Do your thing, because nothing says fall like Halloween. There’re so many celebrations this week, we had a hard time curating the best to include here. A personal recommendation: come party with us at BOP STOP on Saturday as we raise some money for pet charities Neighborhood Pets and Tails From the City while rocking out with DJ Death and Vanity Crash and a lot of fun people.DO check out a piece of art, just like a book at the Akron-Summit Public Library. DON’T confuse the Maltz Museum’s new show about a girl and her diary with the other more famous one. DO shake the hands of the 2023 Cleveland Arts Prize winners at their award ceremony this week at CMA’s Gartner Auditorium. And DO as much as you can to support local art and artists: see an art show at Tower Press or Standing Rock or the Screw Factory; hear live music by Kiss Me Deadly or TRUSS or Mushroomhead, see a show at Near West Theatre or Ensemble Theatre or CPT.
Don’t fall for the anti-Issue 1 gaslighting. The latest Baldwin Wallace poll shows 58% of Ohioans support Issue 1. But that only counts if everyone votes. Vote YES for Issue 1 on or before Nov 7, along with the majority of Ohioans who support reproductive rights. That will be a job well done.
Listen in as CoolCleveland talks on video about Cleveland Restaurant Week, November 6-18, 2023, with two of Cleveland’s most interesting restauranteurs.
Matt Fish of Melt Bar and Grilled has built a mini-empire with locations across Northeast Ohio and Columbus. Flora Grk has recently opened Tita Flora’s, the Cleveland area’s first Filipino restaurant.
Learn how they are participating in Cleveland Restaurant Week, like the 70+ other top restaurants in the region. Read more.
A portion of the proceeds of the Horrifying Halloween Party at BOP STOP this Sat 10/28 will benefit the pet nonprofits Tails From The City and Neighborhood Pets. Join the raffles and contests that night to donate even more.
Ghostbusters Cleveland will scan the place for paranormal activity, you can enter a Halloween costume contest, and DJ Death will spin ’til the wee hours (did we mention animatronic robots?). Vanity Crash is once again premiering brand new music and a half dozen Halloween favorites to keep the dance floor popping. You’ll probably be dancing all night, but reserve a seat anyway so you can catch your breath. Read more.
They’ve got nothing. So the groups opposing Issue 1 — the right to make one’s own reproductive choices — have resorted to a blizzard of increasingly deceptive lies.They’re now claiming that if Issue 1 is defeated it won’t change anything: women will still be able to access abortion in the early months and in emergency situations.
That’s false. The so-called “Heartbeat” bill, a six-week ban, is lurking in the wings, already passed by the legislature and signed by the governor, and ready to take effect if Issue 1 goes down. All they need to do is ask our right-wing state supreme court. Don’t be fooled. The latest Baldwin Wallace poll shows 58% of Ohioans support Issue 1. On or before November 7, vote YES on Issue 1. Early voting is open weekdays all this week and the weekend before the election. Read more.
Five years ago, the Akron Art Museum and the Akron-Summit County Library created a program called Art Library where anyone with an Ohio library card could check out an actual piece of art. On Thursday October 26, it’s hosting a party at the library to celebrate, introduce a couple of the artists, and announce some additions to the program. Read more
SUN 10/29 Expressing Herself Grace Sullivan went from writing poetry to fronting her own band Wish Queen. She is releasing her debut album Saturnalia at Grog Shop tonight.
MON 10/30 Makers Market Monday Here’s one more reason to pick Monday as your day to see Cleveland Public Theatre’s latest production Our Lady of Common Sorrows: they’re debuting a mini makers market taking place an hour before showtime.
WED 11/1 The Spirit of Cuba Cuban vocalist Omara Portuondo is on her farewell tour at the age of 92, summing up her life in music, which has found her in the middle of nearly every genre out of the Caribbean. She performs at the Cleveland Museum of Art.* Happy Dog forum takes on the latest lakefront plan.
