10.23-10.30.13
Lost
As Cleveland has gotten cooler, what have we lost? Maybe not all that much. It’s a stellar week for getting out in the cool air: our favorite time of the year. The kids are dressing up for Owls & Howls, the Boo-Tanical Bash and Pumpkin Palooza. Area musicians are rehearsing now for the upcoming holiday season, and this week you’ll catch them at The Shining music fest at the Ohio City Masonic Temple, and the Agora with Mushroomhead. Kris Morron kickstarts Tim Burton, TCO tackles Shostakovich and the Rock Hall honors The Stones. You can bet the rock stars will be in the CLE this week. Look for the dudes in the tight pants walking around looking lost.
Get lost in Lakewood on the Chocolate Walk, at NTC for Halloween of Hate, in Akron for the Zombie Walk. Get really lost with Preservation Hall Jazz Band at Severance, Monstermashing for affordable housing, and at Splatt3r F3st at the Chamber. Find yourself as Joe Baur finds inconsistencies in DCA’s new video, and Mansfield bemoans the way justice works, both behind and in front of the bench.
Find yourself in your neighborhood with our new mobile app and you may find yourself $20 better off, like Alisa Warshay. Recommend a cool event in our #Hashtag contest, and win free publicity. It’s funny how being lost can sometimes be a good thing. –Thomas Mulready
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Obie Award-winning Erin Courtney’s Black Cat Lost is a unique work that borders between performance art and theatre.
Black Cat Lost is the latest production from Northeast Ohio’s Theater Ninjas, and their first endeavor since their four month partnership with the Cleveland Museum of Art this Spring…
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SPONSORED: Be part of now as MOCA Cleveland unveils its two new fall exhibitions on Fri 11/1. Michelle Grabner: I Work From Home features work from the prolific artist that explores labor and craft, and Simon Evans’ meticulous, witty assemblages expose the artist’s thoughts. Artist Talk at 7pm. Party and Band at 8pm. Free. MOCAcleveland.org
Right in the middle of rehearsing a piece by Christopher Theofanidis that will be performed at the 2013 FOCUS Festival at Baldwin Wallace University Fri 11/1 – Sun 11/3/13, Cool Cleveland pulled aside BW Composer-In-Residence Clint Needham to talk about contemporary classical music and all the ways BW students can get involved in new music. BW.edu.
SPONSORED: Music at Main Cleveland Public Library’s Music at Main Library features some of NEO’s wonderful musical talent. Sat 10/26 at 2PM Ars Futura Ensemble performs contemporary classical music in the halls of Main Library’s Fine Art Department. For a complete list of upcoming performances, including violinist Emily Cornelius on Sat 11/16, and podcasts of past performances, please visit CPL.org.
Lots of talk these days regarding diversity — and it’s not limited to corporations. Lots of organizations, including companies, universities and non-profits, now issue diversity mission statements and even allocate dedicated teams to ensure what happens within their brands.
But how many have any idea what it means?…
More from Alex Sukhoy here
SPONSORED: Take a Short Ride in a Fast Machine to Severance Hall on Wed 11/20 to experience the CIM Orchestra with CIM Concerto Competition winner, violinist Kyung Ah Oh, performing works vintage and modern by composers John Adams, Jean Sibelius and Hector Berlioz. Tix start at $5; call 216.231.1111 or visit ClevelandOrchestra.com.
He’s gone. David Franklin suddenly leaves Cleveland Museum of Art, leaving many searching for explanations.
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Ron Podowski was tired of the poor customer service he witnessed as a cab driver. So he started his own limo company to offer exceptional service. Ride along with Cool Cleveland’s Thomas Mulready as he talks with Ron about corporate, individual and special occasion transportation.
Customer service is one of the reasons he switched from Square to EMS+ to accept credit cards. Cleveland-based Electronic Merchant Systems is always available to help small businesses serve their customers with their new EMS+ credit card reader. And their rates are .5% cheaper. PlusByEMS.com
There isn’t a more venerated, beloved and respected political name in all of America than that of “Stokes.”
Brothers Carl B. and Louis, sons of a single mother who worked as a domestic, came out of Cleveland’s Outhwaite projects and rose to pinnacles of prominence few siblings outside of the Kennedy’s have achieved…
More from Mansfield Frazier here
Now in its third incarnation, the Gallery at Lakeland’s Skull and Skeleton in Art III: Folk Art to Pop Culture is an art exhibition celebrating art and the culture of Mexico.
What began as 18 artists in 2009 and expanded to 55 artists in 2011, now boasts over 300 works!…
Cleveland musician Kris Morron had this big idea: he wanted to present the music from Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas live onstage with a cast of 30 of Cleveland’s best musicians. Following a successful Kickstarter campaign, his vision becomes a reality this week at the Beachland Ballroom. Sat 10/26.
Read more picks by Anastasia Pantsios here
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How to play: On Wednesday tweet or Instagram the event that you are most excited to attend this week using #CoolCleveland, and make it convincing! We will pick our favorite tweet/tweeter on Thursday and reward them by publicizing their event and their tweet. Include photos, fun, stories, locations, links and everything in between. Have fun!
Boo-Tanical Bash Halloween need not be scary. If you’re looking for more treats than tricks, head over to the Cleveland Botanical Garden’s annual Halloween party in their decked out Hershey Children’s Garden.
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Somebody receives a $20 check from Cool Cleveland every week, just for using our mobile app. It may as well be you.
This week, Alisa Warshay is our winner. And she’s thrilled:
“Wow! That’s cool, just like CLE! Now I can cross this off my bucket list. I will put this 20 bucks back into our local economy.”
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WED 10/23
New Orleans’ Harry Connick Jr. has become something of a pop culture celebrity with his extensive acting resume, but none of that should take away from his music. He’ll be @ PlayhouseSquare.
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THU 10/24
Colors Matter & Eve Ashcraft — the nation’s most sought-after color authority — will tell you just how important the colors you surround yourselves with are when she speaks @ MOCA.
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FRI 10/25
NEXT: Living Art + Design is Cleveland Institute of Art’s day-long event designed to help introduce high school & transfer students to the professional world of art & design for those interested in pursuing a career in the visual arts. Check it out.
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SAT 10/26
Lights, Camera… MURDER! Get the gang together & head on down to the Western Reserve Historical Society for their 3rd Annual Murder Mystery Party, a yp event set to the theme of Tinseltown. Can you discover who did it?
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SUN 10/27
Preservation Hall Jazz Band is a New Orleans tradition that doesn’t go as far back as fans of traditional New Orleans-style jazz might think. Hear this jazz motherlode @ Severance Hall.
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MON 10/28
Spanish string quartet Cuarteto Casals & Cuban guitarist Manuel Barrueco join forces. On Mon, check out a free master class, then a program on Tue.
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TUE 10/29
Say goodbye to Peabody’s current location, if you can handle that much death metal. If you’re sentimental about the place, come down for wall-to-wall death metal & bid adieu.
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WED 10/30
Bone Thugs N Harmony Day will be celebrated @ Now That’s Class. Hear your favorite Bone Thugs songs during happy hour & party appropriately.
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Downtown Cleveland Alliance (DCA) has released their yearly video montage promoting, you guessed it, Downtown Cleveland.
The result is a beautiful portrayal of the neighborhood. But, in reality, the video highlights inconsistencies in the work of DCA…
More from Joe Baur here
There’s little doubt Internet cafes, as they were being operated in Ohio (and in other states), were a pestilence, a rip-off, and society is better off without them.
However, the manner in which they were run out of Ohio on a rail should give pause to everyone who loves liberty, expects probity from government, and respects fair play for all..
Read this story and others from Mansfield Frazier here
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REVIEW: CWRU/CPH MFA Production of TWELFTH NIGHT Goes Somewhat Awry by Roy Berko
REVIEW: LILIES – A Tale of Misguided Love @ convergence continuum by Roy Berko
PHOTOSTREAM: Heights Music Hop by Anastasia Pantsios
PHOTOSTREAM: Follow Along On Mayor Jackson’s “24 Hour City” Walking Tour.
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MANSFIELD: Judge Angela Stokes Should Temporarily Step Off The Bench She is the worst judge on the bench in cleveland. She needs to do something, she rude, mean and her sentences are down right assinine…..
Read the comment from Sherrilynn Plona here
Dear Sir, I was recently thrown out of Angela Stokes’s courtroom. I am a 56 years old black woman who had accompanied her 19 year old son to court for a traffic ticket….
Read the comment from wanda here
Downtown Cleveland Alliance’s Inconsistent Message Joe – having lived here all my life (which is probably at least twice as long as yours) the pace is actually faster than ever before. Also, have you been to many other large cities lately?….
Read the comment from Bob Yanega here
Bob seems way off. Pittsburgh and Boston are thriving cities, mostly because they’re so easy for people to get around (people being more important than outsiders driving through with cars)….
Read the comment from Jeff here
Cleveland Needs A Bold Transportation Plan Thanks so much for writing this article. In my opinion too much attention is placed on the Monday thru Friday 8am to 5pm suburban commuter and not enough on the “off peak” (as RTA’s calls It) ridership which if I’m not mistaken makes up about 40 percent of total ridership….
Read the comment from Leesa Priah here
Great article, Joe. Perhaps providing more and better transportation alternatives should be the role for a renewal of the sin tax?…
Read the comment from Ken Prendergast here
Where to begin, Joe? The only thing that can rid a region of a car culture is a majority of its citizens deciding to change their lifestyles. Does any rational person think that’s on the immediate horizon for Northeast Ohio?…
Read the comment from John Ettorre here
Believe me it would be NICE, $saving NOT to have to drive all over the place, etc. and be able to just walk downstairs, etc. and have it all there but hey…
Read the comment from b 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) Genius Loci: A Retrospective of Randall Tiedman
2) Cleveland Orchestra Comes to Lakewood
3) Cleveland Needs A Bold Transportation Plan
4) There’s Something Strange Happening with Cleveland Sports Teams
5) MANSFIELD: What’s It Going to Be?
Lost for words? Hardly. Thanks, writers: Joe Baur, Roy Berko, Martin Bielat, Mansfield Frazier, Anastasia Pantsios, Alex Sukhoy, 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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