Tour holiday homes
A couple of home tours today give you the chance to peek inside houses dressed for the holidays.
The Sugar Plum Tour, a fundraiser for the Akron Community Foundation’s Gay Community Endowment Fund, features five Akron-area homes open from 2 to 5:30 p.m. Tickets are $25 and are available at Angel Falls Coffee Co., 792 W. Market St., Akron.
In Medina, five historical homes and two other buildings are open from noon to 5 p.m. for the Medina Community Design Committee’s Holiday Home Tour. Admission is $20 at the Western Reserve Bank drive-through, 4015 Medina Road (11:55 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. only); United Church of Christ, Congregational on the northeast corner of the town square; or Munson House, 141 Prospect St.
Divine design
Love contemporary design? Check out Lounge: Home Decor + Furniture Design Showcase, a sale of contemporary furniture and home accents from 5 to 10 p.m. Friday at the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, 11400 Euclid Ave. Demonstrations, music and a cash bar will enhance the shopping experience. MOCA members get in free; others pay $10. Details are at www.MOCA cleveland.org.
At the movies
Alfred Hitchcock has been portrayed recently in HBO’s The Girl and the new big-screen Hitchcock, coming to the Cleveland area on Friday. But you can get a taste of the master director’s own work as it was meant to be seen, in theaters, with showings of the 3-D version of Dial M for Murder at the Capitol Theatre at 10 a.m. today, Rear Window at Chagrin Cinemas at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Strangers on a Train in Shaker Square Cinemas at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday and Psycho in the Cedar Lee at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.
In your paper
Coming Wednesday: A special section devoted to holiday cookies, featuring two dozen recipes submitted by readers.
Get cooking
Ever wanted to learn about Indian food?
You’ll have an opportunity from 7 to 9:30 p.m. Thursday at the Quirk Cultural Center, 1201 Grant St., Cuyahoga Falls, when Subhash Agarwal will teach Indian cooking classes.
Thursday’s classes will demonstrate vegetarian dishes: saag paneer, daal makhani, and papad and basmati rice, and include tasting all of the dishes. Call the center at 330-971-8425 to register. Classes are $33 for residents, $35 for nonresidents.
