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Billy Hallal
Billy Hallal is a writer, tutor, and occasional barback in Cleveland. He writes fiction you can find at The Normal School and Fiction Southeast and nonfiction you can find on this very website.
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Articles by Billy
Food & Drink
By Billy Hallal

The Best Breweries in Richmond

Raise a glass, Richmond: you’re America’s Beer City.

By Billy Hallal

Beverage Director
By Billy Hallal

The Best Places to Drink in Cleveland Right Now

Cleveland is a beer town.

By Billy Hallal

Events
By Billy Hallal

Everything You Must Do in Cleveland This Winter

You don’t need us to warn you about the colder months in CLE.

By Billy Hallal

Events
By Billy Hallal

Everything You Need to Do in Cleveland This Holiday Season

Holiday season in Cleveland: Public Square trees alight, Great Lakes Christmas Ale pouring, and leg lamps burning in every window (did you know A Christmas Story was filmed here?

By Billy Hallal

Travel
By Billy Hallal

Actually Cool Things to Do in Columbus, Ohio

Let’s all agree, we don’t need to start every discussion of Columbus with how “surprisingly cool” it is.

By Billy Hallal

Key to the City
By Billy Hallal

Where to Go Out in the Flats, Cleveland's Newest/Oldest Riverfront Spot

The Flats is on the rise: That’s the Cleveland line today.

By Billy Hallal

Lifestyle
By Multiple Authors

30 Romantic Cleveland Date Ideas to Go on Right Now

You can only go on so many Tinder dates in dim, trendy bars and, um, bright, trendy bars before the monotony sets in.

By Multiple Authors

Travel
By Billy Hallal

Actually Cool Things to Do in Cleveland

The rest of the nation is slowly learning what denizens of the Land have known for years: Cleveland is actually a pretty cool place.

By Billy Hallal

Food & Drink
By Billy Hallal

The Best Restaurants in Columbus

Located in the heart of The Heart of It All, Columbus is a city with many overlapping identities: state capital, college town, and, yes, food city.

By Billy Hallal

Food & Drink
By Billy Hallal

The Best Places to Watch the FIFA World Cup in Cleveland

No matter how divided our nation might get, we at least have this in common: Every four years, we’ll enthusiastically convene in bars and struggle to remember the rules of soccer.

By Billy Hallal

Lifestyle
By Billy Hallal

The Most Haunted Places in All of Ohio

You can’t call a place “The Heart of It All” and expect it not to have a dark side.

By Billy Hallal

Lifestyle
By Billy Hallal

Ohio Small Towns That Are Worth the Trip This Summer

To the rest of the world, Ohio looks like the heart of small-town provinciality.

By Billy Hallal