10.02-10.09.13
Advocate
This is not a newspaper. Never was. At Cool Cleveland, we don’t just neutrally report the “news.” I would question whether any “news” organization really does. Instead, we curate and advocate for what we think is good for our region, our local economy, our homegrown artists and startups. Which are the same people that use this weekly Cool Cleveland e-blast, our mobile apps, and all the other ways our passion for Cleveland is experienced. You advocate & we pay attention & spread the word & you pay attention & spread it further. It’s nice how we’re in this together. What are we advocating this week? We make our endorsements for the Nov. 5 general election. Spoiler alert: We endorse Jackson for Mayor & YES on the four major issues supporting the Library, the Metroparks, the Port and Health & Human Services. Read our full endorsements and watch the unedited video of our meetings with the candidates and issue representatives. They are advocating for positive change. Give them some of your undivided attention, read our endorsements, then go out and vote anyway you please. But please, vote.
And that’s not all. Zoetic Walls is pushing the envelope this week, which is what artists and entrepreneurs do all the time. Get our version of the story here. And while you’re over at Waterloo, check out two of Cleveland’s newest galleries. Get on your wheels for the Great Cleveland Bike Pull and help some great local bike groups. Cartoonist Chris Ware is at CPL. She Loves Me is at Beck. Goblins In The Garden is at Holden. Ursuline’s Wasmer Gallery re-opens.
We sneak a peek from 10 stories up the Tower at Old Stone Church. The Sustainable Cleveland Summit is this week, and the latest PechaKucha is projected on the wall at CMA. St. Stanislaus holds their Polish Festival, CIA presents multidisciplinary artist Jose Carlos Teixeir & pizza, the Cleveland Half Marathon runs on Sunday, while Opposites Attract at the Morgan Art of Papermaking Conservatory benefit.
I’m hosting a Vinyl Listening Party, a multi-media presentation on the life and music of David Bowie, on Wed 10/9, so mark your calendars. It’s BYOE: Bring Your Own Ears. Downloading our Cool Cleveland app will give you a head start as you explore all 28 cool neighborhoods around here, and could win you $20. Our #CoolCleveland contest will win some event a bunch of free publicity this week, with your help. Go ahead & advocate. It feels good. –Thomas Mulready
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The election is less than six weeks away. The Cuyahoga Board of Elections won’t be sending out applications to vote by mail this year, so you’ll have to request a mail-in ballot yourself here.
Our Cool Cleveland Editorial Board met with the two candidates for Cleveland Mayor and representatives from the four major regional issues that will be on the ballot. You can view the unedited video of our meetings, and read our endorsements by clicking here.
YES on Issue 1 Health & Human Services. Read our endorsement here. View the video here.
YES on Issue 79 Cleveland Library Levy. Read our endorsement here. View the video here.
YES on Issue 80 Cleveland Metroparks. Read our endorsement here. View the video here.
YES on Issue 82 Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority. Read our endorsement here. View the video here.
Frank Jackson for Mayor of Cleveland. Read our endorsement here. View the video here and here.
However you vote, please vote on November 5. Be an advocate for positive change.
Public art and murals aren’t new concepts in Cleveland — there is literally art everywhere you look throughout the city.
However, at the beginning of the summer a public art project called Zoetic Walls began taking over the streets of the Collinwood and has made Waterloo one of the largest concentrations of public art in the region.
To fans of the project, it’s like living in a giant, open-air art gallery. However, a small but passionate minority in the community have been strongly opposed to the imagery…
More from Josh Usmani here
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SPONSORED: Boo! Bring the Kids to Goblins in the Garden at the Holden Arboretum Sat 10/5 and Sun 10/6. Dress in costume for trick-or-treating and other fun fall traditions including a visit to scarecrow row and a ride on the tractor. For more info visit HoldenArb.org.
Cleveland artist Anna Arnold wins the first Arts Education award at the Icons of Art Party at the Renaissance Cleveland on Sat 09.27.13 as Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio announces their new identity: The Center for Arts-Inspired Learning.
Listen as Arnold explains how this 60 year-old organization serves students with arts education integrated with their curriculum, and helps artists earn a living by teaching. YANEO.org
SPONSORED: Fall Ball: An Artistic Affair Join Cleveland’s young professionals for a night of culture and creativity at United Way Young Leaders’ annual gala Fall Ball on Sat 10/5 from 8PM to midnight at MOCA, the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland. Enjoy an art-filled night of food, endless cocktails, fabulous silent auction dancing and access to MOCA’s galleries, to benefit a great cause! For tickets and more information: UnitedWayCleveland.org/FallBall
In the ’70s there was a popular commercial that found a wise owl asking how many licks does it take to reach the center of a Tootsie Pop.
The same inquisitive nature is behind the inaugural Great Cleveland Bike Pull, which takes place Sat 10/5 at Slavic Village’s Cleveland Velodrome…
More from John Benson here
SPONSORED: Cleveland Public Library, together with Octavofest, welcomes award-winning comic book author and illustrator, Chris Ware, to its Writers & Readers stage Sat 10/5 at 2PM, at Main Library. Quimby the Mouse, Rusty Brown, Building Stories, and Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth are just a few of the ground-breaking characters he has created. CPL.org
Join us on Wed 10/9 for a special free talk hosted by CC’s Thomas Mulready with video, rare photos & needle drops on vinyl LPs from Ziggy Stardust to 2013’s The Next Day at BW’s Gamble Auditorium.
SPONSORED: Around The Corner, at 18616 Detroit Avenue in Lakewood, and 87.7 Cleveland’s Sound are traveling back to the ’70s to bring you The Dating Game! This is your chance to watch love blossom, as Archie helps two young people find true love. And, you can stick around for the afterparty and enter for your chance to be on the next Dating Game show! Tune in all next week to win tickets. For more info, visit 877cleveland.com
How lucky!
Beth Giuliano, Director of Arts & Community Development for Old Stone Church leads Cool Cleveland’s Thomas Mulready on an exclusive tour of the belltower of the most famous church in Cleveland, celebrating its 193rd birthday.
Follow along as we ascend 10 stories straight up to the clocktower that can be seen for miles around.
Cool Cleveland attended the Icons Of Art Party that The Center for Arts-Inspired Learning threw at the Renaissance on Fri 9/27/13 to celebrate their 60th anniversary, make some awards, and announce their new name.
Formerly Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio, the new moniker inspired some responses from attendees. Read more.
SPONSORED: Good for the body, Good for the soul! Old Stone Church, Cleveland’s Original Rock since 1820, is taking it to the streets at the Rock ‘n’ Roll Half Marathon; live music from the Living Stones rock band and renowned Old Stone Choir. Sun 10/6. Public Square. Main stage 9:30AM. OldStoneChurch.org
@Coolcleveland Follow us on Twitter or Instagram and earn a chance to have your favorite Cleveland events publicized by Cool Cleveland. For free! We’ll pick a winner, and promote the event of your your choice, and also provide live coverage of the event on the day-of.
How to play: On Wednesday tweet or Instagram the event that you are most excited to attend this week using #CoolCleveland, and make it convincing! We will pick our favorite tweet/tweeter on Thursday and reward them by publicizing their event and their tweet. Include photos, fun, stories, locations, links and everything in between. Have fun!
SPONSORED: One Night Only! Violinists Mark O’Connor and Kelly Hall-Thompkins, violist Gillian Gallagher and cellist Patrice Jackson, the O’Connor String Quartet, are among the most talented string players on the chamber music scene. CIM and CMA combined resources to bring this foursome to Cleveland for one night only! For tickets, call 216.421.7350 or ClevelandArt.org.
You don’t find “angry women” just on the pop charts. Classical music is rife with them as well. In its season-opening program Women Scorned, Cleveland chamber music ensemble Les Delices will unleash their destructive fury in music, abetted by Chicago mezzo-soprano Angela Young Smucker. Sat 10/5-Sun 10/6.
Read more picks by Anastasia Pantsios here
The massive changes taking place in Collinwood’s historic Waterloo Arts District are evident as soon as you drive down Waterloo — itself in the middle of a dramatic makeover. Many new businesses are springing up or moving in from other cities; with more on the way.
The two newest art galleries in Collinwood are the Maria Neil Art Project and Gallery 160 & we talk to both galleries’ owners…
More from Josh Usmani here
SPONSORED: HEX Party is Not To Be Missed Join MOCA Cleveland on Sat 10/12 and celebrate their first year in their fabulous new space. At 9PM, catch Chicago-based j.viewz, indulge in a dessert bar, and bid on art by local artists in the silent auction ($75 Nonmembers/$50 Members). Then at 11PM, hear mad mashups by Brooklyn’s The Hood Internet ($25 General). Party goes until 1am. MOCAcleveland.org.
Goblins in the Garden Holden Arboretum knows how to throw a quality Halloween bash. Dress up & walk the trick-or-treat trail surrounded by the most gorgeous scenery in NEO.
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Somebody receives a $20 check from Cool Cleveland every week, just for using our mobile app. It may as well be you.
This week, John Lanigan is our winner. And he’s thrilled:
“Wow! What a surprise. Cleveland is Cool even when it’s Hot! There is so much to do here in the summer and Cool Cleveland tells you about great events you may not be aware of. Please donate my $20 to the Center for Innovation & Growth at Baldwin Wallace University. Our students are the Coolest in Cleveland!”
Ready to show your love for Cleveland? Just download Cool Cleveland’s free mobile app for your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch or for your Android tablet or smartphone, then find cool events, news and videos to share with your friends on Facebook, Twitter and email.
WED 10/2
Rally for Reproductive Rights Trek down to C-bus to rally the statehouse. Dubbed We Won’t Go Back Ohio, the rally’s cosponsored by more than 50 groups & will feature speakers & plenty of justified anger.
Click here for more events on Wed 10/2
THU 10/3
Green the 216 Attend the 2013 Sustainable Cleveland Summit & work to make our city a more eco-friendly community, with a focus on Advanced & Renewable Energy.
Click here for more events on Thu 10/3
FRI 10/4
PechaKucha joins CMA’s MIX for quite possibly the most inspirational happy hour ever. Hear visual-infused lectures by speakers — including Mansfield Frazier! — on their muses, passions & projects.
Click here for more events on Fri 10/4
SAT 10/5
West Clinton Historic Haunts is back this Fri & Sat. Take the whole fam to this somewhat spooky, fully educational, highly entertaining tour in Gordon Square. Meet interesting characters of Cle’s past. Expect madness & mayhem.
Click here for more events on Sat 10/5
SUN 10/6
Rock This Half Marathon! Take part in a half marathon/3.5 mile run starting at the Rock Hall. Get lots of swag, get fit & support good causes.
Click here for more events on Sun 10/6
MON 10/7
District 97 @ Winchester Chi progressive rock band District 97, which includes former AI competitor (!), singer Leslie Hunt, blends original pop melodies w/ ambitious progressive rock instrumentals.
Click here for more events on Mon 10/7
TUE 10/8
Cle bassist Bill Barnett will be leading a hell of a band into Nighttown this week, a quintet w/ awesome chops & experience miles deep.
Click here for more events on Tue 10/8
WED 10/9
Akron native Tim Easton has built a career as a singer-songwriter in the Americana scene. He’s coming home w/ Cle’s Brent Kirby opening.
Click here for more events on Wed 10/9
Send your cool events to: Events@CoolCleveland.com
I didn’t want to know what happened in the house on Imperial Avenue, but it was no accident that I met Rob Sberna at a party.
Despite my reluctance to read his book, once I started reading House of Horrors: The Shocking True Story of Anthony Sowell, the Cleveland Strangler, I felt I was in good hands as a reader…
More from Claudia Taller here
I quit making jokes about “slipping into my dotage” once it actually began to happen. While I was blessed to inherit a middling amount of intelligence from my parents, what made me a pretty good student in the classroom had more to do with my memory.
I used to have what amounted to an almost photographic one… but alas, no more…
Read this story and others from Mansfield Frazier here
I look for my musical roots wherever I can find them. My grandmother played piano at a white Baptist church in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Not bad, I’d say…
More from Bert Stratton here
Time to celebrate! It’s easy to find the coolest EVENTS, NEWS & VIDEOS right on your mobile device, then make a few clicks and show your affection by posting your faves to your Facebook page, your Twitter feed or to an email you can tweak.
Just download our FREE mobile app for your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch or for your Android tablet or smartphone, then find cool events, news and videos, personally curated by Cool Cleveland.
From Coventry to Canton, Ohio City to Oberlin, Youngstown to Waterloo, PlayhouseSquare to Highland Square, from the Lake Erie Islands to Lake & Ashtabula counties… if there’s cool stuff happening, it’ll be on your mobile device.
Download your free iPhone or Android app now and celebrate the region.
We have a new convention center. But we lost our historic Mall.
Now we’ll have a double whammy. We face a money-losing Convention Center and Cuyahoga County promises to build and own a big money-losing hotel…
Read this story and others from Roldo Bartimole here
You’ve got to see it to believe it. A huge peacock leads a parade of bizarre, surreal figures right off Detroit Avenue into the Beck Center’s front door. The Procession by Montreal artist Natasha Turovsky is is the 4th mural in a series installed on the walls of the West Side’s largest arts complex. And things have just gotten exponentially more interesting.
Quick previews & reviews of recent events
Submit your own preview, review or commentary to Events@CoolCleveland.com
Comment on our blog here: http://www.CoolCleveland.com/blog
MANSFIELD: Will Anyone Benefit From Community Benefits? I LOVE Organized Labor. I love my union. Unfortunately, I know, everything you said is true. As always, you have a keen insight Mansfield….
Read the comment from Bill Wiltrack here
Trinity Cathedral Brown Bag Concerts Kick Off Fall Season Hope to come. Todd Wison is a fine organist and musician and look forward to hearing the Amethyst quartet (new to me)….
Read the comment from Jean Sommer here
Why the Skywalk Won The viewscape down Ontario to the County Courthouse, as you enter the downtown, expresses (like all cultural landscapes) the values of the community. Poised at an entry to the downtown of Cleveland, the skywalk to the casino indicates, obviously and emphatically, that gambling is more important than civic engagement….
Read the comment from William Busta here
ROLDO: Billionaire Pickpockets – Your Pocket, Please These billionaire owners have made their money various ways and see that they can make more by extorting cities with the threat of taking the franchise out of town. What is needed is a national law that stops sports facilities from being built from tax money….
Read the comment from Patrick here
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Most clicked
Here are the Top 5 most clicked links from last week’s issue, with one more chance for you to click.
1) Try a Restaurant Crawl
2) How Sprawl Has Hurt Indians Attendance
3) MANSFIELD: Will Anyone Benefit From Community Benefits?
4) ROLDO: Billionaire Pickpockets – Your Pocket, Please
5) Techtoberfest is Wrapped Up in Failure
Kudos to our writers: Roldo Bartimole, John Benson, Martin Bielat, Larry Durstin, Mansfield Frazier, Anastasia Pantsios, Richey Piiparinen, Bert Stratton, Claudia Taller, Josh Usmani and Sarah Valek. And lastly, though certainly not least, thanks to our readers and everyone who partners with us. Want to volunteer and contribute your writing to Cool Cleveland? Send your reviews, articles, or story ideas to: Events@CoolCleveland.com.
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–Thomas Mulready
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