Syrup with a side of history
Satisfy your sweet tooth while you learn about maple syrup production at Hale Farm & Village. After a pancake brunch, see tapping demonstrations and sap boiling on the grounds of the history museum within Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Hale Farm鈥檚 continues Saturdays and Sundays in March, 10 a.m. 鈥� 3 p.m.
Topical comedy
Alonzo Bodden regularly is on the panel of NPR鈥檚 humous news quiz show 鈥淲ait Wait鈥� Don鈥檛 Tell Me!鈥� He brings his comical take on current events to Cleveland for Downtown on Friday and Saturday. And if you dig jazz, you鈥檒l enjoy that he recently recorded a special with Grammy Award-winning bassist Christian McBride.
鈥榃oman Behind the Lens鈥�
Frances Benjamin Johnston is in the spotlight more than a century after she trained in Paris and set up a photo studio in Washington, D.C. The McKinley Presidential Library & Museum in Canton honors this trailblazing photographer and her work capturing four U.S. presidents as well as Southern life. is on view through May 31.
Millennial nostalgia
Former classmates pre-game on a porch before their high school reunion coming out of the pandemic in The dark comedy taps into the nervous energy of reuniting as these millennials must face the past and future. It鈥檚 also a play about adults for adults 鈥� there is a content advisory for audiences. Catch a performance now through April 4 at Dobama Theatre in Cleveland Heights.
Create with clay
Instead of dinner and a movie, spend Friday night trying your hand 鈥� literally 鈥� at something new. Wheelhouse Studio in Medina hosts a in making a pot for a plant. Learn how to roll, smooth, slip and score in the warehouse from 6-8 p.m. The experts will finish the pot with a glaze of your choice and a plant from their neighbor, Gift Mill Run. Registration is required.
