08.15-08.22.12
Kulture
We have the luxury at Cool Cleveland, of curating the coming week. You won’t find a comprehensive listing here, or on our mobile app. I daresay you wouldn’t want that; too much information is almost as bad as too little. So we focus on spotlighting the cool, the innovative, the under-appreciated. In other words, kulture, not culture. So prepare yourself for a big week: Clevelander Mary Bridget Davies closes out her triumphant run in “One Night With Janis Joplin.” See our interview and a review of her new album.
Join the Farmers Market Cash Mob, make food fonts at Shaker Square, play Punk Rock Bingo at the B-Side, do Pop-Up Poetry in the Park with our friend Cavana Faithwalker, and celebrate entrepreneurship and natural resources at the Sunset Clean Fuel Motorcar and Bike Rally on Whiskey Island. Get yer kulture any way you can. –Thomas Mulready
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Farmers Market Cash Mob Week Visit a participating market, bring $20 cash & give a boost to the local economy. Fri 8/17 – Wed 8/22. Check schedule for specific dates & times. Market mob!
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SPONSORED: Help your community while spending an evening at Progressive Field! Come Fill the House for Charity on Tue 8/28, as the Cleveland Indians take on the Oakland A’s. A portion of the proceeds from each ticket purchased through this promotion will benefit United Way of Greater Cleveland. Don’t miss the opportunity to support the Tribe and the community! It’s a win for the home teams! UnitedWayCleveland.org
Cleveland native Mary Bridget Davies is having a fantastic 2012. Listen as Cool Cleveland talks with Mary in her hometown of Lakewood.
Earlier this year, she released her own CD, “Wanna Feel Somethin'” then got the part as the understudy for the Cleveland run of “One Night With Janis Joplin.”
Then the lead dropped out and Mary immediately stepped into the role of Janis Joplin, performing seven shows a week at the Cleveland Play House. Tix are available thru Sun 8/19/12. Watch the interview here.
SPONSORED: Got Green? You know you want to! Join the coolest gathering in town on Fri 9/7, when culinary superstar Steve Schimoler of Crop Bistro & Bar serves up a Fall harvest menu at the Lakewood Community Services Center community garden in Lakewood. Kristine Jackson & KJ Blues will rock the tent. Get more info here. Get your tickets here.
If you’re looking for a quick refresher course on what’s new, hip and happening in the alternative-fuel world, the Earth Day Coalition and NEO Clean Cities present the inaugural and free Sunset Clean Fuel Motorcar and Bike Rally on Tue 8/21…
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SPONSORED: As part of WCLV’s 50th anniversary celebration, we’re inviting listeners to call us at 216-464-0900, press 1, and tell us in 60 seconds or less what WCLV has meant to you. We will broadcast the ones we like the best from August through November, and they’ll receive a compact disc from our prize closet or a pair of Blossom lawn passes. WCLV.com
Let’s make Food Fonts Come to the Shaker Square Farmers Market on Sat 8/18 to be a part of a hands-on arts project where you make letters out of food, take photos of your creations & edit ’em online. FUN for all.
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Listen to Cleveland superstar and celebrity chef Steve Schimoler of Crop Bistro & Bar as he tells us what he’s preparing to serve at the third annual Got Green? benefit for Lakewood Community Services Center on Fri 9/7/12.
Watch the interview at the LCSC community garden here.
WED 8/15
Devina and the Vagabonds play a mix of blues, jazz, Dixieland & Ragtime and are renowned for their high-energy shows. Be a part of the ruckus on Wed 8/15.
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THU 8/16
Bike Cleveland Fundraiser Social w/ Yehuda Moon & the Kickstand Cyclery on Thu 8/16. Make some cycling friends & support biking in Cle.
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FRI 8/17
Rockin’ Rib Fest Kent Stage presents 3 days of ribs, riffs & roasts starting on Fri 8/17 @ Sunbeau Valley Farm. Free admission, too!
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SAT 8/18
Lakewood Car Kulture Show Peep out hot rods, custom, vintage & classic cars, choppers, scooters, bobbers & motorcycles on Sat 8/18. Rockabilly fun! Food & music, too.
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SUN 8/19
Bikes, Brunch & A Movie Brunch at Market Garden Brewery then ride your bicycle to the Palace Theatre for a showing of Mary Poppins on Sun 8/19. Secured bike parking, too.
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MON 8/20
Punk Rock Bingo BINGO! Yes, bingo, every Mon 8/20 @ the B-Side. Win prizes from local biz, eat free pizza & listen to punk rock. Rock that scorecard.
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TUE 8/21
Clean Fuel Motorcar Rally & Bike Expo Gasoline ain’t the only game in town. Peep out new alternative fuel vehicles & advanced vehicle technology, plus veggie-fueled cars, handmade bicycles & more on Tue 8/21.
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WED 8/22
Pop-Up Poetry in the Park Listen, write & learn how to express your inner genius through poetry at this free interactive poetry workshop on Wed 8/22. Let the Shaker Lakes inspire you.
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Cleveland native Mary Bridget Davies has returned to the Cleveland area to star in the Cleveland Play House’s production of “One Night With Janis Joplin,” but she made good use of her years in Kansas City, where her new CD was recorded with her band.
As heartfelt as the originals on this release sound, it’s probably the surprising covers on Wanna Feel Somethin‘ that will raise the most eyebrows. Davies and the guys take on the British anthem Wonderwall by Oasis, something we can be sure no English artist would dare. A song that in the US is considered a watered down George Harrison wannabe is turned around by Davies and transformed into a loungy, late night blues sizzler. We challenge you to go back to the original and hear it the same way again after hearing Davies’ version.
Likewise, the Eagles’ bombastic country-rock waltz Take It To The Limit is twisted inside out to the point of unrecognition, to the relief of many, no doubt… Read the complete review here.
You’ve heard the term “less is more,”… but I’m suggesting that “more may mean less.”
The problem in America is not that we have too many mass shootings… it’s that we don’t have enough of them — or, more accurately — we don’t have enough of them in a compressed period of time…
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Okay, Mayor Frank when are you going to ask for a cut of that $1 billion Randy Lerner and family are getting for the Browns?
Are you really serious about helping the children of Cleveland?
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Quick previews & reviews of recent events
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REVIEW: Jazz at Severance Hall 8/10/12 by Carol Drummond
REVIEW: Classic & Modern Ballet Highlight POINTE OF DEPARTURE @ Cain Park by Roy Berko
REVIEW: Lollapalooza 2012 @ Grant Park, Chicago by Thomas Mulready
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ROLDO: Jimmy Played It All Wrong Love Roldo…
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Thank you for taking me out of the mindset created by the msm…
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I’m sorry. I think it’s time to banish the word “victim” from our vocabulary. I do not know Jimmy Dimora, but some of the tales I’ve heard from folks inside the Party make my hair stand on end…
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Let’s Pray That Dolan Sells the Indians No one should pray for any matter that involves something as insignificant as professional sports. It is run by private entities designed to make a big profit for themselves. The entire model stinks…
Read the comment from Wayne Kuznar here
Larry Durstin hits the clown on the head with this on-target column. Winning begins at the top. No top here, only “nice” people who like to own a trophy MLB team….
Read the comment from David Eden here
What’s missing here is an apparent understanding of the fact that Larry Dolan is only the technical owner of the Indians, and not the real decision-maker. The money he used for this giant purchase wasn’t made in his rather modest family law practice but rather by his New York-based brother….
Read the comment from John Ettorre here
Death of the Business Decathlete If you are a specialist your position will eventually be outmoded and you will lose your job. Business moves too fast to allow people that just fill the neat boxes of org charts to exist. Nobody believes those charts except business consultants and human resources drones and the author of this steamy pile…
Read the comment from Howard here
Say “Yeah Mon” to the Midwest Reggae Fest I’d be there in a heartbeat if it was at Nelson’s Ledges….
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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) Artists Chosen for Innerbelt Public Art Mural
2) Roar Along the Shore
3) Little Italys Feast of the Assumption
4) MANSFIELD: The Hair Affair
5) Lets Pray That Dolan Sells the Indians
Highly kultured. Kudos to our writers: Roldo Bartimole, John Benson, Roy Berko, Martin Bielat, Carol Drummond, Mansfield Frazier, Claudia Taller 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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