A Photographer Walks Into a Bar — and Gives You a Portrait.
Cleveland Photographer Angelo Merendino Brings Free Black-and-White Portraits to Forest City Brewery …Next Session on August 20
What happens when a professional photographer sets up a studio inside a brewery during happy hour and invites complete strangers to sit for a portrait?
For Cleveland photographer Angelo Merendino, the answer has been a room full of people, conversation, and laughter — twice.
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by Angelica Pozo
Hello Tremont Art Crew Future Participants:
The Lincoln Park Restoration Project will finally be underway soon!!! Attached please find the approved project proposal presented to the Landmarks Commission.
March 1st we will start off with a Launch Work Party.
Whether you’re interested in working on the Lincoln Park Mural Restoration Project for the first time or if you were a part of The Tremont Art Crew for the original mural project, I hope you can join us for this journey.
Things you can do to get involved:
Tell me your art experience and interests, how would like to be involved with the project, and your availability by filling out our project volunteer form, here.
Then,
Join Us For The Project Launch Work Party:
Date: Sun., 03/01/2026
Time: 12:30pm – 4:30pm
Sign up to let me know that you’re coming!
To sign up for the subsequent weekly open studio work sessions in March, April and May, sign up here.
I look forward to working with you!
Angelica Pozo
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Tremont… Guess Who’s Back?
Surprise! (Okay not really — everyone’s been watching construction through the windows.)
Edison’s Pizza Kitchen (1307 Auburn) is officially coming back home to Tremont.
Prior to the mid-November end to the US government shutdown, Catholic Charities Diocese of Cleveland (CCDC) received a generous donation to be distributed to Northeast Ohio SNAP families. The donation was distributed in the form of gift cards to CCDC’s network of sites, and promoted throughout local SNAP networks.
Responding SNAP program beneficiaries (who had not received benefits since the beginning of the month) overwhelmed Tremont’s St. Augustine Hunger Center on November 7th, leaving a long, unmoving line of neighbors and their children in 47° temps and sometimes driving rain. The line extended from the door of the hunger center to Howard Ave, then continued far down W. 14th St.
Continue readingIt’s the 80th anniversary for Dickey’s Lanes (3275 W 25th St.)!
Dickey’s Lanes has been “Bringing Beer and Bowling to Cleveland since 1946.”
Don’t forget Dickey’s is open at 1:00pm on Saturdays and Sundays–and stays open until they run out of bowlers.
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On Saturday, our Morning Crew at Civilization was enjoying a beautiful morning in Tremont.
The Tremonster, Plain Press, and La Villa Cleveland will host a community-media-only roundtable interviewing candidates for Ward 7 (Austin N. Davis, Mohammad Faraj, and Mike Rogalski) and we want to hear from you.
Submit your candidate question at bit.ly/Ward7CLE by Monday, July 14th, at 3:00pm.
Your voice can help shape the conversation.
Tim Herron and participant Duane Dickson spoke with The Tremonster when we stopped in on The Pretentious Cleveland Portrait Artists for their 20th anniversary during a regularly scheduled portrait artist and model break.
by Timothy Herron and Brian Pierce
In June/July we will be our 20th year, beginning in 2005 in the back of a small bar in the Tremont area of Cleveland called the Literary Café, which was run by Andy Timithy and Linda Baldizzi. Brian Pierce and I just wanted steady practice drawing portraits and offered the patrons our drawings in exchange for posing in order to save some money and not toss the drawing in the basement or closet. Overhearing a fellow patron explain to his friend in a private conversation that Tremont was filled with pretentious artists provided us with a name for our drawing group.
Continue reading‘I expect we will face this uncertainty, time and time again, until eventually it does not end in our favor.’
by The Tremonster
Tremont West Development Corporation held its annual meeting on Thursday, May 15. The buffet dinner supplied by Cilantro Taqueria was outstanding, votes were cast for a slate of Tremont West board candidates, and there was the comfort of annual routines like scanning the room for your block club table sign. But in her Director’s Report for the Tremont West 2025 Annual Meeting, Julie Dahlhausen sounded an alarm.
“Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funding continues to be Tremont West’s most significant and vital source of support. For months, our team has carried the heavy concern that these funds could be reduced—or eliminated entirely,” she said. “Such a loss would result in substantial cuts to our programs and to our staff.”
Continue readingRoosevelt Post 58 has a new home in the American Legion (Post 627, 3935 E. 42nd St.), Newburgh Heights.
The longtime Tremont institution, the Polish Legion of American Veterans Roosevelt Post 58, sold its Tremont building and closed its doors in December of 2022.
“Ever since we sold that building two years ago, we’ve been looking for a place we could call ‘home.’ We finally found it,” said Terry Zacharyj, Post 58 Commander.
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