03.14-03.21.2018 Partners

03.14-03.21.18
Partners

It should be obvious that we’re not going to make it unless we help each get through. If it’s the year of #MeToo and Time’s Up, men are going to have to step up and step aside to allow women to take their rightful places.

Filmmaker Rob Banks and painter John Carlson are collaborating on a series of works suggesting that men must be allies in the struggle for equitable treatment of women. Their show, Don’t Be Still opens on Friday at HEDGE Gallery, and CoolCleveland correspondent John Benson talked with both.

Top area acts such as MOSSOM, DJ Ryan Wolf, rapper Q Money, Shelter Jones and Obnox are headed to Austin either for the official SXSW showcases or related parties and events such as the Texas Indie Fest. Mahall’s is opening their secret apartment as a gallery/event space, and we’ve got the video to prove it.

Sometimes you just need some good advice from a trusted friend: CoolCleveland career columnist Alex Sukhoy offers her 10-Step Professional Self Audit. Whether you do it with someone else or alone, it’s chocolate weekend in Canton, it’s jazz festival time at Lakeland Community College, it’s time to rock the ukulele in Tremont, and it’s all about staying sober for St. Patty’s in Avon Lake. What are you and your partners doing this week? –Thomas Mulready

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Partners in the Struggle

About two years ago, Cleveland painter John Carlson and filmmaker Rob Banks got the idea to collaborate on a series of works about the obstacles women face in trying to navigate life and suggest that men must be their allies in their fight for equitable treatment.

That resulted in the show Don’t Be Still, which opens at the HEDGE Gallery this week, filled with powerful, claustrophobic images. Its genesis predated the current wave of harassment revelations but, with Trump leading the GOP field at the time, it was already in the air. John Benson talks to the artists to reveal their intentions. Fri 3/16-Fri 4/27.

VIDEO: Virtual Tour of Mahall’s Apartment

Through the bar and behind the door, you’ll find a staircase. If you climb the stairs, you will enter the secret room, Mahall’s Apartment.

Well, the secret’s out now! Mahall’s 20 Lanes adds a third stage/art gallery for private events, in addition to their Main Stage and Locker Room. Mahall’s Apartment curator, Dylan Glover gave CoolCleveland’s Stephan Haluska a tour of the upstairs space.

With its typical Lakewood residential charm, Mahall’s Apartment hosts invite-only shows booking experimental music, jazz, ambient and your other eclectic fare with the intimate feel of a house show. Mahall’s Apartment also hosts art exhibitions, currently showing the work of local artist Michael Marefka.

SPONSORED: Murder at the Museum Think and Drink at Cleveland Museum of Natural History on Wed 3/21 at 5PM. Find out about the Kingsbury Run Murders (AKA the Torso Murders) with the Cleveland Police Museum. While you discover more about murder and forensic science, investigate a murder at the Museum! Details.

Career Transitioners, Part 1

Our career columnist Alex Sukhoy finds she’s been talking to people ready for a career change – they’re saying they’re not getting what they should from where they’re at or they’re just not on the right life path.

It’s difficult to make a leap into the unknown of a whole new career. Alex knows you need some markers to lead you along the way, and she learned about a plan called Now, Next, Later. In this column she outlines the first step: completing a self audit.

1964 The Tribute at BW

Hailed by Rolling Stone as the “Best Beatles Tribute on Earth,” 1964 The Tribute takes audiences on a thrilling journey through a quintessential moment in music history that lives forever. Turn back time at Baldwin Wallace University on Wed 3/21 at 7:30PM as 1964 recreates an early 1960s live Beatles concert with period instruments, clothing, hairstyles and onstage banter with an accuracy that is unmatched.

Co-sponsored by BW’s ACES program, student government and the Conservatory of Music as part of BW’s 8th Annual BW Beatles Festival, which features Revolver in concert on Sat 3/24. 1964 The Tribute is not endorsed by or affiliated with Apple Corps, LTD. Get tickets now.

A Show of Unity

After Cleveland Pride cancelled its 2016 event, Pride in the CLE, spearheaded by the LGBTQ Center, was put together quickly to replace it. Last year, both groups staged festivals. Now the two organizations have merged, creating one big celebration, with the festival on Public Square Sat 6/2 and numerous special events on surrounding days.

* A select group of NEO artists are heading to Austin for the annual SXSW music festival, including DJ Ryan Wolf, rapper Q Money, and indie rock bands Obnox and MOSSOM. Wed 3/14-Sun 3/18.

* Waterloo Arts’ 5th annual juried show, which will be hanging three galleries on Waterloo in June and July, is accepting artist applications through Sun 4/8.

Draw Your Story

The 6th annual Kids’ Comic Con, put on by Cleveland Heights’ Lake Erie Ink, is a chance for young people ages 8-18 to mingle with and learn from a roster of professional artists, illustrators and writers and create their own work with the pros’ guidance. Sat 3/17.

Click here for more CoolCleveland Kids events

Attention Chocoholics! Head down to Canton’s Gervasi Vineyards for Chocolate Weekend, featuring a chocolate walk around the grounds, a pairing session with the wine steward and a workshop in making liquor-infused truffles. Fri 3/16-Sun 3/18.

* Come out to the Countryside Conservancy winter market at Old Trail School for a fundraising pancake breakfast made with local ingredients from the market’s vendors. Sat 3/17.

Read more of CoolCleveland’s picks for Eats and Drinks.

Jazzin’ in Lake County

Forty-six years! That’s how long Lakeland Community College has been hosting the Lakeland Jazz Festival, an event where high school musicians get to strut their stuff for professional musicians and college professors and work with them to improve their performances. And the young musicians and the community can check out performances by top players like the Donald Harrison Quintet which plays on Fri 3/16.

This year, festival co-director Dave Sterner says he’s excited to bring in profs from a wider area. “It’ll be a different pool to draw from, different opinions, personalities to hopefully encourage the students,” he says. Fri 3/16-Sun 3/18.

Cleveland’s Apollo’s Fire is headed to NYC’s Carnegie Hall for a concert that sold out last August. They’ll run the program “Bach’s Coffeehouse” by local audiences first in three concerts this week. Fri 6/16-Sun 6/18

* Local indie scene vets the Cross Brothers Band debut new release at the Happy Dog. Fri 3/16.

* Trinity Cathedral’s “Concert by Candlelight” benefits its music and arts programming. Tue 3/20.

* Local bands Jivviden and Trios host a double album release show at the Grog Shop. Fri 3/16.

* Cleveland Cello Society benefit spotlights teacher/student duos at CWRU’s Harkness Chapel. Fri 3/16.

Read more of CoolCleveland’s picks for Cool Events.

WED 3/14
At a time when religion-oriented attacks are at a peak in the US,CityMusic Cleveland debuts a commissioned piece based on the story of an imam hiding a Jewish holy book from the Nazis, with five performances in different NE Ohio venues. Wed 3/13-Sun 3/18.

* NY jazz pianist/accordionist/composer Ben Rosenbaum comes to the BOP STOP with his new album Instead.

* Trumpeter Dominick Farinacci & pianist Joe Hunter team up for an evening at Nighttown.

* The Cleveland Opera stages La Traviata tonight at the Polish-American Cultural Center, Fri 3/16 at First Baptist Church & Sun 3/18 at the Tudor Arms Hotel.

Click here for more events on Wed 3/14

THU 3/15
Digital technology is famously an area dominated by white men. The documentary film, Code, which will have a free screening at Midtown’s Tech Elevator, looks at the abysmal numbers of women and minorities in the field and what can be done to address that.

* The buzzards’ return to Hinckley is celebrated every year on this day.

* Weathervane’s Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill has a second run at Cleveland’s Holy Trinity Cultural Arts. Through Sun 3/25.

* Alisa Weilerstein comes home to play Barber Cello Concerto with the Cleveland Orchestra. Through Sun 3/18.

* Cleveland artists unite against human trafficking at the Beachland Ballroom.

* Artists Archives of the Western Reserve showcases member artists in annual show. Through Fri 5/4.

* Learn to rock the ukulele with Sheela Das at Tremont’s Visible Voice Books.

* Author Matthew Desmond to speak at PHS on his book, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City.

Click here for more events on Thu 3/15

FRI 3/16
Immigrant teens from around the world have incorporated their diverse stories into an original theatrical piece called Making Our Way which they will perform tonight at Cleveland Public Theatre.

* Third Friday at 78th Street Studios offers art adventures on all four floors.

* Hear Winnie the Pooh poems set to music at 78th Street Studios’ Third Friday.

* St. John’s in Ohio City hosts an evening of experimental music.

* Legendary long-lost singer Rodriguez re-appears at the Aron Civic Theatre.

* Cleveland jazz vocalist Evelyn Wright headlines torch singer tribute at the Sandusky State Theatre.

* Country songwriter Radney Foster performs at CVNP’s Happy Days Lodge.

* Author/nurse Theresa Brown speaks about healing our health care system at CMNH.

Click here for more events on Fri 3/16

SAT 3/17
You can have a rip-roaring’ good time on St. Patrick’s Day without a drop of green beer at the family-friendly Sober Seventeenth in Avon Lake. There’ll be plenty of food as well as Irish music and dance.

* Le Femme Mystique celebrates its 14th anniversary with Burlesque Jubilee at the Beachland.

* Che Malambo brings Argentinian gaucho moves and sounds to Playhouse Square.

* Learn more about Jun Kaneko’s Blurred Lines at Akron Art Museum gallery talk.

* Literary Cleveland presents staged readings on health care issues at CS Ul ?.

* Chicago Jazz Orchestra pays tribute to Sarah Vaughan at Akron’s E.J. Thomas Hall.

* Playwrights Local holds spring workshops and staged readings at Creative Space on Waterloo. Also tomorrow.

* Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with Irish music and reggae at the Music Box.

* Dobro whiz Mark Lavengood returns to Riverdog Gallery with his own band.

* Classical guitarist Paul Galbraith brings his unique instrument to Plymouth Church.

* Soldiers and Sailors Monument temporary exhibit honors the Irish who served in the Civil War.

Click here for more events on Sat 3/17

SUN 3/18
Unsolved mysteries tantalize us with the idea that a solution will suddenly appear. Such is the case of 10-year-old Beverly Potts who disappeared from Halloran Park near W. 117th in 1951, with no trace of her ever found. The movie Dusk and Shadow, screening at the Capitol Theatre, tells the story.

* Record collectors will be eagerly pawing through crates at the Burning River Record Riot at the Winchester.

* Fiddler Ed Caner hosts Michigan trio Stella at his monthly house concert at CVNP.

* Cleveland Orchestra principal cellist Mark Kosower joins Arts Renaissance Tremont for a Bach birthday concert.

Click here for more events on Sun 3/18

MON 3/19
Preterm’s monthly community outreach evening addresses the obstacles that LGBTQ people face in gaining access to sympathetic, judgment-free health care.

* Designs by Kent State professors are on display at Tri-C West in The Art of Fashion, Monday-Friday, through 3/29.

Click here for more events on Mon 3/19

TUE 3/20
Atz Kilcher is an Alaskan homesteader, writer and musician (and father of pop singer Jewel) who has told his story in a new book. He’ll be at the county library’s Strongsville branch to talk about it and sign copies.

* Dan Brown and the Deep Cleveland Trio present music-backed poetry at Art on Madison.

* Scottish bagpipe ensemble Red Hot Chili Pipers comes to the Akron Civic Theatre.

* Screenwriter/novelistMaria Semple speaks at Maltz Performing Arts Center.

Click here for more events on Tue 3/20

WED 3/21
Think and Drink with the Extinct, the adult evening at the Cleveland Museum of Nature History, entices visitors with clues to a murder mystery scattered throughout the exhibits and information about real-life CSI techniques.

* Rock Hall screens documentary about the life and music of Nina Simone.

* Inlet Dance debuts new work based on a children’s book at Playhouse Square.

* Open the secrets of pop-up book publishing at Loganberry Books.

* Chinese pipa player Wu Man plays Cleveland Museum of Art with the Huayin Shadow Puppet Band.

Click here for more events on Wed 3/21

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