Cleveland Neighborhood Guidebook

by Anne Trubek

Overview

Unfolding the real Cleveland, this guidebook features listings of the city's best cultural hotspots as well as essays about residential communities. Readers will learn about places that are no longer in existence, the areas that are becoming increasingly popular, the natural history of Cleveland Heights, what Mount Pleasant was like back in the day, and Opportunity Corridors missed. The stories discuss starting a business in Ohio City, marketing Larchmere, first time home buying in Detroit Shoreway, self-loathing in South Euclid, troubling developments in Tremont, closed schools in Lee-Miles, and a vineyard in Hough. Bound together, they conjure a Cleveland as complex as its residents.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780996836722
Publisher:	Belt Publishing
Publication date:	07/13/2016
Series:	Belt Neighborhood Guidebooks
Pages:	184
Sales rank:	1,072,878
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Anne Trubek is the founder and director of Belt Publishing and the founder of The Thinking Writer. She is the author of A Skeptic’s Guide to Writers’ Houses and the editor of The Cleveland Anthology. She lives in Cleveland, Ohio.

Table of Contents

Introduction 10

Losing Lakewood Sally Errico 12

Best Deservedly Spendy Restaurants 17

We Are Good in Glenville: A Visit to the Honey Do Night Club Neighborhood Bar Kathrine Morris 19

Best Neighborhood Bars 23

Tremont: A Product of Its Past, a Piece of Its Future Tara Vanta 25

Best Coffee Shops 31

A Walk Through North Collinwood Benno Martens 33

Best Places for Live Music Annie Zaleski 39

The Paris of Cleveland Sam McNulty 41

The West Side Market Illustration David Wilson 43

On The Cusp Harriett Logan 45

Best Galleries Michael Gill 50

Before It Was Hingetown Greggor Mattson 53

Homage to the Velvet Tango Room 59

The Little Italy Historical Museum Maryann De Julio 61

Best Museums 65

In the Place of No Place Peet McCain 67

Best Places to go if you only have one day 71

Agony in the Garden: A Lapsed Catholic's Ex-Pat's Field Guide to Our Lady of Lourdes National Shrine and Grotto Don Pizarro 73

Best Locally Owned Stories 77

Snippets of Lee-Harvard in the 70s Janice A. Lowe 79

Unexpectedly Great Reasons to Live in Cleveland 87

What's In a Name? Tom Orange 89

Best Dive Bars 93

League Park Vince Guerrieri 95

The Dog Pound Illustration David Wilson 99

Slavic Village: A Guide Michael Broida 101

Best Neighborhood Restaurants 103

The Isolation of The Flats Sandy Griffith 105

Best Hikes Matt Stansberry 109

Neighborhood Lessons in Diversity Phyllis Benjamin 111

Best Boutiques and Thrifting Claire McMillan 116

Pretty Gritty: Living Off Lorain Avenue Lee Chilcote 119

Best Places to Live 123

Sweet Spot in the City Diane Millett 125

Homage to on the rise artisan Breads 129

When Your Neighborhood Just Can't Get No Respect Sally Martin 131

Observatory, Sea Monster Douglas Max Utter 135

The Opposite of Cool George Mount 137

Best Breakfast 141

Holton Avenue, Kinsman's Other Corridor for Opportunities Greggor Mattson 143

Shiloh Baptist Church Illustration David Wilson 146

Excitement Sprouts in Hough Mansfield Frazier 147

Best Places to buy Locally Grown Food 151

Chasing the Ghosts of Coventry Village Brad Masi 153

The Rapid Illustration David Wilson 161

Shaker To Asiatown: The Bikepath Review Amy Hanauer 163

Editorial Reviews

26 essays on places ranging from Little Italy to Parma, from Slavic Village to Cleveland Heights, from writers who have biked the paths, had a beer in the corner bars, attended the elementary schools or marched in neighborhood parades. Some left those neighborhoods behind, some are newly arrived in them, but all look at Cleveland with a perspective you'll never see in the New York Times or USA today.”  —Cleveland Plain Dealer

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