Zach Friedhof has been a beacon of love and peace in Akron for more than two decades. Now he and his band The Bright Lights are offering more musical good vibes on a new album called Automagical.  Read More

The Cleveland Ballet returns to Playhouse Square with a season that features three of its signature lavish story ballets, including the return of holiday classic The Nutcracker.  Read More

Chamberfest Cleveland will be back live this year, with a full schedule of concerts. Only this year, they’ll all be outdoors, and all of them will be free. Read More

Oberlin Conservatory has taken the lessons it learned and resources it developed in the last year connecting students & teachers virtually to create OC Global, offering classes to students around the world. Read More

Returning to the mainstage with the company’s premiere of Don Quixote (pictured), the fan favorite The Nutcracker, and brand new choreography in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, this season is certainly a must-see. Season subscriptions available today!  Read More

Adele Bertei got her start in Cleveland, but she made her mark as a denizen of New York’s No Wave scene, followed by a dazzling career as a singer and collaborator with industry giants like Thomas Dolby, Boy George and Brian Eno. Her first book, Peter and the Wolves, chronicles her friendship with the influential Cleveland punk progenitor Peter Laughner, who formed Rocket From the Tombs and Pere Ubu.Her new book, Why Labelle Matters, is an affectionate and erudite tribute to the talent and tenacity of three East Coast city girls who rose from doo-wop crooners to the heights of glam rock stardom. The book was just published by University of Texas Press.  Read More

Like most of us, writer Claudia Taller saw her traveling curtailing last year and she was scratching an itch to get out and hit the road. With things starting to return to normal], she booked a short road trip to Glenlaurel Inn in Ohio’s Hocking Hills, for some sightseeing, hiking, gnome hunting and a lot of eating. She even visited the Pencil Sharpener Museum!  Read more

Now that Cleveland’s longest-serving mayor has announced he won’t seek a fifth term, our columnists C. Ellen Connally and Mansfield Frazier say it’s time to look at his legacy. They find a lot to praise in the developments he’s spearheaded since he took office in 2006, but add that “a large part of his legacy now will rest of the fact he hung on to the levers of power for one term too long.”  Read more

The non-profit Cleveland Verses was founded last year to support musicians and venue workers devastated by the pandemic. CoolCleveland’s Thomas Mulready continues his musical journey with an examination of the most influential musician of our lifetime, and in the process helping to raise money for the cause on Dylan’s 80th birthday, Mon 05.24. Tix are available here.Based on interviews with Dylanologist Clinton Heylin, known in Cleveland for his book, From The Velvets to the Voidoids, and who Rolling Stone calls the world’s authority on Dylan, plus Daniel Goldmark, head of popular music studies at CWRU, among others, the livestream show (with VERY limited in-person seating) also features classic Dylan tracks by area musicians The Modern Electric, Papi and the Smears, Vanity Crash and Jenna Fournier.   Read more