Our favorite dining spots are offering home delivery, take & make, and curbside until they can fully reopen. In the meantime, whether it’s a three-course feast for your family or portobellos on the grill, everyone, it seems, is cooking.
To help, the AAM offers Cooking With the Collection, with recipes related to Picasso & Oldenburg. CPL offers digital cookbooks and videos. The Beachland is cautiously serving food & drinks three days a week outdoors in tents and in their spaced-out Ballroom.
Watch Uno Lady in a virtual performance from the Maltz Center. Revel in outdoor films like Rear Window & Purple Rain at Stan Hywet, courtesy of Nightlight Cinema. Scope out the scaled-down sidewalk sale on Larchmere. Then top it all off with a tasty treat on the Circle Food Tour.
Once you’ve had your sustenance, encourage Ohio legislators to undo HB6, the corrupt nuclear bailout. Help Carlos Jones get his new tune, “Now Is The Time” considered as the theme for the Biden/Harris campaign. Think about why Black folks are so angry as you read C. Ellen Connally’s CoolCleveland commentary. And spend some time with the thoughts of Cleveland’s foremost opinion writer, with five of Mansfield Frazier’s commentaries this week. That should get your mind in a stew.
Mahall’s 20 Lanes snagged a PPP loan which it used to put its staff to work renovating and updating the multiple spaces in the historic bowling alley-turned-music venue. It’s also created a Kickstarter campaign which has almost doubled its goal with three weeks to run, demonstrating how beloved the club is in the community. Read More
After a trial run, “dipping our toe in the water,” according to Beachland co-owner Cindy Barber, the club is reopening on Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays, 4-10pm, for food and drink. They’ll have a tent in the parking lot with tables and socially distanced tables in the Ballroom. They hope to have live outdoor music soon. Read More
Save the date! On Saturday September 19, a group of area music venues will be holding an informational event at the B-Side in Cleveland Heights. They’ll be selling merch and sharing information about how you can help lobby Congress to support these community-building small businesses. Read More
The Summit FM in Akron/Youngstown is celebrating National Recovery Month with special programming all month, including a podcast hosted by Michael Stanley guitarist Marc Lee Shannon. Read More
The Akron Art Museum’s Cooking With the Collection series spotlights objects in their collection by artists such as Claes Oldenburg, Robert Motherwell and Pablo Picasso and uses them as a springboard to meal ideas which they share. Read More
Guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Diana Chittester has abandoned her Facebook page, but you can join her Patreon community or catch her live on Fridays at the downtown Hilton’s Bar 32 all month. Read More
CPL offers home chefs a huge collection of digital cookbooks and videos covering everything from grilling to pastry making to snazzing up your salads — or you can just read about dishes from around the world to whet your appetite. Read More
After listening to the speeches at the Democratic National Convention, popular local reggae musician Carlos Jones realized that his new tune “Now Is the Time” would be the perfect theme for the Biden/Harris campaign. He’s started a drive to get them to listen. Let’s make some noise, Cleveland! Read More
Our columnist C. Ellen Connally is tired of the excuses some white people use to blame black people for their own deaths by police — and the excuses some use to justify reelecting Trump. “Whose son, husband, father, or brother will be tomorrow’s news story? That is why black folks are angry. And that is why we must vote Donald Trump out of office on November 3,” she says. Read More
MON 8/31 Labor Day Memories Alas, there will be no big community Labor Day parade this year — thanks, pandemic! (This photo is from last year’s parade, honoring the movie Black Panther R.I.P Chadwick Boseman). Enjoy a peaceful day at home with your family or COVID pod & be grateful you survived.
An Unspoken Conspiracy?
Certainly I’m not suggesting that racist cops got together and at the meeting rolled out a plan to help reelect the president by committing such killings, but as I said at the beginning, they didn’t have to say anything to each other or to anyone — they already know what needs to be done…. Read MoreIs That Dirty Money I Smell?
After the upcoming election is over, to begin talking about forming a People’s Party would be right up my alley. I’d love to be part of that conversation and effort. But now, when so much is at stake, we need all of our oars in the water… Read More
Please Don’t Blow This
The simple fact is, black athletes are (or can be) the most impactful and effective influencers on the demographic that can, if engaged, help to bring about the changes we must have in this country. Someone has to explain to these athletes that the only way to bring about an end to police brutality… Read More
The Shame of the Race
All these disgustingly demented black folks have to do to be successful and get paid by the GOP is to put any pride aside and suck up to tRump without gagging — while he’s busy sucking up to every skinhead, QAnon and Klan member in the country… Read More
Take Low
The following commentary will be among the saddest, most gut-wrenching, but alas, truest, articles I’ve ever felt compelled to pen. It’s concerning a number of the most troubling aspects of American race relations… Read More
