CLEVELAND, Ohio – We look at what Salt+ owners Jessica Parkison and Jill Vedaa are up to, plus Dinner and Deck the Hall is scheduled at Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens in Akron and A Brewer’s Eve is coming up in Lorain. Here’s our 5-minute food-drinks chat with WTAM’s Bill Wills.

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Busy times for restaurateurs Parkison, Vedaa

Jessica Parkison and Jill Vedaa are forging ahead with big restaurant news for 2023. In addition to their acclaimed Salt+ restaurant in Lakewood, they are planning on opening Evelyn in the former Spice Kitchen in Cleveland’s Gordon Square neighborhood and recently announced they are moving into the former Felice Urban Café on the city’s east side.: About Parkison and Vedaa’s restaurant ventures

Dinner and Deck the Hall planned

The folks at Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens have scheduled four nights in December for Dinner and Deck the Hall. Buffet dinner will be served in the manor house, and the estate – former home of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. founder FA Seiberling – will be open for its annual Deck the Hall holiday display. This year’s theme is “Gracious Gatherings.” About Dinner and Deck the Hall

A Brewer’s Eve set for this weekend in Lorain

If you are craving one more beer-tasting event before the end of the year, A Brewer’s Eve is scheduled at The Shipyards in Lorain with breweries, a winery and cider offering sips. It’s the second annual event: About A Brewer’s Eve

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Looking through Alysia Magen’s Instagram page, you’d think the model and content creator lived a perfect, idyllic life.

But behind closed doors, she spent years “barely functioning” and battling alcoholism.

Magen, a US Air Force veteran, shares sultry snaps with her 1.5 million followers. In contrast to the façade she’d carefully built, however, the creator was drinking up to “10 bottles of wine a day” — and was killing himself because of it.

“I didn’t know I was an alcoholic, I thought it was just something to manage anxiety,” the 33-year-old told Jam Press, admitting that she drank “from morning until night” as a coping mechanism for reportedly being physically , emotionally and financially abused by ex-partners.

“I would wake up in the morning shaking from withdrawal,” Magen continued. “At the time I thought that was a panic attack and I would start drinking shooters (spirits) as soon as I woke up.”

According to Magen, she began drinking when she was in the military, with her alcoholism getting worse after she was allegedly demoted for posting a sexy snap of herself on Instagram, alongside one of her in military uniform.

The model — who is now six months sober — said her peers ostracized her as