To be free of everyday distractions and to focus on what’s essential in our lives: art and culture, family and community, mental and physical health, food and drink. And we’re lucky to have it all.
From carry-out dinners to impromptu picnics, from specialty farmers markets to locally sourced foodstuffs, from online happy hours to cuisine-inspired art.
Don’t take for granted the bounty we enjoy from area purveyors, local eateries, farmer collectives, even our backyard soil.
Do what sustains you.
If the stories about the pandemic disrupting the food chain have you scared to the point of starting your first edible garden and thinking you’ll grow all your own food, hang on! A garden can be healthy & gratifying but requires preparation and planning. Read More
Why not avoid the crowds at big supermarkets and explore some of Cleveland’s small, locally owned specialty markets? They may have less selection (and less processed food – a plus!) but you’ll find something unique.
Unique Market in Ohio City
Ohio City Provisions started as a butcher shop but has grown to become half grocery, with fresh local produce, artisanal cheeses, dairy products and more.
Order a Box to Support Farmers
Also, think about joining a CSA, where you pay in advance for a box of food from local farmers and producers for weekly pickup throughout the growing season.
Tri-C JazzFest just announced it’s pulling the plug on the live version of the 41st annual event, scheduled for June 25-27. But it’s putting together an online festival, which will feature NE Ohio musicians and bands. Read More
#EatForCLE
Local food information provides combine efforts in new website to offer updates on the local food scene. Read More
Bring Your Favorite Restaurant Home
Cleveland Independents provides an updated list of which member eateries have carryout and which deliver, and Coventry Village favorite Tommy’s reopens for pick-up orders. Read More
If things just haven’t been going right for you lately, you might want to try Melt Bar and Grilled. They know how you feel.
Their Glazed and Very Confused Bacon Donut Melt is being featured in limited quantities through Thu 4/30, so it’s not like you have all the time in the world. Only available for call-in and pickup at Melt’s Lakewood, Heights, Independence, Mentor, Akron & Avon locations. SPONSORED
Ohio anti-choice politicians tried to use the pandemic to limit access to abortion, a singularly cruel action when even women with planned pregnancies are anxious about giving birth in coronavirus-laden hospitals. While a court blocked this measure, it’s important to support women’s health groups and let our state politicians know how you feel. We’ve got a list of whom to contact. Read More
THU 4/30 All Together Now Dancing Wheels invites everyone to dance in the street — or their living room or driveway — with its DisDance Party. Learn the moves on their YouTube channel.* Soma Tea has healthy, healing blends.
Cleveland mixed-media artist Kasumi has created an iPhone app called ShuffleHead, where you can mix, match and color a variety of pop art-style images she’s created.
MON 5/4 May 4 Memorial The 1970 shooting deaths of four students at Kent State looms large in KSU’s history, with annual tribute events. This year’s 50th was to be the biggest yet; instead it features enhanced content on its website.
WED 5/6 For Home Gourmets Chef’s Garden in Huron has long been known for the unusual varieties of vegetables, herbs, edible flowers and micro greens it ships to chefs around the country. But anyone can order one of their mixed boxes and have it delivered to their door.* Cleveland Public Library offers food & drink videos and ebooks.
When a reporter asked Governor DeWine a few weeks into the pandemic if the state was considering releasing some low-level prisoners, his answer was dumbfounding… Read More
Just Sip, Don’t Guzzle
But this time he went so far into outer space with his inane, off-the-cuff ramblings that later, when he came back down to terra firma, even he couldn’t believe is own bullshit as he later tried to… Read More
Gimme That ’Rox
While some people will do the world a favor by overdosing and dying within a short period of time after ingesting too much Clorox, others will build up a bleach tolerance — an immunity if you will — and become strung-out addicts… Read More
