How about we turn it around and think of ourselves as exporters of culture, not importers. This week, two area music conservatories at Oberlin & Baldwin Wallace are offering fresh approaches to the traditional form of opera. The Cleveland Leadership Center innovates with their annual pitch competition for civic entrepreneurs looking to make positive change in our region. Then we’ll have fun getting healthy as we follow the Veganish gals and their latest episode on low-carb vegan eating.The Tri-C JazzFest is back, scheduled for late June, and back downtown at PHS, showing how our arts and cultural festivals, which define the best of our community, are finally making a comeback after a couple of rough years. Our most popular annual post is the CoolCleveland Festival Guide, which is starting to fill out nicely with neighborhood events that had been sidelined. And we’re publishing it early because nothing, not the cold weather, not the tough economy, not even a global crisis, can stop the outpouring of culture around here. We’ll update it regularly as more festivals find a way to get back in the game. And when they do, we’ll be right here on the corner, promoting the cool stuff.
The Big Read is a National Endowment for the Arts-funded program that encourages conservation and builds community through reading. Art House is one of four Ohio organizations to be participating.Our book choice: The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. For more information about workshops/events go to: https://www.arthouseinc.org/big-read
For years we’ve posted a comprehensive guide (as comprehensive as we can make it!) to the many festivals that take place in NE Ohio from April-October. With events claiming their dates earlier and earlier, we were usually able to post a first version in early March.
In 2020, we were about to post that list, and then — well, you know. First one got postponed and then another got cancelled and eventually everything was wiped off the board. But things are coming back! We’re posting an incomplete but still packed list this week, mainly because the first two festivals happen in late February — Brite Winter and Kurentovanje. Time to have fun! Read More
If you thought opera was stuffy, or just meant endless performances of La Boheme or Madama Butterfly, think again. This week two area conservatories are offering fresh approaches to an old art form. On Wed 2/16 & Thu 2/17, Oberlin students will be debuting The Puppy Episode, based on a episode of the Ellen sitcom in which the title character comes out as gay.Then, on Fri 2/18-Sun 2/20, Baldwin Wallace opera students will be performing nine “micro operas” about a variety of offbeat topics by noted composers, part of Cleveland Opera Theater’s {NOW} New Opera Works Festival. That one’s all virtual; the Oberlin performance can be heard in perform or live-streamed. Read More
After a virtual program in 2020 and moving to Cain Park in September in 2021, Tri-C JazzFest has moved back to its earlier Playhouse Square location and its former June 23-25 time slot to once again be able to stretch out to multiple venues and host its street fest. Read More
For many years, Alex Sukhoy wrote a CoolCleveland column about business. Now she’s the author of The Girl from Cleveland City, a dark and complicated tale set in Cleveland’s underbelly. Read More
We’re pleased to report that the pair of John Carroll sophomores who were attempting to break the Guinness World Record for the Longest Continuous Radio Interview the first week in January succeeded, with a time of 25 hours and 35 minutes. Read More
The 8th annual Accelerate: Citizens Make Change competition takes place next week downtown, where people with change-making ideas in six categories make pitches to win money to fund their projects. Read More
With the New Year, we started some new goals!!! We want to conquer the low-carb vegan lifestyle once and for all. We decided to show you what we are eating in a day. All of our meals are ten carbs or less per meal and are plant-based/vegan! If you are searching for keto vegan ideas, here ya go! We enjoyed stepping out of the kitchen for this one and bringing you these from the comfort of our homes. Enjoy!.Veganish was established by three friends, Michele Jefferson, Ashley Smith and Tinishia Moore (l. to r.), in 2021. Ashley is the daughter of the late Mansfield Frazier, community activist, and longtime contributor to CoolCleveland. Twice a month, you can catch a new episode of Veganish on YouTube, where they share creative, delicious, yet easy vegan recipes.
The Black woman who gets the next appointment to the United States Supreme Court will clearly stand on the shoulders of Constance Baker Motley and she will have big shoes to fill.
As the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said in eulogizing Judge Motley, “She taught me and other of my generation that the law and courts could become positive forces in achieving our nation’s high aspiration — Equal Justice Under the Law.”… Read More
