03.23-03.30.16
Booty
There’s plenty to go around, and the spoils are sweet. Use our apps if you wish, where you can help yourself to the whole kit and caboodle, or glance below for just a few choice pickings.Growing up in Parma, our idea of a decent haul included beer, polka & Polish food, so the rising popularity of Dyngus Day warms our cockles. Giving the boot to urban blight, the Red Line Greenway needs volunteers to help green the city. A treasure chest of all that’s good, Mitchell’s Fine Chocolates will be missed… unless. Helping you survive in style, our new fashionista fits you out for our bipolar spring season.
Morticia’s Chair will kick ass at Pat’s in the Flats, while Faure’s Requiem descends on Trinity. BW’s superstar musical theater seniors shake it right before their NYC showcase, while the Wine Spot celebrates Van Gogh with absinthe. The ghost of Woody Shaw appears at BOP STOP and 2731 hosts a foreign exchange photo contest, while Terrence Spivey brings the black to Tremont with Bootycandy.
Everyone seems mad as hell these days, so a screening of Network at the Capitol might be just the ticket. Of course, some just can’t get enough boodle. Read Mansfield and C. Ellen Connally as they excoriate Cle City Councilman TJ Dow for bad behavior. Shake it. Or get the boot. –Thomas Mulready
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Many area theater lovers were distressed to hear that Karamu’s artistic director Terrence Spivey, who restored much of that theater’s luster, was let go recently in a cost-cutting move. The good news is he’s said he’ll stay active in the area theater scene. He already had a project in the pipeline: directing Bootycandy, a flamboyant satire of black gay culture, at Tremont’s convergence-continuum theater.
CoolCleveland’s video cam caught up with Spivey to talk about c-c’s first production with a mostly black cast. Fri 3/25-Sat 4/15.
Cleveland’s signature Eastern European ethnic culture is rising again, with new festivals and events such as Dyngus Day. Based on a Polish festival celebrating the end of Lent and the coming of spring, it’s an all-day party that showcases Polish food, beer and the new generation of local polka musicians as well as polka veterans.
Now in its 6th year, the festival has grown from its original Gordon Square base to encompass Ohio City and Tremont as well. A shuttle will take you to all the locations. CoolCleveland’s John Benson tells us what’s going on. Mon 3/28.
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RECOMMENDED: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and filmmaker, Jose Antonio Vargas, who unmasked life as an undocumented U.S. immigrant for Time magazine and in the award-winning film “Documented,” will explore how we define “American” in a free appearance at Baldwin Wallace University on Wed 3/30. Part of BW’s Enduring Questions: The Mark Collier Lecture Series. BW.edu.
The Red Line Greenway is an ambitious project to create a three-mile recreational greenspace corridor along the near west side rapid line. its roots go back nearly 40 years when the Rotary Club began to landscape a bit of land next to the West 25th Street Rapid Station.
Now the Rotary Club coordinates teams of volunteers throughout the warm weather to further its dream of extending the corridor from downtown to W. 65th. They’ll soon be starting for the season. This photostream from last season shows what kind of work they’re doing. Sat 3/26.
Bill Mitchell’s father opened his first candy store in Cleveland Heights more than 75 years ago. Bill joined the family business which he continued to run after his father’s 2000 death, making the luscious hand-dipped chocolates several generations of Cleveland’s have enjoyed.
But after his mother died last year he began to think about his retirement, and he’s ready to get on with the rest of his life. He’s offering the business for sale but if he gets no takers, these exquisite chocolates will be history after Memorial Day.
SPONSORED: The worlds of urban poetry and classical music will intersect at Collage: Music and Poetry,, taking place Fri 4/1 at 7:30PM at Cuyahoga Community College Eastern Campus. This unique production features poet Mwatabu Okantah reciting original works as the Cavani String Quartet performs Bartok and Dvorak.
Starting this week, Dru Thompson comes on board as CoolCleveland’s fashion columnist. Those who frequent the Waterloo Arts District know the designer, entrepreneur and educator as the owner of Dru Christine Fabrics and Design, a cozy shop packed with goodies for sewers and fashionable designs for anyone.
In her first contribution, she addresses something that we’re all thinking about these days: how to dress for a climate that gives us balmy summer weather in the morning and a blizzard by the afternoon.
The Great Lakes Science Center likes to celebrate holidays with themed hands-on activities that are both fun and educational. On the two days before Easter, that will revolve around eggs, and all the fun things you can do with them, as well as answering question and exploring myths about them. Will they only balance upright on the equinox? Come find out! Fri 3/25 & Sat 3/26.
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SPONSORED: Boot Up at The Kent Stage featuring Ron Holloway Band, Lucinda Williams, Uncle Mo’s Pea Pie Cafe, Carlos Jones & the PLUS Band, Hal Walker, Ani DeFranco, SuperMonkey, Jonathan Edwards with Alex Bevan, Alan Cox Comedy Tour 2016, An Evening With Andy McKee, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Glass Harp, Todd Rundgren, plus more. TheKentStage.com.
Cleveland’s Robert Lockwood Jr. died almost 10 years ago at age 91. But his impact on the blues community hasn’t been forgotten. Some of the musicians who played with him and whom he influenced will celebrate his 101st at the Beachland. Wed 3/30
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WED 3/23
The Western Reserve School of Cooking is hosting a party at the BOP STOP called Whisk, an event which features culinary treats by local chefs and live jazz by the Dale Rothenberg Duo.
* The classic 1976 satire of TV news, Network, will screen at the Capitol Theatre as part of its Happy Hour Classic Film Series, which features cocktails and light snacks in the lobby before the film.
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THU 3/24
Cleveland’s CPAC (Community Partnership for Arts and Culture) is all about the impact that the arts have on the area’s diverse neighborhoods, bringing together arts and community leaders. Today it’s launching its “Creative Intersections” speaker series with a program at Bohemian National Hall focusing on how the arts help create safe spaces.
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FRI 3/25
Cleveland photog Brandon Juhasz wanted more interaction with photographers around the world so he launched the Foreign Exchange photo contest and enlisted a jury to select six winners from 350 entries. The results will be on display at the 2731 Prospect Gallery through Sat 4/30.
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SAT 3/26
When Betty, a starving and injured dog, was found at the side of the road three years ago and nurtured back to health, that was the impetus for the formation of rescue group Voices in the Dark. They’ll host a fundraiser, Betty’s 4th Birthday, at Dina’s Pizza & Subs on the west side.
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SUN 3/27
Easter is the biggest brunch day of the year so there will be special brunches all over town. But few will be as lively as the Music Box Supper Club’s Bluegrass Brunch where eating will be accompanied by the sounds of the Clear Fork Bluegrass Band.
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MON 3/28
Baldwin Wallace’s outstanding musical theater program is known for producing students who go right from graduation to Broadway and touring shows. Each year the seniors perform a showcase in NYC for talent scouts and casting directors. Before they do, they’ll be doing a dry run at Nighttown, giving local music theater lovers a chance to check out tomorrow’s stars.
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TUE 3/29
Finnish metal band Sonata Arctica has been through a lot of changes since forming nearly two decades ago. They’ve arrived at a towering, thundering power/symphonic metal sound with hints of prog rock. They’ll perform at the Agora.
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WED 3/30
There’s been a lot of talk lately about undocumented immigrants. Journalist/filmmaker Jose Antonio Vargas actually is one, and he has written about it and filmed a documentary about his own experience. He’ll be talking about it at Baldwin Wallace University.
Click here for more events on Wed 3/30
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As the Cleveland Clinic and Case Western Reserve University’s dental school propose to build a new facility on Chester Avenue in the Hough neighborhood, the spotlight’s glare has turned to the area’s councilman TJ Dow, and the demands he’s making to give his stamp of approval to the project.
CoolCleveland columnist C. Ellen Connally, an attorney and former judge, warns that if Dow isn’t careful about crossing the line into bribery and extortion, he could end up in prison like one of his predecessors.
TJ Dow is not the first elected official who doesn’t want anyone around him that might be smarter than he is. Many other half-bright politicians feel the same way. But the real bright politicos always want to surround themselves with…
* The Endorsement Scam Every election cycle, political campaigns pass out lots of money to people who solemnly assure the candidates they can “turn out votes” for them. A longstanding joke on Cleveland’s east side…
* The Politics of “No!” When people -politicians included- are either (a) afraid, or (b) want to shake someone down, they simply dig their heels, in no matter the facts, and start flat-out lying through their teeth….
* TJ Dow Is Twisting the Truth Behind the apartment building is vacant land that Case wants to build a new dental clinic on. But Dow wants a shiny new office for himself, so he’s demanding that…
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A look back at the last week
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PHOTOSTREAM: St. Patrick’s Day Parade by Anastasia Pantsios
THEATER REVIEW: A Kid Like Jake @nonetoofragile by Roy Berko
DANCE REVIEW: Neos Dance Theatre: Media & Movement @AkronCivic by Elsa Johnson & Victor Lucas
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–Thomas Mulready
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