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  • Updated: 12:53 p.m., Thursday Dec. 19, 2019 Residents in Pepper Pike are pushing back against a proposed mixed-use development in their town, turning out in force at a Wednesday night city council meeting. The proposal from Axiom Development Group to redevelop the approximately 65-acre Beech Brook property between Lander Road and Chagrin Boulevard is still in its early stages, according to city officials, with no official blueprints for the site.
  • The new federal budget has more money for a national suicide prevention hotline, and the Federal Communications Commission says it will designate a 3-digit dialing code to call it.
  • It’s been 33 years since Lester Lynch walked the halls of Elyria High School. But the professional opera singer feels right at home in the choir room. “It’s 100 percent thrilling,” Lynch said about returning to his alma mater, where he worked with choir students on their songs and discussed his career this week. As the a cappella choir rehearsed the Spanish song, “Esto Les Digo,” Lynch frequently jumped in with suggestions for the vowel sounds of words, like “porque.” “No one’s poor here,” he said jokingly, guiding the vocalists on improvements.
  • NOAA's Commissioned Officer Corps pilots fly special planes and use gamma ray detectors and other equipment to measure ice and snow that will eventually melt into streams and rivers.
  • When legendary Cleveland record producer Tommy LiPuma needed a drummer for a Diana Krall or a Paul McCartney recording he called on Detroit's Karriem Riggins. Now Riggins follows in his late mentor's footsteps joining the 2020 Tri-C JazzFest in Cleveland. Riggins was selected as this year's artist-in-residence to work with local music students.
  • Italian-born artist Claudio Orso first made his way to the U.S. in the 1990s, following a stint working in Mexico. He walked across the border then with little concern from customs officials. A couple of decades later, Orso, now an American citizen, works with immigrant students from Cleveland's Thomas Jefferson International Newcomers Academy.
  • The Cleveland Cavaliers made a surprise trade just hours before last week’s deadline. The team that’s in last place in the Eastern Conference (13-40)...
  • A frustration with museums inspired La Tanya Autry to want to work in the industry. A variety of things bother her, from exhibits that don’t connect to communities where the museums are located to spaces that seem cold and quiet. “I love meeting artists, seeing what they do,” she said. “I like connecting that artwork with other people, especially people who do not often go to museums.”
  • “Jesus Christ Superstar” comes to Playhouse Square’s Connor Palace Theatre this week, and audience members will find something different than when the musical visits other cities.
  • The Cleveland Music Settlement brought new life into a shuttered jazz club in 2014 by restarting operations at the Bop Stop on the city’s Near West Side. That life came to an abrupt halt in mid-March when pandemic precautions shut down the music. But, Bop Stop Director Gabe Pollack has some ideas about getting his club bopping again, after the coronavirus gut punch.
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