09.04-09.11.13
Modern
We’ve had the good fortune this year to have traveled around these United States: Boston, New York, Portland, Chicago, Seattle, MI, PA, and when you compare, it’s obvious that Cleveland and its region stack up nicely as a contemporary, modern metropolis. We’re onto most urban trends and starting a few of our own: food, biking, rust belt chic. All things Cleveland are celebrated in Gary Dumm’s Love Letter to Cleveland mural being unveiled this week, featuring CLE icons from Ghoulardi to Jesse Owens, from Superman to Harvey Pekar, from Margaret Hamilton to Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, from Chefs Boyardee to Symon. Modern Painters opens at Rotten Meat Gallery, it’s Grandparents Day at CMNH, and The Great Lake Erie Boat Float enters the waters.
Vanity Crash release a disc, you can write a song at the Gordon Square Farmer’s Market, and the Roar Along the Shore returns. The Cleveland Garlic Festival smells so nice, Bridget D. Ginley explores cyborgian mutation, Arabella Proffer proffers new artwork, and you can pARTy with Phriends to benefit the kids of Providence House.
Don Brown wins $20 just for using the coolest mobile app in Cleveland, and you can too. The CoolCleveland #Hashtag Game gets free publicity for your favorite event: just #CoolCleveland on Instagram or Twitter and tell us what event you love.
Oh, and Cool Cleveland’s got a new modern look. We hope you like it. And we hope you use us to make your life in Cleveland thoroughly up-to-date. –Thomas Mulready
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Cleveland is a city of theater, art, music, and movies. We are a city on a lake and our daily lives reflect that too. From world-renowned oil barons to underground comic authors, Cleveland has it all.
Now two of its biggest fans have depicted their love for all things Cleveland across the sky it shares with the Terminal Tower… More from Hollie Gibbs here
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SPONSORED: A Night at the Fitz Come dressed as a gangster, a silent film star or a flapper, or just as you are. Glance inside the vintage NKP 765 Steam Locomotive at the Fitzwater Maintenance Yard, and sip cocktails & enjoy hors d’oeuvres for “A Night At The Fitz,” to benefit the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad on Fri 9/13. Tickets here.
United Way of Greater Cleveland has style. Not content to simply issue a press release or call a meeting to announce the goal for their 2013-14 campaign, they insist on throwing a pancake breakfast on Public Square for the entire city each year. The goal is $42,500,000, up 2.6% from last year.
Cool Cleveland was there to talk with Terry Stewart, formerly of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and now one of the co-chairs of the campaign about their audacious goal and all the good United Way does each and every day in our community. UnitedWay.org
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In the wake of the Trayvon Martin verdict, there continues to be a great deal of debate and activism over the merits or demerits of the so-called “stand your ground” law.
While this law is pivotal in cases of self defense and was the focal point of much of the public discourse after the death of the seventeen-year-old Florida youth, there is another aspect of the trial that has been largely overlooked… More from C. Ellen Connally here
Two of Cleveland’s coolest companies got together recently at Walnut Wednesdays, the weekly food truck roundup in Downtown Cleveland, and Cool Cleveland was there to catch the fun.
Listen as Elvis O. Serrano of the Jibaro World Eats food truck and his new brick-and-mortar Pit Stop restaurant shows us how he uses the new EMS+ credit card reader.
With a gang of hungry customers lined up, Elvis and his crew use EMS+ to punch in menu items, scan a customer’s credit card & send them a receipt, all without slowing down the line. With the lowest scan rate in the country (even lower than Square), Elvis will save enough in a year to get a new refrigerator for free. PlusByEMS
Just months after his last solo exhibition, New Works, at The Galleries at Cleveland State, Cleveland’s own Dante Rodriguez presents an even newer body of work this Friday as Modern Painters opens at Rotten Meat Gallery…
More from Josh Usmani here
For its 32nd year, college radio station WRUW-FM 91.1 has snagged young S.F. psych-rocker Mikal Cronin [pictured] as headliner. But it’s also got a hot lineup of local acts and an even hotter co-headliner: legendary ’70s Cleveland underground band Mirrors. Sat 9/7.
Read more picks by Anastasia Pantsios here
@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!
Great Lake Erie Boat Float Create a boat… & watch it float. Or just get to Edgewater Park & watch this fun boat building/race competition promoting lake conservation & recycling.
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September Special!
New Fall 2013 Menu
New or improved items available all September!
Check out the new and improved Add Ons list and the Melt Greatest Hits List for ideas and inspiration.
Many new vegetarian & vegan options plus and gluten free bread option! Melt Bar and Grilled
Somebody receives a $20 check from Cool Cleveland every week, just for using our mobile app. It may as well be you.
This week, Don Brown is our winner. And he’s thrilled:
“I love your app!”
“You can forward my prize to the City Mission. Love on your neighbor, another part of 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.
Only 30 Minutes East of Downtown This month, Lake County Visitors Bureau is hosting an Instagram Exhibit at Holden Arboretum! Instagrammers used #VisitLakeCOExhibit to enter over 100 photos to the contest and the top 15 were chosen and will be exhibited September 16 – October 28 at the Holden Arboretum.
Are you interested in a Painesville Progressive Dinner? What if we told you that our most recent diner told us that it rivaled anything found in Tremont or Ohio City? From Your Vine or Mine’s delicious micro-winery to pinball at Nemeth’s Lounge, you’ll find a little bit of something for everyone. [photo: @josephweagraff]
WED 9/4
Rising polka stars take the stage for an Octoberfest Accordion Extravaganza w/ Johnny Koenig & Kevin Solecki.
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THU 9/5
Discuss invasive species & art @ SPACES w/ artist Mimi Kato & the Cleveland Metroparks’ Invasive Plants Coordinator Jennifer Hillmer. They’ll discuss how to handle invasive plants in our region.
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FRI 9/6
Roar Along the Shore Don’t miss the boat. Get your tix today for the hottest end-of-summer bash aboard the Goodtime III. The Modern Electric, Herzog, Ohio Sky [pictured] & others will provide the live tunes.
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SAT 9/7
Oh, garlic! Sing the praises of garlic — & local food — at Cleveland Garlic Festival, a fundraiser for North Union Farmers Market. Fest includes 14 live bands, food vendors, grill-off competition, rock climbing, tastings, garlic growing, kids stuff & more.
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SUN 9/8
Date Palms creates music far beyond the “ambient” label. “They employ traditional rock instrumentation to create music informed by Indian classical music, country, minimalism & spiritual jazz,” says the bio at their label’s website. Check ’em out @ Now That’s Class.
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MON 9/9
Brazilian guitarist Diego Figuiered & Brooklyn-based French vocalist Cyrille Aimee are frequent & much-loved visitors to Nighttown. Their Brazilian + gypsy jazz make for an alluring & appealing mix.
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TUE 9/10
You should be doing yoga in the most serene setting in NEO — Holden Arboretum. Check out the schedule for their upcoming yoga & tai chi offerings. Get zen while overlooking the gorgeous butterfly garden.
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WED 9/11
Movie Night @ the Maltz Catch a showing of Everything is Illuminated, a fictionalized version of the story of Betty Gold’s hometown of Trochenbrod.
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Waterloo Road in Collinwood is so torn up at the moment that this month’s “Walk All Over Waterloo” seems a bit ironic.
You kinda have to walk all over Waterloo… You can only drive eastbound. Still, the neighborhood is rewarding visitors with a number of really cool events and promises of more cool things coming soon… Read more from Josh Usmani here
By using the above cry for justice employed by the angry and the ironic since the 1960s, hopefully I have the attention of both the many outraged by the three-DUI resume of Cleveland’s Ward 2 councilman Zack Reed, and the others who may be more sympathetic to the controversial legislator… More from Larry Durstin here
You might have seen this citizen’s Channel 19 editorial; it starts like this: “I’m Marc Kotora, an owner of Gallucci’s Italian Foods — a small business in Cleveland, Ohio. Today’s welfare system is in direct opposition to the American principles of independence, hard work, and self-reliance.”
All I can say is what a crock of shit…
Read this story from Mansfield Frazier here
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One of the first moves made by Jimmy “Cheat them if we can” Haslam when he took over the Cleveland Browns was to pick up $100 million in a naming rights for the Browns stadium — owned, by the way, by the City of Cleveland…
Read this story from Roldo Bartimole here
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ROLDO: Gullible’s Travels & Rope-A-Dope Preaching to the converted Roldo. Sin tax. What about the other sins like gluttony. Tax the high end cars, restaurants mink coats and a gazillion other things people don’t need….
Read the comment from Hank Wait here
Of course the tax re-up pitch will be an absurd pack of lies, couched in feel-good ‘sport is life’ metaphors. Only an insane electorate would fall for it….
Read the comment from Allen Freeman here
Cleveland’s Future: Bowling with Strangers The lower west side which you refer to as Ohio city is still mired in poverty, and just like the failed models of post war urban renewal and federal interstate highway construction, gentrification will merely move poverty level citizens into borderline poverty lower middle class neighborhoods which will then slide downhill while the gentrified neighborhood might enjoy a short term uptick at the expense of displaced citizens…
Read the comment from Snarky here
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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) Cleveland’s Future: Bowling with Strangers
2) B-W’s Vicky Bussert Works Miracles
3) ROLDO: Gullible’s Travels & Rope-A-Dope
4) MANSFIELD: 50 Years and Counting
5) PHOTOSTREAM: Lkwd Music Fest
Thoroughly awesome. Thank you, writers: Roldo Bartimole, Martin Bielat, C. Ellen Connally, Larry Durstin, Mansfield Frazier, Hollie Gibbs, Anastasia Pantsios, 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.
Thoroughly modern,
–Thomas Mulready
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