It was 20 years ago this month that CoolCleveland started publishing a little weekly newsletter that pushed back against the received wisdom that our region didn’t have what it takes, wasn’t worthy of the great cities, would never rise to its potential. But in reality, over the past two decades, we’ve all risen, we’ve embraced our quirky eccentricities and authenticities, and we’ve learned to be proud of what we are, rather than ashamed of what we’re not. Did CoolCleveland have something to do with that? I sure as hell hope we did.We’re learning how to choose, plant and care for native plants with a three-organization workshop this week. If you’re up early enough, you can catch a breakfast talk featuring fashion entrepreneur Aimon Ali. Stop by the LGBT Center to hear Diana Chittester perform. There’s a brand new record store on Medina Square with an open-mic night of live music. Spider Saturday at Geauga Park District features four hours of spider experts, events and family fun. And we can’t wait until Cheetah Chrome of Cleveland’s Dead Boys brings the music back home this week.
The reality is, early voting starts today, Wednesday, October 12. Nothing is more important than the opportunity to elect three women to the Ohio Supreme Court: Jennifer Brunner, Marilyn Zayas and Judge Terri Jamison, all of whom are supremely qualified and will push back against the unconstitutionally gerrymandered maps that the Ohio legislature has foisted on us, and who will support women’s rights. Read our ENDORSEMENT and view our exclusive VIDEO interview with Judge Terri Jamison. Let’s get voting. And let’s get real.
Costumes, coyotes and curators, oh my! Once a single-day celebration, Owls & Howls will now span an entire weekend—the evening of Fri 10.28, and all day Sat 10.29, and Sun 10.30.
Guests of all ages are invited to wear costumes and participate in a range of activities and presentations celebrating Ohio’s native animals, including decorating pumpkins. Read more.
There’s one really good reason to vote for Judge Terri Jamison — and her Democratic colleagues Marilyn Zayas and Jennifer Brunner — for the Ohio Supreme Court: unlike their opponents, they do not support redistricting maps that violate the state constitution to maintain outsized & unaccountable power.
But Jamison also has a strong record as an appeals court judge, who was a union coal miner prior to working her way through law school. While the raters at Judge4Yourself.com ranked her equal with her opponent Pat Fisher, Jamison says, “I will apply the law to the individual facts of the case and to our current society to ensure justice and equity for all people.” Fisher has already shown that he will do the opposite if it benefits his political party.
CoolCleveland talked with Judge Terri Jamison about her candidacy for Ohio Supreme Court. Read more.
Every Cleveland music buff knows how Michael Stanley sold out shows at Blossom Music Center while playing 3,000-seat theaters elsewhere.But there was another act that did the same — Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes. They were from New Jersey but they might as well have been local.
And singer Southside Johnny Lyon carries on! He’ll be back at the MGM Grand this weekend on the heels of a new CD of a live recording of a show the band performed at the Cleveland Agora in 1977, released, appropriately, on the revived Cleveland International label. Read more.
You’ve heard over & over “This is the most important election of our lifetime.” But in Ohio, this may be true of the upcoming November 8 election, which could decide if Ohio retains any shreds of democracy. You MUST vote. (Presumably you heeded our plea to register by the 10/11 deadline.)
Early voting starts October 12 @ 8am-6pm. From then through November 7, you can vote at your board of elections, or you can request a mail-in ballot, fill it out and return it (give yourself enough time!)Read more.
Lake Erie Ink’s latest Creative Community Challenge asks people of all ages to submit their favorite recipes & the stories behind them for an anthology which will also feature local star chefs such as Doug Katz, Melissa Khoury, Jeremy Umanski and Tommy Fello of Tommy’s. Read more.
The BOP STOP celebrates director Gabe Pollack’s last night at the club (he’s heading to CMA to become Director of Performing Arts) with an evening with Latin jazz pianist Jackie Warren, Sammy DeLeon & friends Fri 10/14. It’s not goodbye, just “see you soon”! Read more.
SUN 10/16 Musicians Helping Out Breastfest has been raising money to help cancer patients for two decades, but this year’s event is the biggest yet, with 16 music acts including Becky Boyd & Chris Hanna (pictured) at Brothers Lounge.
MON 10/17 For the People Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Tim Ryan, whose campaign is centered on “cutting workers in on the deal,” speaks today at the City Club. His opponent, JD Vance, is sponsored by a billionaire. Vote for Ryan.
The first session of the United States Supreme Court was held on February 1, 1790. Since that date a total of 116 persons have served as justices of the high court. For most of those 232 years, the court has been the sole domain of white Anglo-Saxon protestant men. Today the nine-member court has four women: one is a Latina — Sonia Sotomayor; Elena Kagan, who is Jewish; Amy Coney Barrett, who is white and Catholic; and most recently, Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first African-American woman to serve.
At her swearing-in this week, Justice Jackson had a chance to sit in the chair formerly used by Chief Justice John Marshall, who served as the nation’s fourth Chief Justice from 1801-1835.
Caretakers at the Shockoe Hill Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia, where Chief Justice Marshall is buried, should probably stop by his grave and check to see if the stone has been overturned. Likely, Marshall has turned over in his grave a few times, knowing that a Black woman is now a member of the Supreme Court, sat in his chair, and had the audacity to demand answers of lawyers appearing before the court. Read more
