05.13-05.20.15
Extreme Zen
The thing about our town is… there is no thing. No one thing, anyway. It’s always something unexpected. Are you that enlightened being who can see all sides of this place? A bohemian bodhisattva?Experience the yin and the yang of our town by visiting both the Cleveland Asian Festival and the Hessler Street Fair on the same day. If you dare. Catch us at one or the other and make a cameo in our video. Now that the festival season is under way, follow CoolCleveland to stay in the loop week by week. Our Cool Neighborhoods guide works in dozens of cool places, including Asiatown and University Circle. Breathe deeply and take a dive in.
Contemplate Chilean photographer Antonia Cruz’s Remnants + Fragments at Cleveland Print Room; practice yoga at Music Box Supper Club with kombucha; become one with nature at the Beekeeper’s Field Day at the Fairgrounds; watch karma smile on Pat’s in the Flats owner Pat Hanych as she celebrate her 75th; eat from the fruits of life as Mustard Seed Market opens their 3rd location; get the perfect buzz at Harness Cycle’s Cleveland Is My OM: yoga, garden-fresh cocktails and farm-to-table munchies.
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It’s hard to believe Cleveland’s Asian presence once consisted of a block-long “Chinatown.” AsiaTown today is a riot of cultures, including Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Korean and Vietnamese with restaurants like #1 Pho, featuring businesses of all types mostly owned by immigrant Clevelanders. Two large shopping plazas, Asia Plaza and the Asian Town Center, offer many shops and businesses in a single location. And AsiaTown overlaps the St. Clair/Superior Arts District, where arts businesses such as Zygote Press, the Cleveland Print Room and Morgan Art of Papermaking have set up shop. Visit CoolCleveland’s AsiaTown Cool Neighborhood for more permanent listings of restaurants, galleries and other cool destinations.
Visit this weekend to sample the neighborhood’s lively cultural and culinary offerings at the 6th annual Cleveland Asia Festival Sat 5/16 and Sun 5/17. CoolCleveland will be there shooting a video; catch us and you might make a cameo.
Chilean photographer Antonia Cruz came to Cleveland for a three-month residency as one of the artists hosted by the Cleveland Print Room as part of the Cleveland Foundation’s Creative Fusion program. She took note of the city’s stubborn east side/west side divide and use it as material for the body of work she created here, using strands of hair provided by Clevelanders.
The resulting show, Remnants + Fragments, opens at the Cleveland Print Room with receptions Thu 5/14 & Fri 5/15.
The summer festival season gets in full swing with the Hessler Street Fair, a delightful anachronism amid the new development just a block away at University Circle’s Uptown. Eat wholesome local food and browse crafts made by Cleveland artisans; find out what area organizations are doing to build a better world; spend some time with your kids at the Harmony Park; and of course, listen to timeless music played by some of the best local rock, reggae, blues, folk, soul and world music from 11am to dusk Sat 5/16 & Sun 5/17. It’s a tie-dyed slice of the ’60s.
Homebuyer Education Orientation Take the first steps towards achieving your dream of home ownership. Our classes will show you how to afford your dream home, keep your dream home, and avoid losing your dream home. Begin that journey by seeking the knowledge that will aid you in your quest for homeownership. Before setting off to find the perfect house, know that the certified, professional counselors from Neighborhood Housing Services of Greater Cleveland are available to help you. See more here.
Next class is Mon 5/18, conveniently held at the NHS of Greater Cleveland HomeOwnership Center at 5700 Broadway Avenue. Get more details here.
Business gurus Suzy and Jack Welch spoke at a packed event at Cleveland’s Intercontinental Hotel sponsored by the Cleveland Clinic. They shared their extensive experience and successful business practices and left the crowd, which included area business students, uplifted, informed, charged up and inspired. CoolCleveland’s Alex Sukhoy, MBA, college instructor and career coach, reports on the event.
You might not think of nightclubs and yoga as a natural combination. But 50-75 people have been making the trip to the Music Box Supper Club for their sessions led by teachers from various area yoga studios. There’s plenty of room to spread out in the spacious club, and each session is followed by a mix-and-mingle period. This month, locally based Bearded Buch Kombacha will have their products available for sample and purchase. Fri 5/15.
Beekeepers Field Day is a family-oriented event that aims to alleviate fears about bees and educate about how they benefit us. There’ll be talks for the parents about the how-tos of raising bees, an opportunity to observe bees at work and fun activities like a honeybee race. It takes place Sat 5/16 from 8am-3:30pm at the Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds.
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SPONSORED: Get It On at The Kent Stage With major acts like Dr. John & The Nite Trippers, Jeff Daniels and the Ben Daniels Band, Greg Brown, and The Kent Stage Folk Festival featuring Jeff Austin Band, The Stray Birds, Gaelic Storm, Tall Heights, Don Felder: An Evening at the Hotel California, Gibson Brothers, The Quebe Sisters, Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band, Richard Thompson, Ricki Lee Jones, Todd Rundgren, Keb Mo, Justin Hayward, Rhiannon Giddens, Hot Tuna Acoustic, and Aaron Neville, all at the acoustically superior Kent Stage in 2015. Get your tickets now for TheKentStage.com.
Cleveland got lucky when Brent Kirby moved to town. He’s been a major force in the local music scene for a decade with his solo work, his bands, his songwriter showcases and his various other projects. Now he has a new album out called Patience Worth, which he’ll debut at the Music Box. Sat 5/16.
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The Mustard Seed Markets, locally owned family groceries — are known for their total commitment to healthy organic food, free of everything from chemicals to growth hormones to high fructose corn syrup. This month the locations in Solon and Montrose will be joined by a third, in the Highland Square neighborhood near downtown Akron. Sat 5/16.
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WED 5/13
Daniel Miller’s film Fire in the Heartland, about the events surrounding the 1970 Kent State shootings, is almost done, save for the final edit and securing the music rights. The film will screen at the Beachland Ballroom to solicit donations to get it done.
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THU 5/14
The PigPen Theatre Co. began as a multimedia project when its members were still at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon School of Drama. Now based in NYC, they tour as a roots rock band but their theatrical sensibility informs their performances. They’ll be at the Music Box Supper Club.
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FRI 5/15
Enjoy a relaxing evening at Harness Cycle’s Cleveland Is My OM: start with an hour of slow-flow yoga, followed by garden-fresh cocktails and seasonal, farm-to-table munchies from the Agrarian Collective. Make new friends and shed work-week cares.
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SAT 5/16
Wear your boots and old clothes you don’t mind getting muddy. It’s Euclid Creek Watershed Day at the Cleveland Metroparks, and they’re inviting nature lovers to help clean up their wetland and bioswale garden.
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SUN 5/17
Jazz trombonist Sam Blakeslee is fresh out of college and fresh in the local music scene. But the enterprising young player has managed to assemble a 17-piece band of musicians from three cities, including some of this area’s top veterans. They’ll play original music by the band members when the Sam Blakeslee Large Group performs at BluJazz Akron.
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MON 5/18
Canadian jazz trumpet player Lina Allemano has been making a splash with her new ensemble Titanium Riot, a quartet that combines acoustic and electric sounds to push the boundaries of experimental improvisation. They’ll be at the Bop Stop.
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TUE 5/19
Dr. John’s distinctive New Orleans musical gumbo has been intriguing audiences since the late ’60s when he sidelined session work in favor of fronting his own band and playing his own music flavored with his hometown’s soul, funk, jazz and voodoo. He and his band the Nite Trippers will be at the Kent Stage
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WED 5/20
New York singer-songwriter Caitlin Mahoney’s music is delicate but flavorful. She’s just released her second album and will be coming to the Music Box to share it with Clevelanders.
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In honor of National Infrastructure Week, Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District allowed CoolCleveland access to explore their newly constructed Easterly Tunnel Dewatering Pump Station in Bratenhal. Once complete the station will house huge water pumps that will be able to draw more than 160 million gallons of waster water daily.
CoolCleveland’s Marty Bielat put on a hardhat and descended over 200ft into the station’s chambers to get the scoop from the site’s Program Manager, Doug Gabriel. The pump station will eventually pump water stored in the Euclid Creek and Dugway Storage tunnels to help prevent combined sewer overflow.
The Beautification Police
One sure way to gain the enmity of some of your neighbors — and get branded as a busybody — is to launch a one-man cleanup campaign around the community. Some folks reason it’s none of my — or anyone else’s — business if they allow the grass to grow knee-high in their yards. But they are wrong, for two reasons …
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We Found them at Kamm’s Red Lantern!
The Hooley is always a momentous occasion, and this year’s event was no exception. In addition to basking in the hot sun last Saturday, the Hooley also offered fun activities like live music, dancing, shopping, kids activities, and of course, food!
CoolCleveland caught up with Cory Rowland, of Red Lantern Kitchen & Bar, on the festival’s restaurant strip. Rowland gave us a sample of his delicious bacon decorated cupcake, along with his endorsements for the event. If you’re looking for innovative offerings, you have to check out Red Lantern for your next night out. We love their taco nights!
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