11.22-11.29.17
Grateful
We see how far this region has come in the past few years and we rejoice. Here’s a few things to be thankful for this week.Now returned from Guatemala, CoolCleveland correspondent Nicole Hennessy reflects on her visit to help spread dance to abused women and children. Returning to where it all began, catch Pere Ubu at the Grog, First Light at HOB or the Schwartz Brothers with Crazy Marvin & the Blues Express at the Beachland.
Fashion consultant, retailer and CoolCleveland correspondent Dru Thompson deals with success by moving her shop from Waterloo Arts District to the Lake Affect Building on E. 25th Street. And don’t miss holiday shows perfect for your local shopping and perusal at Loftworks Gallery, Crafty Mart in Akron’s Historic Arts District, and Art in Revolution at Lab Studios in AsiaTown.
Spend your money local with our ShopLOCAL guide or using our mobile apps, spend your Holidays at the Hildebrandt, and if you’re not cooking at home, spend your Thanksgiving at locally owned restaurants. We announce our January show on Bowie’s Berlin Era, sure to sell out. To show our appreciation, we’re giving away FREE CoolCleveland t-shirts. You are what we’re grateful for. –Thomas Mulready
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Unlike some of the old industrial buildings now being colonized by artists, the Hildebrandt Provision Building just outside Ohio City doesn’t have the sorts of retail businesses that attracts foot traffic. So it brings some in with its annual two-day event, Holidays at the Hildebrandt.
“We started the open house because unlike some of the other studios, in our facility artists and the food entrepreneurs really don’t have retail hours,” building owner Bill Hildebrandt says. Stop in and check out the range of businesses – from food producers to artists to a yoga studio – who make this building their home. Sat 11/25 & Sun 11/26.
Just in time for the holidays. Sport your own CoolCleveland t-shirt in your choice of sizes: S, M, X, L or XL. And choose between men’s style or ladies. Black t-shirt with white CoolCleveland logo. For FREE!
How to win? Simply enter your email at CoolCleveland.com where it says, “Subscribe to newsletter.” You’ll receive our once-a-week e-blast highlighting cool people, events and places in NEO, just like we’ve been publishing for 15 years. And that’s it. You are entered, and you have a chance to win. Even if you are already subscribed to CoolCleveland, enter your email and you have the same chance to win as everyone else.
We’ll give away a t-shirt a week, until they are all gone. Send us a photo of yourself wearing your CoolCleveland t-shirt, and we’ll feature you in an upcoming issue. It’s that simple. Enter here: CoolCleveland.com. And good luck!
David Bowie’s Berlin Era has fascinated critics and fans for decades: riding high on the success of Young Americans, the artist hooks up with fellow addict Iggy Pop and relocates to Berlin to clean up (improbably, it works) and creates some of the most acclaimed music of his storied career, the albums Low, “Heroes” and Lodger. CoolCleveland’s cultural impresario Thomas Mulready returns on Fri 1/12 with a in-depth and entertaining peek behind the scenes, David Bowie: The Berlin Era, informed by recently unearthed box sets, books, video, photos and needle drops.
The following evening, Sat 1/13, the audience is treated to Bowie’s entire fascinating life, An Evening With(out) David Bowie, in two parts, at 7:30pm and 9:30pm – see both for a discount. Each evening is punctuated with a blistering live set or two by Cleveland’s glam heroes, Vanity Crash, showcasing their 2017 release, Phantasmagoria (which pianist Mike Garson, Bowie’s longtime accompanist, played on), alongside Bowie classics and period classics. This show sells out, so secure your seat now.
Designer Dru Thompson, who writes fashion and business columns for CoolCleveland on the side, was a mainstay in the Waterloo Arts District for five years with her business Dru Christine Fabrics and Design.
In fact, she was TOO successful – and she needed more space than she could find on Waterloo. So, with some regret, she picked up stakes and moved down to the Lake Affect Building on East 25th. Come see her new, larger space when she hosts an open house Sat 11/25.
Cleveland writer Nicole Hennessy is back from her trip to Guatemala with her cousin Suzzanne Ponomarenko’s SP Dance ensemble. She’s already shared some of her experiences there as they worked with women and children coming form abusive situations and watched them blossom.
Now back home, she looks back on experiences with loving wistfulness and reflects on the meaning of what they saw and did – and shares how you can help.
The Saturday after Thanksgiving was dubbed “Small Business Saturday” in 2010 by American Express. Despite its corporation origins, it’s evolved into a day for promoting and patronizing small, local entrepreneurs.
Dru Thompson of Dru Christine Fabrics and Design is one such entrepreneur, so when she shares with us her guide to how you can best help boost these community cornerstones, you’d best believe she speaks from experience! Sat 11/25.
When Talespinner Children’s Theatre takes the popular Dickens story A Christmas Carol as its raw material for its next production, don’t go expecting to see the same old thing. They turn it inside out, telling the tale from the ghosts’ point of view, with plenty of their usual stagecraft. Fri 11/24-Sun 12/17.
* Tear the kids away from the video games and bring them to the Great Lakes Science Center for Turkey Tech. They’ll have a lot more fun. Fri 11/24-Sun 11/26.
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Don’t have any place to go or Thanksgiving dinner – or does your circle of family and friends just not want to bother with a culinary production? Here are a few places that are open for Thanksgiving dinner. Thu 11/23.
Read more of CoolCleveland’s picks for Eats and Drinks.
Rock/reggae band First Light, who broke up in 1998, ruled the local music scene for much of the 80s and 90s. They’re back together at the House of Blues to mark the 30th anniversary of their groundbreaking Meltdown album. Sat 11/25
Read more picks by Anastasia Pantsios here
If you’re a Gen X who in 2017 has been trying to find a job, chances are your search has been discouraging. You have the education, the chops, the leadership experience, the training, the network, the killer resume that is virtually screaming of how brilliant you are and the incredible change you’ve brought to every organization you’ve ever worked at.
You are the bridge between the old-school military run corporations of the past and ALL the technology that was created by your peers. You’ve volunteered. You’ve presented. You’ve published. And yet, no one will hire you.
CoolCleveland columnist Alex Sukhoy addresses this conundrum and offers some real-world advice and counsel: be aggressive, use research, shift gears and pull a “Trojan Horse.” Read more.
WED 11/22
Don’t just go out and hear some cover band on this traditionally busy bar night Instead, head over to the Music Box to check out DakhaBrakha who take their native Ukrainian folk music and dress it up with some reggae and hip hop touches – and some great costumes.
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THU 11/23
Keep the kids out of the way of the kitchen crew preparing the holiday meal by taking them to the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo. Not only is it free today – including the RainForest – but zookeepers will be on hand to demonstrate enrichment activities and share information about the animals. And tigers don’t mind if it’s cold and snowy.
Click here for more events on Thu 11/23
FRI 11/24
You’ve got three days to enjoy the Larchmere Holiday Stroll, plenty of time to visit the street’s array of intriguing vendors, stop in at one of its diverse bars and cafes, and even visit Otis the cat at Loganberry Books. Through Sun 11/26.
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SAT 11/25
Loftworks Gallery has had some special shows this year including its rock & roll caricature show and a blockbuster show of concert photography by Anastasia Pantsios and Joe Kleon. It brings back some pieces from those shows, along with handmade work by other area artists and crafts people, for its three-weekend holiday show. Also tomorrow, Fri 12/1-Sun 12/3, Fri 12/8-Sun 12/10.
Click here for more events on Sat 11/25
SUN 11/26
The Genghis Con Book and Small Press event at Lakewood’s Lake Erie Building offers fans of underground and offbeat comics a chance to browse vendors and meet artists and writers whose perspective has little to do with your standard superhero fare.
Click here for more events on Sun 11/26
MON 11/27
Th Shore Cultural Center present a one-night-only staged reading of the only one of August Wilson’s Century Cycle plays not set in Pittsburgh: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. CoolCleveland’s Mansfield Frazier has a key role!
Click here for more events on Mon 11/27
TUE 11/28
Sixth City Sounds is a new organization with a goal of providing opportunities for musicians to network and to learn how to grow their careers. They’re hosting a social hour-plus-panel at the Beachland Tavern with members of Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts talking about how to avoid being ripped off.
Click here for more events on Tue 11/28
WED 11/29
Every politician and media outlet is talking about the opioid epidemic. Come to the Maltz Museum this evening for a discussion on how painkillers came to be and how they came to be so destructive.
Click here for more events on Wed 11/29
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There are some real sick puppies out there. Some men are so lacking in moral character they can’t control their impulses in regards to the opposite sex; they only want to objectify them for their own base desires. For them…
* It’s Like Getting Punched in the Gut One of the things I pride myself on is being a fairly good judge of human nature since I’ve been up and down a lot of roads in my life. Which makes the following…
* Listening to the Corpse of Charles Manson His words weren’t just the gibberish ranting of a malignant mind. His voice was the precursor of the mass killings we are witnessing today…
Read other stories from Mansfield Frazier here
A look back at the last week
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DANCE REVIEW: Paul Taylor American Modern Dance @ PlayhouseSquare by Elsa Johnson & Victor Lucas
MUSIC REVIEW: Apollo’s Fire by Laura Kennelly
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