Wade Oval Wednesdays is back, and just like in this photo of the last WOW in 2019, we hope you are enjoying the blossoming of spring and finding your joy again. CoolCleveland correspondent Maya Kincaid spoke with David Ramsey, founder of new gallery Deep Roots Experience in advance of their opening this weekend of Generations: Artwork by Artists and Their Families. Summer festivals are coming back, so we’ve updated our popular CoolCleveland 2022 Festival Guide. CoolCleveland columnist and former judge and university board member C. Ellen Connally unloads both barrels on CSU’s controversial presidential exit package and on voters who sat out the 2016 Presidential election, leading directly to this week’s bombshell Supreme Court leak.
Don’t neglect to sign the Bike Cleveland Complete & Green Streets petition, catch the Pickleball tour in Mentor, explore performance art at Doubting Thomas, and enjoy Taco Week all over town. That should make you dance.
There are many beautiful well-known art spaces in the city of Cleveland, with museums such as CMA and moCa being among the most renowned. However there is a newer, lesser known art gallery in Cleveland’s historic Fairfax neighborhood that is dedicated to creating awareness and growing wealth in art for Black and Brown artists across the city.
The DeepRoots Experience sits inconspicuously at the corner of 79th and Central. One green door serves as the entrance to an unexpected world of art. Generations: Artwork by Artists and Their Families opens Sat 05.07. Read more by CoolCleveland correspondent Maya Kincaid.
The popular Wade Oval Wednesdays are back for their first full season since 2019, with ten weeks of music, food, fun and games, and the usual pre-July 4th Carlos Jones/P.L.U.S. Band concert with fireworks. Read more
There’s a Complete & Green Streets ordinance pending in Cleveland City Council, which will be heard by the Planning Commission Fri 05.6. Bicyclist advocacy group Bike Cleveland is asking people to sign onto a letter of support. Read more
Celebrate May the 4th International Star Wars Day with Melt Bar and Grilled all Month! We will be offering some fun & exclusive Star Wars food and drink features such as The Triple Deck Han Solo Burger, Vader’s Peanut Thai Fighter Melt, Boba Fett’s Kung Pow Broccoli, and The Wookiee Bread Pudding.
These features will only be available for the month of May so get to your favorite Melt Bar and Grilled Cantina soon. Read more.
MON 5/9 Guitars Doubled Rocky River Chamber Music Society season closes with performance by the guitar-playing Australian brothers Grigoryan.
TUE 5/10 Taco Tuesday All Week Twenty areas eateries are offering $2 tacos for Taco Week, running through Sun 5/15.
WED 5/11 Theater Adventure Cleveland Public Theatre’s Candlelight Hypothesis Workshop isn’t your parents’ theater, with the audience becoming part of the show and guiding its own experience.
So, if you sat home in 2016 and didn’t vote; or threw your vote away on Jill Stein or some other third-party candidate, or if you were one of those whiners who “just didn’t like Hillary,” then I don’t want to hear one word out of you about the high court’s decision. You put Trump in office, and he appointed the justices… Read more
As millions of Americans struggle to pay off student loans and parents try to figure out how they will be able to finance a college education for their children, it is disheartening to see university trustees, especially at an urban/commuter/essentially blue-collar school like Cleveland State, act as if they were dealing with monopoly money… Read more.
