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We look to the young, the untested, the emerging artists, entrepreneurs and creators. Some people fall asleep watching the sun set. We prefer the drama of the dawn.CoolCleveland correspondents Vic & Elsa Johnson throw the spotlight on Ballet Excel Cleveland, young dancers on their way up performing original ballets. Apollo’s Fire features their Young Apprentices program in Cleveland Hts & Hudson this week. The Youth Chamber Music Challenge offers cash prizes for the next generation of classical musicians. The Contemporary Youth Orchestra plays the score to Pee-Wee’s Big Holiday at a live screening at CSU.
Rising Star becomes kosher, Rooms To Let returns to Slavic Village, and the Dealership opens in Shaker Hts. They’re wining in the winter at area wineries, they’re mixing art & ale at the Akron Art Museum, and Christopher Reynolds performs his healing music in the planetarium of the Lake Erie Nature & Science Center in Bay Village.
The mayoral race is heating up, and Anastasia Pantsios offers a critical perspective on incumbent Mayor Jackson and some of the challengers: a youthful candidate, Ja’Ovvonie Garrison, who has organized skateboard facilities, and Brandon Chrostowski, proprietor of EDWINS, the acclaimed upscale restaurant that trains and hires returning felons. Leaves us all wondering what’s next. –Thomas Mulready
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Greg Murray was tired of his human resources job, so he took a big plunge, combining his passion for photography with his love of dogs to become Cleveland’s premiere dog photographer.
For the past year, he’s been doing something kinda weird: taking photos of dogs eating peanut butter. It’s paid off big-time. He’s got a new book called Peanut Butter Dogs that’s sold out its first printing of 3,000. But he’ll have hundreds on hand at his book release party at the Butcher & the Brewer where he’ll also be raising money for Neighborhood Pets Outreach & Resource Center. Sat 3/11.
Christopher Reynolds has been part of the Cleveland music scene for a long time. But after playing in cover bands and doing acoustic rock for a couple of decades, he launched his distinctive solo career in 1999 where he melded his music with spiritual ideas about universal consciousness and care of the Earth.
Appropriately, he’ll be debuting the latest of his many releases with a show in the planetarium of the Lake Erie Nature & Science Center in Bay Village. Reynolds talks to John Benson to share his goals for his music. Sat 3/11.
SPONSORED: Summertime and timely shows! A timely tale exists in A Great Wilderness (3/3-4/9) and maybe we could all use a refresher with Schoolhouse Rock Live! (5/12-21). Beck Center is the perfect place to experience the arts this summer. Camp Enrollment Starts Now!
Ballet Excel Cleveland, formerly the Cuyahoga Valley Youth Ballet, has a mission. The ensemble features young dancers with professional aspirations in original ballets, giving them a chance to get real stage experience.
This week, you can catch these rising stars in a pair of dances at the Akron Civic Theatre: one based on the tale of The Little Mermaid, the other, USO Radio Show 1942, recalling the put-on-a-happy-face shows put together to entertain the troops during WW II. Sat 3/11-Sun 3/12.
If you’re like a lot of NE Ohioans, hitting its multitude of wineries is one of your favorite summer weekend activities, when you can linger over a glass of local vintage on a sunlit patio.
But you don’t have to wait for the warm weather to spend some time at these establishments. Many of the wineries are open for visitors year-round, with restaurants serving comfort-food menus to go with selections from their cellars, and fireplace-warmed dining rooms to hang out in. Our winery maven Claudia Taller offers the scoop on five of her favorite places to escape the chill.
Rooms to Let, the Slavic Village-based weekend that invites people to visit abandoned, condemned houses transformed into temporary art projects, is looking for artists to submit ideas or these projects. Sat 5/20 & Sun 5/21.
* The city of Shaker Heights is hosting its first Shaker Makers event at The Dealership (formerly Launchhouse). It’s looking for creative types in art, technology, science, performance and other areas to participate in this all-ages event. Sat 4/2.
SPONSORED: Summer Camps Sizzle at The Music Settlement Camp topics range from STEAM to song-making! TMS camps are fun & enriching for ages 3 – 18. NEW preschool & vocal camps. Choose your instrument on a Music Safari. Special needs inclusion options available. Enroll online before April 1st and save 10%. TheMusicSettlement.org/camp
The Cleveland Chamber Music Society is thinking about the music’s future with its Youth Chamber Music Challenge. Seven ensembles from area teen music programs will compete for cash prizes at Lyndhurst Community Presbyterian Church. Sun 3/12.
* Coventry Kids Day is an afternoon of family fun in Cleveland Heights. Sun 3/12.
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Sandwich Special: General Tso’s Delicious Manchu Dynasty Melt. Seasonal Sides: Kung Pow Brussels Sprouts & Sweet Chili-Garlic Broccoli. Bread Pudding: White Chocolate Green Tea Bread Pudding. Beer Feature: Sierra Nevada Sidecar. Cocktail Feature: Melt Mai Tai.
Melt News: New Spring cocktail menu begins in March. Watch for awesome beer events in March. New Happy Hour menu is here! Melt Bar and Grilled coming soon to Dayton!
Rising Star Coffee Roasters has achieved another milestone: its roasting facility in the Hildebrandt Building has been examined by a rabbi and declared kosher.
* Melt’s roller coaster seems to only have an uphill trajectory as it opens yet another store in Dayton soon and this summer, you’ll be able to get its beloved grilled cheese sandwiches at Cedar Point
* Countryside Conservancy founder/executive director Darwin Kelsey retired last September and passed away in December. CC’s board has now announced that interim ED Tracy Emrick is being given the job on a permanent basis.
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One of Apollo’s Fire’s lesser known initiatives is its Young Apprentices program where it trains conservatory students in its baroque style. You can hear the students perform this week in Cleveland Heights and Hudson. Thu 3/9 & Fri 3/10
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WED 3/8
Oberlin creative writing faculty member and novelist Dan Chaon has a new book out called Ill Will. He won’t show you any ill will if you come to his book release event at the Coventry Library in Cleveland Heights and ask him to sign a copy.
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THU 3/9
When they were built, many of the big houses in Shaker Heights had a full staff of “help.” A new exhibit, Above Stairs, at the Shaker Historical Society and Museum, explores the lives of these servants. A reception tonight gives visitors a chance to socialize while learning more about the exhibit and SHSM.
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FRI 3/10
Here’s an alert for cat lovers: when Kedi, the charming documentary film about Istanbul’s street cats, opens at the Cedar Lee this weekend, rescue groups will be in the lobby with adoptable cats. Bring your carrier!
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SAT 3/11
Maybe you aren’t inclined to daring adventures or maybe you just want to bask in the beauty of nature from a theater seat. The Wild & Scenic Film Festival at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History offers 15 short films in appreciation of our natural environment.
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SUN 3/12
Bring the family to the Willoughby Brewing Company for a fun afternoon of music by five bands and an unlimited buffet. It’s the annual Lake County Human’s Rescue Rockoff to help abandoned animals find forever homes.
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MON 3/13
This month’s Science Cafe at the Music Box Supper Club will expand your mind to the far reaches of the galaxies, as CWRU astronomy professor Stacy McGaugh explores the expansion of galaxies and the role of “dark matter.”
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TUE 3/14
Trombonist Sam Williams leads his band, Big Sam’s Funky Nation, out of their hometown of New Orleans to get booties shaking all across the country. On a sleepy Tuesday night, they’ll be waking up the dance floor at the Beachland Ballroom with their brassy urban sound.
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WED 3/15
Shore Cultural Centre in Euclid recently hired former Karamu theater director Terrence Spivey to help take its arts programming to the next level. Join Spivey and a panel of SCC and Euclid officials to learn about what this might look like ad how they plan to engage NE Ohio’s arts & culture community.
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Oh, Cleveland. We missed a big opportunity to create a great Public Square. This week, the RTA (Rapid Transit Authority) began running buses through the center of Public Square. The Mayor held out for us. He just needed us to stand up. We failed to do so. Now it is over.
A public square is a city’s unifying meeting space for pedestrian citizens. A place of purpose; the place to meet people in the middle. A place with a long standing American tradition as a center of protest, open dialog, and the exchange ideas. More than simply a city park; a public square is a city’s central meeting place. It is the heart of a city. Many were expecting a public square for the ages, a nationally-acclaimed, unified public square. This, we did not get…
As Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson prepares to campaign for an unprecedented fourth term, challengers are cropping up right and left, motivated by the sense that the city ought to be in a far better place than it is.
Their challenge will be convincing voters that the city’s problems were caused by Jackson’s actions or could have been fixed by him, and to persuade them that they have solutions and skills that Jackson doesn’t. And will the Plain Dealer once again treat the race like a foregone conclusion?
The schadenfreude was flying hot and heavy at the monthly meeting of a group of black professionals I belong to last Saturday when I proposed that the assembled body observe a moment of silence for “Pastor” Darrell Scott, the con man preacher who scams…
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A look back at the last week
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THEATER REVIEW: The Flick at Dobama Theatre by Roy Berko
THEATER REVIEW: A Great Wilderness at Beck Center by Roy Berko
Forum on gerrymandering and redistricting draws a huge crowd at First Unitarian Church.
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Here are the Top 5 most clicked links from last week’s issue, with one more chance for you to click.
1) Good Things Come in Short Packages at the Short. Sweet. Film Fest
2) Restaurant Week Returns to Locally Owned Establishments All Over NE Ohio
3) Prosperity Social Club in Tremont Offers Its Own Take on the Lenten Fish Fry
4) MANSFIELD: So, Are You Ready Now?
5) Loganberry Books Celebrates Women’s History Month in March
Here’s to The Next Day,
–Thomas Mulready
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