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1 month ago | 
ohio.org | Anietra Hamper |Theresa Russell |Vince Guerrieri |Damaine Vonada
{} By Ohio.org Staff Posted On: Feb 27, 2025Discover so many wonderful upcoming festivals and events this Spring in Ohio, The Heart of it All.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
mentalfloss.com | Vince Guerrieri
‘Return to the Titanic: Live!’ cracked open a safe from the ship on live TV—and though the special was a ratings success, it faced plenty of criticism. ‘The Washington Post’ even declared that it “added little to the ‘Titanic’ story.”The footage, set against ominous music, was arresting from the very beginning. Police motorcycles, with lights and sirens ablaze. Boxes marked “Top Secret.” A Paris night, with the Eiffel Tower all aglow.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
clevelandmagazine.com | Vince Guerrieri
He grew up a street fighter in the Outhwaite Homes, one of Cleveland’s first public housing projects, and became a Golden Gloves boxer, bearing a scar on his forehead from a 1943 match.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
clevelandmagazine.com | Vince Guerrieri
In 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Interstate Highway Act, the largest public works project in American history. But ideas for highways going in, out and around Cleveland had been in the works for at least a decade before that. During World War II, civic leaders worked on a “Thorofare Plan,” which included an Innerbelt Freeway, originating at the eastern Shoreway near what’s now Burke Lakefront Airport.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
xpresschronicle.com | Vince Guerrieri
Cleveland loves to immortalize its sports heroes. The street behind the left-field bleachers at the Guardians’ ballpark was renamed for Larry Doby in 2012. The Browns’ offices in Berea are on Lou Groza Boulevard. There are parks named for Luke Easter, a Negro Leagues slugger who played for the Indians, and Mel Harder, a longtime pitcher and coach. (Harder’s park is also his final resting place.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
defector.com | Vince Guerrieri
Cleveland loves to immortalize its sports heroes. The street behind the left-field bleachers at the Guardians' ballpark was renamed for Larry Doby in 2012. The Browns' offices in Berea are on Lou Groza Boulevard. There are parks named for Luke Easter, a Negro Leagues slugger who played for the Indians, and Mel Harder, a longtime pitcher and coach. (Harder's park is also his final resting place.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
beltmag.com | Vince Guerrieri
By Vince GuerrieriIt’s hard to view “Shaft” as anything but a New York story. From the seedy Times Square where title character John Shaft’s private investigator’s office is located, to his Greenwich village haunts, to the uptown domain of Black radicals and a numbers kingpin based on a real-life Harlem gangster, the movie just screams Manhattan – aided by the brilliant direction of Gordon Parks, who used his skillful photographer’s eye to film on location in New York.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
akronlife.com | Vince Guerrieri
K
ristin Kaser doesn’t see a lot of art nouveau — a decorative, ornate and organic art style most prominent in the early 20th century — in today’s interior design. She certainly doesn’t see a lot of it in Akron.
But when Kaser, the owner of Pillowtalkk Interiors & Upholstery, had a chance to redesign a 1905 house on West Market Street in Akron, she saw a lot of art nouveau and arts and crafts designs displayed in the home, which once belonged to Edward P.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
ohiomagazine.com | Vince Guerrieri
Lesley Kline saw a need in her hometown of Salem — one that became even clearer as she watched a crowd disperse one night from a performance at the Salem Community Theater downtown, get in their cars and drive away. “I wanted a place downtown where people could hang out,” Kline says. “There was no place to sit and chill.”She wanted a spot where teens could congregate, so not a bar. And she wanted a place with a coffee shop vibe, but open evenings.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
clevelandmagazine.com | Vince Guerrieri
The third time was the charm for Ralph Perk in 1971. The veteran politician — he’d served 10 years on Cleveland City Council before getting elected county auditor in 1962, the first Republican elected to county office in a generation — was elected mayor in a four-way race that year, defeating Democrat James Carney, Socialist Labor Joseph Pirincin and independent Arnold Pinkney after Mayor Carl Stokes opted not to run for a third term in office. On the morning of Nov.
