On the eve of an election, you determine the future.
CoolCleveland is endorsing Justin Bibb for Mayor of Cleveland, Stephanie Howse for Ward 7, Erick Walker for Ward 4, and urging a YES vote on Issue 24 for police accountability. As you prepare to vote, see our story below for information on voting details and CoolCleveland’s endorsements.Read our editorial from CoolCleveland columnist C. Ellen Connally on the movement to name the new Cleveland Public Library branch a block from Château Hough in Mansfield Frazier’s name. Revisit some of his columns on Château Hough throughout the years. Then check out our guest editorial on the controversy surrounding Horseshoe Lake in the Heights.
The Maltz Museum opens Stories of Survival, the Aquarium kicks off Pumpkins & Piranhas, Maelstrom envisions a post-capitalist future, Dia de Muertos returns to Gordon Square, Countryside Market hosts a Howl-O-Ween for pups, and Cleveland Restaurant Week kicks off just in time for your holiday repast. Get with the flow.
Meet the young entrepreneur, World’s 1st Crayon Activist, and kid extraordinaire Bellen Woodard at the Museum’s next Centennial Speaker Series event on November 5. Ten-year-old Bellen is the founder of Bellen’s More Than Peach Project and is dedicated to teaching tolerance in schools through multicultural crayons and other inclusive products.Attend from the comfort of your own home with our virtual-ticket option or in person at the Museum. Learn more and register now.
Polling places are open Tuesday 11/02 from 6:30am-7:30pm. You can also vote early in person at the board of elections October 25-29 @ 8am-7pm, Sat 10/30 @ 8am-4pm, and Sun 10/31@ 1-5pm.Why it’s important: the mayoral, city council & school board races and issues on the ballot across NE Ohio will have a huge impact on the region’s future. Everyone is looking at the Cleveland mayoral race, where the city will elect someone new for the first time in 16 years. CoolCleveland has endorsed Justin Bibb for Cleveland Mayor (above left), Stephanie Howse for Ward 7 (above right), Erick Walker for Ward 4 and is strongly urging a YES vote on Issue 24 .
Only 23% of eligible voters turned out in 2017. We’ve got to do better to see any change. Read More
A debate has been raging in Cleveland’s inner-ring eastern suburbs about Horseshoe Lake, which straddles Cleveland Heights and Shaker Heights. Because of the cost of maintaining the dam that creates the lake, some are proposing its removal and the draining of the lake to create what it’s framing as a “restoration” of the area to some sort of meadow.Shaker Heights birder Penny Allen, who as a teenager participated in the fight to save the area from being paved over for freeway, explains the value of the lake environment, its diverse bird population, and why she thinks some are opposed to keeping the lake as it is. Read More
The year’s BorderLight festival is over and the next one doesn’t happen until 2023. But they’re still offering a semi-virtual event where you can take a guided stroll of a local area and learn its history. Read More
In the current show at Morgan Conservatory, called Leaves and Leaving, book and paper artists reflect on what they left behind in the pandemic. Visitors are invited to stop in and write their thoughts on leaves, which will be read & burned at a closing event on November 20. Read More
TUE 11/2 Vote Today! We can’t remind you too often of the importance of voting today, when numerous mayoral, city council school board and municipal judicial races will be on the ballot. Let’s not embarrass ourselves with another anemic turnout.
WED 11/3 Learning from the Past Author Michael Burlingame is a Lincoln expert whose latest book of many he’s written addresses the 16th president’s relationship with African-Americans.
This past Saturday, the City of Cleveland, his family and friends remembered Mansfield Frazier and his legacy at a memorial service at the Maltz Performing Arts Center on the campus of Case Western Reserve University. The tributes spoke to the spirit of the man and the people he touched. The eulogy, delivered by Reverend Dr. Marvin McMickle, spoke of a man who was much like the city and the neighborhood that created him – a comeback kid, from a comeback city.
Now it is time to recognize Mansfield in a tangible way. The best way to do that would be to name the new branch of the Cleveland Public Library now under construction at East 66th and Lexington in his honor. Read More
MANSFIELD
REVISITED
Mansfield Frazier’s signature project, which he launched in 2010, was Château Hough, a vineyard and winery he created — with much help from friends and neighborhoods, he acknowledged — out of vacant lots across the street from his house. Throughout the decade he kept CoolCleveland readers abreast of his progress, including awards won by the wine he produced. Let’s revisit some of his greatest columns through the years… Read More
2010: “The goals I had in mind for repurposing the three lots that have sat vacant for over a decade were myriad, and so far they are being accomplished. Not only will my vineyard produce something of value (grapes with which to make wine), it will serve as a teaching venue, and hopefully will create a job or two; the more lots put under the plow in Cleveland, the more potential jobs…” Read More
2014: “Our first-year Traminette won the second place ribbon in the prestigious Geauga County Fair. And it was up against some stiff competition. Wine judging is truly color-blind; no one knows who made it — and I doubt the judges would want to take the ribbon back once they found out the grapes were grown in Hough. My wife was so proud she insisted we drop a bottle off at Mayor Jackson’s house…” Read More
2016: “When one womanasked a male friend of hers if he had heard of our vineyard, he replied, ‘Yes, but unfortunately I’ve heard that the wine is undrinkable.’ When Brenda read this on Facebook she almost popped her cork — blew her lid in her quiet, unruffled way. She pointed out the comment to me, and I just sort of chuckled and said, ‘You knew comments like that were coming, didn’t you? Pay it no mind…’” Read More
