And not all of them are bad. Bikes, apparently, are flying off the shelves faster than toilet paper during a pandemic.
The good folks at Bike Cleveland have been making our world safer and more fun, saving energy, reducing carbon and helping making us healthy for almost 10 years. View the video and get involved in their classes and advocacy efforts.
Unsurprisingly, WRHS blogs that Cleveland was an epicenter of bicycle manufacturing before autos. This week, you can plant a tree for justice, help restore a river, eat a grilled cheese for charity, jazz it up online, clean up Irishtown Bend, and indulge in some T. Rextasy.
In their almost 10 years of existence, Bike Cleveland has a lot to be proud of. Over 70 new miles of bike lanes, heightened awareness and safety, and an engaged membership that rolls up and gets involved.
Executive director Jacob VanSickle and his team, Jason Kuhn in charge of communications and events, and Deltrece Daniels handling outreach, membership and education, talk with CoolCleveland about their advocacy efforts, smart cycling classes, a ride to benefit local hunger centers, and a community-wide conversation on how our travel patterns have changed during COVID-19.
What Cleveland-based auto manufacturer of the turn of the 19th/20th century started as a bicycle maker? This and other fun facts about bicycle history are shared on the Western Reserve Historical Society’s Then and Now blog. Read More
You’ve probably heard about the recent shortages of bicycles and parts, thanks to more folks looking for a healthy way to get out of the house. Century Cycles says the crunch is starting to ease — and they’ve even resumed bike rental for those who want to give it test whirl. Read More
It might not be the same as dancing under the chandelier with the Parade the Circle puppets, but Tri-C JazzFest will be hosting its 41st annual event. It takes place online August 21-22. Read More
This year’s A Most Excellent Race for Achievement Centers’ Camp Cheerful invites people to take their own walk/run or a socially distanced one with friends, through Sunday June 28. Read More
Not only does the Cleveland Library offers books for both beginning & veteran cyclists, but its librarians are on call to help you find just what you’re looking for. Read More
Apollo’s Fire announces hybrid live/virtual 2020-2021 season; Baldwin Wallace hosts reading of Angels in America; Ohio Shakespeare Festival presents Robin Hood: An Adventure in Music; CVLT does Turn of the Screw. Read More
First, Cleveland Public Theatre pushed back its eighth annual Station Hope from early May to late June. But when it became clear that wasn’t going to work, it decided to take the event entirely online. Cancelling wasn’t an option: the event, in which artists of all types present work relating to social justice, human rights and freedom, has never been more timely or more necessary. Read More
The 41st annual Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland, presented by KeyBank, will take place in a free, virtual format Friday, Aug. 21 and Saturday, Aug. 22. More than a dozen local acts will perform interspersed throughout the festival. The show will begin at 7pm each night and run approximately 90 minutes on various online platforms.
The scheduled lineup of performers includes Chris Coles’ Gleam (pictured), Dan Wilson Trio, Dominick Farinacci’s Rhapsody in Blue: Revisited, Evelyn Wright Quartet, Hubb’s Groove, Jackie Warren, JazzWorks, Joe Hunter, Lafayette Carthon, Sammy DeLeon’s Latin Jazz Sextet, Tri-C’s Spirit of the Groove, Vanessa Rubin and Walter Barnes Jr. & Friends. Read More SPONSORED
MON 6/29 Beautiful Birds “Bring” your kids ages 3-7 to the Nature Center at Shaker Lakes virtually for a nature story hour that explores birds who live at and pass through the area; it includes an art activity they can do at home.
TUE 6/30 Looking Back Cleveland History Days, running through July 4, offer virtual and live events, and self-guided tours, such as one that explores the Tremont neighborhood’s rich, diverse immigrant past.
WED 7/1 Keep Lake Erie Great NE Ohio agency NOACA invites the public a meeting to hear its proposed changes to the Clean Water Act and offer input. All citizens concerned about protecting our waterways are welcome.
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Good to GoGarfield Heights Police Chief Robert Byrne is doing the right thing by retiring after he made the bonehead mistake of standing up for the cops who engaged in wrongdoing behavior as they arrested Kenta Settles, 28, a black man who has been diagnosed with bipolar and schizophrenia disorders… Read More
Cops from around the country are resigning sometimes en masse according to recently published reports. Good. Some might be embarrassed, but others might feel, “If I can’t kick someone’s ass whenever I want, what’s the sense of having the job?” Whatever the reason we need more of the bad cops to resign. … Read More
There are literally thousands of such stops made by police everyday across America, using persons of color to boost their income by charging them with petty “crimes” which require them to go to court and suck up some overtime. And when young blacks wake up and are outraged over the injustice of it all… Read More
