Ways of interacting with your communities and neighbors are changing. Main Street Amherst, known for a tight and cooperative community, haven’t let the pandemic stop them. See our exclusive video to learn more.
Akron Art Museum’s Downtown@Dusk summer concert series returns virtually. The BOP STOP is streaming. The Cinematheque screens Buster Keaton online to celebrate their 34th birthday. Mansfield offers his advice on the presidential campaign, and C. Ellen Connally explains why Nina Turner is so livid. Vanity Crash has created their own online neighborhood and they call it the Crash Pad, and you’re invited.
How has your neighborhood changed? How are you making it better?
Amherst, Ohio, pop. 12,000, has managed to stay on the same page through challenging economic times, and that continues now during the pandemic.
Teresa Gilles of Main Street Amherst shares their secret sauce: a passion for the city, an open invitation to regular monthly meetings, and involvement from all stakeholders, including city government. Read More
Kris Morron has been in a series of stellar Cleveland bands such as Mifune, Aphrodesiatics and the Revolution Brass Band. He’s now applied both his musical and literary skills to a comic book series with an original soundtrack. Read More
Small music venues such as the Beachland, BOP STOP & Happy Dog are neighborhood cornerstones, and the pandemic is threatening their survival. They’ve announced a Day of Action August 5 to contact your congressperson and ask them to support the Save Our Stages Act. Read More
The Cleveland Public Library’s free Gale Courses offer education for all ages in a variety of subjects from business to languages to photography to gardening. New classes start every month — sign up anytime. Read More
GroundWorks DanceTheater’s NextSpace series, running through August 22, offers live & online classes, talks & pop-up performances in Cleveland & Akron. Read More
Is your new neighborhood the inside of your house? Spending hours on your devices and feeling tight? Wellness at Work can look at photos and videos of you at work and suggest therapies, computer adjustments, stretching and recommendations. Read More
Creative people always find a way to create. When the pandemic sidelined one of Cleveland’s busiest theater directors, Terrence Spivey, he started thinking more about telling the story of a 1933 lynching in his native Kountze, Texas. The murder of George Floyd jumpstarted the project, a short experimental film called Resurrection of a Black Man. It debuts Friday August 7 @ 8:46pm. Read More
You’re invited to the Vanity Crash Pad this Sun 8/9 at 7PM to rock out to music (Bowie’s All The Young Dudes, Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance), talk with Craig W Bell, founding member of Cleveland’s Rocket From The Tombs (on how he co-wrote the punk anthem Final Solution), plus Thomas Anonymous’ collection of Bowieana. What do you collect? Stick around for the Afterparty to talk with Craig and the band and share your obsessions. Read More
Former Cleveland city councilor and former Ohio state senator Nina Turner was always known for speaking her mind— loudly. But our columnist C. Ellen Connally thinks she went too far when, apparently still nursing a grudge about Bernie Sanders’ primary loss, she compared voting for Joe Biden to being asked to eat a bowl of a certain icky substance. Read More
How Biden Wins the Presidential DebateAlthough Joe Biden is probably too much of a gentleman to use the tactics I’m about to outline, that doesn’t mean they are not the most effective strategies for him to use in the upcoming presidential debates. The goal is to keep the orange-haired ogre pushed back on his heels… Read More
Our national sense of self-delusion and gullibility — the desire of some folks to steadfastly believe what they want to believe in spite of the facts to the contrary — is due in large part to the lie that America doesn’t have a racist history. If people are stupid enough to believe that, then they are stupid enough… Read More
Say what you want about the intelligence of Larry Householder, one thing is certain: He has brass balls the size of grapefruits — nay, make them basketballs instead. Look in any dictionary for the word “chutzpah” and you’ll find his smiling, toothy and beefy corn-fed visage…. Read More
