What the real Cleveland is to real Clevelanders
What is Cleveland to Clevelanders? Out of 150 entrants, The Plain Dealer has selected 50 Clevelanders to explain three things they love about and love to do in Cleveland.
With everything from Gran Fiesta in Strongsville and Bon Vivant in Cleveland's Larchmere district to the Parkview Nite Club on West 58th Street and Voinovich Bicentennial Park, the series highlights the great diversity of Cleveland in a way that will allow locals and tourists to see the city in a whole new way.
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Innovation on Tap: World Beer Festival comes to Cleveland
Cleveland’s extensive beer knowledge served the city well this weekend. The sun was shining and the beer was flowing Saturday, June 14th at the second annual World Beer Festival at Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica. The event featured over 200 beers from around the world as well as local brews made in Cleveland, Akron, Columbus, as well as other Ohio breweries.
As people went around sampling everything from Madison, Ohio’s own Cellar Rats Brewery Black Rat Imperial Stout to a Blood Orange Hibiscus Wheat Ale from The Bottlehouse in Cleveland Heights, they were given the chance to learn the art of brewing and participate in beer seminars featuring a roundtable discussion with representatives from Fat Head's Brewery, Thirsty Dog Brewery and Buckeye Brewing.
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Stuck on Cleveland: Avon’s 11th annual Duct Tape festival wows.
What would you do with Duck Tape? The theme of this year’s Duck Tape festival held in Avon (a suburb of Cleveland) was “Out of This World” as a tribute to the use of duct tape on the Apollo 13 mission to save an equipment failure. Floats included spaceships, aliens, monsters, science fiction scenes and one larger than life E.T. from the popular Steven Spielberg movie.
Cleveland provides film friendly location for shooting movies
Cleveland gets to play Cleveland, finally! After playing New York, Detroit, Washington, D.C. and many other cities in numerous movies, Cleveland is finally getting the chance to play…well… Cleveland. “Criminal Activities,” the independent film directed by Jackie Earle Haley and written by Robert Lowell, is set against the backdrop of the Comeback City and the cast and crew cannot stop buzzing about how wonderful Cleveland has been to them.
Get in the Game: World Cup in Cleveland
Lago Restaurant & Wine Bar is Cleveland's World Cup Headquarters for a local soccer tournament which will benefit 11 Foundation, a charity supporting families with pediatric traumatic brain injuries. The futsal tournament will feature a Competitive and Corporate bracket with a $5,000 prize going to the winner. The games through July 13th. Lago will host viewing parties for each World Cup game as well as happy hour in the Restaurant's lounge preceding each tournament game. Games will start at 7 p.m. on dates designated for the futsal tournament.
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Tired of DC's High Housing Costs? Come to Cleveland!
The following is a series of 100% true statements. You can check them with the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) if you like.
HUD estimates the fair-market rent for a given metropolitan area, for one, two, three and four-bedroom apartments. Without considering utilities, a one-bedroom apartment in Cleveland will/should cost you around $592 per month. Two-bedroom? $750*. Three boosts you over the 1K barrier, to $1,005, and if you're going that far, why not a four-bedroom? It's only $1,037 per month.
Again, the following is 100% true.
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Travel the World in Cleveland Ohio
Missed the Cleveland Asian Festival this past May 17 and 18? It was incredible! Food, dance, music and fun make for a wonderful family outing. Greater Cleveland is home to 117 different ethnic groups. Many celebrate their customs with wonderful festivals. Check out the Plain Dealer’s Five ethnic festivals you must see!
Want more than a festival?
Cleveland People has a wonderful list of all kinds of international events HERE!
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A New Language Immersion School for Cleveland
Students with bilingual skills have a significant career advantage in the global marketplace. If former Global Cleveland Director of Community Affairs Meran Rogers gets her way, Cleveland-area children will soon have an opportunity to spend up to fifty percent of each school day immersed in Mandarin Chinese or Spanish at GALA, a new charter school. With a preliminary agreement from the Cleveland Metropolitan School District in hand, Rogers plans to open GALA in August 2015. The goal is to produce bilingual, bi-literate students, giving them an advantage over their conventionally taught peers. Everything from science and math to art class will be taught bilingually.
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Bhutanese Students Publish Newspaper
Brothers Hari Kumar Dahal and Ganga R. Dahal started Connecting Cleveland, a Bhutanese student volunteer group, dedicated to helping Bhutanese refugees adjust to the Cleveland lifestyle. The group produces a monthly newspaper, written in English and Nepali, to teach their Bhutanese families and friends about cultural events and the education and financial assistance programs available to them in Cleveland.
In the past couple of years, the Greater Cleveland area has seen an influx of Bhutanese refugees. Before arriving here, most of them lived in refugee camps in Nepal and India. When offered the chance to move to the United States and gain freedom and peace, several families took the opportunity and were directed to Cleveland.
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