• Cleveland celebrates Dingus Day 2025 (photos)

    PHOTO BY MARYANN COYNE ROSENBERG Monday, April 21, 2025; Dingus Day Celebration in the Detroit Shoreway neighborhood: Ms. Dingus Day meets Ms. Dingus Day 2021. PHOTO BY MARYANN COYNE ROSENBERG Monday, April 21, 2025; Dingus Day Celebration in the Detroit Shoreway neighborhood: (Left to Right) Janelle Rakha, Lauren Rosenberg, Cori Harris, and Patti Longoria join…


  • Day of the Dead 2024 (photos)

    PHOTO BY GREG ROSENBERG Saturday, November 2, 2024; Day of the Dead Festival, Cleveland Public Theatre: A performer in a mariachi band entertains the crowd with his violin. PHOTO BY GREG ROSENBERG Saturday, November 2, 2024; Day of the Dead Festival, Cleveland Public Theatre: Festival participants show off their skeleton-themed costumes. The Day of the…


  • Snow Day at Gordon Square 2023 photos

    PHOTO BY GREG ROSENBERG Saturday, December 9, 2023; Snow Day in Detroit Shoreway, 78th Street Studios: Snow Day visitors viewed a variety of artwork by Cleveland artists. PHOTO BY GREG ROSENBERG Saturday, December 9, 2023; Snow Day in Detroit Shoreway, W. 67th and Detroit: Dressed as a knight from the era of the Crusades, this…


  • Day of the Dead 2023 Photos

    (Plain Press December 2023) PHOTO BY GREG ROSENBERG Saturday, November 4, 2023; Day of the Dead Celebration presented by Cleveland Public Theatre/Teatro Público de Cleveland & Día de Muertos Ohio and Artistic Director Héctor Castellanos Lara, Cleveland Public Theatre (CPT) Campus: The crowd in the parking area outside of the Church and Parish Hall on…


  • Woman finds recovery in Cleveland

    PHOTO COURTESY OF JENNIFER HALSTEAD Wednesday, March 22, 2023; Edna House for Women, 2007 W. 65th; Jennifer Halstead, an alumna of the drug recovery program at Edna House, standing next to the sign of the residential building. Women reside at the Edna House for six months regardless of their ability to pay where they become…


  • Home remodeler closes doors

    Since 1948, Breit’s Kitchen and Bath in the Gordon Square District has helped homeowners perfect their dream home. That chapter officially closed as of the 13th of February when Bob Breitenbach cleared out the last of the business’ belongings. He sat down with the Plain Press to remember his family business’ years serving Cleveland.   …


  • Snow Day in Gordon Square

    PHOTO BY GREG ROSENBERG Saturday, December 10, 2022; Snow Day in Detroit Shoreway, W. 65th and Detroit Avenue: A child, dressed for Snow Day, expresses thoughtful interest.


  • Cleveland Public Theatre’s Día de Muertos (The Day of the Dead) celebration

    PHOTO BY GREG ROSENBERG Saturday, October 29, 2022; Cleveland Public Theatre’s Día de Muertos (The Day of the Dead) celebration, W. 62nd and Detroit Avenue: Participants in the celebration honor the memory of those who have passed – in this case – with a trombone. PHOTO BY GREG ROSENBERG Saturday, October 29, 2022; Cleveland Public…


  • Inside the Bricks: My Changing Neighborhood Gordon Square

    by Bruce Checefsky      (Plain Press, December 2022) In the second season of Inside the Bricks: My Changing Neighborhood, reporter and podcast host Justin Glanville talked to his neighbors in the Detroit Shoreway neighborhood about gentrification and the socially and economically diverse changes that come with it. With an influx of new housing construction to…