09.12-09.19.2018 Response

09.12-09.19.18
Response

When we see a need, we jump into action.

The makers needed a place to showcase their work, so Cleveland craft furniture maker Jason Radcliffe got busy and created F*SHO. Grown from 5 to 40 designers, with pieces ranging from $50 to thousands, it’s free this weekend at HGR Industrial Surplus in Euclid. Heights Music Hop aims to celebrate music in dozens of locations throughout the three Cle Hts. business districts. CoolCleveland commentator C. Ellen Connally opines on the future of our iconic West Side Market.

Cleveland’s Refugee Response has been on the front lines, helping to acclimate immigrants, refugees and newcomers of all stripes. This week you can help at their Reap the Benefit event. Our culinary industry needed an event to show off local chefs, so Tri-C started the Cleveland Eats food festival, now back for a second year. Akron was looking for a place to sample their fall homebrews, so the 330 Brewing Cooperative’s Brats & Brews will take place this weekend at Aqueduct Brewing.

We’ve got to stop the hate, so the Maltz responded by offering $100K in awards and scholarships for the best essays from 6-12th graders. How do you respond to the current state of affairs? Your first move is to check if you are registered at the official SOS page here. Stand and be counted. –Thomas Mulready

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Revel in The Beatles’ Revolver and The White Album

It was the spring of 1966. A planned third movie fell through, so The Beatles had their first extended break since Beatlemania set them on their dizzying career spiral. Revolver was the first album to feature extensive studio trickery, and the first to reflect social concerns. Revolver is now considered The Beatles’ best record by many.

A short two years later, after the worldwide success of Sgt. Pepper, the death of their manager Brian Epstein, and their lengthy sojurn to India to study with the Maharishi, The Beatles assembled in George’s home and played for each other 27 stunning new tunes, 19 of which were completed in four and a half months of intense studio sessions that left the band mortally wounded. But the resulting album The Beatles (known as The White Album) is considered the finest double album ever recorded.

You’ll have fun, tap your foot, and maybe even learn something on this deep dive with Revolver on Fri 9/21 and The White Album on Sat 9/22.

Tickets are on sale now, and these shows are sure to sell out in the intimate and comfortable BOP STOP. Discover the backstories, their innovations in the recording studio, the cultural context, the drugs they experimented with, and their personal anecdotes as CoolCleveland’s Thomas Mulready presents rare video, needle drops, trivia and fun contests. Both shows feature a blistering live music set by Vanity Crash featuring a couple Beatles tunes (this is not a tribute!), and their own original material. Grab your seat now!

Furnished by Cleveland

Ten years ago, Cleveland craft furniture maker Jason Radcliffe of 44 Steel decided to start a local furniture expo to push back against the idea that creative, unique items for the home couldn’t be found in northeast Ohio. That was the genesis of F*SHO, a one-evening event that’s half showcase and half party/hangout with food and drink, taking place at HGR Industrial Surplus in Euclid.

What started with five designers now boasts 40 designers, makers and fabricators, drawn from around the region, offering one-of-a-kind pieces, many using reclaimed materials, that range in price from $50 to thousands. It’s free to come look. Fri 9/14.

SPONSORED: Ready to make your party pop? As an event planner, you have one goal: to create a memorable evening. That’s why so many corporate, non-profit and community groups call on Inlet Dance Theatre’s Event Services to create stunning, impactful experiences. Watch their cool video, and book them now for your holiday or corporate event before someone else does. More info.

Helping the “Homeless, Tempest-Tossed”

Immigrants aren’t the only newcomers who have been demonized from high places in the last several years. We’ve also heard that refugees – fleeing persecution and violence in their homelands – should be barred because of potential terrorism, even though there hasn’t been a single case of this.

Cleveland’s Refugee Response has been at the forefront of helping acclimate these new arrivals to Cleveland, including through their work training these often agrarian people to farm in a new climate at the Ohio City Farm. That’s where their benefit, Reap the Benefit, is being held so people can see and enjoy the fruits of their labors. Sat 9/15.

The Future of the West Side Market

Vision and planning are needed to keep Cleveland’s more than century-old West Side Market vibrant for the next 100 years, says CoolCleveland columnist and long-time civic leader Ellen Connally.

The market no longer serves a web of near west side ethnic communities where a wife packed the kids in a stroller to walk there to do her weekly shopping. A new clientele in now-chic neighborhoods such as Ohio City, Tremont and Gordon Square demands a new approach, such as the recently instituted Sunday hours, an updated product mix and new businesses, even an area to sit, eat and hang out. Connally has ideas!

Did Ohio Purge You From the Right to Vote?

On July 2018, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled that the State of Ohio is allowed to purge you from the voter rolls if you haven’t voted in the past two elections. All they have to do is send you a postcard, and if you didn’t reply, then you’re out of luck. Or are you?

You’ve got until 30 days before the critical upcoming mid-term elections on Tue 11/6 to get yourself registered. First you need to check if you are registered to vote. Check if you are registered at the official Secretary of State page here.

If you are NOT registered, then register to vote at the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections site here, or at a local voter registration location on that page. Get registered, then pass the word.

Making Magic from Myths

Talespinner Children’s Theatre has travelled the world, seeking out legends and folklore on which to base their colorful multi-disciplinary productions. For their latest, The Boy Who Stole the Sun, they looked to America’s native peoples for the myths of the Inuit, Pueblo and Ojibwe, Sat 9/15-Sun 10/7.

* Bring the kids to the Ohio Regional Sewer District’s annual open house to learn all about how our water supply is processed and protected. It’s a fun event that gets kids thinking about the environment and conservation, something they take to naturally. Sat 9/15.

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Akron’s 330 Brewing Cooperative is hosting Brats & Brews at member Aqueduct Brewing, so all of the partners can show off their new fall offerings, cooking up their favorite brats to go with them. Sun 9/16.

* Online auction for four one-of-a-kind chef experiences benefit Bloom Bakery’s culinary job training program for those with obstacles to employment. Bid now through Thu 9/20.

* Last year, Tri-C’s Culinary program launched Cleveland Eats, a food festival on Mall B fueled by local chefs. It’s back for a second year. Sat 9/15.

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

Heights Music Hop presents three nights of free music in three Cleveland Heights business districts: Thu 9/13 in Coventry Village; Fri 9/14 in the Cedar-Fairmount district with music at the Fairmount, Nighttown and Luna Cafe & Bakery. And on Sat 9/15, 19 locations in the Cedar-Lee district will host music.

* LOADED concert series brings experimental music back to MOCA. Fri 9/14.

* There’s free music all over town at the Kent Round Town festival. Fri 9/14.

* Cleveland Classical Guitar Society features three guitarists and a violist at its Showcase 2018 at the Maltz Center. Sun 9/16.

* Cleveland Internet radio station oWow is rolling out a monthly BluesTime concert series, with Alan Greene and his band playing the first one. Fri 9/14.

* Cleveland Orchestra horn player guests with BlueWater Chamber Orchestra as it opens its season at the Breen Center. Sun 9/16.

Read more of CoolCleveland’s picks for Cool Events.

WED 9/12
Gun safety has become a hot issue since the high school shooting in Florida – and it seems we may have turned a corner. Come to a discussion at CWRU about the process – or lack thereof – being made toward enacting sane gun policies.

* Che Apalache blends bluegrass and Latin music at Peninsula’s G.A.R.Hall.

* Discussion at CSU looks at urban inequality.

* Israeli scholar speaks about Palestine at CSU, KSU, CWRU and the City Club, though Fri 9/14.

* The Maltz Museum’s annual Stop the Hate essay contest for 6-12 graders kicks off with a public event at the museum.

Click here for more events on Wed 9/12

THU 9/13
I Scarce Can Take It In, the next show by the Yards Project at the Warehouse District’s Worthington Yards, features four artists (three of them Clevelanders) with idiosyncratic approaches to their work that roughly fall in the “outsider art” category.

* The MidTown Tech Hive celebrates its grand opening.

* Supremes’ Mary Wilson featured in talk about art, Motown and identity at MOCA.

* Rocky River Library hosts KSU scholar to talk about the Chief Wahoo controversy.

* Biennial juried art show The NewNow opens at Tri-C East gallery.

Click here for more events on Thu 9/13

FRI 9/14
Blank Canvas Theatre in 78th Street Studios stages a one-weekend-only production called Bloody, Little Pieces that promises 90 minutes of “staged fright.” Also tomorrow.

* BOUND book & zine fair at MOCA celebrates small presses.

* Comedian Mike Polk Jr stars in An Act of God at the Beck Center. Through Sun 10/7.

* New World Performance Laboratory stages bilingual Don Quijote in Akron. Through Sat 9/29.

* Cleveland Print Room’s Embargo shows work of Creative Fusion artists from Cuba and Chile. Through Sat 10/27.

* No Exit No Music opens its season with three different programs at three venues, tonight, tomorrow and Mon 9/17.

Click here for more events on Fri 9/14

SAT 9/15
The Tremont Arts & Cultural Festival has the same quality and variety of artists as other art fairs, but it also has a neighborhood vibe with a local artists area, booths manned by nonprofits, independent businesses and even churches, and lots and lots of dogs. Also tomorrow.

* Welcome the fall at Holden Arboretum’s Nature’s Brew.

* Storm drain stenciling needs volunteers in Cleveland Heights.

* Cleveland State radio station WCSB holds vintage clothing/vinyl sale to raise funds.

* Cleveland Museum of Art’s Chalk Festival brings out the artist in everyone. Also tomorrow.

* Rowers from across the country converge for the Head of the Cuyahoga regatta.

* Rocky River Fall Arts Fest returns for its 9th edition.

* India Festival in Independence shares this colorful South Asian culture.

* Gordon Square tries to break Guinness world paddleball record.

* Rick Iacoboni presents The Beatles- Off The Record at Independence Library.

* Blues fest in Twinsburg promises the best of regional blues.

Click here for more events on Sat 9/15

SUN 9/16
Got a dog? Bring her to Woodstock at the Cleveland Metroparks Polo Grounds, a day of fun and games for the two- and four-legged, to benefit the Geauga Humane Society’s Rescue Village. Don’t have a dog? There will be adoptable dogs there looking for homes!

* Help the families of the Norwalk ICE raid victims by dropping a donation at the La Plaza Supermarket. We have a list of what they need.

* Little Italy Fall Fest offers ethnic food, homemade wine and music to benefit Montessori School.

* Cleveland Cultural Gardens honor diversity on 73rd One World Day.

Click here for more events on Sun 9/16

MON 9/17
The so-called “pro-life” community doesn’t seem to care much about babies after they’re born. Women’s health clinic Preterm (which also offers abortions) does, which is why they’ve invited First Year Cleveland to present at its monthly community program and talk about the work it does combatting infant mortality.

* Tour the old Drury Mansion and learn spooky stories of Millionaire’s Row hijinks

Click here for more events on Mon 9/17

TUE 9/18
Cleveland writer John Burroughs has had a long and offbeat career that includes writing more than a dozen books, founding a press and a couple of literary festivals, and hosting a #1 ranked MySpace (!) blog. Learn more when he takes the stage at POETRY+ at Art on Madison.

* Everybody on the dance floor at the all-ages Chagrin Falls contra dance.

Click here for more events on Tue 9/18

WED 9/19
This “Talk Like a Pirate” thing has really gotten big. Roll those rrrrrrs and get $5 off admission at the Greater Cleveland Aquarium and an eyepatch too on TLAP Day. Of course there will be pirate-themed activities, but no plundering the fish!

Click here for more events on Wed 9/19

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400 Years… Should We Celebrate or Not?

Next year is the 400th anniversary of the arrival of 20 shackled Africans in North America at Jamestown, Virginia, on August 20th, 1619. This is generally the accepted date of the beginning of the pernicious institution of slavery in North America…

* Trumped While the highly critical New York Times op-ed piece on Donald Trump has the president livid, the real damage it causes is the suspicions it creates within the administration – the disruption, the finger-pointing…

* Past Time to Ignore Trump? But we know this guy; he’s like that crazy girlfriend we once had: stone-cold nuts, totally ziggity-boo… yet we respond to his antics as if he’s sane. It’s like arguing with a lamppost…

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