-covered stone blocks from vintage canal locks and bridge arches. Twisted metal and stained, crumbling concrete remnants of past buildings. And everywhere, hikers, runners, bicyclists, kayakers, bird watchers and history buffs.

It is a path of fascinating contrasts — just like us.

Finally complete after 20 years and $54 million, the trail connects us geographically, sure, but there’s more. It takes us from an industrial past to, hopefully, a greener future for everyone. It is a path forward.

“Within 15 minutes of the Towpath Trail you can find yourself in a forest or an industrial area rich with history. I love that,” says Chris Ronayne, chairman of the board of Canalway Partners, a nonprofit organization leading the restoration of the route where mules once pulled canal boats with goods to be sold. “The Towpath Trail interprets our past as well as our future as a cool city. It’s educational, fun and unique.”

It’s now possible to access the Canal Basin Park Trailhead in the Flats on the east bank of the Cuyahoga River and go all the way to Zoar, following the general path of the 1832 Ohio & Erie Canal. The waterway

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The Dolan family, who had purchased the team formerly called the Cleveland Indians in 2000, announced that, after decades of protest by Native American groups, the team would use a new name: the Guardians. The name is a nod to the uniting power of the Guardians of Traffic statues that usher cars across the Hope Memorial Bridge from the East Side to the West.

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The story’s not over, Cleveland. Share your thoughts on this list — and on where we’re headed the next 50 years. Send us your comments at conversation@clevelandmagazine.com.

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BEST WEST

HUNDREDS OF readers weighed in on their top picks for West Side hot spots.

Here you’ll find the finalists in categories from dining to services to shopping.

Don’t miss your chance to vote for your favorites at the Best of the West party on Thursday, May 12, from 6 to 9 p.m., at Market Square at Crocker Park. Finalists will be on hand to showcase what has made them a local best. All guests will be able to vote for their favorite finalist in each category. Winners will be revealed in the August issue of Cleveland Magazine.

FINALISTS FOOD

Restaurant

Square 22 Restaurant and Bar, Strongsville Bistro 83, North Ridgeville Cabin Club, Westlake

Patio

Georgetown | Vosh, Lakewood Burntwood Tavern, Multiple Locations Rosewood Grill, Strongsville, Westlake

View

Pier W, Lakewood The Harp Irish Pub and Restaurant, Cleveland Chez Francois Restaurant, Vermilion

Lunch Spot

Pizza Whirl, Cleveland Square 22 Restaurant and Bar, Strongsville Cabin Club, Westlake

Late Night Food

Pizza Whirl, Cleveland Barrio Tacos, Multiple Locations Around the Corner Saloon & Cafe, Lakewood

Brunch

Pier W, Lakewood Around the Corner Saloon & Cafe, Lakewood Market, Rocky River

Organic Food

Whole Foods Market, Rocky River Cleveland Vegan, Lakewood Urban Bulk Foods, Lakewood

Vegetarian

Cleveland Vegan, Lakewood Aladdin’s Eatery, Multiple Locations The Root Cafe, Lakewood

Seafood

Pier W, Lakewood Salmon Dave’s Pacific Grille, Rocky River Blue Point Grille, Cleveland

Sushi

Shinto, Westlake, Strongsville Blue Sushi Sake Grill, Westlake Ginko Restaurant, Cleveland

Steak

Cabin Club, Westlake Strip Steakhouse, Avon Hyde Park Prime Steakhouse, Westlake

Independent Coffee Shop

Rising Star Coffee Roasters, Multiple Locations Red Cedar Coffee Co., Berea Erie Island Coffee Co., Multiple Locations

Quick Bite

Souper Market, Multiple Locations Aladdin’s Eatery, Multiple Locations Cilantro Taqueria, Lakewood

Ice Cream

Mitchell’s Homemade Ice Cream, Multiple Locations Cowhaus Creamery, Elyria Honey Hut Ice Cream, Multiple Locations

Bakery

Kelsey Elizabeth Cakes, Multiple Locations Blackbird Baking Co., Lakewood Fragapane Bakeries, Multiple Locations

Smoothie

Pulp Juice and Smoothie Bar, Multiple Locations Robeks, Multiple Locations Tropical Smoothie Cafe, Multiple Locations

Pizza

Angelo’s Pizza, Lakewood Primoz Pizzeria, Multiple Locations Antonio’s Pizza, Multiple Locations

Burger

Gibbs Butcher & Brews, Olmsted Falls Around the Corner Saloon & Cafe, Lakewood Heck’s Cafe, Multiple Locations

Wings

Around the Corner Saloon & Cafe, Lakewood Winking Lizard Tavern, Multiple Locations Pizza Whirl, Cleveland

Mexican

Gran Fiesta, Strongsville Fiesta Jalapenos, Medina Cozumel, Multiple Locations

Italian

Luca West, Westlake Fratello’s, Avon Lake Bar Italia, Lakewood

Chinese

King Wah Restaurant, Rocky River Li Wah Restaurant, Cleveland Wok of the Falls, Olmsted Falls

Farmers Market

Frostville Farmers Market, North Olmsted Romano’s Farmers Market & Deli, North Royalton North Union Farmers Market at Crocker Park, Westlake

Deli

Joe’s Deli & Restaurant, Rocky River Larder Delicatessen and Bakery, Cleveland Nate’s Deli & Restaurant, Cleveland

Family Dining

Joe’s Deli & Restaurant, Rocky River Avon Brewing Co., Avon Winking Lizard Tavern, Multiple Locations

SERVICE

Wedding Venue

Georgetown | Vosh, Lakewood Westwood Country Club, Rocky River Olesia’s Taverne of Richfield, Richfield

Day Spa

Sacred Hour Wellness Spa, Lakewood, Rocky River Charles Scott Salons and Spas, Rocky River, Avon Bella Capelli Sanctuario, Westlake

Mani/Pedi

Shirley Vu Nails, Westlake Prive Nail Spa, Westlake Bella Capelli Sanctuario, Westlake

Salon

Golf Course

Big Met Golf Course, Fairview Park Sweetbriar Golf Club, Avon Lake Red Tail Golf Club, Avon

Yoga/Pilates

Inner Bliss Yoga Studio, Rocky River, Westlake Modern Yoga, Strongsville Hope Yoga Studio, Fairview Park

Fitness Center

UH Avon Fitness Center, Avon Dominique Moceanu Gymnastics Center, Medina Esporta Fitness, Westlake, Brooklyn

ENTERTAINMENT

Happy Hour

Burntwood Tavern, Multiple Locations Bar Louie, Westlake Georgetown | Vosh, Lakewood

Live Music Venue

Olesia’s Taverne of Richfield, Richfield Georgetown | Vosh, Lakewood Rockin’ on the River, Lorain

Brewery

Avon Brewing Co., Avon Fat Head’s Brewery, Middleburg Heights, North Olmsted Sibling Revelry Brewery, Westlake

Charitable Cause

Autism Speaks, Cleveland The LCADA Way Pearls of Wisdom, Independence Prayers from Maria, Rocky River

Charles Scott Salons and Spas, Rocky River, Avon Bella Capelli Sanctuario, Westlake Lather a Salon, Rocky River

SHOPPING

On the Spot Dry Cleaners, Broadview Heights, Parma Master Cleaners, Berea Ridge Cleaners, Multiple Locations

Pet Boutique

Dry Cleaner

Senior Living

The Normandy, Rocky River Renaissance Retirement Campus, Olmsted Falls Rose Senior Living, Avon

Car Wash

Bee Clean Car Wash, Multiple Locations Carriage Auto Wash, Cleveland Blue Falls Car Wash, Multiple Locations

Best Jeweler

Kleinhenz Jewelers, Westlake Peter & Co. Jewelers, Avon Lake Sheiban Jewelers, Cleveland Style Mutt, Cleveland PetPeople, Multiple Locations Oliver and Henry’s, Westlake

Florist

Urban Orchid, Cleveland Cottage of Flowers, Lakewood Little Shop of Holly’s, Berea

Garden Center

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Best Wine Store

Rozi’s Wine House, Lakewood Heinen’s Grocery Store, Multiple Locations The Wine Room, Avon

Best Beer Selection (Retail)

Rozi’s Wine House, Lakewood Minotti’s Wine & Spirits, Multiple Locations Ross Beverage, Lakewood

Bike Shop

Eddy’s Bike Shop, Multiple Locations Century Cycles, Rocky River Fairview Cycle, Fairview Park

Boutique

Lovely Paperie & Gifts, Rocky River Cara’s Boutique, Westlake Knuth’s, Westlake

Men’s Fashion

Geiger’s, Lakewood Ford’s Clothier, Rocky River

Home Decor

Rook Modern, Cleveland Avenue Home, Lakewood Wild Iris Home, Avon

Health Foods (Retail)

Whole Foods Market, Rocky River Nature’s Oasis, Lakewood

Vital Choice Health Store, North Royalton

Music Instruction

CLE T-Shirt Shop

GV Art + Design, Lakewood, Cleveland CLE Clothing Co., Multiple Locations Homage, Westlake

Consignment Shop

Common Threads Thrift, Fairview Park, Brook Park Consign Home Couture, Westlake Flower Child, Cleveland

Antique Shop

Sweet Lorain, Cleveland Flower Child, Cleveland Mitchell Sotka Design & Antiques, Rocky River

CHILDREN

Avon School of Music, Multiple Locations Beck Center for the Arts, Lakewood School of Rock, Westlake, Strongsville

Birthday Party

Sky Zone Trampoline Park, Westlake Topgolf, Independence The Little Gym, Multiple Locations

PEOPLE

Chiropractor

Dr. Julie Montemarano, Parma River Chiropractic & Wellness Center, Rocky River Inspired Chiropractic & Wellness, Rocky River

Chef

Beck Center for the Arts, Lakewood Dance Arts by Regina, North Royalton, Cleveland Dance Lakewood, Lakewood

Tony Martorello (Bistro 83), North Ridgeville Chris Bruder (Square 22 Restaurant and Bar), Strongsville Mike Smith (Thyme Table), Bay Village

Dominique Moceanu Gymnastics Center, Medina The Little Gym, Multiple Locations Flippers Gym Program, Avon

Halle Bruno (Blue Pointe Grille), Cleveland Jeff Gresko (Bistro 83), North Ridgeville

Dance Theatre

Gymnastics

Bartender

Angelica Rogers (Georgetown | Vosh), Lakewood

Stylist

Meghan Zaborowski (Robert Patrick Salon), Rocky River Kevin Deighton (Kevin Adam Salon & Spa), North Olmsted Jessica McKnight (Mia Salon Studios), Multiple Locations

Interior Designer

Ashleigh Clark (Ashleigh Clark Interior Design Group), Strongsville Ida Gawthrop (Arhaus), Multiple Locations

Fitness Instructor

Gina Shaffer (UH Avon Fitness Center), Avon Mike Ely (Grafton Barbell Club), Grafton

Photographer

Emily Millay Photography, Rocky River Ashley Brandich (New Arrivals Photography), Cleveland Leigh Roth Photography, Westlake

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BEST EAST

HUNDREDS OF readers weighed in on their top picks for East Side hot spots.

Here you’ll find the finalists in categories from dining to shopping to services.

Don’t miss your chance to vote for your favorites at Best of the East Party on Thursday, April 28, from 6 to 9 p.m., at Landerhaven. Finalists will be on hand to showcase what has made them a local best. All guests will be able to vote for their favorite finalist in each category. Winners will be revealed in the August issue of Cleveland Magazine.

FINALISTS FOOD

Restaurant

Burntwood Tavern, Multiple Locations Sapphire Creek Winery & Gardens, Chagrin Falls The Pompadour, Fairport Harbor

Patio

Burntwood Tavern, Multiple Locations Sapphire Creek Winery & Gardens, Chagrin Falls Ridgewood Kitchen & Spirits, Concord

View

Sapphire Creek Winery & Gardens, Chagrin Falls 17 River Grille, Chagrin Falls Chagrin Tavern, Eastlake

Lunch Spot

Burntwood Tavern, Multiple Locations Yours Truly Restaurant, Multiple Locations M Italian, Chagrin Falls

Late Night Food

The Fairmount, Cleveland Heights Barrio Tacos, Multiple Locations Ridgewood Kitchen & Spirits, Concord

Brunch

Sapphire Creek Winery & Gardens, Chagrin Falls Burntwood Tavern, Multiple Locations Sol, Willoughby

Organic Food

Muvel Society, Chagrin Falls CLE Juice Box, Mentor Whole Foods Market, Multiple Locations

Vegetarian

Birch Cafe, Highland Heights Tommy’s Restaurant, Cleveland Heights Yes It’s Fresh, Euclid

Seafood

Hook & Hoof New American Kitchen and Cocktail, Willoughby Burntwood Tavern, Multiple Locations Pickle Bill’s Lobster House, Grand River

Sushi

Pacific East Japanese Restaurant, Cleveland Heights Shuhei Restaurant, Beachwood

Steak

Red, the Steakhouse, Cleveland, Orange Hook & Hoof New American Kitchen and Cocktail, Willoughby

Hyde Park Prime Steakhouse, Beachwood

Guido’s Pizza Haven & Restaurant, Chesterland

Blue Sky Brews, Cleveland Heartwood Coffee Roasters, Chagrin Falls, Hudson Nervous Dog Coffee Bar, Multiple Locations

Hunan by the Falls, Chagrin Falls Imperial Wok Chinese Restaurant, Solon Ho Wah Restaurant, Beachwood

Independent Coffee Shop

Quick Bite

Yours Truly Restaurant, Multiple Locations Wild Spork, Multiple Locations Lemon Falls Cafe/Marketplace, Chagrin Falls

Ice Cream

Mitchell’s Homemade Ice Cream, Multiple Locations King Kone, Chardon Fairport Harbor Creamery, Fairport Harbor

Bakery

On the Rise Artisan Breads, Cleveland, Shaker Heights Luna Bakery & Cafe, Cleveland Heights, Moreland Hills Lavender Jones Macarons, Painesville

Smoothie

Pulp Juice and Smoothie Bar, Multiple Locations Smoothie King, Multiple Locations Restore Cold Pressed, Multiple Locations

Pizza

Geraci’s Restaurant, Multiple Locations Guido’s Pizza Haven & Restaurant, Chesterland Mama Santa’s, Cleveland

Waterway Carwash, Multiple Locations Classic Clean Auto Wash, Mentor

Chinese

Fitness Center

Results Fitness, Mayfield Heights Epiq X Fitness and Performance, Bedford Orangetheory Fitness, Multiple Locations

Farmers Market

Miles Farmers Market, Solon North Union Farmers Market, Multiple Locations Heart of Willoughby Outdoor Market, Willoughby

Yoga/Pilates

Cleveland Yoga, Multiple Locations Chagrin Yoga, Chagrin Falls Yoga Roots, Cleveland Heights

Deli

ENTERTAINMENT

Jack’s Deli and Restaurant, University Heights Corky & Lenny’s, Woodmere Farmer in the Deli, Chesterland

Happy Hour

Burntwood Tavern, Multiple Locations Bar Louie, Lyndhurst 17 River Grille, Chagrin Falls

Family Dining

Yours Truly Restaurant, Multiple Locations Mentor Family Restaurant, Mentor Mario Fazio’s, Willoughby Hills

Golf Course

Little Mountain Country Club, Painesville Manakiki Golf Course, Willoughby Quail Hollow Country Club, Concord

SERVICE

Live Music Venue

Wedding Venue

Sapphire Creek Winery & Gardens, Chagrin Falls Acacia Reservation, Lyndhurst Landerhaven, Mayfield Heights

Beachland Ballroom & Tavern, Cleveland Music Box Supper Club, Cleveland Grog Shop, Cleveland Heights

Spa Walden, Aurora Mario’s International Spas & Hotels, Aurora Ladies & Gentlemen Salon and Spa, Mentor, Lyndhurst

Mani/Pedi

Crooked Pecker Brewing Co., Chagrin Falls Boss Dog Brewing Co., Cleveland Heights Saucy Brew Works, Cleveland, Orange

Salon

VeloSano, Cleveland Medworks Medfest, Burton Camp Sunshine Golf Outing, Aurora

Brewery

Day Spa

Burger

Prive Nail Spa, Woodmere Studio MZ Salon & Spa, Woodmere Avanti Salon, Chesterland

Wings

John Robert’s Spa, Multiple Locations Ladies & Gentlemen Salon and Spa, Multiple Locations Avanti Salon, Chesterland

Flip Side, Multiple Locations Hook & Hoof New American Kitchen and Cocktail, Willoughby Pub Frato, Concord, Chagrin Falls Winking Lizard Tavern, Multiple Locations Just One More Tavern, Kirtland Mr. Lee’s Bar and Grill, Perry

Mexican

El Palenque Mexican Restaurant, Eastlake El Chile Bravo, Twinsburg Barrio Tacos, Multiple Locations

Italian

M Italian, Chagrin Falls Mia Bella Restaurant, Cleveland

Dry Cleaner

D.O. Summers Cleaners, Multiple Locations London Cleaners, Multiple Locations

Senior Living

Rose Senior Living Beachwood, Beachwood Judson, Multiple Locations The Weils, Chagrin Falls

Car Wash

Zappy’s Auto Washes, Multiple Locations

Charitable Cause

SHOPPING

Jeweler

Bella Design Jewelers, Chagrin Falls Steven DiFranco Jewelers, Willoughby Alson Jewelers, Woodmere

Pet Boutique

The Paw Wash, Painesville The Posh Pet Boutique, Mentor All About Dogs of NEOH, LLC, Chagrin Falls

Wine Store

Red, Wine & Brew, Multiple Locations The Wine Spot, Cleveland Heights World Wines & Liquor, Mentor CLEVELANDMAGAZINE.COM

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Beer Selection (Retail)

Red, Wine & Brew, Multiple Locations Wines 4 You, Mentor Heinen’s Grocery Store, Multiple Locations

Florist

Urban Orchid, Cleveland Merkels Flower Studio, Mentor Flowers by Julie, Fairport Harbor

Garden Center

Gale’s Garden Center, Maple Heights, Willoughby Hills Petitti Garden Centers, Multiple Locations Bremec Garden Center, Multiple Locations

Bike Shop

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A Bit of Skirt, Willoughby Knuth’s, Woodmere

Cleveland Handmade Market Vendor

The Gourmet Soap Market, Willoughby Crafty MAM, Eastlake Simply by Design, Chagrin Falls

Men’s Fashion

Kilgore Trout, Woodmere

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Ticknors Men’s Clothier, Beachwood Terriaco Suits & Tailoring, Mentor

Home Decor

White Magnolia Boutique, Chagrin Falls Hedges, Chagrin Falls

Health Foods (Retail)

Whole Foods Market, Multiple Locations Mustard Seed Market & Cafe, Akron My Mindful Market, Willoughby, Chagrin Falls

CLE T-Shirt Shop

GV Art + Design, Multiple Locations CLE Clothing Co., Multiple Locations Snakes + Acey’s, Cleveland

Consignment Shop

Passion for Fashion, Chesterland It’s So You Resale, Willoughby

Antique Shop

Antiques on the Square, Chardon Greenwald Antiques, Woodmere, Beachwood Twila’s Treasures Consignment Shop, Twinsburg

CHILDREN

Dance Theatre

Fairport Dance Academy, Painesville Center Stage Dance Studio, Northfield Fairmount Center for the Arts, Novelty

Gymnastics

Jump Start Gymnastics, Beachwood Lakeshore Dance & Gymnastics, Mayfield The Elite Gymnastics Academy, Solon

Music Instruction

Portage Music Lessons, Mantua The Music Settlement, Cleveland Fairmount Center for the Arts, Novelty

Birthday Party

Chagrin Valley Roller Rink, Chagrin Falls Urban Air Adventure Park, Reynoldsburg Nature Center at Shaker Lakes, Cleveland

PEOPLE

Chiropractor

Aligned Chiropractic & Physical Rehabilitation, Willoughby, Ashtabula Ohio Sports Chiropractic and Rehab, Northfield Chagrin Chiropractic and Wellness Center, Beachwood

Chef

Rusty James Phillips (The Pompadour), Fairport Harbor Douglas Katz (Zhug, Chimi, Amba), Cleveland Hunter Toth (Hook & Hoof New

American Kitchen and Cocktail), Willoughby

Bartender

Chaz Bloom (Hook & Hoof New American Kitchen and Cocktail), Willoughby Stephanie Weber (Pub Frato), Concord, Chagrin Falls

Stylist

Aubrey Maffit (Ladies & Gentlemen Salon and Spa), Mentor Ricky Zaborowski (Principle Barbershop), Shaker Heights Lisa D’Amico (The Experience Barber and Shave Co.), Orange

Interior Designer

Meghan Bergstedt (Payne & Payne Renovations and Design), Chardon Jennifer Monachino Seaman (Monarch Interiors), Chardon

Fitness Instructor

Josh Mekota (Results Fitness), Mayfield Heights Mitch Boyer (Epiq X Fitness and Performance), Bedford

Photographer

Kim Ponsky Photography, Beachwood Danelle Joy Photography, Painesville BeccaBee Photography, Solon

Distinctive Homes

CHESTERLAND | $325K

CHESTERLAND | $325K

RE/MAX REG | LOU BARBEE (440) 899-0000

RE/MAX REG | LOU BARBEE (440) 899-0000

BRATENAHL | $400K

BRATENAHL | $400K

RE/MAX REG | LOU BARBEE (440) 899-0000

RE/MAX REG | LOU BARBEE (440) 899-0000

AVON | $485K

AVON | $485K

RE/MAX REG | LOU BARBEE (440) 899-0000

RE/MAX REG | LOU BARBEE (440) 899-0000

NEW LONDON | $275K

MENTOR | $270K

RE/MAX REG | LOU BARBEE (440) 899-0000

RE/MAX REG | LOU BARBEE (440) 899-0000

Meticulously maintained custom-built one owner home on fabulous hillside lot. Spacious 24x14 living room with fireplace. Sliding doors lead to brick patio. Oversized windows provide an abundance of light. 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths. Generator. 2 car attached garage.

Spectacular and rarely available ranch cluster in the Haskells. Wonderful privacy. Exceptional ceiling heights. Light-filled rooms. One floor living at its finest. Located across from Shoreby Club. Under 10 minutes to downtown, University Hospital, Cleveland Clinic and University Circle.

Red Tail Golf Community. Stunning architectural lines define the space in this outstanding cluster home with its open floor plan and vaulted ceilings.

Family room with wonderful water and golf course views.

Gorgeous new kitchen. Private 1st floor office.

Over 3,500 sq. ft. 6 bedrooms, 3 full baths. Perfect layout for in-law suite or extended family living arrangement. Kitchen with stainless appliances.

Master with sliding doors to large deck. 24x20 outbuilding. Additional 22x12 garage. Country living on 1.43 acres.

The 1.59 acre lot is simply stunning. Heavy woods provide loads of serenity and privacy. Beautifully landscaped with swaths of green space intertwined with perennial gardens creating grand splashes of color. Large brick patio. Gazebo.

Casual elegance. Vaulted ceilings throughout. The wall of windows provides exceptional light in the main living areas. Blond wood flooring.

Master suite with large private glamour bath and walk in. Guest suite and 3rd bedroom/office. 2 car attached garage.

Red Tail. Spacious master overlooking the pond and golf course. Romantic gas fireplace. Glamor bath. Walk-in closet. Wonderful deck. Beautifully finished lower level. Great club with golf, swimming, fine dining and more. (Membership required.)

SECLUDED South Mentor property with a myriad of possibilities. 5+ acres.

Small existing home on lovely wooded lot. A truly fabulous place to build your very private “dream home.” Zoning allows 5 horses. A rare offering.

Unique opportunity.

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Cleveland Magazine founder Lute Harmon Sr. (center) with editor Mike Roberts (left) and friend Al Gentry

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colleagues, friends and advertisers to the ballroom of the Statler Hotel on Euclid Avenue. Former Cleveland Mayor Ralph Perk, notorious for catching his hair on fire just three years after the river caught fire, crashed the party.

“We were a little afraid of him,” says Harmon with a laugh, “and he was a little afraid of us.”

But it was not Perk who ignited the laughter and looks shared by Harmon, Roberts and their buddy Al Gentry in this photo. Rather, it was the feeling that comes from starting something new from scratch. Something you believe in.

Something you take a moment to savor every decade or so.

“We’d attained a sense of legitimacy as a publication that was respected in the city,” Roberts says. “It was joyful.”

1982 COURTESY LUTE HARMON SR.

10 years since they published their very first issue of Cleveland Magazine.

In the beginning, the joke was that staff would work all weekend and, when finally leaving on Sunday afternoon, tell each other to "have a good weekend."

Money was stretched thin, too.

Editor Mike Roberts recalls an enraged investor cursing out him and publisher Lute Harmon Sr. over a story on the city's banks. Rather than appease him, Harmon replied that he and Roberts would buy him out for $10,000 — on the spot. "I was stunned," Roberts says.

"We didn't have any money, but over time, we paid it off.

It was all hard. But it was all good.

By 10 years in, however, things were beginning to hum. To celebrate, Harmon and Roberts invited some 200 of their IT’D BEEN

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