Grip, Rip and Dip: PopUp Bagels Opens Today: CLE Daily

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by Ron Ledgard | Oct. 23, 2026 | 5:00 AM

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🏺 The CMA Gathers a Rococo Genius' Rarest Treasures: Only a handful of goldsmith Juste-Aurele Meissonnier's works survived 18th-century upheavals, and the Cleveland Museum of Art brings them together for the first time in Juste-Aurele Meissonnier: Rococo Goldsmith in Focus, opening Sunday. The free show pairs the museum's famed silver soup tureen, decorated with the very vegetables and animals meant to go in it, with a newly acquired gold box made for the queen of Spain and a rock crystal ewer Marie Antoinette kept in her private apartment. It runs through March 14.

🍕 Boom's Pizza Opens in Solon, Carryout Only: Chef Ben Bebenroth's pizzeria opened its newest location Thursday at 6130 Kruse Drive, its first without a dining room, with twice the oven capacity to cut down wait times. An Avon location is coming soon.

🎃 Pumpkins, Polka and Cheeseburgers in Paradise: South Euclid's free family festival, the October Feast, returns Saturday at the city's Food Truck Park with pumpkins, music, costume contests and food trucks.

ICYMI: Missed last week's Best of CLE Party? Check out our photos from the record-setting night at the Great Lakes Science Center, where more than 100 vendors and sponsors served up samples and celebrated this year's winners.

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Today's Trivia

Browns owner Mickey McBride’s other business interests led to what phrase, still occasionally used today to describe a football team’s practice squad?

Food & Drink: PopUp Bagels brings its “grip, rip and dip” bagels to Ohio today.

By Douglas Trattner

The Connecticut-born bagel brand opens its first Ohio shop today at 28879 Chagrin Blvd. in Woodmere’s Eton Chagrin Boulevard, joining about 60 stores in a dozen states. Founder Adam Goldberg started it as a pandemic passion project in Westport, Connecticut, in 2020.

How It Works: There’s no slicing, toasting or bagel sandwiches here. Bagels come whole, in packs of 3, 6, 12 or 30, in five flavors: plain, everything, poppy seed, salt and sesame. They’re smaller, softer and lighter than a classic New York bagel, and they’re baked fresh throughout the day.
Bring On the Schmear: A rotating lineup of schmears comes on the side for dipping, including scallion, salted butter, hot honey butter and, for the season, pumpkin butter.

Worth Noting: The shop is carryout only, so plan to grab your bagels and go.

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Talk of the Town

Visitors spent a record $7 billion in Cuyahoga County last year. The county drew 18.9 million visits in 2025, up 1.7% and outpacing both national and Ohio growth, according to Destination Cleveland. Tourism supported more than 70,400 local jobs, and visitor-generated taxes added up to the equivalent of a $1,475 benefit for every county household.

Bob "Hoolihan" Wells, a Cleveland TV legend, has died at 93. The former WJW weatherman, known for signing off with "Sunshine to ya, no matter the weather," teamed with "Big Chuck" Schodowski to take over the Friday night movie slot after Ghoulardi left in 1966, creating The Hoolihan and Big Chuck Show.

Lakewood's Mercury Music Lounge has closed. The owners of the roughly 500-capacity venue, who revived it in 2024, say a leaky roof the landlord never fixed drained their finances and led to a city order to vacate.

Cleveland's Memorial-Nottingham library branch could move closer to the lake. A plan would build a new branch near Euclid Beach Pier on land subleased from Cleveland Metroparks, with construction starting in 2028 and the current Lakeshore Boulevard building torn down afterward.

Cleveland's pay transparency law turns 1 next week. Employers with at least 15 workers have to post salary ranges and can't ask about pay history, and the city has substantiated 44 of 69 complaints so far. However, county and state employers like MetroHealth and Cleveland State fall outside its reach.

Things To Do This Weekend

By Jeff Niesel

🩰 Giselle (Oct. 23): Cleveland Ballet performs the classic story of a young woman drawn into a supernatural world. 10:30 a.m. and 7 p.m., Connor Palace, 1615 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, playhousesquare.org

♿ Dancing Wheels: Art and Artists — A New Interpretation (Oct. 23): Cleveland's Dancing Wheels Company, the country's first professional wheelchair dance troupe, premieres new works inspired by the Cleveland Museum of Art's collection. 7:30 p.m., Gartner Auditorium, Cleveland Museum of Art, 11150 East Blvd., Cleveland, clevelandart.org

🎶 The Chorus at 75 (Oct. 24): Grammy-winning composer and conductor Eric Whitacre joins the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus to kick off its 75th season. 7:30 p.m., Mandel Concert Hall, 11001 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, clevelandorchestra.com

👻 Symphony of Horrors: Scores of Halloween (Oct. 24): The Cinematic Symphony Orchestra and choir play the spookiest movie scores. 7:30 p.m., Maltz Performing Arts Center, 1855 Ansel Road, Cleveland, case.edu

🎃 Halloween Spooktacular (Oct. 25): The Baldwin Wallace Symphony Orchestra hosts a family-friendly Halloween concert at Severance. 1 and 4 p.m., Mandel Concert Hall, 11001 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, clevelandorchestra.com

For the full list on Cleveland Magazine, read more.

Yesterday's Trivia Answer

What woman joined Cleveland’s first TV station in 1947 at the age of 54 and worked there for another 37 years? Dorothy Fuldheim

Check back Monday for the answer to today's question.

From the Editor

If you’ve been trying to eat lighter this fall, Cleveland isn’t making it easy.

In just a few weeks, we’ve told you about Magnolia Bakery’s banana pudding at Legacy Village, a new La Pecora slice shop on Larchmere, Barry Bagels in Ohio City, Star of India Garden at Van Aken, Boom’s Pizza in Solon and now PopUp Bagels in Woodmere.

Still to come: Moxie at Legacy Village on Monday, Dante Boccuzzi’s Casa Nostra Downtown, Sourwood’s Southern fare in Lakewood, “Mexipino” plates at Mestizo in AsiaTown and Good Company’s move to Little Italy.

That’s a lot of carbs and a lot of reasons to get out and eat. Which one are you trying first?

— Ron Ledgard, Managing Editor

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Ron Ledgard

Ron Ledgard is Cleveland Magazine's managing editor and a Pittsburgh native who has made his peace with Cleveland (except on Sundays). He's a University of Pittsburgh graduate, a veteran of The Athletic and the Akron Beacon Journal, and was there for every chapter of LeBron's Cleveland story. After two decades of chasing deadlines and box scores, he's happily landed in magazines. He's a sucker for a long story done right, the kind you save for a Sunday morning (before kickoff, of course). When he isn't editing, he's out on a trail, trying a new restaurant or hunting for the next great thing to do. Sports is his subject of choice, and coffee is his fuel. Most Starbucks baristas in the area greet him like the Cheers crowd greeted Norm.