07.21-07.28.10
Save The World
Sure, why not? Of course we can save the world. Let’s start with NEO. Check out the Burning River Fest, featuring music [St. Ed’s Trash Talkers are pictured], Christmas Ale, and eco groups manning the booths. Read how Cleveland saved the world in the 1960’s, and is doing it again. Check our hot picks for cool things to do and people to pay attention to, like young Desiree Boardwine. Finally, watch the vid of Near West Theatre as they perform RENT with teens and change the world one person at a time. Of course we can do it. In fact, we already are. –Thomas Mulready
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The folk music revival of the early 1960s and the singer-songwriter movement that grew out of it, in the middle and late ’60s, helped, in no small part, to save the world.
It’s a long story, which I’m not going to go into right now. But I can prove it. And I plan to do that in a book I’m writing about it. But, as I said, I’ll skip all of the details for now.
So just take my word for it. Or at least go along with the premise… Read more from David Budin here
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SPONSORED: Help United Way swing for the bleachers by helping us Fill the House for Charity! Purchase discount tickets for the Wed 8/11, Indians vs. Orioles game at 7:05PM at Progressive Field. A portion of the proceeds from each ticket purchased through this promotion will benefit United Way of Greater Cleveland. Don’t miss this opportunity to support the Tribe and the community! It’s a Home Run! http://www.UnitedWayCleveland.org
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SPONSORED: Jump start your TGIF with new tres cool $5 Fridays at Cain Park. The Lisa Biales Trio brings their bluesy folk mix to the Alma this Fri 7/23. And HBO poetry slam star George Watsky shakes it up on Fri 7/30 beginning with an open mic slam. You can’t miss! http://www.CainPark.com
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Akron Storytelling Festival is mostly for educators… mostly being the key word. On Fri 7/23, kids ages 5+ will be treated to an hour-long story time filled w/ laughter, chants, rhythms and twisted tales as told by award-winning storyteller & children’s author Carmen Deedy [pictured w/ kids]. Event happens @ Akron Public Library at 1:30PM.
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SPONSORED: Get Wild with your kids! at The Cleveland Museum of Natural History! Join us for the Wild Music Family Fun Festival, Fri 8/6 at the Museum. Kids and their parents can make music, see dance demos, enjoy light snacks and check out the Wild Music exhibit. For more information or to register, visit www.CMNH.org
Thank goodness the Cuyahoga River is cleaned up. We have come far since the days of oil slicks catching on fire, but there’s more work to do, and there’s no better way to make a difference than to have fun doing it at the Great Lakes Burning River Festival this coming weekend Sat 7/24 & Sun 7/25.
The Burning River Festival recognizes the importance of the Great Lakes and educates people on environmental issues. This year’s event is expanded to two days, includes Great Lakes Christmas Ale, features more bands than in the past, and takes place at the historic Coast Guard Station on Whiskey Island… Read more from Claudia Taller here
Talk to Near West Theatre Artistic and Musical Director Bob Navis about how his work with teens in Ohio City putting together huge musicals has been changing lives, and you might mistake his life’s mission for that of every other theatre director: excruciating auditions, exhausting rehearsals. But then you look around and hear the real-life issues these teens tackle in the process of building a musical: homelessness, AIDS, drug abuse, building community.
Watch the video and hear from Navis and teen actor Joe Barbicas as they talk about the challenges of putting on one of Broadway’s grittiest, most real-life productions with a cast of 34 teens, and the AIDS quilt the cast is sewing, honoring their loved ones, to be used in the production. This is truly extraordinary theatre. RENT: School Edition runs Fri 7/23 thru Sun 8/8. http://www.NearWestTheatre.org
WED
Downtown Art Walk w/ Cleveland Public Art & the city’s young professionals. Network while taking a peek at the cool public art exhibits popping up around downtown on Wed 7/21. [The Verdant Walk pictured.]
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THU
Ohio Homecoming Talk about vision. Ohio Homecoming is a 4-day fest combining socially-conscious & entertaining fare to raise OH’s profile. The fest opens on Thu 7/22 with Cle’s 214th birthday bash featuring one of the brighest stars in hip-hop: Cle’s own Kid Cudi. Also: opportunity fair, March on Ohio and a celebrity flag football match.
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FRI
Ingenuity Speakeasy 2.0 Party like it’s 1929 in the catacombs of the Detroit Superior Bridge’s old subway tunnels on Fri 7/23. Swing dancing, cabaret performances, cocktails classes and concerts on one awesome bridge, all in support of IngenuityFest, which hits town in Sept.
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SAT
Out of Place @ Cedar Lee There’s no surf in Cleveland? Really? The dudes behind Out of Place are living proof that surfing is alive and kickin’ in Cle. These guys brave extreme cold to ride the waves of Lake Erie. Their immensely popular story screens @ the Cedar-Lee on Sat 7/24 at 4PM.
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SPONSORED: This Sat 7/24 at 1PM, WCLV 104.9 FM presents the first broadcast by the Los Angeles Opera of Wagner’s monumental Ring Cycle – Das Rheingold. The remaining three parts of the Ring will be heard on succeeding Saturday afternoons. WCLV is the media sponsor for the “Tee off on Leukemia” golf benefit , to be held at the Barrington Country Club in Aurora on Sat 9/25. For details on the many ways you can join the fight against leukemia, lymphoma and other blood cancers, click on Special Radio Events on the WCLV website – http://www.WCLV.com.
SUN
Wheel ’round the Morgana Trail when Walk+Roll hits Slavic Village/Broadway on Sun 7/25. Get yr wheels rollin’ and celebrate the trail’s new art installation [pictured], get yr bike blessed and join a community picnic.
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MON
The writing’s ever so fresh @ Fine Tuning, a free event where local authors read their works-in-progress to a responsive, friendly yet critical crowd. Ideas bounce back and forth and a creative endeavor emerges freshly polished by a sea of helpful voices. Give your critique on Mon 7/26.
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TUE
Cleveland EcoTuesday is a structured networking event bringing sustainable biz leaders together. Learn how going green pays for Great Lakes Brewing Co. when owner Pat Conway speaks on Tue 7/27. Meet ppl, learn & engage.
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WED
Josh Rzepka is limitless, musically-speaking. Just hear him when he plays jazz and classical tunes @ the Akron Public Library on Wed 7/28 at his CD release concert. This Akron native is young, super talented and plays a mean trumpet. [Photo by Robert J. Saferstein.]
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Last week, I had the pleasure of attending the retirement party for a Cleveland police commander, my good friend Captain Joe Sadie, one of the finest men to ever don a blue uniform… and a rancorous good time was had by all, or at least all who attended.
But more on that a bit later…
Read this story from Mansfield Frazier here
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WonderlandDesiree Boardwine
2010 Gateway City Records
Over the last several years singer/songwriter Desiree Boardwine has been a pretty busy young lady.
Besides graduating high school in the spring of 2009, and attending college full time this past year, she has taken bands to the Tri-C Rock Off Finals twice at the House of Blues; lead her family onto national television by making the finals of the CBS Morning Show Best Family Band in America contest; and just recently won the Grand Prize in the Time Warner Cable Random Acts of Music Songwriting Contest… Read the review from Greg Cielec here
Roldo Bartimole is on vacation. His column will return shortly. Stay tuned to Cool Cleveland.
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Reviews, previews & comments
Review: Lil’ Abner @ Mercury Summerstock 7/16/10 by Roy Berko
Review: The Producers @ Beck Center 7/18/10 by Roy Berko
Break It To Me Gently, LeBron The last paragraph is the best, Mr. Frazier. The hero worship of our collective culture for sports stars and movie stars and rock stars is ridiculous. The people who matter most get the least. The people who do the most are least appreciated. It is a sad commentary on the American culture but it is not a erroneous one.
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