There are many efforts are underway at farms, community gardens, markets, social service organizations, and public agencies to nourish communities like Cleveland—the nation’s poorest big city—where food deserts are common and healthy foods are not the cheapest, most affordable, or most accessible options. 

Our #CLEative Groove series puts the spotlight on our city’s creative makers and shakers! Read on for our next installment with Krista Tomorowitz, creator of Selvage Garments.

A new Neighborhood Platform, launched by Cleveland Neighborhood Progress, centers on working with Mayor Justin Bibb on improving housing stock, encouraging equitable neighborhood investments, and fostering renewed public confidence in municipal operations.

In preparation for it's annual DayGloSho—works of 40 regional and national artists using pigments made by Cleveland-based DayGlo Color Corp.—Waterloo Arts has created DayGloLAB for experimentation and hands-on activities with the medium.

Our #CLEative Groove series puts the spotlight on our city’s creative makers and shakers! Read on for our next installment with Robert Gatewood, founder of Master Collective and program director for Gatewood Home/Share.

Western Reserve Land Conservancy just announced it has purchased the 28.5-acre Euclid Beach Mobile Home Park on Lake Erie in the North Shore Collinwood neighborhood. Now the planning begins.

With less than one week until election day, Community Development Corporations  are pulling out all the stops to get voters to the polls—from translating voting guides and hosting candidates forums, to voter registration and education drives and even free rides to the polls.

The Collinwood branch of the Cleveland Public Library, in partnership with Empowering Youth, Exploring Justice's Youth Council and PCs for People, will give away free hotspots this weekend.

Plenty of local music industry pros will be at the Beachland Ballroom this weekend to celebrate the launch of Deanna Adams' newest book, "Cleveland’s Rock and Roll Venues."

Northeast Ohio residents got the opportunity to question seven candidates for Cleveland mayor about their priorities on public safety, racial equity, and more last week during a mayoral debate coordinated by Ideastream Public Media and the City Club of Cleveland. Read what these residents thought. 

 

It may be a friendly competition, but whichever neighborhood gathers the most trash and debris this weekend wins. Will Euclid keep it's undefeated title? Will Collinwood sweep in for its first win?

What’s old is new again at 774 E. 185th St., where Antoinette Teasley has set up shop as Wardrobe Replay.

Waterloo Arts has come up with an artistic way to drench Waterloo Road in color and greenery while also bringing the neighborhood together. 

Ariana Johnson wanted to find a way to support the Black community in Cleveland neighborhoods gets the mental and physical health resources they need. So she started the Black Diamond foundation and wasted no time in setting up a pajama drive with the Greater Faith Missionary Baptist Church.

Artist Lacy Talley began painting murals with social action messages after graduating from Kent State. As she continues her work she wants to make her art accessible all over Cleveland.

With about 1,000 students in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District either living in homeless shelters or with relatives, Project ACT makes sure those students can continue in their current schools while also providing both technology and personal support during the uncertainties of the pandemic. 

Community activists Chanell and Donald Boyd initiated the creation of a new mural in the Waterloo Arts District that unites the diverse Collinwood community.

Artist Lucy Bailey uses silks and dyes as an outlet to express her feelings in her exhibit "Daylily," running through this weekend at Praxis Fiber Workshop in Collinwood.