In Balance

01.05-01.12.11
In Balance

We hope you found some balance over the holidays. You might enjoy our feature on NEO’s alternative and holistic health centers, or scroll down for new music from The Modern Electric, ingenious links, and Mansfield’s take on cleaning up county corruption in a balanced way. It’s really the only way to move forward. –Thomas Mulready

Click here to subscribe or for a web version of this email
Experience Cool Cleveland videos & podcast & BFD blog & Facebook & Twitter & CoolCleveland.com
To ensure you receive Cool Cleveland every week, take a moment now and add CoolCleveland@CoolCleveland.com to your address book, trusted sender list, or corporate white list. Learn More.
Interested in advertising? Contact Cool Cleveland at Info@CoolCleveland.com
Click on our SPONSORED links below for your chance to win $300. Find out How To WIN.

Not Feeling 100 Percent?
Visit one of NEO’s holistic health centers

The winter months bring more than snow and cold temperatures — they bring a whole line-up of different ailments and illnesses. No one likes to feel sick, whether from the flu, diarrhea, strained muscles or broken bones, or from chronic conditions like arthritis, cancer or high blood pressure. Feeling sick is unpleasant, motivating people to find relief.

In the United States, Canada, and European countries, the Western-style medical model based in human anatomy and physiology generally looks like this: Patients don’t feel well, so they ask doctors to treat their symptoms. Doctors may order tests, tell patients to take specific pills, or may recommend surgery or some other form of therapy.

Not finding relief with this conventional system, a growing number of people are searching for alternative and blended forms of energy healing… Read more from Susan Schaul here

Looking to reach the region with your online advertising? Consider CoolCleveland Sponsored Links and Sponsored Videos. Info@CoolCleveland.com

Click on our SPONSORED links below for your chance to win $300. Find out How To WIN.

SPONSORED: Browns/Cavs/Tribe Going Green Cleveland sports teams are wining big in the field of sustainability. Learn how the Browns, Cavs and Indians are bringing sustainable practices into the sports arena. Get the scoop on their initiatives, challenges and future plans at Baldwin-Wallace College Tue 1/18/11 from 5PM to 7PM. For more information, call 440-826-5923 or visit BW.edu

Emerging Green Builders Hey, young professionals: Come together in the name of sustainable business practices & join the Emerging Green Builders / Emerging Professionals NEO Chapter. Get involved in green building locally and meet some new friends. The first meeting of ’11 is on Thu 1/6 at 5:30PM @ Neptune Plumbing & Heating.

* Ingenious NEO One columnist says we (& other Midwestern cities) have devised ingenious recovery strategies for coping w/ hard times.
* Increased hunger in Cuy County The Cle Foodbank is in high demand — the past two years have seen a 50% increase in food distribution.
* Hollywood comes to Cle Mark yr calendars for a Hollywood-style film premiere complete w/ red carpet & stars on Tue 2/8 @ Solon Cinemas.
* NOCA OneIndustry Forum Discuss the changing role of county government & its relationship w/ surrounding neighborhoods. Wed 1/26 at 7:30AM.
* Regional Prosperity for Northeast Ohio, Growing Together forum @ CSU MGL College of Urban Affairs. Discuss how NEO communities can create an environment for economic prosperity. Thu 1/27 at 4PM.

Click here for more News and Biz

One Big College Town
Higher Education Transforms NEO

What does higher education contribute to Northeast Ohio’s economy? What are the benefits of having 27 colleges and universities in the region? How does the Cleveland Plus region stack up when it comes to higher ed?

Check out this interview with Ann Womer Benjamin, the Executive Director of NOCHE, the Northeast Ohio Council on Higher Education, as she talks about her group’s role in connecting the region’s colleges and universities with area businesses and corporations. Watch the video here. This month, higher education will be featured on the Cleveland Plus Web site, ThePlus.us. Visit throughout the month to learn more about Northeast Ohio’s tremendous strengths in this area.

Cool Cleveland Podcast Weekly roundup of cool events, in an easy-to-digest 3 minute audio format, for playback on your computer or iPod.

Click here to subscribe to the Cool Cleveland Podcast in iTunes.

SPONSORED: Happy Hour for Young Professionals hosted by Cleveland Play House! Join us on Mon 1/10 at ABC The Tavern, 1872 W. 25th Street from 5:30PM to 7:30PM for FREE FOOD, drink specials, and inside scoop on our move downtown, from Cleveland Play House Artistic Director Michael Bloom. RSVP online here.

Cleveland Orchestra Family Concert Kids pack Severance Hall on Sun 1/9 at 2PM for a very special family concert of Russian ballet music, featuring Igor Stravinsky’s The Firebird among other selections. Go before the concert for snacks, art, dancing, coloring & an instrument discovery workshop. Orchestra, kid-style.

* Whooo’s Out There? Learn about & search for Great Horned Owls @ the West Woods Nature Ctr on Sun 1/9. Dress warm.
* Tobogganing @ Cle Metroparks Shoot down one of two 1,000 ft refrigerated ice chutes. Go super fast!
* Mummy Mania Family Workshops Create yr name in hieroglyphics @ the Children’s Musuem of Cle.

Click here for more Cool Cleveland Kids events

Not Your Grandma’s Historical Society
WRHS gears up for 1970’s Bash

Yes, you’ll want to check out the cool cars in the Crawford Auto Museum, and the fun Kidzibits for families, and the two (count ’em) mansions to tour, but the real excitement for young professionals is the 2nd annual Somewhere In Time benefit on Sat 1/22, this time with the theme 1970’s Fever, and featuring Cleveland rock personalities, and the Sounds of the legendary Agora, with cool dance lessons & contests.

Watch this Cool Cleveland interview with WRHS’s Angie Lowrie, and get your tix by visiting WRHS.org, calling 216-721-5722 X291, sending email to: SomewhereInTime@WRHS.org, or visiting Facebook.

SPONSORED: One Singular Sensation! Marvin Hamlisch has won 3 Oscars, 4 Grammys, 4 Emmys, 3 Golden Globes and a Pulitzer. Now you can catch him live, conducting the Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra, playing the piano and hosting the festivities on Sat 1/29 at Severance Hall. Get details at CIM.edu, or tix at 216-231-1111.

WED 1/5
Live Jazz @ Arts Collinwood Cafe On Wed 1/5, the Conrad Reeves – Matthew Adomeit Duo, a young hot jazz band from Oberlin, will perform original music plus American songbook standards from 8 – 10PM. No cover charge. Full menu w/ veg specials.

* Kings of Pastry film screening @ CMA. A mouthwatering & suspenseful look into the French pastry competition.

Click here for more events on Wed 1/5

THU 1/6
Thrash away the New Year @ Cranky’s Pub in Ohio City. For a mere $5, hear from a whole slew of bands on Thu 1/6: Ghost I’m Gone (Mass. pop punk), Crackpot [pictured] (fast hardcore from Mass.), Second Time Around, Setbacks & Clouds. Plus drinks.

Click here for more events on Thu 1/6

FRI 1/7
Image / Object / Material: Recent works by Christi & Jerry Birchfield @ Arts Collinwood. This brother-and-sister exhibition opens on Fri 1/7 at 6PM. Jerry deals with the idea of conceptual space, imagined geometry & meta-lines, whereas Christi plays w/ decay, beauty, color & nature. Stay after their show for Art de Rockus Concert Series #1 w/ Jukebox Value, User & Madame and the Moist Towelettes. [Photo: Christi Birchfield – Rebel, Detail 2010.]

* Dexter Davis: Monsters and Ghosts @ William Busta Gallery. Collages masterfully created w/ cautious dissonance.
* Backwards in High Heels @ CPH A raucous musical celebration of Ginger Rogers.
* Postmodern Problems: OddyFest #29 A collection of monologues from 20 different plays performed by variegated members of the Oddy troupe. Stange (free) theater.
* Benefit for Dave P. @ Happy Dog Help pay the medical bills of a popular local who was attacked by a surly Canadian.

Click here for more events on Fri 1/7

SAT 1/8
North Union Farmers Market’s Indoor Winter Markets kick off this Sat 1/8 and run every Sat through Sat 3/26. Locally-grown produce isn’t a summer exclusive — you can still stock up on homegrown items in the winter… from the comforts of a heated building in Shaker Square. Meet yr neighbors & support our local economy. 9AM – noon.

* The Fifty Dollar Show @ Pop Shop Over 200 pieces of art offered at $50 apiece. Go get some.
* West Shore Film Series: Mike’s Beautiful Life A hard-hitting indictment on how corporate power has “taken a wrecking ball to the environment and our health.”

Click here for more events on Sat 1/8

SPONSORED: The WCLV/CIM program Offbeat returns to the air this Sat 1/8 at 11AM at 104.9. This radio program is designed to answer some pressing questions about classical music (well, maybe not so pressing, but thought-provoking nonetheless). Each hour-long show will explore the work of an artist or delve into a musical topic. Offbeat provides a cool combination of great music, interesting guests and slightly off-the-wall commentary – a lively behind-the-scenes tour of classical music. Merry Peckham, cellist for the Cavani String Quartet is the host. Full details on all of WCLV’s programming at WCLV.com.

SUN 1/9
Elvis Birthday Tribute! C’mon. You can’t deny the kitschy appeal of Elvis. So, go on, enjoy two hours of live Elvis music on Sun 1/9 @ PlayhouseSquare’s Elvis Birthday Tribute, now going on 20 years strong. See all incarnations of Elvis, from his rockabilly background to his Las Vegas jumpsuit days. Hear over 50 songs!

* The Dixon Family Reunion @ LPL Step back in time and space & enter a smoky 1950s roadhouse… within the comforts of the library.
* Don’t drop the ball Continue to shop local @ Kamm’s Corners (Indoor) Farmers’ Market.

Click here for more events on Sun 1/9

MON 1/10
Science Cafe Cleveland returns on Mon 1/10. The topic: “Spider silk: An evolutionary experiment in a biological supermaterial.” Learn about spider silk, a substance tougher than Kevlar & as stretchy as rubber. Have a drink & be amazed. 7PM @ Great Lakes Brewing Co. Tasting Rm. [Photo: Kim Yanoshik]

* Achieving an Ethical Culture Learn all about the County Council’s proposed Code of Ethics @ the City Club.

Click here for more events on Mon 1/10

TUE 1/11
Open Mic @ The Root Cafe Show off your talents or sit back and enjoy the show, latte in hand, @ the Root Cafe’s ever popular Open Mic night, happening every Tue at 7:30PM. Check it out this Tue 1/11. Music, poetry, comedy, whatever. Hosted by the exuberant XELA.

* Rebuilding Cle’s Population: Acting On the 2010 Census Results forum sponsored by NextBroadway.

* The Dark Room @ CPT Writers: bring your work. Actors: come out & read.

Click here for more events on Tue 1/11

WED 1/12
An evening of song & spoken word w/ Peter Himmelman @ the Winchester. He may not be as mystical as his father-in-law, Bob Dylan, or as hip as his contemporaries, but Peter Himmelman knows how to write songs w/ honest, soul-searching intensity. Plus, he’s an amazing visual artist. Hear him on Wed 1/12 at 8PM in Lkwd.

Click here for more events on Wed 1/12

Send your cool events to: Events@CoolCleveland.com

CD REVIEW: The Modern Electric
The Modern Electric

I’d say I’m reviewing Cleveland veterans this week… but that’s not really true. With only one release floating through the musical atmosphere, The Modern Electric got it right the first time. They have the sound of a band that has FOUND their sound. (And you can hear this sound Sat 1/8 @ the Grog Shop.)

Pounding pianos, guitars and the raw vocals of Garret Komyati give The Modern Electric its unique sound. Cracks and coarse spots in the vocals show the heart of the song, expressing any emotion you might have missed in the lyrics. If you were to omit the words of the song “Ghost,” it still would convey a haunting sound and the frustration that the lyrics preach. The transitions in each song, melody changes, harmonies, back-up vocals, and purely knowing when to use and not use their instruments all are done smoothly, giving every song a personality and its own vibe… Read more from Laurie Wanninger here

There’s a fine, thin — yet highly distinctive — line between legitimate, much-needed, honest “reform”… and a media-hyped and driven “witch hunt.” And it seems as if our new county executive is proposing to engage in the latter — in his noble attempt to accomplish the former.

That same media is now reporting that “a few” members of the County Council are against wholesale firings at the Boards of Revision, but that simply is not the case; reliable sources tell me virtually all eleven members are in opposition to treating these Boards of Revision people unfairly … and these officials need to be applauded for their brave stance. They are not saying that they are for keeping anyone, they simply are calling for people to be looked at on an individual, case-by-case basis. How can that be so wrong?

It might just be the circle of acquaintances I converse with, but in my admittedly very unscientific polling I can’t find one single, solitary soul who is for a policy that is tantamount to throwing the baby out with the bathwater, or perhaps, more appropriately, “burning down the village in order to save it.” I wonder what the results would be if one of the local media conducted its own poll…
Read from from Mansfield Frazier here

Read other recent pieces by Mansfield Frazier here

Quick previews & reviews of recent events
Submit your own preview, review or commentary to Events@CoolCleveland.com

Comment on our blog here: http://www.CoolCleveland.com/blog

Possibilitarian Puppet Theater It’s not like what they’re doing is that confusing. Your article came across as unnecessarily condescending. Maybe you were trying to be amusing. Thanks for spreading the word about an important part of Cleveland, though…
Read the comment from Samantha here

Black Alley Cat Race and Zombie Bike Ride I found a flyer for this after the event. It was a zombie bike ride and pub crawl. Zombies, bikes, and beer! Holy crap! I hope they do it again next year. I’m soooo there…
Read the comment from The Incredibly Enthusiastic Girl here

Read and comment here: http://www.coolcleveland.com/blog

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

1) Possibilitarian Puppet Theater: A politically odd New Year’s celebration

2) Shaker Square: More Walkable Than Lakewood?

3) New York Times Covers Snow Days @ Progressive Field

4) Vegetarian/Vegan Night At Deagan’s Kitchen & Bar

5) Ohio Knitting Mills: A store, a museum & a love letter to Cleveland [pictured]

Staying in balance with our excellent writers: Greg Cielec, Kelly Ferjutz, Mansfield Frazier, Susan Schaul, 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.

* Experience the Cool Cleveland podcasts and videos each week at http://www.CoolCleveland.com
* Join the conversation at Brewed Fresh Daily http://www.BrewedFreshDaily.com
* Watch the Cool Cleveland videos
* Listen to Cool Cleveland on WCLV-FM 104.9 twice each Friday during drive time
* Send your cool events to: Events@CoolCleveland.com, and your letters to: LettersATCoolCleveland.com
* Receive your own copy of the free weekly Cool Cleveland e-zine at http://www.CoolCleveland.com
* Think about moving to the Cleveland Plus region: ClevelandPlusLiving.com
* Friend us on Facebook: http://companies.to/coolcleveland
* Follow us on Twitter: http://Twitter.com/coolcleveland

It all balances out,

–Thomas Mulready
LettersATCoolCleveland.com

Cool Networks LLC / 14837 Detroit #105 / Cleveland, OH 44107
All contents (c)2011 Cool Networks LLC all rights reserved

Post categories:

Comments are closed.
[fbcomments]