07.04-07.11-2018 Taste It

07.04-07.11.18
Taste It

Don’t pass up your chance. The Cleveland Metroparks know this, so they’re hosting Taste on the Lake with local bands, local art, local food and local drink.

Two Divorced Moms make fun at SPACES, the YSU Summer Festival of the Arts turns 20 in Youngstown, the Baseball Heritage Museum celebrates Negro Leagues start Satchel Page, and Poolside Plaid makes a splash at CHC.

Women vets are honored at the Maltz, Chataqua-in-Chagrin explores cybersecurity, and LGBT authors appear at Mac’s Backs. Collective Arts Network created the CAN Triennial as the local component to the Cleveland FRONT Triennial, with a preview this Friday.

You’ll need a net for Burgers & Butterflies, Dogs & Dragons at the Swine Creek Reservation, your reading glasses for the Larchmere Boulevard Festival, and your old videos of rock bands back in the day for the Rock Hall Archives’ Film and Video Preservation Day. Because you always had the best taste. –Thomas Mulready

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VIDEO: Two Divorced Moms… The Talk Show Live at SPACES

Friendship, love and positivity are Peg and Deb’s mantras. These two divorced moms take their struggles and grow stronger from them one day at a time.

Join recent divorcees Peg and Deb, the alter egos of performance artists Ben Oblivion and Marcia Custer, at SPACES Gallery Sat 7/7. They explore having it all, losing it and desperately clawing their way back to self-acceptance at the live filming of Two Divorced Moms… The Talk Show! Complimentary brunch beverages will be served. Hurry, limited tickets are available.

Celebrating Our Lake

Since its takeover by the Cleveland Metroparks five years ago, Edgewater Park has increasingly become a mecca on the lake, a prime spot for city people to enjoy our greatest natural asset with improvements and additions to the park itself and a plethora of special events such as the weekly summer Edgewater Live concerts.

Now there’s a big new one, called the Taste on the Lake Fest. For two days, people can come down to enjoy local bands, local art, local food and drink, and more. Our reporter John Benson runs down all the details about what’s happening there. Sat 7/6-Sun 7/7.

An Art Feast Is Coming

Two years ago, when the first Cleveland FRONT Triennial was announced, bringing international artists’ work to town for three months, there was griping about our wealth of local talent being overlooked. So Cleveland visual art nonprofit CAN (Collective Arts Network) stepped into the breech with the month-long CAN Triennial at 78th Street Studios.

CAN picked 90 artists to fill the building with work and installations, as well as film and music, but there will be many more in the resident studios and galleries, and exhibition areas hosted by galleries and arts organizations. There’s a preview party Fri 7/6; the show opens to the general public Sat 7/7.

Supreme Court Appointments – It’s All a Matter of Timing

With the retirement of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy at the end of this month, there’s deep concern on the left that the almost-guaranteed appointment of a far-right ideologue to replace him could set back progressive policies, as well as basic human rights, half a century or more – damage that would not be reparable in the lifetimes of millennials.

CoolCleveland columnist Ellen Connally, an avid U.S. history buff, explores the impact of timing on the courts of the late 20th century, what that meant for crucial decisions like Brown v. Board of Education, which outlawed school segregation, and how these lifetime appointments were distributed among various presidents.

Award-Winning

Nature-based artist Susie Frazier is one of the longest-term residents of 78th Street Studios where her showroom draws in visitors with her healing, peace-inducing work made from natural and recycled materials.

Last year, Frazier created TV pilot called Movers & Makers with Susie Frazier that broke the reality show mold by emphasizing cooperation between makers to realize a concept rather than competition. Last week she and her co-producer Gordon Recht won a regional Emmy for the show and are looking toward creating a full series.

Beautiful Things on the Wing

The Geauga Park District is making nature-lovers of all ages an offer they can’t refuse. They’ll give you a net to go out in the fields and catch butterflies and dragonflies and a free hamburger or hotdog too. Naturalists will be on hand to offer information about these entrancing insects. Sun 7/8.

* Foluke Cultural Arts gets the whole family movin’ and groovin’ with a night of dance. Fri 7/6.

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July 2018 at Melt Bar and Grilled

Sandwich Specials: Firecracker Chicken (pictured) & Up in Smoke. Summertime Classic Sides: Watermelon Salad & Mexicali Potatoes. Bread Pudding: Campfire S’mores Bread Pudding. Beer Feature: Heavy Seas AmeriCannon. Cocktail Feature: Bomb Pop Sangria.

Melt News: Melt Bar and Grilled at Cedar Point is BACK for another season! Try the new Cedar Point exclusive sandwich: Chicken Vengeance Western Club. And at all locations, the Impossible Burger (vegan) is here to stay. Join our Skip the Straws Campaign at Melt Bar and Grilled. Our servers will happily supply a straw by request.

Now that the growing season is in full swing, with new crops coming in each week, the Coit Road Farmers Market is celebrating the arriving harvest with a BBQ. There’s pulled pork, chicken or smoked catfish with lots of sides for meat-eaters and vegans alike. Sat7/7.

* Wondering where to grab those last-minute additions to your July 4th picnic? The Coit Market can help you out there too – they will be open their normal Wednesday morning hours from 10am-1pm Wed 7/4.

Read more of CoolCleveland’s picks for Eats and Drinks.

It was surely hard to pick only five acts to play Women Rock CLE at the House of Blues with so many talented ladies on the scene. But bands like the Whiskey Hollow, fronted by Maddie Finn (pictured), are worthy choices. Fri 7/6

* It’s Beethoven, Mussorgsky and fireworks at the Cleveland Orchestra launches its 42nd season at Blossom. Sat 7/7.

* Cleveland jazz sax veteran Ernie Krivda releases new album of old music at Akron’s Blu Jazz +. Fri 7/6.

* Clarinet quartet the Silver Keys makes “Music for Miles” on the plaza at E. 156th and Waterloo. Sun 7/8.

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WED 7/4
You can watch the Cleveland fireworks a lot of places downtown but one of the best views is from the deck of the Steamship William G. Mather at Great Lakes Science Center’s Rock N’ Boom..

* Fairport Harbor’s Mardi Gras kicks off today with a parade, food, rides and more, and runs through Sun 7/8 when it closes with fireworks.

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THU 7/5
Last year, Cleveland arts maven Liz Maugans solicited self-portraits from local artists and got more than 400, which were displayed at MOCA as the Artist Trust. They’re going up again in the Gordon Square Art Space to be on view during the CAN and FRONT triennials.

* Kent’s legendary Numbers Band plays the Akron Art Museum’s free Downtown@Dusk series.

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FRI 7/6
The Lantern Theatre at Valley View’s Big Red Barn performs a version of the Mark Twain classic The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, adapted for the stage by Cleveland playwright Eric Schmiedl – with a twist. Huck and Jim are both women in this production. It runs through Sun 7/22.

* The Cleveland Orchestra’s Star-Spangled Spectacular celebrates America’s birthday and its own.

* Onboard entertainment livens ride on Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad. Also Fri 7/20 & Fri 8/3.

* Credo Festival faculty play public concert at Oberlin Conservatory.

* New play at convergence-continuum looks at HIV status issues. Through Sat 7/28.

* Bits and Leashes party at the Chagrin Hunter Jumper classic raises money to help animals.

* Akron’s Crafty Mart invades the Canton Museum of Art with major market. Also tomorrow.

* Gypsy takes it all off for you at the Beck Center, though Sun 8/12.

* Ex-James Gang guitarist Richard Shack opens for the Schwartz Brothers at the Beachland.

* Now That’s Class’s Summerslam 2018 reunites a bunch of legendary punk bands.

Click here for more events on Fri 7/6

SAT 7/7
The Larchmere Boulevard Festival has something to keep almost any family member entertained. There’s food, art and music of course, but also chess, magic, yoga, martial arts, and Loganberry Books’ annual Author Alley, one of the area’s largest gatherings of local authors.

* Rock Hall Archives’ Film and Video Preservation Day will digitize your local band home movies.

* Local guitarist/singer/songwriter Holden Laurence plays at Eastlake’s Classic Park after Captains ballgame.

* Take a self-guided tour of gardens in five Cleveland neighborhoods at the 8th annual Cleveland Garden Walk. Also tomorrow.

* YSU Summer Festival of the Arts turns 20. Also tomorrow.

* The Cinematheque opens a two-month series of films by French director Henri-Georges Clouzot, through Sat 9/1.

* The Baseball Heritage Museum celebrates Negro Leagues star Satchel Paige.

* Watch yo-yo masters compete for the Ohio State title at the Beachland Ballroom.

* Poolside Plaid explores the new Mad for Plaid exhibit at the Cleveland History Center.

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SUN 7/8
Nashville’s Sarah Potenza has powerful pipes she applies to her blues/soul/rock-influenced tunes. She should blow out the roof AND walls when she performs in an Ohio City living room for the Mechanic Street House concerts.

* The Beachland Ballroom hosts a memorial for Linas Johansonas aka Johan, a key player in the local music and Lithuanian culture scenes.

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MON 7/9
Mondays are so interesting. If you had a huge weekend, you really don’t feel like doing anything. If you didn’t do diddly, it’s kinda your last chance to make up for it. Mondays are Dart Night at Now That’s Class, where they’re showing off their new dart board.

* Science Cafe at the Music Box looks at the reasons you or your kids may be getting fat.

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TUE 7/10
Two noted local novelists fortuitously happen to have brand new tomes in bookstores everywhere. The monthly Brews + Prose series at Market Garden Brewery has snagged both Paula McLain (pictured) and Thrity Umrigar to be their guests this month.

* Chatauqua-in-Chagrin explores issues of cybersecurity.

* Two authors focused on LGBTQ issues speak at Mac’s Backs on Coventry.

* Help paint a community mural on a bridge between Central and the Campus District.

Click here for more events on Tue 7/10

WED 7/11
As more women serve at the front lines of combat, women veterans increasing suffer from the same post-service issues as men do – and more. The film, Served Like a Girl, screening at the Maltz Museum, looks at how they cope. It’s followed by a discussion with a woman vet.

* Photographer Donald Black Jr. focuses on every-day moments in show at the Shaker Community Gallery.

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