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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please no more Cleveland bashing, but looking for some local spots to check out while touring Case Western next week. For the alums, any suggestions on nearby places to get a feel for the school population and area?[/quote]
 
Cleveland is wonderful!   Our family inherited a house there (had no immediate family there, although cousins) and were so smitten with Cleveland and all it offers that we made it our annual Christmas/NY gathering place for family members from DC, NYC and Switzerland for a decade.

If you're there the latter half of the week, go to the Cleveland Orchestra (directly adjacent to CWRU), which has repeatedly been called 'the best in America" by the NYT and has Mitsuko Uchida playing with the Orchestra in its beautiful deco Severance/Mandel hall.

If your musical tastes are bit edgier, the Beachwood Ballroom/Tavern (in an old Croatian social hall) is a 10-15 minute drive from CWRU and is a great live music venue.

If you want to grab a cup of coffee, stick your head in the Cleveland Art Museum (also directly adjacent to CWRU - the main entrance is in the back) and enjoy the cafe (open 11-4 Tues and Sunday) in the fantastic new atrium.  And see some art - Cleveland is virtually the only city besides DC where the art museum is free.

If you can walk six blocks, meander up Mayfield Road (past the Museum of Contemporary Art) to Little Italy, either for lunch/dinner or just coffee and Italian cookies at Presti's Bakery.

For a lively dinner/nightlife scene, go downtown to 4th Street (betw Euclid and Prospect) - suggest Mabel's BBQ, Pickwick and Frolic, or Red's Steakhouse (around corner on Prospect).

For a slightly mellower dinnertime scene, go to Professor Ave in Tremont to one of the restaurants there (esp Dante's or Fahrenheit - or Lucky's Cafe for great bkfst or lunch, only).

Also, a short drive from CWRU, in the upmarket suburbs to the east, are:
- Balaton restaurant on Shaker Square will give you a wonderful taste of Cleveland's old Hungarian community. 
- Inn on Coventry in Cleveland Heights (in Cleveland's mini Greenwich Village) has basic but good breakfast and lunch (lemon ricotta pancakes...).
- lunch at Brassica (Mediterranean) or Michael's Genuine or one of the other food places at Van Aken Market Hall in Shaker Hts.

There's no need to seek these out on a short visit, but just to reassure you:  CWRU is within a few miles (and short bus ride) of Whole Foods, Target, Saks, a WalMart, a TJ Maxx, a Nordstrom, and a major regional mall. 
  
Cleveland used to be the sixth largest city in the US, and is still the hub of one of the 20 largest combined metro areas in the US.  There's a lot that's there, it's unique and distinctive (Cleveland isn't just another generic corporate community), and it's affordable and accessible.  It also has a reasonably robust and diversified economy if jobs or internships will be part of the college picture.  People who (still?) treat Cleveland like a punchline are just revealing their own ignorance.   If your kid has an aversion to cold weather or snow, yes, Cleveland would be just as challenging as any other Great Lakes or New England city, and if your kid really wants to spend four years in bucolic countryside or in a small "college town," then gritty Cleveland obviously isn't that either.  But as a backdrop to four years of college - and recognizing that one's college location doesn't necessarily have to be where one wants to spend the rest of one's life, or a place where one would pay $1000 a night for a resort holiday, but mostly a place that offers variety when one wants to take a break from classes and studying, and at a price point that works for students rather than millionaires -- then I'd think Cleveland would a great place if CWRU appeals.   For my money it would be an urban wonderland compared to the prospect of four years in New Haven, Providence or Durham NC. 
  
Apologies if i've screwed up the formatting -- first comment on this site.

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This warms my heart. I have such beautiful memories of CWRU and Cleveland.[/quote]

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