05.04-05.11.16
Runway
Join us on the runway this week as we host the black-tie spectacular that culminates Fashion Week Cleveland. See our interviews, PHOTOSTREAMS and previews below. And yes, our just-announced special event Glam Brunch will feature a chapter on Prince as it traces Glam from the decadent turn-of-the-(previous) century all the way to Lady Gaga.As more of us become vegan & vegetarian, VegFest is leading the way. Also in its 3rd year is the All Things Water Festival. Three more markets open for the season: Geauga, Countryside and Frostville. We bring you an insider’s look at a couple of premieres by Creative Fusion choreographer Lee Ming-Cheng. And your family can get your own look inside the Mather, moored right at the back door of the GLSC.
The legendary Glass Harp from Youngstown returns to TKS in all their glory, and Angelin Chang performs a benefit for the 2nd FireFish Festival. Celebrate Cinco de Meow at the Clifton Wine Bar to benefit 2 animal rescue groups. Hilary Gent shows her true (water)colors at Maria Neil, while Magically Delicious hits BlueJazz+ in Akron. We’re not the only ones strutting our stuff this week. –Thomas Mulready
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Even more ambitious than our sold-out Bowie shows, our next opus, Glam! Bam! Thank You Ma’am From Lady Stardust to Lady Gaga, traces the lost history of one of the most obvious, yet overlooked genres that spanned the entire 20th Century, right up to today’s top hitmakers.
Join us on Sun 6/5 at noon at the acoustically fabulous BOP STOP and bring an appetite. Enjoy an interactive blitzkrieg bop by CoolCleveland’s Thomas Mulready, with seminal video clips, needle drops by DJ JD, trivia contests, giveaways and sing-alongs. Plus a blistering live music showcase by Cleveland glam-punk superstars Vanity Crash. Brunch is available.
The Glam firmament blazes a glittering trail from Art Nouveau through the Roaring Twenties to drag, burlesque & British Music Hall, through Warhol’s Pop Art and the Velvet Underground’s transgressions, to Bowie’s outre personae and Malcolm McLaren’s New York Dolls & Sex Pistols, from Patti LaBelle & Donna Summer to Parliament/Funkadelic & Boy George, from Nine Inch Nails and techno to Goth rock and New Romantics to Rocky Horror and Hedwig, all the way to Madonna, Sia, Lorde and Lady Gaga. Prince? Oh, yes.
It’s not just your imagination. You DO know a lot more vegetarians and vegans than you did a few years ago. Americans are eating less meat, both for their own health and the environment’s, and that’s something that VegFest, now in its 3rd edition and expanded to Cleveland’s Convention Center, hopes to grow.
CoolCleveland writer Kendall Embrescia-Hridel tells us about all the food, speakers, films, vendors and kids’ activities that will be going on all day, offering both the committed and the curious an entry into vegan eating. Sat 5/7.
Last year was officially Cleveland’s Year of Clean Water. But with Lake Erie sitting in our backyard, awareness of this resource’s value is something that needs to keep growing all the time.
That’s idea behind the 3rd annual race/walk 4 Miles 4 Water and the All Things Water festival, both taking place at Edgewater Park, with food, drink, games, exhibitors and music by Carlos Jones & the P.L.U.S. Band. John Benson talks to Erin Huber of sponsoring organization Drink Local Drink Tap, about what they hope people take away from the event. Sat 5/7.
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SPONSORED: Join the Cleveland Institute of Music on Wed 5/4 at 6pm for its final CIM@CMA of the 2015-16 Concert Season. Enjoy an evening of chamber music in the galleries of the Cleveland Museum of Art. (Located at 11150 East Blvd.) The event is free and open to the public. CIM.edu.
Fashion Week Cleveland offers a packed week full of films, runway shows, lectures, exhibits, parties & more, all across town. CooLCleveland fashion maven Dru Christine gives us an overview of what it’s all about – with a schedule of activities. Through Sat 5/7.
* This year’s special guest at Fashion Week Cleveland is respected fashion authority Fern Mallis who will speak about her book and headline the gala fashion show at The Arcade, with MC Thomas Mulready of CoolCleveland. CoolCleveland’s John Benson talks to her to get her take on the industry and why regional fashion weeks matter. Sat 5/7.
* The “Night at the Museum” party at the Western Reserve Historical Society gives guests a chance to see how the denizens of Millionaire’s Row dressed. Fri 5/6.
Now the largest recurring event in Cleveland, Content Marketing Institute founder Joe Pulizzi welcomes the 4000+ delegates he is expecting to descend on the region Sept 6-9, 2016 for Content Marketing World 2016.
CoolCleveland caught up with Joe at the Global Center for Health Innovation and First Merit Convention Center, where CMWorld 2016 takes place, as he enlightens us on the value of content marketing, what to expect at this year’s conference & expo, who will be there (LEGO, Visa, GE, Bank of America…) and a reminder to take advantage of early bird specials: Use code COOLCLE & save $100!
Taiwanese choreographer Lee Ming-Cheng is in northeast Ohio as part of the Cleveland Foundation’s Creative Fusion program. He’s been working with Verb Ballets on a brand-new piece that’s one of two premieres the company will present at the Breen Center, along with one by Cleveland’s Terence Greene (pictured).
Our dance writers, Elsa Johnson and Victor Lucas, stopped in at Verb’s rehearsal studio to observe the works in progress and chat with Ming and Verb’s associate director Richard Dickinson about the new works. Sat 5/7.
The Great Lakes Science Center overlooks this lake, and this weekend, its special programming, Great Lakes Adventure, will be all about it. There’ll be lots for kids to see and do, and the whole family can sign up to tour the William G. Mather moored right outside the center. Sat 5/7 & Sun 5/8.
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SPONSORED: A Deadly Diet: The Chemical Ecology of Tropical Poison Frogs, features Dr. Ralph Saporito, Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at John Carroll University enlightening us on how animals generally use poisons to defend themselves from predators and parasites. While most animals make their own poisons, some must acquire them from other organisms – often by eating them. Join us on Fri 5/13 at 7PM for the Explorer Lecture Series. CMNH.org.
Celebrate Cinco de Mayo all month long at Melt! Sandwich Special: The Sanchez (!mes de la Sanchez!). Beer Specials: Motion Potion Tropical IPA & New Belgium Heavy Melon. Seasonal Sides: Mexican Street Corn & Adobo Black Beans. Bread Pudding: Pina Colada Bread Pudding. Cocktail Feature: Red Hot Summer.
Melt News: Melt Partners with the Cleveland Aquarium: All kids 10-under ordering off the Melt children’s menu will receive a coupon for $5 off at the Cleveland Aquarium! Melt Independence is now booking parties. Now taking reservations in select Melt Bar and Grilled locations. Melt Catering is now available for all events! MeltBarAndGrilled.com.
It’s that time of year again. The handful of farmers market becomes a flood as more local producers start turning out more edibles and bringing their flower baskets and plant starters to customers.
This week, three more markets kick off their 2016 seasons: the Geauga Fresh Farm Market, the Countryside Conservancy Market and the Frostville Market in North Olmsted. And if farmers markets are REALLY your thing, the Countryside Conservancy is looking for an administrative coordinator. Sat 5/7.
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Hang out with director Terri Pontremoli as she previews the upcoming 37th Annual Tri-C JazzFest taking place over one sizzling weekend June 23-25, 2016.
Check out this fantastic line-up: * 6/23: Tommy LiPuma’s Big Birthday Bash with Diana Krall, Leon Russell, Dr. John, Al Jarreau and the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra. * 6/24: Chick Corea * 6/24: David Sanborn & Maceo Parker * 6/24: Big Sam’s Funky Nation * 6/25: Cubanismo * 6/25: Dominick Farinacci CD Release Party * 6/25: Terence Blanchard’s E-Collective * 6/25: Contemporary Jazz Extravaganza: Lalah Hathaway, BWB and Brian Culbertson.
The Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra is a training ground for future music professionals, giving them the chance to work with top-flight players and perform onstage at Severance Hall, which they’ll do this weekend. Sun 5/8
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SPONSORED: Run Over to The Kent Stage featuring Purple Rain- The Movie, A Tribute to Prince, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Glass Harp, The Sheepdogs, Welcome To Wonderland, Gill Landry, Todd Rundgren, Scott Stapp, The Voice of Creed, Ricky Scaggs & Kentucky Thunder, Richard Nader’s Doo Wop and Rock N’ Roll, Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels, Terry Sylvester, The Vogues, The Crests featuring Tommy Mara, JD Souther, Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band, The Weight Band: Members of The Band and The Levon Helm Band performing music of The Band, Hayes Carll, Emily Gimble, plus more. TheKentStage.com.
WED 5/4
When Pope Francis issued Laudato Si’, his encyclical on climate change, last year, it shook up the discussion and upset the applecart of “Christian” climate deniers. A forum at Trinity Cathedral, open to all, looks at the Pope’s encyclical and environmental issues from a Christian perspective.
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THU 5/5
You can join the crowd using Cinco de Mayo as just an excuse to go out drinking, or you can drink (and eat) for a good cause at Cinco de Meow. The party at the Clifton Wine Bar benefits two local animal rescue groups.
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FRI 5/6
Hillary Gent is known to the art community as a gallerist and events planner. But she’s also a dedicated and talented painter. Lately she’s been exploring the properties of water, and a show of these works opens tonight at the Maria Neil Art Project on Waterloo.
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SAT 5/7
With the Cuyahoga River becoming more of a recreational focus, it’s time to make it shine for the summer. Join other citizen-volunteers for River Sweep and help get rid of the winter debris.
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SUN 5/8
Trinity Cathedral downtown is contributing to the city’s “Year of Sustainable Transportation” with its Blessing of the Bikes and then, realizing that common sense matters as much as divine protection, a Bike Fair offering tips and demonstrations on bicycle safety.
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MON 5/9
If the presidential primary has started to get on your nerves, come down to Nighttown and hear performers from the Cleveland Cabaret Project give their musical and satirical take on it in the style of the Capitol Steps.
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TUE 5/10
Veteran for Peace AJ Oliver helped rig up a ship called the Peace Ship and sail it on behalf of the cause. He’ll talk at Cleveland Peace Action’s Monthly Peace at the Pub at the Market Garden Brewery.
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WED 5/11
Once again, a diverse group of Ohio restaurants bands together to sell “Cookies for Kids,” with the purchase of each cookie benefiting the Greater Cleveland Food Bank. Also Thu 5/12.
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CBS news anchor Scott Pelley really can’t be that dense, can he? On the evening news last Thursday, Pelley reported on a story out of Los Angeles regarding a free healthcare delivery event – similar to what Dr. Charles Modlin has been doing at Cleveland Clinic…
* Eureka! Now, if you don’t own a pickup truck, you might as well stop reading right now, because my “great idea” will have no meaning for you. Zero. Nada. Zilch. It will be a total waste….
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A look back at the last week
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THEATER REVIEW: The Theory of Relativity @BaldwinWallace @PlayhouseSquare by Laura Kennelly
THEATER REVIEW: Jerusalem @EnsembleTheater by Roy Berko
THEATER REVIEW: Two One-Acts at Blank Canvas Theatre by Roy Berko
THEATER REVIEW: The Beauty Queen of Leenane @nonetoofragile by Roy Berko
THEATER: A Tribute to David O. Frazier by Roy Berko
PHOTOSTREAM: Fashion Week GlamJam Kickoff Party
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–Thomas Mulready
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