Cleveland Cultural Gardens

Talk about painless giving.  Here it is. Start Thursday evening, September 24, between 5:30 PM and 7:30 PM in Jimmy O’Neills restaurant on Lee Road at Cedar in Cleveland Hts.  $15 per person gets you a meal of salmon, pork tenderloin, crab cakes, pecan encrusted chicken or spinach tart with potatoes or rice and mescalun salad with strawberries.  Follow that with a whipped cream cake together with beverages & coffee.  Again, that is all for $15, period.  For another $3, wine or Campari.  Eat well for the next event, a film, has a heroine who does more pastries than you can believe.  Wander two doors north at 7:30 PM for the award winning Italian film “Facing Windows”.  Winner of nineteen Italian Oscars (David di Donatello awards) and 16 nominations.  New York Times “Critic’s Pick” which compared it to Hitchcock’s “Rear Window” and “Vertigo” as well as “The Garden of the Finzi-Continis”.  Some film! Admission is $10 for the film.  In Italian with English subtitles.  Metered parking in back of the theater, Cedar-Lee, and restaurant. TICKETS BY ADVANCE RESERVATION ONLY;  440-527-0644.  Call now while the ticket and food reservations are still available.  Check out the remaining two films in this series, too.  See following posts.