09.05-09.12.18
Look Up
In the sky. Our potential is limitless. It’s been the great privilege of my life to work with our amazing writers, photographers, video shooters and correspondents to put this humble email in your inbox each week for the past 16 years. So let’s celebrate!This week, be a part of something bigger than yourself. Recycle some plastic junk and race it at the 10th Annual Lake Erie Boat Float. The Slovenian Sausage Festival turns 15; isn’t it time you checked it out? The 11th Love Muffin Palooza is back with regional indie sounds, supporting the Gathering Place. We’re reexamining The Beatles’ Revolver on Fri 9/21 and The White Album on Sat 9/22 at BOP STOP, if you’d care to join us.
We invite you to find a way to support something higher, as we’ve always done. Join 30 artists for a one-night-only pop-up art party called Hang Up. Celebrate the mighty Monarch & other meadow insects at Geauga Parks. Hometown heroes Content Marketing World bring Tina Fey to town, author Brian Abrams channels President Obama, and Melt Bar and Grilled donates 20% of your check to the APL.
Support democracy in the best (maybe the only) way you can: Check if you are registered to vote, then get active in advance of the Nov 6 election. Things are looking up already. –Thomas Mulready
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Most of you out there probably have cats and dogs – maybe a few rabbits or ferrets or parrots. But it takes a special kind of person to have a pet skunk. Bred to be domestic, these pets are odor-free, smart and a handful, too much for some would-be owners.
That’s why North Ridgeville’s Deb Cipriani founded the Skunkhaven rescue, and the annual Skunkfest to support it, taking place in North Ridgeville’s South Central Park. Come see all the colors skunks come in, watch them compete in contests and races (sort of: as racers, they are much like cats) and meet lots of other animals too. Sat 9/8.
Sgt. Pepper got all the glory, but true aficionados of The Beatles consider The White Album superior, and many put Revolver at the very top of the list.
You’ll have fun, tap your foot, and maybe even learn something when CoolCleveland’s Thomas Mulready dives deep on Revolver on Fri 9/21 and The Beatles (known as The White Album) on Sat 9/22.
Get your tickets now as these shows are sure to sell out in the intimate and comfortable BOP STOP. Revolver saw all of The Beatles’ breakthroughs a year before Pepper. And The White Album tops most lists of the best double album ever. Learn the backstories, their innovations in the recording studio, the cultural context, the drugs they experimented with, and their personal anecdotes as Mulready presents rare video, needle drops, trivia and fun contests. Both shows feature a blistering live music set by Vanity Crash featuring a couple Beatles tunes (this is not a tribute!), and their own original material. Grab your seat now!
You’ve probably heard a lot lately about plastic pollution, with all the talk around banning plastic straws. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. It seems like there’s a constant barrage of news about plastics in the water harming wildlife and filling the oceans with huge gyres of plastic, as well as microbeads which are increasingly found in the Great Lakes.
Cleveland was ahead of the curve with its Lake Erie Boat Float, now in its 10th year. Each year entrants of all ages are challenged to make boats out of recycled plastic junk and race them at Edgewater Park. It’s a chance to learn more about what plastic does to our environment, while having fun. Sat 9/8.
Cleveland Botanical Garden Adds Live Music to Hoppy Hour
Hoppy Hour, one of Cleveland’s favorite fall traditions, returns to the Botanical Garden Wednesday nights through October. This year, the tradition gets jazzed up with live bands to accompany craft brews and seasonal bites. Guests can enjoy the gardens and terrace during Cleveland’s most colorful season, surrounded by fire pits, beer flights and friends.
Tonight, Wed 9/5, catch Jason Patrick Meyers, and in coming weeks enjoy music every Wednesday, such as Cave Twins (9/12), Gretchen Pleuss (10/3) and Meg & The Magnetosphere (pictured) (10/24). Admission to Hoppy Hour is $5 after 5pm. Members receive free admission. Beer is sold separately. CBGarden.org.
Cleveland artist Angela Oster has become known for her work that’s loaded with characters who combine the macabre and the cute in an uneasy balance. Now she’s turning tiny dolls into “inner saboteurs… that tiny, irritating, incessant voice inside your head.”
They’ll be part of a one-night-only pop-up art party called Hang Up. Thirty participating artists will depict their own inner saboteurs, some using the box of TingaLing Tina dolls Oster snagged from the recently closed Big Fun. “You are your inner saboteur,” she says. “You put these obstacles in your way. You are just a little demon.” Fri 9/7.
What’s in the meadows as summer gives way to September? Come out to the Geauga Parks and find out on “Monarchs & Meadow Insects” days. You’ll be able to chase butterflies, grasshoppers, katydids, praying mantids and more, and learn more about them. There’ll even be a game based on the migratory habits of the Monarch butterfly. Sun 9/9 & Sun 9/16.
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Melt Bar and Grilled and its patrons are supporting the Cleveland Animal Protective League this September. Click on the link and bring the flyer to any Melt Bar and Grilled restaurants during September 7, 8 or 9, 2018, and 20% of your total bill will be donated to the Animal Protective League.
Visit any Cleveland-area Melt location: Lakewood, Cleveland Heights, Independence, Mentor & Avon, and alert your server when asking for the bill. It’s just that easy.
Got some fundraising ideas of your own? Is your organization interested in working with Melt Bar and Grilled to help raise money? Learn more here, or send a note to EVENTS@MeltBarAndGrilled.com. Thanks to the Cleveland Animal Protective League for your support!
The Slovenian Sausage Festival, now in its 15th year at Kirtland’s SNPJ Farm, combines two of the most Cleveland things ever: sausage and polka. More than a dozen bands and performers will play music for dancers to work off the sausages the’ve eaten. Wed 9/12.
* Ashtabula County’s many wineries are among our local treasures. Spend an afternoon sampling the offerings of five of them on a self-guided tour called “Cask, Corks & Forks.” Sat 9/8.
Read more of CoolCleveland’s picks for Eats and Drinks.
Only 63 days until the election! Can you tell we’re counting it down? First you need to check if you are registered to vote. The recent Ohio Supreme Court ruling states that you could need to register again if you haven’t voted in 2 general elections. Check if you are registered at the official Secretary of State page here.
If you are NOT registered, then register to vote at the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections site here, or at a local voter registration location on that page. Get registered, then get active.
Love Muffin Palooza is a three-day, three-venue showcase of diverse Cleveland talent, including the raw, heavy energy of the Whiskey Hollow (pictured). It benefits cancer support organization the Gathering Place. Thu 9/6-Sat 9/8
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Read more of CoolCleveland’s picks for Cool Events.
WED 9/5
Content Marketing World returns to its hometown Cleveland with their biggest headliner yet, the inimitable Tina Fey, and you can save $100 with the discount code COOLCLE, through Fri 9/7.
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THU 9/6
Want to recall when we had a normal presidency? Brian Abrams’ new book, Obama: An Oral History, will take you there. Abrams will be at Loganberry Books to talk about his book with Cleveland.com’s Seth Richardson.
Click here for more events on Thu 9/6
FRI 9/7
Dobama Theatre presents the Ohio premiere of Dominique Morisseau’s 2016 play Sunset Baby. In it an aging Black Revolutionary, now a widower, and his estranged daughter confront their relationship and their family dysfunction. Through Sun 9/30.
Click here for more events on Fri 9/7
SAT 9/8
The Cleveland Drag Showcase takes drag out of the gay bars and into the mainstream The event, put together by “Cleveland’s tallest drag queen,” Vernada L’Ni (pictured), showcases some of the area’s top performers and their wide range of approaches and styles. And it’s all ages!
Click here for more events on Sat 9/8
SUN 9/9
Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens in Akron is the site of the Molto Bella Auto Show, where visitors can see hundreds of exotic, custom and vintage cars from around the world in the beautiful setting of the historic grounds.
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MON 9/10
Local author/historian Dan Ruminski talks at the Avon Lake Library about scandals hiding inside some of the 250 fabulous mansions along a 4-mile strip of Euclid Avenue on Cleveland’s former “Millionaire’s Row,” at one time dubbed by Baedecker as “The Showplace of America.”
Click here for more events on Mon 9/10
TUE 9/11
Three influential women musicians hit NE Ohio on the same Tuesday evening and while the Liz Phair show at the Beachland Ballroom is sold out, you can still snag a ticket to see former bluegrass prodigy – now the genre’s reigning queen – Alison Krauss at the Akron Civic Theatre.
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WED 9/12
One of the Maltz Museum’s signature programs is its Stop the Hate essay contest for young people in grades 6-12 to share their ideas about how to combat bigotry and intolerance. The 11th annual contest kicks off with a program at the museum today where some of last year’s winners will read their essays.
Click here for more events on Wed 9/12
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As a society, we need to try to come to some kind of agreement – if that’s possible – on what is the appropriate punishment for individuals that run afoul of commonly held standards of decency. Certainly, those folks who ignore such standards should be punished, but…
* Nasty Habits What whites have been doing for the last decade or so is attempting to do a form of judo on the question of bigotry. Whenever a black person lodges a charge of racism, racist whites try to flip it…
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