It’s time for us to grow up. And by us, we mean this town, this region and this state. It’s time to VOTE YES on Issue 1 to protect women’s reproductive rights once and for all. Read CoolCleveland’s ENDORSEMENT here, and listen to the shocking phone call received by CoolCleveland correspondent Liv Ream the day after the Governor signed the radical “heartbeat bill” into law, and think about what’s in store for Ohio women and their families if Issue 1 doesn’t pass.CoolCleveland food & travel writer Claudia Taller gets serious as she sources a fully organic local Thanksgiving feast. The Happy Dog hosts a forum on lakefront development, and here’s hoping the powers-that-be can act like adults and finally make something happen on our waterfront that doesn’t just serve billionaire developers. Local author Carlo Wolff discusses his new book, Invisible Soul, at Mac’s Backs. Akron’s eclectic Angie Haze performs at Akron’s Rialto Theatre. Canton Museum of Art opens the holiday craft season with its Christkindl Market, now celebrating its 50th year. Contemporary Youth Orchestra plays live music to films made by Tri-C students. Cleveland Restaurant Week runs through Sat 11/18. And let’s all be adults and not only vote on or before Tue 11/7, but let’s help someone in our family or a friend who might need help.
As for Cuyahoga Arts and Culture, which administers millions of dollars of arts funding and has been anything but transparent, it’s time for the board to grow up and act decisively before they lose all support for their upcoming levy renewal effort. If that hasn’t happened already.
Internal emails obtained by CoolCleveland through public records requests shed light on unspent Individual Artists Grants and show how deep the dysfunction runs at Cuyahoga Arts and Culture (CAC), with board members’ requests for information going unanswered for months.
On June 5, CAC board member Charna Sherman wrote to CAC executive director Jill Paulsen, “I suspect that you have misled the Board because you are aware that you and the staff were not transparent even with the Board, let alone the community, about artist funding in the very years our transparency about this topic was being challenged by the artist community…”
Future support for regional culturalorganizations is at stake. Artists may be unwilling to support a new levy in 2025. Many have expressed their dissatisfaction with CAC publicly. “I find it highly disconcerting over the last several years that funding for artists has diminished,” says Cleveland actor and former county commissioner Peter Lawson Jones. “Common sense tells you that having artists support a ballot initiative is important.” Read more.
Gilmore Girls is a series that continues to resonate with viewers, and it is the theme for the fifth annual Smells Like Snow Coffee Festival taking place on Sat 11/4, from noon to 6PM, located at the Cascade Plaza on Main St. in Downtown Akron.
This year’s festival features more than 10 coffee vendors. “Coffee is almost its own character on Gilmore Girls, and we have amazing local coffee vendors, so it made sense to have it as the theme of the festival,” says Downtown Akron Partnership’s Dominic Caruso. The event pays homage to Stars Hollow, the picturesque fictional town depicted in the show, by featuring a variety of local vendors and celebrates what the show is known for: books, autumn, cozy clothes… and coffee. Read more.
After getting a taste of locally raised meat and vegetables at a friend’s house and a family Thanksgiving dinner, CoolCleveland food & travel writer Claudia Taller set out to locate the source of these delicious goodies. That led her to grocery/butcher shop Ohio City Provisions, which in turn led her to their Wholesome Valley Farm in Holmes County.
“The turkeys from Wholesome Valley Farm are pasture-raised on over ten acres of organically grown pasture, fed non-GMO organic feed, and pasture rotated daily,” she shares. “They arrive in your kitchen antibiotic and hormone free. Once you’ve had a properly raised turkey, you’ll never want to defrost a turkey again.” Join her on the whole journey and learn about all the resources this multi-pronged local food business offers. Read more.
Issue 1 on your November 7 ballot, protecting reproductive rights, has been polling steadily at 58%, evoking increasing desperation from those who oppose it. That includes a cadre of dishonest elected officials, using tax money to lie to the public. Those lies keep getting more lurid and less truthful — and they may be making a dent. So VOTE — and vote YES!
They’ve gone from “killing nine-month babies right out of the womb” to “dismembering fully conscious infants.” Issue 1 allows neither, but they claim that sinister doctors, under guise of “woman’s health,” will do these things. And spineless, mealy-mouth Governor DeWine is lying that if Issue 1 fails, women will still have the same reproductive rights they had prior to the overturning of Roe v. Wade, hiding that he already signed a 6-week ban into law with no exceptions for rape or incest, which would likely to take effect if Issue 1 fails. Don’t let that happen. Vote YES on or before November 7. Read more.
A personal horror story: CoolCleveland correspondent Liv Ream, a student at the University of Akron, courageously reveals, for the first time, the personal trauma she endured the day after Mike DeWine signed the 6-week ban into law, and you can hear the shocking phone call she received from the clinic canceling her procedure. And hear the future for many Ohio women if Issue 1 doesn’t pass. Read and listen here.
