Sunshine Ahead

If grey is Your Color, Cleveland is Your City. Especially while rain is moving along the Lake Erie shore. It should end this afternoon, replaced by sunshine. The forecast for tomorrow's St. Patrick's Day Parade: Sunny and 60.

PS: The high-rise housing I mentioned yesterday is a mixed-use development: Sparrows and grackles.

Housing Boom in Downtown Cleveland

Our downtown digs at the Idea Center afford a private view of a new condo development under construction. The location, location, location is way above ground. A sparrow stands sentry at the top of the high-rise. Other sparrows fly in and out of several vertical gaps in the corrugated metal annex of the building next door.

If birds had real-estate listings, this one would read: "Urban high-rise near Lake Erie. Build your own or take over previously-occupied unit needing twigs and TLC."

You Numbskull...Hand Me My Cue

There's a reason it was called the Palace. The most opulent of the Playhouse Square theaters had, in addition to this palatial lobby, a backstage beauty parlor, billiards room and day care, in addition to the swankiest dressing rooms on the vaudeville circuit. Moe Howard of The Three Stooges, not exactly an exponent of style and taste, did credit the Palace in Cleveland for being the most hospitable theater in the country, nyuk-nyuk-nyuk.