Day: August 7, 2014

Mongo Grubbo Cakes (a.k.a. dessert for breakfast) at Latitude 41n in Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo: Courtesy of Latitude 41n)

3 Best Brunch Spots in Cleveland

What’s better than starting out a lazy Sunday? Brunch. It doesn’t matter if you are a breakfast or a lunch person all your gastronomic needs are met with brunch and it’s the perfect excuse to slow down and hang out with friends – new and old.

No matter where you are in the world, brunch makes everything better whether it’s simply to cure a hangover, hang with your favorite people, or refuel after a sporting it up.

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The Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, Calif. (Photo: Nicole Clausing)

A Riveting Story

The words “Experimental” and “National Park” don’t normally go together, but they do at the Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park, (1414 Harbour Way S., Richmond, CA; 510-232-5050; http://www.nps.gov/rori/index.htm) a place not quite like any other national park or historical monument.

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LUC's famous Beef Bourguignon (Photo: Sarah Toce)

LUC Serves Up the Flavor of France in Seattle’s Madison Park

If it’s an upright decadent time you’re expecting to have when you cross fork and knife this fall, LUC (2800 East Madison Street; 206-328.6645; ; TheChefInTheHat.com) in Seattle’s Madison Park neighborhood should be at the top of your priority list.

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Missy Fuego performing at The News: New Queer Performance Series at SOMArts in San Francisco in 2013. (Photo: Mathew Schoonmaker)

Slam Girls Rhyme and Rhythm

The girls got their say when they began spitting their fierce words in a rhyme and rhythm at poetry slams at bars and cafes around San Francisco in the late 1980s.

Soon after slam poetry nights took on a life of its own spreading across the nation culminating in the first-ever National Poetry Slam! in 1990 in San Francisco.

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