11.19-11.26.14
Luck
If it was luck, we’d be screwed. No, there’s something else going on around here that’s responsible for our recent good fortune. Hard work? Sure. I’ll take that over luck any day. Karma? Certainly our region’s got it coming. Wits? Common sense? Our stunning good looks? Whatever it is, it’s anything but luck. You’d be lucky to get to everything we’ve cued up for you this week: Near West doing JC Superstar as they get ready to make their big move to Gordon Square; the dude abiding at 78th Street; Cleveland Vegan opening in Lakewood, and Creative Fusion artist-in-residence Pablo Serra Marino of Chile mounting, ”You Will Find Luck When You Go Home” at Cleveland Print Room.
Akron’s Shivering Timbers opens for Robyn Hitchcock at the Music Box, Can Journal launches their winter issue at Artist Archives, jazz singer Barbara Rosene appears at Akron’s BLU Jazz, and the Cleveland Flea’s Holiday Market pops up at MidTown Tech Park. For more, check our up-to-date ShopLOCAL listings on your desktop, laptop or any mobile device here. Just don’t leave it to luck. –Thomas Mulready
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Keep the art of printmaking alive in Cleveland by supporting Zygote Press’ new production space “Ink House.” Once a drug house located in the Waterloo neighborhood, Ink House is currently being transformed into a multi-purpose facility where artists and collaboratives can come together to work and create.
CoolCleveland Correspondent Marty Bielat got the details from Zygote’s Executive Director, Liz Maugans. Liz told us all about the type of the equipment needed to complete the extension, and how people can donate on their KickStarter Campaign to show their support. Keep up the good work Zygote — CoolCleveland’s got your back!
SPONSORED: A cappella men’s group Naturally 7 has been on the road with Michael Buble, and gathered a following with their hip blend of beat box, R&B and traditional singing. Hear them onstage at Tri-C’s Metro Campus Auditorium. Click here for tickets.
While Near West Theatre awaits the completion of their $7.3 million performing arts space in the Gordon Square Arts District, their holiday show line-up will go on! A special holiday performance of Jesus Christ Superstar will open Fri 11/21 at West Side United Church of Christ.
“One of the unusual things about Near West Theatre is that we bring together ordinary people from all walks of life,” says Chief Operating Officer Hans Holznagel…
More from Kendall Embrescia-Hridel here
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SPONSORED: Not all is Cool in Cleveland: Neighbors in Need Cooking elaborate meals, dealing with cranky family, picking the perfect gift… the holidays can be stressful! For struggling families, holidays are particularly challenging. Our short video explores community needs including unemployment, food insecurity, and unaffordable housing, and how you can help. Watch the video.
Imported from Chile, Pablo Serra Marino is the recipient of the Cleveland Foundation’s prestigious Creative Fusion international grant program and has been a visiting artist-in-residence since September.
During his time here in Cleveland, Pablo has been working with students in the art program at St. Martin De Porres.
“In Chile I most of the time work on my personal stuff. It’s difficult to work with the community in Chile because of the resources. We don’t have many resources to fund these types of activity…”
More from Kendall Embrescia-Hridel here
SPONSORED: Liszt the Ways Franz Inspires… Musicians from the Cleveland Institute of Music and Budapest’s Liszt Academy of Music offer a unique performance of works by Franz Liszt as well as student composers inspired by the prolific Hungarian composer, Sat 11/22 in Mixon Hall. For FREE seating passes: call 216.795.3211 or visit CIM.edu.
Listen & watch in fascination as Steven Luckert, curator of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, walks CoolCleveland through the exhibition State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda now open at the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage through 3/15/15.
Summoning the talents of thousands of graphic designers, filmmakers, designers, musicians, choreographers and other artists, Hitler’s effective propaganda machine seduced a hungry German population in his rise to power, leading to some of the worst atrocities in human history. Lectures, workshops, panel discussions, author talks and film shorts will be featured through 3/15/15.
The holidays are here, yet again. And this year, as in the past, Cool Cleveland‘s got you covered. Visit our ShopLOCAL section on our newly redesigned website & browse a wide selection of local shops. Spend your money locally and support the community. It’s really important and super easy to do. Just follow our guide and keep checking back — we’ll be adding more. Shop local & shop happy.
SPONSORED: Attention OSU and Michigan fans: The 2nd Annual Buckeye Bucket vs. Wolverine Wagon Food Raiser begins Mon 11/24! Support your team and the Greater Cleveland Food Bank by dropping off unexpired, non-perishable food items at Old Stone Church 11/24-11/26 from 11am-3pm. Visit www.OldStoneChurch.org for a list of the six most-needed food items.
E11even 2 is a contemporary art gallery owned by artists Christina Sadowski, Billy Nainiger and R!ch Cihlar. Each month, E11even 2 holds a gallery showing during the 3rd Friday events @ 78th St. Studios.
The Dude Abides show by artist, curator, part gallery owner & The Big Lebowski encyclopedia Billy Nainiger will premiere this Fri 11/21…
More from Kendall Embrescia-Hridel here
Kate Voegele was making a splash in the local music scene before she even graduated from Bay Village High School. She was a My Space sensation, got a major label deal, went to L.A. and had a regular role on a TV show. She’s now based in Nashville and just released a new EP. She’s on a tour that brings her to the Music Box this week. Wed 11/26.
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SPONSORED: Stand up. Speak out. Win BIG! Maltz Museum’s Stop the Hate®: Youth Speak Out invites NE Ohio 6th-12th graders to share ways to end discrimination with a 500-word essay on creating a more inclusive future. There’s $100K in cash and scholarships at stake. See complete rules at MaltzMuseum.org.
It was a whirlwind of innovation last week as students from CMSD’s Cleveland School of Architecture and Design took part in the annual “Give Me Shelter” challenge at Case Western Reserve University. The challenge, designed to get students motivated into thinking critically and creatively, challenged participants to design disaster shelters from pipe cleaners, balloons and other objects.
The project’s designer, Cleveland architect Judson Kline, and others taught the students the basics of design throughout the past couple weeks and put them to the test at the challenge. While the objects they used may have been small, the ideas were large.
Spring Garden Waldorf School in Copley does things a little differently, taking a holistic approach to education. Witness the difference at their annual Children’s Festival & Artists’ Market Sat 11/22. Puppets, crafts, music & more.
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Justin Gorski & Laura Rose have been doing business as Cleveland Vegan for a couple of years now, catering events. But for the increasing number of vegans out there, they’ve just opened their storefront space in Lakewood, where you can order carryout from their menu six days a week and sit and linger over brunch Friday-Saturday.
Read more picks by Anastasia Pantsios here
WED 11/19
Robyn Hitchcock is one of those eccentric rockers endemic to England from who you should always expect the unexpected and possibly the inexplicable. He’ll be at the Music Box Supper Club w/ Akron’s Shivering Timbers.
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THU 11/20
Hawaii native Jake Shimabukuro took his state’s signature instrument, the ukulele, well beyond its usual confines into jazz, blues, rock, folk and classical. After hearing him @ the Music Box you won’t think of Don Ho & “Tiny Bubbles” anymore.
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FRI 11/21
If you want to meet a who’s who of Cleveland’s visual arts community, then you want to be at the launch party for the winter 2014-2015 issue of CAN Journal, Cle’s visual arts quarterly.
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SAT 11/22
Get on your bike & get riding to ensure all Clevelanders have enough food this holiday. Join Cranksgiving & ride through the east side picking up supplies.
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SUN 11/23
Some of Cleveland’s best young aspiring professional musicians get a taste of the big time — the stage at Severance Hall — as the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra plays its first concert of the season there.
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MON 11/24
Mondays are nothing to fret about. Just grab your bike and head down to Ray’s MTB where Mondays equate to Ladies Night (1/2 price admission for all women) & Monday Night Recess, where kids are whisked away into a land of wheelies leaving parents free reign of the trails.
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TUE 11/25
If you haven’t already, now is the time to head down to The Nightlight Cinema and see Force Majeure. The Nightlight Cinema is a uniquely Akron, independent theater founded by the wonderful folks of Akron Film + Pixel. As for the movie, Majeure tells the story of what happens when social constructions are stripped away and the rubble that is left behind.
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WED 11/26
Get that little girl of your acquaintance dressed up in her velvet dress and shine up her patent leather shoes. It’s time for The Nutcracker! This year’s production should be truly special. Chicago’s Joffrey Ballet will be dancing to music provided by the Cleveland Orchestra.
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Newspapers of the early Colonial era were circulated through a network of “authorized subscription agents” in various cities around the country and one of the first such agents for Freedom’s Journal had been David Walker, who was born a free Black in Wilmington, South Carolina in the late eighteenth century…
Latonya Bass, by all appearances, is a horrible parent. She contacted Channel 19 Action News to complain that her 3-year-old child was locked up in a jail cell with her after Strongsville police arrested her for shoplifting at a Wal-Mart… yet again…
Read this, that and others from Mansfield Frazier here
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REVIEW: Sparkling Dance at A Chorus Line @ Baldwin Wallace by Laura Kennelly
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DURSTIN: Redfern Proves There’s No Cure for Ohio Dems’ Delusion
As usual, Larry Durstin is TOO kind to political hacks. He gives Redfern too much credit for being a fool because Redfern is among the worst examples of Ohio Shakespearean political jesters full of self delusion and self importance….
David Eden
STRANGELY Chris looks like Ed and vice versa…almost like brothers….
robert
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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) DURSTIN: Redfern Proves There’s No Cure for Ohio Dems’ Delusion
2) Beyond Silicon Valley: Using Cleveland as a Case Study @TheCity Club
3) VIDEO: Hullabaloo: A Fashion Show with a Conscience @Yellowcakeshop
4) MANSFIELD: Black History Began with the Black Press
5) VIDEO: @DowntownCLE Launches First Downtown Public Dog Park
We’re lucky to work w/ people like Roy Berko, Marty Bielat, Kyla Collins, Kendall Embrescia-Hridel, Samantha Fletcher, Mansfield Frazier, Erica Herbert, Laura Kennelly, Anastasia Pantsios, Claudia Taller, 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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–Thomas Mulready
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