Grassroots

06.08-06.15.11
Grassroots

We’re on the ground looking up, while others think they can solve our region’s problems from 20,000 feet. The solution is simple: recognize the awesomeness in our region, empower our neighbors, and collaborate like our lives depend on it. Because they do. And to help you, we’ve developed a mobile app for the iPhone & iPad, increasingly essential tools to navigating our region. Check out our features on the Weapons of Mass Creation Fest; the first-ever backstage tour of CPH’s new home in the Allen; an exclusive Skype interview with hometown boy and jazz master Dominick Farinacci; a roundup of summertime festivals; and video that will blow your mind of the upcoming Temple of Tesla lightning rod performance. Keep your feet on the ground, and keep your eyes raised to the sky. –Thomas Mulready

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What’s hot? What’s new? What’s happening? Download the new Cool Cleveland app for your iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch & find the answer to these questions. We point you to the coolest events in town, which you can share w/ your friends via Facebook & Twitter. And the app is completely free.

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Two Epic Days of Music & Design
Weapons of Mass Creation Fest 2011

If you’re part of the Northeast Ohio design and web world, odds are you already know about the Weapons of Mass Creation Fest on Sat 6/11 & Sun 6/12.

The event is equal parts design conference, art show and music festival… Read more from John Benson here

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SPONSORED: World Wide Knit in Public Day… Calling all knitters! Show off your favorite projects and trade tips, tricks and techniques with fellow crafters. Learning to knit? Explore Cleveland Public Library’s excellent collection of knitting and crochet books. Sat 6/11, 10:30AM @ Main Library Eastman Reading Garden, Collinwood Branch and Mt. Pleasant Branch. CPL.org

House of the future SmartHome Cleveland is now open. Go tour this home (now an exhibit @ CMNH) representing the future of energy-efficient housing. Using no furnace & high levels of insulation, SmartHome is 90 percent more energy efficient than an average home. Tour it now before it goes on the market in Sept.

* Make homes healthier Lean how @ the Healthy Homes Advisory Council of Greater Cle 6th Annual Symposium.
* CIM students go crazy winning awards. Read the latest awards two students received.
* Collective Upcycle pops up in Gordon Sq on Sat 6/11, selling handmade re-purposed goods made by local designers.
* USAToday credits Cleveland’s hub strategy in lengthy article, name checking many local ED leaders.

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SPONSORED: Events, Discounts & More! Cuyahoga Community College is actively engaged in the process of reconnecting with its alumni to build an active, ongoing network. Join the Alumni & Friends Association and enjoy the benefits of networking, mentoring, updated job search and resume resources. Plus, look for special alumni events throughout the year and special discounts. Sign-up now: Tri-C.edu/alumni.

VIDEO: Sneak Peek of CPH’s New Home
Backstage at Allen Theatre at PHS

Watch as The Cleveland Play House’s artistic director Michael Bloom gives us the first-ever front-to-back tour of their new home, right smack in PlayhouseSquare.

September 16 is the opening date for the first production on the main stage. Find out more about the progress of Cleveland Play House’s move to PlayhouseSquare and their new-and-improved home the Allen Theater and watch the backstage sneak peek video by Carol Drummond here.

SPONSORED: Warning: the molecules of the musical universe will realign this Saturday at Cain Park. Because The Man With Two Brains (Howard Levy) rejoins Bela Fleck and the Flecktones for genre-bending musical magic on Sat 6/11. And yes, it is Rocket Science, their first studio album in 20 years. 216-371-3000. Tickets here.

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Parade the Circle The city is one big melting pot. Let’s get together & celebrate the spirit, culture & creativity of Cle @ Parade the Circle. Stilt walkers, people dressed as food, clever floats — they’ll be there on Sat 6/11. And so will you.

* Nate the Great @ LPL Magic, balloon twisting & amazement.
* Travel back in time @ Hale Farm & Village’s Pioneer Festival Weekend. No time machine required.
* Let’s fly a (recycled) kite! Make a kite from household materials, then put it to the test.
* Knee-high Naturalists A nature-infused event for the six and under crowd.

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SPONSORED: Have a wild time at the Nature League’s UnNatural Affair celebration at The Cleveland Museum of Natural History! This hot summer party on the Museum’s Observatory deck features fabulous food, music, dancing, raffle prizes and a free drink ticket. Tickets are $15 for members/$20 for nonmembers. CMNH.org.

VIDEO: Dominick Farinacci Interview
Benefit For Jazz Musicians at Tri-C

Cleveland’s own jazz superstar Dominick Farinacci will appear on Sun 6/26 at 7PM at the Hanna Theatre in Cleveland to benefit the Tri-C Jazz Studies Program and to announce the new “Young Visiting Artists Program.” The concert, Jazz Legends of Tomorrow, will benefit the Jazz Studies Program at Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C), and will provide a showcase for their work in jazz education in Cleveland with youth of all ages.

Watch the video here of Thomas Mulready of CoolCleveland.com interviewing Dominick Farinacci and Loren Schoenberg of the Jazz Museum in Harlem on Skype. Tix: TriCPresents.com or 866-546-1353.

SPONSORED: Summer Is Here and tickets are already selling fast for The Ohio Light Opera’s 2011 season at the College of Wooster, just an hour South of Cleveland. Enjoy the finest professional talent performing musical masterpieces Camelot, Cole Porter’s Jubilee, The Pirates of Penzance, Lehar’s The Merry Widow, Vicyor Herbert’s The Fortune Teller, Leo Fall’s Madame Pompadour and the triple bill Evening Wind, Cox and Box and Trial By Jury, all in rotating rep beginning June 18 to August 13. Plan your visit now to this “prime destination” for operetta and musical theatre! http://www.OhioLightOpera.org or call 330-263-2345.

Woody and the Vest
A Bang and a Whimper

In “The Hollow Men,” T.S. Eliot’s despairing ode to post-WWI Europe, the poet concluded that the world would end “not with a bang but a whimper.”

Well, for the two colossal football coaches in Ohio State University history, the blustering bully Woody Hayes and the buttoned-down Boy Scout Jim Tressel, their respective downfalls are not either/or matters… Read more from Larry Durstin here

WED 6/8
The Tillers & Shivering Timbers @ Happy Dog. A night of banjo tunes & bass thumping sounds courtesy of The Tillers, with friendly pop-folk-blues from the Shivering Timbers on Wed 6/8. Eat food. Listen to good tunes.

* E4S in Akron Entrepreneurs for Sustainability discusses the state of Akron.

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THU 6/9
Close Encounters of the Geauga Kind Aliens in Geauga Co.? Whaa? Yep; there have been sightings, experiences & encounters dating back to the ’50s. Learn about them @ the next Observatory Park’s Coffee House Evening Series on Thu 6/9 @ the soon-to-be-open Observatory Park.

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FRI 6/10
Gimme the blues Want some blues? Get plenty of it @ the Canton Blues Fest on Fri 6/10 and Sat 6/11 — two days of blues concerts… for free. Hear Michael Burks, Ronnie Baker Brooks, Tinsely Ellis, The Rusty Wright Band & more.

* The Little Lebowskifest The Dude-inspired art, costume contest, trivia challenge & White Russians.
* For the Birds See birdhouses w/ styles ranging from “shingle/stick” to “post-war suburbia.”
* Hip Hop Party! Move to the beat w/ world-famous DJ & producer J Rawls @ Musica.

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SAT 6/11
Discover Gordon Square Arts District Gordon Square is packed w/ activities on Sat 6/11. Take a tour, experience the Visual Arts Expo, make masks, take in live music, listen to Cleveland Conversations, watch classic cartoons & party ’til midnight.

* Friends of Cain Park presents the first concert of the season w/ Bela Fleck & the Flecktones.
* Inspired Art Benefit Auction A collaboration of Cle artists & young poets. Support local arts!
* Weapons of Mass Creation Equal parts design conference, art show & music fest.
* Turning music into lightning Original music played on world’s largest twin musical Tesla Coils.

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SPONSORED: WCLV 104.9 FM continues its Opera on Saturday series this week at 1PM on Sat 6/11, with the first of a series of broadcasts from the Lyric Opera of Chicago. The series kicks off with Verdi’s Macbeth; on Sat 6/18, Bizet’s Carmen; Sat 6/25, Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Sat 7/2, Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera; Sat 7/16, Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado; Sat 7/23, Puccini’s The Girl of the Golden West; and Sat 7/30, Wagner’s Lohengrin. Complete details at WCLV.com.

SUN 6/12
Support opera for all and attend the benefit for Opera Per Tutti @ Nighttown on Sun 6/12. OPT frequently performs free opera in the Cultural Gardens. Help them keep up the good work. Benefit includes delicious dinner, enchanting arias & a cash bar.

* Rock ‘n Roll Chef Jam featuring rock inspired fare cooked by 20 Cle chefs.
* Cleveland City Dance Company presents a performance of Swan Lake Act II @ Tri-C East.

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MON 6/13
Broadway Farmers’ Market The food is ripe & delicious. The neighborhood is friendly & welcoming. Experience the Broadway Farmers’ Market every week, the only market serving the Broadway/ Slavic Village area. Go on Mon 6/13 for produce grown in NEO or right in Slavic Village.

* Liver or leav’er: how to pull the switch when things aren’t working out. Discuss @ Science Cafe Cleveland.

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TUE 6/14
Thirsty Dog Yappy Hour @ Tremont Tap House. Happy hour is great but Thirsty Dog Yappy Hour is better. Have a drink & help animals at the same time. Part of your bill goes to support Secondhand Mutts on Tue 6/14.

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WED 6/15
MOCA GAL-lery Night Gather the ladies for the perfect girls night out @ MOCA. Spend the evening of Wed 6/15 immersed in a garden of earthly delights. Browse sustainable gifts, organic wares & Mother Nature-inspired accessories, sample delicious local fare & hear music from The Shivering Timbers. [Necklace by Valerie Tyler]

* Dan Abrams – The Media & the Law: An Unholy Alliance. Author of provocative pro-women book comes to Mandel JCC.
* WOW! Wade Oval Wednesdays kick off w/ the R&B sounds of Heart & Soul.

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VIDEOS: Temple of Tesla
Sparking Excitement for Ingenuity Festival

If you’ve never seen a Tesla coil, it is certainly a sight to behold. They shoot lightning into the open air – over 10 feet into the air. The experience is, well, electrifying. To find out more about the Tesla Orchestra and their upcoming performance Temple of Tesla, a fundraiser for Cleveland’s Ingenuity Festival on Sat 6/11, I stopped in at one of their rehearsals and watched the lightning bolts in action.

Before the rehearsal I had the opportunity to meet up with Ian Charnas, a member of the Tesla Orchestra, to talk about their upcoming performance. Watch the interview with Ian Charnas and the lightning bolt demonstration here.

In the Summertime… When the Weather is Fine…
Check out the festivals this weekend

Festivals are popping up all over the Cleveland area. The backyard is a cool place to be, but one of the best places to be during the summertime is at a festival. At a festival, time stops and you can live in the moment, savoring the food, the art, the music, and the wine, while hanging out with the people… Read more from Claudia Taller here

Grudgingly Agreeing
Right, and still wrong

I never thought I’d see the day when I’d so readily agree with a position outgoing County Prosecutor Bill Mason took, but his stance on a Kasich funding formula is the right one. Unfortunately, it’s just being taken by the wrong person…
Read this story from Mansfield Frazier here

Read other recent pieces by Mansfield Frazier here

Swan Lake vs. Black Swan
A peek into the real world of ballet

We’ve been watching local dancers Andrea Blankstein and Mark Otloski rehearsing Swan Lake Act II for the upcoming Cleveland City Dance Company performance on Sun 6/12.

By the time Blankstein and Otloski started working on their Swan Lake, Black Swan, director Darren Aronofsky’s 2010 film, had come and gone from the theaters. We decided to check the backstage movie against backstage reality… Read more from Elsa Johnson & Victor Lucas here

My, my.

Is the Plain Dealer feeling guilty? It should be.

A Sunday editorial took Gov. John Kasich to task. They don’t like what he is doing. Big surprise.

Wasn’t he their choice for Governor?…
Read this story from Roldo Bartimole here

Read other recent pieces by Roldo Bartimole here

CD REVIEW: What If EP
Jason Patrick Meyers

It’s hard to say what to consider your musical debut when you were born into music.

Cleveland native Jason Patrick Meyers is prime example — a musician nearly by birth. It has taken him until now to put out his handcrafted debut, an EP entitled What If, which you can hear on Sat 6/11Read more from Laurie Wanninger here

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ROLDO: Cleveland’s Been Very, Very Good to the Forest City Downtown Gang Lou Stokes with FCE, too?? I thought he was with Dewy, Cheatem & Howe, along with Squire Nance. You know, the bond folks…
Read the comment from Richard here

Cle: One of nation’s leading cities for bus-based transportation I will agree with the speed and efficiency of the Healthline but come on, the reason ridership is up on the Healthline is that RTA has made it nearly impossible to get to and from downtown on the east side of town after 6pm weekdays and all day on weekends without taking the redline rapid or the Healthline…
Read the comment from Leesa here

Saving Lower Prospect Avenue HOTEL thing..make sense..RENAISSANCE n RITZ PROB.stilll tooo EXPENSIVE…
Read the comment from Weelll here

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Most clicked
Here are the Top 5 most clicked links from last week’s issue, with one more chance for you to click.

1) Roldo: Cleveland’s Been Very, Very Good to the Forest City Downtown Gang

2) 159 pages of local job listings courtesy of Jeff Nischwitz

3) Shaker LaunchHouse: Buzzing w/ Entrepreneurial Energy

4) Saving Lakewood’s Detroit Theater: Looking elsewhere for inspiration

5) Developing the right way

Keeping it real Thanks to our writers Roldo Bartimole, John Benson, Julie Cajigas, Carol Drummond, Larry Durstin, Mansfield Frazier, Elsa Johnson & Victor Lucas, Claudia Taller, Sarah Valek and Laurie Wanninger. And lastly, though certainly not least, thanks to our readers and everyone who partners with us. Want to volunteer and contribute your writing to Cool Cleveland? Send your reviews, articles, or story ideas to: Events@CoolCleveland.com.

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