Sometimes you have to take things into your own hands.
Black women broke barriers and won the vote by doing one thing: working hard. Les Delices got a head start and planned a fall season on video when everyone else thought we’d be back to normal by now. If you think the Electoral College should be abolished, you can learn more at Hudson Library.
Support retail during the pandemic by picking up a discount gift certificate from the new Cleveland Shops group. Party during the Rock Hall Inductions live on HBO with party packs to take home. Pick up some free bike lights from Bike Cleveland at their pop-up events at Public Square and Uptown.
It’s time to vote early, and CPL can help with all the resources you need. There’s lots of ways to stand up. And now’s the time.
Cleveland chamber ensemble Les Delices was ahead of the curve on switching to a pandemic-driven paradigm for presenting performances. While some groups were hopefully announcing fall seasons, they were already assembling a team to offer a season on video. The group’s director Debra Nagy talks to us about the adjustments they made for their new season which debuts this week. Read More
Do you know when, where and how to vote? Do you know what’s on your ballot in addition to the presidential race? if not, don’t panic, The Cleveland Public Library has all the resources you need. Read More
Local Band Releases New Music
Cleveland roots rockers AJ & the Woods will be releasing their debut album early next year. They’re giving listeners a preview with a new single “Home” and accompanying video. Read More
Rock and Roll Party at Your House
This year’s Rock Hall Inductions won’t be the weeklong series of events leading up to the Cleveland-based ceremony: it’s turned into an HBO special. But the Rock Hall is offering three different party packs so you can host your own gala. Read More
Musicians Wanted
Brite Winter hasn’t quite figured out what its format will be in 2021, although it won’t be a mass gathering in the Flats. Still, it’s currently accepting applications from musicians and bands interested in performing. Read More
Theater News by Roy Berko
Blank Canvas Theatre does more drive-in, Playwrights Local stages reading, Cleveland Public Theatre goes virtual for fall, The Musical Theater Project hosts on-demand cabaret. Read More
When Denise & Charlie Toil enrolled their daughter Lola in School of Rock over five years ago, little did they know what an impact it would make on their family’s lives.
“Next thing you know, she’s performing on stage at the Rock Hall and we’re all amazed, going, what’s going on here?” says Charlie. Soon, her older brother Larson joined the fun and enrolled as well. “It’s amazing to see what they can produce,” adds Denise, who stepped up to take lessons herself through the School of Rock’s grad school program for adults.
Now with COVID, School of Rock is masking and distancing and limiting the number of people together in one place. And most lessons are done safely online. Read More. SPONSORED
Issue 68 is a renewal and increase in funding for the Cleveland Metropolitan School district. While columnist Mansfield Frazier says it’s “imperative” to pass it, he says, that a shadowy group of developers, whose projects are often tax-abated anyway, are mounting a campaign to defeat it. He says, “It’s time we begin calling out such reprehensible actions for what they actually are: Economic racism.” Read More
THIS WEEK
WED 10/21 Shop Local Cleveland Shops debuts its first sale of gift certificates today, intended to drive shoppers to locally owned businesses and discover some new options.
TUE 10/27 Light Up! Bike Cleveland is helping make night cycling safer with a random giveaway of bike lights at pop-up events at Public Square and Uptown. Bring your bike and they’ll put them right on for you.
The Church of Everlasting Whiteness
The cornerstone of this new religion will be their confused belief in their own whiteness being superior to anything else in heaven or on earth and the preservation of the so-called “Aryan race.” They misread Scripture, misunderstood science, and now they are about to dedicate their lives to preserving… Read MoreThe Rise of Vigilantism, American-Style
While flying the flag of patriotism, these self-styled, modern-day losers and would-be enforcers of a new style of slavery have always been jealous and dangerous in direct proportion to the successes of blacks who have moved into the middle-class in American society. Now, with the coming end of the Trumpist era… Read MoreThe Story of a “Karen” & a Central Park Birder
Enabling this woman to walk away scot-free will send the wrong message to other whites who already feel as if they can play this dirty race card on any black person they choose, simply because they can — and usually do — get away with it…. Read More