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Howl
Sometimes this town makes us scream. In a good way, of course. And this time of year, we really have something to shout about. When we say ShopLOCAL, we mean it. Since 2006, we’ve been mouthing off about how keep your hard earned scratch at our local purveyors, rather than at the big boxes, the malls and the lifestyle centers. First called the Holiday Buying Guide, then the Holiday Shopping Guide, now it’s simply ShopLOCAL and it’s been totally updated with the latest shops and brand new categories: Biking, Coffee Shops, Handmade, Museums, Bazaars & Pop-Ups, Vintage Shops/Clothing and Health/Sustenance. We think it’s the best local shopping guide in the region, maybe the country; spout off & tell us what you think.
But that’s not all. Jeffrey Bowen urges us to Don’t Just Buy Things: Shop With Heart. We also offer a ShopLOCAL Spotlight featuring profiles of Star Pop’s Troy Schwartz, A Guide To Kulchur’s Lyz Bly & RA Washington, and others. This Week we point you to polka, mathematics, Elvis, free beer, garage rock, handmade stuff, a noise lunch and finger-style guitar. You can even hear James Franco Howl as Allen Ginsberg.
Anastasia has curated a few choice music events during this busy holiday season that are worth your while, Sarah spotlights Go Media’s On The Map project, and Josh profiles 10-year-old art curator Brielle Naji. Mansfield rants about being set up, and Roldo howls about Cle City Council and our daily paper. We’re so proud of our mobile app that we’re giving away t-shirts every week. Give it a try and see if it doesn’t make you scream. –Thomas Mulready
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Earlier this year, Brielle Naji had a wonderful idea. She wanted to curate an art show/benefit to raise funds to fight pediatric cancer at her father’s art gallery — Loren Naji Studio Gallery in Ohio City.
In addition, all the artwork was to be produced by local children between the ages of 5-13 years old…
More from Josh Usmani here
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SPONSORED: Uncover Prehistoric Ohio Dig into our past at The Cleveland Museum of Natural History’s next Explorer Series lecture, “Solving the Mystery of the Moundbuilders: A Northern Ohio Connection.” Curator Dr. Brian Redmond will discuss archaeological excavations that reveal evidence for ceremonialism among ancient Hopewell cultures at 7PM on Fri 12/13. CMNH.org
Denise Smith downloaded the Cool Cleveland app here, and this week we selected her as the fifth winner of our new Cool Cleveland T-shirt. She’s the one in the center. And she’s thrilled:
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In 1894, there was no bigger story in Paris, the world’s most sophisticated culture. The original “trial of the century” was fueled not only by government mis-information, but by the sensationalist media, all in the name of “national security.” Sound familiar?
Now on display at the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage is Traitor! Spies, Lies and Justice Denied: The Dreyfus Affair, an intriguing multi-media exhibit that uses video, art, posters and interactive polling to bring the Dreyfus Affair to life.
Listen to Mark Davidson, Manager of School and Family Programs at the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage as he points out how this exhibition illuminates issues still relevant today: How does the media affect public opinion? How blind is justice? How far will we go in the name of national security? MaltzMuseum.org
Cleveland’s greatest asset is its people. Sure our sports teams inevitably suck, our politicians have proven scandalous and our new bridge is lackluster — but none of that changes the fact that we’re home to an emerging core of people staying here, investing here, dreaming big & trying to do good for the community.
Go Media spotlights some of these creative folks in their On the Map video series, with the 3rd installment premiering Fri 12/6…
More from Sarah Valek here
SPONSORED: Celebrate ArtWorks Afterschool High school student apprentices have been creating dance, ceramic, poetry and digital games with the Center for Arts-Inspired Learning, and now they are ready to show off their art! Join them on Mon 12/9 6-7:30PM at Drinko Hall, CSU for their free final performance & exhibition. Click for more details.
Hey, grad students: The CUDC is looking for interested participants for the 2014 ULI Urban Design Competition. Join a team, creative a viable design scheme & possibly win big.
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What’s the one thing you want to do before you die?
Grab a piece of chalk and make your mark now through Fri 1/31 at the engaging exhibit “Before I Die…” in the long hall between the Main Building and the Louis Stokes Wing of the Downtown Cleveland Public Library.
Marc Zeale explains how the project was started by Candy Chang in New Orleans and has been exhibited on 300 walls in 30 countries in 10 languages. CPL.org
As Thanksgiving is increasingly sold as “thanks getting,” and we are urged to get the ritualistic overeating of convenience foods out of the way so we can do more shopping, it is ever more important to support your locally owned businesses, bars and restaurants…
More from Jeffrey Bowen here
Every year, John Caroll radio station WJCU-FM 88.7 and local metal label Auburn Records join forces for the Holiday Hunger Benefit at the Beachland, presenting a big lineup of the area’s best old and new metal bands — for free. This year it’s two big days. Fri 12/6-Sat 12/7.
Read more picks by Anastasia Pantsios here
Sandwich: The Mighty Macaroni Melt Creamy Homemade Macaroni & Cheese, Breaded and Deep Fried to a Golden Brown.
Beer: Fat Head’s Holly Jolly A festive spiced holiday ale. Cinnamon, ginger, honey, coriander, nutmeg and orange peel spice.
Drink: The Grinch Martini Smirnoff Vanilla Vodka, Creme de Menthe and Creme de Cocoa with a holiday candy cane.
Bread Pudding: Red Velvet Bread Pudding Homemade Chocolate and Red Velvet Bread Pudding with a rich cream cheese sauce.
Film Sandwich Feature: The Home Alone TV Dinner Melt December 20th, 21st & 22nd Salisbury Steak Burger, Potatoes Au Gratin, a side of Green Beans and homemade Apple Sauce. MeltBarAndGrilled.com
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Unwanted toys make great art. At least they do in this workshop @ Akron Art Museum allowing kids to smash old toys & recreate new ones. There will be music, too.
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WED 12/4
CIM faculty concert features world-class piano-violin duo: Sandra Shapiro on piano & Ivan Zenaty on violin. Their combined credentials speak to the quality of the CIM faculty and why it’s one of the world’s outstanding conservatories.
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THU 12/5
Uncork the Fun at Wine in the Holidays, a festive evening featuring music from Blue Lunch, appetizers by AMP 150 & drinks “under the glass” in the fully decked-out Puritas Nursery. Funds benefit Kamm’s Corners Development Corp.
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FRI 12/6
It’s a Waterloo Wonderland at this month’s Walk All Over Waterloo event w/ arts, crafts, a cat party & a lantern procession.
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SAT 12/7
Everything’s $100 or less at Dana Depew’s latest show, Small Works @ Brandt Gallery. Choose from new, functional birdhouses manufactured from pieces of his recent Rust Belt Crystal Palace installation, his rainbow spectrum of tube socks & much more.
Click here for more events on Sat 12/7
SUN 12/8
Lanterns, lights & a whole lot of festivities make up CircleFest. Expect free admission to most University Circle museums, plenty of arts & crafts, live music & a lantern procession to top it all off.
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MON 12/9
How “Useless” Mathematics Revolutionized Our Lives is the topic of this month’s Science Cafe Cleveland. Hear how things we can’t live without came from discoveries initially thought useless.
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TUE 12/10
Baldwin Wallace University’s Musical Theatre program is known for being exceptional. Need proof? See what BW junior Music Theatre majors are capable of when they perform a First Takes review @ Nighttown.
Click here for more events on Tue 12/10
WED 12/11
Howl @ the Maltz View a special screening of Howl, starring James Franco as poet Allen Ginsberg. Be sure to stay for a lively discussion w/ Cleveland Heights’s Poet Laureate Kathleen Cerveny.
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The Circle Is Now Closed… Or Is It?
As I exited the elevator on the third floor of the InterContinental Hotel on my way to the conference being held on the alarming number of heroin deaths statewide, someone poked me in the back…
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Brent Larkin is taking off and running. He fakes to the left. And then goes right. Larkin’s column on Sunday appears to be a spanking of Browns owner Jimmy Haslam and Mayor Frank Jackson. It’s not…
The city will fork over $2 million a year for 15 years to the billionaire-owned Cleveland Browns for stadium “improvements.” Plus another $12 million from the sin tax revenues. Both follow a $5.8 million capital contribution earlier this year by the city…
Read this story and others from Roldo Bartimole here
Quick previews & reviews of recent events
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REVIEW: Adventures in Slumberland @ Talespinner Children’s Theatre by Sarah Valek
REVIEW: Sam Shepard’s FOOL FOR LOVE is an illusionary trip @ convergence-continuum by Roy Berko
Comment on our blog here: http://www.CoolCleveland.com/blog
Shop with Heart @CoolCleveland this is a wonderful piece! Sharing it everywhere. Thank you. #feelgoodgiftgiving…
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Thomas Mulready you make me miss the 216…
Ezra Houser, via Facebook
VIDEO: Cleveland Public Library’s “I’m Ready To Read” I used to live in the Slavic Village area (near Union Ave. and Broadway) back in the 1950’s. It’s wonderful that this vibrant school on Lansing Ave. is committed to the neighborhood and to providing the community’s children with a solid education. Kudos to Brian Belmont and his staff!…
Linda Nemec Foster
ROLDO: Brent Larkin’s Fake-Out Move Cleveland council voted to support Jimmy Haslam’s Browns NFL team with $30 million on the same day it was announced that a federal judge in Arkansas awarded $84.9 million to customers who had been swindled by Haslam’s Pilot Flying J company…
Dick Peery
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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) ShopLOCAL at These Pop-Up Shops & Be Happy
2) Happy Dog Owners to Re-Open Euclid Tavern in the Spring
3) Local Comics Creators Shine at 5th Annual Genghis Con at Beachland Ballroom
4) ROLDO: MMPI Escapes with Pockets Full
5) Shaker Square Gets New Look
Our writers are screaming from the rooftops. In a good way. Thanks to Roldo Bartimole, Roy Berko, Marty Bielat, Jeffrey Bowen, Mansfield Frazier, Anastasia Pantsios, Josh Usmani and Sarah Valek. 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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