Too much?
First, enjoy our copious access to fresh water this week, whether you experience Collision Bend’s Riverfest or the Water Lantern Festival on Berea’s Coe Lake, or the Cleveland Blues Society’s annual Blues Cruise on the Goodtime III.
Learn a lot about our region’s rock and roll legacy by visiting the Rock Hall’s new show on the World Series of Rock, taking a closer look at late local rocker Johnny Dromette at a celebration of life taking place at the Beachland, and enjoying the AIDS Task Force of Greater Cleveland’s benefit at Near West Theatre featuring a performance of The Beverly Hillbillies, The Musical.
Or soak up the torrent of interesting and enlightening events like celebrating LGBTQ+ culture at Akron Pride (catch Vanity Crash on Saturday!), or breathing deeply at Shaker Square’s Garlic Festival, or learning more about the anti-gerrymandering Issue 1 (vote YES!) at a Happy Dog talk with organizers, or stretching your legs at the 10th annual Cleveland Fundo, offering camaraderie for cyclists and a much-needed fundraiser for Bike Cleveland.
Finally, maybe we have a little too much political corruption, as CoolCleveland’s Anastasia Pantsios details how Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose is trying to influence the upcoming anti-gerrymandering Issue 1 (vote YES!), and CoolCleveland columnist C. Ellen Connally asks why former Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora is sentenced to 28 years in the federal penitentiary and Speaker of the Ohio House Larry Householder is convicted of accepting bribes from First Energy, while U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas gets a pass while admitting that he accepts gifts to supplement his meager $274,009 annual salary. They must be under the illusion that Ohio voters suffer from an abundance of stupidity. Maybe it would help to vote YES on Issue 1 in November to stop gerrymandering in Ohio.
–Thomas Mulready