I knew not to expect devastation but here in downtown Houston it’s hard to find any real evidence of Hurricane Ike, which swept through this part of Texas just a month ago....

This jug of tomatoes marinating in vodka sits behind the bar at Crop Bistro, an unusual spot on West Sixth Street. That’s one of the places where Cleveland’s Convention & Visitors Bureau...

I just had fresh lawyers for dinner. Like much of what’s found on menus here on Washington Island, lawyers are fish. They have other names in other places — burbot in other...

Mann’s here on Washington Island had contact lens cases and almost anything else one could want, including groceries galore, fishing lures, yogurt, toilets, rugs and more. It’s an old time country store...

I’m on a sleepy island in Lake Michigan – a place without chain restaurants, hotels and other tourism infrastructure. I’m here to research a story for readers who want to make a...

That’s Martha Manning with a tasty triangle of baklava, the sweet honey and walnut pastry given to everyone who visited Athens Bakery on a recent Cleveland ethnic and history tour. The other...

Nostalgia reigned on a recent day spent touring Cleveland with a group of seniors from Breckenridge Village — many of whom had spent a half century or more living in Northeast Ohio...