This is the week when so many music series kick off: The Cuyahoga Valley National Park’s Rhythm on the River starts this Sunday in Howe Meadow. Gigs on the Green begins this Wednesday on Public Square in Cleveland. Live and Local features area bands at Cascade Plaza at Lock 3 in Akron. Wade Oval Wednesday launches in University Circle.Festivals are in full bloom this week, so we’ve updated our popular Summer Festivals Guide, and this week sees Parade the Circle returning after four years, BayARTS & Music Festival lining up the best in fine art, The Hooley putting feet on the street in Kamm’s Corners, Chagrin Falls hosting Art by the Falls, and Taste of Lakewood marching over to Studio West 117. Form a line.
The Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park invites you to Rhythm on the River, a FREE, family-friendly concert series held at Howe Meadow in Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Each concert is from 4pm-6pm, with gates opening at 2pm.
Catch these exciting acts: This Sun 6/11: Forecast; Sun 7/9: Brian Simpson, ft. Hubb’s Groove & Friends; Sun 8/13: Akron’s Real Deal; Sun 9/10: Carlos Jones & The P.L.U.S. Band.
Bring a picnic blanket or a couple lawn chairs, a few friends and your family, to enjoy great music, food trucks and field games for kids of all ages. Reserve your spot to attend today! Read more.
This week alone those looking for a festival-type event, with food, drinks, music and more, have half a dozen choices, not including, undoubtedly, smaller neighborhood-type events. Welcome to summer! Now things are in full swing so we’re posting our most recently updated summer festivals calendar.
In addition to festivals, free outdoor concert series are getting going, with Wade Oval Wednesdays in University Circle and Cuyahoga Valley National Park’s Rhythm on the River both starting (both with bands that play that easy-on-the-ears mixture of jazz, pop and soul called “smooth jazz”), and outdoor music coming back to Edgewater Park with popular local reggae group Carlos Jones and the P.L.U.S. Band. There’s lot to do all summer long, much of it free. So don’t waste these longer days: get out and get going! Read more.
Inspired by cartoonist Rube Goldberg’s incredible original illustrations, this engaging, hands-on exhibition invites kids of all ages to create and activate convoluted, chain-reaction contraptions that delight and surprise.
Featuring original art, make-and-take crafts and life-size 3-D machines, the show also includes film and theatrical events and a virtual event with Rube Goldberg’s daughter. Open through August 27. Read more.
DANCECleveland has just announced its 2023-24 season, packed with visits from major dance ensembles, including two making their Ohio premieres. It opens with Music from the Sole at Cain Park on August 5.But first there’s its annual Community Dance Day at Playhouse Square July 29 with classes for all skill levels in different types of dance.Read more.
As a special summer attraction, Holden Aboretum has installed 14 nature-inspired sculptures by artist Sean Kenney, all made out of LEGO pieces — 350,00 of them. They went on view June 6 and will there through September 4. Read more.
As Secretary of State, Frank LaRose is Ohio’s top elections official. And he really really REALLY doesn’t want your vote to matter. He was the one who first proposed raising the percentage of vote required to pass a citizen-originated constitutional amendment from 50% to 60% via a low-turnout August election, something he advocated for abolishing last year.
This week, we learned that the two-faced LaRose admitted something he’s been denying: it’s all about defeating the reproductive freedom issue in November. He hopes you won’t turn out in August to vote NO while his lobbyist/special interest pals pour money into trying to convince people to vote yes and strip themselves of the last shred of citizen influence in Ohio government. Don’t fall for it.
Meanwhile, to get reproductive freedom on the November ballot, there are only a few more weeks to collect signatures. Go here to find out where you can sign if you haven’t already. Read more.
MON 6/12 Anyone Can Dazzle Beck Center hosts a discussion of how adults with disabilities partcipate in both performing and visual arts in its Arts Razzle Dazzle program.
TUE 6/13 Into the Light Local writers of all types can bring their manuscripts to CPT’s Darkroom open mic and hear their work read impromptu by whatever actors show up.
When Bill Clinton took office in 1993 and the Democrats were in charge, McVeigh’s view of federal law enforcement hardened into a sinister anger. This view hardened even more when Clinton, in 1994, signed the ban on assault rifles. McVeigh hated Bill Clinton and whenever the President came on TV, McVeigh would mutter “Someone should kill that son of a bitch.”
McVeigh drew inspiration from The Turner Diaries, a novel written by the white nationalist William Luther Pierce, which depicts a right-wing insurrection against a tyrannical federal government seeking to deprive citizens of their Second Amendment rights to bear arms. The book has become the Bible of right-wing extremism. Read more.
