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An abandoned infant and a bird with an unusual method of raising her young come together in artist Michael Loderstedt’s new collection of photos, “Night Flight.”

John Vourlis had no idea what was happening in his own backyard. The Wickliffe native moved back home in 2010 from California, where he had been working in the film industry. A friend invited Vourlis to come to the Wickliffe Italian-American Club to check out the Cleveland Challenge Cup of Bocce. Vourlis was surprised to find that the tournament, now in its 35thyear, featured nearly one 100 men’s teams and about 20 women’s from across North America that came to compete for over $17,000 in cash prizes.

From a hashtag to a movement, #MeToo is generating conversations around the world. It’s also inspiring artists here in Northeast Ohio. Cleveland painter Laura Dumm decided to depict Venus, the goddess of love, as a #MeToo survivor. While she typically works collaboratively with her husband, Gary, on artwork critical of environmental and societal issues, it felt right to her to do this work independently.

White House aides including communications director Hope Hicks will reportedly be interviewed by special counsel Robert Mueller soon.

Noel King talks to Kenneth Taber, an attorney representing 3 cities suing because the military did not comply with a law requiring it to report service members with criminal histories to the FBI.

The population of Idaho increased by 2.2 percent, making it the fastest growing state in the U.S. Three other western states were just behind it: Nevada, Utah and Washington.

Today ideastream kicks off Divided by Design, a series looking into how historic practices, policies, and prejudices contributed to segregation, and inform issues we’re still dealing with today.

As she cradles three-year old Jackson in her lap, Robin Brown coaxes him to count. "Say one … two … come on Jackson," says Brown. But all she gets from her great nephew is a blank stare. "This look is the look that hurts, when you see a look on a child's face that they want to do something but can't. That hurts," said Brown.

Often when groups play classic early jazz, they approach the music as period pieces to be performed reverentially. That’s not what you’ll hear when the Hot 9 plays jazz from the 1920s and 30s at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Trumpeter Steven Bernstein, who co-leads the ensemble with pianist Henry Butler said that the group has no interest in re-creating the past.

In April of 1965, Students for a Democratic Society organized an antiwar march on Washington. It was the largest protest up to that point, more than 20,000 people showed up. But SDS, originally a civil rights group, stopped organizing against the war. A couple other attempts at stitching together the young, mostly local opposition to the war came along but were torn apart by infighting and the demands of keeping everyone together. Then the movement came to Cleveland.