09.10-09.17.14
One World
My good friend and sometime partner James Levin is at it again. His legacy of starting arts organizations that stimulate the mind along with our local economy is mind-boggling: he launched Cleveland Public Theatre and the Gordon Square Arts District, co-founded Ingenuity with myself, created the Wooster Jam, and now has founded the One World Festival, not only destined to be the area’s latest major annual event, but also heralds a new era in our region’s cultural collaborative future. Catch our video before you head down to the Cultural Gardens, and we’ll be there giving away all our Cool Cleveland t-shirts. We also preview the now 10-year-old Ingenuity, the 22nd anniversary of the Grog Shop, Sustainable Cleveland 2019’s mid-goal conference, and the Hildebrandt Provisions Company, where food artists, fashion designers, rising comics and sculptors who play with razor blades all cozy up & collaborate. We sneak a peek inside the massive Content Marketing World conference with founder and Clevelander Joe Pulizzi. We bid a sad farewell to Visible Voice Books, and Alex bids a not-so-sad -albeit hilarious- farewell to Austin as she returns to the coolest town in the universe. It’s just one world, Cleveland. –Thomas Mulready
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Here’s something you probably haven’t realized: IngenuityFest is now a decade old. The fest, which takes place Fri 9/26 – Sun 9/28, will take its mission to entertain, provoke and explore to a whole new level…
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SPONSORED: Cleveland One World Festival Returns to the meadows, fields, and forests of the Cleveland Cultural Gardens on Sat 9/13 & Sun 9/14 from 1PM to dusk. Celebrating Cleveland’s diverse community with its over 120 different ethnic groups, the spectacular event offers visitors a unique opportunity to sample a diverse panorama of cultures, costumes, music, dance, art, food, and sports. ClevelandOneWorldFestival.com.
Just weeks after being named to the Inc. 500 list of the fastest growing companies for the third year in a row, we grabbed Content Marketing Institute founder Joe Pulizzi on the floor of the new Cleveland Convention Center as he marshaled over 2500 attendees and hundreds of brand-name companies to their Content Marketing World mega-conference on the future of marketing.
What is content marketing, and why is it taking over the world of business? Who are the big names, locally and internationally that are offering sessions this week? And just where did Joe take the 1500 early arrivals on their first night in the fabulous Shan-gri-la that is our fair city? Watch the video and find out. And if you see Joe this week, wear orange.
Announced with fanfare back in 2009, Sustainable Cleveland 2019 aims to transform the city’s approach to building a sustainable environment on multiple fronts by engaging a wide range of citizens and experts to think about ways to transform Cleveland into a greener city…
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SPONSORED: Imagine something you use everyday, depend on, take for granted, and maybe only think about once every few months. Its the sprawling network of sewers not far below your feet. Weve got a chance for you to see where those sewers go in a special event Sat 9/27: Learn More.
Bike sharing is coming to Cleveland. Zagster, a national bike sharing company, has partnered with a coalition of private companies to bring bike sharing to Cleveland. A total of 34 bikes will be available on-demand at six locations for up to a 24-hour period. Find bikes at: Platform Beer Company, Market Garden, Superior Viaduct Lofts, Hingetown, and many more.
CoolCleveland Correspondent Marty Bielat met up with Platform Brewing Company’s Justin Carson to discuss the project. Justin described how Zagster got to Cleveland and how the company is currently working closely with private business owners, like himself, throughout their integration.
Some are calling Cravings Thai the best Thai restaurant in Cleveland. Maybe because of their authentic Thai chef Tibby Pansing, who prepared a few unique dishes for our Cool Cleveland interview.
Hear Paul Sykes and Chef Tibby talk about their latest concept as they transform the original Cravings coffeehouse in Rocky River into a first-class Thai restaurant at 4PM everyday. And yes, our feast after the video was delicious! CravingsThai.com
SPONSORED: Celebrate a decade of WOW! Ingenuity celebrates 10 years of envelope-pushing, award-winning, entertaining & provocative performances exploring how the body and technology intersect. The 2014 Fest takes place Fri 9/26 to Sun 9/28 returning to Dock 32 just N. of Browns Stadium, and extends to the Great Lakes Science Center and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Get the scoop at IngenuityCleveland.com.
First tenets announced for Small Box CLE, wherein mini shops fill up an assortment of converted shipping containers.
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SPONSORED: The Music Box Supper Club welcomes L.A. punk band X for three great nights! The band will be playing Los Angeles and Wild Gift on Wed 9/10 Under The Big Black Sun on Thu 9/11; and More Fun In The New World on Fri 9/12. Standing room and reserved seating available.
A former sausage packing plant in the Clark-Fulton neighborhood, adjacent the old Stockyards, the Hildebrandt Provisions Company had a booth at the nearby West Side Market for 100 years. Now the open spaces, with their dramatic windows and industrial chic are home to food trucks, fashion designers, ceramicists, sculptors, composers; in all a dozen artists that collaborate with and support each other.
Cool Cleveland stopped in on a Friday night and spoke with fashion designer Katie Simmons and comic Will Kesling, who hosts the Ka-Pow Comedy Show in a side gallery in the Hildebrandt on Fridays.
Community gardening has become huge in Cleveland, with a handful of longtime gardens joined by dozens of new ones. The OSU Extension’s Summer Sprout program provides materials and advice to gardeners so if you’re interested in joining this burgeoning trend, attend a Summer Sprout informational meeting at one of six library branches. Thu 9/11-Sat 9/20.
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There’s legislation in the works that would set back CMSDs efforts to prepare students for success in the 21st Century, said the organization’s CEO Eric Gordon, who testified earlier this month in Columbus and that legislation is House Bill 597. The bill would wipe out four years of preparation, realignment of the curriculum and investment in technology needed for tests, Gordon told the House Rules Committee.
Instead of rote memorization, the Common Core would promote critical thinking and other advanced skills. Gordon said that would end teaching to the test, a criticism of the old assessments, and give teachers more freedom, not less.
It’s hard to believe the Grog Shop has been around 22 years. In that time, a diverse army of bands has been through its two locations on Coventry Road. It’s celebrating its anniversary with a free show featuring the Secret Soul Club DJs plus two newer local bands, Nowhere and Shale Satans. Sat 9/12.
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SPONSORED: Summer is Going Strong at The Kent Stage with fabulous shows every week: Ohio jammers unite at Summer Soirée on Fri 9/12; Celebrate the Merry Pranksters at the Further Bus 50th Anniversary Tour on Mon 9/15; Watch & hear her life story in video & music with Ronnie Spector: Beyond The Beehive on Wed 9/17; plus get tix now for Black 47 Farewell Tour; Bruce Hornsby; Todd Rundgren and more at TheKentStage.com.
Music education for the win. A case study conducted by CWRU finds that the Lakewood Project, Lakewood High’s student rock orchestra, fosters long-term musical involvement & has helped prepare students “to achieve in ways that came as a surprise.”
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Aww man is this menu rockin’?! Head on over to Melt Bar & Grilled and get a taste of their new Fall/Winter menu, and remember to bring your wheelbarrow for your ride out. Try classics like the Cuban War Pig, Moms Meatloaf Dinner, After School Special and many more.
CoolCleveland Correspondent Marty Bielat met up with Melt’s owner Matt Fish at their Cleveland Heights location to discuss their new additions. In addition to the sandwiches, Matt also told us all about their new appetizer: The Hang Over Fires; as well as their throwback salad: The Bread, Bacon & Blue.
WED 9/10
Honor Broadband Heroes at OneCommunity’s Annual Meeting @ Victory Center. Meet those fighting for broadband for all & hear Special Council to the Chairman of the FCC for External Affairs, Gigi Sohn, win an award & deliver the address.
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THU 9/11
PlayhouseSquare’s outdoor summer concert series puts on its last show of the season. Get to this after-work party & hear ’80s classic rock band Almost Famous.
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FRI 9/12
We still make things in the Rust Belt. Big things — like furniture & super cool lighting fixtures. See the work of more than 20 contemporary furniture designers at F*SHO 2014 in Ohio City.
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SAT 9/13
Cleveland One World Fest returns bigger, better & more sustainable. The fest, now two days, brings life Cleveland’s Cultural Gardens w/ a multicultural celebration of music, arts, sports, crafts & food. Be sure to visit the CoolCleveland booth & say hi.
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SUN 9/14
Get ready to race at the Cleveland Heroes Run, which honors firefighters & police officers who were killed in the line of duty. Pick from a 5-mile run through the Metroparks, a 2-mile fun run/walk or enroll your little ones in the kids-only run.
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MON 9/15
The Further bus, the hippie bus made famous by the Merry Pranksters, hits the Kent Stage for an evening of psychedelic/jam band raving & dancing.
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TUE 9/16
Power metal on a Tuesday night? Why not. Finland’s Sonata Arctica is one of the more intriguing contemporary metal bands & they’ll play the Agora.
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WED 9/17
Think & drink with the extinct & other “animals you love to hate” at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Enjoy happy hour w/ a side of science. Peruse the museum & enjoy different experiences every month.
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In early 2013, after two years of research, I made the big decision to move down to Austin, Texas.
Tired of Midwest winters and Ohio taxes and looking to shake things up, by the end of last year I sold my furniture, ended my apartment and car leases, packed personal items in storage and saw my future in the Lone Star State…
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When I heard that Visible Voice Books, a new bookstore, had opened on St. Valentine’s Day on Kenilworth in Tremont back in 2007, I made a beeline over to check it out.
This was during the height of the closing frenzy of mega-bookstores around the country so the opening of a small outlet embedded in a community was of great interest to me…
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One of the perks of moving to Ciudad Colón, Costa Rica was knowing that we would not need a car for our year abroad.
Without knowing much of anything about life in Costa Rica, we at least could see that the small town 20 kilometers west of capital San José is constructed in a walkable grid…
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LOVE the 2 browns ‘mobile hats’… .and OUR version of Snoop Dawg…
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MANSFIELD: What Winning Looks Like
Bravo, Mansfield. This is the kind of “do good/feel good” story that mandates both extensive media coverage and robust investment. Count the Joneses in for a share or two!…
Peter Lawson Jones
Congrats Mansfield. Making an award-winning something from nothing is a true accomplishment….
Allen Freeman
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Worldy writers, we thank you: Joe Baur, Marty Bielat, Samantha Fletcher, Mansfield Frazier, Anastasia Pantsios, Alexsandra Sukhoy, Sarah Valek & Elisa Vietri. 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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