As usual, 2025 was a year packed with events in northeast Ohio. Many were events that Cleveland’s have come to eagerly anticipate — Kurentovanje, the St. Patrick’s Day parade, Ingenuity, Pride in the CLE, Juneteenth Freedom Fest, FreshFest, Day of the Dead, Tri-C JazzFest and the rain-delayed Parade the Circle — while others, such as the opening of EDWINS at the old Nighttown space were unique to this year. 2025 was filled with festivals and performances, but the overwhelming tone of the year was protest: fighting back. We covered half a dozen major protests from No Kings to Good Trouble to Hands Off to Musicians Against Dictators to the Leftist Antifa Animal Dance Party: a group of activists in inflatable animal suits dancing on a bridge over the Shoreway. And it was the year that the staff and fans of beloved local college radio station WCBS 89.3FM stood up against college administration’s abrupt cancellation of the station to turn it over to ideastream public media to broadcast 24/7 jazz. We covered some of those protests too — and they’re not stopping either.
It bodes well for 2026. People aren’t shutting up and going away. While having fun dancing to live music, dressing up, blowing bubbles, watching performances, buying art and hula hooping, Clevelander’s still had the time and energy to stand up and say “This isn’t right and I’m going to speak out.” We hope to see a lot more of that in the coming year.
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