Day: August 9, 2014

The Dinah White Party 2012 in Palm Springs, California (Photo: Courtesy of The Dinah)

It’s A Victory Party: The Dinah Hosts All-Girl Party for Gay Games 9

By Heather Cassell It wouldn’t be a party without The Dinah girls! This week to celebrate the gold, silver and bronze wins Club Skirts promoter Mariah Hanson and her team in association with Aqua Girl are hosting the official all-girl bash “The Victory Party” at the Gay Games 9 in Cleveland, Ohio. “[We] plan to […]

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Emma Beno, co-owner of the Pork Chop Shop, stands at the ready at the store located at the famed West Side Market. (Photo: Heather Cassell)

The Pork Chop Shop’s Butcher Babes Bring Home the Bacon

It’s tough having good chops and the “Butcher Babes” have got the best to offer at the West Side Market in Cleveland, Ohio.

Emma Beno, 24, and Alexia Rodriguez, 32, owners of the Pork Chop Shop (1979 West 25th Street, Stand E4; 216-394-0382; ThePorkChopShopWSM.com) at the market infuse the flavor of the neighborhood and their own tastes into their pork in the Ohio City neighborhood.

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Inside the historic West Side Market in Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo: Heather Cassell)

Go to the Market at West Side Market

Many people oooh and ahhh over San Francisco’s Ferry Building and rightfully so, the public marketplace with its high quality organic shops highlighting some of the best of the San Francisco Bay Area’s small businesses, similar to Seattle’s Pike Place Market, brought this relic public market back to life. It’s even inspired and spawned other public markets in Napa, Anaheim and many more, but it has nothing on Cleveland’s West Side Market.

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