Marking our ballots with lines around the block. Voices raised in protest. Cries of pandemic pain. Strangled sounds of economic injustice. Silence in our music halls.
Nevertheless, we persist. We keep culture alive at the Coventry Peace Campus. We dance along with the Rock Hall Inductions, live on HBO. We share secrets with chefs at the Hunger Network benefit. We grow our own kozo for Japanese-style paper with the Morgan Conservatory. We explore what it means to be young, male and Black in America with CPT. We take a snapshot of our times at the Willoughby Arts Collaborative.
Our voices have never been louder. Let’s keep it that way.
A new New York-based organization called the Live Music Society has awarded grants to a select group of 20 small music venues across the country with a capacity of less than 250 to help them stay afloat through the pandemic. Among them is Ohio City-based BOP STOP, which has pivoted their model, and has been offering limited in-person tickets to some shows, with a full schedule of COVID-safe live streamed music from straight up jazz to the recent Birth of PUNK events (pictured) that were viewed by tens of thousands online. Read More
A former elementary school in Cleveland Heights’ Coventry Village evolved into the Coventry PEACE Campus, a collective of arts, culture & nonprofit groups. A couple of times its future seemed threatened by potential development, but now it’s secured a long-term lease that will allow it to transition into growing its member groups and planning ahead. Read More
Whether it’s the (pictured) New Bomb Turkey (pro tip: add mashed roasted garlic & chive potatoes), or the 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon Melt, or the Parmageddonator, November is the month to sink your teeth into something good.
Plus, it’s the perfect time of year to score a $100 worth of Melt gift cards and get your bonus $25 gift card! Read More
Local engineeer/maker Ian Charnas is always coming up with relatable projects, both awe-inspiring (the Tesla Orchestra) and silly (a cat butt emoji). Now he’s created a talking backpack that he’s raffling off, with the proceeds to benefit an organization fighting sex trafficking. Read More
The Willoughby Arts Collaborative is putting together a time capsule to memorialize 2020, as if we’d want to remember THAT. Anyway, it’s collecting submissions relating to life in the Lake County town now through November 15. Read More
If you’re looking for a new job or a new career or thinking of starting a business, Cleveland Public Library’s Career resource center can help. Read More
Passing of Cleveland Play House’s Kevin Moore, Verb Ballets & Blue Water Orchestra collaborate, Dobama Theatre, Beck Center and Theatre in the Circle offer virtual productions. Read More
Akron-based John Dayo-Aliya is the writer-director of “…Or Does It Explode?” at Cleveland Public Theatre, which explores what it means to be young, male & Black in America.
Allen Estates Break Ground —
The DevelopersFrontline Development grew out of their desire to live in new homes, but new homes in a black community. Neither of them wanted to be “arm’s length” liberals — successful black women who move to one of the tony suburbs surrounding Cleveland but then travel back down to the ’hood to help those of their race still in need of assistance. No, they are more dedicated than that… Read MoreEating CrowOnce again the pollsters were bamboozled by folks — primarily white, but some Hispanics and blacks — that would not fess up to their love and support for an out-and-out racist. They simply didn’t want the world to know how racist they too happen to be in their heart of hearts. Even if the courts rule in Biden’s favor we’ll still have nothing but national gridlock… Read More
