07.05-07.12.2017 Fabulous

07.05-07.12.17
Fabulous

The weather, the community spirit, the neighborhood feel, the entrepreneurial energy, the cultural combustion.

Remarkable jazz trumpeter Dominick Farinacci honors the legendary Stokes brothers with an 18-piece big band. During Congress’ recess week, join activists for the breathtaking Vigil For the Vulnerable to advocate for children hit hardest by proposed Medicaid cuts.

Outstanding neighborhoods are showcased in CNP’s marvelous new book This Is Where I Live. Ohio City Stages kicks off on W. 29th with top-drawer Dominican bachata guitarist Joan Soriano. Shimmy & sizzle at the spectacular Summer Meltdown, right on the streets of central Lakewood.

Phenomenal music complements the Gadabout Short Film Festival at Hive Mind. ARTneo hosts the remarkable Caturday Night Fever. The legendary Terrence Spivey collaborates with convergence-continuum on Neighbors. Ethereal “chamberfolk trio from Planet Earth” Harpeth Rising plays the Praxis Fiber Workshop. And have you heard about the outrageous “Planet Nine” that may exist outside the orbit of Pluto? It’s all pretty astounding. –Thomas Mulready

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ARTneo Gets Catty

What subject is a surefire winner, no matter what kind of event or project you’re putting together? Cleveland’s ARTneo knows: it’s the fabulous feline! Its current exhibit ARTmeow features works by Cleveland artists over the last 100 years dealing in this inspiring subject.

But they’re going to milk it for all it’s worth. Their next fundraiser is called Caturday Night Fever and it’s sure to attract a packed house of artist/cat lovers. Sat 7/8.

SPONSORED: See 7 musical gems in rep thru 8/12 at The Ohio Light Opera at Freedland Theatre at the College of Wooster: Meredith Willson’s The Music Man, Cole Porter’s Anything Goes, Gilbert & Sullivan’s H.M.S. Pinafore, Gershwins’ Primrose, Romberg’s The Student Prince, Kalman’s Countess Maritza, and Herbert’s The Lady of the Slipper. Order your tickets today! Call 330-263-2345 or visit OhioLightOpera.org.

Honoring Human Capital

Cleveland Neighborhood Progress was founded nearly three decades ago by local foundations to set the agenda and provide support for community development corporations.

But, recognizing that people are as important, if not more so, as place-making, the group has put together a new book, This Is Where I Live: Cleveland People and Their Neighborhoods, that tells the stories of ordinary people.

VIDEO: Up Close With Perkins Wildlife Center at CMNH

In a brilliant re-imagining of their primo location on Wade Oval, the Cleveland Museum of Natural History has created an outdoor cornucopia of wildlife, foliage, birds and interactive exhibits guaranteed to bring a smile to the face of the young, the old and everyone in between.

The Perkins Wildlife Center & Woods Garden features a fully immersive experience where visitors walk below the waterline teeming with fish, turtles and otters, stare face to face with packs of coyotes, and find themselves nose to beak with our regional outdoor rock stars, the Peregrine Falcon. Listen in with Harvey Webster, director of wildlife resources, as he shows us around.

Shaming the Shameless

It’s almost beyond belief that politicians in both Washington and Columbus are looking at making health care less accessible to everyone, including vulnerable populations such as children, the elderly and the disabled.

Tonight across Ohio, activists will gather outside children’s hospitals for the Vigil for the Vulnerable to point out that kids would be particularly hard-hit by Medicaid cuts. Join them at Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital in University Circle. Sat 7/8.

SPONSORED: Open House at The Music Settlement Bring yourself & your whole family (grandparents, too!) to BOP STOP at The Music Settlement for a FREE Community OPEN HOUSE on Sun 7/30 from 12:30-3:30PM. Performances, snacks, activities… plus information about our under-construction NEW CAMPUS on Detroit Rd (opening Fall 2018). Click for details & come on down! 2920 Detroit Ave., Ohio City.

What’s Out in Outer Space?

If you were bummed out when Pluto was downgraded to “not a planet,” you might be fascinated to learn about a mysterious “Planet Nine” that might exist beyond Pluto. Hear more at Geauga Parks’ McCullough Science Center and get to use their telescopes too. Fri 7/7.

* Talespinner Children’s Theatre takes four new plays out for a trial run at its free workshop series PLAYground. Bring the kids to offer the company some feedback. Sat 7/8 & Sun 7/9, Sat 7/15 & Sun 7/16.

* Learned Owl Books in Hudson is hosting an Imagination Seuss-a-bration party. Sun 7/9.

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July at Melt Bar and Grilled

Sandwich Special: Firecracker Chicken; Seasonal Sides: Zucchini & Summer Squash & Watermelon Salad; Beer Feature: Founders Centennial IPA; Cocktail Feature: Bomb Pop Sangria.

Melt News: Melt Bar and Grilled Announces 11th location in Canton, Ohio at Belden Village in November 2017! Our 10th location in Avon, Ohio, near the corner of Route 83 and Detroit Road, is holding open interviews from 7/21-25. New Melt location at Cedar Point is now open! New summer cocktail menu, awesome beer events, new Happy Hour menu, plus online ordering, summertime parties & catering. Stop in to your favorite Melt location and celebrate! MeltBarAndGrilled.com.

Lakewood is one of northeast Ohio’s foodiest cities – if you can’t find it there, you can’t find it anywhere. It’s the city where now-statewide grilled cheese chain Melt Bar and Grilled got started, and the home of the Lakewood Summer Meltdown, now in its 8th year, showcasing everything delicious the city offers. Sat 7/8.

Read more of CoolCleveland’s picks for Eats and Drinks.

Local indie rock trio Kid Tested has been kicking around more than a decade but it’s been a while since they released an album. They remedy that this week at the Happy Dog. Sat 7/8

* Jazz trumpeter Dominick Farinacci leads big band tribute to the Stokes brothers at Nighttown. Fri 7/7.

* Sam Blakeslee Large Group plays its last residency show at BLU Jazz +. Thu 7/6.

* Cleveland 70s rockers Granicus ride again at the Grog Shop. Thu 7/6.

* AXS TV airs special with Tommy Shaw & Cleveland’s Contemporary Youth Orchestra. Sun 7/9.

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WED 7/5
Mamai Theatre’s The Testament of Mary tells the story of Jesus through the eyes of his mother in this one-woman show. Through Sun 7/23..

* Diana Chittester is up next at oWow radio’s Happy Hour concerts at the Music Box.

* Ohio City Stages starts its season with Dominican bachata guitarist Joan Soriano.

* Keep Talking storytelling at the Happy Dog West addresses “The Great Outdoors.”

* Django Reinhardt-style band Hot Club of Akron plays at the BOP STOP.

* Technically Marvin, screening at the Maltz Museum, follows a middle-aged man’s quest for love.

* Enjoy a blissed-out evening of ambient, experimental electronics at Mahall’s.

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THU 7/6
It would be hard to fault any young person who felt that now would be a great time to start career in a foreign country. For those interested in the Peace Corps, the Foreign Service or a career abroad in private business, there’s an International Careers Networking event at CSU.

* Gadabout short film festival comes to Hive Mind.

* Therapeutic mandala making happens on first Thursdays at SPACES Gallery.

* Winsor! is a cabaret act with a spicy backstory, at Nighttown. Also Sun 7/9.

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FRI 7/7
Both convergence-continuum theater and director Terrence Spivey are known for not doing safe, ordinary shows. They’re teaming up again for Neighbors, which challenges complacent notions about race. Through Sat 7/29.

* Zygote Press’s new show displays the results of its recent artist exchanges.

* Derek Brennan’s encaustic collages star in Wildlife in Wax at Loftworks Gallery.

* Browse art from around the country at the 40th annual Cain Park Arts Festival. Through Sun 7/9.

* Light the trips fantastic at Open Projector Night at MOCA Cleveland.

* Former teen blues prodigy Jonny Lang is all grown up and performing at the Kent Stage.

* Theatre Ninjas lets you choose you own adventure in its interactive storytelling experience. Through Sat 7/29.

* Harpeth Rising plays “chamberfolk” at Waterloo’s Praxis Gallery

* Film noir-inspired City of Angels hits the Beck Center stage. Through Sun 8/13.

* Soul-jazz sax player Jackiem Joyner comes to BLU Jazz +.

* Summer music nights rock Hudson’s First & Main every Friday & Saturday through August.

Click here for more events on Fri 7/7

SAT 7/8
Local writer Brendan Whitt’s debut novella told of an Alabama boy’s trip to Harlem in the late 40s, after the gold age of Black arts was over. Tonight at the Euclid Tavern, an ensemble will perform a staged reading, accompanied by a jazz trio which will play a set afterward.

* Lake Erie Ink hosts story building game on Public Square.

* Colorado Americana/bluegrassquintet Trout Steak Revival makes its Ohio debut at Peninsula’s G.A.R. Hall.

* Ohio City boutique Whiskey Grade has a party to celebrate its 2nd anniversary.

* Photographer Bryon Miller has his first solo show in more than 10 years at Walk All Over Waterloo.

* Berlioz and Beethoven symphonies will fill the night at Blossom Music Center.

* Cleveland Flea today and Food Flea tomorrow provide a weekend of food, shopping & hanging out at Tyler Village.

* Music in the Valley at Hale Farm & Valley offers folk music and wine tasting. Also tomorrow.

* Tropical Cleveland brings the heat to the Music Box.

* Have a beer and re-watch Ferris Bueller’s Day Off at Akron Lock 3’s Music, Malts and a Movie.

* Artists swap supplies and make new works to benefit Brooklyn Centre’s Art House.

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SUN 7/9
Cleveland GardenWalk covers four neighborhoods and features dozens of gardens, both private and community gardens. Today is the second day of the two-day event, so if you didn’t see everything you planned yesterday, you can return today. The tour is self-guided and free.

* Cleveland’s global voices speak about their quest for independence at the Maltz Museum.

* Enjoy an evening of opera favorites with the Cleveland Orchestra at Blossom Music Center.

* The Missed host Second Sunday matinee at Now That’s Class.

* Rustbelt rock show makes noise at Maple Lanes.

* Mentor Arts Center program pays tribute to classic crooner Andy Williams.

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MON 7/10
The monthly Science Cafe at the Music Box takes you places you as a non-scientist probably never thought you’d go. This month, it explores the world of parasites and pathogens and how they co-exist with humans and other organisms.

* Silver Linings Playbook author Matthew Quick talks about his latest at the Parma-Snow Library.

* Bring those acoustic instruments to the Euclid Tavern for its monthly Grassroots Bluegrass Jam.

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TUE 7/11
Tonight the monthly Brews + Prose literary event at Market Garden Brewery will celebrate its 5th anniversary, hear Alissa Nutting and Nick White read from their new novels, and bid farewell to founding director Dave Lucas.

* Happy Dog Takes on the World explores cyber attacks and what they mean for our country – and the world.

* Do an evening of yoga in the woods at CVNP’s Octagon picnic shelter in Peninsula.

* The annual Starwood Festival, organized by Cleveland’s, offers a week of enlightenment in the woods of SE Ohio. Through Mon 7/17.

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WED 7/12
Too often, legal remedies are only available to those with money. Legal Aid Cleveland works to help those who don’t. Its Jam for Justice on the East Bank of the Flats features bands of lawyers, judges & law students, playing to benefit their work.

* Literary Cleveland presets immigrants’ stories in “Crossing Borders” at Public Square.

* Colombian singer Toto La Momposina brings her melting-pot music to Ohio City Stages.

* Jangly Gin Blossoms re-live their 90s heyday at the Kent Stage.

* Bluegrass sweetheartsDavid & Valerie Mayfield bring the love to CVNP’s Howe Meadow.

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