Heaven is a Duck Taco

As a young professionals who love to over indulge in the finest culinary delights, a gastropub is a dream come true. The first time YIC heard about Deagan's, we leapt for joy. Sadly, we were quickly brought back down to reality by the fact that it's just out of our normal price range, meaning it couldn't become a regular pig-out joint (splurge worthy for sure!). Still, just reading the menu and thinking about the microbrew and food combinations we...

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CLEkends ~ Celebrating the Solstice in Style

This weekend, as many weekends in Cleveland's summer tend to be, was replete with festivals and community events. One such intriguing event was Larchmere's Porchfest. Larchmere is the area just north of Shaker Square, and it is a neighborhood in Cleveland with a great balance of historical locales and a quickly burgeoning retail industry. Porchfest 2011, the third incarnation of the event, consisted of 30 bands playing on the porches of 30 different...

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CLEkends

Cleveland is a sports town through and through; we live and die with our sports teams. But most young professionals hardly get to see our professional athletes perform because the prices generally, well, price us out. So when the chance to start off the weekend by catching a Tribe game for a reasonable amount of money presents itself, YIC jumps at it!The game Friday night was the first in a three-game series with (and eventual sweep of!) the Pittsburgh...

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Festivi for You and I

Regardless of the grammar problems that arise, the plural of Festivus (obviously!) lends itself to the summer happenings in the Forest City. During the brief respite we receive from the bitter elements, our community really knows how to live it up in style (and economic style at that!). The festivals range from typical music and arts shindigs to the outrageously insane, like in the case of the Avon Heritage Duct Tape Festival. The Shaker Heights...

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A Very Tremont Friday

Sadly Young in CLE was a combination of out of town and working a charity dunk tank outside the Brad Paisley concert on Saturday, meaning we missed the fantastic events that are Discover Gordon Square Day and Parade the Circle. So unless you want a play-by-play of the USA v. Panama gold cup game this week, you’ll have to deal with only reading about a lovely evening in Tremont.Tremont is probably my favorite neighborhood in Cleveland. The combination...

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Hot Hot Heat!

The Great American Rib Cook Off is all about heat, from the grills to the sauces, and this year YIC chose to attend on a particularly scorching day. The Great American Rib Cook Off has been a staple of Cleveland’s Summer since 1991, providing a combination of fun music, great food and a good time...so honestly I don’t know what the hell happened this year.This year’s Rib Cook Off was much smaller than I remember years past being. There were only...

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If my wallet were as big as my stomach...

If my wallet was as big as my stomach, Cleveland restaurateurs would never go hungry. Unfortunately, like many young adults who choose to make Cleveland their home, I can't afford to do everything I desire. But my love of all things Cleveland is too strong a passion to ignore. The only solution I have come upon to resolve this quandary is to search out and find the amazing ways to live and love Cleveland economically.So this is my attempt to live...

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