05.25-06.01.11
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You don’t have to look far to celebrate this season of culture in our region. Summer is right around the corner, and we offer a preview of concerts in some of the coolest venues. Plus a profile of Fat Heads Brewery, the debut demo by Debussi, and a video of a Cleveland violin shop with roots in Mongolia. You can get everything delivered to your iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch with Cool Cleveland’s new mobile app, now available free in the App Store. Cleveland culture is where you find it. –Thomas Mulready
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Now that summer is finally here, hopefully, music fans will be out and about to the various venues around Northeast Ohio.
Just because it’s summer, please don’t ignore our smaller music clubs and venues. Many a time as you fight the traffic to get in and out of Blossom on your way to hear today’s “in” generic country band and pay eight bucks for a beer, you could’ve seen someone a lot more talented, in a much smaller venue, for a lot less money… Read more from Greg Cielec here
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Developing done right Sure, Cle has its issues… but a new report from the Center for Neighborhood Technology says we can get on the right track. We just have to develop around our core assets, like mass transit.
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“Welcome to Danny Boys” greets the sign just past the beer casks to the right of the entrance.
Fat Heads Brewery & Saloon has taken over the corner of Lorain and Columbia roads in North Olmsted where Danny Boys used to be. It has become a “classic neighborhood restaurant and brewery” serving award-winning beer and ginormous sandwiches… Read more from Claudia Taller here
Urban Bright Yes, the kids are alright. Talented, too. Come to Art House on Thu 5/26 to celebrate the artistic achievements of Cle Municipal School students & resident artists. Free & open to all. [Artwork by Amber, 8th grade.]
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Have you seen the new gallery spaces in Cleveland Hopkins International Airport? The first exhibit features large, black-and-white images of NEO landmarks which are dynamically rendered in font characters whose style is consistent with the structures they build.
Watch the video as Jacqueline Muhammad, Community Relations Manager for Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, explains the mayor’s city-wide arts initiative and describes the various spaces within the airport set aside as galleries. This display will be in place at least through the fall of 2011, and maybe to the end of the year. Watch the video by Carol Drummond here.
WED 5/25
Vegan farm-to-table dinner Nosh on locally-grown, organic, animal-free fare @ Erie’s Edge Farm in Ohio City on Wed 5/25. Polenta w/ fricassee of roasted asparagus & spring onions, kale & dandelion salad, potato linguini, chocolate truffles… hell yeah.
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THU 5/26
Gasland screening @ LPL You’ve probably heard the word “fracking.” Well, what’s it all about? And why does it matter to Ohioans right now? Find out at the screening of Gasland @ Lkwd Public Library on Thu 5/26 followed by discussion w/ state legislators & environmental experts.
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FRI 5/27
Fridays@7: eighth blackbird Cleveland Orchestra’s popular Fridays@7 series continues on Fri 5/27 with Franz Welser-Most leading a special performance feat the phenomenal sextet eighth blackbird in the Cle premiere of a concerto by award-winning composer Jennifer Higdon. Live world music to follow.
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SAT 5/28
LIVE ART Music & Arts Fest Ctownartparty presents Cle’s biggest, newest festival of the year. It’s two days chock full of art, entertainment, live music, crafts, yummy food & cool ppl on Sat 5/28 & Sun 5/29. Further proof that Cle’s art scene is alive & thriving.
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SPONSORED: An engrossing series produced by the San Francisco Symphony is currently being heard on WCLV 104.9, Saturdays at 11AM. Keeping Score: 13 Days When Music Changed Forever is a program which explores the historical backdrop to each of 13 revolutionary moments in music and examines the aftershock and the lasting influence of that moment in music history. The program this Sat 5/28 is about Richard Strauss’ opera Elektra. Full details at WCLV.com
SUN 5/29
Gardening w/ Native Plants Make your backyard a wildlife sanctuary: fill it with native plants & experience how Ohio’s meant to be. Learn the basics of gardening w/ native plants at a workshop on Sun 5/29 & take home a native plant.
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MON 5/30
Harry & The Potters @ Grog Shop These pioneers of “wizard rock” (indie music inspired by the Harry Potter book series) rocked Lakewood Park a few years ago. Time to hit up the Grog Shop on Mon 5/30. What other band would release an album called Voldemort Can’t Stop the Rock?
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TUE 5/31
Komedy for Kidneys Comedy Show at Brothers Lounge. Laugh for a good cause on Tue 5/31 with comedians Mike Farrel, Mike Polk, Bill Squire & Josh Womack. Half of your $12 ticket will go toward the 2011 Cleveland Kidney Walk, presented by the Cleveland Gladiators.
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WED 6/1
Diversity, Inclusion & No Exit @ Maltz No Exit New Music Ensemble [pictured] will perform diverse contemporary art music @ the Maltz Museum on Wed 6/1. Concert presented in conjunction w/ the new exhibit “The Right of Being Different: the Art of Diversity and Inclusion at Progressive,” which you gotta see.
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In what can only be characterized as a desperate attempt to exculpate the four officers accused of brutalizing Edward Henderson on New Year’s Day, Cleveland Police Patrolman’s Association president, Steve Loomis, is vaulting over the legendary and long-standing “Blue Wall of Silence.”
Similar to the Mafia code of Omerta, police officers historically protect wrongdoing by fellow officers with tacit silence, if not outright support…
Read more from Mansfield Frazier here
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It may only be a debut demo, but The Demo, put out by Cleveland’s Debussi is arguably much more and clearly nothing less.
The three songs are fit for LP release, with enough consistency to keep you listening and enough variation to make you want more. The Cleveland four-piece is not difficult to find in Ohio, with several shows lined up. Your next opportunity? Sun 5/29 at the Beachland Ballroom… Read more from Laurie Wanninger here
While Republican politicians, many civic leaders and the news media are zeroing in on the “greed” of public employees, the big theft of public dollars is quietly being done by our major corporations.
It’s just business being business-like. Or a robbery in progress…
Read more from Roldo Bartimole here
Read other recent pieces by Roldo Bartimole here
“Going into the violin business was a coincidence,” said Yanbing Chen, owner of Cleveland Violins, which is a full service violin and string instrument shop. “I grew up playing the violin; my father has been a lifelong violin enthusiast in China.”
Chen began in the business by selling horse hair from Mongolia for violin bows. He decided to move to Cleveland in 1998 where there is a large community of musicians. Watch the video by Susan Schaul here.
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History with a target on it in Lakewood What a shame to tear down these buildings! I love Lakewood, it is so eclectic! Look at the theatre district downtown, developers at one time wanted to knock down the theatres and now look at them…
Read the comment from mhoppert here
MANSFIELD: Exploding Myths How funny: Phillip Morris is a “conservative” columnist…
Read the comment from Allen Freeman here
It worked for the Panthers and Black Muslims. It’s protecting and educating your children…
Read the comment from Richard here
Back to the Future @ Sweet Moses Insightful article! Thanks, Alex. Can’t wait to check this place out!…
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Sounds sweet — I’m on my way…
Read the comment from Jack McGuane here
ROLDO: Is the Plain Dealer just too, too timid? The PD has written about the oblivious nature of Connally by quoting her “bizzarro-world” logic several times. Perhaps the PD is using her quotes in their current reporting as a shot-across-the-bow, to give her a chance to clean up her obtuse thinking before they are forced to directly skewer her in an editorial page piece…
Read the comment from Allen Freeman here
It’s not timidity; it’s cravenness… At least since it attained monopoly status, the PD has been the shill of the corporate establishment (I maintain that, except for sports, the paper is published for about 250 people in town)…
Read the comment from John Polk here
Have to disagree with you on this one, Roldo. Mike swallowed an entire pitcher of Plain Dealer Koolade in this column, parroting their positions and their fictions virtually intact, right down to that alleged “secret meeting” that they just made up…
Read the comment from Anastasia P here
got a little more educated great banter — Connally is part of the political process that is the problem can we lock them all up?…
Read the comment from C J Paparosa here
Instead of Apologizing, LeBron Needs to Come Clean Regardless of what LeBron said everyone in Cleveland still wants him to lose to Chicago…
Read the comment from Hank Wait here
Even if Lebron ends up with a “ring” for each of his 10 fingers, I believe he will still always be a quitter, liar and a fraud, just like you said. And that spells loser to me…
Read the comment from Westside Sue here
I can understand his giving up against Boston. He was getting beat and he was leaving. But I can’t forgive him for giving up and quitting his Cleveland/Akron fans…
Read the comment from Patrick Owen here
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Most clicked
Here are the Top 5 most clicked links from last week’s issue, with one more chance for you to click.
1) Back To The Future with Sweet Moses
2) Vegetarian Week is still taking place through Sun 5/29
3) LeBron needs to come clean. Here’s how.
4) Is History Being Targeted in Lakewood?
5) Is The PD Too Timid? Roldo claims we need straight talk.
Culture mavens. Thanks to our writers Roldo Bartimole, Greg Cielec, Carol Drummond, Mansfield Frazier, Susan Schaul, Claudia Taller, Sarah Valek and Laurie Wanninger. And lastly, though certainly not least, thanks to our readers and everyone who partners with us. Want to volunteer and contribute your writing to Cool Cleveland? Send your reviews, articles, or story ideas to: Events@CoolCleveland.com.
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