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Culture and history
The Burning River at 50: A look back at the twisting history of the Cuyahoga
Cleveland International Film Festival to move to Playhouse Square, leave Tower City in 2021
100 Years of the Cleveland Museum of Art
Parma’s pierogi queen Lidia Trempe makes ethnic pride, babushkas and paczki cool again
Guarino’s restaurant: Little Italy classic going strong at 100
Cleveland’s unique IngenuityFest brings Dreamscapes to life in St. Clair Superior
End of an era: Cleveland’s beloved Sausage Shoppe to close after 80 years
House of Wills: Long abandoned Cleveland funeral home with fascinating past gets new life
Cleveland Athletic Club history attracts new generation to Athlon luxury apartments
Netflix’s ‘The Devil Next Door:’ Exploring whether John Demjanjuk was Nazi guard Ivan the Terrible
arts and entertainment
‘Rust’: Cleveland steelworker-turned-professor Eliese Goldbach’s gritty, moving memoir attracts national attention
Is Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Irishman’ a turning point for the way we watch movies?
Great Lakes Theater’s magnificent “Macbeth”: Traditional, inspired, relevant (review)
‘Anastasia’ Broadway musical visits Playhouse Square, bringing lost princess and Old World romance to life
Quentin Tarantino’s brilliant, audacious “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” brings 1969 to vivid life (review)