Do you feel like we’ve been here before? Honestly, for years we’ve been encouraging everyone to ShopLOCAL. There’s even a tab on CoolCleveland.com that lists thousands of locally owned bookstores, boutiques, museums, record stores, theatres and vintage shops and more. We’ve been on this since day one, so it’s nice to see the recent national movement to boycott corporate giants. In today’s issue, we offer even more: a guide to 10 local pop-up holiday artist and maker markets from Worthington Yards Project to Artists at the Twist to events like Shop & Sip and Home for the Holidays. Live it up.
The community is still reeling from the shocking takeover of college radio station WCSB by ideastream. This week CoolCleveland commentator Bruce Checefsky writes, “Cleveland State University President Laura Bloomberg lit the match that burned the house of college radio WCSB to the ground. She should take responsibility for the failure.” Buck up.
We’re fully into the season, with events like Light Up Lakewood, the Little Italy Holiday ArtWalk, CMA’s MIX party with a winter theme, Ingenuity’s Flannel & Finery benefit, and the Bike Cleveland holiday party, plus special holiday shows like Handel’s Messiah at Severance, the Singer’s Club of Cleveland doing a holiday concert of peace, goodwill & harmony, Cleveland Ballet’s Nutcracker brunch & fashion show, and Sister Sinema hosting an evening of Black queer film, food & conversation. Cheer up.
What’s up next month? We’ve invited special guests Billy Bass (1/9), CoolCleveland’s own Anastasia Pantsios (1/10) and Denny Sanders (1/11) to help us tell the story of
David Bowie in NEO. Our region made someone like him a superstar, and if we give ourselves a chance, we can do it again. Next up.
