Karin Connelly Rice
Stories by: Karin Connelly Rice
Karin Connelly Rice enjoys telling people's stories, whether it's a promising startup or a life's passion. Over the past 20 years she has reported on the local business community for publications such as Inside Business and Cleveland Magazine. She was editor of the Rocky River/Lakewood edition of In the Neighborhood and was a reporter and photographer for the Amherst News-Times. At Fresh Water she enjoys telling the stories of Clevelanders who are shaping and embracing the business and research climate in Cleveland.
In March, AT&T opened its second Cleveland Connected Leaning Center at the Ashbury Senior Computer Community Center. In April, a block party in the Glenville center celebrated the opening, new high-speed fiber internet in the neighborhood, and affordable connectivity.
Buildings & Food Hospitality Group's Will Hollingsworth has brought Brett Sawyer's Good Company restaurant under the umbrella of companies that also includes Hollingsworth's Prosperity Social Club and the Spotted Owl locations.
Artist Jordan Wong (WONGFACE) lets his inner kid come out in his colorful public art. His latest work is a Little Free Library outside Asia Town Center
Literary Cleveland is introducing a new, free, Breakthrough Writing Residency program to support emerging writers in Greater Cleveland as they develop book-length writing projects.
LAND studio is launching a new app for self-guided tours of Cleveland neighborhoods. The City is our Museum was created to shine a light on the range of artworks and public spaces that exist throughout the city. Tours can be experienced on a bike, on foot, or even through a car window.
Canalway kicked off the first segment in its Towpath Trilogy series on Sunday, April 10 with its Towpath Half Marathon and five mile race held at the Cleveland Metroparks Ohio & Erie Canal Reservation. Read who won the races here.
Chef Karen Small's Juneberry Table opens today, offering Southern Ohio and Appalachian breakfast and lunch comfort food that stems from Small's gardening and whole foods roots.
Art students in their junior year at Cleveland Institute of Art have put together an exhibit, "Watch Our Language," as a capstone to their Role of Artist as Producer class.
Cut 151 Supper Club bartender Angela Campanella entered her espresso martini in a cocktail competition held by Cleveland Independents and Stoli Group, and won $500 and a $500 donation in her name to World Central Kitchen to help aid Ukraine.
Cleveland Masterworks: Robert P. Madison has created his own legacy—from his designs for buildings like Park Place Apartments or Fatima Family Center in Hough, to his work on the Rock Hall and Browns stadium—but he has also accomplished a lot of firsts in his almost 99 years on this planet.
From duckpin bowling and skeeball to pinball and classic console games, Rise Brands' 16-Bit Bar + Arcade and Pins Mechanical Company have all the gaming entertainment in one large Ohio City complex.
As part of a 10-year capital campaign, the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo on Tuesday announced the start of the transformation of the RainForest into the Primate Forest—a renovated new home for the Zoo's gorillas and orangutans.
Beck Center for the Arts last week celebrated two years of fundraising and renovation work to its creative arts complex as it embarks on the final phase of its Creating Our Future campaign and renovations.
Daylight Saving Time starts this weekend—a perfect time for Canalway Partners' first-ever Towpath Trail Lantern Parade. Make you own lantern from recycled or upcycled materials and battery-powered light and come join the celebration.
Today, AT&T opens its second Cleveland Connected Learning Center and will announce the expansion of its fiber network in Glenville.
Creative organizations around Northeast Ohio are using a postcard campaign to lobby City Council to allocate just 2% of Cleveland's $511 million American Rescue Plan Act money to revitalize the region's arts, entertainment, and culture entities hit hard by the pandemic.
Brite Winter, the annual arts and music festival. returns to live programming this Saturday with a chance to cure the winter blues and celebrate the event's 13th year of bringing low-cost and accessible events to the city.
BOSS Pro Karting has now added Zero Latency VR gaming to it's offerings for those looking to escape reality and do something a bit different in a new world.
Lake Erie Ink celebrates 10 years of Kids Comic Con next week with a hybrid model of virtual and in-person comic workshops, talks, and parties for youngsters.
Through their "We Have to Buy a House" campaign, the members of Fairmount Presbyterian Church donated $126,000 to Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry to buy and renovate a house for a family experiencing homelessness.