It’s a dazzling day.
Everywhere you move in our region this week, you find luminous, shimmering talent on display. Listen to Bella Sin, as she proudly announces the 13th Ohio Burlesque Festival, and tells CoolCleveland how the event has grown to include 75 performers: burlesque and drag artists, live singers, aerial performers and sideshow, vaudeville and variety acts.
Other stars shine just as radiantly: local heavy metal legends sparkle at the Rock Hall, while three of the area’s best women singers shimmer at Cain Park’s Sunset Sounds. Highland Square’s PorchROKR glistens with more than 150 bands. Third Friday at 78th Street glows with four floors of art and artists. Pagan Pride blazes with three days of music, dance, artists and workshops on Bedford Square.
Bike Cleveland calls attention to protected bike lanes. The Waterloo Alley Cat Project hosts a big party to help fund their splendid work. The Cleveland Legal Aid Society helps people with non-criminal legal issues (work disputes, landlord issues), and to raise money, lawyers, judges and law professors rock out brilliantly at the Beachland. It’s all quite incandescent. So put on your shades and get out there.
–Thomas Mulready