Get Out

10.19-10.26.05

Get Out

In this week’s issue:
* Cool Cleveland Fast Forward party on Fri 11/11, get $14.50 tix by midnight Thu 10/20 here
* Cool Cleveland Champions party on Wed 11/2, get $13.50 tix by midnight Thu 10/20 here
* Cool Cleveland Sounds Celtic rock with Brace Yourself Bridget
* Cool Cleveland Kids podcast click here, CC podcast click here, CC Blog click here

This week, outrageously we present not one but two Cool Cleveland November events to enhance your personal ambiance. Bring your great civic idea on 11/2, meet some of Cleveland’s most creative civic entrepreneurs, and learn how you can get your project funded to the tune of $30K. Or just enjoy the drinks & networking. And this week we announce a sweet collaboration with CIA & CMA on Fast Forward, blasting off on 11/11, with a CC pre-party, a demo by an art/tech genius, and the popular Fast Forward confab featuring live music, DJs and performance art around every corner. Check out this week’s good news about new residential developments, CIA’s new FUTURE Center for Design and Technology Transfer, how Wi-FIed the University of Akron and Case are (Top 10 in the US), and a guided tour through the Cleveland blogsphere. And in the spirit of this week’s theme, we urge you to get out of the house during Cleveland’s most glorious season (we call it leather jacket weather), and join the fun on the streets: help out New Orleans by partying at 14 venues for one price for Fat Tuesday on Thursday, check out new art and architecture with the Art House Mix & Mingle, reexamine the Rock Hall’s George Harrison Bangladesh exhibit, breathe in Tchaikovsky with the Cleveland Opera, even learn how Cleveland can compete in a global economy with a session by CAMP. Our extra-long event listings under Cool Cleveland This Week reflect the outrageously hyperactive Cleveland cultural community for the next seven days. Get up, get out, and get involved. Outstanding! –Thomas Mulready

Fast Forward on 11/11

Add some edge to your Friday night! Don’t miss the cultural party that’s going to rock you up one side and down the other! Cleveland’s awesome, artistic community collaborates on the major cultural vibe that headlines Fri 11/11 at Cool Cleveland’s Night Out. Kick it off at 5:30PM in the Cleveland Institute of Art’s Reinberger Gallery (11141 East Blvd) with Cool Cleveland’s patented drinks & hors d’oeuvres while experiencing the radical, futuristic exhibition and docent tours of “Dreaming of a More Better Future” (as in: “Did The Jetsons get it right or wrong?”), highlighting the work of 47 artists, designers, illustrators, architects, film and video creators and digital geniuses, while partaking in beer, wine and delish delectables from Elan Catering and Bridges Restaurant in the Student Lounge and Ohio Bell Auditorium while grooving to the latest in electronic dance music DJ-ed by Severiano Martinez of the Shinkoyo Arts Collective. [comp parking behind CIA – off Bellflower or East Blvd – gates will be open.]

Triple Threat Join Cool Cleveland, CMA (Cleveland Museum of Art) and CIA (Cleveland Institute of Art) in One Place at One T.I.M.E. (The Integrated Multimedia Environment). The evening continues at 7:30 in the Aiken Auditorium while you experience the artistic successes of Eduardo Kac, Professor and Chair of the Art/Technology Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, showing off his interactive net installations, bio art and “transgenic art,” included with your CC ticket. Get tix here for Fast Forward on Fri 11/11.

Kick it into high gear (9PM ’til midnight) with CMA’s “Fast Forward” party held at the CIA Factory, three blocks away (VIP shuttles available), where you can immerse yourself in live music, food, libations and the burgeoning and hip student art scene with artwork, experiments, and ongoing art performances around every corner. Now the best part: order online before midnight Thu 10/20 and you get the whole evening for the ridiculously low price of $14.50: Beer, wine, great food, live music, the hippest art exhibition in town, the lowdown on cool transgenic art, and the CMA’s Fast Forward party blasting all night long. All for less than the cost of the FF party alone!
http://www.coolcleveland.com/tickets/111105 for Fast Forward on Fri 11/11.

Cool Champions on 11/2

Could you use $30,000 to pursue your civic project? Or are you just interested in partying with some friends at the next Cool Cleveland event? Either way, this one’s a slam dunk: Enjoy beer, wine, mouth-watering appetizers, side-splitting comedy from Hilarities 4th Street Theater and the opportunity to meet some of the Civic Innovation Lab’s Champions who are doing well by doing good. Meet us (and bring your friends!) at Pickwick and Frolic’s Martini Bar and Frolic Cabaret Wed 11/2, starting at 5:30PM (show at 8:00). Check out the Grilled Vegetable and Herb Cheese Pinwheels, Assorted Focaccia Pizzas, Rotisserie Chicken Salad Pinwheels, and Domestic and Imported Cheese Display. Help us toast the Lab’s 2nd anniversary with special guests Cleveland Foundation president Ronn Richard and economic development guru Brad Whitehead, plus receive comp passes to the 90-minute show featuring a nationally touring comedian. Get tix here for Cool Champions on 11/2.

A winning idea Your Cool Cleveland admission gets you a complimentary ticket for the hilarious Pickwick & Frolic show ($13 value), appetizers galore and two drink tix (wine & beer). Get your discount tix by midnight Thu 10/20 here: http://www.coolcleveland.com/tickets/110205 for Cool Champions on 11/2.

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Blocks Away From Shaker Square and University Circle Wake up every day to a spectacular view of the Cleveland skyline in your new home at St. Luke’s Pointe, a new community of 80+ homes. Amenities include 2-4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, skyline views, special financing, 15 year tax abatement and a 2-car garage. Several townhomes feature a fourth floor loft offering unbeatable views. St. Luke’s is also just steps away from the RTA – so if you work downtown, you can leave your car in the garage and save on gas! Priced from $154,900. Visit our open house this Sun 10/16 from 2-4PM at the model home at E. 115th and MLK Dr. For a complete list of properties and open houses this weekend please visit www.ProgressiveUrban.com.
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Marous developing W. 117th & Clifton Marous Brothers Construction inked a deal which allows them to redevelop the former Fifth Church of Christ, Scientist at West 117th Street. Unoccupied for more than 10 years, the 80-year-old building will be the cornerstone of redevelopment in the area. Marous will also look at ways to redevelop the commercial strip on Clifton Boulevard that lies between West 117th and West 116th Street. Current plans include 30+ condos and townhomes, as well as several smaller retail spaces. Read the story here. Share your wishlist for the planned redevelopment project at Letters@CoolCleveland.com.

Akron, Case are top 10 Wi-Fi college campuses Reflective of our new moniker as a Digital City, two universities in our region placed in the top 10 on the “Most Unwired College Campuses” Survey. The University of Akron took third place and Case Western Reserve University ranked eighth. Check out the remainder of the top 50 wireless colleges, including the University of Dayton, which ranked sixteenth, here.

Live From Cleveland Catch local and regional bands playing live in the WRUW-FM 91.1 Cleveland studios on Thursday nights from 10-11PM each week. The scheduled line-up includes Chauncey Peppertooth, Living Stereo, Machine Go Boom, Infinite Number of Sounds and This Moment in Black History. See the entire line-up at http://www.WRUW.org. If that’s not enough butt-kicking sound for you, try their “Live from the Spot” broadcast each Wednesday night live from The Spot, an on-campus hangout available to Case, CIA and CIM students, from 10PM-midnight.

CIA launches FUTURE The Cleveland Institute of Art has big plans for their FUTURE: Center for Design and Technology Transfer, set to launch next month. The Design Center, housed in CIA’s Joseph McCullough Center for the Visual Arts, will encompass a business incubator, design gallery and production group, becoming a valuable resource for entrepreneurs and other smaller enterprises with great ideas that need to be translated into the marketplace. The Design Center has the potential to become a catalyst for economic and creative vitality in Northeast Ohio. Learn more about the Center here. What impact do you think FUTURE will have upon the future of Northeast Ohio? Send your thoughts to Letters@CoolCleveland.com.

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Good Enough to Eat On Sat 11/12 join the The Cleveland Museum of Natural History’s exploration into the history of foods, a series starting with the “Natural History of Cheese,” a 4,000-year-old tradition. Experience an exclusive evening with the finest cuisine from local chefs. Enjoy a cocktail reception, followed by a presentation at the Museum. Then sit down for a seven-course dinner incorporating some of the world’s finest cheeses and complementary wine pairing. Cost for the evening is $150 per person. Check our web site for the entire food series www.CMNH.org/special-events which includes the history of chocolate, wine and mushrooms. Enjoy all four events for $500 – a $100 discount! Call (216) 231-1177 for reservations. Seating is limited.
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Take this short IT survey NEOSA, an industry trade association with a mission to foster an environment that will encourage growth and development in Northeast Ohio’s information technology-based companies, is asking IT companies to take an ultra brief survey (1 page, 10 questions) in order to better serve the IT community. Take the short survey here. Learn more about the organization at http://www.neosa.org/.

Cool Cleveland Kids What are you doing with your kids this week? Let Cool Cleveland correspondent Max Mulready clue you in to a couple of great family events. It’s easy to click on his brief podcast here even if you don’t have special software. It will pop open on your desktop and you’ll be listening in no time. If you know what you’re doing, you can download it to your iPod or your computer and listen with your own kid. Check below to see the events tagged CC KIDS under Cool Cleveland This Week for our recommendations for a fantastic family week. http://www.coolcleveland.com/files/audio/CoolClevelandKids10.21.05.mp3.

Dear Mayor The Center for Community Solutions’ latest issue of their journal, Planning & Action, contains several passionate, thought-provoking letters from a variety of business leaders in our community addressed to the victor of the upcoming mayoral race. Download a copy of the issue here. Send your thoughts about the Dear Mayor project or some of the concerns expressed by letter-writers at Letters@CoolCleveland.com.

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Harry Potter Flies into the Great Lakes Science Center’s OMNIMAX® Theater on Sun 10/23. The movie Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban will play Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 3PM − every weekend, through November 13 − the first time in the Science Center’s history that a full-length commercial feature film will be shown in the OMNIMAX Theater. Movie-only tickets are $8.95 for adults, $6.95 for kids and the combination OMNI/Science Center tickets are $12.95 for adults and $8.95 for kids. Contact www.GreatScience.com for reservations. The Great Lakes Science Center, now in its tenth year, is one of the nation’s leading science and technology museums, featuring more than 400 exciting hands-on exhibits, themed traveling exhibits and daily demonstrations. Open daily 9:30AM to 5:30PM with discounted parking for guests in the attached 500-car garage.
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Best of Ohio Writers Ohio Writer Magazine, published by the Poets’ and Writers’ League of Greater Cleveland, has announced the winners of the 2005 Best of Ohio Writer contest. First place winners, Jennifer Sullivan, of Akron (Poetry); Ed Davis, of Yellow Springs (Fiction); Sharon Peerless, of Beachwood (Creative Non-Fiction) and Joyce Dyer, Hudson (Writers on Writing) will have their work published in the January/February 2006 issue of the magazine. To subscribe, see the list of winners or learn more about the Poets’ and Writers’ League of Greater Cleveland visit www.pwlgc.com.

Cleve studio and songwriters on Coppola film Cleveland-based Ante Up studio won the job to record new music for the additional 30 minutes of Francis Ford Coppola’s re-issued DVD of the 1983 film The Outsiders, and loftmates Take Manhattan Music composed the music. They used 1960’s vintage mics and analog recording equipment for the new version of the cult film which starred the young Rob Lowe, Tom Cruise and Patrick Swayze. See story here.

Your art on a calendar Academy Graphic Communication is in the midst of producing their 4th annual desk calendar, 52 Weeks 52 Works, featuring the work of Northeast Ohio artists. If you are an artist living and working in NEO and you’d like your work to be included in this project call 661-2550 for info or email CandiceChampion@agcinc.org. The submission deadline is Tue 11/1. http://www.VisitAGC.com.

Champions in Action a program launched to honor unsung community heroes – non-profit organizations working to address the needs of area neighborhoods, is looking for their 1st Quarter Champion in Action. The categories for 2006 are after-school programs, community healthcare, hunger and homelessness. Applications from after-school programs are being accepted now through Wed 10/26 with the winner being recognized in January of 2006. Visit http://www.CharterOne.com/Community or a local Charter One branch for eligibility requirements and to obtain an application. The agency named Champion in Action will receive $25,000 in unrestricted funds, tons of exposure, including media coverage from WJW FOX 8 including PSAs and news stories, and volunteer and PR support.

Not Fair Weather Friends Through snow, sleet and dark of night, Cool Cleveland delivers the insight you rely on to your inbox every Wednesday morning. Forward this to a friend and help your favorite e-zine go forth and multiply.

Steelyard Commons pays for Canal Trail Taxes from the hot button retail development project will help pay for the long-awaited completion of the six-mile stretch of the Canal Towpath Trail between Harvard Avenue and Downtown. Approximately $10.4 million in property taxes from Steelyard Commons will be diverted to the construction project, enabling the City to access matching funds from the Feds and state government. Read the story here. Does this mean that the Steelyard Commons project isn’t so bad after all? Send your thoughts to Letters@CoolCleveland.com.

OSTN links campuses online The Open Student Television Network (OSTN), run by CampusEAI Consortium, a Cleveland-based, non-profit organization developing software and digital content, is connecting local students to colleges all over the country, and all over the world, through links to similar networks around the globe. Find out why Les Gonick, vice president for information technology services and chief information officer for Case, whose team was the engine behind the development of CampusEAI hailed OSTN as the “umbilical cord for students at the university” in the PD article here.

Thirsty Dog garners gold Did you miss out on the Great American Beer Festival again this year? No worries, you can get a recap of the 9/29-10/1 event at www.BeerTown.org. Dayton’s Thirsty Dog Brewery took home gold and bronze medals for their Siberian Night and Hoppus Maximus brews, respectively. Visit www.ThirstyDog.com to assess the situation for yourself.

Emissions from the blogsphere So much quality blogging going on this week. Audient talks back to the Monday moaners. Tim Russo contrasts Jack White and Muhammad Ali. Lori Kozey shares memories of her Nana’s apple pie. Jeff Hess reminds us of San Fran cartoonist, artist, and hip-hopster Keith Knight’s schedule. Andy Timithy sort of lends his support to an open mic poetry night @ the Lit. And Cool Cleveland blogger Peter Chakerian hits on nanotech in CLE, a Peaceable Kingdom, “What the Bleep Do We Know?” and he points to RFID tags, energy conservation and the CLE’s parties en fuego politico. Don’t forget, these bloggers get together every month with others of their ilk – you’re welcome to attend this month’s Blogger Meetup 7PM on Wed 10/19 @ The Town Fryer, 3895 Superior Ave 426-9235. RSVP @ www.Meetup.com. Check the Cool Cleveland weblog here, then add your own comments, questions and attitude. Letters@CoolCleveland.com.


Cool Cleveland This Week

10.19-10.26

Send your cool events to: Events@CoolCleveland.com

Design for the Modern World The Arts & Crafts Movement in Europe and America, 1880-1920: Design for the Modern World is an exhibit that includes more than 300 influential objects from that era in all media from ceramic and metalwork, to textiles and works on paper. Key designers of the period including Frank Lloyd Wright and Gustav Stickley will be showcased. The exhibit runs now through 1/8/06. See the preview here. Call 421-7350 for info. Cleveland Museum of Art, 11150 East Boulevard, University Circle.

Noteworthy Neighborhoods This Levin College Forum on Wed 10/19 from 4-6PM will celebrate the accomplishments of Cleveland’s neighborhood organizations, past, present and future. Norman Krumholz, professor of urban planning and former City Planning Director for the City of Cleveland will provide a thought provoking retrospective of how the Cleveland Housing Network evolved from a small housing organization to become one of the largest, most respected non-profit developers of affordable housing in the country. In addition, the forum will highlight present approaches to neighborhood development and the innovative projects of two community development corporations. Register for this no cost forum here. Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs, Glickman-Miller Hall Atrium, 1717 Euclid Avenue.

Fat Tuesday on Thursday is a by-musicians-for-musicians benefit to aid the musicians of New Orleans. The brainstorm of Tommy Wiggins of Tri-C and John Lattimer of Undercurrents are organizing 35 bands in 14 venues. The suggested $10 donation gets you admission to all clubs all night. All proceeds, plus a portion of bar and food receipts will go to the New Orleans Musicians Clinic (N.O.M.C.) which offers comprehensive health care to New Orleans’ musicians, a group that is quite often without health care. Enjoy an evening of live music and / or fine food in restaurants all over town on Thu 10/20. Participating venues include the Hard Rock Café, Century at the Ritz, Castaldi’s, 2527 Nightclub, Fat Fish Blue, Winking Lizard, Blind Pig, Barking Spider and a host of others. Visit http://www.fattuesdayonthursday.com/Schedule.html to see the entire list of participating venues.

Oriental Rug Event to benefit artisans in Northern Pakistan who have fallen victim to the Pakistani Earthquake will be held Thu 10/20 to Sun 10/23. Click here for more info and event hours or call 575-1058. Ten Thousand Villages of Cleveland at Trinity Commons, 2254 Euclid Avenue.

Boo at the Zoo is a family-friendly, scare-free Halloween event at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo on Thu 10/20 – Sun 10/23 and Thu 10/27 – Sun 10/30 from 5:30-8:30PM. Your little goblins can boogie down at the new Monster Mash DJ Dance party, take a tour of the Not-So-Haunted Greenhouse and ride the Jack-O-Lantern Express train and find their way through the Halloween Hay Maze. Each child will receive an official Boo at the Zoo treat bag. Visit www.CleMetZoo.com to purchase tix online or stop by the Zoo box office. Cleveland Metroparks Zoo.

Art House Mix & Mingle The Fourth Annual Fall Artists’ Market Mix and Mingle event will give gallery owners, architects, designers and potential patrons an opportunity to see the work of up and coming new artists. The event will take place Thu 10/20 from 7-10PM. Call 398-8556 or visit http://www.ArtHouseInc.org for more info. Colonial Arcade Market Place, 530 Euclid Avenue.

The Supreme Court takes center stage on Thu 10/20 at 7PM. This gratis ACLU event kicks off with the premiere of The Supreme Court, the second installment of a ten-part series, ACLU Freedom Files on LinkTV, which is available through the Dish Network. The show explores current civil liberties issues, featuring well-known actors, comedians and activists, along with civil liberties litigants and the attorneys who represent them. Refreshments and an interactive discussion on the importance of the Supreme Court in the battle to ensure civil liberties will follow the viewing. To attend this open discussion hosted by the ACLU of Ohio, register online at www.ACLUOhio.org or call 472-2200. Max Wohl Civil Liberties Center, 4506 Chester Avenue.

Burning River Brass at CSU Burning River Brass will give a gratis performance as part of its Fine Arts series on Thu 10/20 at 8PM. This “ensemble on fire” will treat audiences to “fresh” arrangements of classic pieces as well as original works written specifically for the group, each played with an infectious joy that is contagious. The ensemble heard on NPR’s Performance Today, as well as radio stations throughout the U.S. and abroad, made its original debut in Tremont. Call the Music Events Line at 687-5100 for info. The Waetjen Auditorium , Music and Communications Building, CSU Campus, 2001 Euclid Ave.

The Brian Jonestown Massacre a long time favorite at the Grog Shop, had their van and all of their gear stolen while they were in NYC. A benefit concert on Thu 10/20 at 9PM featuring The Dreadful Yawns, The Volta Sound, and The So Long Goodbyes (semi-formally the New Loud) will raise funds to help the band back on their feet. Call 321-5588. Grog Shop, 2785 Euclid Heights Boulevard, Suite A, Cleveland Heights. http://www.GrogShop.gs.

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Her sacrifice was legendary. Red ventures into Gustav Mahler’s shadow through his wife Alma’s diary excerpts, and theatrical presentations of the music and their relationship. Experience “In Mahler’s Shadow” on Sat 11/5 at 8PM in the Masonic Auditorium, 3615 Euclid Avenue. Concert tickets start at $15. For more information call Red {an orchestra} at 440-519-1733 or visit www.RedAnOrchestra.org.
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George Harrison and the Concert for Bangladesh is the subject of the latest exhibit at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, which will also be screening the film of the concert. The exhibit reexamines the first major benefit rock concert of its kind that later paved the way for Live Aid, Farm Aid, Live 8 and other rock aid events. A special members’ preview begins on Thu 10/20, the event opens to the public on Fri 10/21 and runs through 3/26/06. Circular Gallery, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Musuem, 1 Key Plaza.http://www.RockHall.com.

Entrepreneurial Empowerment Circle Meeting This no cost Consortium of African American Organizations event on Fri 10/21 at 9:30AM will deal with effective networking. Short presentations will be given by a variety of local entrepreneurs. Call 432-9481 to reserve your spot and mention Cool Cleveland. Cleveland Midtown Innovation Center, 4415 Euclid Ave., Suite 201.

Reduced to a Faulty Recollection View this collection of works by Jeffrey Cortland Jones on Fri 10/21 from 6-9PM during the opening and reception for the exhibit which runs through 12/3. Call 795-0971 for further info or visit www.egordongallery.com. e. gordon gallery, 2026 Murray Hill Road.

13 Hundred Gallery Exhibits featuring the work of Thomas M. Lowery of Washington D.C. and Tim Callaghan, a native Clevelander, will be on display at the 13 Hundred Gallery. Experience paintings, illustrations, mixed media and film by the two featured artists at the opening reception on Fri 10/21 from 7-10PM through Thu 11/17. Lowery’s work attempts to illustrate high school romantic feelings and Callaghan’s work employs both urban and rural landscape imagery and is a lyrical documentation of the union and divide between locality and class. Call 535-9320 to learn more. 13 Hundred Gallery, 1300 West 78th Street. http://www.13hundred.com.

CC KIDS The Terrific Tuba Musical Rainbow concert on Fri 10/21 at 10AM and Sat 10/22 at 10 & 11AM will give your mini maestros, age 3-6, an introduction to the tuba. Retired Cleveland Orchestra principal tuba player, Ronald Bishop, is featured and local actress and singer Maryann Nagel hosts the 30-minute programs which include narration, demonstration, audience participation and musical selections. Call 231-1111 to order tickets or visit www.ClevelandOrchestra.com. Reinberger Chamber Hall, Severance Hall, 11001 Euclid Avenue.

Studio of 5 Rings is working in connection with the Artcade to increase the awareness of the art offerings in the Downtown and Midtown areas by hosting gallery receptions on the 3rd Friday of each month. Stop by their studio on Fri 10/21 from 5-10PM for a wine and cheese reception offering handcrafted Merlot, Chardonnay, Shiraz, Pinot Grigio and sweet berry red wine. Studio of 5 Rings changes their exhibits, which focus on a single artist, every four to eight weeks to keep the shows fresh and renew the energy. Call 771-0830 for more info. Preview the current exhibit at www.StudioOf5Rings.com. Studio of 5 Rings, 2400 Superior Avenue, #201.

CC KIDS Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey presents its 135th edition of The Greatest Show on Earth on Fri 10/21 at 7:30PM through Sun 10/30. This highly interactive three-ring circus experience will take your breath away. Start off with the All-Access Pre-show activities one hour before the show’s start – available to every single ticket holder – where you can try your skills at daring circus feats. Then enjoy the incredible performances of daredevil husband and wife team the Misers, the Windy City Acrobats and Bello, “America’s Best Clown.” Log onto www.Ringling.com to see what else is in store. The Q, One Center Court.

Eugene Onegin Peter Tchaikovsky’s heartbreaking tale of unrequited love reminds us that timing is everything. This Cleveland Opera production, sung in Russian with English subtitles, follows the tale of brash, selfish young Onegin who rebuffs the affections of the beautiful Tatyana only to fall deeply in love with her seven years later, when she is no longer available. Tchaikovsky’s sweeping arias and colorful music fills this masterpiece with the grandeur, splendor and romance of Czarist Russia on Fri 10/21, Sun 10/23, Fri 10/28 and Sat 10/29. Friday & Saturday performances are at 8PM, Sunday performances are at 2PM. Call 241-6000 to purchase tickets or visit www.ClevelandOpera.org.

Sister, I’m Sorry See this world premiere of the documentary of the same name which featured Blair Underwood, Howard Hewitt and Tommy Ford (from Martin), inspired by Greg Huskinsson’s story in Chicken Soup for the African-American Soul. The stage play examines a man’s attempt to seek reconciliation with the women in his life during the first stage of his community re-entry after a seven-year stay in prison. Catch performances on Fri 10/21 & Sat 10/22 at 7:30PM or Sun 7/23 at 3:30PM. Call 687-3656 or visit www.csuohio.edu to learn more purchase tix here. University Center Theatre, 2121 Euclid Avenue, CSU Campus.

Parliament Funkadelic: One Nation Under a Groove The Fri 10/21 10PM installment of Independent Lens on WVIZ Channel 25 follows the transformation of The Parliaments, a Sixties doo-wop group led by George Clinton, into Parliament Funkadelic, the seminal funk band of the Seventies. The group’s music is among the most sampled in the evolution of hip-hop music. This program chronicles the unique alchemy of the musical influences that fed into their singular approach to music and P-Funk’s continuing influence on today’s creative minds and features an in-depth look at the unique musical and entrepreneurial mastermind that is George Clinton. www.WVIZ.org.

WCLVnotes This Fri 10/21 at 9PM, WCLV 104.9 FM presents the first of this season’s concert from Music from the Western Reserve, which takes place in the historic chapel at Western Reserve Academy in Hudson. The amazing 17-year-old violinist Jin Joo Cho displays her breathtaking talent in selections by Beethoven, Ysaye and Brahms. The Cleveland Orchestra is off to Europe with concerts in Luxembourg, Frankfurt, Cologne, Budapest and a residency of five programs in Vienna. WCLV’s Bill O’Connell is traveling with the band and is making daily reports at 104.9 FM. You’ll hear them weekdays at 8:45AM, 12 Noon; 5:20PM and 11PM; Saturdays at 8:45AM and 1:30PM; and Sundays at 9:30AM and 3:55PM. He’s also posting pictures in the Photo Gallery on our website www.WCLV.com, where you’ll find complete details of our day-to-day programming. WCLV is a Cool Cleveland partner.

Dream On: Lines of Escape The Cleveland Institute of Art will collaborate with SPACES Gallery and MOCA Cleveland for a day-long, no cost, gallery hop on Sat 10/22 from 11AM-5PM. SPACES will feature their exhibit, “Beautiful Dreamer,” MOCA Cleveland’s exhibit is called “POPulence” and CIA will debut its exhibit, “Dreaming of a More Better Future” which explores 47 artists’ optimistic views for the future. The opening party for “Dreaming of a More Better Future” from 4-7PM at CIA will be the crescendo of a fabulous evening of extraordinary art. Don’t miss this experience described as “Blade Runner meets George Jetson”. CIA, 11141 East Boulevard, University Circle; MOCA Cleveland, 8501 Carnegie Avenue, SPACES Gallery, 2220 Superior Viaduct. www.cia.edu www.SpacesGallery.org http://www.MocaCleveland.org.

CC KIDS East 185th Street Fall Fest on Sat 10/22 includes an I-Scream Bash from 12-2PM that features pumpkin painting, face painting, a costume parade, various games and crafts for children, and ice cream, of course. Additional offerings include an arts and crafts sale from 9AM-5PM, a Best Burger Cook-Off from 3-7PM and a raffle for tickets to the Browns – Ravens game on 1/1/06. Call 246-9027 or 548-3269 for info. Tickets can be purchased from East 185th Street merchants: Cebars, Juniors, Level II, Meraglio’s or Mr. Hero’s.

John McCutcheon in Concert to benefit the Kathleen J. Lamparyk Scholarship Fund (Special Education) at Cleveland Central Catholic High School. The 8-time Grammy nominee, a powerful singer of traditional material, will perform his special brand of music which reflects a keen sense of place, family and strength. Learn how to get tickets for the Sat 10/22 dinner from 5:30-7:30PM and the concert at 8PM by visiting http://www.KathieFund.org or calling 440-382-3431. Cleveland Central Catholic Auditorium, 6550 Baxter Avenue, Slavic Village.

Orange Moon Trail Experience an exciting evening of art, cuisine, entertainment, and theater Sat 10/22 beginning at 5PM. The traveling festivities begin at Fairmount Center for Creative & Performing Arts (Russell Township) with drinks, hors d’oeuvres, silent auction, Chinese raffle, fortune-telling, and music by pianist Sarah Peltier. Guests move on to Berkshire Hills Country Club (Chesterland) for a delicious dinner beginning at 6:45PM with entertainment by flautist Caylen Payne. Then the event moves to the Geauga Theater on Chardon Square for a special 9PM performance of the play Dark of the Moon. Halloween dress is encouraged. Tickets available at 440-537-3344. Fairmount Center for Creative and Performing Arts, 8400 Fairmount Road, Novelty. www.GeaugaArtsCouncil.org.

Adidam Sacred Arts Festival: World Music, Dance, and Art will celebrate the influence of the spiritual teacher and master artist, Ruchira Avatar Adi Da Samraj on Sat 10/22 and Sun 10/23. Click here for a full schedule of events. There will be a variety of speakers and Tom and Susana Evert will perform. Call 440-205-1426 or email AdiDaLight@aol.com for tickets. Kathy Skerritt’s Gallery, 2445 Superior Avenue.

2005 Glitz When Lake Hospital System opens the doors to its new Concord Township facility in 2008, patients will step into the hospital of the future-a facility that is computerized, robotic, digitized and wireless. Take part in the celebration of this soon-to-be-built hospital and the community support that is making it possible at the Lake Hospital Foundation’s 2005 Glitz on Sat 10/22 at 6PM. The event features a silent auction of many unique items. Take a peek here. Enter the raffles for a 52” Mitsubishi high-def TV or $5,000. Call 440-354-1900 for ticket info. Holiday Inn Express Hotel and Suites LaMalfa, 5785 Heisley Road, Mentor.

Sacred Rose Join the Women Entrepreneurs of America on Sat 10/22 from 6-9PM for their 2nd annual Evening With the Stars event to benefit Women in Transition (WIT). The key speaker will be Tara Hall, Program Director for the YWCA WIT program in Atlanta and the featured enterprise is Stylz Creative Fashions. Call 469-9707 for info. Cleveland Marriot East, 26300 Harvard Avenue, Warrensville Heights.

Haunted Autumn Auction The auction and benefit concert to support The Unitarian Universalist Society of Cleveland kicks off on Sat 10/22 at 6PM. Refreshments and hors d’ouveres will be served and the silent auction will come to a rocking conclusion with the out-of-this-world sound of Susan Weber and her rock band, Monet’s Orbit. The award winning songwriter and vocalist will take the stage with her band at 8PM for an hour-long performance. Call 739-1928 for tickets or purchase at the door. The event comes alive at the Unitarian Universalist Society of Cleveland, 2728 Lancashire Road, Cleveland Heights.

the pARTy Legendary Afro-Cuban musician, Chuchito Valdés, will make a rare Cleveland appearance at the pARTy, a benefit for the Human Fund on Sat 10/22 at 7PM. Enjoy an open bar, dinner, dessert, music and dancing to the sounds of Afro-Cuban jazz, bossa vova, and cha-cha-cha by legendary Chuchito Valdes Afro-Cuban ensemble and Cleveland’s Roberto Ocasio’s Latin Jazz Project. Live and silent auctions will include works of art by a variety of local and international artists, as well as a gallery of art by Cleveland Municipal School District’ All-City Arts Program. Visit www.The-Human-Fund.org. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, One Key Plaza.

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Dreams, Escape and Fantasy Toward a “More Better Future” On Sat 10/22, where we’ll kick off The Cleveland Institute of Art’s eight-month, city-wide culture festival with a gallery hop from 11AM to 5PM in conjunction with SPACES and MOCA. The free gallery hop will include the viewing of “Beautiful Dreamer” (SPACES), “POPulence” (MOCA) and “Dreaming of a More Better Future” (The Cleveland Institute of Art). Lolley the Trolley will provide free public transportation. At 5PM curators and artists will lead a community dialogue on dreams, escape and fantasy at CIA, followed by the opening party of “Dreaming of a More Better Future,” the Institute’s major fall exhibit. The party will feature food, fun and music until 10PM in CIA’s Reinberger Galleries. Visit www.cia.edu/dreams or call 216-421-7000.
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Wearable Art Fashion Show and Tea Models from Kent State University will be exhibiting one-of-a-kind garments, accessories and more at the high style tea on Sun 10/23 at 1PM. Pieces from the collections of the featured textile artists who come from throughout Northeast Ohio will also be available in the boutique. Proceeds from all three facets of the event, the fashion show, tea and boutique will support the Textile Art Alliance, an affiliate organization of the Cleveland Museum of Art dedicated to raising awareness and interest in the textile arts. Call 440-255-0045 for info. The models take to the catwalk at Windows on the River Powerhouse at Nautica, 2000 Sycamore in Cleveland.

Spectrum Designed to ignite discussion about issues that impact both visual and popular culture, this year’s event on Sun 10/23 at 2PM will be moderated by Jaron Lanier, recently named to the list of The Prospect / Foreign Policy Top 100 Intellectuals, and best known for coining the phrase “virtual reality.” Paul D. Miller, better known as DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, will engage the audience in a discussion of how truth and trust are impacted by our never-ending access to information and whether our real-life experience is heightened by virtual experiences. Call 621-5350 for info or visit http://www.cpl.org/spectrum or http://www.ClevelandPublicArt.org for more info. Louis Stokes Wing Auditorium, East 6th and Superior.

2005 Medical Innovation Summit Bench to Bedside and Back Join more than 800 top-level industry executives, entrepreneurs, investors and clinicians including the CEOs of Medtronic, Stryker, Smith & Nephew and GE Healthcare Technologies, former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, reps from U.S. Venture Partners and Split Rock Partners as they focus on innovations in orthopaedics on Mon 10/24 through Wed 10/26. Visit http://www.ClevelandClinic.org/Innovations to learn more or register for one of the remaining available seats. InterContinental Hotel & MBNA Conference Center.

Secrets of Online Success – Web Design This one-day, interactive workshop on Mon 10/24 from 1-5PM will help you build a more effective web presence, whether you have a website now, or are contemplating one. The seminar helps each participant examine their goals and expectations for doing business on the web, then looks at the key components needed to make websites user friendly yet visible to search engines. Learn 21 practical tips for developing a successful website design and implementation. SEO, natural positioning and those dreaded shopping carts are among the topics to be covered. Call 330-657-2228 or email carolyn@fineart-services.com. Peninsula Art Academy, 1600 Mill Street, Peninsula.

How to Compete in a Global Economy Spend the day with knowledgeable business leaders who share their insight and experience during a results-oriented seminar on succeeding in a global economy. Participants will hear from John Brandt and a panel of local manufacturers as they discuss effective methods for succeeding on a global level during this Tue 10/25 event from 7:30AM-2PM. Call 432-5317 or visit http://www.Camp.org/Events for info. Executive Caterers at Landerhaven, 6111 Landerhaven Drive, Mayfield Heights.

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Break the Silence… Break the Cycle Luncheon Actor and activist Victor Rivers will headline the 12th Annual Domestic Violence Center Luncheon on Tue 10/25 starting at 11:30AM followed by a book signing at 1:30PM. This annual luncheon raises much needed financial support for DVC’s services and generates awareness about victims and the impact of domestic violence. For ticket or sponsorship information call 688-7281. Windows on the River, 2000 Sycamore Street. http://www.DomesticViolenceCenter.org/.

Cleveland Chamber Symphony A new music concert by this 25-year-old, newly-independent ensemble will be conducted by Steven Smith and includes pieces calling for improvisation by the fourteen performers and features Michael Leese’s 69 Shades of Gray and Tom Stoneman’s Sushi at the Zoo on Wed 10/26 at 12PM. Call 575-9745 or visit http://www.mandpa.org. Trinity Cathedral, 2230 Euclid Avenue.

Ohio Election Reforms is the subject of a Case Policy Forum that will be held on Wed 10/26 at 7PM. The public is invited to learn more about Propositions 2, 3, 4 and 5, as political scientists discuss these new election reform initiatives that will be on the November 8th ballot. Call 368-2426 or visit www.Case.edu for more info. Ford Auditorium of the Allen Medical Library, Adelbert Road and Euclid Avenue on Case’s campus.

World in the Balance – The People Paradox For October’s annual World Population Awareness Week, the Sierra Club Population-Environment Committee presents this excellent NOVA 2005 PBS program on Wed 10/26 at 7:30PM which describes the very different demographic futures of India, Japan and Kenya. One sees how the fate of a nation’s environment is determined by the actions of the people and their governments. Call 229-2413 with questions. Nature Center at Shaker Lakes, 2600 South Park Boulevard. www.ShakerLakes.org.

UnSilent Film 5 See The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari with the original twisted ending combined with the added improvised live score by SynthCleveland members Steven K. Smith, Thieves Like Me, tofu, dust_head and fluxmonkey are sure to make the showing of this 1921 silent film classic a must see for Cleveland audiences. The SynthCleveland crew is joined by special guest DJ Feima from WCSB’s “F2”, spinning before and after this fifth un-silent film and performance on Wed 10/26 at 8PM. Call 651-4100. There is no admission cost for this 21 and over show. Rain Nightclub, 4142 Lorain Avenue.

Cirque du Mystique is a mix of circus arts and street entertainment, using fabulous visual excitement and vibrating rhythms to create a dreamlike environment. Imagine being Alice and falling into the rabbit hole but the Velvet Dog Nightclub becomes your Wonderland. The fantasy-like playfulness will coax everyone into dancing, interacting, relaxing, and dreaming fantastic dreams. Enjoy bands, magicians, artistically airbrushed models, cirque performers, dances, urban entertainment and great drinks during this feast of visual excitement on Wed 10/26 beginning at 8:30PM. Velvet Dog, 1280 West 6th Street. www.VelvetDogCleveland.com.

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Having Gaelic roots, I guess it was easy to see why fearless leader here assigned me BRACE YOURSELF BRIDGET to review. That and maybe the fact I’ve probably been to every Irish bar in town at least once or twice this year. Hey, I’m a trained professional journalist, don’t try that on your own. Without getting into a long discourse on Cleveland’s rich Irish musical history, let’s start by staying Brace Yourself Bridget is a good addition to all the Celtic talent Cleveland has playing around town of late. With a bulging line-up that has now been “scaled down” to eight members, BYB (not to be confused with BYOB) has touched on ancestral tunes from the old sod on its debut effort, using many traditional instruments, including bodhran (an Irish hand-held drum), whistle and fiddle. Just as some say a blues band needs a harmonica to be legit, every Irish act worth its salt should have a fiddle. Nikki Custy fills the bill in the line-up here and makes her presence known during the anecdotal tunes like the “The Irish Rover”/”Farewell To Eireann” medley. Homespun covers include Peter Gallagher’s “Hills Of Donegal” and Andy Stewart’s “Take Her In Your Arms” as the music’s bottom is held together by the Stamper family, Jim the elder on drums, Adam on bass and Jim the younger on drums and the aforementioned bodhran. BYB also has bagpipes in the act, which gives Michael Crawley his time to shine via “The Rovin’ Scotsman”and “Hummina,” for two quick examples. If you’ve been around any kind of Irish music of note, you’ll be familiar with the majority of the songs from “Whiskey In The Jar” to “Fields Of Athenry,” though my favorite here is the all-time folkloric “Tell Me Ma,” which always reminds me of a certain lass….uh, best to stop that tangent and get back to the critique. Sweetest Day just rolled through this month, a holiday, no doubt, invented by American Greetings just to sell more cards this time of the year. As dubious as that idea is, it pales to all the “halfway to St. Patrick’s Day” parties that the taverns were throwing last month, I’m sure with the approval of the stockholders of Harp and Guinness. BRACE YOURSELF BRIDGET is a good overall vibe that you can play in the comfort of your home, thus giving your lawyer and bail bondsman a couple extra hours of well earned sleep.Visit their webpage: http://www.braceyourselfbridget.com
From Cool Cleveland contributor Peanuts hostofthenorthcoast@yahoo.com

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Room Service @ Cleveland Playhouse Farce is a theatre or movie form which aims to entertain by developing unlikely, yet often possible situations by use of disguises, mistaken identity and exaggeration. It has a fast-paced plot whose speed usually increases toward the end of the play. Broad physical humor, and deliberate absurdity or nonsense are the lynch pins of farce. Farce is generally perceived by theatre directors and actors as the most difficult to perform. To be successful, in a farcical performance, actors must look and be ridiculous while doing what looks normal and effortless. To be successful farcical writing, places characters in situations in which they simply can’t escape without some great exaggeration. To contemplate farce in its highest form think Lucille Ball, Danny Kaye and the Marx Brothers…
Read the review by Roy Berko here

Cleveland Orchestra @ Severance Hall 10/13 Gustav Mahler was apparently always concerned with mortality. It should hardly be a surprise, then, that after the calamitous year of 1907, he would write a massive symphony that was significantly retrospective. Nothing can be worse than the loss of a dearly-loved child (in this instance, a daughter), but being forced out of his position at the Viennese Opera House, and then learning of his own terminal heart condition, must have seemed to him to be adding insult upon insult to an already crucial injury. It’s no wonder his heart failed. I kept thinking about this year in his life as I listened to the Cleveland Orchestra in performance of Mahler’s 9th Symphony at Severance Hall on Thursday evening. Music Director Franz Welser-Möst was by turns sympathetic and authoritative in communicating his wishes to the musicians. It is a huge work with many miniscule details that could be easily lost in the sweeping nature of the piece, yet these tiny little episodes were treated with as much respect as were the large ones…
Read the review by Kelly Ferjutz here

The Late Henry Moss @ The Bang & the Clatter 10/14
What: Sam Shepard’s exorcism-drama about two estranged brothers trying to understand the circumstances of their alcoholic father’s death, in a splendid production by Akron’s newest young theatre company, The Bang and the Clatter.
Reasons to go: It’s always a pleasure to see a new company shine in its debut, and director Sean McConaha’s rough-and-tumble rendering gets every ounce of juice out of Shepard’s over-the-top memory play. His fearless principal players are excellent, hurtling each other around in viciously choreographed fights and melting down from corruscating revelations. Special honors go to Jim Viront’s performance as the broken-down hermit Henry — he goes from wax-dummy corpse to blithering drunk to raging demon and makes it all work. As suspicious younger brother Ray, Sean Derry bristles like a junkyard dog, while Mark Mayo’s softer Earl cooks on a slower but similarly deadly heat. Stripping in an on-stage bathtub, Tina Tompkins has a sensual heat as the earthy Conchalla, while both Tom C. Barnes and David LeMoyne are sympathetic bystanders as neighbor Esteban and a hapless taxi driver.
Caveats: The production is intense in the small space, and it’s long at nearly 2 hours, 45 minutes — but it’s always compelling.
Backstory: The two Seans — director McConaha and actor Derry — founded The Bang and The Clatter as a theater company aimed at younger audiences, after some success mounting experimental shows in Weathervane’s black box space. They put in sweat equity rehabbing the 2nd floor of a downtown Akron building owned by the Akron Area Arts Alliance, with a first floor gallery and offices for various Akron arts companies.
Target audience: Anyone who wants to see a swell debut of a promising new company.
Details: Thru 10/23 @ Summit Arts Space, 140 E. Market St., Akron. 1-330-606-5317. $15.
from Cool Cleveland contributor Linda Eisenstein LindaATcoolcleveland.com

GroundWorks @ Tri-C Metro 10/14 We went to see GroundWorks Dance Theatre at CCC Metro and saw the small but good company of former ballet dancers in three works. The first, Iron Lung, was already familiar to us from the GroundWorks concert at Akron Icehouse. Watching it for the second time, we found we liked it even more than before, not least because we felt that our Instant Karma review for Cool Cleveland’s 9/21/05 issue seemed to ring true. The best clue we can give anyone to this dance is the one we gleaned from reviews of the New York-based choreographer Keely Garfield — her pas de deux take a darkly funny view of contemporary relationships. Except that in Iron Lung she’s left out the funny parts…
Read the by Victor and Elsa here

Pierre Everaert @ Baldwin-Wallace 10/17 With so many great ideas relevant to Northeast Ohio, your hand gets sore just taking notes at this talk by Pierre Everaert, chairman of InBev SA/NV, former chair of Philips North America, CEO of Ahold, CEO of General Biscuits, and he began his career in Akron with Goodyear, finally serving as CEO of their German operations. His rapid-fire talk covered globalization, innovation, science and, interestingly, integrity. Just a sampling… His simple theme for our region: “Wake up, Focus!” We’re being out-worked by the rest of the world, we have few international partners, and we’re creating more enemies every day. But it’s not too late. Cleveland lost the steel industry and the auto industry, but there is hope. We need a long-term 3- and 3-year plan. Congrats to Nortech for posting their 15-year plan for tech in the region. NEO doesn’t have the large companies anymore, but smaller companies can use the Internet and FedEx to go global. Pay attention to international business news everyday. By 2010, 40% of the world speaks Spanish. Other countries graduate 7 times the number of engineers we do, and they spend 18,000 more hours in school than us. Last week, Russia told England that by 2010, Russia will be supplying 50% of the energy for the European Union. The US will not be supplying a drop. Each person in the US works one month/yr to pay the interest on our foriegn debt. The 13 universities in NEO should collaborate more. Science is the mother of innovation. Think of “the art of science,” and “the science of argument.” Wal-Mart is the science of retail. The 3 prongs of economic development are government, business and academia. But someone has to lead the parade. Character-based leadership (integrity) is good for business. Ask college students what it would take to keep them in the region. Find out what your kids are good at, and encourage that. As B-W develops their $35 million Center for Innovation and Growth, Everaert suggests finding more near-retirement experts like himself to advise our region. He already is. See details here.

Convention Facilities Authority Community Consensus meeting @ Local 310 Hall 10/18 In a surprisingly civil discussion, representatives from the 2 potential convention center sites gave concise presentations with laser pointers to a small but engaged public of less then 50 people. Described by one participant as a fairly balanced “tug-of-war,” each proposal offered benefits and drawbacks. Important questions of budget and funding were deemed off limits until more cost figures can be developed, but that didn’t stop anyone who had an inkling from stepping up to the mic and speaking their peace or asking their question. Many respondents were offered multiple opportunities for follow-up questions, and most were met with straight-forward answers, albeit limited to Forest City’s Tower City riverfront proposal and the City’s proposal to rebuild on the current Convention Center site and possibly extend out to the Lake. Left unaddressed to date are the critical funding issues, especially what will be asked of the public, what the operational costs will total, who will get the parking and concession revenue, land acquisition costs, specific size of the Center, and whether our new Convention Center will also serve as a community or civic center. We need to assimilate the information gleaned from the recent symposium held in Cleveland on 10/6 by the International Association for Exhibition Management and take into account the lack of growth in the convention industry worldwide. See details of the two competing proposals, and soon, a schedule of the next 6 months of public meetings here: http://www.ConventionCleveland.com. A convention center will be built in Cleveland one way or the other, and chances are close to 100% that you will help pay for it. Judging by the letters we get at Cool Cleveland, for the next public meeting, there should be 500 concerned NEO citizens attending, commenting and engaging. C U there.

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On Cleveland’s #1 ranking (See Cleveland’s #1 ranking feels right here) It is about time that Cleveland were recognized for something that many of the region’s residents have known for a long time. Let’s get rid of this inferiority complex, Cleveland; this is a great city that we should take pride in. We have tremendous assets in our cultural and health care institutions. To be mentioned with cities that most deem “successful”, such as Toronto, Paris or Tokyo should tell people something about our city and region. Our transportation infrastructure is superior; we really don’t have traffic to worry about when we compare our area to others of the same size. Our housing market is HOT. With all these assets and much more, our region should be striving to draw people of all ages, ethnicities and backgrounds to Cleveland. We should strive to draw businesses to the region by showing them all the assets we have and why they should call our region home. Cleveland is a great city with a great history we should all take pride in.
from Cool Cleveland reader Geoff Englebrecht toronagaATameritech.net

I am a proud Pittsburgher dating a handsome Clevelander. For the past two years I have been living in both cities and know them quite well. I am also a radio talk show host and I’ve had Dimitri Vassilaros on my show. I think he more than Pittsburgh has an inferiority complex…plus he writes for the Tribune-Review a paper founded and funded bt Richard Mellon Scaif, the cash behind the Monica Lewinsky Scandal. I always tke everything I read from the Trib with a grain of salt.
from Cool Cleveland reader Lisa Pinkerton, Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh lisapinkertonATgmail.com

My congratulations to Cleveland as being voted most livable city. I was raised and lived there for about 20 years, but the location offers very few job opportunities for my profession. Most mathematicians work for Uncle Sam, so to the DC area I went. I miss the slower pace and lower prices of Cleveland as well as the people.
from Cool Cleveland reader Ed Prokop es335_l4ATyahoo.com

My experience just this morning changed my feelings toward Cleveland as a great city in which to live. I try to support businesses by shopping downtown rather than in the suburbs and stop often at Tower City. Today I parked on Prospect Ave. (7:20 a.m. not a busy time),outside Tower City, I put my money in the meter, went into Tower City to get coffee and some pastries to take to work in the surburbs and got a parking ticket. I was truly confused since the meter still had time remaining. When I looked closely at the ticket it was noted that I was “too far from the curb”. Now I got out and looked at how far I was and granted I was probably 12 inches away, but I was not anywhere near as far out as the FedEx truck parked behind me with no time left on his meter and no ticket. The ticket will cost me $25.00. I will not stop and buy my coffee & pastries in Tower City again! I I used to believe Cleveland was a liveable cool city when I first came here in 1977and the city leaders encouraged people to come downton. That has long passed and now I will too.
from Cool Cleveland reader Liz Walton liz.waltonATcvcc.k12.oh.us

There’s nothing finer to do on a warm, sunny, Autumn Saturday afternoon, than biking along the brand new paved section of bicycle trail between Harvard Avenue and the new Metroparks visitor center below East 49th near Grant Avenue. This emerald oasis stabs northward like a giant, leafy, crooked finger out of the Cuyahoga River Valley south of Rockside Road. The oasis shields the cyclist from humongous, earthmoving equipment operating nearby, while offering frequent glimpses of the area’s industrial legacy, including massive petrochemical tanks, steel warehouses and heavy machine shops looming behind the foliage atop the valley ridge above. A ten-ton piece of tool-and-die machinery, artfully displayed with descriptive signage by the trail’s edge, reminds Clevelanders and informs visitors about the tremendous contributions of Northeast Ohio to the advancement of industrial America. I’m looking forward to biking nirvana when the remaining segment is completed from Harvard, north to the flats below downtown Cleveland.
from Cool Cleveland reader Frank J. Dzurik, Jr. fjdzurikATcompany-car.com

Believing in Cleveland is not something that can be quantified by simply looking at how many developers have decided to jump on the tax abatement bandwagon and renovate old warehouses into condos and apartments. To believe that REAL progress is being made, Cleveland will have to behave like a REAL city as defined by the following definition: A center of population, commerce, and culture. First the population. I refer to Cleveland as a pretend city because the number of people who drive in from the suburbs to use it during the daytime far surpass the concentration of people who choose to live in the city full time. The result of this is that the types of amenities that support an actual urban lifestyle are non-existent. If you live in the Bridgeview Building, for example and you wake up in the middle of the night (or after 7pm, for that matter) and you need something as simple as over-the-counter medicine you better have your car keys because your going to have to drive to Ohio City or Lakewood for a CVS or Rite Aid (if your emergency occurs before 9pm) and Lakewood to the 24-hour Topps or Walgreens for your late night adventure. In a real city, 24-hour convenience stores or “bodegas” as New Yorkers and Angelinos lovingly refer to them, exist every couple of blocks. I applaud Constantino’s for trying to sell groceries until 9pm, but bodega’s carry an assortment of the things that you only think of when you really need them. OK. Do you have a dog? Or do you like parks? Well, the only reasonable amount of green space within walking distance are the Malls, but they are about as user-friendly as a stuffy, Old-English garden. No dog run, small trees, no playground or any activity encouragement. Central Park in New York is not only a genius work of architectural landscaping, it is a destination filled equal opportunity to be active or relax. As a space to wolf down your lunch before returning to your cubicle, the Malls do fine, but as a community-generating destination, the parking lot at Legacy Village has as much appeal. Which brings us to the second part of the definition: commerce. A bodega or 2 is the start, but building an urban population requires businesses that people use to build a sense of community. All-night coffee shops (Flo doesn’t count, because it is a bar masquerading as a diner) and retail such as boutique clothing stores (a few of which opened and closed unfortunately), book stores and stores not available in the suburbs. (If they are, the Downtown Store is supposed to be the “flagship” store with merchandise the suburbs don’t have) Of course, their is no shortage of bars and restaurants, but again they seem to cater to “suburbanite’s big night on the town” rather than to the brave soul who inhabits a studio apartment in the National Terminal Building. Lastly, the city as a center of culture. On this point it can be said that Cleveland does, in fact, have many cultural gemstones: Playhouse Square, museums, galleries, the orchestra, etc., but the culture of an urban environment is born of the people who live there interacting with each other in all the aforementioned scenarios on the sidewalks day and night. And in the classic chicken and egg argument for this “culture” to be “cultivated” the population density must grow SIMULTANEOUSLY with commercial and public amenities. People usually don’t move somewhere in hopes that their needs will be met. They move knowing they will have a quality of life that doesn’t require them to run to the suburbs for support. They have the option to go, if they absolutely must. I close saying that Cleveland wants to be a REAL city, but the fact remains that too much space has been left for dead in the post-industrial landscape and it will take more than a few new apartments to create a truly, livable urban community.
from Cool Cleveland reader Timothy Johnson timothygjohnsonATgmail.com

On Cool Cleveland error (See Post Primary Mayoral Debate here) Let me just say, a friend and I showed up at 2p.m. expecting to hear from our two mayoral candidates. Surprise – the ‘debate’ began at noon, was brief, only Jane and friends showed up and according to some folks we met outside the auditorium very few questions from the floor were permitted. Prior to the primary I had attempted to attend a candidates forum at Mt. Calvary that I had read about in CC. We showed up and there were no cars in the parking lot. Checked the door of the church and found a note taped on it that the event had been rescheduled for several weeks later. My bitch is that I am trying to participate, but both times I counted on your information it’s wrong! Lesson learned – call the contact numbers – I just hope your staff verified the phone numbers. Thanks anyways – CC is always good reading.
from Cool Cleveland reader Karen Desotell kdesotellATameritech.net
From Cool Cleveland: The Post Primary Mayoral Debate was listed incorrecly in Cool Cleveland, and we apologize for the error. We did not receive notice of the rescheduled Mt. Calvary candidate forum.

On the Warren Zanes interview (See Cool Cleveland People: Warren Zanes here) I cannot agree with Zanes more. It is absolutely oppressive the way Clevelanders apologize for Cleveland. If they think it’s so bad, leave. Cleveland’s great. Clevelanders just have way too much of an insecurity complex to realize and relish it.
from Cool Cleveland reader William Walker WWalkerATInvent.org

I had the same experience as Warren Zanes when I moved from San Francisco to Cleveland. Almost to a person, people I met in Cleveland asked me “Why Cleveland?” I had loved Cleveland in the 70’s as a punk teenager going to the Agora, and other clubs. The people in Cleveland are super nice, it seems like it’s a rite of passage to be in a band there! I feel like Cleveland is truly a hidden gem. I moved out of Cleveland mostly because it was so hard to get around without a car. But would easily move there again. I think it’s a great city with scads of talented artists and musicians. I’m now living in Chicago.
from Cool Cleveland reader Denise Dee denisedeeATsbcglobal.net

On Cool Cleveland I emailed you a complimentary letter back when you first started this free email information guide. I just want to reiterate that your whole approach to Cleveland news is just so refreshing. Yes, I meant to say “refreshing”, because Clevelanders just don’t get this outlook on our city from the likes of Dick Feagler and the others here in town. I just want to thank you a let you know – from one Clevelander to another – I sincerely appreciate your efforts to consistently combat the negative image that the Plain Dealer and others cast upon our city. I wrote Dick once and told him that since he thinks its so terrible here, why is he still here? Those who reside here should like it or get out. So, I think your article about Warren Zanes is great. We need more stories like that, because I think people obviously love it here, especially those who can get jobs else where, because if they didn’t really like it they wouldn’t be here. However, many of us are caught up in the inferiority complex generated by those in Cleveland media. Cool Cleveland and Crain’s are the best.
from Cool Cleveland reader Timothy Tramble trambleATadelphia.net

On Cleveland’s need for venture capital (See Cleveland needs VC here) I think all this hubbub around growing the tech industry is great and I see a lot of calls to raise the VC for it. But I have a basic question that I’ve yet to see discussed anywhere: What do those who want to bring tech here, or grow it, want the tech companies to be doing? What do they produce? Provide? Create? What’s the product that a tech company offers? Are we talking about creating software? Solving problems related to modernizing factories? Or education? Or all of the above? The reason I ask these questions is because I’m infinitely curious, in general. And curious about tech in particular. So, let’s say I see these entities like NorTech putting themselves out there, trying to rally people and I think, I would love to create a tech company. What would I search, how would I learn, what would I want that company to do? I apologize – I hope this isn’t too basic. But in all the stuff I’ve been reading (i.e., the PD, Henry Gomez’s Tech Link, George Nemeth’s Brewed Fresh Daily, Chris Varley’s blog, and Red Room Revolution’s documents, among other items), I haven’t really seen a good definition – a step by step outline – of what folks want the tech companies that they want in NEO to be doing. Thank you for taking these questions seriously and I’m eager to know what you think. Feel free to pass the questions on to those you think can answer it – specifically and in English (as opposed to VC/entrepreneurial jargon, with all due respect).
from Cool Cleveland reader Jill Miller Zimon jillzimonATsbcglobal.net

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Top 5
Here are the Top 5 from last week’s issue, with one more chance for you to click.

1) Cleveland’s #1 ranking feels right Download the complete EIU report in PDF form.
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2) Cool Cleveland People: Warren Zanes Our interview with the VP of Education @ the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum.
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3) RoldoLINK Roldo Bartimole’s take on the mayoral primaries.
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4) CSU student named Top 10 in US Maria Weybrecht is featured in the October issue of Glamour magazine.
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5) Cleveland Next needs your ideas It appears readers wanted to see what kind of ideas have been submitted, not submit more.
www.ClevelandNext.com

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