12.25.13-01.01.14
Retrospect
Looking back, we’ve seen this place gain confidence and assert itself in the 11+ years we’ve been calling it Cool Cleveland. We’ve reformed our government, launched a generation of top chefs, and funded our arts with a massive sin tax. In the process, we’ve become the quintessential rust belt chic magnet. Our arts especially have entered a golden age like nothing we’ve seen in decades. Our story covers recent triumphs like the new MOCA, CMA upgrades, burgeoning neighborhood art scenes, and regional & national funding that is attracting artists & creatives from far & wide. Read how young & old, home for the holidays, can take organized tours of up-and-coming neighborhoods & projects. Party downtown, or all around town, on NYE.
Celebrate the year, and discover cool happenings, available on your mobile app or the site, and you could win a t-shirt just like Tim Cable. Spend time contra dancing in the National Park, enjoy latkes with your Blue Lunch, rock out at the Masonic, hand feed a chickadee, swing along with a Rockabilly Holiday, get loud or dig some Chinese food & a movie on X-Mas. Hashtag #CoolCleveland and help promote your favorite event this week & be the hero. In retrospect, that could be your best move. –Thomas Mulready
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2013 has been an outstanding year for Cleveland overall. The visual art community in particular had one of its best years in a long time.
All this positive change is only possible through the combined efforts of our passionate, dedicated and engaged public officials, cultural leaders & community members. We’ve asked a few of them to offer their insight into both the previous year and the upcoming one…
More from Josh Usmani here
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SPONSORED: Happy Holidays to all veterans The Veterans Initiative at Cuyahoga Community College wishes all military men and women a happy holiday season. Tri-C is committed to veterans and their families, customizing its support services to serve those who have served so proudly. For assistance with enrolling for Spring 2014 visit Tri-C.edu/veterans
We may love Cleveland but it often gets hard always acting like its press agent.
We’ve all been there, but in some ways this stance is disingenuous when it comes to stopping urban sprawl and moving back to Cle proper.
One group hoping to plant a seed of rebirth is Cleveland Neighborhood Progress, which has scheduled its inaugural Cleveland City Life Tours taking place Sat 12/28 & Sun 12/29, as well as Mon 1/20…
More from John Benson here
Artist Melinda Placko, working with the Center for Arts-Inspired Learning at the Fullerton School in Slavic Village, supervises the creation of a mural in the school’s gym.
While CAL’s programs using arts tied to curriculum usually take place in the classroom, Ms. Placko was able to take a few moments to talk with Cool Cleveland as she worked with the students and their parents, donning smocks and working on the mural to spell out the word “Fullerton.” YANEO.org.
Lakewood named one of 10 Most Exciting Small Cities by Business Insider for its abundance of quality non-chain restaurants & active life options.
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If you’re not the type to stay at home on New Year’s Eve, there are venues all over town featuring some of the area’s best musical talent, from metal to jazz to orchestral pops. And many are cheap, for those low on cash after the holidays. Here’s a directory of where to go. Tue 12/31.
Read more picks by Anastasia Pantsios here
For the first time in 15 years, Downtown Cleveland will host a special New Year’s Eve celebration thanks to a group of motivated and engaged young, local professionals — Ohio Homecoming. The inaugural event is hosted by Cleveland’s favorite son, Drew Carey.
CLEveland Rocks New Year’s Eve 2013 – Electric Ice will be the first NYE celebration in Downtown Cleveland since the turn of the millennium.
This free event in Public Square is being described by organizers as “festival-like” w/ a beer garden, ice sculptures, over a dozen local food trucks, fireworks, live performances & more…
More from Josh Usmani here
Have an event to promote? Follow us on Twitter or Instagram @CoolCleveland and tell us! We’ll promote your event and all you have to do is win the #CoolCleveland Hashtag Contest. We’ll pick a winner by Friday, and promote the winning event for FREE all weekend long.
Get in on it! On Monday through Friday tweet or Instagram the event that you are most excited to attend this week using #CoolCleveland. Good luck!
NYE begins at noon at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History Tue 12/31. Party in the planetarium, learn about raptors & toast some apple juice. Cheers!
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Tim Cable downloaded the Cool Cleveland app here, and this week we selected him as the eigth winner of our new Cool Cleveland T-shirt. And he’s thrilled:
“Wonderful app, wonderful city.” A man of few words, but he does have a way with them. Bringing the user, our city, and our content together is what our app is all about, so thank you Tim.
Get the app here and win the T-shirt that can’t be bought, just earned. See all of the past T-Shirt Winners here.
WED 12/25
Blue Lunch & latkes make for a good time @ the Beachland. Eat these addictive potato pancakes when you’re not busy swing dancing on the dance floor.
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THU 12/26
Colt Cobana & Friends sit around & do commentary to bad wrestling @ Paddy Rock: Superpub. Spend your post-Xmas taking in the antics.
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FRI 12/27
It’s a Rockabilly Holiday at the Beachland. The dance floor will get a workout when Martini Five-O takes the stage, followed by the honky-tonkin’ sounds of Mike Brown & the Cuyahoga County Rebels [pictured] & Feral Ritual. Yee-haw.
Click here for more events on Fri 12/27
SAT 12/28
Akron singer/songwriter Roger Hoover made quite an impression on the local music scene with his band the Whiskeyhounds in the mid ’00s. Hoover & the Hurt play the Happy Dog, w/ Brent Kirby, a singer-songwriter-rocker as ubiquitous & productive as Hoover has been elusive & erratic, opening.
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SUN 12/29
Hand feed a chickadee at the Cleveland Metroparks in Brecksville every weekend through the end of Feb. Take some seed, hit the trail & have a little patience.
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MON 12/30
Jazz singer Vanessa Rubin comes home for the holidays to Nighttown. She’s especially known for her skillful interpretations of Billie Holiday tunes.
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TUE 12/31
The Local Rock New Year’s Eve celebration at Ohio City’s Masonic Temple is back again for the third year, featuring one band that’s played the previous two years (Filmstrip, pictured) & a batch of new ones to check out.
Click here for more events on Tue 12/31
WED 1/1
Not only is it acceptable to show up in your jammies to the New Year’s Day Rock n’ Roll Pajama Party Brunch — it’s the whole point. Put on your snazziest fleece & get breakfast at the Ritz.
Click here for more events on Wed 1/1
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I was all for the absurdly conceived, ridiculously titled and altogether phony War on Christmas long before it became fashionable.
My feelings don’t have anything to do with the baby Jesus or what his birth and life represent in terms of hope and spiritual renewal — two things which I dig the most to say the least…
More from Larry Durstin here
There’s so much to see! Read up and educate yourself on how to use just one of our many cool features on our new Cool Cleveland App here.
A quick run down: Click on the Neighborhoods tab. Once you have the tab open you’ll be able to select from a list of our CoolNeighborhoods. Each CoolNeighborhood has a Neighborhood Description and Featured Destinations.
Get the app here and experience what it’s like to have the entire city of Cleveland at your fingertips. Find events, check out the CoolNeighborhoods and keep up-to-date with everything happening in the Cool Cleveland community.
The meeting called by the ad hoc grassroots organization Clevelanders for Transportation Equity drew full houses to the University Circle United Methodist Church, located at E. 107 Street at Chester Avenue, on both a Saturday and a Sunday earlier this month to discuss the proposed Opportunity Corridor….
Read this story and others from Mansfield Frazier here
Time to celebrate! It’s easy to find the coolest EVENTS, NEWS & VIDEOS right on your mobile device, then make a few clicks and show your affection by posting your faves to your Facebook page, your Twitter feed or to an email you can tweak.
Just download our FREE mobile app for your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch or for your Android tablet or smartphone, then find cool events, news and videos, personally curated by Cool Cleveland.
From Coventry to Canton, Ohio City to Oberlin, Youngstown to Waterloo, PlayhouseSquare to Highland Square, from the Lake Erie Islands to Lake & Ashtabula counties… if there’s cool stuff happening, it’ll be on your mobile device.
Download your free iPhone or Android app now and celebrate the region.
Quick previews & reviews of recent events
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REVIEW: The Best Theatre of 2013 by Roy Berko
Comment on our blog here: http://www.CoolCleveland.com/blog
SUGGEST: Did We Miss Something? Not so much a suggestion for a missed shop, but a comment and broader suggestion… a lot of these places need some real help with their websites or simple mentoring for their online presence. I don’t necessarily have the know how of a website developer/designer but there has to be some free or cheap help out there for small businesses like these…
Mike Johnson
MANSFIELD: Affluenza? I Believe In It Mansfield, you’re on point!
Ross Cockfield
Wow! Some with the nerve to tell the truth!!
Nancy Nolan-Jones
It almost seems odd Mansfield, having just read your article, but I think you actually have a lot in common with Jesus. You both are black. You both speak the truth and neither of you are afraid to ruffle a few feathers…
Bill Wiltrack
Get Creative in Kringle’s Inventionasium Thomas: WHERE can we go, as a Jewish family, on Christmas Day, to HELP some organization that serves dinners, or gives out gifts, or is otherwise helpful to people in need?…
Joyce Hoffer
MANSFIELD: Tokenism at Its Absolute Worst Was totally disappointed in those windows. They looked shabby, as if they were dragged out of storage some place, and didn’t reflect this community at all. We’re not Currier & Ives or Downton Abbey, we’re Cleveland. There was nothing that reflected the diverse, colorful folks we are. Horseshoe–back to the drawing boards w/this one.
Penny Jeffrey
My family and I were walking around downtown the evening of the Public Square lighting celebration. My daughter was picked to dance with the Toy Soldier at Tower City as a side note. We walked past the displays and I noticed the differences described by Mansfield. What I was not prepared for was my 6 year old daughter saw the differences. Then, in her bold fearlessness, asked me why…
Johnny E Hamm
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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) Meet The Residents of Cleveland’s Fastest Growing Community — Hingetown
2) MANSFIELD: Affluenza? I Believe In It
3) ROLDO: It Happens Over & Over — But No Answers
4) 87.7 Cleveland to Change Formats in January
5) Cleveland-Based Jazz Broadcaster Bobby Jackson Dies
Giving credit where credit is due: Thanks to John Benson, Roy Berko, Marty Bielat, Larry Durstin, Anastasia Pantsios, Josh Usmani & 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.
Don’t look back,
–Thomas Mulready
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