CoolCleveland

4 days ago | coolcleveland.com | Anastasia Pantsios

Birds are in flight, stopping on the southern shores of Lake Erie before flying on to the Canadian boreal forests. Some make northeast Ohio their home, while others are migrants from south of the U.S. border. This is the perfect time to pay attention to and celebrate birds. You’ve probably seen lots of activity in your backyard if you live near Lake Erie.

5 days ago | coolcleveland.com | Anastasia Pantsios

Guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Dennis Van Crash has been around the local music scene for a long tome. He played with new wave dance bands Verdanzen and The Times in the 80s, with edgy rockers Queue-Up in the 90s (reunion show coming soon), led the house band for Cleveland Public Theatre’s production of Hedwig & the Angry Inch in the early 2000s, which morphed into the glitter/glam rock band Vanity Crash he fronts now.

5 days ago | coolcleveland.com | Anastasia Pantsios

Where will all of Cleveland’s cat lovers be on the evening of Saturday May 17? At Waterloo Arts for the spring benefit for the Waterloo Alley Cat Project!Now going on 15 years old, the WACP, founded by Blue Arrow Records owners Pete and Debbie Gulyas, has saved the lives of hundreds of cats as it neuters strays (estimate: about 400 over the years), finds home for friends ones and cares for feral ones in colonies in its North Collinwood neighborhood.

1 week ago | coolcleveland.com | Anastasia Pantsios

Sofia’s Kitchen + Bar, which opened in NE Ohio’s foodiest city Lakewood in spring 2025, features an upscale bistro menu and an atmosphere it describes as “casually elegant.” (It also says the setting “invites conversation,” a cue that this place isn’t overly loud.) The menu includes such intriguing starters as roasted nuts, sauteed mussels and deviled eggs, with entrees such as pork prime rib, grilled ribeye or a sesame noodle salad to follow.

1 week ago | coolcleveland.com | Anastasia Pantsios

Start with the foundationArtists are good at this. To create something new, you take in everything you’ve learned, listen to your better angels, and put one foot in front of the other. Make your mark or a word on a blank slate. Soon you’re singing a new song. Ingenuity artists and Ingeneers throw a Rust Belt Renaissance party like no other to raise funds for their year-round programming. Allison Loggins-Hull has been TCO’s Composer Fellow, and this week premieres her new Rust Belt tribute, Grit.