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Food + Drink
Chef Talk
We asked some talented local chefs to share advice they think every home cook should follow.
Silver Spoons: A former Browns player makes a patented barbecue.
Best Small Plates
Silver Spoons: Cinco de Mayo springs eternal.
Best Margaritas
Silver Spoons: Lola's Back (And better than ever!)
Best New Restaurant: Talk about amorous advances: From the return of Lola - sexier and more sophisticated than ever - to ice cream's sultry move off the dessert menu and chefs who take tender care to prepare dishes from scratch, there's a lot to hold our
Silver Spoons: Our prime cuts run deep.
Best Steak
Silver Spoons: We haven't forgotten our roots.
There are some restaurants that remind us of Nonna, Baba, Abuela or Oma. (Yeah, that’s Grandma for the rest of us.) What they lack in glam and style — and let’s face it, usually décor too — they more than make up for in what G
Silver Spoons: You can get good sake.
Best Japanese
Silver Spoons: You can get some big tastes from small plates.
Best Small Plates
Symon Says
Best Chef!
In the CLE
Anatomy of Heights High
Cleveland Heights High’s small-schools concept hopes to stem an exodus of students from the district serving one of Greater Cleveland’s most integrated communities. And, while it has shown success boosting grades for troubled students, it̵
Cat Scratch Fever
Cat Scratch Fever
Food for Thought
Cleveland's dining scene has most of the ingredients for success. Now it just needs a healthy helping of respect.
Make 'Regional' Real
To stop our region’s decline, black and white Clevelanders need to come together, conquer mistrust — and embrace a new system of government.
Marrying a Catholic priest
Though priests are mandated by the Roman Catholic Church to remain celibate and unmarried, Linda and Phil Marcin were called to marriage and wed in 1982. Linda’s husband was laicized, forbidding him from performing priestly duties. But since canon l
Sugar High
Sugar High
The Long Goodbye
All his victims were people who had changed courses in life, seeking a second chance. Now, 25 years after Frank Spisak's serial murders terrified Cleveland State University, the death-row inmate gets a second chance at avoiding execution. In a courtroom,
Wrestle Maniac
J.T. Lightning, aka James Haase, has brawled in 969 big-time-style matches and leads the crew known as Cleveland All Pro Wrestling. Trust us, he’s ready to rumble.
Yesterday's News
Mayor Ralph Perk’s moment in flames (left) is one of the Press Club of Cleveland’s classic newspaper photos on display at Nighttown (above).
Entertainment
Dino Score
Cleveland Museum of Natural History curator Michael Ryan digs dinosaurs — literally. Six years after his 2001 expedition that turned up a fossil of a then-unidentified creature, he’d like to introduce you (and the rest of the world) to Alberta
Read Alert
Tremont’s new Visible Voice Books is keeping the independent spirit alive with handpicked titles, late weekend hours and a space that owner Dave Ferrante hopes will become a gathering spot.
Travel & Outdoors
Shopgirls
Come for the Crown Jewels, the famous bridge or Buckingham Palace. But don’t miss London’s best-kept secret, the Burberry Outlet.
Health
Living It Up In Retirement
Should you stay at home or move to a retirement community? Either way, there are plenty of ways to stay active and happy in your golden years, plenty of options to help you and plenty of questions to ask.