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Food + Drink
Mediterranean Scene: Lolita
Lolita
The Three R's of Zinfandel
Discover Ridge, Ravenswood and Rosenblum
In the CLE
It's Wonderful Living in West Park
But if the residency requirement for city eployees is lifted, its neighborhoods will never be the same.
Mr. Nice Guy
Alice Cooper is as friendly as rock stars come. Don't worry. It'll be back to "No More Mr. Nice Guy" by the time he makes his Halloween-season tour stop here Oct. 7.
Scenes & Secrets: Nate Gray on Trial
Tales of sleaze and charm from Cleveland's scandal of the decade, plus notes on what the players aren't talking about.*
*Including how the FBI's four-year investigation may lead to Mike White.
Suburban Legend
Fifteen years after first hearing the creepy tales tied to the Cuyahoga Valley, a writer uncovers fact in fiction and finds the truth as haunting as any childhood ghost story.
The Son Also Rises
It'd be easy to sit back and enjoy life if you're Bart Wolstein's son. After all, what's left to accomplish? Plenty, if you're wired like Scott Wolstein, who has unleashed his bold ideas not only on his company, but also on the East Bank of the Flats.
Entertainment
Dream on East 89th Street
Karamu House's Terrence Spivey, actor, director, historian, mime, visionary and Texan, wants to return Cleveland's legendary black theater to its old glory.
Get Your Art Fix
So the Cleveland Museum of Art's permanent galleries are closed for renovation. And you're jonesing for some Picasso and your regular dose of Warhol. We offer four museum trips (since withdrawal can be hell) to discover the artistic highs in Oberlin, D
October Treats
Want to make sure there's more than candy in your child's treat bag this month? Cleveland area arts and entertainment institutions can help. They've planned a witches' brew of performances and activities for children throughout October.
Talk Back
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At Home
Banishing the Holiday Blues
How to keep your mood light during the shortest and busiest days of the year.
Chic to Geek: A Holiday Gift Guide
Same gift, different holiday? Not this time around. If you're stumped when it comes to unique presents for the special people in your life, keep reading. We reached deep into our mailbag and found a dozen distinctive ideas we guarantee they won't soon
Escape Plan
Where to go next holiday season (and how to break the news to your family).
Festively Fit
Six strategies for making sure your pants still fit by the time Jan. 2 rolls around.
Guest Room
Five simple ways to maximize space and make your visitors feel at home this holiday season.
Holidays Gone Bad: A Survival Guide
It's the most wonderfully stressful time of the year. But when things go wrong, don't turn into a Scrooge. Turn to our handy guide for surviving holiday pitfalls.
Host With the Most
The pressure is on for everything to be perfect. Take this advice when it comes to your holiday entertaining and everyone will have a great time -- even you.
Look Alive
The onset of winter doesn't mean you can't conjure a little spring around your home in the meantime.
Serenity Now!
Four strategies for taking personal time-outs during the holiday season.
Spend Smart
Six steps to keeping yourself financially afloat during the holidays.
Travel & Outdoors
Ready, Set, Eat!
From the historic South Side to the far-flung northern climes, our writer -- and her taste buds -- go on a nonstop Chicago munchathon.
Health
Family Portraits
Women pass down more to their daughters than outward appearance. Your family's medical history can determine risk for disease. To get the complete picture, have you conducted a background check lately?
Knowing Your Knees
Women athletes suffer from serious knee injuries at six to eight times the rate of men. A local trainer says women can work around the risk -- with better training.
Practicing Patients
When four women -- three doctors and a nurse -- found their roles reversed, they learned valuable lessons on how to better care for patients.
'The Change': Not for me, thanks
Four our writer, being perimenopausal is like being a JV cheerleader -- not quite on the real team yet.
Education
An Education for Life
Bryant and Stratton College
An Education in Private Schools
Administrators offer guidance in how to choose the best school for your child.
Brain Gain
Investment in internships not only keeps Northeast Ohio's brightest grads here, it woos them back from afar.
Building a Better Community
Cuyahoga Community College
Competing at the Highest Level
Ohio University
Connecting on Campus
The University of Toledo
Enhancing the Entire Landscape
The University of Akron
Joining the 'In' Crowd
Universities share insight on how students can get into their first-choice school.
Learning by Living
Kent State University
Programmed for Success
Notre Dame College
Reachng Out to Its Neighbors
John Caroll University