Archive for the 'where to "nosh"' Category

#8 of ten reasons to attend Bloggapalooza: Have a conversation with…

Friday, July 14th, 2006

…an attendee of the Ingeunity (sic)  Festival which is going on in downtown Cleveland this weekend, one of the MTB interviewees, a blogger or a friend you brought with you or just listen to the music.  Tim and I attended the Ingeunity Festival last night and the light show protrayed on the facade of the May [...]

#9 of Ten Reasons to attend Bloggapalooza: Meet new friends…

Thursday, July 13th, 2006

…and see the old. Whenever and wherever bloggers converge, they usually invite other friends who are or are not bloggers. So there will be a hugely eclectic crowd at Bloggapalooza. I can’t stand this when this happens. I have this old jingle from my Brownie days stuck in my head. [...]

#10 of Ten Reasons to attend Bloggapalooza: You might just get lucky . . .

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

. . . and win a raffle prize at Bloggapalooza. Of course, you will need to buy a raffle ticket to enter one of the many, many drawings we have planned throughout the day. Right now, we have just about enough raffle items to raffle off two or three an hour. [...]

building community

Thursday, March 30th, 2006

I have a new page, available also through the sidebar to the right. There are a number of ways we become members of a community, and one of them is by joining organizations and participating in events, or just by hanging out and talking. Some community-building opportunities we have available here in Ward 15, or near it, [...]

Regional Eats: Sean’s Sandwich Shop in Rocky River

Thursday, March 9th, 2006

Today we had a pleasant surprise when we took an excursion to Rocky River for Tim’s quarterly shearing, at The Irish Barber. The barber, Sean Gormley, hails from the same village as the Ferrises, Ballymoney, in Country Antrim, Northern Ireland, and this is how Tim’s haircut tenuously fits into our philosophy of “local production [...]

Chili Cookoff at The UGLY

Monday, March 6th, 2006

On Saturday March 11 at 4:30 p.m Sherry Perry at The Ugly Broad Tavern will be hosting a fundraiser for Save Our Land. Save Our Land is a group of residents that have bonded together to raise funds to help four of our neighbors defend their loss of land to the Fulton Road [...]

A Day of Coincidences

Friday, March 3rd, 2006

Tim and I had a full day planned of meeting people. Late last night we decided that we were going to buy an all-day ride pass on the RTA and see if it appeared practical to ride to all of our meetups with various people.
Our first meeting was Tim’s Brooklyn Circle B-to-B Connect meeting [...]

Three Words that make my heart go pitter pat

Saturday, February 18th, 2006

Yesterday was just a “very busy day” for the Ferris family with lots of business appointments starting at 7 a.m. and the day didn’t end for any of us until well after 6 p.m. So it was a “Let’s Eat Out!” night. Welcome words to a woman who had tumbled into bed the [...]

Sixty Years of Tradition at This Area Steakhouse

Saturday, January 21st, 2006

Sixty years in business, same family, same name, same destination. Do you know? If you said Ferris Steak House you would be right.
This restaurant holds a very fond place in my heart. Thirty two years ago when I moved to Cleveland to teach at West High School located on Franklin Avenue Ferris [...]

Warm and Crusty

Saturday, January 21st, 2006

Bread, I am talking bread here folks. If you wander the streets of Cleveland looking for loaves of “right out of the oven” bread with a chewy crust Caribe bakery is the place for you. I was pleasantly surprised when I walked in the door that not only is this a unique [...]