Restaurant Merch Is Getting Cooler; Guards Win Game 1: CLE Daily

Plus, news from in Cleveland and Northeast Ohio

by Ron Ledgard | Oct. 13, 2026 | 5:00 AM

Photographed by Kaitlin Walsh

⚾️ Guard Take Game 1: Behind a 14-hit attack, the Guardians clawed back from a two-run deficit to win 7-3 over the Rays in St. Petersburg, Fla.

🚴 Cleveland's Lakefront Trail Is Growing Again: Work is underway on a $14.5 million, half-mile Euclid Beach Connector Trail in Collinwood, roughly doubling the path through Euclid Beach and Wildwood parks. It's part of a bigger push on the East Side lakefront that includes a 28-acre Euclid Beach Park expansion and the next phase of the Euclid Creek Greenway.

🥁 World Rhythms Hit the Maltz Stage: The Cleveland Jazz Orchestra opens its 42nd season Friday with "Rhythm Nation," a program built around Cleveland's own Jamey Haddad, Paul Simon's longtime percussionist, with new arrangements by Artistic Director Paul Ferguson. The night is dedicated to the memory of longtime CJO bassist Dave Morgan.

🦉 Clevelanders Get Into the Natural History Museum Free on Weekends: Residents of Cleveland and six nearby suburbs get free weekend admission at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History with proof of address. The museum also just added a $35 student membership and a $25 membership for SNAP households, plus 20% off for educators, active-duty military and veterans.

ICYMI: Remember when Carling was one of Cleveland's beer giants? The Canadian brewer set up in the old Peerless Motor plant at Quincy Avenue and East 93rd Street in 1934 and grew into the nation's eighth-largest beer maker, canning 600 beers a minute and sponsoring both the Browns and Indians.

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Today's Trivia

The 1850s saw a “fence war” in what Downtown landmark, pitting local commercial interests against those who wanted to see it preserved exclusively as a park?

Food & Drink: Cleveland restaurants are turning T-shirts into a real side business.

By Julia Lombardo

Restaurant merch has become a meaningful revenue stream since the pandemic cut into dine-in sales, and Cleveland spots are getting creative with it. “People want to represent their favorite restaurants,” says Garth Phillips of Cleveland Print Co., which makes much of the local merch along with embroidery shop Field Trip Merch.

Standout Swag: Vero Pizza in Cleveland Heights sells shirts in a vintage liquor-ad style built around single pizza ingredients, and Kate’s Fish at West Side Market has a mermaid mascot on T-shirts and hoodies, plus a $30 walleye rope cap.
Retro and Local: Martha on the Fly in Tremont sells hats and shirts with a retro diner logo ($25-$35), while Vessel Coffee Collaborative in Detroit-Shoreway offers a $30 tee with tattoo-style art by Emily Frances.

Worth Noting: For Vero’s Marc-Aurele Buholzer, merch “became another appendage of our brand.”

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Talk of the Town

Cleveland's pause on new data centers could last three more months. Councilman Brian Kazy plans to introduce a 90-day extension so the city can finish writing rules for the facilities, saying most residents he's heard from oppose "hyperscale" centers.

Here's what's next for the Cleveland schools CMSD closed this year. A building-by-building rundown shows Collinwood High headed for senior housing, Miles School becoming a fire and EMS headquarters, and three buildings, including Alfred A. Benesch, still waiting on a plan.

Cuyahoga County launched a map to steer developers toward transit. The new Cuyahoga TOD Navigator shows sites near rail and bus lines, where developers can qualify for county loans of up to $2.5 million. A county study found only about 6% of land along the busiest transit corridors is zoned for walkable, mixed-use projects.

A long-empty Euclid hotel site is getting senior housing. The Port of Cleveland approved financing for Silver Birch, a 120-apartment assisted living facility on the former Euclid Inn site at Euclid Avenue and I-90, with about a third of the units affordable.

Kent is getting a 144-home "eco-village." Urban Imperial Development's project in southern Kent will have solar roofs and EV chargers, with a second phase planned around a carbon-neutral combined heat and power system. Construction starts in 2027.

Yesterday's Trivia Answer

This real estate developer served two terms as Lakewood mayor and was the father of a future governor of Ohio. Frank Celeste

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

From the Editor

Cleveland might be one of the best cities in America for free culture. The Cleveland Museum of Art has never charged general admission.

Now, residents of Cleveland and six nearby suburbs can visit the Natural History Museum for free on weekends, dinosaurs and all.

With prices rising nearly everywhere else, that’s worth celebrating. So bring proof of address, round up the kids and spend a Saturday wandering University Circle for free. Your wallet will thank you.

— 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.