Laila Edwards Day in Cleveland Heights, Proof Public House Opens, Larchmere PorchFest Pics: CLE Daily

🌤️ 70°; Cloudy and sunshine

🐘 Elephants In Cleveland: On June 14, 1924, an elephant ambled down Euclid Avenue toward Public Square without its trainer.

👨‍🍳 Eatin' Big Time: Chef Vinnie Cimino of Cordelia and Rosy is up for a James Beard Award tonight in Chicago. Watch the award ceremony here.

⚾️ Rain Delay: A rainout yesterday prevented Travis Kelce, now a minority owner of the Guardians, from redeeming his previous first pitch disaster.

ICYMI: Mac's Backs Books' new storefront comes with expanded event space and room for more books across a robust collection of genres.

Today's Trivia

This Cleveland UHF television station, still around today, took its call letters from the movie studio that founded it?

Proof Public House, created by Matt Fish, opens today.

Food & Drink | By Douglas Trattner

Today, Matt Fish opens the doors to Proof Public House at 4116 Lorain Ave., a project he first publicly announced just six weeks ago.

Vision: “I wanted people to walk into the restaurant and immediately be immersed in sights and sounds and smells and activity,” Fish explains. “I didn’t want it to be a boring space.”

• To do that, he covered every inch of wall space with band posters and concert flyers from iconic Cleveland clubs and shows.

• Also prominently displayed are many of the original black-and-white cartoon murals by artist Jake Kelly that hung at former Melt locations.

New and Old: Fish labored to create an all-day menu with broad appeal but while still preserving his unique culinary personality. 

• Some of his favorites include a whipped goat cheese appetizer with grilled bread, panko breaded and fried tofu wings tossed in a choice of sauce and served with ranch.

• For Melt fans, Fish has brought the Parmageddon out of retirement, complete with pierogi, braised cabbage and sharp cheddar.

Beer Options: On tap are selections from Fat Head’s, Noble Beast, Butcher & Brewer and Market Garden that are available nowhere else but the brewery.

• To drink, there is a roster of creative, original cocktails and mocktails, wines by the glass, and some of the best local draft craft beer around.

Read more about the new restaurant opening today.

Talk of the Town

John Sanders, former Cleveland Indians play-by-play announcer, died on Wednesday. Sanders, 83, worked as the announcer for Cleveland from 1991-2006. Sanders' death follows that of Bob Tayek, 75, the longtime public address announcer for the Cleveland Guardians, who died last month. 

Tickets for the Cleveland National Air Show went on sale last week. This year's show will take place Sept. 5-7 and will feature the U.S. Navy Blue Angels and the U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor Demonstration.

The Cleveland Neighborhood Progresses will invest $1.66 million in Cleveland’s community development corporations in July. The money invested into the 18 community development corporations will go into neighborhood planning and marketing, economic development, community engagement and real estate. 

A Cleveland office of a voting right group was raided by the FBI on Thursday. The Ohio Organizing Collaborative is a nonprofit that helps register voters and helps issue ballot access. Leaders of the organization say that the FBI was looking for evidence of alleged voter fraud, according to the Columbus Dispatch. 

Severe weather devastated parts of Cleveland last night. More than 125,000 residents lost power. Dozens of trees were downed from West Park to Cleveland Heights and beyond. Ashtabula was one of the hardest-hit areas, resulting in the damage of the historic Erieview Park Ferris wheel at Geneva-on-the-Lake. Cleanup is underway today, as two days of cooler, clear days offer a break before rain and thunderstorms on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. 

Larchmere PorchFest brings 30 bands to 30 porches.

Things to Do | By CM Staff

The 18th annual Larchmere PorchFest brought more than 30 bands and DJs to 30 porches in the Larchmere neighborhood yesterday. Headliners included Jinari Kemet and the Black Jackets and Hello! 3D. 

See more highlights here.

June 14 is officially Laila Edwards Day.

Sports | By CM Staff

Cleveland Heights proclaims June 14 Laila Edwards Day with a parade and a ceremony yesterday. Edwards, a Cleveland Heights native, won a gold medal with Team USA this year and became the first Black woman to compete with the team

Read our February cover story on the historic hockey player.

Things To Do This Week

Akron Rubberducks vs. Altoona Curve (June 16-19): Spend a beautiful night at the ballpark and catch the promising future of the Cleveland Guardians in action. Grab a hot dog and a cold drink and enjoy some good old-fashioned baseball. Themes and promotions vary each night, with a t-shirt giveaway on Tuesday and a fireworks display on Friday. $7-$45, Various Times, 300 S Main St., Akron, milb.com

Marty Malloy Standup (June 16): To celebrate his recent success as a golden ticket winner on Kill Tony, Malloy is back in Lakewood for a one-night-only headlining performance. He has been part of the Cleveland comedy scene for more than 20 years, and now he’s taking off. Come support and give him a great sendoff before he heads back to Austin for his Kill Tony return. $10 in advance, $15 at the door, 8 p.m., 12112 Madison Ave., Lakewood, ticketweb.com

The Strokes at Blossom Music Center (June 19): Hailing from New York City, The Strokes are in Cuyahoga Falls this week for their Reality Awaits North America Tour. With special guests Thundercat and Hamilton Leithauser, and hit songs like "Last Nite," "Someday" and "The Adults Are Talking." This show is sure to blow you away. $67.20-$1011.50, 7 p.m., 1145 W Steels Corners Roadd., Cuyahoga Falls, ticketmaster.com

Rolling Stones Bring 82,000 Fans to Cleveland Stadium.

History | By Vince Guerrieri

The Rolling Stones announced their 1975 tour “with the shy diffidence for which they are famous,” said The New York Times — by playing “Brown Sugar” on a flatbed truck driving down Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.

Their Tour of the Americas, which saw the band play 45 dates in three months, included a stop in Cleveland on June 14 as the featured act in the second World Series of Rock concert series at Cleveland Stadium in 1975.

The opening acts for the Stones included the J. Geils Band. And then at 7:13 p.m., to the strains of Aaron Copland’s “Fanfare for the Common Man,” the Stones took the stage with a lineup that included Ronnie Wood, the guitarist for Faces (he would become a member of the Stones the following year after Faces’ breakup) and Billy Preston, who’d become known as “The Fifth Beatle” for his collaboration with the Fab Four.

Some 82,000 fans showed up as the Stones rocked Cleveland Stadium for more than two hours, with a show that included a custom-built stage and 22 tons of electrical equipment. Cleveland’s grande dame of rock, The Plain Dealer’s Jane Scott, called them “the last survivors of the 1964 Golden Age of Rock.”

Friday's Trivia Answer 

Band-Aid Boys was an early name for what legendary Cleveland hip-hop group? Bone Thugs-N-Harmony

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

From the Editor

Today's a big day for two Cleveland chefs. First up, Matt Fish reenters the dining scene after the rocky final years of his long-loved Melt Bar & Grilled. He does it in a space that's had the opposite experience, a rocky start despite having its own ardent fans. We're excited to see what Fish can do with a second act. Then, tonight, we find out if chef Vinnie Cimino brings home the James Beard Award for Best Chef in the Great Lakes. This is Cimino's second time as a finalist, and with the recent opening of Rosy, he's even more deserving of the award than he was the first go-around. Cleveland is so proud of its food scene because of longtime figures like Fish and Cimino constantly push us and themselves forward. We hope both chefs have a big Monday. -Dillon Stewart, Editor