Shape it up: Get straight
Even during what is typically the slowest arts & culture week of the year, it doesn’t take much effort to find cool things to recommend as we wind our way into the future.
Tix are now on sale for Vanity Crash’s CLE & AKR shows next week, celebrating our upcoming Caribbean cruise as a featured act with major 70’s artists; plus I’ll be presenting a preview at the Mercury Music Lounge next Monday. And there’s more music this week: The Whiskey Daredevils release a new vinyl at the Beachland, Russian-born Ian Maksin performs Cellos for Peace at the Maltz, guitarist Moises Borges brings Brazilian jazz to Ohio City, Rachel & the Beatnik Playboys enliven the Bainbridge Swing Dance, and the Grog Shop’s 4-day anniversary weekend features local musicians,
A familiar dynamic is shaping up for 2024. With Ohio being one of the most gerrymandered states around, most Ohioans are tired of the political extremism that results from these rigged districts, and they are banding together as “Citizens Not Politicians” to replace partisan politicians with non partisan citizens redistricting commissions. Let’s move forward fairly.
–Thomas Mulready