11.21-11.28.18
Consequences
Otherwise known as you reap what you sow or, hey, you shoulda voted. While everyone prepares to give thanks, commentator Anastasia Pantsios breaks down why fixing our state’s biggest problems are at the bottom of the list.
We’re giving thanks for science at GLSC and their Turkey Tech, and for our region’s epic landmarks, explored in Laura DeMarco’s latest book. The Zoo is FREE on Thanksgiving, as is Genghis Con Comics Expo at Lakewood’s Screw Factory.
Welshly Arms are weighing the consequences of their travels as they make a return visit, while Slovenian food, sausage and polka celebrates for the 55th year with a three-day festival. The Hamilton Collaborative, home of Ingenuity and a half dozen small, interesting enterprises, is hosting Happening at the Ham for Small Business Saturday.
There’s Rust Belt Arcana at Visible Voice, a taste of hummus at the Maltz, GLOW at the CBG and ice skating at Akron’s Lock 3, while Sinatra ducks into the Duck Island Saloon.
Have a taste of our new CoolCLE PODCAST, this week focusing on vegan alternatives, plus Shop Local opportunities for the region. Think of the consequences. –Thomas Mulready
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Looking for an alternative for Thanksgiving or Christmas Dinner? Or maybe you are hosting a friend or family member that is vegan. Never fear. Justin Gorski of Cleveland Vegan is here this week tempting us with tasty versions of holiday favorites that are vegan and vegetarian friendly.
Plus local music from Akron’s The Dreemers and Cleveland’s Wildflowers.
Come to the intimate and acoustically superior BOP STOP in January 2019 for two nights celebrating the life and music of David Bowie. On Fri 1/11, trace the artist’s entire life from birth to his final album Blackstar: An Evening With(out) David Bowie, updated with newly released box sets and rarities. Then on Sat 1/12 be there for the debut of a new show, David Bowie’s Deep Cuts: Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell, focusing on overlooked classics, epic suites too long for radio, and delicious gems that languished as deep album tracks if they were released at all.
Both nights feature rare video, hi-def audio, trivia and giveaways presented and directed by Thomas Mulready. And each evening is capped with a sizzling live music set by Cleveland glam punk superstars Vanity Crash. Get your tickets early, as these shows tend to sell out. And we hope to see your pretty face there.
Plain Dealer writer Laura DeMarco’s last book, 2017’s Lost Cleveland, looked at Cleveland landmarks that are no more. Her new book, Cleveland Then & Now, looks at how Cleveland landmarks have changed. She combined archival photos with newly taken ones, shot at the same locations, angles and times of day.
She’ll be unveiling the book and talking about the changes, good and bad, that Cleveland has seen over the years at a release party at Tremont’s Prosperity Social Club, an 80-year-old venue which itself has seen changes over the years. Sun 11/25.
If your out-of-town relatives aren’t the type to sit around and watch football games and want to stretch their minds while seeing what Cleveland has to offer, take them down to the Great Lakes Science Center for Turkey Tech, a series of demonstrations and hands-on activities that will challenge visitors of all ages.
Want to know if turkey can really fly? You can find out at Turkey Tech. You can even learn about the digestive process that’s dealing with all that turkey and pumpkin pie while you’re busy learning about robotics, physics and chemistry. Fri 11/23-Sun 11/25.
Ohio’s tallest and fastest toboggan chutes open Fri 11/23 from noon to 10:30PM at the Chalet in Cleveland Metroparks Mill Stream Run Reservation.
The twin, 700-foot toboggan ice chutes are open Friday to Sunday until early March. The chutes can operate with or without snow, in temperatures below 50 degrees. The Chalet is located at 16200 Valley Parkway in Strongsville, Ohio. Visit: ClevelandMetroparks.com/tchutes.
If you asked average Ohioans what priorities our state government should address, chances are they’d say things like funding education, providing access to affordable health care, repairing our crumbling infrastructure, creating living wage jobs, maybe reforming the justice system or addressing the opioid crisis.
Our recent election told our officials in Columbus they can safely ignore all those things. On November 6, Ohio handed over total control of state government to radical Republicans. The state House wasted no time demonstrating that it could get away with slamming through some of the most extreme legislation on its two pet topics: less abortion and more – lots more – guns.
Yes, the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is FREE all day on Thanksgiving, but there’s so much more.
Watch the lions at the African Savanna at 10AM, the orangutans at the RainForest at 10:30, the tigers at Wilderness Trek at 11, the snow leopards at Asian Highlands at 11:30, the fossa at the Primate, Cat & Aquatics area at noon, South American fish at Primates, Cat & Aquatics at 12:30PM, Francois’ Langus at the RainForest at 1:30, Elephant at the African Elephant Crossing at 2:30, and the grizzly bears at Wilderness Trek at 3:30PM. Thu 11/22.
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Hummus is no longer exotic. The pureed chickpea spread is ubiquitous at parties, meetings and special events as well as Middle Eastern restaurants. But if you’d like to know more about its history, how it differs in different parts of the region and other fun facts, come to Hummus Wars: Food, Identity & the Middle East Conflict, a lecture and tasting at the Malt Museum. Wed 11/28.
Read more of CoolCleveland’s picks for Eats and Drinks.
In the tradition of Woody Guthrie, Cleveland folksinger Charlie Mosbrook sings topical songs about today’s heated issues on his latest album Remember Who We Are. And his release show at Tremont’s Pilgrim Church benefits their sanctuary family. Sun 11/25
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WED 11/21
The Maltz Museum keeps its doors open until 9pm tonight, so if heading to the bars isn’t your thing, it’s a great time to check out the museum’s special exhibit Israel: Then & Now, which includes kid-friendly activities. Or come on down on Friday; they’re closed on Thanksgiving.
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THU 11/22
Since 1963, polka lovers from across the Great Lakes region have been converging on Cleveland for the Polka Thanksgiving Weekend. It’s three days of music, dancing, jam sessions, Slovenian food and camaraderie, culminating Saturday with the Polka Hall of Fame awards and the Polka Mass. Through Sat 11/24.
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FRI 11/23
Cleveland’s vaudevillians Pinch & Squeal are known for the entertainingly unpredictable WIZBANG! productions they put together. Their latest will be happening at Cleveland Public Theatre today and tomorrow.
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SAT 11/24
Small Business Saturday is a great day to explore one of Cleveland’s many distinctive neighborhoods that feature locally owned businesses. We offer a few suggestions including the first-time “Happening at the Ham,” that’s not strictly about shopping but about exploring the creative enterprises at the Hamilton Collaborative.
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SUN 11/25
Unlike many of the ubiquitous comic cons, Genghis Con Comics Expo at Lakewood’s Screw Factory focuses on the underground, with DIY authors and small press operators and a chance to meet Cleveland author Derf. Best of all, it’s free.
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MON 11/26
Tabitha Kucera is an animal behaviorist who works with cats and dogs to overcome issues that might otherwise cause them to be surrounded for euthanasia. She’ll be speaking at the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Library’s main branch following a free vegan dinner open to all.
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TUE 11/27
Friends of the Cleveland Kennel’s Holiday Hop for Hearts at Forest City Brewing helps raise money for its Plankton Fund, which provides treatment for dogs who arrive at the kennel heartworm-postive so they can be adopted. In four years, they’ve already saved 84 dogs!
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WED 11/28
The Cleveland Botanical Garden puts on one of the area’s most spectacular seasonal displays in “Glow,” a show which features thousands of LED lights, intricate gingerbread houses on display (and the chance to create your own) and miniature train rides. Through Sat 1/5.
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A group calling itself Cleveland First, spearheaded by Westlake restaurant owner and Trump supporter Tony George, is collecting signatures to radically downsize Cleveland City Council and slash its salaries. Our columnist Ellen Connally has mixed feelings about this, with city council set to shrink anyway due to population loss.
She looks at the sizes and set-ups of other cities’ councils, and concludes that while downsizing might not be the answer, it could be beneficial to have some council people elected at large representing the whole city (as is done in Columbus) rather than by wards. “Cleveland First may or may not be the answer. No matter what, it’s time for Cleveland voters to wake up and realize that the aging giant we call Cleveland City Council needs a face lift, a diet plan and a transfusion of new blood.”
There’s a lot of finger-pointing going on over the stabbing death of beloved Shaker Heights teacher Aisha Frazer by her estranged husband, former Cuyahoga County Judge Lance Mason, who served nine months in prison for beating her in 2014. Now people are blaming the lawyers and judge who gave him a light sentence, the prominent people who vouched for him, Mayor Jackson for giving him a job when he got out.
But, says CoolCleveland columnist C. Ellen Connally, the real problem is larger than individuals and reflects on how lightly we as a society treat domestic violence, pointing to how public outrage would have exploded if Mason’s victim had been a Labrador retriever. “Domestic violence is a curse on our society that we must cure before more of our mothers, daughters and sisters are slaughtered at the hands of violent perpetrators who once shared their beds and lives,” she says.
Please excuse me if I sound like an ingrate on this issue, but I can’t help thinking that many of the same folks that organize such charity drives would not want the recipients of their magnanimous efforts living next door to them….
* Suicide: Sometimes the Best Option No doubt I’ll be bombarded with howls of indignation and angry venom for writing this, but Lance Mason should have committed suicide BEFORE he took the life …
* System Failure If the criminal justice system had worked in a proper and protective manner, Aisha Fraser would still be alive today. That’s because the monster that killed her would still be incarcerated …
* The Black Boy in the Photo In the disturbing photo of the high school juniors in Baraboo, Wisconsin, posing for a class photo giving the stiff-armed Nazi salute, off to the right is a lone black boy…
* Graveyard Love That’s what old folks from down South call it, “Graveyard Love” meaning, “If I can’t have you, no one else can. One of us will be in their grave and the other will be in the penitentiary…”
Read other stories from Mansfield Frazier here
Nothing is consequence-free,
–Thomas Mulready
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