03.09-03.16.16
Pressing Ahead
It’s important to celebrate milestones, like Zygote Press’ 20th anniversary, or the Cedar Lee Theatre’s 90th.But we must also honor those starting up new projects, and moving ahead with cool ideas to benefit our region. Zach Friedhof’s Big Love Festival is building bridges in the Akron community. And 3.14 is Pi Day, celebrated at Case with a 3.14K run and mathematical fun for all. A new play by Peter Lawson Jones gets a staged reading at Karamu House. Sustainable Cleveland hosts a public meeting to talk about 2016’s Year of Sustainable Transportation. There’s nothing more pressing. –Thomas Mulready
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When the nonprofit Zygote Press was founded 20 years ago, it brought together a diverse community of artists who bonded over having a work space to produce fine art prints. Some of the work created over the years will be on display in its anniversary show ”ReUNITE” opening Fri 3/11.
The day before, Zygote artists, friends and supporters will gather for its annual fundraiser “Lovin’ Spoonful” which promises to be quite a party. One of Zygote’s chief party animals and creative spark plugs, Liz Maugans, tells us what’s going on. Thu 3/10 & Fri 3/11.
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SPONSORED: Robert Butera, founder The YogaLife Institute and publisher of Yoga Living magazine, will present a free talk on “Enlightenment as a Verb: the Psycho-Spiritual philosophy of Classical Yoga” at Baldwin Wallace University on Mon 3/14 at 7:30PM. A reception and book signing will follow the lecture. BW.edu/events.
Akron musician Zach Freidhof has always been as much about spreading the good vibes as about sharing his music. So it’s no surprise he started something like the Big Love Festival, a free day of music, art, wellness-focused workshops, family fun, sustainability and community-building.
Now in its 3rd year, Big Love has grown so much it’s moved up the street to Summit Artspace where it will fill three floors for 12 hours. CoolCleveland’s John Benson talks to Freidhof to find out what’s on tap for this year. Sat 3/12.
It was December 1925 when the venerable Cedar Lee Theatre first opened its doors, screening The King On Main Street, a silent film starring Adolphe Menjou.
Now with digital projection systems, live simulcasts, hi-definition presentations from New York’s Metropolitan Opera, Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet and London’s National Theatre, the Cedar Lee Theatre continues to thrive.
Listen to Jonathan Foreman in this exclusive CoolCleveland interview as he discusses the challenges and rewards of the changing film industry.
Has a contemporary artist touched us as much? A cult hero who broke through to the mainstream, David Bowie is now being discovered by a new legion of fans hungry to learn more.
Join CoolCleveland’s Thomas Mulready in a multi-media exploration featuring rare video, film and slides, along with selected needle drops of vinyl selections from Bowie’s deep musical legacy and his latest release, 2016’s ★ (Blackstar). An Evening With(out) David Bowie takes place at Akron’s Musica on Fri 3/18 at 7PM. NEO’s own Vanity Crash completes the set with an expanded live music showcase of Bowie-inspired originals and special treats. “@ThomasMulready you are truly a professor of Bowieology. Thanks for a GREAT program…” Get tickets here.
For some reason, pale pastels have become the default Easter colors. You probably recall a childhood basket filled with pink, powder blue, mint green, lavender and light yellow goodies. Not if you’re Ukrainian though! The vividly colored and intricately decorated eggs called pysanky are like spring’s awakening.
Cleveland’s Ukrainian Museum-Archives has plenty of pysanky on display and in its gift shop – and classes to learn to make your own. There’s plenty more to check out at this, one of Cleveland’s lesser known museums. Now’s a great time to go. Fri 3/11-Sat 3/19.
Cuyahoga Community College will examine the most provocative and polarizing word in America with Trial by Jury: The Case of the N-Word. The free, interactive program is Fri 3/11 on Tri-C’s Metropolitan Campus, 2900 Community College Ave., and includes a town-hall discussion with local activists.
Tri-C is also seeking local musicians to perform on its outdoor stage at this year’s Tri-C JazzFest, presented by KeyBank, June 23-25. Passes to the 37th annual festival are available here.
You probably didn’t get any greeting cards honoring Pi Day, 3/14, which honors the mathematical ratio pi. But families can celebrate a couple of days early with a free event featuring a 3.14K run, hands-on math activities for kids and a math professor speaker. Sat 3/12.
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SPONSORED: 2016 marks the 75th anniversary of the feminist superhero, Wonder Woman. In honor of 75 years of fighting for love and justice, Cleveland Public Library and the Ohio Center for the Book present: Wonder Women a Graphic Novel Book Club. First And third Thursdays, 4:30 p.m., check CPL.org for upcoming discussions.
For many years, people have complained that the West Side Market’s Monday/Wednesday/Friday/Saturday days of operation reflect the needs of a different era. So starting next month, the market will have Sunday hours as well. Sun 4/3.
* Forest Hill Kitchen & Ballroom, which took over the old Rockefeller’s space, is a catering and special events business, not a restaurant. But it hosts special pop-up events, such as the French vegetarian/vegan dinner it’s having this weekend, and an Easter brunch. Sat 3/12.
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What’s the sound of four centuries of music played over one festive weekend? Enjoy the short drive to picturesque Oberlin and find out: A seductive sorceress turns men into flowers in Oberlin Opera Theater’s fully-staged production of Handel’s bizarre and beautiful Baroque opera Alcina, presented in four performances beginning Wed 3/9. Oberlin’s Artist Recital Series resumes with Miro Quartet playing Beethoven’s ridiculously demanding Razumovsky quartets Thu 3/10. And Oberlin’s own jazz trombone professor Robin Eubanks [pictured] leads his 19-piece Mass Line Big Band in its Midwest premiere, featuring sounds that veer sharply from swing to Latin to funk on Sun 3/13. Info: Oberlin.edu/artsguide.
SPONSORED: Press Your Ears to The Kent Stage with performances like Robert Randolph & The Family Band, Delta Rae, David Cook- The Digital Vein Tour, Eileen Ivers, Albert Cummings, FireHouse plus 11After, Ron Holloway Band, Lucinda Williams, and Ani DeFranco, plus more. TheKentStage.com.
Craw were Cleveland’s kings of complex noise rock in the 1990s. Last year, their records were reissued on a six-record set. Now all the band’s former members are reuniting for one night at the Grog Shop. Fri 3/11
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WED 3/9
The story of football player Michael Vick’s abuse of dogs used in dog fighting understandably enraged a lot of people. He was welcomed back to the NFL anyway. But what about the dogs? The documentary The Champions tells the stories of some of the dogs who were rescued from his dogfight ring. It will have a special one-night screening at the Cedar-Lee Theatre.
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THU 3/10
Animal paintings and photos are certainly responsible for some cheesy art. But animals have also been subjects for some of the greatest artists in history and some of the most talented artists working today. The Akron Art Museum has drawn from its own collection to put together its new show Animals as a Muse. It runs through Sun 8/14.
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FRI 3/11
Neos Dance Theatre is becoming known as one of the most creative dance ensembles in NE Ohio, with its multimedia performances. The latest, “Media & Movement,” incorporates film and animation at the Akron Civic Theatre.
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SAT 3/12
In the past decade roller derby has exploded in Cleveland with the Burning River Roller Derby league fielding both farm and traveling teams that compete around the region. That takes money so the group is holding a 1980s-themed art auction/party/fundraiser at Lakewood’s Good Goat Gallery. Get out those big shoulder pads!
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SUN 3/13
The Music for Miles series, named for Waterloo Road pioneer the late Miles Kennedy, offers families and friends the chance to enjoy some quality classical music in an informal setting at Waterloo Arts. This afternoon the Bayard String Quartet will play familiar classical, jazz and pop tunes.
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MON 3/14
Can math be used to help stop crime? UCLA professor Dr. Andrea Bertozzi says it can by predicting where crimes are likely to be committed so that police can be deployed more strategically. She’ll talk about it at Science Monday at the Music Box Supper Club, where you can drink and eat while getting informed.
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TUE 3/15
New York-based vocalist Alexis Cole (pictured) and flutist Nestor Torres are the artists in residence at the 14th annual University of Akron JazzFest. They’ll perform several shows each with student and faculty musicians during the festival’s four days, through Fri 3/18.
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WED 3/16
Sustainable Cleveland 2019 is celebrating the Year of Sustainable Transportation in 2016. Come to its quarterly public meeting to learn what projects are in the pipeline and how you can become involved. It’s at Great Lakes’ Tasting Room where there’ll be free munchies, a cash bar and time for networking.
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The narrator of Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel Invisible Man begins telling his story with the claim that he is an “invisible man.” His invisibility, he posits, is not truly a physical condition, but rather, the result of the refusal of whites…
* More on Being Invisible A day or so after an article I wrote, “On Being Invisible” was published, I received a call. It was from Jim Cummings, the manager of Packy Malley’s, the bar where I’d been ill-treated a few nights before…
* The Rise and Fall of a Demagogue After refusing to take Donald Trump seriously for months and months, the Republican Party is now scrambling to derail the billionaire celebrity’s chances of being…
* Don’t Bogart That Joint, Tavis Whatever it is Brother Tavis has been puffing on, please tell me how to get some of it. Are the ratings for his PBS radio show slipping? Is this simply a cry for attention? Or, heaven forbid, could he be on the Trump payroll…
* Johnny Manziel and the Age of Illusion While most of Cleveland is heaping opprobrium on the head of “Johnny Football” Manziel, I’m positive that he’s going to get the last laugh. He’s been putting one over on us…
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