Trace Althoff on Managing Taverns from A to Z

Trace Althoff

Trace Althoff

by Rich Weiss

Trace Althoff has one of the coolest jobs in Cleveland. He manages five of the hippest new wave of bar/restaurants popping up in neighborhoods all over the city, including the well-known ABC Tavern and XYZ the Tavern, for A to Z Taverns.  Althoff is a textbook case of brain drain to Chicago boomeranging back after over 10 years to turn into a textbook case of brain gain for Cleveland.

“I went to high school at St. Ignatius, so I’m a local Cleveland guy.  I lived in Chicago for just over a decade and then I came back.  My mother’s from Ohio City, we ended up settling in Parma, and I went to St. Charles grade school on Ridge Road and Snow Road,” said Althoff.  “My sister is now the Principal of Holy Name High School in Parma Heights; my younger sister used to teach at St. Charles, now a stay-at-home mom with two kids; and my brother is a Chicago police officer…so we kind of run the gamut with everything that we do.” Continue reading

Little Tremonsters Announces Contest for Free Soccer Classes in Lincoln Park

 

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by Adrienne E. Linnick
Little Tremonsters
Soccer Shots is starting Spring soccer classes for ages 3-5 in Lincoln Park every Tuesday at 6pmfrom April 7th – May 26th.  You can register online at https://cleveland.ssreg.org/index.php? (the cost is $87 for all 8 classes).  In addition to garnering interest in the classes, Little Tremonsters would like to sponsor a child to participate.  Potential participants can email LittleTremonsters@gmail.com and write 200 words or less about why they’d like to receive the sponsorship.  Classes start in just 2 weeks!  Please contact us with any questions.  Thanks!

Little Tremonsters is a group dedicated to keeping parents, caregivers and neighbors informed about kid-trending topics in the Tremont area.

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Dark Silver II: 12X at Mastroianni Photography and Arts Opens on March 13

Dark Silver II 12X

 

by Steve Mastroianni

Dark Silver II: 12X is the second installment in the new series devoted to portraits made with traditional black & white film and processed in the darkroom. For the new set of portraits, a series of parameters were created to provide a framework for the portraits. Photographs were made in the studio with a twin lens reflex (TLR) medium format camera, under a similar lighting scheme utilizing continuous hot lights and a seamless backdrop, and each subject was limited to one roll of film (12 exposures). Then, an enlarged proof sheet was created in the darkroom from each roll of film, and each proof sheet is displayed as part of an installment of the entire set of portraits. As a result, each and every shot taken of each subject can be seen; nothing was edited out. Continue reading

Banyan Tree and Dress for Success Cleveland partner to support women in our community!

Melony Butler, Executive Director, Dress for Success Cleveland

New Tremont Connection for Dress for Success Cleveland!        
by Melony Butler

Banyan Tree has become an external drop-off site for Dress for Success Cleveland, accepting gently worn women’s clothing! Thursday, February 12, 2015, 11am – 9pm is the kick-off of this new community partnership.  You are invited to purge your closet to donate so you can have room to shop new and unique items at Banyan Tree located at 2242 Professor, Cleveland, OH 44113! Ongoing hours for drop –off will be on Tuesdays – 11am – 7pm and Thursday 11am – 9pm. Continue reading

ART presents Amici Quartet at Pilgrim Church

Arts Renaissance Tremont – Cleveland’s Best Kept Secret

ART:  3pm, Sunday, February 15, 2015 – Amici String Quartet

2pm preview: Guest speaker Donald Rosenberg & the Amici Quartet

Admission by freewill donation

Arts Renaissance Tremont – 3pm, Sunday, February 15, 2015

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Tremonsters Tunnel Out Feb 2, 2015

Tremonsters tunneled out after a heavy snow on Monday morning.

CONVERGENCE-CONTINUUM PRESENTS THE 2015 NEOMFA PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL AT THE LIMINIS THEATER FEBRUARY 12 – 21

convergence-continuum presents three new plays by local graduate-student playwrights at the 2015 NEOMFA Playwrights Festival. The Festival features three world-premiere plays: one full-length (two-act) play by final-year MFA candidate Monica Morgan, and two one-act plays by second-year grad students Lisa Langford and Cutler Smith.  These plays are part of a three-year intensive program of study under playwright and Cleveland State University professor Mike Geither, and are co-produced by convergence-continuum and the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts (NEOMFA) in Creative Writing consortium.  This will be the fourth year convergence-continuum has mounted the Festival at its performance space, the Liminis, 2438 Scranton Rd., Cleveland 44113 in the historic Tremont neighborhood. Continue reading

CMSD High School Choice 2015

A special report by The Tremonster

Cleveland’s families aren’t just walking to the nearest school anymore.

The Cleveland Metropolitan School District’s (CMSD) High School Choice event filled the circular concourse of CSU’s Wolstein Center with parents and teens on Wednesday evening.

Students lined the concourse, stopping at a multitude of booths to discuss their dreams and hear from recruiters about how each high school in Cleveland — anywhere in Cleveland — might be the best fit.

Follow The Tremonster for an upcoming series on CMSD’s High School Choice event.

Santa Shuffle 2014 Kicks off in Tremont

Santa Shuffle 2014, Tremont

Senyak hands off signed petitions at Meeting on CPL South Branch’s future

Henry Senyak hands off signed petitions

Henry Senyak hands off signed petitions to Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative’s David Jurca at a public input meeing on the future of the CPL South Branch

A special report by The Tremonster

Henry Senyak handed David Jurca, Associate Director at the CUDC, signed petitions to “repair and reopen historic Carnegie South Branch Library in Cleveland, Ohio” gathered at the online petition site, Change.org (https://www.change.org/p/reopen-carnegie-south-library).

Senyak was one of many Tremont and greater Tremont residents filling up the seats of the CPL South Branch Community Vision Plan Meeting that was held on Wednesday, from 6-8 pm at the HUMADAOP Youth Center. Continue reading