Saturday May 19, 6.30 PM-11.30 PM EDT. Lithuanian Club, 877 E. 185 St., Cleveland, OH, 44119. You can purchase tickets on our web site www.italianamericanbrotherhoodclub.com or at Severino's Restaurant and Lounge 35125 Vine Street, Eastlake, Ohio 44095 440-946-0770 The Italian American Brotherhood Club of Cleveland is celebrating it’s 90th year at...

Background/Overview: Michael Downing gives much of the credit for his restaurant experience to Jim Lopez, a prominent local entrepreneur for decades. Jim was the franchise owner of the first Taco Bell in town, and then owned and managed Jim’s Coney Island. Michael (“Mike” or “Mic”) earned the title of restaurateur on March 15, 1988, the day he purc...

Visitors to the Cleveland History Center in University Circle can learn about Cleveland during WWI in the Center’s central exhibition Cleveland Starts Here®. During this centennial year of the War’s end, the CHC offers visitors the opportunity to take a closer look at the time period in a new exhibition called “A City Worth Fighting For.” “A City W...

Chef Art Pour will open Rose Italian Kitchen in Solon, adding to its stable of restaurants in Northeast Ohio. The company is viewing Rose as a "potential growth concept," so the restaurant could expand to other locations much like the company has done with Burntwood Tavern. The restaurant is scheduled to open Monday, April 30, at 6140 Som Center Ro...

Oggi Ristorante, an upscale Italian restaurant at the northeast corner of Ohio 82 and Broadview Road, is about to undergo a transformation. The restaurant, under new ownership, will soon become Bistro 82. It will remain upscale and will continue to serve Italian dishes, but the cuisine will expand. The change is scheduled for May, although a precis...

A full-time Italian professor at Youngstown State University will be departing for a new opportunity at Loyola University Chicago in the fall. Carla Simonini accepted a position at LUC, where she has been named the inaugural Paul and Ann Rubino Professor in Italian American Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences. According to LUC’s University...

Si informa la comunità italiana residente a Cleveland nello Stato dell'Ohio e dintorni che il giorno 20 aprile 2018, sarà effettuata una missione itinerante per la SOLA rilevazione dei dati biometrici ai fini del rilascio del passaporto italiano. La missione avrà luogo presso gli Uffici del Consolato Onorario d'Italia a Cleveland, al n.1422 Euclid...

Lauren Mascitti of Louisville will perform for the Ohio Valley Opry at 6 p.m. April 21 at the Twin City Opera House in McConnelsville. The rising Nashville performer is a singer/songwriter who plays guitar, piano and mandolin. She began singing and writing jingles on her toy tape recorder at the age of 7. Mascitti was raised by her grandparents and...

A Mass of Christian Burial will be held Friday, April 13, 2018, at 10:00 a.m. at the Basilica of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, with Rev. Msgr. Michael J. Cariglio, Jr., for Archie J. Finamore Jr., 69, who passed away Saturday evening, April 7, at Hospice House, surrounded by family. Archie was born December 13, 1948, in Youngstown, son of the late Achi...

Need proof that Apollo's Fire has grown? Attend its new production of Monteverdi's "L'Orfeo." Seventeen years after their last performance of the 17th-century masterpiece, the Baroque orchestra and director Jeannette Sorrell are reviving the work, this time in a semi-staged production with a cast of experts. "It feels like a reunion with an old fri...