Where To See Fall Migration in Northeast Ohio This Season: CLE Daily

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🍽️ Ohio City's Rosy Named a NYT Favorite Restaurant in America: Rosy, the live-fire bistro from chef Vinnie Cimino and partner Andrew Walls, made The New York Times' 50 Favorite Restaurants in the United States for 2026, the only Cleveland pick on a list that otherwise leans toward Manhattan, Chicago and L.A. "Nobody expects us to make this list. It's the coolest thing, to be able to put our city on the national stage," Cimino says. The pair also runs Cordelia Downtown.

🏒 Cleveland Heights' Laila Edwards Signs With PWHL San Jose: Laila Edwards, the Cleveland Heights native, signed a three-year deal with PWHL San Jose, the team's fourth overall pick, running through the 2028-29 season. Edwards helped Team USA win gold at the Milan-Cortina Olympics and starred at Wisconsin, winning three NCAA championships and racking up 199 points in 151 games.

🏀 15 Cavs Games Are Coming to Free TV This Season: The Cleveland Cavaliers, Gray Media and DAZN struck a deal to simulcast 15 regular-season games free and over-the-air in 2026-27 — a tripling of the Cavs games previously available without a subscription. Games will air locally on WOIO (CBS 19) and WUAB (MyNet 43) and statewide on Rock Entertainment Sports Network.

🛒 Buehler's Rolls Its Grocery-Rescue App Out to All 14 Stores: Local grocer Buehler's Fresh Foods is expanding discount app Flashfood chainwide across Northeast Ohio, following a three-store pilot that launched in May. Shoppers browse marked-down produce, meat, dairy, bakery items and prepared foods nearing their sell-by date; Flashfood says Northeast Ohio users have already saved $2.4 million on groceries this year and kept more than 1 million pounds of food out of landfills. The expansion lands with grocery prices still running about 33% above 2019 levels — a $150 cart in 2019 now runs closer to $200, per NPR.

ICYMI: Remember when Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse rebranded to Rocket Arena, aligning the building with Rocket's company-wide name change? Today's Cavs streaming deal runs through that same Rocket-branded network — Rock Entertainment Sports Network — another sign of how much the arena's ownership group has consolidated under one roof.

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Travel & Outdoors: Monarchs, warblers, bats and dragonflies are all moving through Northeast Ohio right now on their fall migrations.

By Christina Rufo

Fall migration is underway across the region, with monarch butterflies and dragonflies hitting peak migration this month before tapering off by late September, while birds — plus lesser-known travelers like eastern red, silver-haired and hoary bats — keep passing through into mid- to late October.

Why We're a Rest Stop: Cleveland's spot along Lake Erie, with pockets of green space at Wendy Park, East 55th Street Marina, Cleveland Lakefront Nature Preserve, Euclid Beach and Wildwood Park, gives tired travelers somewhere to refuel. "They're the first patch of green space that these birds, bats, dragonflies see when they're coming over," says Jake Kudrna of Cleveland Metroparks' Watershed Stewardship Center. "We call them these little migrant traps."

A Continental Journey: Ohio is just one stop for eastern monarchs, which gather as far north as southern Canada before heading to their overwintering grounds in Mexico. "Right now, I feel like we're kind of experiencing that peak migration season in the upper Midwest part of the range," says Wendy Caldwell of Monarch Joint Venture. The population rebounded 64% at its Mexico overwintering sites this year but remains well below historic levels.

How To Help From Your Yard: Kudrna recommends planting native fall bloomers like goldenrod, New England aster and boneset — there's still time this season — along with turning off unnecessary outdoor lights, adding bird-safe window treatments and installing rain gardens. "Planting native plants is the simplest and quickest way to provide habitat," he says.

Worth Noting: Mornings and evenings at the lakefront parks offer the best odds of spotting monarchs clustering before their next leg south, and you can log sightings with Journey North to help track the migration.

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Talk of the Town

Ohio's new school report cards landed today, and CMSD's overall rating slipped. The district dropped to 2.5 stars from 3, part of a statewide dip tied to a stricter way of counting third-grade reading promotions — proficiency is down about five points across Ohio under the new formula. CMSD still posted gains in several subjects, with students topping pre-pandemic proficiency rates in high school English, Algebra 1 and U.S. Government. 

Cleveland is ground zero for Ohio Space Week starting today. The AAS Glenn Space Technology Symposium kicks off a five-day run at Cleveland State University, with NASA Glenn Research Center experts joined by OrbitOhio and others to talk moon bases, space nuclear power and the business of space. Free NASA Discovery Days follow at Great Lakes Science Center.

A new documentary on voting accessibility premieres locally this weekend. Cleveland VOTES' "Accessibility and the Ballot" screens Saturday as part of the Greater Cleveland Urban Film Festival's "Stories of Resistance" program, exploring the barriers voters with disabilities face. Hands That Speak Volumes, Cleveland Hearing and Speech Center, and Linking Employment and Abilities produced it. 

Cleveland-Cliffs locked in labor peace with its steelworkers this month. The Cleveland-based steelmaker reached a 47-month contract covering 2,000 United Steelworkers on Sept. 9, following an Aug. 27 four-year deal for another 12,000 workers — together covering roughly 14,000 employees, more than half the company's workforce. 

Repairs are finally starting on the Brookpark Road bridge, closed since Sept. 3. Crews begin work this week on the floor beams supporting the driving surface of the state Route 17 span over the Metroparks' Valley Parkway, after ODOT shut it down over deterioration in the support columns. The bridge, between West 220th Street and NASA Parkway, isn't expected to reopen until Thanksgiving; eastbound traffic is detoured via Clague Road to I-480, westbound via Grayton Road.

Cleveland's St. Patrick's Day Parade is moving off Superior Avenue for the first time in decades. The 2027 parade steps off from Playhouse Square instead, starting at East 17th and Euclid under the district's outdoor chandelier before winding through East 14th, Prospect, Ontario, Public Square and back up Superior to a new reviewing stand near East 3rd. The change follows nearly two years of talks with the city over the $24.5 million Midway Project's new bikeway median on Superior, which organizers said would leave too little room for floats and marching units.

Things To Do: Rush, The Cleveland Orchestra, books and more.

By Jeff Niesel

Rush at Rocket Arena | Music | Sept. 17, 19

The Canadian progressive rock trio brings its anticipated reunion tour to Rocket Arena. Expect to hear hits such as "The Spirit of the Radio" and "Limelight" alongside deep cuts from 2112. The group performs at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday and Saturday nights. One Center Court, Cleveland, 216-420-2000, rocketarena.com

The Cleveland Orchestra's Season-Opening Concert | Music | Sept. 17, 20

Music Director Franz Welser-Möst begins his final season with the Cleveland Orchestra with Thursday's concert at Mandel Concert Hall. It begins at 7:30 p.m. South African soprano Golda Schultz guests. The concert repeats at 3 p.m. on Sunday. 11001 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, 216-231-1111, clevelandorchestra.com 

Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards at Maltz Performing Arts Center | Books | Sept. 18

The annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards ceremony returns to the Maltz Performing Arts Center for a fifth consecutive year. The event will honor the 2026 winners for poetry, nonfiction, memoir and fiction. Nell Irvin Painter will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award. It begins at 6:30 p.m. 1855 Ansel Road, Cleveland, 216-368-6062, case.edu

Crocker Park Wine Festival | Food & Drink | Sept. 18-19

This annual two-day event at Crocker Park will feature samples of more than 150 wine varieties as well as beer, food and music. Proceeds benefit University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital. Hours are 4-10 p.m. on Friday, and 2-10 p.m. on Saturday. 189 Crocker Park Blvd., Westlake, crockerpark.com

Pandemonium at Cleveland Public Theatre | Arts | Sept. 19

Cleveland Public Theatre's annual fundraiser returns with the theme of "under construction." Expect theater, dance and visual art at this self-proclaimed "feast for the eyes, mind, appetite and imagination." 6415 Detroit Ave., Cleveland, 216-631-2727, cptonline.org 

For our full list of things to do, visit clevelandmagazine.com/things-to-do.

Yesterday's Trivia Answer 

Finish this lyric by Bob “Mad Dog” McGuire to a song later sung by Drew Carey for his TV show: “Get her past those radar Mounties, bring her to Lake County…” Moon over Parma tonight!

Check back tomorrow for the answer to today's question.

From the Editor

I've gotta give a quick shout-out to Literary Cleveland for last week's expansive Inkubator writing conference. I was only able to make it to Colson Whitehead's keynote, but it is the best keynote event I've ever been to — complete with great food, a few Star Wars bits and a "MacArthur Park" singalong. 

I'm looking forward to checking out more of the organization's upcoming events! 

— Annie Nickoloff, Senior Editor

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