With summer right around the bend, our CoolCleveland Summer Festivals Guide is your indispensable look at the food, culture and vibes that can be yours to enjoy. Read up on Independent Bookstore Day and take a hike on Celebrate Trails Day. Listen to an indigenous artist, catch a play about immigrants, and hear new releases by Ray Flanagan, With Windswept Hair and Golems of the Red Planet.
Take a look: Spark Something on Coventry, see the Star Machine at Playhouse Square, dig a Poetry festival on Coventry, vibe on moonlight, margaritas and Mambo in Akron, laugh at a local horror comedy film at the Cedar Lee, bring your accordion to the Woodstock of Polka music at the Croatian Lodge, and hear a master pianist at Oberlin. Meanwhile, we remember Mansfield Frazier, comment on Cleveland parking, and highlight a new show on our region’s punk progenitors in May in Akron & Cleveland. Now you know the inside story.
-Thomas Mulready