With summer in sight, our CoolCleveland Summer Festivals Guide is your indispensable look at the food, culture and vibes coming your way. Read up on Independent Bookstore Day and take a hike on Celebrate Trails Day. Listen to an indigenous artist, catch a play about immigrants, and hear new releases by Ray Flanagan, With Windswept Hair and Golems of the Red Planet.
Take a look: SPARK Some-Thing on Coventry, see Star Machine at Playhouse Square, dig a poetry festival on Coventry, vibe on moonlight, margaritas and Mambo in Akron, laugh at a local horror comedy film at the Cedar Lee, bring your accordion to the Woodstock of Polka Music at the Croatian Lodge, and hear a master pianist at Oberlin. Meanwhile, we remember Mansfield Frazier, comment on Cleveland parking, and highlight a new show on our region’s punk progenitors in May in Akron & Cleveland. Now you know the inside story.
The Birth of Punk in NEO tells that story, at the Music Box Supper Club on May 13, and the Akron Civic Theatre Knight Stage on May 23, and tickets are selling now. Six bands on the stage, massive video screens and the back stories that won’t hear anywhere else. Don’t miss it.
