Ultimate St. Patrick’s Day Party Guide St. Patrick’s Day is Sunday. That means there’s plenty of food, dance and live music events taking place this weekend related to the holiday. Here’s a look at close to 50 events taking place across Northeast Ohio -- mostly at bars, of course, to help you get in the holiday spirit. READ MORE 17 Irish pubs and restaurants to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day March 17 is always a party in Cleveland, rain or shine. The annual parade downtown draws thousands of green-clad folks ready to celebrate, usually with a Guinness in hand. Whether you’re looking for a place to grab a corned beef sandwich after the parade or a bar to camp out at, Cleveland has no shortage of Irish pubs that offer a festive experience. READ MORE 2024 Cleveland St. Patrick’s Day Parade A tradition that goes back to 1842 continues in downtown Cleveland this year. Dozens of organizations will participate in the parade, which will encompass floats, bands, clubs, kids’ units and animals marching to the theme of “Ireland: One Island, One Nation.” Superior Ave. from E. 18th St. through Public Square. 2:04 p.m., March 17. DETAILS Cleveland St. Patrick’s Day Bar Crawl Enjoy this W. 6th Street crawl featuring IVY, Velvet Dog, Barley House, Rumor, Dive Bar and Lost. Tickets include cover charges, food & drink specials and more. $25 and up. 1212 W. 6th St., Cleveland. 2-9 p.m., March 16. DETAILS Medina St. Patrick’s Day Bar Crawl Third annual event features 13 participating venues offering live music, food and drink specials, a chance for prizes and more. Noon - 11 p.m., March 16 DETAILS Shamrock Stroll and St. Patrick’s Day Bar Crawls Head to Akron this weekend for a pair of Pub Crawls. Each features entry to multiple bars as well as drinks and drink specials and a free afterparty. The Shamrock Stroll takes place Mar. 16. Individual tickets start at $15 per person or $20 for both days. Group discounts available. DETAILS DineDrinkCLE: The Podcast celebrates St. Patrick’s Day On the latest episode of “DineDrinkCLE: The Podcast,” hosts Josh Duke and Alex Darus celebrate one of Greater Cleveland’s favorite holidays — St. Patrick’s Day. They’re joined by Paris Wolfe to chat about local Irish pubs and all things Irish whiskey. Then, Peter Chakerian hops on to wax poetic about Cleveland’s love for corned beef sandwiches. Give it a listen and get your mouth watering. LISTEN HERE |
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Orchids Forever: Golden Hour Cleveland Botanical Garden’s annual orchids show ends its long run this weekend. This year's exhibiton showcases the colors of sunrise and sunset. The beautiful and fragrant displays feature species such as Phalaenopsis, Dendrobium and Oncidium. Tickets $14-$20. Members free. 11030 East Blvd., Cleveland. Through Mar. 17. DETAILS Related: ‘Orchids Forever: Golden Hour’ at Cleveland Botanical Garden aims to beat winter blues with sunrise/sunset hues (photos) Barbara Bosworth: Sun Light Moon Shadow When photographer Barbara Bosworth was a child in Novelty, Ohio, she walked with her father at nighttime and looked up at the sky. This practice inspired photography which is on display at the Cleveland Museum of Art, coinciding with April 8′s total solar eclipse. Her work includes photographs of light — from eclipses, sunrises, and sunsets to the luminescent glow of fireflies and a flashlight. Free. Through June 30. Cleveland Museum of Art, 11150 East Blvd. DETAILS "It Happened in Atlanta" Karamu House presents the world premiere of “It Happened in Atlanta,” written by Cleveland playwright Michael Oatman and directed by Tony F. Sias. The show focuses in on four college friends from Cleveland who come together to reckon with what happened at Freaknik 20 years ago. When dark liquor, weed and a card game come out, they must wrestle with their secrets. Tickets $35 to $45. Through March 30. Jelliffe Theatre, 2355 East 89th St. Cleveland. DETAILS Cleveland Public Theater’s play development series Cleveland Public Theatre is launching 2024′s “Test Flight,” showcasing four up-and-coming Northeast Ohio playwrights. Each playwright collaborated with a director to bring their work to the stage. Choose what you pay. Through March 30. CPT’s James Levin Theatre, 6415 Detroit Avenue, Cleveland. DETAILS |
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FOOD & DRINK Cleveland Restaurant Week Cleveland Restaurant Week continues through March 16 with more than 40 locally owned restaurants in the Cleveland Independents consortium offering a variety of deals, many prix-fixe options with choices for appetizers, entrees and desserts. READ MORE Grand River Ice Wine Festival Grand River Valley wineries — Debonné Vineyards, Ferrante Winery & Ristorante, Grand River Cellars Winery & Restaurant, Laurello Vineyards, South River Vineyards, Cask 307 Winery, and Red Eagle Distillery – are throwing an Ice Wine Festival. At each of the seven establishments, patrons receive an ice wine sample and pair appetizer. $10/person at each stop. Through March 30. Various wineries. DETAILS 2024 Lenten Fish Fry Guide We launched our annual fish fry guide on Ash Wednesday, and since then several more Lenten dinners have been added to the list. The guide now includes more than 60 churches and non-profits organizations. DETAILS Best restaurant fish fry specials in Greater Cleveland It’s fish fry time in Northeast Ohio now that the Catholic Lenten season has hit, and Greater Cleveland restaurants are adjusting menus in honor. Cleveland.com gathered a list of more than 50 local restaurants offering fish fry options for Lent, whether its a regular menu staple or a seasonal special. READ MORE Mr. Brisket With St. Patrick’s Day on the horizon, a visit to Mr. Brisket may be in order. The tiny storefront on South Taylor Road in Cleveland Heights sells signature corned beef, Reuben and other sandwiches for lunch. Meat is also available by the pound. If you want corned beef for St. Patrick’s Day, get it Saturday. The deli is closed on Sunday. The Reuben is $13.99 for regular size (8 ounces of meat) and $17.99 for large (12 ounces of meat). Sliced into ribbons, the corned beef is lean, juicy and easy to eat. Mr. Brisket is at 2156 S Taylor Rd, Cleveland Heights. DETAILS Gingham Market Gingham Market in Lakewood is a small slice of foodie heaven. The gourmet shop is a hub for local items with a sizeable grab-and-go menu with mouth-watering meal options. Sandwiches, salads, soups and more are featured on the rotating seasonal menu, meaning that there is always something new to try for lunch. Gingham Market is at 17000 Madison Ave., Lakewood. DETAILS Condado Tacos If you are craving tacos, you have to love the choices at Condado Tacos. Get a beer (great draft selection) or margarita, peruse the salsa options and munch on some chips. It will give you time to check out the menu’s multiple tacos and assorted fillings. (We recently had a delicious Plain Jane, filled with chicken; it’s anything but its name). Expect about 18 different ones on the menu. Condado Tacos is in Canton, Mentor, Orange (Pinecrest), Strongsville and Westlake (Crocker Park). DETAILS Pinot Noir tasting coming up The North Coast Wine Club in Solon is holding a tasting of “whole cluster” Pinot Noir. Whole cluster refers to the pressing process involving all parts of the grapes – stems and all – rather than the grapes alone. The wine is from a winery in Oregon – one of the best places on the planet for Pinot Noir. The tasting is Saturday, March 16. READ MORE Pier W sets Women's History Month dinner Pier W, the classic seafood restaurant in Lakewood that offers one of the best views around, is holding a dinner celebrating Women’s History Month. The seven-course meal will include pairings of wines with a strong California emphasis. The dinner is Tuesday, March 19. READ MORE |
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TV & MOVIES "The Eras Tour" Taylor Swift's concert film "The Eras Tour" came to Disney+ on Thursday, a day earlier than originally announced. The streaming cut features five new songs, including "Cardigan." "Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour" was a phenomenon at the theatrical box office, grossing over $262 million worldwide in a groundbreaking deal with AMC Theaters, which released the film instead of a traditional Hollywood studio. In her review, AP Music Writer Maria Sherman wrote that the film is, "a near exact replica of her blockbuster concert performance, which recaps all 10 of her studio albums across 17 years of recorded work," adding "it is the opportunity to have every seat in the house transform into the best seat in the house." DETAILS "Grey's Anatomy" Over the years, the characters on ABC's "Grey's Anatomy" have achieved medical breakthroughs, crisis situations, office romances, staffing shakeups and three hospital name changes. See what's in store for season 20 of the popular medical drama which returned Thursday after filming was delayed due to the Hollywood strikes. This season, Ellen Pompeo — who plays Dr. Meredith Grey — will not be a series regular but will appear periodically. Shonda Rhimes' other ABC show, the firefighter drama "Station 19," also returned Thursday for its seventh and final season. Both shows stream next day on Hulu. DETAILS "Apples Never Fall” Another Liane Moriarty novel has gotten the TV treatment. In Peacock's "Apples Never Fall," Annette Bening plays a wife and mother who goes missing, leaving her adult kids suspicious of their father (played by Sam Neill). The cast also includes Jake Lacy and Alison Brie. All episodes of the limited series dropped yesterday. DETAILS "Girls5Eva" The comedy "Girls5Eva" has jumped from Peacock to Netflix for its third season. The musical comedy is about a girl group from the nineties who achieved a tiny bit of fame and are hoping to revive their celebrity status decades later. The show is executive produced by Tina Fey and stars Sara Bareilles, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Paula Pell and Busy Philipps. All six episodes of season three began streaming Thursday. Seasons one and two are also available for viewing on Netflix. DETAILS "Manhunt" A new Apple TV+ limited series called "Manhunt" has made the assassination of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth into a political thriller. Tobias Menzies stars as Edwin Stanton, former Secretary of War, who led the search for Booth after Lincoln's murder. The show is based on the book "Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson. It premieres Friday, March 15. DETAILS "The Girls on the Bus" Just in time for this election year, a new dramedy follows female reporters embedded on a presidential campaign. "The Girls on the Bus" stars Melissa Benoist ("Supergirl") as Sadie McCarthy, a newspaper reporter who is enamored with old school journalism and idolizes Hunter S. Thompson. She travels the country by bus with a seasoned print reporter who always gets the scoop (Carla Gugino), a broadcast reporter at a conservative network (Christina Elmore) and a young journalist (Natasha Behnam), who embraces new media and uses Substack, sponsors and social media to reach an audience. "The Girls on the Bus" debuted Thursday on Max. DETAILS "Call the Midwife" Cozy PBS staple "Call the Midwife" returns for its 13th season on Sunday, March 17 on PBS. The period drama, narrated by Vanessa Redgrave, follows nurses, midwives and nuns working in London's East End and is based on a memoir called "Call the Midwife: A True Story of the East End in the 1950s" by Jennifer Worth. The new season is set in 1969. "Call the Midwife" will be able to stream to PBS station-branded PBS platforms, including PBS.org and the PBS App. DETAILS “Frida” Film editor Carla Gutiérrez ("RBG") makes her directorial debut with "Frida," an evocative portrait of artist Frida Kahlo told in her own words. Gutiérrez used Kahlo's diary entries, letters, essays and her paintings to drive the narrative, which delves into her childhood, her marriage, her style, her accident and, of course, her art. "Uncovering her own words and her own voice, I think what we're presenting is a new way of getting into her world and in her mind and her heart and really understanding the art in a more intimate, raw way," Gutiérrez told the AP before the film's Sundance premiere. It debuted on Prime Video on Thursday. DETAILS "Dream Scenario" Nicolas Cage embraces the drab in Kristoffer Borgli's "Dream Scenario" as Paul Matthews, a perfectly average college professor, husband and father whose life is turned upside down when millions of strangers start seeing him in their dreams. In her AP review Jocelyn Noveck wrote that "Borgli, the Norwegian writer-director making his English-language debut here (Ari Aster co-produces), is aiming for a broader statement about the nature of fame. And while the topic, which he's broached before, may not be original, it's ripe for exploration in the right hands — especially with an actor as inventive and unpredictable as Cage. Fame can be intoxicating, this film is saying, but it can and probably will turn on you in an instant." It begins streaming on Max on Friday, March 15. DETAILS |
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Kacey Musgraves With each album she releases, Kacey Musgraves demonstrates to her loyal listeners that there are no boundaries in her creative process. The same fan who found her on the celebratory country-as-heck LGBT+ anthem "Follow Your Arrow" from 2013's "Same Trailer Different Park" followed her through new psychedelic-disco-pop pastures on 2018's "Golden Hour," the album that took home the top prize at the 2019 Grammys. Then she pivoted again: with 2021's "star-crossed," a meditation on divorce and autonomy, with an uncanny ability to break hearts in less than 15 words: "If this was a movie, love would be enough," she sings. "But it's not a movie." Which brings us to "Deeper Well." Musgraves' is once again paving her own path: her country has become folk, her songs are pretty and delicate with lyrics that find profundity in mundanity. It is soft and classic sounding, with hyper-specific language of the current moment. Maybe it dates these songs, maybe it plants them firmly in Musgraves' reality. Whatever the case, they are affecting. DETAILS Justin Timberlake On "Man of the Woods," Justin Timberlake 's last solo album released in 2018, JT looked to Americana sounds to find his next musical development. It was widely viewed as a critical misstep — a shallow attempt at innovation, mining familiar images of rural country life to mirror his new reality as a father. On "Everything I Thought It Was," his first new album in six years, JT has done a 180. He's returned to the '00s R&B-pop sounds that made him a superstar in the first place. That was evident from the first singles that were released: the moody "Selfish," and the dreamy reverb of "Drown," strengthen by Timberlake's idiosyncratic falsetto. There are a few surprises as well: his boy band *NSYNC has a feature, as does Tobe Nwigwe and the Afrobeats star Fireboy DML. DETAILS Gaelic Storm and The High Kings Enjoy a live concert on St. Patrick’s Day as The Mighty Tour 2 rolls into Akron. Tickets $45-67. Goodyear Theater, 1201 E. Market St., Akron. 7:30 p.m., March 17. DETAILS |
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