Unifying the region will be 15 grand pianos scattered in public locations to get everyone pumped for the Cle Int’l Piano Competition. Endurance athlete and native Clevelander Katie Spotz is at it again, this time attempting to be the first woman to run 11 ultra marathons in 11 days to raise money for clean water.Video is the lingua franca of our time, and this week we’ve got two: a preview of the new Amanda Wicker exhibit at the Cleveland History Center by CoolCleveland columnist Dru Thompson, and a conversation with Dylanologist Clinton Heylin, with another chance to view the recent livestream.
It seems that sooner or later, everything converges.
The apparel industry has a long rich history in Cleveland dating as far back as the 1860s when our city was as one of the country’s leading centers for garment production.But did you know there was a fashion design school in Cleveland in the 1940s?
Amanda Wicker was the founder of the Clarks School of Fashion Design and Dressmaking, located in Cleveland’s Fairfax neighborhood.The Cleveland History Center honors the works of this trailblazing entrepreneur their latest exhibit, Amanda Wicker: Black Fashion Design in Cleveland.
CoolCleveland correspondent & columnist Dru Thompson took a moment to chat with the museum’s curator, Patty Edmonson about the exhibit, black fashion in Cleveland and more. View the video here.
To get people excited about the Cleveland International Piano Competition later this summer, Piano Cleveland had local artists paint 15 grand pianos which have been placed at public locations around town. Find them all and share photos! Read More
Endurance athlete and native Clevelander Katie Spotz doesn’t just run for glory — she runs to raise money to bring clean water to those who lack access to it. On June 21, she’ll start her latest effort: an 11-day, 341-mile run from Cincinnati to Cleveland. Read More
Baldwin Wallace University’s Department of Theatre & Dance has announced a full 2021-22 season, which kicks off in September with two short contemporary plays by women about youth and Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Read More
Porthouse Theatre season set, Cain Park to re-open, Ohio Shakespeare Festival stages Midsummer Night’s Dream, Verb Ballet dances back to Ohio City, Radio plays go sci-fi. Read More
As editor of the Plain Dealer‘s Friday! Magazine until early 2020, Laura DeMarco focused on current events. As an author she’s !ooked to the past with books about Lost Cleveland and Cleveland Then and Now. Her latest book unearths vanished Civil War landmarks in vintage photos. She’ll be signing it at Prosperity Social Club this Saturday 6/12 where you can join in a game of Civil War trivia! Read More
Author Clinton Heylin is well known in Ohio for his book, From The Velvets to the Voidoids, which positioned, for the first time, Cleveland, Akron & Kent, Ohio as an epicenter of punk, along with New York and London. He’s better known elsewhere as the worldwide authority on Bob Dylan, having written ten books on the artist.CoolCleveland’s Thomas Mulready spoke with Clinton Heylin about his latest book, The Double Life of Bob Dylan: A Restless, Hungry Feeling 1941-1966, in a lengthy interview covering a wide range of topics from Dylan’s first masterpiece to why so many of Dylan’s most famous songs were made famous by other people. Enjoy the video interview here.
Clinton Heylin was a guest on the recent Dylan 8.0 livestream celebrating Bob Dylan’s 80th birthday, which also featured CWRU professor Daniel Goldmark and former Rock Hall archivist Anastasia Karel, with Dylan songs by The Modern Electric, Papi and the Smears, Vanity Crash and Jenna Fournier. If you missed the show, you can watch it on demand anytime this week here. Proceeds benefit the Cleveland Verses Foundation.
MON 6/14 Tasty City Taste of Lakewood becomes Lakewood Restaurant Week this year, with a kickoff cocktail party — both virtual & in-person tickets available — tonight. It runs through Sunday June 20 with specials at a batch of participating eateries.
