10.17-10.24.12
Glam
Anything but. And yet… Most places would give a pot of gold to have some of the glamorous goodies we take for granted: our lakefront, our culture, our libraries (the best in the world), the Rock Hall (the only one in the world), our classical music (the finest in the world), our food scene, our local brews, our bike culture.This week, we celebrate Chuck Berry at the Rock Hall, Owls & Howls at CMNH, Glam Rock at Mahall’s, DBR on the crooked river & craft beers all over town. Our Farmer’s Markets are going year-round, and The Kent Stage is seriously on fire. There’s No Exit from music at SPACES, the Cleveland Phil circles The Planets and M.U.S.i.C. showcases rising stars. Discuss Harvey Pekar’s posthumous book and get one of his library cards. Become a GuitarManiac, play in the world’s biggest drum solo and get ready for macabre mayhem & gratuitous gore. And share it all from your favorite device with the one and only Cool Cleveland mobile app.
If that ain’t glamorous, I don’t know what is. –Thomas Mulready
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Kids entertainment is largely hit or miss — and that’s why we’re grateful to have a gem in Talespinner Children’s Theatre (TCT), a quality kids theatre troupe bringing creativity and international folk tales to the young masses.
We recently spoke with Alison Garrigan, Executive Artistic Director of TCT, on the Glam Rock Costume Party Extravaganza on Sat 10/20 benefiting TCT and what makes the company so different.
The party, to be held at Mahall’s, will feature live music from David Bowie tribute Diamond Dogs, comp bowling, a glam contest and more….
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SPONSORED: Rock & Roll All Night and Bid on a 10′ Artistic Masterpiece! Don your rock chic attire for the GuitarMania Gala Auction Sat 10/20 at the Rock Hall. Tickets are $75 for general admission or $150 for reserved seating. Doors open at 6:30PM with the auction beginning at 8:00. Can’t make it to the Auction? Bid online! UnitedWayCleveland.org. All proceeds benefit United Way of Greater Cleveland and the Rock Hall education activities.
I can already hear Lemmy’s whiskey-soaked vocals growling under David Johansen’s lipstick-smeared screams as they pay homage to the master himself. The rockabilly lineage from Ronnie Hawkins to JD McPherson (with Rosie Flores between) is enough for its own show, but they’ll be background players that night.
The Rock Hall (along with Case’s College of Arts and Sciences) is honoring Chuck Berry at its 17th American Music Masters series with events running Mon 10/22 – Sat 10/27.
It’s a once-in-a-lifetime mash-up of so much of what’s right about music, and it’s taking place in our backyard…
Read more from Hollie Gibbs here
SPONSORED: Legends of the Fall at The Kent Stage See them live on stage: Jonathan Edwards & Michael Martin Murphey on Wed 10/17; Arlo Guthrie on Fri 10/19; Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys on Sun 10/21; The Wood Brothers on Sun 10/28; Little Feat on Wed 10/31. Details at TheKentStage.com.
Exchange your library card for a new one honoring comic legend (and library fan) Harvey Pekar. Kinda cool, right?
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SPONSORED: Did You Know: 85% of Tri-C Alums Work in NEO Cuyahoga Community College is actively engaged in the process of reconnecting with its alumni to build an active, ongoing network. Join the Alumni & Friends Association and enjoy the benefits of networking, mentoring, updated job search and resume resources. Plus, look for special alumni events throughout the year. Sign-up now, whether you live in Northeast Ohio or not! Tri-C.edu/alumni.
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SPONSORED: American Music Masters Tribute Concert Honoring Chuck Berry Don’t miss this once-in-a-lifetime concert on Sat 10/27, at PlayhouseSquare’s State Theater. Performers include Rock Hall inductees Ernie Isley and Darryl DMC McDaniels, as well as Motorhead’s Lemmy, David Johansen, M. Ward and others, including Chuck himself! Tickets are on sale now at PlayhouseSquare.org, or by calling (216) 241-6000.
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Owls & Howls A not-so-spooky Halloween party for kids & animals alike. Dress up & head to CMNH on Sat 10/20 to help w/ animal enrichment.
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Tri-C Alum Jill Certo is enjoying a free Alumni event at Hale Farm & Village as she talks with Cool Cleveland about her fabulous academic career that all started at Tri-C.
After earning her Associate’s degree at Tri-C and working with the counselors there to coordinate her classes so ALL her credits transferred, she went on to earn Bachelor’s degrees from Oberlin College and Cleveland State University, and a Masters from Smith College.
Jill has fond memories of her time at Tri-C: “Everything transferred over, it was great. It really lowered the cost of my Bachelor’s degree considerably.” Tri-C.edu/alumni
WED 10/17
Watermarks 2012 The Morgan hosts this international papermaking conference starting Wed 10/17. Galleries throughout the city will buzz w/ papermaking workshops, demos, lectures & exhibitions.
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THU 10/18
Pinned & Pined For is a new alternative to craft fairs & is a jewelry hound’s dream come true. Four days of handmade jewelry from local makers, all pinned to the wall awaiting your purchase.
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FRI 10/19
No Exit @ SPACES A not-to-be-missed evening of progressive art music on Fri 10/19 held at the ever cool SPACES gallery.
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SPONSORED: WCLV celebrates its 50th anniversary on Thu 11/1, with an open house at the Idea Center on Playhouse Square from 10AM to 9PM, with birthday cupcakes, tours of the ideastream and WCLV facilities, meet WCLV air personalities, past and present. Enjoy live music in person or on the air at 104.9 by such groups as the Cavani Quartet, Apollo’s Fire, the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra, Quire Cleveland, and musicians from Baldwin-Wallace, the Oberlin Conservatory, Cleveland State Unvivrsity, the Music Settlement and Cleveland Institute of Music. WCLV.com
SAT 10/20
Spooky Pooch Who doesn’t love to dress up their dog? Strut your stuff in Dwtwn Lakewood on Sat 10/20 & win a prize.
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SUN 10/21
Classical Music From Rising Stars Hitting the right notes is but a portion of a performance. Only when a musician is moved by their music will that musician, in turn, move you. Be moved @ Musical Upcoming Stars in the Classics’ concert on Sun 10/21. Read our interview here.
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MON 10/22
Rock Hall’s American Music Masters Series returns w/ a week of events honoring Chuck Berry kicking off w/ Rock and Roll Night School on Mon 10/22.
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TUE 10/23
Dinosaur Jr. @ the Beachland 23 years later & Dinosaur Jr. shows no signs of fading away. Sweet. Witness what makes this band so critically acclaimed when they play on Tue 10/23.
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WED 10/24
Because Everyone Deserves a Place to Call Home is a fundraiser for Cleveland Tenants Organization, a pretty vital nonprofit for NEO, if we do say so ourselves. Wed 10/24 @ 78th St Galleries.
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Watch as Joyce Brabner and Thomas Mulready perform a pas de deux in the lobby of the Cleveland Public Library as Brabner picks up her Harvey Pekar library card.
Why did Brabner allow the CPL to use the original Joseph Remnant illustration from Harvey Pekar’s Cleveland on the first in a series of Cleveland Landmarks library cards? “We are the people for whom a library card is so much better than a credit card. We are the people who go to The People’s University.”
Cool Cleveland talks with Dr. Lauren Onkey, VP of Education and Public Programs at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as they prepare to welcome rock legend Chuck Berry to Cleveland to be honored at this year’s American Music Masters program 10/22-27.
Listen as Dr. Onkey shares her passion for this rock and roll pioneer and how she put together some of the many programs featured during the 2012 American Music Masters event, including educational programs, film screenings, lectures and two concerts: Rick Derringer live at the Rock Hall, and the massive tribute show featuring Ernie Isley, Darryl DMC McDaniels, David Johansen, Ronnie Hawkins, Steve Jordan, Lemmy Kilmister, Merle Haggard, Chuck Prophet, Vernon Reid, Earl Slick, M. Ward and many others. Oh, and Chuck Berry himself!
It all started in January with buddies talking about how their wives and children made it difficult to watch horror movies at home.
“I went home and thought what a great idea it would be to gather all the fans of horror in the area and see if we could get together somewhere to watch horror movies,” Craig Hendzel said. “It just happened to grow on its own for the most part.”
And so the Lakewood Horror Society was born…
Read more from Hollie Gibbs here
Only 307 viewers had watched the YouTube video of the altercation between the RTA bus driver and an out-of-control passenger when my nephew, who resides in Oakland, sent it to me asking me to authenticate it.
By the next day, when the story first broke in the Cleveland media, over 4.3 million people had watched it…
Read this story from Mansfield Frazier here
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I think I’ve concluded. The Plain Dealer front page Sunday convinced me.
I’ve been thinking how bad it would be that the city didn’t have a daily newspaper.
Reality finally hit. No it wouldn’t…
Read this story from Roldo Bartimole here
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Quick previews & reviews of recent events
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THOUGHTS: Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me (Harvey Pekar & JT Waldman) by Bert Stratton
VIDEO REVIEW: Veg Gala Recap by Martin Bielat
REVIEW: Disappointing THE WINTER’S TALE @ Great Lakes Theatre by Roy Berko
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KLEZMER GUY: The Nostalgia Vortex In the 60s, in Akron, I would check the Sohio License Plate Jackpot list each week for my parents’ cars, and my grandparents’, and two aunts, and an uncle. Never a jackpot winner in the family….
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ROLDO: Stop Kasich & Corporate Greed… Roldo, you have some good ideas but your message would be more credible if you weren’t so partisan. With Obama having all these $40,000 per plate fundraisers and palling around with the HollyTrash crowd, neither party has a monopoly on greed…..
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Republicans are all about creating jobs. Jobs on Wall Street in investment houses, jobs in banks, jobs in the insurance industry. Jobs for the non-47%ers. And big pay-back profits for the 1%ers…
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Here are the Top 5 most clicked links from last week’s issue, with one more chance for you to click.
1) PHOTOSTREAM: MOCA’s Sold-Out Hex Party Dazzles
2) Chateau Hough Featured in Oprah’s “O” Magazine
3) MANSFIELD: Saint Maria… or, “A Hill Worth Dying On”
4) KLEZMER GUY: The Nostalgia Vortex
5) ROLDO: Stop Kasich & Corporate Greed From Taking Your Highways, Schools & Even Your Libraries
We glam it up every week… in one way or another. Thanks, writers: Roldo Bartimole, Roy Berko, Martin Bielat, Mansfield Frazier, Hollie Gibbs, Isaac Mell, Bert Stratton and Sarah Valek. 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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