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  • Bound for Gordon Square, Near West Theatre stages big musical farewell to its 36-year home

    (Plain Press, June 2014) It all started in 1978 with 13 teens, an $800 budget, a young director named Stephanie Morrison-Hrbek and a production of Godspell in the St. Patrick Catholic Church Club Building in Ohio City. Near West Theatre has grown and grown since then and is headed for a new home in the…

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  • Tremont Montessori Art Show Elephant

    PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Friday, May 9, 2014; Tremont Montessori Art Show: A mural by Tremont Montessori Preschool Class of 2011-12 created under the direction of Artist in Residence Wendy Mahon of Young Audiences. Students created the figure of an elephant to represent a character in the story Elmer by David McKee.

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  • Clark Avenue Mural

    PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Saturday, May 3, 2014; Mural: It’s up to us, 2512 Clark Avenue: In an August 2012 article published in The Tremonster, a Tremont newspaper, artist John Rivera-Resto, who designed the mural, describes how the work, titled It’s up to us, began in June of 2012. That summer, high school students participating…

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  • Committee of 500 Years of Dignity and Resistance’s Opening Day Protest March

    PHOTO BY DEBBIE SADLON Friday, April 4th, 2014; W. 25th and Detroit Avenue, Committee of 500 Years of Dignity and Resistance’s Opening Day Protest March: Philip Yenyo, Executive Director of the American Indian Movement of Ohio, speaks to Members of the Committee of 500 Years of Dignity and Resistance and their supporters as they begin…

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  • The Dyngus Day Parade

    PHOTOS BY CHUCK HOVEN Monday, April 21, 2014: Dyngus Day Cleveland celebration, W. 58th and Detroit Avenue: The Dyngus Day Parade returns to W. 58th and Detroit after a march through the neighborhood. Dyngus Day has been celebrated for thousands of years on Easter Monday in Poland and other Easter European cultures. It marks the…

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  • Miss Dyngus Day

    Miss Dyngus Day, Kim Hanko-Dale, poses with Rudy, the Dyngus Dog.

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  • Accordion player

    Accordion player marches in the parade adding music to the festivities

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  • Fire Truck

    An old fire truck participating in the parade, is filled with Dyngus Day celebrants.

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  • St. Patrick’s Day

    PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Monday, March 17, 2014, St. Colman Church, 2027 W. 65th Street: Fife and drum players step out of the church doors after the St. Patrick’s Day Mass.

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  • Knitting Club at Cleveland Public Library Carnegie West Branch

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