07.16-07.23.14
Feel The Fusion
Step away from your screen. That’s the only way you’re gonna feel it. Click on a few items below or on our mobile, get out of the house, and go fuse with your fellow NEOsters.Embrace everything this week, from the Ohio Light Opera to FUSION- The Music+Art+Fashion+Tech event. From Hot Rods & Rock n Roll in Parma Heights to Long Road at Lakeview Cemetery. Consider if The Great Gatsby was really based in Cleveland. And what it means that LeBron has returned.
Watch our video of Dr. Clem Hamilton talking about the fusion of Holden Arboretum with the Cleveland Botanical Garden. Catch Opera Per Tutti performing in the Italian Cultural Garden, or Ottawa debuting their new single at Mahall’s. Become one with the Taste of Tremont, or Geauga County’s Agrarian Collective. Fuse with BeauSoliel at The Kent Stage. Can you feel it? –Thomas Mulready
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Aside from David Bowie, it’s rare that the music, art, fashion and technology worlds intersect so cleanly.
Breaking down such barriers is the spirit behind the FUSION Cleveland Music + Art + Fashion + Technology event taking place Fri 7/18 at REDSPACE Gallery in Cleveland…
More from John Benson here
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Ohio’s infant mortality rate has reached epidemic proportions, and it’s even worse in the Cleveland area. In 2012, 131 babies in Cuyahoga County died before their first birthday. The majority of those infant deaths are related to prematurity.
Since unplanned pregnancy and poor maternal health are linked to prematurity, increased access to birth control and improved reproductive health can help. Read more from The Center for Community Solutions. For regular updates on health, social, and economic issues facing Cleveland and beyond, click here.
If you read Steve Daigle’s bio, it lists him as: actor, singer, dancer, stage manager, director, etc. One of his more important activities of late is missing: “musical detective.”
He delights in delving deeply into libraries and music collections everywhere in the hope of finding yet another buried treasure — and bringing them into the 21st Century…
More from Kelly Ferjutz here
SPONSORED: The World’s Finest Young Pianists square off this week at the Cooper International Piano Competition at Oberlin Conservatory. A beautiful summer evening in Oberlin is just a short drive away: Riveting preliminary rounds take place July 19-23. Everything is free and open to the public. Tickets for Fri 7/25 Concerto Finals with The Cleveland Orchestra at Severance Hall are just $15-$25, available at ClevelandOrchestra.com.
When the opportunity arose to discuss how Holden Arboretum and the Cleveland Botanical Gardens might work more closely together, the leaders of both organizations got busy, and soon agreed to form one institution. Besides retiring the significant debt that CBG had acquired, new options quickly presented themselves to both groups: visibility, stability, synergies, dual locations, and combined education programs.
Listen as Dr. Clem Hamilton, CEO and President of Holden Arboretum expresses his enthusiasm for opportunities with the new arrangement.
SPONSORED: The Beat Uptown Join with MOCA Cleveland and the Cleveland Institute of Art for this FREE event featuring the Bobby Selvaggio Jazz Quintet, WRUW DJ Lilly Korte, 3 food trucks, and a creative social action, all on Toby’s Plaza outdoors at MOCA from 6-9PM on Thu 7/17. Details at MOCAcleveland.org.
See 20 Slides 2 Change the World, on Wed 7/23. CC‘s Mansfield Frazier will be part of the presenters at this special PechaKucha event, PKNovate.
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SPONSORED: See 7 musical gems in rep thru 8/9 at The Ohio Light Opera in Wooster, Ohio: My Fair Lady, Irving Berlin’s Call Me Madam, Johann Strauss II’s Die Fledermaus, The Pirates of Penzance, Jerome Kern’s Oh, Lady! Lady!!, Victor Herbert’s Dream City and the Magic Knight and Emmerich Kalman’s The Little King. Order your tickets today! Call 330-263-2345 or visit OhioLightOpera.org.
ICYMI: We’re getting ready for our #InstaTour weekend on July 25 27th! Weve gathered some of our favorite attractions to show you great places to bring your camera (or smartphone). Explore the county, take photos, and enter to win over $600 in prizes as an added bonus!
While you’re here, make sure to check out BeachFest where Ohio’s 1st Master Sand Sculpting Competition will be held on Sat 7/26. At the end of the weekend, join us at Grand River Cellars for a reception at 4PM. Well take a look at the great pictures you took and give away prizes. LakeVisit.com.
SPONSORED: Meltdown at The Kent Stage Laissez le bon temps rouler with BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet on Thu 7/17; Folk legend John Hammond with Rory Block on Sat 7/19. Plus get your tickets now for Jerry Douglas on Sat 8/2, Eric Johnson on Sun 8/3, Ziggy Marley on Tue 8/5, The Bacon Brothers on Sat 8/9, Taj Mahal on Sat 8/16, Rich Robinson of the Black Crowes on Sun 9/14, The 2014 Kent Stage Blues Rock Meltdown w/ The Juke Hounds & Long Tall Deb & The Werewolfs of Alabama on Fri 9/26, and more. Details: TheKentStage.com
Austin “Walkin Cane” Charanghat (pictured) is one of a couple of dozen mostly local blues and blues-influenced acts playing the Kent Blues Festival. Opening night features free music in venues all over downtown Kent all night. The second and final night stars veteran country blues performers John Hammond and Rory Block at the Kent Stage. Fri 7/18-Sat 7/19.
Read more picks by Anastasia Pantsios here
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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!
Cleveland’s East and West Sides are home to many ethnic communities. Now 17-year-old Lincoln-West High School senior Hari Kumar Dahal, who located to Cleveland in 2013 from a Bhutanese refugee camp in Nepal, is publishing Connecting Cleveland, a dual-language newspaper for the growing local Nepali community.
Check out this video to see how this Cleveland Metropolitan School District student creates the newspaper each month on his home computer and then hand-delivers the 4-page papers to homes & stores in the West Park neighborhood, as well as the W. 40th area, Lakewood and Cleveland Heights.
Tremont has a lot of foodie competition it didn’t have a decade ago when it was THE local culinary destination. Now there are many. But with the 12th annual edition of the Taste of Tremont, the neighborhood shows that it still has the touch. Sun 7/20.
Read more picks by Anastasia Pantsios here
Vacant lots are the place to be this summer because Literary Lots is BACK! Art, writing & music workshops, movie screenings & community projects fill a previously empty lot starting Sat 7/19.
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WED 7/16
Summer in the City concerts at the Rock Hall kicks off w/ Seafair, whose string-laden symphonic pop has been taking the town by storm for the last year and a half.
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THU 7/17
Party S. American style at the Maltz Museum’s Uma Pequena Festa. Don a tropical headdress, samba to Brazilian music, eat S. American food & try a true Brazilian cocktail.
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FRI 7/18
Dancing in the Woods will transport MorrisonDance to the woods of Shaker Lakes. Stroll the trails & catch glimpses of “dance convos” w/ wood nymphs, masked dancers & other interesting characters.
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SAT 7/19
It’s hard to believe that it’s only been 3 years since Akron’s Wesley Bright & the Hi-Lites hit the area music scene with their hyper-charged, horn-driven neo-soul. Celebrate their anniversary w/ a limited audience show @ the Lockview.
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SUN 7/20
Handmade goodness awaits at the Avant-Garde Arts & Crafts Show in Cleveland Hts. Shop from over 100 artists & crafters and fill your home w/ quality goods. Concession stand & bar will be offered if you need some fuel.
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MON 7/21
Cleveland’s Alternative Press magazine, which has been documenting an evolving array of indie & alt rock scenes for more than 25 years, has just entered the increasingly crowded field of awards shows. Check it out @ the Rock Hall.
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TUE 7/22
Happy bday, Cle! Cleveland is turning the big 218 & you’re invited to the party on Public Square. Eat cake & watch a historical ceremony.
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WED 7/23
Brazil’s BaianaSystem will fuel Ohio City Stages Street Party @ Transformer Station. Their sound reflects the eclectic, melting pot nature of Brazil.
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On the morning of July 11, a joyful ESPN broke the “news” that the infamous Dan Gilbert letter from four years ago was the only thing standing in the way of LeBron James returning to Cleveland…
More from Larry Durstin here
Did you ever wonder how it would feel to experience one of The Great Gatsby‘s parties?
This fictional prose was set in NYC but it’s literally possible the Great Gatsby was based on Cleveland-area families and parties that occurred in the region during the period…
More from Chris Whipple here
This is one of those stories that’s literally so mind-boggling, so outrageous in its incredulity, that it’s almost impossible to believe… but sadly, this tale happens to be all too true…
The decade of traumatizing violence Michelle Knight (along with Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus) experienced at the hand of a diabolical monster is something few people — thankfully — will ever go through. Thank god she has emerged as safe and strong as she has…
Read this, that and others from Mansfield Frazier here
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PHOTOSTREAM: Groove N Brew/Cleveland Flea by Anastasia Pantsios
PHOTOSTREAM: Upcycle Parts Shop Opening by Anastasia Pantsios
REVIEW: Beck Center’s Young Frankenstein is frightfully good by Mark Horning
REVIEW: Young Frankenstein is Edgy & Outrageous @ Beck Center by Elena Mulready
REVIEW: BAM! POW! Starmites is Good Fun @ Porthouse Theatre by Laura Kennelly
REVIEW: Off-beat Starmites should delight many @ Porthouse Theatre by Roy Berko
REVIEW: Million Dollar Quartet Rocks the Ohio Theatre @ PlayhouseSquare
REVIEW: Young Frankenstein should delight @ Beck Center audiences, but… by Roy Berko
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A Transformed LeBron Admits Mistakes
Great, as per usual….
Mansfield Frazier
Larry — It’s big of you to own up to what I thought was your too harsh and prolonged rant against LBron. Maybe Decision 2 will wake up the sports media to the realization that overpaid athletes might be human after all…..
Charles Michener
…LeBron had to realize his mistake and how deceptive he was — and he finally did…
Larry Durstin
MANSFIELD: Some Hard Truths
What is your IQ Mr. Jordan?…
Griot Y-VON
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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) Art is Everywhere in Cleveland
3) Preview Upcycle Parts Shop at Open Studio
4) MANSFIELD: Are We Seeing the Problem… Or Seeing Ourselves?
5) Cubas Conjunto Chappottin Makes Cle Debut @ClevelandArt Ohio City Stages
A fusion of talent: John Benson, Roy Berko, Marty Bielat, Larry Durstin, Kelly Ferjutz, Mansfield Frazier, Mark Horning, Laura Kennelly, Elena Mulready, Anastasia Pantsios, Sarah Valek & Chris Whipple. 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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–Thomas Mulready
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