For 20 years exactly, (so, Happy Birthday to us!), and since before what we now call social media, CoolCleveland has more than often been accused of being cool. We always deny it. CoolCleveland runs hot, I run hot, and we reject that moniker. This month we celebrate 20 years of CoolCleveland doing what it does best: following the cool people who make our region cook, featuring the cool venues that stay open late to burn the candle, and promoting the cool events that make you feel like you’re someplace else, someplace outside yourself, in a better world. Because, as Mansfield Frazier was fond of paraphrasing Majora Carter, you don’t have to move to live in a better neighborhood.The FireFish festival is still on the water, but moves to the lake. The Dragon Boat Festival is back on Lorain’s Black River Landing. You can jog with your dog to help homeless kennel pups. We can bring the kids to the sewer district’s Clean Water Fest, and we can get on our bikes with a group on an organized ride almost every day this week.
After what the recent whistleblowers have told us, are you still using Twitter, Insta, FB and TikTok? And can we stop supporting the misogyny that is our football team and its shameful billionaire owners, as Anastasia Pantsios’ COMMENTARY urges? Stay positive and get active and bring your friends to the voting booth in November and let’s all make this a better place to live. It won’t stay cool unless we heat it up.
FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, in partnership with the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, presents an artist talk on Fri 09.23 from 4-5PM, inspired by artist Asad Raza’s public sculpture Orientation, installed on Wade Oval as part of FRONT’s 2022 Triennial.
FRONT 2022 artist Asad Raza will discuss the astronomical and scientific history behind Orientation’s conception and realization with historian of astronomy Aviva Rothman of Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Museum of Natural History astronomers Nick Anderson and Peter Hedman. Register here.
This week you can find an opportunity to ride your bike with a group almost every day. From two Slow Roll Cleveland events, to a memorial ride for a cyclist killed on the road, to bike tours of the Southerly Wastewater plant and the final day of the Zoo’s Asian Lantern Festival, devoted exclusively to cyclists, to Bike to Work Day riding out of two locations this month, your two-wheeler can get a real workout. Read more
The world may be burning, but you can help make a change. It’s the best season in NEO! Awesome fall weather, lovely days, cool nights. Why not give yourself one more reason to get out and enjoy the neighborhood while changing the world.
This week, CoolCleveland points you to a bunch of cool events where you can chill out, enjoy the vibe, meet new people and engage voters on the key issues we face in the upcoming November election. Help folks get registered, educate ourselves on the issues, and make new friends. Read more.
The Big Reveal took place at Ray’s Indoor Bike Park, unveiling a massive mural commissioned by the bike park’s owner Ray Petro by artist Eileen Dorsey. A celebration ensued with music from Vanity Crash, food, drink and remarks from special guests Cleveland Ward 11 Councilperson Brian Mooney, Westown CDC’s Rose Zitiello, and Dr. Nigamanth Sridhar, Interim Provost at Cleveland State University.
CSU and their partners took the opportunity to showcase their recently completed power steering linkage they built for Ray’s cool 4-wheel electric mountain bike that he is anxious to ride on the 5th anniversary of his spinal cord injury. Check out the cool photos and videos of that bike, the bike park, the band and the cool new mural from the media, CoolCleveland’s Anastasia Pantsios and others. Read more.
Just a few weeks ago the BOP STOP revealed that its director of eight years, Gabe Pollack, was leaving in October to become Director of Programming at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Despite his leaving big shoes to fill, it’s just announced that local musician/educator Bryan Kennard will be doing so. Read more
Assembly for the Arts and the Cleveland Leadership Center have announced its first cohort of 26 artist/leaders to increase the reach of the arts in the community and promote diversity and inclusion.Read more
There’s a minority segment of NE Ohioans who love football. There’s a larger percentage who are women. Browns owners Jimmy and Dee Haslam were recently guilty of two disgusting displays of contempt for the latter.
Their acquisition at great expenseof an unrepentant player with multiple accusations of sexual imposition has been widely discussed. Just as disturbing is their claim that they didn’t want to comment on the overturning of Roe v. Wade because they wanted to avoid politics. But now they’ve signed on to co-host a high-dollar fundraiser for U.S. Senate candidate J.D. Vance whose vicious attacks on reproductive choice outdo even the average GOP candidate. Read more
