04.10-04.17.13
Junk
One man’s treasure. I guess I would be that man. Appreciation is a word we use often. Alex offers her appreciation of Robert Ebert, ironically in time for our own film feast. Teens can turn their own personal junk into art at MOCA, while Sid the Science Kid hangs out at CMNH.
I run into Valerie Mayen a bit since I’m at Gordon Square all the time. This week, she’s doubling down on her space, and you’re invited to celebrate.
Our urban landscape can look pretty junky or is that just your subconscious getting the better of you? Commentator Richey Piiparinen explores that phenomenon and highlights the good work of Jack Storey and Phil Kidd and other rust belt revivalists.
While you’re at it, inhale the Cleveland Mini Maker Faire hosted by Ingenuity at CPL. Go forth & create, just like your urban ancestors have done. Think or swim. Rock the catwalk. Cupcake wars! Maybe have a stop at the Cleveland Flea on St. Clair. Just don’t call it junk.
Performance art is blowing up around here (it’s about time). Meanwhile, Terry Schwarz & Corine Vermeulen explore art’s role in improving the urban landscape. Whoa, really? We’ve been exploring that for 10 years. Now get your hands off my junk. –Thomas Mulready
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A city can be a catch-all for personal junk. Here, the mechanism is a psychological one, and it’s one called “projection,” which is defined as “a defense mechanism where a person subconsciously denies his or her own negative attributes by ascribing them to objects or persons in the outside world instead.”
The comment section on Cleveland.com, and other metropolitan comment sections, is perhaps the ultimate proving ground for excavating interpersonal crap onto the other…
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SPONSORED: Don’t Say You Weren’t Asked Have a say in a collaborative, region-wide effort to create a vision for a vibrant, resilient and sustainable region. You can’t say no one ever asks because this time we are. Vibrant NEO 2040 Public Workshop (April 30 – May 2). Share your ideas and register: VibrantNEO.org/WorkShops
We’ve heard many stories of the Holocaust, but none like these.
Using an innovative projection system that turns all the walls of the Maltz Museum’s gallery into floor-to-ceiling display screens, their new exhibition Spots of Light features the life stories of numerous women dealing with life and death, food and art, faith and friendship, motherhood and personhood, love and everyday life.
Listen to executive director Lynda Bender as she highlights a few of her favorite exhibits: a brassiere handmade from scavenged materials; a group of 10 women who banded together and survived the concentration camps; the obsession with food and recipes even though most of the prisoners were starving. MaltzMuseum.org
SPONSORED: You’re outta here! Win a weekend trip to Chicago for two out of the Akron-Canton Airport on Southwest Airlines. You’ll also receive hotel stay and tickets to a Cleveland Indians vs. Chicago White Sox game! Remember to check Southwest Airlines for low fares to Chicago Midway. Enter at AkronCantonAirport.com.
Summer of Performance Art Sculpture Center brings performance artists to Cle. Performance art? It’s about time!
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SPONSORED: NEO premieres eleven new plays on Thu 4/18, all written, produced, and performed by second graders! As the finale of Cleveland Clinic’s 2013 Spotlight on Learning program, students will debut their original, health-related works at three of the region’s top venues. Take a behind-the-scenes peek and RSVP here: ClevelandClinic.org/SpotlightOnLearning
Akron-Canton Airport pulled out all the stops with balloons, cookies and lots of smiles for their 3rd annual Customer Appreciation Day.
We caught up with lots of happy vacationers and business travelers who had some nice things to say about CAK’s convenience, customer service and low low fares. AkronCantonAirport.com
SPONSORED: Cleveland Mini Maker Faire FREE! Come celebrate the processes of learning and doing, and to share discoveries, curiosities, inventions, innovations, and ideas. Sat 4/13 from 10AM to 6PM at Cleveland Public Library, 325 Superior Ave., N.E. Cleveland, OH 44114. Crafts, technology, talks, and more! MakerFaireCleveland.com
Cleveland and Cuyahoga County governments are notorious for being tone deaf on certain issues. They’re at it again with their obsession with Skywalks, so Cool Cleveland commentator Joe Baur made this video with Wile E. Coyote and Bill Murray’s Carl Spackler to show how ridiculous they’re being.
SPONSORED: Scenes & Be Seen… This season, CIM’s Opera Theater celebrated the marriage of music and comedy with Il matrimonio segreto and got deadly serious with Dialogues of the Carmelites. Now, CIM brings balance – and fantasy – to the stage with a selection of Sensational Scenes, 4/19-4/21. Info & tickets at CIM.edu or 216.795.3211.
March at Melt Bar and Grilled The Corny Beast!
SPONSORED: We’ll have a funky good time launching Tri-C JazzFest with a free party at 5PM on Fri 4/19 in the State Theatre lobby. Soul artist Nadir will start things with a sizzle. Stop in, buy a drink, then stay for Dr. John and Aaron Neville. Stop here for tickets and details.
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SPONSORED: On Sat 4/13, come Celebrate Science with Sid the Science Kid at The Cleveland Museum of Natural History! From 10AM-3PM, enjoy crafts, activities, science demonstrations and catch a special preview of Sid the Science Kid: The Movie. Free with Museum admission! CMNH.org
The Michael Stanley Band broke up in 1987. But its leader wasn’t finished with music by a long shot. Stanley is back with The Ride, his second album in less than a year, a series of almost sold-out shows at the Tangier in Akron, and a just-announced date at Cain Park this summer. Fri 4/12.
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Tinker Space: Teen Push yourself into new ways of thinking, seeing & making in this experimental art-making lab for youth @ MOCA. For teens age 13 – 17.
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SPONSORED: Help With Your Job Search for Tri-C Alums 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: Tri-C.edu/alumni.
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WED 4/10
Create the Next Wave International Conference on Adoption. Gain a deeper understanding of the adoption experience. Five days of activities, 66 workshops, films & entertainment.
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THU 4/11
Yellowcake’s Grand Re-Opening Designer Valerie Mayen’s shop re-opens w/ a new expanded & re-imagined store, & she’s throwing a party to celebrate. Comp sweets, live music, demos, activities & a whole lotta stylish new items for spring.
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SPONSORED: Oberlin College has invited laureates from past Cooper International Competitions back to the campus, and this afternoon at 3PM, several of them will perform live from the KeyBank Studio. Tomorrow, Thu 4/11 at 7PM, WCLV 104.9 will be live at Finney Chapel for more performances by the laureates. Details on all of WCLV’s unique classical music programming at WCLV.com
FRI 4/12
Adam Magyar: Kontinuum Looking at the human quest through unconventional photographic devices @ Transformer Station.
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SAT 4/13
Cleveland Mini Maker Faire Ingenuity Cle hosts the first local Mini Maker Faire. This free event is open to people of all ages who want to learn, discover, create & play with the region’s maker class. Go forth & create.
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SUN 4/14
Cupcake Wars!! Bakers square off to see who serves up the best cupcakes @ the Sweet Spot. But these cupcakes are for a cause — to help homeless animals in the Lakewood Animal Shelter. Sweet… in more ways than one.
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MON 4/15
Think or Swim Fish: they’re smarter than you think. Animal behavior expert Jonathan Balcombe will talk about just how, according to new research, rich their lives are.
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TUE 4/16
Avant-Garde Jazz Ensemble @ Mahall’s. Cutting-edge jazz at a bowling alley? Isn’t Cleveland wonderful! Upright bassist Shayna Dulberger is an active part of NY’s lively free jazz scene. Hear her perform tonight.
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WED 4/17
Charley’s Aunt @ Weathervane Playhouse. A hilarious tale of young love originating from 1892.
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When Jimmy Dimora was sentenced to far, far too long in prison for what amounted to little more than a couple of blow jobs, a pizza oven for his backyard and some marble counter tops for his kitchen, the only major media outlet to raise a question was Channel 19….
Read this story from Mansfield Frazier here
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Despite the Cleveland Indians marketing slogan asserting that ours is a “Tribe Town,” anyone who has been paying attention to the sports-talk discourse over the past few years has little doubt that Cleveland is owned lock, stock and barrel by the Browns.
In fact, it could be argued that — media-wise — the team is more like an occupying army than a football franchise…
Read more from Larry Durstin here
Dear Roger Ebert,
My Dad texted me that you have passed on. You’re now reunited with Gene Siskel.
While you may be happy to see your long time friend and work partner, the rest of us are very sad to watch you go.
I, for one, am in tears…
Read more from Alex Sukhoy here
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As I reach the age of 80 it is hard for me to believe that my life has taken roads that I would never have foreseen. It has been an unexpected life journey.
So I take liberty now to speak of it….
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PHOTOSTREAM: Shaker Square Farmers Market Opens for the Season by Anastasia Pantsios
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REVIEW: Actors’ Summit Motherhood Out Loud Delightful, Thought Provoking by Roy Berko
REVIEW: Perhaps, Pericles – A Maybe Shakespeare Script @ Cesear’s Forum by Roy Berko
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REVIEW: Afrobeat, Political Commentary FELA! Rocks the Palace by Roy Berko
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The Opportunity Corridor – Can We Do Better? Angie, I respectfully disagree with your analysis. As you indicate, this is a boulevard, a couple of miles long with several traffic lights and a 35 mph speed limit, yet most of your comparison reference freeway/highways….
Read the comment from Marie Kittredge here
I do not live in the city, but I see what freeways have done, along with the misguided urban renewal projects of the ’50s and ’60s. I lived in St. Louis and saw Pruitt-Igoe built. They demolished a fine neighborhood to do that and it turned into a crime-ridden mess….
Read the comment from Bill Hutchison here
Great perspective on a project that would further neglect transit in Cleveland in favor of overspending money on unnecessary roads….
Read the comment from Akshai Singh here
Get off the “Opportunity Corridor” and embrace use of federal monies (for bikes and pedestrians) that will revive your neighborhood….
Read the comment from Laura McShane here
Forest City is scheduled to receive 50 east side houses from the county land bank with the possibility of receiving hundreds more. What a scam. Targeted gentrification for years…
Read the comment from Lily Miller here
VIDEO: Bal Ingenieux With Danielle Muad’ Dib Danielle, you look great as usual. You and your husband are fabulous representatives of Cleveland’s “bohemians”. Thank you, Thomas , for keeping us up to snuff on the many “happenings” in Cleveland….
Read the comment from Amonte Littlejohn here
Come on down…
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Heinen’s Now Offering Tap Beer By The Growler or Glass The Heinen’s in Chardon has this too. Unfortunately on a weekend when I shop, nobody is there to fill the growler for you….
Read the comment from Jeremy Davis here
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