10.23-10.30.2019 Delightful

10.23-10.30.19
Delightful

Find delight in the city day or night. Maybe we can help:

From the Cleveland Pinball League kicking off their latest 8-week season this week, to the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra recording their new album at BOP STOP, to author/journalist/podcaster Manoush Zomorodi of “Stable Genius Productions” at the Maltz Performing Arts Center.

Local drag artist Anhedonia Delight pumps up her monthly GlamGore show for Halloween with “Frights in Tights,” The Gallery at Lakeland hangs The Skull and Skeleton in Art VI: Folk Art to Pop Culture, and Doan Brook Watershed Partnership offers a three-hour guided photo hike in the Lower Shaker Lakes. Or just launch your inflatable kayak right in the middle of the Cuyahoga with friends like we did. What a delight. –Thomas Mulready

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CoolCLE PODCAST #39: Hey You Punks! with Don Billie

This week, we have local author Don Billie with us to talk about his graphic novel Hey You Punks!, which is a true narrative of Billie’s growing up in Cleveland’s gritty west side in the 1970s. You can grab your copy of the graphic novel on Amazon or at Visible Voice Books. Billie will be there on Sat 10/26 for a free signing and reading.

We have brand new music from Kim Kennedy ahead of her performance at Sparky’s Place in Conneaut, Ohio on Sat 10/26 and Diana Chittester to promote the Travelin’ Troubadors performance at The Bop Stop on Fri 11/15.

Grog Shop Welcomes “Frights in Tights”

It’s not your imagination. There are Halloween-related drag shows everywhere. It’s a natural fit, since drag is all about transformation through costuming, makeup and wigs, assuming new identities that range from glamorous to scary.

Local drag artist Anhedonia Delight has been putting together monthly GlamGore shows at the Grog Shop for the past year to present the type of drag she’d like to see. “I wanted it to be something that turned people on their heads and offered something different to the city,” she says. The Halloween “Frights in Tights” show ups the ante, with performances she calls “very avant-garde.” Wed 10/30.

Justice Calling

In the last couple of years we’ve been inundated with stories about the appalling conditions at the Cuyahoga County Jail, leading to multiple deaths. With gross overpopulation being one of the leading contributors to the problem, there’s a solution staring us in the face: the abolition of cash bail, which keeps poor people, including those who are innocent, in jail while awaiting trial.

Learn how you can help push for this relatively simple reform at a teach-in at Case Western Reserve University, hosted by CWRU’s Social Justice institute and the ACLU’s Melekte Melaku. It will offer education and opportunities for direct action, which is preferable to sitting around and seething. Mon 10/28.

Shaker Square Ain’t Broke – Don’t Fix It

Shaker Square is one of the oldest planned shopping areas in the country, conceived and built in the 1920s, when people worked, shopped and lived differently than they do now. So after almost a century, despite adaptive changes, many aspects of Shaker Square aren’t in tune with today’s lifestyles.

But a proposal to create green space and walkability by closing down Shaker Boulevard, a major commuter thoroughfare, earns a thumbs-down from our columnist C. Ellen Connally, who lives in the area. “I feel that the planned changes are being forced down the throats of the residents and merchants of Shaker Square by a bunch of tree-hugging computer nerds who have no stock in my neighborhood or the businesses located on the Square,” she says.

Sustainable Cleveland 2019 Summit

Ten years on from the launch of Sustainable Cleveland 2019, over 500 stakeholders assembled at Public Auditorium on Wed 10.16.19 to engage around 29 big ideas to move the City of Cleveland and the region forward to a more sustainable future.

CoolCleveland spoke with Shanelle Smith, the Ohio Director of the Trust for Public Lands, and Matthew Gray Chief of the Mayor’s Office of Sustainability for the City of Cleveland about the progress that’s been achieved and the smart thinking that’s being applied to the challenges ahead. Plus, a big announcement about plans to plant new trees in the City.

From board games to shuffleboard to bocce to arcade games, old types of participatory entertainment are becoming new again, amusing both people who remember them from childhood and younger people for whom they’re a novelty.

The Cleveland Pinball League offers people of all ages the chance to try their hand at these flashy, noisy, fun machines which were once found in every bar and nightclub. Play for the eight-week season begins Mon 10/28, but old and new players should come to the league’s Halloween Bash party at Southland Lanes Sat 10/26 for some free play, a chance to meet other players and learn about the league, and of course, a costume contest. It’s for all ages and skill levels so bring the whole family.

Cleveland punkabilly rockers the Whiskey Daredevils have cranked out more than a dozen albums in 18 years while delivering high-energy shows at festivals around the country. Come snag their new one at their Grog Shop release show. Fri 10/25

* The Cleveland Jazz Orchestra records a new album live at the BOP STOP. Sat 10/26.

* Local metal musicians descend on 78th Street’s Survival Kit Gallery, where Joe Kleon & Anastasia Pantsios have their show of music photos currently on view, for six-hour radio broadcast. Sat 10/26.

* The Rock Hall hosts fan day for the Isley Brothers Fri 10/25 with a Playhouse Square concert also featuring the O’Jays Sat 10/26.

* After leaving Mushroomhead singer Waylon Reavis formed A Killer’s Confession which releases its second album at the Odeon Sat 10/26.

WED 10/23
We already love author/journalist/podcaster Manoush Zomorodi for calling her business “Stable Genius Productions.” Learn more reasons to love this advocate for a healthier relationship with technology when she speaks at Maltz Performing Arts Center.

* Take a guided tour through a West Park cemetery.

* Funky Winkerbean artist Tom Batiuk tells his Cleveland stories at the Music Box.

* The Thirteen Choir brings music across the ages to St. John’s Cathedral.

* The Rock Hall opens an exhibit of long-lost music photos from 1969-1973.

Click here for more events on Wed 10/23

THU 10/24
The Skull and Skeleton in Art VI: Folk Art to Pop Culture is currently on view at The Gallery at Lakeland. Tonight is the artist reception, costume party and “Boneyard Market,” where you can buy small items from the exhibiting artists.

* Canadian pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin takes on Liszt concerto with the Cleveland Orchestra. Also Sat 10/26.

* Oscar-winning producer Howard Rosenman speaks at the LGBT Community Center.

* Market After Dark at the West Side Market raises money to feed hungry people in Cleveland.

* Thirteen local artists interpret “A Day in the Life” at the Yards Project.

* Kids can enjoy a creative evening at the Akron Art Museum’s Trick or Treat on High Street.

Click here for more events on Thu 10/24

FRI 10/25
Cleveland vaudeville group Pinch and Squeal’s WIZBANG! offers an unpredictable mix of acts who do everything from music to comedy to magic tricks and sideshow acts. Their latest two-night stand at Cleveland Public Theatre has a Halloween theme, of course.

* Cuyahoga Valley National Park debuts its new Boston Mill Visitor Center with a weekend of family activities. Through Sun 10/27.

* Tabitha Soren show opens at the Transformer Station tonight; the artist speaks at the gallery tomorrow.

Click here for more events on Fri 10/25

SAT 10/26
Don’t waste the all-too-short season of beautiful autumn colors. Join Doan Brook Watershed Partnership for a three-hour guided photo hike in the Lower Shaker Lakes.

* Kent’s Standing Rock Creative Arts celebrates Dia de los Muertos with art, music and food.

* Halloweezy party in vacant Ohio City building offers an outer space theme.

* Author William Krejci talks about NE Ohio ghost stories at Mac’s Backs on Coventry.

* Make like a bicycling zombie at the Dead Ride in Ohio City.

* Akron Civic Theatre’s Masque of the Red Death Masquerade Ball in back for year 10.

* Weekend Ink youth writing workshop at Dunham Tavern Museum focuses on creating suspense.

* Uptown hosts “Upside Down” Halloween party for adults at Toby’s Plaza.

* Night of the Living Drag at the Grog Shop raises money for people with mental illness.

* Come to a “cold, creepy” reading of ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” at the Big Red Barn Theatre. Also tomorrow.

* Public Square will be filled with free fun activities for the Great Pumpkin Party on the Square.

Click here for more events on Sat 10/26

SUN 10/27
If you’ve ever dreamed about seeing Cleveland Orchestra musicians wearing silly costumes, the Halloween Spooktacular at Severance Hall is for you. The music will be serious though, and there are costume contests for both audience and orchestra members.

* Pittsburgh’s Alia Musica plays recently composed pieces at the BOP STOP.

* Hike Big Creek’s Oxbow area and learn about restoration plans.

Click here for more events on Sun 10/27

MON 10/28
There may not be a lot of kids living downtown, but many families visit the Rock Hall and Great Lakes Science Center. So today there’ll be a groundbreaking for the first downtown playground, located at the North Coast Harbor behind GLSC.

* Baldwin Wallace music theatre students perform at Nighttown to honor an alum who passed away.

* Slow Roll Cleveland ends its 2019 season, rolling out from Market Square Park.

Click here for more events on Mon 10/28

TUE 10/29
The Cleveland Rising Summit is the latest plan hatched by community leaders to envision Cleveland’s future. A diverse mix of locals are invited to spend the next three days at Public Auditorium taking about it. Through Thu 10/31.

Click here for more events on Tue 10/29

WED 10/30
Seems like every aspiring filmmaker tries his hand at a horror film. None will ever top Hitchcock’s tension-filled 1960 masterpiece Psycho, which screens at the Capitol Theatre tonight with a pre-show cocktail party. Will they have Bloody Marys?

* Americana band the Way Down Wanderers returns to CVNP’s Happy Days Lodge with a new album.

* Cleveland Clergy Alliance sponsors Senior Night with the Cavs.

Click here for more events on Wed 10/30

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My father drilled this bit of wisdom into our heads from day one, and he did so because we were a black family. “If the house is on fire, call the fire department, but under no circumstances do you ever call the police for any reason since the only thing they will do is make a bad situation worse…

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