‘NightOwls’ Examines the Character of Coventry

By Margi Herwald
Staff Reporter, Cleveland Jewish News

When Susan (Donna Casey), a college freshman, leaves the safety of her small town for the big city of Cleveland in 1973, she has no idea what she's getting into...

RUSSIAN TRIP FULFILLS CLEVELAND COMPOSER

By Donald Rosenberg
Plain Dealer Music Critic

Every piece of music is a journey of some kind.

Dennis Eberhard's "Shadow of the Swan" travels well beyond mere tonal regions to pay tribute to real-life expeditions that ended in tragedy. The Cleveland composer created his three-movement work for piano and orchestra in response to the 1986 Challenger space-shuttle disaster and the 2000 Kursk catastrophe...

24 Frame News. In Production - NightOwls of Coventry

SUNDANCE CHANNEL

Originally from Portland, filmmaker Laura Paglin eventually found a home and a story idea for her first feature film, NIGHTOWLS OF COVENTRY, in Cleveland, Ohio. Paglin explains, “There is a two-block strip called Coventry, which was a sort of mini Greenwich Village in Cleveland. The bulk of the film takes place in Marv’s deli, a 24-Hour spot that’s essentially a home to lost souls...

Shooting for Success

Cleveland Plain Dealer

LOCAL FILMMAKER TAKING OWN SCRIPT TO THE SCREEN

[CLEVELAND] In front of a cozy art theater, a pair of community activists in fashionably casual '70s dress handed out fliers, urging passers-by to boycott a 24-hour neighborhood deli. Across the street, filmmaker Laura Paglin of Cleveland Heights squinted into the camera as a red Thunderbird whizzed by. Several blocks away, a half-dozen bikers revved up their motorcycles...

Dairy to be set of Hippie Coventry

By Jeff Sikorovsky, Staff Writer
The Sun Press

CLEVELAND HEIGHTS – “The NightOwls of Coventry” have swooped down on the former Hillside Dairy plant and will be there for the next two months. NightOwl Productions, a local independent film company, leased the dairy from the city last week for $2,000 a month. It is transforming the dairy into a soundstage and production studio to film “The NightOwls of Coventry”...

She gives ‘NightOwls’ wings

By Jeff Sikorovsky, Staff Writer
The Sun Press

Filmmaker Laura Paglin wants her first full-length feature, “The NightOwls of Coventry,” to preserve the sense of community that helped define Coventry Village in the early 1970s.

“It’s an example of a street that survived as best it could and successfully retained some character without turning into a strip mall,” she said. “There’s an interesting mix of people in this city”...

Whooo are the NightOwls of Coventry?

By Jeffrey Levick
Cleveland Jewish News

“You Must Order Within Ten Minutes,” notes a handwritten sign hanging on the wall of a Coventry Road delicatessen, circa 1973. The odor of cigarette smoke hangs in the air as Holocaust survivors kibitz inside a sticky brown vinyl booth that’s seen better days. Deli owner, Marv, eyes the new waitress, despite backlash from Grace, Marv’s (who’s married) longtime lover and hostess...