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Coventry Village, a neighborhood lined with vintage shops, restaurants and bars was once the hippest area in the city. Located in leafy Cleveland Heights on the city’s east side, the once-bustling area has been quiet since the pandemic hit. Few more so than one of the area’s few constants: independent music venue The Grog Shop.
Nestled between a movie theater and coffee shop, The Grog Shop’s exterior makes you think you’re entering a restaurant or café, not one of the best concert venues in the Midwest. It can go toe-to-toe with such other regional tastemaking venues as the Empty Bottle in Chicago and Magic Stick in Detroit. Yet once the door swings open and you pass security, it just feels like a music oasis. Dimly lit with sticky floors and a barely-above-ground stage, The Grog Shop captures the essence of what a great music venue should be.
Posted By Sam Allard on Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 11:47 AM Local activist and Black Lives Matter organizer Aisia Jones has announced her candidacy for Cleveland City Council in Ward 8. Jones, who says her campaign will be built on transparency and the pursuit of opportunity for all Clevelanders, will challenge longtime incumbent Mike Polensek in an area that includes Collinwood. Cleveland needs new, fresh leadership as we continue to face serious issues in our city, our homes, our communities from education to health and public safety,” Jones said in a statement provided to the media. “Cleveland cannot fully and effectively tackle these issues until we have full transparency of our Cleveland leaders and until Clevelanders are able to openly engage in the process of building a better city, something the current leadership at City Hall does not allow.”
Cleveland could require licenses for short-term rentals, public hearings for full-time Airbnbs
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Realtor Lauren Cromwell has transformed three of the four units in a Detroit-Shoreway property, which she calls the Grey Barn, into short-term rentals. A one-bedroom, one-bathroom unit has rents that start at $79 a night, though the total price actually comes to $141 with taxes and fees, including a cleaning fee.
Two Cleveland councilmen are taking another run at reining in short-term home rentals, a growing segment of the lodging economy that has been a boon to pandemic-weary travelers but a bane in some city neighborhoods.
3rd suspect in murder of Cleveland car dealership couple refuses plea deal Jerome Diggs By Julia Bingel | February 3, 2021 at 11:34 AM EST - Updated February 3 at 11:34 AM CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - The third suspect charged in the murders of Trina Tomola and Michael Kuznik, the owners of a car dealership in the city’s Collinwood neighborhood, refused a plea deal Wednesday morning. Michael and Trina Kuznik
Jerome Diggs was indicted on the charges of aggravated murder, felonious assault, murder, aggravated robbery, aggravated burglary, kidnapping, grant theft, injuring animals and cruelty to animals.
Tomola and Kuznik owned Mr. Cars II on East 185th Street.
How to celebrate Cleveland’s Black history during Black History month in February
Updated Feb 04, 2021;
Posted Feb 02, 2021
The ceremonial arch at Cleveland s African-American Cultural Garden was dedicated in 2016. Cleveland architect Daniel Bickerstaff intended it as the first phase of a larger project. The angled black walls below the arch represent the Door of No Return at Elmina Castle in Ghana, through which enslaved Africans passed before the Middle Passage to New World colonies. Steven Litt
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CLEVELAND, Ohio Ready to celebrate Black History Month?
Destination Cleveland encourages residents to attend one or more of the several virtual and socially distanced events, and exhibits throughout the Cleveland area to help further residents’ knowledge and understanding of Cleveland’s Black history. The Cleveland Public Library has a host of events, as well.