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September 18, 2016, was a sad day for many Northeast Ohio music fans as the Barking Spider Tavern closed its doors after 30 years of presenting acoustic music of all kinds on the Case Western Reserve University campus. However, music will soon return to the space.

Institutions that hold collections of Chinese art are facing a crisis. The number of Chinese painting conservators is rapidly shrinking. “Most of the conservators in the field came from China shortly after the Cultural Revolution, but also up until the late 1980s. They are about five to 10 years away from retirement, and there weren’t any junior conservators taking over their legacy,” said Per Knutas, chief conservator at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

While Blossom Music Center is in fact a center of music every summer in Northeast Ohio, it shares the same grounds with a center of summer theater. Porthouse Theatre, as it's known now, also shares the same anniversary as Blossom and celebrates its 50th season of musical theater in the Cuyahoga Valley this summer.

When Greg Harris needed some work done on his 1970s era pinball machine, he took it to David Spasic at the Superelectric Pinball Parlor in Cleveland for maintenance. Little did the Rock and Roll Hall Fame and Museum president and CEO know, this was the beginning of Rock Hall's most-interactive exhibit to date. David Spasic

With a self-imposed Sunday deadline quickly approaching, the Trump administration finished negotiations with Canada to agree to a trade deal to supplant NAFTA. The trade agreement will no longer be known as the North American Free Trade Agreement, instead being labelled the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement. "Throughout the campaign I promised to renegotiate NAFTA," President Donald Trump said. "We have kept that promise."

The leader of the Ohio Legislative Black Caucus joined with some Cleveland City Council members and other local officials to support Issue 1 at a news conference Thursday morning. The proposed constitutional amendment would reduce penalties for drug possession, reclassifying lower-level felonies as misdemeanors. It would also allow incarcerated people, with some exceptions, to shorten their prison sentences by taking part in job and education programs.

Cleveland City Council is examining a program to offer free attorneys for poor people facing eviction in housing court. Council members from Cleveland and New York discussed the idea at a City Club forum Wednesday. Cleveland sees 9,000 to 10,000 evictions a year. Of the tenants who appear in housing court, less than 2 percent have a lawyer.

Cinematheque director John Ewing has programmed the finest foreign, classic and independent films for more than three decades in Cleveland. So when he describes a screening as the "film event of the century," local film fanatics take note. Tonight a new film by the late Orson Welles, "The Other Side of the Wind," premieres after hanging in limbo since the 1970s.

The impact of the opioid crisis was all over the ballot on Tuesday – from candidates with proposed opioid solutions to county levies for strained children services departments. Near-Record Number of Children Services Levies on the Ballot New data from the US Department of Health and Human Services notes an increase in the number of children in foster care in 2017, but the number of kids entering the system is going down.

M.L. Schultze At the only debate in Ohio’s 7th Congressional District race, the candidates collided on the expected issues — healthcare, tax cuts and national security — but the killing of 11 people at a synagogue in Pittsburgh last week came up as well. More than 500 people attended the debate at Ashland University Monday night between Republican Congressman Bob Gibbs and his Democratic challenger, Ken Harbaugh.