For 11 years, DJ Kishka, locally based DJ Kishka has hosted a Polka Happy Hour at the Happy Dog Tavern. He launched the event in 2005 with an impromptu polka jam after polka band that was scheduled to ...

PLYMOUTH — At Midnight Mass, a young man arrived with his family and I noticed he was wearing two red socks. Very festive, I thought, so I stopped him and told him it was good to see him in the ...

A traditional Polka song poses the question, “Someone stole the kishka. Someone stole the kishka. Who stole the kishka, from the butcher’s shop?” Finally, there’s an answer. The U.S. Department of ...

Spelled Kishka or Keeshka or many other ways, depending on the region, it is the name for traditional savory sausages. It’s kind of like Pennsylvania German scrapple and Scottish haggis – products ...

DJ Kishka, beard and all, will be no more after Friday, Dec. 16. (Joshua Gunter, Plain Dealer file) CLEVELAND, Ohio -- It is with a heavy heart I must announce the imminent demise of Cleveland's own ...

As a Cleveland native, I seldom think of Christmas without thinking of Eastern European food specialties. My family was especially fond of stollen and lebkuchen (both of which I still make every year ...

Frankie Yankovic frowns. The gig is about to begin, and a few details aren`t quite right. He glances at his watch. Never mind that this is his retirement party-correct that: semi-retirement party. A ...

When a food inspires a song, you know it's special -- to somebody. And so it is with kishke or kishka, which prompted the polka recorded by Frankie Yankovic in the early '60s and which is being sought ...