Just look at this place. If you’ve been traveling this summer, you must be amazed when you return and see such world-beating arts, architecture, history and international culture laid out at your feet. Of course, our home is not close to perfect, but we’re working on it, and anyway, we’re called CoolCleveland.
We’re gobsmacked with everything from the serious jazz emanating from more and more venues, including the new Edwin’s relocated into the old Nighttown space and carrying on some of those jazz traditions, to the new book by Brad Ricca on how two Cleveland teens created Superman, discussed at Music Box this week. The range of offerings, from Branford Marsalis at Oberlin to local Outlab experiments at BOP STOP, from a Drag Pride showcase to polka dancing at a Sausage Fest simply leaves us flummoxed.
Vanity Crash lands at the Berea Arts Fest during a busy fall season, She Roars celebrates women composers (hosted by Musicians Local 4), FreshFest at Rid-All Farms encourages wellness in the city, Severance Hall hosts an Hispanic Dance Party, and Akron offers an Art Walk, while Oberlin is the site for the FAVA Art Fair. Ken Schneck of the Buckeye Flame launches an essential podcast. And just for fun, the Burning River Roller Derby is back!
We are both impressed and curious about the state of support for local artists, as evidenced by the upcoming City Club forum on murals, Literary Cleveland’s annual Inkubator program, and our PHOTOSTREAM coverage of some of the Transformational Art Fund projects and their supposed impact. After all, even superstars find room for improvement.
