12.18-12.25.13
Rise
Who’s rising? What’s rising? That’s what we’re asking ourselves all day long at CoolCleveland. So we’re tracking the new neighborhoods like Hingetown, between Ohio City & Gordon Square. Does it deserve to be in the Cool Neighborhoods section of our mobile app? You tell us.
Teens are taking over at MOCA with their ACE program, getting connected with artists, curators & designers. And speaking of curating, that’s what we’ve done below as we point out just a few of the cool things happening the week before Christmas.
You can win a CoolCleveland t-shirt like John Aslanis did this week, just by downloading our mobile app. See our mini-tutorial on using the Events Calendar, then join our Hashtag Contest to help promote your favorite thing going on this week. Your influence is on the rise. –Thomas Mulready
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As we say goodbye to 2013 and hello to 2014, it’s clear throughout town that change is in the air.
Nowhere is this more apparent than Hingetown. In our ongoing effort to highlight our fine, local entrepreneurs, we’ve compiled a special introduction to the various inhabitants of Cle’s fastest growing neighborhood.
These businesses are perfect examples of Cle’s industrious spirit…
More from Josh Usmani here
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SPONSORED: Make Christmas Eve memorable at The Old Stone Church on Public Square. Join us on Tue 12/24 at 5PM for Family Service with glow sticks; 7:30PM Festive Christmas Music; 8PM Traditional Candlelight Service. Details and parking information: OldStoneChurch.org
This Thu evening, ten very special CMSD high school students will take over MOCA.
These students are the latest class of MOCA’s ACE (Arts & Culture Enterprise) program. This competitive program connects selected students with contemporary artists, curators, architects, designers and museum professionals…
More from Josh Usmani here
2014 Rock Hall inductees announced w/ Kiss, Peter Gabriel, Nirvana & others making the cut.
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Find Events in a Flash! 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: Open your app and click on the events tab. Once you’re in the events tab, click on the Calendar button on the top, then select a date and hit the Find Events button. The app will automatically reorganize itself and you can see what’s happening in Cleveland on any given day!
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 “cool neighborhoods” and keep up-to-date with everything happening in the Cool Cleveland community.
As one of Cleveland’s breakout bands, the Lighthouse and the Whaler have had a year. But in September, they started rehearsing with their friends Morgan Mecaskey & Humble Home to put together a thematic holiday show that’s much more than a few renditions of familiar songs. It happens at the Grog Shop. Fri 12/20.
Read more picks by Anastasia Pantsios here
What’s happening this week? Follow us on Twitter or Instagram @CoolCleveland and tell us! You can win FREE event promotion for the event of your choice all for simply using #CoolCleveland. We’ll pick a winner by Friday, and promote the winning event all weekend. We might even provide live coverage of the event on the day-of.
How do I play this game? On Monday through Friday tweet or Instagram the event that you are most excited to attend this week using #CoolCleveland. Good luck!
Law & Order: Fairy Tale Unit takes a look at the untold consequences of your favorite childhood fables. Hear all about fairy tale police — & fairy tale offenders — in this production @ the Beck Center.
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John Aslanis downloaded the Cool Cleveland app here, and this week we selected him as the seventh winner of our new Cool Cleveland T-shirt. And he’s thrilled:
John is Business Manager at Apple. “Funtimes in Westlake at Crocker Park. I use the Cool Cleveland app to see what’s going down in Ohio City and Tremont!”
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 12/18
Wetbrain Cleveland & Wetbrain Baltimore face off @ NTC. A lot of times a band in one part of the country (or world) finds that another band is using its name, & the next thing you know, lawyers are involved. Instead, these 2 bands have booked a show together where ownership of the name (& bragging rights) is at stake.
Click here for more events on Wed 12/18
THU 12/19
Harvest Day @ SPACES No, we’re not talking veggies. SPACES hosts a pick-up day for its subscription art service (think a CSA for artwork). Not signed up? No problem; you can still get a piece. They’re also hosting bad karaoke.
Click here for more events on Thu 12/19
FRI 12/20
FUNNY MONEY is a solo exhibition of artist & CC contributor Josh Usmani’s latest drawings on “real” currency. Is he destroying money or raising the value of every surviving bill?
Click here for more events on Fri 12/20
SAT 12/21
Finish your shopping at Cleveland Handmade’s Last Minute Market @ the Screw Factory, featuring 100+ juror-selected artists & artisans. As a bonus you’ll get to tour resident artist studios.
Click here for more events on Sat 12/21
SUN 12/22
“Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire…” isn’t just a line from a song. It’s actually happening @ Stone Mad Pub. Roast chestnuts on the fireplace, carol w/ Ohio City Singers & ride in a horse-drawn carriage. Hopefully there will even be snow for ya.
Click here for more events on Sun 12/22
MON 12/23
Mojo Big Band, a 17-piece-band featuring some of the area’s top jazz musicians — both youngsters and veterans — plays classics from big-band era ensembles like the Duke Ellington and Count Basie Orchestras @ Brothers Lounge.
Click here for more events on Mon 12/23
TUE 12/24
Family doesn’t celebrate Christmas Eve? Come to the Grog Shop for a low-key gathering & feel less lonely. There’s no loud band, just pizza, drinks, funny little gifts & maybe a visit from Santa.
Click here for more events on Tue 12/24
WED 12/25
No plans today? Go to the Maltz Museum for their annual Chinese Food & Movie Day featuring a Chinese buffet & showings of The Prince of Egypt [pictured] & When Comedy Went to School.
Click here for more events on Wed 12/25
Send your cool events to: Events@CoolCleveland.com
Still have shopping to do? Don’t worry. Really. It can’t be said enough this time of year: relax. Take a deep breath because we’ve got you covered… at least with showing you the best places to spend your money.
If you haven’t yet (and, hey, even if you have), take a look at our ShopLOCAL Guide & put it to good use. Spread holiday cheer not only to the people you’re buying presents for, but also to the local entrepreneurs who contribute so much to the fabric of this city. Shop happy, be in good spirits & enjoy yourself.
A new word — “affluenza” — has recently come roaring into the lexicon (actually, it’s not new, there’s a book so titled) via a Texas attorney who represented 16-year-old Ethan Couch.
The lawyer claimed the youth was blameless for driving drunk and causing a crash that left four people dead in June because… hold on to your hats for this one folks…
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.
It happens. It gets front page attention. It happens again. Again the front page tells of tragedy. Death. By gun. By fire. The TV people are there with the cameras.
The scene is predictable. Neighbors reveal their remorse. Their pain is palpable. It’s painful to watch.
Then it happens again. The ritual repeats. The vigils come and go…
Read this story and others from Roldo Bartimole here
Quick previews & reviews of recent events
Submit your own preview, review or commentary to Events@CoolCleveland.com
PHOTOSTREAM: Heavy Metal Benefit for Hunger, Pets @ the Beachland by Anastasia Pantsios
PHOTOSTREAM: Classical Revolution @ HappyDog by Anastasia Pantsios
REVIEW: ANNIE again lights up Beck Center for the holidays by Roy Berko
REVIEW: “Alas For You,” GODSPELL is at Blank Canvas by Roy Berko
US Women’s BMX Champ Alise Post meets Thomas Mulready @ Ray’s Indoor Mountain Bike Park
Comment on our blog here: http://www.CoolCleveland.com/blog
Concerned about Opportunity Corridor? CLE and CUY are undermined by “investment” strategies – Washington post story on tax lien sales engineered by our former treasurer and deputy treasurer (Frangos -who now heads up Land Bank charade) should be a wake up call…
Laura McShane
this is too funny..if anybody believes for one second that the money that doesn’t go to this corridor will go to fix exiting shitty roads in cleveland, i have some real estate to sell you on the moon..If that were the case, the roads all around inner city cleveland would not have any potholes..ever…
Nick Perry
The neighborhoods impacted by the Opportunity Corridor have been virtually hidden from Clevelanders and the world for many years. The Opportunity Corridor will now reveal the opportunities these neighborhoods have for homes, businesses and a wide range of activities that enhance the quality of life for all….
Jeff Russell
So the best way for commuters to discover these neighborhoods in not to drive through them on neighborhood roads. Interesting theory. Here’s what Terry Coyne and Fred Geis, two if the biggest developers in our region, think of the development prospects around the corridor. I’ll give you a hint: they’re not buying…
Angie Schmitt
If you want to invest in and rebuild a neighborhood, then money should be spent by investing and rebuilding the neighborhood, not building a road over the neighborhood with little community input…
Chris
If you live, work, or commute in these neighborhoods, they are not hidden at all, and on full display everyday. Yet, for those residents and commuters who know the area, and use our north-south routes, (e.g. E. 79th, Woodhill), or who travel by Cedar, Quincy, or Woodland, there will be zero benefits…
Akshai
ROLDO: Brent Larkin’s Fake-Out Move I was in college when the issue of the sin tax was put before the electorate. I remember the divisive campaign that made strange bedfellows out of the checkered political landscape that was Cleveland at that time. It began just for the Gateway complex and then was used to push the stadium development…
Eric
87.7 Cleveland to Change Formats in January I’m really not surprised. I’m sad for the loss of a radio preset option, but not surprised. It could never quite figure out what it wanted to be…
Mark
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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) ShopLOCAL This holiday season
2) MANSFIELD: Tokenism at Its Absolute Worst
3) Cleveland Shows Its True Colors at Doubting Thomas Gallery
4) Winners of 2014 Governor’s Awards for the Arts in Ohio Announced
5) Cleveland Must Embrace Being A Winter City
Rising to the occasion: that’s what we do, thanks to Roldo Bartimole, Roy Berko, Marty Bielat, Mansfield Frazier, 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.
Rise up,
–Thomas Mulready
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