06.11-06.18.14
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People stop us on the street and thank us for curating the weekly e-blast you’re reading, and for making everything easily accessible on their mobile devices. Do you know what a great feeling that is? But we’re not in the habit of making suggestions without offering a link with every post.So click away as we point you to the newest mountain bike trail in the Metroparks via an interview with Ralph Protano, the guy who lead the team that designed it. And follow the link to learn more about Doubting Thomas’ Ultra Mega Art, or about The Ohio Light Opera’s brilliant 36th season, or some insight on the Greater Cleveland Trails & Greenways Conference, in town this week.
Our Sustenance column offers links to the Downtown Farmers Market, a Photostream from VegFest and even a session on making your own mustard at the Cleveland Flea.
Follow the links to Mansfield’s column on the infamous 137 shots, to kids events like Tailspinner and Parade, to music like Opera Circle and the Kent Folk Fest, and at least a couple of curated links for every day of the week. Let your finger do the clicking. –Thomas Mulready
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“Go take a hike” is the spirit behind the dozens of trails and greenways that can be found throughout Northeast Ohio.
These natural routes and paths are the result of foresight and design by city planners and environmental activists. The goal of this the Greater Cleveland Trails & Greenways Conference is to explore emerging trends in design, build skills for funding and project success and to understand how trails and greenways benefit the economy, environment and health of thriving communities…
More from John Benson here
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SPONSORED: Save $25 on VIP Membership at the new Music Box Supper Club! Coming to the West Bank of the Flats in August: a Concert Hall and Supper Club in one! Click here to check out the Cool Benefits of our VIP Program! For Cool Cleveland readers only: Enter promo code COOLCLE and get $25 off your VIP Membership! Offer Expires 6/15.
Looking for fun? Thats exactly what you’ll get when you go mountain biking in The Cleveland Metroparks this summer. The Cleveland Metroparks are kicking off their biking season this year with a jump start by opening a brand new 9-mile trail in Bedford.
CoolCleveland’s Thomas Mulready went on a preview ride earlier this week, and spoke with the trail’s lead designer Ralph Protano. Hearing the story told live on the trail itself was truly an inspiration to get on a bike and start riding.
SPONSORED: Looking for the perfect Fathers Day gift? Treat your father, grandfather, or loved one to a beer tasting trip aboard Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad on Fri 6/13. Sample five unique beers and appetizers. Commemorative glass included. Trip departs Boston Mill Station (7029 Riverview Road, Peninsula) at 7:30 p.m. To register call 800-468-4070 or visit CVSR.com.
This Friday, Doubting Thomas’ invitation-only group exhibition Ultra Mega Art! highlights the best and brightest emerging artists from Cleveland State’s Art Department.
With the opening of CSU’s new Arts Campus and The Galleries at Cleveland State in Downtown’s Theatre District, the future is looking very bright at the corner of Euclid Avenue and E. 13th Street…
More from Josh Usmani here
Ernie Krivda’s big band celebrates B3 blues with an homage to Oliver Nelson & Jimmy Smith.
Cleveland-born sax legend Ernie Krivda has a thing for the bluesy, organ-backed jazz that came out of the early 1960s. That’s why he and his Fat Tuesday Big Band put together “A Big Band, a B3 and the Blues” for the 35th annual Tri-C JazzFest.
David Thomas will play the Hammond B3, and Mike Cady and Erin Kufel will be featured on vocals. The show is part of Tri-C JazzFest. See it at 2:45PM on Sat 6/28, at the Ohio Theatre. Get your tickets here.
SPONSORED: Ohio Light Opera opens 6/14 See 7 gems of musical theater this summer at The Ohio Light Opera in Wooster, Ohio: My Fair Lady, Irving Berlin’s Call Me Madam, Johann Strauss II’s Die Fledermaus, The Pirates of Penzance, Jerome Kern’s Oh, Lady! Lady!! and more. Season opens June 14. Call 330-263-2345 or visit OhioLightOpera.org.
Get your tickets for Roar Along the Shore, happening Fri 9/5. The popular boat party gets bigger & better.
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SPONSORED: Grab a blanket & chairs and head out to the Holden Arboretum for live music in the garden. The summer concert series takes place Tuesdays 6/17 8/5 at 7PM. Food and drinks are available for purchase. $5 for adults after 5PM. Members and guests under 18 are free. For the line-up of local acts visit HoldenArb.org.
Are we not vegans? Maybe. Maybe not. But we all had a great time at VegFest. Check out the photos! Sat 6/7.
Read more picks by Anastasia Pantsios here
Kamm’s Corners Farmers Market is holding its first outdoor market of the season every Sunday @ 10AM – 1PM. Head to the parking lot behind Walgreen’s for an ever-lively market featuring goods from 30+ vendors, chef demos from AMP 150, live music, health screenings and more.
We love the Market and we know you will too! Getting out and attending the Kamm’s Corners Farmers Market is a great way to shop for local and delicious produce, all while experiencing the fun neighborhood that is Kamm’s Corners. After the market, head on over to one of the nearby restaurants for some lunch with the family. Details.
SPONSORED: Dan Savage is an author and syndicated columnist who is bold, direct, and unapologetic. Cleveland Public Library closes this season of Writers and Readers with this prominent voice in LBGT rights, and Co-Founder of the It Gets Better Project. Bring a friend to this FREE event on Sat 6/21 at 2PM, Main Library. CPL.org.
If you happen to love musical theater and/or light opera or operetta, you can be forgiven for thinking you’ve died and gone to lyric theater heaven in Ohio Light Opera’s 36th Festival Season, starting Sat 6/14.
New college grads join with older, more experienced performers to explore the wonderful, sometimes wacky — but always tuneful — world of musical theater…
More from Kelly Ferjutz here
Lili Roquelin left her native France and came to Cleveland to jumpstart her music career. She’s since moved on to New York, but hasn’t forgotten us. She’ll be back at Brothers Lounge Wine Bar. Fri 6/13.
Read more picks by Anastasia Pantsios here
What a line up! CoolCleveland Correspondent Marty Bielat met up with Melt Bar & Grilled Owner Matt Fish at his store in Mentor to talk about what’s hot on this summer’s menu. From the way it looked, this season’s menu has to be one of the best yet.
Matt certainly had it right when he said,”It’s a food fiesta” when we were enjoying the sandwiches on their patio. In addition to the sandwiches, it was also nice to hear about his new store close to Easton, in Columbus, and to see a new salad/cocktail combo.
Guitarist John Scofield is a masterful jazz improviser whose music falls somewhere between post-bop jazz and R&B. He has recorded more than 30 albums as a leader and collaborator. Trombone Shorty (Troy Andrews) continues to push the envelope, happily blending jazz, rock ‘n’ roll, soul and that special something that comes out of New Orleans.
The two form a double bill beginning at 7:15PM on Fri 6/27 at the Palace Theatre at part of the 35th annual Tri-C JazzFest. Got your tickets? Get ’em here.
Feel the breeze at the Euclid Wind Festival Sat 4/16. Take a tethered hot air balloon ride, enjoy a concert on the beach, go windsurfing, tour a wind turbine & be breezy.
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Check out this video about the 27-day Summer Reading Academy, now in the enviable position of experiencing waves of students attending this summer school program to improve their reading scores.
“In a way it is the kind of problem you want to have, and its a good sign that having it right away in the summer will push our numbers up,” said Karen Thompson, deputy chief of curriculum and instruction.
The third-grade reading guarantee means those students must attend, but the good news is the program is also attracting students in Kindergarten through 3rd grade. Watch the video.
Mark Brabant entered our Twitter Retweet contest and helped us get over ten thousand followers! He loves The CoolCleveland Twitter Page and this week we selected him as the twenty-second winner of our new CoolCleveland T-shirt. And he’s thrilled:
“I love CoolCleveland because, without it, I’d be forever in the fetal position on the bathroom floor not knowing what to do with my time.” Brabant helped us reach ten thousand followers, but there are also more ways you can win a CoolCleveland T-shirt. For example, you’re automatically entered to win a shirt when you download our new CoolCleveland mobile app.
Get the app here and win the T-shirt that can’t be bought, just earned. See all of the past T-shirt winners here.
WED 6/11
Wade Oval Wednesdays are popular w/ ppl throughout the region. No wonder: who doesn’t love free music/movies, food trucks & drinks on picturesque Wade Oval? WOW kicks off today w/ Motown/R&B dance group Coast2Coast.
Click here for more events on Wed 6/11
THU 6/12
The Two Wheel Roundup is for all bikers, gearheads & casual motorcycle enthusiasts. Gather weekly at Prosperity to gaze at vintage motos while listening to music.
Click here for more events on Thu 6/12
FRI 6/13
Move On! Near West Theatre is saying goodbye to its 36-year home, the St. Patrick’s Club. NWT will stage one final, all-original play before moving onto a bigger stage. Join & reflect.
Click here for more events on Fri 6/13
SAT 6/14
pARTY in Gordon Square. After Parade the Circle, party the night away w/ culture, music & art in the Gordon Square Arts District.
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SUN 6/15
The Look Of Love: Vocalist Tara Hawley will join pianist Matt Skitzki’s trio to performance the music of Burt Bacharach @ Beachwood library.
Click here for more events on Sun 6/15
MON 6/16
Singer/pianist Maya Johanna Menachem has quite a career going for herself in her native Israel. Raised on a kibbutz, where she studied music, she did her required stint in the Israeli military as a singer. Now she’ll be @ Nighttown.
Click here for more events on Mon 6/16
TUE 6/17
Holden Arboretum’s summer concert series enters its 5th year, opening w/ kids’ artist Chip Richter. The rest of the lineup is a bit more adult-without-children-friendly, although savvy kids might enjoy these acts too.
Click here for more events on Tue 6/17
WED 6/18
Gourmets in the Garden gives Cle food lovers an opportunity to get up close & personal w/ some of the local celebrity chefs they’ve been reading about. Up today: Chef Matthew Mytro of Flour.
Click here for more events on Wed 6/18
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It didn’t take gazing into a crystal ball for anyone to prognosticate that more militant members of the black community would mount a protest claiming that justice wasn’t served, and demanding that the other 12 Cleveland police officers involved in the infamous “137 shots” heard virtually round the world be indicted…
Read this story and others from Mansfield Frazier here
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Quick previews & reviews of recent events
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PHOTOSTREAM: Fashion Week Cleveland 2014 by HUE
REVIEW: Tappin’ Thru Life – Lots of singing & music & a little tapping at CPH by Roy Berko
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MANSFIELD: Tim McGinty – Man in the Middle
I was a police officer in the 70’s. A big part of my training was about use of force laws. We watched films called “shoot, don’t shoot” that showed us the very fine line which allowed an officer to justifiably shoot because they or others were in serious danger, and when not to shoot because the immediate threat had ended….
Jeffrey R Zadzilka
Its called “the 137” or “the Cleveland Atrocity”….
Eric Johnson
Read and comment here: http://www.coolcleveland.com/blog
Most clicked
Here are the Top 5 most clicked links from last week’s issue, with one more chance for you to click.
1) Cleveland Orchestra Announces 25th Annual Star-Spangled Spectacular
2) Cleveland Beaches are Cleaning Up
3) Food Truck Friday Kicks Off Its Official Season at Free Stamp
4) MANSFIELD: The Luckiest Day in My Life
5) MANSFIELD: Tim McGinty Man in the Middle
Thanks for linking us together: John Benson, Roy Berko, Marty Bielat, Kelly Ferjutz, Mansfield Frazier, Anastasia Pantsios, Josh Usmani & 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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