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Place it on your head. See how it fits? Like it was always meant to be there. Take a selfie and share it with friends. Hell, share it with the world. Then say this out loud: We are the champions of the world. Truth.Everyone is acting like a champ this week. Shakespeare takes center stage as CPL hosts his First Folio and the CSF kicks off outdoors. The Asiatown Night Markets are back, and CMA turns 100. Our new CoolNEIGHBORHOOD Lorain County and Sandusky County are packed with vineyards, and CoolCleveland has visited 80 of them to give you a tour. Is your neighborhood a CoolNEIGHBORHOOD?
Tri-C hosts JazzFest and CoolCleveland has the video and the rundown. Catch noted area artists Ray McNiece, DEVO’s Mark Mothersbaugh, and Ohio’s Pin-Up Queen at area events like Bubblepalooza, the Lorain International Festival, Boston Mills Artfest, the Workman’s Circle Yiddish Festival, Waterloo Arts Fest, and Mulberry Creek’s Herb Fair. Champions one and all. –Thomas Mulready
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Many area Shakespeare fans enjoy the annual the Cleveland Shakespeare Festival, which presents a summer season of two plays taking place in a different outdoor location each evening. But these abridged versions staged in informal environments – bring your own blanket or chair! – are also the perfect introduction to the Bard.
CoolCleveland checked out the first production and talked to director Brian Pedaci about the play and the company’s mission.
Cleveland is glutted with markets and festivals but it doesn’t have anything else quite like Asiatown’s Night Markets, which launched last year. Their dusky aura so captivated Clevelanders that attendance quadrupled from the first one in June through the last in September.
Naturally they’re back, with a similar mix of local foods, artisans and performers of all types, including street performers who emerge from the crowd unexpectedly to thrill and amaze. John Benson talks to market coordinator Brendan Trewella about how the market came to be. Fri 6/24.
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SPONSORED: Wednesday Summer Show & Tell Touch realistic casts of dinosaur bones and see real dinosaur fossils from the Museum’s collection. Discover how dinosaurs’ various teeth, jaws, beaks and claws were used for eating different foods with paleontologist Lee Hall, and make a dinosaur mask. A special craft or activity each week. Bring the family and get ready for hands-on fun! CMNH.org.
Its popular Summer Solstice party is sold out, but don’t worry – the Cleveland Museum of Art will be celebrating all weekend. It turned 100 on June 7 (when it had celebratory activities going on as well) and has packed the final weekend in June with all sort of things to see and do: tours, talks, art making and music.
Highlights include a performance of a piece based on birdsong featuring musicians moving around the building’s atrium and second floor, and a temporary sound installation by Jeremy Bible. CMA’s Tom Welsh shares some of the details with CoolCleveland’s John Benson. Sat 6/25-Sun 6/26.
Cleveland trumpet sensation Dominick Farinacci returned to his hometown and alma mater Tri-C to work with legendary producer Tommy LiPuma and a roster of A-list players like Steve Gadd, Christian McBride, Jacob Collier, Jamey Haddad and more.
His new album, Short Stories, will have its record release CD and party on Sat 6/25 at the 37th Annual Tri-C JazzFest. Farinacci plays a few notes and talks with CoolCleveland about the recording sessions and his commitment to music education. Tri-CJazzFest.com.
Maybe you don’t have the time or the money for a week on Hilton Head or a month on Martha’s Vineyard. But a bucolic one-day or weekend getaway may be less than an hour away, depending on where in the area you live.
Lorain and Sandusky counties are packed with vineyards, known for their quality varietals, their food and their lovely settings which invite you to stay a while. CoolCleveland’s Claudia Taller has visited more than 80 Ohio wineries, and she gives us a tour of the offerings at some of these highly accessible establishments.
The Cleveland Public Library has been a leader in providing citizens with the opportunity and tools to become makers. That’s why CPL director Felton Thomas Jr. was invited to the White House last week to be honored on as one of 10 “Champions of Making” for the library’s TechCentral program.
Cleveland Cinemas is making it easy for parents this summer. They’ve just announced their annual $1 Family Films series, Wed 6/22–Wed 7/27.
The series will kick off with a showing of the classic baseball movie from the early ’90s, The Sandlot, on Wed 6/22. All films screen on Wednesday mornings at 10AM. Upcoming films include The Peanuts Movie, Home, Mr. Peabody & Sherman, Alvin & The Chipmunks and The Croods.
“We’re excited to offer our $1 Family Films this summer,” says Ken Young, Cleveland Cinemas Director of Operations. “With tickets priced at just $1, parents can take advantage of this low-cost opportunity to take their children to the theater to see these great family films.” ClevelandCinemas.com.
You won’t be hearing any endless stream of “I’m bored” if you take your kids over to Lake Erie Ink in Cleveland Heights for one of its workshops or camps aimed at stimulating their creativity. This week, for instance, there’s a songwriting class for teens led by Dee Jay Doc of Fresh Camp. Kids will learn to deploy beats and rhymes to get their message across and record their song as well.
That’s only one of a series of weekend, evening and week-long workshops in storytelling, dance, playwriting, comics, puppetry and more. Mon 6/27-Fri 7/1.
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Robert Holcepl knows Cleveland. He’s lived in the city before its renaissance, and he knows how Clevelanders eat. They want their sausage.
That’s the reason for Picnic at the 5th Street Arcades in Downtown Cleveland. They only serve fresh, local meat, and have designed special large buns from Camelot Bakery created for the extra large Polish Boy (“Polish Man”) sausage they call the Big Kowalski and the half-pound Warsaw.
Picnic sources their cheese from Lake Erie Creamery, and they serve local Bertman Ball Park Mustard and Great Lakes Brewing Company Dortmunder Beer Mustard. The french fries are hand-cut and they offer picnic sides like baked beans, macaroni salad and potato salad, plus unusual toppings like poutine gravy, peanut butter and chimichurri. Picnic-Cle.com
Brent Wesley became known to the music community as Wesley Bright, sweet soul frontman for the hugely popular Wesley Bright & the Hi-Lites.He still sings – fronting his own band now. But many people don’t know that he also oversees a bunch of bee hives in inner-city lots as proprietor of the Akron Honey Company. Now, for the third year, he’s rounded up some other Akron food entrepreneurs for the AHC Market Day at Crestland Park Apiary. Eat, drink, shop and check out the bees at work. Sun 6/26.
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Singer/songwriter/guitarist Demos Papadimas has caught a lot of ears locally in the last several years. Join him as he celebrates the release of his new album Waiting. Thu 6/23.
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Shakespeare turns 400 this year, and to celebrate, the Cleveland Public Library is exhibiting Shakespeare’s First Folio! The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare in the Treasure Room of Special Collections in the Main Library in downtown Cleveland.
CoolCleveland got a sneak peek and spoke with Pamela Eyerdam, Fine Arts & Special Collections Manager and Ray Rozman, Metadata Archivist about the Folio, related costumes, fun costumes, and their cool interactive touchscreen “Magic Box,” all free and open to the public. But hurry, the First Folio exhibit closes July 30 at the Cleveland Public Library.
WED 6/22
Soap bubble blowing record holder Dr. U.R. Awesome will attempt to break two more Guinness World Records at the Cleveland Botanical Garden in the morning. In the evening at Wade Oval Wednesday, he’ll be hosting Bubblepalooza.
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THU 6/23
DEVO co-founder, Akronite Mark Mothersbaugh, has a major retrospective of his artwork at the Akron Art Museum and MOCA Cleveland. See it tonight in Akron, and join Mark’s sister Amy, also an artist, for a workshop to make sun catchers inspired by DEVO’s distinctive headwear.
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FRI 6/24
You don’t have to be traditionally beautiful to compete for the title of Ohio Pin-Up Queen. The 3rd annual pageant, taking place at the Beachland, will most likely feature a diverse group of contestants with sass and attitude.
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SAT 6/25
The Waterloo Arts District may be a work in progress, but each year at its showcase event, the Waterloo Arts Fest, you can see the neighborhood slowly unfolding. Art and music are the cornerstones of this free street party where there’s always lots of hands-on stuff to do.
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SUN 6/26
The annual Workman’s Circle Yiddish concert has been going on as long as this year’s headliner has been alive. It’s in its 38th year, and New York-based singer/composer/entertainer Lipa Schmeltzer is also 38. He’s been called the “Lady Gaga of Hasidic music” so expect this free show to be entertaining.
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MON 6/27
The Oberlin Heritage Center and Vermilion Valley Vineyards are hosting a peaceful evening of wine tasting, light food and acoustic music, accompanied by vineyard co-owner Joe Juniper’s knowledgeable wine insights and a short talk by historian Mary Manning about the Great French Wine Blight of the 19th century.
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TUE 6/28
Got a ukulele laying around? Bring it down to the Cleveland Heights Library’s Coventry branch for its monthly uke jam and spend a fun evening playing with beginning and experts alike.
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WED 6/29
It’s hard to get justice in the legal system if you’re poor. That’s what the Legal Aid Society is there for. To help pay for its work representing its clients, the organization holds its annual Jam for Justice at Crop Rocks: food, drink – and seven bands featuring attorneys, law students and judges.
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Of course the question that immediately arises from pundits is, “How can we as a city build on the goodwill, momentum and raised expectations created by this magnificent victory?” Perhaps a better question is, “What do we want to happen?”..
* More on $15 an Hour If there were a moral component to economics we would not be having this discussion since the federal minimum wage would already be over $15 an hour if it had been tied to inflation years ago…
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