The winds are changing. It’s time to trim your sails.
Can’t invite folks down to the Hamilton Collaborative for Ingenuity? Let’s take it online for 48 hours. Can’t bring people inside for shows? The Akron Civic installs public art & murals. Democracy under siege? The City Club shares five democratic ideals in five days.
Hungering for live music? Act now and catch the just-announced live, safe outdoor Birth of Punk show at BOP STOP. CoolCleveland columnist C. Ellen Connally reviews all the books about the current occupant of the White House and recommends the best, while Mansfield insists we deal with our abject poverty, take no prisoners, and recognize moral cowardice for what it is.
Don’t abandon ship. It’s time to change course. And the time is now.
The Ingenuity Festival waited until the last minute to cancel hoping for a miracle, and it got one — sort of. Instead of inviting a crowd to wander through the Hamilton Collaborative, it’s taken it online, building on the 48 Hour Virtual Music Fest local musician Meganne Stepka created last spring. “Virtually INGenious” will be 48 hours of music, presentations, panels and surprises. Tune in this weekend. Read More
The first annual Cleveland Photo Fest last fall was a hit, bringing something new to the Cleveland art scene. The second annual festival is… postponed until spring. But from the early details they’re sharing, it should be big. It includes five exhibits in one space (as well as others), the work of more than 200 local, national and international photographers, and even an attempt to set a Guinness record. Read More
The Millennial Theatre Company’s upcoming production Songs for a New World will feature a song dedicated to those who died of COVID-19. They’re looking for names and photos of your lost loved ones to share. Read More
The Akron Civic Theatre has four international artists currently working on outdoor public art projects and murals to be finished later this fall, with more, by local and regional artists, to come. Read More
Cleveland artist Susie Frazier is known for work that draws on nature to create healing, peaceful vibes. Her book Designing for Wellness collected her insights on the connections between art, nature and wellness. That book has now won three international literary awards. Read More
A look at Blank Canvas Theatre’s drive-in event, Cleveland Play House’s upcoming season and a mystery theater production from Elyria’s Jovalities company. Plus Dr. Fauci has bad news for theatergoers. Read More
There’s a floor-to-ceiling stack of books written about President Lincoln at the site of his assassination. Historian & former judge C. Ellen Connally believes that, at the rate things are going, the current occupant of the White House might surpass that, making him “the biggest” in one area. She’s read a lot of these books. But she says, the latest, by the president’s ex-attorney and fixer Michael Cohen. is well worth the price. It contains “meaningful insights into the thinking of the man who should not be president.” Read More
After kicking things off with a LIVE concert at the Rock Hall last week, a new LIVE (outdoor, safe, masked) concert has been added to the series. On Wed 10/7 at 6:30PM, the LIVE music concert version of The Birth of PUNK in Cleveland, Akron & Kent will be performed by Vanity Crash & Thomas Mulready. This concert version is presented on the lawn outside the BOP STOP with limited seating at only 15 spaced-out tables. This rare live show is expected to sell out quickly. Drink service is available, and feel free to bring your own snacks.
Then, the next two nights, Thu 10/8 & Fri 10/9, they head inside with no audience for the livestream of the show, complete with exclusive video interviews with artists and those on the scene as NEO led the punk revolution in the early & mid-1970s. The livestreams are free, with donations accepted. Have fun, rock out, and celebrate our region’s intense musical legacy. Read More
SAT 9/26 Thank You Concert NYC’s Nellie McKay has become a local favorite with her frequent gigs at Nighttown. Now she’s coming to town to do an outdoor concert to benefit the NE Ohio Musical Heritage Association. * Yellowcake Shop hosts a September sale.
WED 9/30 Greening NE Ohio Environmentalist David Beach is known for his work with EcoCity Cleveland and Green City Blue Lake. He’ll be hosting a Zoom webinar about protecting NE Ohio’s biodiversity in the face of climate change.
MANSFIELD
Take No Prisoners
Let’s face it, the days of congeniality in American politics are long gone, in the distant past, killed decades ago by vengeful right-wingers who would just as soon destroy the country if they can’t control it. It’s past time that progressives learn to play the same game of hardball politics that conservatives have been playing… Read MoreFunny, I Don’t FEEL Poor
The morning after the Browns’ first victory of the year, our civic pride bubble had a fist-sized hole punched into it by the news that Cleveland has overtaken Detroit and now had the dishonor of being the poorest city in the nation. An optimistic way of viewing this kind of bad news is by doing what I used to do… Read MoreNow the Whole World Knows
With only a few exceptions, Republicans are now moral cowards as exemplified by their actions over the last four years and thus have verified the truths we Blacks have known about them all along: In their hearts they really are un-American inasmuch as they only are interested in representing white citizens… Read MoreIrony of Ironies
We are in the midst of a form of collective madness rarely seen in the annals of human existence. Millions of our fellow citizens are rushing headlong to place their short- and long-term health and wellbeing in jeopardy by ignoring (indeed flaunting) the warnings of the entire worldwide scientific community… Read More
