After FreshWater reported in February that BOSS Pro Karting was opening a Virtual Reality arena, we sent FreshWater's  Evan Gallagher and some friends out to try the gaming. Their experience is quite a story!

Holden Forests & Gardens opened its Perennial Playspace at the Cleveland Botanical Garden this past weekend—giving guests of all ages opportunities to interact with the natural world and, hopefully, develop lifelong habits of environmental stewardship.

When writer Erin O'Brien heard the Cleveland Metroparks was launching its 2022 Trail Challenge—completing either 10 or 20 Metroparks trails by biking, hiking, paddling, running, skating or walking—she quickly raised her hand to accept. O'Brien is chronicling her trail adventures for FreshWater. Read about her first trail!
  

The best things in life are free, indeed, and our monthly "Free Stamp" feature rounds up all the free #CLE events that get our "stamp" of approval.

March has arrived and, in Cleveland, that means it's time for Cleveland Independents' Cleveland Restaurant Week, with three-course meals offered at local eateries for just $36. 

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.

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.

The Downtown Cleveland Alliance and Tall Ships America announced this week that the Tall Ships Festival will return to Cleveland for the first time since 2019. 

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.

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.

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. 

Now in its 11th year, the Short.Sweet Film Festival takes place this week with more than 150 short films featured both virtually and at the Metropolitan at the 9. 

The best things in life are free, indeed, and our monthly "Free Stamp" feature rounds up all the free #CLE events that get our "stamp" of approval.

Revelers hope to chase away winter in Cleveland this coming weekend during the 10th annual Cleveland Kurentovanje—a Slovenian Madi Gras festival.

The Nature Center at Shaker Lakes and Shaker Historical Society are putting a little winter romance into Valentine’s Day weekend with the Winter Wonderland Luminary Walk.

Heinen's Mayfield Village location is now offering medical guidance on eating healthy  with its Personalized Nutrition Center. 

The Lunar New Year began yesterday, Feb. 1, and revelers will be celebrating in AsiaTown for the next two weeks with food, shopping, and entrainment. 

It's February, and by this time of the year most people have given up on their new year's resolutions. The YMCA of Greater Cleveland wants to help people keep those resolutions to develop healthy habits—and win prizes—with its fun, interactive RESET Challenge.

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.