The hits keep coming: Author Carlo Wolff just published another insightful book on Cleveland music history, Invisible Soul, the Cleveland Arts Prize has announced the winners of their respected 2023 awards, and the 11th Annual Ohio International Burlesque Fest couldn’t get any higher.
We’re lifting off all everywhere: Slow Roll Cleveland explores the Southeast Side of town, multi-disciplinary performance comes to Cain Park, Mozart & Mendelssohn settle in the meadows of Cuyahoga Falls, and a punk rock flea market hits Downtown Akron.
Rising and converging: Help Little Italy’s Feast celebrate its 124th year, or catch a show about family dysfunction, suicide and coming out. Taste the tomatoes at the Cuyahoga Valley Farmers Market, or cozy up to the big trucks at the Summit Metroparks. Delight your tastebuds at the Akron Pickle Fest, or dig the jam bands at the Lazy Daisy Festival. Where you taking off to?
The Cleveland Arts Prize is thrilled to announce the distinguished recipients of the 2023 awards, recognizing exceptional achievements and contributions in various artistic disciplines. These individuals have demonstrated unwavering dedication, creative brilliance, and a profound impact on the arts community and society as a whole.
The Cleveland Arts Prize 2023 winners are: Emerging Artists: Stephanie Ginese for Literature and Atefeh Farajolahzadeh for Visual Art; Mid-career Artists: Dana Jessen for Music and Dr. Jacinda Walker for Design; Lifetime Achievement Janet Macoska for Visual Art: Martha Joseph Prize to Richard Rogers; Robert P. Bergman Prize to Susan Braham Koletsky; Barbara S. Robinson Prize to Joseph and Nancy Keithley. Read more.
When the 11th Ohio International Burlesque Festival takes over the Beachland Ballroom this week, from Thursday 8/10-Saturday 8/12, it won’t look anything like the first one —a single night with 16 mostly local & regional performers.This year more than 70 artists from as far away as Japan and Croatia will perform over three days.
Bella Sin, the Mexican-born Cleveland dynamo who created the festival (and one of Friday’s headliners), has always prioritized diversity in all aspects: both in performer identity and types of acts. So you never know what you’ll see onstage next but prepare to be surprised and delighted. Read more.
Why August for a special election? The supporters of Issue 1 were hoping for the same low turnout as past August elections in Ohio: only 8% voted statewide in 2022, 11.8% in Hamilton and 6.8% in Cuyahoga in 2020. Instead, yesterday Ohio voters came out in droves: in Cuyahoga and statewide, a whopping 38% turned out to vote.
And here’s the lesson: when voters turn out and vote in Ohio, Democrats win. Statewide 57% voted NO; in Cuyahoga a full 76% voted NO on Issue 1.
Republican lawmakers who put Issue 1 on the ballot were crossing their fingers that only a handful of voters would vote, mostly their own supporters. Instead, a broad coalition worked overtime to turn out the vote, and the Republican party line failed big time. Issue 1 is now in the ashbin of history, failing by 14 points, despite a ludicrous scare campaign and a heavy influx of money from Illinois billionaire Richard Uihlein. Read more.
The hits keep coming: Author Carlo Wolff just published another insightful book on Cleveland music history, Invisible Soul, the Cleveland Arts Prize has announced the winners of their respected 2023 awards, and the 11th Annual Ohio International Burlesque Fest couldn’t get any higher.
We’re lifting off all everywhere: Slow Roll Cleveland explores the Southeast Side of town, multi-disciplinary performance comes to Cain Park, Mozart & Mendelssohn settle in the meadows of Cuyahoga Falls, and a punk rock flea market hits Downtown Akron.
Rising and converging: Help Little Italy’s Feast celebrate its 124th year, or catch a show about family dysfunction, suicide and coming out. Taste the tomatoes at the Cuyahoga Valley Farmers Market, or cozy up to the big trucks at the Summit Metroparks. Delight your tastebuds at the Akron Pickle Fest, or dig the jam bands at the Lazy Daisy Festival. Where you taking off to?
The Cleveland Arts Prize is thrilled to announce the distinguished recipients of the 2023 awards, recognizing exceptional achievements and contributions in various artistic disciplines. These individuals have demonstrated unwavering dedication, creative brilliance, and a profound impact on the arts community and society as a whole.
The Cleveland Arts Prize 2023 winners are: Emerging Artists: Stephanie Ginese for Literature and Atefeh Farajolahzadeh for Visual Art; Mid-career Artists: Dana Jessen for Music and Dr. Jacinda Walker for Design; Lifetime Achievement Janet Macoska for Visual Art: Martha Joseph Prize to Richard Rogers; Robert P. Bergman Prize to Susan Braham Koletsky; Barbara S. Robinson Prize to Joseph and Nancy Keithley. Read more.
When the 11th Ohio International Burlesque Festival takes over the Beachland Ballroom this week, from Thursday 8/10-Saturday 8/12, it won’t look anything like the first one —a single night with 16 mostly local & regional performers.This year more than 70 artists from as far away as Japan and Croatia will perform over three days.
Bella Sin, the Mexican-born Cleveland dynamo who created the festival (and one of Friday’s headliners), has always prioritized diversity in all aspects: both in performer identity and types of acts. So you never know what you’ll see onstage next but prepare to be surprised and delighted. Read more.
Why August for a special election? The supporters of Issue 1 were hoping for the same low turnout as past August elections in Ohio: only 8% voted statewide in 2022, 11.8% in Hamilton and 6.8% in Cuyahoga in 2020. Instead, yesterday Ohio voters came out in droves: in Cuyahoga and statewide, a whopping 38% turned out to vote.
And here’s the lesson: when voters turn out and vote in Ohio, Democrats win. Statewide 57% voted NO; in Cuyahoga a full 76% voted NO on Issue 1.
Republican lawmakers who put Issue 1 on the ballot were crossing their fingers that only a handful of voters would vote, mostly their own supporters. Instead, a broad coalition worked overtime to turn out the vote, and the Republican party line failed big time. Issue 1 is now in the ashbin of history, failing by 14 points, despite a ludicrous scare campaign and a heavy influx of money from Illinois billionaire Richard Uihlein. Read more.
Fifty years ago Playhouse Square’s theaters were in danger of being demolished. Today the complex is a showplace, drawing international attention. Its theaters are in the process of getting flashy new marquees which will be celebrated with a special event in September. Read more.
12 years in the making, Carlo Wolff has published his latest book on Cleveland music, Invisible Soul: Uncovering Cleveland’s Underground Soul Scene, written with James O’Hare and illustrated by Ron Hill, telling the all-but-forgotten story of Cleveland’s soul scene around E. 105th & Euclid Avenue in the 1960s & 70s. Read more.
THU 8/10 Loads of Laughs Six is the magic number when the Sixth City Comedy Festival storms into the BOP STOP for three nights and six shows of hilarity.* Fun Home opens at Cain Park.
SAT 8/12 Art on the Fly Dozens of local artists will gather at SPACES to create art as people watch and put it on the wall for sale at the Monster Drawing Rally.* Time for the Feast in Little Italy!
MON 8/14 On the Roll Again The weekly Slow Roll Cleveland, a leisurely, moderately paced ride for all ages, heads out to one of the less fashionable parts of town this week, rolling out of Lee and Harvard on the southeast side.
