02.19-02.26.14
Big Love
Love to eat? Downtown Cleveland Restaurant Week starts Friday. Love the arts? Keep your eyes on the prize and attend the Cleveland Arts Prize Benefit next Wednesday. Love film? Check out the Short. Sweet. Film Fest this weekend. Love jazz? The 3-day Lakeland Jazz Fest is 42 years old and kicks off this weekend. Trying to get your kids to love opera? Try BW’s Hansel & Gretel starting Thursday. Wondering if you love Cleveland-style polka? Discover that it’s also known as Slovenian-Style polka, and the genre’s World King is here tonight.
Loving all that urban foliage? Learn more at Holden Arboretum on Thursday. Love punk or avant-garde or surf or Irish or Reggae? Guess what? You’re not the only one. Just peek below and eat your heart out. –Thomas Mulready
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Despite the name, the Short. Sweet. Film Fest is difficult to summarize quickly. In its third year, this annual event is expanding to be inclusive of more local, national & international filmmakers, as well as the local music scene.
This year’s fest offers dozens of short films, many Q&As with the filmmakers & a full post-fest concert…
More from Josh Usmani here
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SPONSORED: Tri-C High School Film Fest Are you in high school? Like to make movies? Tri-C’s first-ever High School Film Fest happens May 31. Submit your short film by April 20 and get a chance to win $500 worth of prizes! Tri-C.edu
Cleveland Institute of Music composition students Alex Cooke & Jack Hughes are writing soundtrack music to videos designed by Cleveland Institute of Art students to be shown on the dome projectors at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History’s Shafran Planetarium on Tue 2/25 as part of 360 Degrees of Sight + Sound: The Planetarium Project. CIM.edu
The Cleveland Arts Prize is the oldest award of its kind in the US. The awards history dates back to 1960, when the Womens City Club of Cleveland hosted a series of lectures designed to create a dialogue in order to assess the citys cultural landscape.
Now an independent non-profit organization, the Cleveland Arts Prize is the largest and most prestigious award available to local artists…
More from Josh Usmani here
SPONSORED: Attention Teen Artists! Applications to become an ArtWorks Summer Apprentice are now available! Share this link if you know a creative teen who’d love to make art, gain job/life skills and work as a team… all while earning a paycheck! We can only hire 120 amazing high school students, so make sure to get your application in today! Arts-InspiredLearning.org
Hungry? Downtown Cleveland Restaurant Week starts Fri 2/21 & goes ’til Sun 3/2. $30 3-course dinner menus & $15 lunch specials at select restaurants.
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Cool Cleveland’s Thomas Mulready managed to catch up with Fresh Brewed Tees owner Tony Madalone as his t-shirt start-up explodes out of his HQ in Downtown Cleveland.
Reacting quickly to our region’s hometown pride, catch phrases, and even silly quotes from sports figures, Tony creates t-shirts that go viral overnight and had him chasing NFL players all the way to the Super Bowl.
To save money and express even more of his hometown pride, Tony works with Electronic Merchant Systems, which recently launched EMS+, a mobile credit card reader that competes favorably with Square, except that they have .5% lower fees, and they have a staff that actually picks up the phone to answer your questions!
SPONSORED: Sight and Sound Experience a 360-degree view that bridges music and art as students from the Cleveland Institute of Music and Cleveland Institute of Art premiere their work on The Cleveland Museum of Natural History’s Shafran Planetarium dome. Shows at 9 and 9:45PM on Tue 2/25. CMNH.org
The Lakeland Jazz Fest is 42 years old, though it’s not as high-profile as Tri-C’s Jazz Fest. While the three-day event does bring in some noted jazz names, this fest is more about education and opportunities for young players to showcase and learn from veterans than big stars. Fri 2/21-Sun 2/23.
Read more picks by Anastasia Pantsios here
SPONSORED: Zappa, Shivering Timbers, Richard Thompson Look who’s gracing The Kent Stage’s acoustically perfect room: Returning guitar god Dweezil Zappa holds a masterclass, then performs Zappa Plays Zappa- Extended Encore on Thu 2/20; Akron’s emerging stars Shivering Timbers headline on Fri 2/21; Legends Alejandro Escovedo & Peter Buck co-headline on Tue 2/25. Details & tix at TheKentStage.com.
The Cleveland Public Library is partnering with Ingenuity Cleveland to bring Cleveland’s Mini Maker Faire. Witness technology, ingenuity and community come together to make a fun and educational event perfect for the whole family.
“See the science.” CoolCleveland got to talk with Mel McGee & Shana Mysko of Rover about the participation in the faire. They told us all about their Zooey Bot, Skeletor Bot, Augmented Reality, and even let our correspondent Marty Bielat wear a Google Glass. Attend the the event on Sat 3/29 and get an inside look on what is being made in Cleveland.
Have something to show? Ingenuity Cleveland is still looking for “vendors” to showcase what they got. Follow the link here and apply before their deadline on Fri 2/28.
@Coolcleveland Follow us on Twitter or Instagram and earn a chance to have your favorite Cleveland events publicized by Cool Cleveland. For free! We’ll pick a winner, and promote the event of your your choice, and also provide live coverage of the event on the day-of.
How to play: On Wednesday tweet or Instagram the event that you are most excited to attend this week using #CoolCleveland, and make it convincing! We will pick our favorite tweet/tweeter on Thursday and reward them by publicizing their event and their tweet. Include photos, fun, stories, locations, links and everything in between. Have fun!
Hansel & Gretel is the perfect way to introduce your kids to the opera. Baldwin-Wallace presents this classic tale in an engaging, melodic light.
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WED 2/19
The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology is a cultural exploration of classic cinema. The movie uses scenes from classic films to discuss how these fictional stories determine our real concepts of ideology & shape our beliefs & customs.
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THU 2/20
Learn the value of urban tree development w/ soil researcher Bryant C Scharenbroch, who’ll discuss the importance of urban trees socially, economically & environmentally @ Holden Arboretum.
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FRI 2/21
Local punk-influenced women roll into Mahall’s 20 Lanes. Hear Village Bicycle — whose music is reminiscent of the Euclid Tavern in the ’90s — & witty Akron duo ShiSho.
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SAT 2/22
Warm up @ Reggaefest. Cle’s most prominent reggae band Carlos Jones & the P.L.U.S. Band will be hooking up with two C-bus-based reggae acts for a night of languorous Jamaican sounds @ HOB.
Click here for more events on Sat 2/22
SUN 2/23
Jews have always wandered, chased from country to country by people who viewed them as outsiders, or even dangerous or evil. The next series of concerts by Apollo’s Fire tells in music the story of the Spanish Sephardic Jews.
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MON 2/24
The Best They Could Be. From 1916-1920 the Cleveland Indians were the kings of baseball. Learn more about this golden era w/ author Scott Longert @ N. Royalton library.
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TUE 2/25
Immerse yourself in 360 Degrees of Sight & Sound. Instead of stars, CMNH’s planetarium will be filled with animation created by students from the CIA, accompanied by the live sounds of CIM composition students. Dazzling.
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WED 2/26
Rock Hall’s celebration of Black History Month continues w/ a program called A Celebration of Short Film. Watch & discuss several short films w/ trumpeter Sean Jones & others.
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Sin tax talk is all the rage right now in Cleveland — scratch that — Cuyahoga County and even the surrounding collar counties.
That’s not surprising since fans of the teams the sin tax props up covers an entire region — not just one city or county. And it’s that basic fact that originally had me questioning the justification of the tax…
More from Joe Baur here
The news that Cmdr. Calvin Williams — who, without a doubt, is the most able officer on the entire police force — will become Cleveland’s next Chief of Police is certainly welcomed in many quarters; but just as certainly, not in all…
The Browns Should Draft Michael Sam
If Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam really wants to shake things up hereabouts he would make every effort to draft Michael Sam, the highly touted, openly gay player set to come out of Missouri this year…
Read this story, that story and others from Mansfield Frazier here
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PHOTOSTREAM: Brite Winter Fest by Anastasia Pantsios
PHOTOSTREAM: Valentine’s Day Sweetheart Burlesque @ Beachland Ballroom by Anastasia Pantsios
PHOTOSTREAM: Waterloo Alley Cat Project Benefit by Anastasia Pantsios
PHOTOSTREAM: Near West Theatre Benefit 2014 by Thomas Mulready
PHOTOSTREAM: Brite Winter Fest by Thomas Mulready
REVIEW: Inlet Dance educates in collaboration with Cleveland Museum of Natural History by Roy Berko
PREVIEW: Musical Theater Project looks behind the scenes of FIDDLER by Roy Berko
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Lost United Hub Shows Cleveland Path To Regional Rail
So the solution to losing a hub airline and 41 nonstop flights a day is a train that runs from Cleveland to Cincinnati? At an average speed of 45 mph?…
John Heaney
Folks, please stop the mindless 45mph ignorance about the killed 3C rail (from Dayton to Cleveland) through Ohio. If you actually read the proposal, you’d know the plan included track upgrades to allow eventual speeds of 110 mph….
Howard
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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) Fifth Annual Brite Winter Fest in Ohio City Grows Into a Monster
2) Local 94 Amps Fuels the Sound of Rock ‘n’ Roll
3) Heart-Bombing Cleveland for Valentine’s Day
4) MANSFIELD: Pissing on the Public
5) Local Entrepreneur Starts Sports Sin Tax Renewal Discussion Group
Much love to our writers: Joe Baur, Roy Berko, Marty Bielat, Kendall Embrescia, Mansfield Frazier, Anastasia Pantsios, Josh Usmani & 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.
Lovingly yours,
–Thomas Mulready
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