07.18-07.25.18
Reborn
It’s not a cliche. This town has had more resurrections in my lifetime than I can count. But it feels like the current one is going to stick.For one thing, the current renaissance isn’t a manufactured publicity stunt based around a stadium, team or civic silver bullet. And outside of a few niches, I doubt we’ll even notice our latest savior’s departure, especially since his philanthropy and economic partnerships remain in the region.
This time, a sustainable web of modest enterprises has tapped into the region’s true strength; its cultural and entrepreneurial bedrock, so long overlooked, is at long last being celebrated. And supported by the community. We’re here to help see that continue.
And so, we draw your attention to Erich Hooper and his Hooper Farm, tucked away in a corner of Tremont since 1994, way before the current urban farming trend. Learn about artist and park ranger Scott Kranyak and his new book, The heART of Cleveland, launching this week during the CAN Triennial at 78th Street Studios’ E11even2 Gallery. The Agora once again rises from the ashes at E. 50th & Euclid with new management, upgrades and a diversified event calendar.
The overachieving Artist Archives of the Western Reserve open a blockbuster show featuring locals Derf, Gary Dumm, R. Crumb, Jack Kelly and Siegel & Shuster. The spunky Hamilton Collaborative welcomes Fire and Light Performing Arts to its space with an Ingenuity Spotlight Soiree. Mentor Headlands basks in Beach Fest, Morgan Conservatory serves up Farm to Table Feast, CHC celebrates Euclid Beach Park Day, Chardon hosts the Zucchini Festival,
The Akron Recording Company is hosting an open house at their new digs in the Northside neighborhood, Lake County’s Resonanz Opera sings in three venues, and Slow Roll Cleveland bikes out from the West Park neighborhood. It’s one thing to be reborn. It’s another thing all together to stay alive. –Thomas Mulready
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When the month-long CAN Triennial opened July 6, the first thing that many visitors saw was a large neon sculpture by noted local artist Dana Depew that said “Your Art Sucks.” Given the wounded feelings and disgruntlement among many Cleveland artists who were not included in the CAN affair, some took his piece as an affront, a symbolic middle finger.
Of course that was not his intention at all. Our reporter Nicole Hennessy talked to Depew at length and learned the full story behind the piece and the multiple ways Depew says it could be interpreted. Dissing Cleveland artists was not among them.
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Artist/park ranger Scott Kranyak is a native NE Ohioan, although his job took him all over the country. But for him, there’s no place like home. It was while this Cleveland booster was stationed in the Grand Canyon that he got idea for the book that became The heArt of Cleveland.
The eclectic book spotlights painters, photographers, designers, comic book artists, sculptors, musicians, writers, poets and even chefs. The book makes its debut – with an accompanying exhibit – at 7th Street Studios E11even2 Gallery during this month’s Third Friday – and, appropriately, the CAN Triennial. Fri 7/20.
SPONSORED: Enjoy Lakewood Arts Festival on Sat 8/4 from 10AM-6PM featuring over 175 regional and national artists: George Kocar and Brian Jasinski of Grey Cardigan, sculptor Gianni Chesnick, ceramicist Yumiko Goto, metalsmith Heather Smotzer and painter Bethany Crum. Plus music from Punchdrunk Tagalongs, Senegalese drummer Assane M’baye, Luca Mundaca with Alexis Antes, Chris Allen and more. LakewoodArtsFest.org
Clubs have come and gone in Cleveland over the years, but one name stands out as legendary, both for the local bands and the future superstars it hosted on its small stage: the Agora. Founded in 1966, it moved to its long-running location on E. 24th soon after and then to its current spot on E. 50th and Euclid in 1986.
Fifty years is a long time and the club had lost some of its luster, with the current facility looking increasingly rundown. Last year, major events promoter AEG bought in, and brought resources to upgrade the club. It’s now unveiling the improvements, along with an enhanced and diversified event schedule. Learn what’s ahead for this iconic Cleveland club.
VIDEO: Cooper International Piano Competition Rocks Severance Hall
Thirty-one young pianists from seven different countries around the world gather here in northeast Ohio over the next week to take the stage for the ninth annual Thomas and Evon Cooper International Competition. These 14-18 year old pianists will compete to advance through the four rounds at Oberlin Conservatory to the concerto finals with the Cleveland Orchestra on Fri 7/20 at Severance Hall.
All rounds at Oberlin Conservatory are free and open to the public. Tickets for the concerto finals at Severance Hall start at $13, and students under 18 get in free with a paying adult. The first prize winner is awarded $20,000 and a full-tuition scholarship to attend Oberlin Conservatory.
Maybe nothing gets on your nerves more than hearing someone natter on about “building their personal brand.” But our career columnist Alex Sukhoy says it’s something everyone has to keep in mind as they navigate the world. “Each one of us is a product,” she says.
But how do you apply this to your career if you’re not a Kardashian? “There are multiple components to building a brand, but without these basics, we can become invisible in the modern working world,” she says, as she shares her five recommendations, most of which you may already be doing.
SPONSORED: Wild Encounters at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, is a new program that takes place everyday at 11AM and 3PM (and Sundays at 3PM). Encounters rotate between otters, coyotes, eagles, bobcat, foxes, raven, birds of prey and wetland and will feature curated experiences in feeding, training and enrichment of the animals. CMNH.org.
There’s a lot going on at the Akron Art Museum for kids on Thu 7/19. In the morning, there’s an interactive tour and art activities for the littlest ones. For the ones that can stay up later, there are art-making activities at Downtown@Dusk (as well as family-friendly music) followed by a screening of the animated film Cars 3.
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In the last 25 years, pioneering urban farmer Erich Hooper has turned a patch of unpromising land in an obscure corner of Tremont into a productive field brimming with food he uses in his catering business. Today you can join a tour of his facility and maybe even lend a hand for a little while. Sat 7/21.
* Is breadmaking something you’ve always dreamed of mastering? You’re in luck! Urban Farmer pastry chef Kara Swortchek is teaching a class where you’ll learn to make Italian focaccia bread and buttermilk biscuits – and get to eat them too. Sat 7/21.
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Join the Rock Hall for a daylong celebration of Women in Country, featuring a live performance by 2009 Inductee Wanda Jackson! The “Queen of Rockabilly” will be joined by Rachel Brown and Hannah Dasher on Sat 7/21. This event, part of Rock Hall Live! Powered by PNC is included with Rock Hall admission.
VIP tickets are also available, including a special viewing area for the performance, Rock Hall admission, two drink tickets, an intimate interview moderated by Woman Walk the Line author Holly Gleason and featuring Jackson, and book contributors Director of Artist & VIP Relations for the Rock Hall Shelby Morrison, former Creem editor Deborah Sprague, and rising alt-country singer/songwriter Aubrie Sellers.
Akron Recording Company has not only moved to a new facility in Akron’s Northside neighborhood, it’s released a compilation of area bands. To celebrate those things, it’s holding an open house – and some of the bands will be playing. Fri 7/20
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WED 7/18
Cleveland’s Annie Hogsett has penned another Cleveland-set mystery. Cincinnati’s David Pepper, also chair of the Ohio Democratic Party, has written his second, about a plot to steal the U.S presidential election.(Fiction?) Both will be speaking and signing at the South Euclid-Lyndhurst Public Library.
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THU 7/19
Artists Archives of the Western Reserve opens a blockbuster show featuring cartoons, comics & graphic novels by such Clevelanders as Gary Dumm, Robert Crumb, Derf, Jack Kelly and Superman creators Siegel and Shuster. It runs through Sat 9/8.
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FRI 7/20
The Hamilton Collaborative is bursting with creative energy. Tonight’s Ingenuity Spotlight Soiree celebrates Fire and Light Performing Arts moving into a studio in IngenuityLabs. They’ll be performing their “flow art,” and there will be artistic projects of all kinds to observe and participate it.
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SAT 7/21
Mentor Headlands is one of NE Ohio’s most beautiful stretches of beach. During its Beach Fest, you can fly kites, blow bubbles, build sand creations, meet Ariel the Little Mermaid and even enjoy the water.
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SUN 7/22
Pittsburgh independent curator John Morris was looking for a place to show some Pittsburgh artists during the FRONT Triennial. He hooked up with The Gallery at Lakeland director Mary Urbas, and the result is Artbelt, a show featuring 29 Pittsburgh and NE Ohio artists, opening this afternoon, and showing through Sun 9/7.
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MON 7/23
Each week from late April through the end of October, as many as 200 riders gather at different spots around town for Slow Roll Cleveland, a leisurely all-ages 10-mile ride through one of our urban neighborhoods. This week they’ll be taking in Cleveland’s West Park neighborhood, rolling out from Mohican Playground.
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WED 7/25
Each year, the Rock Hall hosts a series of free concerts on its plaza called Summer in the City. This year, the five-concert series which starts tonight and runs through August, focuses on women-led acts, both local and national. Tonight the Cleveland hip-hop duo FreshProduce (Playne Jayne and DJ Red-I) kick it all off.
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One of the most diabolical things about racism and prejudice is that, over time, it causes some people that are subjected to it to question their intrinsic value as human beings. What I’m suggesting is that some black folk…
* How Many More Racists? The question has to come to mind, are there only two racist cops on the Cleveland police force, or are they the only two that have been caught? Statistically, the odds of there not being others…
* No Jobs Myth You can’t sleep ’til noon in your mamma’s basement (or on your girlfriend’s couch) roll over and scratch your ass, get up and splash some water on your face, and then open the front door to see if someone left a job for you on your doorstep…
* Getting Pimped Few groups get pimped and played on as much as convicted felons. Once a person is branded with that scarlet “F” on their permanent record they’re forever fair game for the legal system…
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PHOTOSTREAM: Lakewood Summer Meltdown by Thomas Mulready
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