09.25-10.02.13
Float
It only looks like it’s floating. But we know better. We build stuff, and nothing real floats. Techtoberfest will get you anchored, get you a pint, and get you focused on failure. Cause you can’t succeed without it. Just ask Matt Fish of Melt & Steve Presser of Big Fun, both opening shop in Columbus. You gotta see the video.
Abstract artists float at Proximity, Nerds & Robots are at Breakneck, the Electronique Guerilla is at Negative Space, Przemyslaw Jasielski is at CSU. The Alloy Orchestra plays to films at the Cinematheque, Springboard kicks off at CPT, and Brews & Prose floats over to Market Garden Brewery.
We show you how to do a restaurant crawl, and you can view a master class with Diana Krall at Tri-C, and we show how sprawl has hurt Indians attendance.
Our new mobile app features 28 Cool Neighborhoods (AsiaTown, Coventry, Gordon Square, Highland Square, Kent, Ohio City, Waterloo, all the way to Y-town, the Islands, Oberlin…), weather, cool events, news & videos. It’s seriously cool, and you can seriously win like Michelle Clark did. Are you floating yet? –Thomas Mulready
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How do innovators learn from their errors and proceed towards ultimate accomplishment?
Over 200 digital technology entrepreneurs will talk to, learn from, and drink with their peers at TechPint II Thu 9/26 @ Sterle’s…
More from Isaac Mell here
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SPONSORED: Suits, ties, cocktail dresses and ART! You’re cordially invited to Fall Ball: An Artistic Affair, a young professionals’ gala hosted by United Way of Greater Cleveland’s Young Leaders. Join us for culture and creativity on Sat 10/5 from 8PM to midnight at MOCA, the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland. Don’t miss this fun and art-filled evening of food, endless cocktails and dancing. For tickets and more information: UnitedWayCleveland.org/FallBall
As usual, confusion reigns and Steve speaks for Matt and vice versa. They’re both opening stores in Columbus, and we couldn’t be prouder. You’ll have to check the video out yourself.
SPONSORED: sundays@six celebrates 1st anniversary! One year ago, sundays@six, a contemporary worship service, began in the heart of downtown at the historic Old Stone Church. Join the anniversary celebration on Sun 9/29 at 6PM with music from Christian band, The Living Stones, and a spirit-filled message. Come laugh, dance, and sing. Details OldStoneChurch.org
It’s becoming one of the most anticipated parties of the year. United Way’s Fall Ball has it all: great food, great drinks, top entertainment, and the coolest young professionals in Cleveland.
Now they’ve got one of the coolest venues in the world: MOCA Cleveland, the Museum of Contemporary Art. Join them on Sat 10/5 from 8PM to midnight for a night to remember. And it’s all to benefit the good work of the United Way of Greater Cleveland and their education, income and health initiatives that help your neighbors. http://www.UnitedWayCleveland.org
The Fedora Network Idea Contest has $20K to fund your cool idea. Are you passionate enough? You’ve got until Tue 10/15 to make your application. Go for it.
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Cool Cleveland’s Thomas Mulready talks with Ingenuity Executive Director Paula Grooms about their strategy to offer free admission and accept donations.
With more people wanting to use credit cards, Ingenuity Festival now uses the new Cleveland-based EMS+ credit card reader to accept donation, and to process payment for merchandise and beverages. Not only do people spend more with a credit card, EMS+ offers a .5% lower rate than competitors like Square. PlusByEMS.com
@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!
There’s no Peter James in Akron quartet Peter James & his Flapping Wings, who release their EP Caldwell House at Musica. But there’s plenty of homey, country-folk flavor on the four artfully crafted tunes they’re releasing. Sat 9/28.
Read more picks by Anastasia Pantsios here
“Geek” culture has officially taken over the world!
Well, at least Breakneck Gallery — which will host two exhibitions aimed at the “nerd” in all of us. Don’t miss it, though… This is a special One Night Only event!…
More from Josh Usmani here
Raising a Holistic Child Hear from the experts on how to raise a child the natural way. Learn about minimizing chemicals, nutrition 101, emotional coaching & more.
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Who needs a tour guide to show you Cleveland’s best restaurants? Not you!
Here’s what you do: pick a neighborhood and decide to go to three different restaurants in one evening. What will it be?…
More from Claudia Taller here
Somebody receives a $20 check from Cool Cleveland every week, just for using our mobile app. It may as well be you.
This week, Michelle Clark is our winner. And she’s thrilled:
“Holy Crap! I’m tickled pink, well yellow as is the case in this picture! Thanks Cool 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 9/25
Let’s Get Free Join The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio & Karamu House for an emotional & revolutionary reading of some of the most moving (& banned) material ever written.
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THU 9/26
SpringBoard is a staged reading festival that doesn’t suck. Hear some of the freshest theater in town & give your feedback @ Cleveland Public Theatre.
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FRI 9/27
The Original “Electronique Guerilla,” Richard Pinhas, returns to Cle. He’ll bring his multi-layered loop “Metatronics,” pulsating rhythms & dream/nightmare-like textures to Negative Space Gallery for two performances.
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SAT 9/28
The Alloy Orchestra will perform during three silent classics — Metropolis, The Phantom of the Opera & He Who Gets Slapped @ the CIA Cinematheque. Silent films are just better w/ live tunes.
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SUN 9/29
British folkie Billy Bragg appears at the Kent Stage in a set not friendly for Tea Party members. Young American folksinger Joe Purdy opens.
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MON 9/30
Diana Krall is conducting a master class for students @ Tri-C. You’re invited to sit in the audience & get a close, personal look at music making w/ this Grammy-winning jazz vocalist/pianist.
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TUE 10/1
Brews + Prose @ Market Garden Brewery features 3 Cle chefs/authors this month. Hear from Laura Taxel, Marilou Suszko & A. Van Jordan & gain insights into the ever burgeoning culinary scene.
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WED 10/2
Jailing Justice Take a look at prison privatization in the United States w/ author & expert Bob Libal. Just how bad are private prisons?
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Theories to explain the Indians’ piss-poor attendance have at this point outnumbered the fans in the stands.
“They’re not any good.”
“They’re going to blow it.”
Yet Clevelanders are more than willing to fill the stands at Browns games…
More from Joe Baur here
Downtown’s Proximity Gallery is at it again.
Just a week after the opening of their first collaborative exhibition of their own work — Gross Adaptations at BUCKBUCK — Proximity owners Alex and Beth Kelly present their latest exhibition, Float…
More from Josh Usmani here
Nothing is more irksome to black folks than to drive past a construction project in our own (and downtown) neighborhoods and see virtually nothing but whites working while black men can be seen standing on street corners idling…
Read this story and others from Mansfield Frazier here
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Get ready to have your pocket picked.
Brent Larkin last week started the campaign to tax Cuyahoga County residents several hundred million dollars for people who should be paying their own way. He’s worried about them leaving us…
Read this story and others from Roldo Bartimole here
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Why The Skywalk Won Some interesting thoughts here but the Skywalk “won” as you state it because the casino operator views it as good for his customers. It’s not because of the revenue (whether it meets or exceeds projections)…
Read the comment from Jim Cirillo here
I understand this skywalk more than the skywalk attached to the new Cuyahoga County administration building….
Read the comment from Paul Kershey here
I respect Joe Baur’s passion for downtown vibrancy, but I am still unconvinced that the garage connection will be any more of a detriment than the similar skywalk that connects The Q to its premium parking facility, which is actually closer to the heart of the new East Fourth Street pedestrian center than the one going up two blocks to the east….
Read the comment from Evan here
If there was a skywalk that connected the casino to the E 4th district, the Warehouse district, or the Convention Center, this would be a different issue. It’s a system of connected skywalks that is problematic to city vibrancy….
Read the comment from Derek here
MANSFIELD: Thanks, But I’m Already Saved Mansfield, you are classy with a street-wise edge that makes you REAL….
Read the comment from Bill Wiltrack here
Thank you, thank you, thank you for actually writing this piece and publishing it. I left the Catholic Church at grade 8 when the nuns told me that only Christians can enter heaven but at the same time they said that God was loving and forgiving…..
Read the comment from Bill Rucki here
ROLDO: Twittering Tweets Reporting? Or Not? Why not hold Fitzgerald to account instead of just putting the blame on Marcia Fudge for their estrangement?…
Read the comment from Dick Peery here
The choice between Fitzgerald and Kasich is akin to deciding on whether to quaff cyanide or arsenic. Either one is poison, just by degrees….
Read the comment from snarky here
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Our writers don’t sink; they float. Cheers to Roldo Bartimole, Joe Baur, Roy Berko, Martin Bielat, Mansfield Frazier, Isaac Mell, Anastasia Pantsios, 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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