Junk

04.10-04.17.13
Junk

One man’s treasure. I guess I would be that man.

Appreciation is a word we use often. Alex offers her appreciation of Robert Ebert, ironically in time for our own film feast. Teens can turn their own personal junk into art at MOCA, while Sid the Science Kid hangs out at CMNH.

I run into Valerie Mayen a bit since I’m at Gordon Square all the time. This week, she’s doubling down on her space, and you’re invited to celebrate.

Our urban landscape can look pretty junky or is that just your subconscious getting the better of you? Commentator Richey Piiparinen explores that phenomenon and highlights the good work of Jack Storey and Phil Kidd and other rust belt revivalists.

While you’re at it, inhale the Cleveland Mini Maker Faire hosted by Ingenuity at CPL. Go forth & create, just like your urban ancestors have done. Think or swim. Rock the catwalk. Cupcake wars! Maybe have a stop at the Cleveland Flea on St. Clair. Just don’t call it junk.

Performance art is blowing up around here (it’s about time). Meanwhile, Terry Schwarz & Corine Vermeulen explore art’s role in improving the urban landscape. Whoa, really? We’ve been exploring that for 10 years. Now get your hands off my junk. –Thomas Mulready

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A city can be a catch-all for personal junk. Here, the mechanism is a psychological one, and it’s one called “projection,” which is defined as “a defense mechanism where a person subconsciously denies his or her own negative attributes by ascribing them to objects or persons in the outside world instead.”

The comment section on Cleveland.com, and other metropolitan comment sections, is perhaps the ultimate proving ground for excavating interpersonal crap onto the other…
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We’ve heard many stories of the Holocaust, but none like these.

Using an innovative projection system that turns all the walls of the Maltz Museum’s gallery into floor-to-ceiling display screens, their new exhibition Spots of Light features the life stories of numerous women dealing with life and death, food and art, faith and friendship, motherhood and personhood, love and everyday life.

Listen to executive director Lynda Bender as she highlights a few of her favorite exhibits: a brassiere handmade from scavenged materials; a group of 10 women who banded together and survived the concentration camps; the obsession with food and recipes even though most of the prisoners were starving. MaltzMuseum.org

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Summer of Performance Art Sculpture Center brings performance artists to Cle. Performance art? It’s about time!

* Lakewood native & Tony Award nominee Dee Hoty stars in Rich Girl opening Fri 4/19 @ Cleveland Play House.
* Good Greens Bars are yummy, vegan & packed w/ fruits & veg… and they’re coming to an event near you.

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SPONSORED: NEO premieres eleven new plays on Thu 4/18, all written, produced, and performed by second graders! As the finale of Cleveland Clinic’s 2013 Spotlight on Learning program, students will debut their original, health-related works at three of the region’s top venues. Take a behind-the-scenes peek and RSVP here: ClevelandClinic.org/SpotlightOnLearning

Akron-Canton Airport pulled out all the stops with balloons, cookies and lots of smiles for their 3rd annual Customer Appreciation Day.

We caught up with lots of happy vacationers and business travelers who had some nice things to say about CAK’s convenience, customer service and low low fares. AkronCantonAirport.com

SPONSORED: Cleveland Mini Maker Faire FREE! Come celebrate the processes of learning and doing, and to share discoveries, curiosities, inventions, innovations, and ideas. Sat 4/13 from 10AM to 6PM at Cleveland Public Library, 325 Superior Ave., N.E. Cleveland, OH 44114. Crafts, technology, talks, and more! MakerFaireCleveland.com

Cleveland and Cuyahoga County governments are notorious for being tone deaf on certain issues. They’re at it again with their obsession with Skywalks, so Cool Cleveland commentator Joe Baur made this video with Wile E. Coyote and Bill Murray’s Carl Spackler to show how ridiculous they’re being.

SPONSORED: Scenes & Be Seen… This season, CIM’s Opera Theater celebrated the marriage of music and comedy with Il matrimonio segreto and got deadly serious with Dialogues of the Carmelites. Now, CIM brings balance – and fantasy – to the stage with a selection of Sensational Scenes, 4/19-4/21. Info & tickets at CIM.edu or 216.795.3211.

* The Sandwich Special: The Corny Beast! A super-jumbo, all-beef fresh made hot dog with extra melty American cheese, corn bread battered and fried golden brown & served with spicy Chipotle ketchup. Cheese-on-a-stick will also be available / Vegetarian Option Available.

* Beer Feature: Bell’s Oberon Ale

* Drink Feature: The Fresh Basil Sea Breeze

* Bread Pudding: Cracker Jack Themed Bread Pudding

* Film Feature # 1: “Caddyshack” Thu 4/5 – Sun 4/7, featuring – The Bushwood Clubhouse Melt

* Film Feature #2: “Major League” Thu 4/19 – Sun 4/21, featuring – The “It’s Way Too High” Melt

* Melt Night at Progressive Field on Thu 4/18 vs. Boston Red Sox. Special Melt Section with great discounted tickets for only $15. The first 250 tickets sold out in 36 hours. A new section has been released to Melt and the tickets are selling fast. Be a part of the fun! Owner Matt Fish will be throwing out the first pitch! Check out the Melt Website for more details and ticket purchase instructions, and use code word MELT: MeltBarAndGrilled.com

SPONSORED: We’ll have a funky good time launching Tri-C JazzFest with a free party at 5PM on Fri 4/19 in the State Theatre lobby. Soul artist Nadir will start things with a sizzle. Stop in, buy a drink, then stay for Dr. John and Aaron Neville. Stop here for tickets and details.

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SPONSORED: On Sat 4/13, come Celebrate Science with Sid the Science Kid at The Cleveland Museum of Natural History! From 10AM-3PM, enjoy crafts, activities, science demonstrations and catch a special preview of Sid the Science Kid: The Movie. Free with Museum admission! CMNH.org

The Michael Stanley Band broke up in 1987. But its leader wasn’t finished with music by a long shot. Stanley is back with The Ride, his second album in less than a year, a series of almost sold-out shows at the Tangier in Akron, and a just-announced date at Cain Park this summer. Fri 4/12.

* Four-trumpet ensemble kicks off Tri-C Jazzfest with Trumpet Genesis. Sun 4/14.
* Blues singer Steev Inglish used to be Mr. Downchild. He’s got a new CD to go with his new name. Sat 4/13.
* Relive those ’90s Euclid Tavern Mondays with Today Is the Day. Bring earplugs. Thu 4/11.
* Cleveland’s Baby Dee has attracted a worldwide fan base. She’s back home at Mahall’s this week. Sun 4/14.
* College radio station WRUW 91/1 FM hosts its annual radiothon. Listen and give! Mon 4/8-Sun 4/14.
* Workshop helps your kid become a blues player without selling his/her soul to the devil. Sat 4/13.

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Tinker Space: Teen Push yourself into new ways of thinking, seeing & making in this experimental art-making lab for youth @ MOCA. For teens age 13 – 17.

* Uzu & Muzu from Kakaruzu A musical parable about silly fights & peaceful solutions. Learn about instruments, too.
* Celebrate science with Sid the Science Kid @ CMNH.
* Blues Guitar & Song Writing Workshop interactive workshop for kids 8 – 14.

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WED 4/10
Create the Next Wave International Conference on Adoption. Gain a deeper understanding of the adoption experience. Five days of activities, 66 workshops, films & entertainment.

* Wanna discuss death? Do so over coffee at Cle’s first Death Cafe.
* Red, White & Blueprints: A Rust Belt Documentary screens @ CIFF & Akron Art Museum.

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THU 4/11
Yellowcake’s Grand Re-Opening Designer Valerie Mayen’s shop re-opens w/ a new expanded & re-imagined store, & she’s throwing a party to celebrate. Comp sweets, live music, demos, activities & a whole lotta stylish new items for spring.

* Art as catalyst for urban change? Terry Schwarz & Corine Vermeulen discuss art’s role in improving the urban landscape.
* National Poetry Month continues @ Lkwd Library. Tonight, dissect 007 w/ poetry.
* Rock the CATWALK Have fun while doing good.

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SPONSORED: Oberlin College has invited laureates from past Cooper International Competitions back to the campus, and this afternoon at 3PM, several of them will perform live from the KeyBank Studio. Tomorrow, Thu 4/11 at 7PM, WCLV 104.9 will be live at Finney Chapel for more performances by the laureates. Details on all of WCLV’s unique classical music programming at WCLV.com

FRI 4/12
Adam Magyar: Kontinuum Looking at the human quest through unconventional photographic devices @ Transformer Station.

* Woodcuts & Drawings: works on paper and their processes. Intricate prints from Cle artist Andrij Maday @ the Morgan.
* White People presented by none too fragile theater. A brutally honest meditation on race & language in our culture.
* Pestival 2013 “If you can’t beat it, eat it.” An invasive plant gets turned into a culinary delight.
* Island Celebration at Caribbean Flavor Languid island sounds in the heart of Euclid.
* Taking Tango to the Streets on E. 4th. Tango dance party!

Click here for more events on Fri 4/12

SAT 4/13
Cleveland Mini Maker Faire Ingenuity Cle hosts the first local Mini Maker Faire. This free event is open to people of all ages who want to learn, discover, create & play with the region’s maker class. Go forth & create.

* H2O’s Bikes and Bands Enjoy music by Lakewood youth musicians & support youth cycling. Kid-friendly!
* Yuri’s Night Space party in the Science Center. All-night dancing & cosmic cocktails.
* The Cleveland Flea presents Second Saturdays on St. Clair. Urban markets w/ 50+ vendors.
* Singer-Songwriter Kevin Gordon plays Ohio City house concert.
* Bid on an Artist-Designed Rain Barrel at a party @ Arts Collinwood.

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SUN 4/14
Cupcake Wars!! Bakers square off to see who serves up the best cupcakes @ the Sweet Spot. But these cupcakes are for a cause — to help homeless animals in the Lakewood Animal Shelter. Sweet… in more ways than one.

* Local Jazz Singer Evelyn Wright tests the limits of her talent @ Nighttown.
* Janis Ian & Karla Bonoff @ the Kent Stage. Two “lifer” musicians.

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MON 4/15
Think or Swim Fish: they’re smarter than you think. Animal behavior expert Jonathan Balcombe will talk about just how, according to new research, rich their lives are.

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TUE 4/16
Avant-Garde Jazz Ensemble @ Mahall’s. Cutting-edge jazz at a bowling alley? Isn’t Cleveland wonderful! Upright bassist Shayna Dulberger is an active part of NY’s lively free jazz scene. Hear her perform tonight.

* Classical Revolution @ Happy Dog Bringing classical music to rock audiences.
* Mini Psych-Rock Fest w/ Black Angels @ the Beachland.

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WED 4/17
Charley’s Aunt @ Weathervane Playhouse. A hilarious tale of young love originating from 1892.

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When Jimmy Dimora was sentenced to far, far too long in prison for what amounted to little more than a couple of blow jobs, a pizza oven for his backyard and some marble counter tops for his kitchen, the only major media outlet to raise a question was Channel 19….
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Despite the Cleveland Indians marketing slogan asserting that ours is a “Tribe Town,” anyone who has been paying attention to the sports-talk discourse over the past few years has little doubt that Cleveland is owned lock, stock and barrel by the Browns.

In fact, it could be argued that — media-wise — the team is more like an occupying army than a football franchise…
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Dear Roger Ebert,

My Dad texted me that you have passed on. You’re now reunited with Gene Siskel.

While you may be happy to see your long time friend and work partner, the rest of us are very sad to watch you go.

I, for one, am in tears…
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As I reach the age of 80 it is hard for me to believe that my life has taken roads that I would never have foreseen. It has been an unexpected life journey.

So I take liberty now to speak of it….
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The Opportunity Corridor – Can We Do Better? Angie, I respectfully disagree with your analysis. As you indicate, this is a boulevard, a couple of miles long with several traffic lights and a 35 mph speed limit, yet most of your comparison reference freeway/highways….
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I do not live in the city, but I see what freeways have done, along with the misguided urban renewal projects of the ’50s and ’60s. I lived in St. Louis and saw Pruitt-Igoe built. They demolished a fine neighborhood to do that and it turned into a crime-ridden mess….
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Great perspective on a project that would further neglect transit in Cleveland in favor of overspending money on unnecessary roads….
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Get off the “Opportunity Corridor” and embrace use of federal monies (for bikes and pedestrians) that will revive your neighborhood….
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Forest City is scheduled to receive 50 east side houses from the county land bank with the possibility of receiving hundreds more. What a scam. Targeted gentrification for years…
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VIDEO: Bal Ingenieux With Danielle Muad’ Dib Danielle, you look great as usual. You and your husband are fabulous representatives of Cleveland’s “bohemians”. Thank you, Thomas , for keeping us up to snuff on the many “happenings” in Cleveland….
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Come on down…
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Heinen’s Now Offering Tap Beer By The Growler or Glass The Heinen’s in Chardon has this too. Unfortunately on a weekend when I shop, nobody is there to fill the growler for you….
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