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Usher, Chris Brown bring R&B party of the summer to Cleveland

The two stars performed more than 50 songs over 2 1/2 hours.

Music

Usher and Chris Brown&#x27;s concert at Huntington Bank Field featured an abundance of hit anthems, flashy dance moves and more screams than a roller coaster drop at Cedar Point.The big picture: The duo&#x27;s co-headlining show Tuesday was <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="one of the biggest" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/local/cleveland/2023/05/30/greatest-concerts-cleveland" data-vars-content-id="fcce8915-024e-42eb-830b-a28c39dbf91f" data-vars-headline="Usher, Chris Brown bring R&amp;B party of the summer to Cleveland" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/local/cleveland/2023/05/30/greatest-concerts-cleveland" target="_self">one of the biggest</a> R&amp;B concerts to ever hit Northeast Ohio.

New bike path will connect Edgewater to Cudell

Cleveland has secured $100,000 to begin planning the route in Wards 11 and 12.

Transit

Cleveland has secured $100,000 from the state to begin planning a shared-use path along West Boulevard connecting Cudell to Edgewater Park.Why it matters: The project aims to calm traffic while making it safer and easier for people to reach the lakefront without driving.

Ohio among states reporting stomach parasite infections

The Ohio Department of Health's data lists more than 30 cases of cyclosporiasis since May 1.

Health

Ohio is one of 17 states with reported cases of a gut-wrecking parasite that&#x27;s plaguing the U.S. as <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="health" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/health" data-vars-content-id="5317b579-6365-48ba-8be5-3af75ce3f329" data-vars-headline="Ohio among states reporting stomach parasite infections" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/health" target="_self">health</a> officials investigate what&#x27;s driving an increase in cases.The big picture: The gastrointestinal illness — called cyclosporiasis — is caused by a microscopic parasite spreading through contaminated food.

Participatory budgeting for Columbus, but not Cleveland

Columbus is launching a pilot program three years after Cleveland quashed one.

Politics

Columbus begins a <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="financial experiment" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/local/columbus/2026/07/06/city-council-participatory-budget-9-million" data-vars-content-id="f2e46736-f732-445d-891a-739c8d1eb796" data-vars-headline="Participatory budgeting for Columbus, but not Cleveland" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/local/columbus/2026/07/06/city-council-participatory-budget-9-million" target="_self">financial experiment</a> this week, handing over the keys to a portion of the city&#x27;s budget to the public for the first time.Why it matters: Clevelanders might be jealous.

The 5 greatest Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction classes, ranked

Looking back at classes featuring Chuck Berry, the Beatles, Blondie and more.

There are no bad <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/local/cleveland/2026/04/14/2026-rock-hall-inductees-iron-maiden-wu-tang" data-vars-content-id="9ac3dd4e-cfd9-466a-a967-43585039c1d2" data-vars-headline="The 5 greatest Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame induction classes, ranked" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/local/cleveland/2026/04/14/2026-rock-hall-inductees-iron-maiden-wu-tang" target="_self">Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame</a> induction classes — only great, greater and greatest.Driving the news: In honor of the National Day of Rock &#x27;n&#x27; Roll on Tuesday, we&#x27;re counting down the five greatest classes over the <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="40 years of inductions" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/local/cleveland/2025/09/19/greatest-moments-rock-roll-ceremony-monents" data-vars-content-id="9ac3dd4e-cfd9-466a-a967-43585039c1d2" data-vars-headline="The 5 greatest Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame induction classes, ranked" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/local/cleveland/2025/09/19/greatest-moments-rock-roll-ceremony-monents" target="_self">40 years of inductions</a>.

Remembering the Cavs' historic 2016 NBA Championship

The 2016 NBA title victory was Cleveland's first major team-sport title in 52 years.

Sports

Friday marks the 10th anniversary of perhaps the greatest moment in <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="Cleveland sports history" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/local/cleveland/2023/06/09/cleveland-sports-moments-21st-century" data-vars-content-id="c99b499a-7515-4aa0-9030-f7033f30a551" data-vars-headline="Remembering the Cavs&#x27; historic 2016 NBA Championship" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/local/cleveland/2023/06/09/cleveland-sports-moments-21st-century" target="_self">Cleveland sports history</a>.Why it matters: The Cavaliers&#x27; 2016 NBA Championship was the city&#x27;s first major team-sport title since the Browns won the NFL Championship in 1964.

HBO's new Earth, Wind & Fire doc chronicles a musical revolution

The film, directed and produced by Questlove, looks at the history of the groundbreaking funk act.

Occasionally, a definitive documentary about a Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame act graces us with its presence.State of play: HBO has one in <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="&quot;Earth, Wind &amp; Fire (To Be Celestial vs. That&#x27;s the Weight of the World).&quot;" data-vars-click-url="https://www.hbomax.com/movies/earth-wind-fire-to-be-celestial-vs-thats-the-weight-of-the-world/6c778069-cfd5-402e-b8a1-01b423a5971f" data-vars-content-id="096455ae-fa48-4abc-9cf7-2139cb3994c0" data-vars-headline="HBO&#x27;s new Earth, Wind &amp; Fire doc chronicles a musical revolution" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.hbomax.com/movies/earth-wind-fire-to-be-celestial-vs-thats-the-weight-of-the-world/6c778069-cfd5-402e-b8a1-01b423a5971f" target="_blank">&quot;Earth, Wind &amp; Fire (To Be Celestial vs. That&#x27;s the Weight of the World).&quot;</a>

A Cleveland journalist's eyewitness account of D-Day

Roelif Loveland witnessed the invasion of Normandy Beach from a B-26 Marauder piloted by another Clevelander

History

<blockquote>We saw the curtain go up on the greatest drama in the history of the world, the invasion of Hitler&#x27;s Europe. We saw it from a balcony seat high up in God&#x27;s heaven, in a combat-bound Marauder piloted by a Cleveland boy, First Lieut. Howard C. Quiggle, 17118 Lipton Avenue S.E. </blockquote><cite>— Roelif Loveland, Cleveland Plain Dealer, June 7, 1944</cite>Cleveland journalist Roelif Loveland <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="published" data-vars-click-url="https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-plain-dealer-d-day-invasion-reportin/198904562/" data-vars-content-id="4260c7b8-f555-42dd-beab-db314948e627" data-vars-headline="A Cleveland journalist&#x27;s eyewitness account of D-Day" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-plain-dealer-d-day-invasion-reportin/198904562/" target="_blank">published</a> one of the first accounts of the Allied invasion of Normandy Beach that many Americans read. Flashback: Loveland was the Plain Dealer&#x27;s war correspondent and <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="often included" data-vars-click-url="https://historynet.com/journalist-roelif-lovelands-searing-account-of-d-day/" data-vars-content-id="4260c7b8-f555-42dd-beab-db314948e627" data-vars-headline="A Cleveland journalist&#x27;s eyewitness account of D-Day" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://historynet.com/journalist-roelif-lovelands-searing-account-of-d-day/" target="_blank">often included</a> stories of local soldiers in his dispatches. <ul><li>On June 6, 1944, he joined a fellow Clevelander on a bombing mission in support of the D-Day invasion. His eyewitness account ran the following morning on the PD&#x27;s front page. </li></ul>What they&#x27;re saying: &quot;Flak began to come pretty soon and tracer bullets shot in front of us like red hot rivets, but the expression on the face of the kid from Cleveland who was piloting the plane did not change in the slightest degree,&quot; <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="Loveland wrote" data-vars-click-url="https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-plain-dealer-loveland-flies-to-view/198904482/" data-vars-content-id="4260c7b8-f555-42dd-beab-db314948e627" data-vars-headline="A Cleveland journalist&#x27;s eyewitness account of D-Day" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-plain-dealer-loveland-flies-to-view/198904482/" target="_blank">Loveland wrote</a>. <ul><li>&quot;He followed the course to the target and then the bombardier did his stuff and the plane fairly leaped up in the air and down below flames shot up.&quot; </li></ul>State of play: Loveland was one of 11 charter members of the Cleveland Journalism Hall of Fame when it was <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="established in 1981" data-vars-click-url="https://case.edu/ech/articles/c/cleveland-journalism-hall-fame" data-vars-content-id="4260c7b8-f555-42dd-beab-db314948e627" data-vars-headline="A Cleveland journalist&#x27;s eyewitness account of D-Day" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://case.edu/ech/articles/c/cleveland-journalism-hall-fame" target="_blank">established in 1981</a>.

How Cleveland was connected to the Titanic

More than 40 passengers aboard the ship had ties to Northeast Ohio.

Cleveland&#x27;s Great Lakes Science Center is an appropriate host for <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="&quot;Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition.&quot;" data-vars-click-url="https://greatscience.com/Titanic" data-vars-content-id="794d0830-47f6-4f6b-8ffb-2e955917f4cb" data-vars-headline="How Cleveland was connected to the Titanic" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://greatscience.com/Titanic" target="_blank">&quot;Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition.&quot;</a>Driving the news: The showcase, which features pieces from the ill-fated ship&#x27;s wreckage and re-creations of its interior, opens Thursday.

Paul McCartney's post-Beatles years get the Rock Hall treatment

The exhibition includes several of McCartney's guitars, notes from his diary and handwritten lyrics.

If most of what you know about Paul McCartney is from his time with the Beatles, the Rock Hall&#x27;s new exhibit will prove quite an eye-opener.The intrigue: The showcase, titled <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="&quot;Paul McCartney and Wings,&quot;" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/local/cleveland/2026/02/18/paul-mccartney-wings-rock-hall-exhibit-may" data-vars-content-id="5037fab1-1bba-4ab1-8377-af56c73530e1" data-vars-headline="Paul McCartney&#x27;s post-Beatles years get the Rock Hall treatment" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/local/cleveland/2026/02/18/paul-mccartney-wings-rock-hall-exhibit-may" target="_self">&quot;Paul McCartney and Wings,&quot;</a> opens Friday on Level 6 of the museum and details McCartney&#x27;s life from 1970 onward.

From Shawshank to tattoos: A history of the Ohio State Reformatory

The reformatory in Mansfield has existed for 130 years and been used for a variety of things.

Things to Do

One of the most distinctive landmarks in all of Ohio is a roughly 80-mile drive southwest of Cleveland.Why it matters: The <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="Ohio State Reformatory" data-vars-click-url="https://www.mrps.org/" data-vars-content-id="6fcc7f21-c521-43e3-813c-1785c3ca2f05" data-vars-headline="From Shawshank to tattoos: A history of the Ohio State Reformatory" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.mrps.org/" target="_blank">Ohio State Reformatory</a> dates back 130 years, having been a prison, a premier <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="haunted destination" data-vars-click-url="https://usghostadventures.com/americas-most-haunted-trending/the-ohio-state-reformatory-mansifeld-ohio-dark-legacy/" data-vars-content-id="6fcc7f21-c521-43e3-813c-1785c3ca2f05" data-vars-headline="From Shawshank to tattoos: A history of the Ohio State Reformatory" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://usghostadventures.com/americas-most-haunted-trending/the-ohio-state-reformatory-mansifeld-ohio-dark-legacy/" target="_blank">haunted destination</a> and the site of major conventions and festivals.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame goes punk

"Hey! Ho! Let's Go! Punk at 50" is a photo exhibit highlighting legends like the Ramones and Blondie.

The Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame has unveiled a new photo exhibit celebrating 50 years of punk rock.State of play: <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="&quot;Hey! Ho! Let&#x27;s Go! Punk at 50&quot;" data-vars-click-url="https://rockhall.com/hey-ho-lets-go/" data-vars-content-id="768b5aad-3ef6-4c21-b4e6-d12cce3300a1" data-vars-headline="The Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame goes punk" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://rockhall.com/hey-ho-lets-go/" target="_blank">&quot;Hey! Ho! Let&#x27;s Go! Punk at 50&quot;</a> is now open on the bottom floor near the CBGB awning that&#x27;s been a mainstay at the museum.

From the Jackson 5 to solo stardom: Michael Jackson in Cleveland

Several landmark moments in Jackson's career brought him to Northeast Ohio.

Michael Jackson wasn&#x27;t a prolific touring artist and only released a handful of albums during his prime.Why it matters: Despite that, several landmark moments in his career brought him to Northeast Ohio.

Remember when Cleveland took all its recycling to the landfill?

An Earth Day flashback to the 2020 scandal that shook trust in the city's sustainability efforts.

News

On this Earth Day, we&#x27;re looking back at the Cleveland recycling scandal of 2020.😲 Flashback: <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="The Fox 8 I-Team" data-vars-click-url="https://fox8.com/news/i-team/i-team-all-recyclables-in-cleveland-going-to-the-landfill/" data-vars-content-id="27eb2785-c68d-4cb3-8e40-d4c914ae2708" data-vars-headline="Remember when Cleveland took all its recycling to the landfill?" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://fox8.com/news/i-team/i-team-all-recyclables-in-cleveland-going-to-the-landfill/" target="_blank">The Fox 8 I-Team</a> broke the unbelievable story: Cleveland was dumping all recycling into a landfill, and had been for months.

History

The 5 greatest Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction classes, ranked

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HBO's new Earth, Wind & Fire doc chronicles a musical revolution

A Cleveland journalist's eyewitness account of D-Day