
Reach for it. Bach is back at BW, Good Boy Fest supports City Dogs, CCS world premieres a NEO composer, Carl Baldassarre tours music ‘65-‘75, NWT presents a musical about an aspiring drag queen, and the Rock Hall announces their ’26 inductees.
CoolCleveland has reached out to the city with questions about the lack of transparency regarding their recently concluded $3M Transformative Art Fund, and there are still more questions than answers. And CoolCleveland columnist C. Ellen Connally has thoughts on the effort to recall Mayor Justin Bibb.
It’s not a reach to posit that our region was a major birthplace of punk, along with London and New York. We will prove it in a few weeks with six bands, some from the first wave, at The Birth of Punk in NEO at the Akron Civic and the Music Box. Reach out for good tix now.
-Thomas Mulready