08.21-08.28.13
Sound Your Engine
The race is on. Summer’s winding down and the exciting Fall season is on its way. First up, MOCA welcomes the students back with a new show and a party, Sound Your Engine, featuring performance art, music and custom car culture. Now that’s more like it. My buddy James Levin is at it again, transforming MLK into a cross-culture jam called Cleveland One World Festival this Sunday. Be there, and bring the kiddies. I mean your friends.
Mahall’s is revving up with the LKWD Music Fest while the Whiskey Daredevils pull a few wheelies to celebrate a decade of decadence. Get the stroller revved up and over to CMA for Art Appreciation for Babies. I know a few babies that would dig that. Speaking of which, Team Spencer is backing up little Spencer Gansert in his superhero fight against his arch villain.
This is the sound of Cleveland: Cloud Nothings sounding off @ the Beachland; Invasive plants invading SPACES; Rita Montlack opening @ 1point618; Belt launching @ St. John’s; PechaKucha doing donuts @ the WSM; Birds, Beasts, Brats & Beer careening around CMNH; Cool Cleveland’s own Alexsandra Sukhoy reading on Murray Hill. And all of it sounding great.
Mansfield is in the driver’s seat with his provocative essay, The “Niggranazation” of White America, required reading for cool Clevelanders. As is his review of The Butler. As well as Roldo’s suggestion for shaking up Cleveland City Council. Meanwhile, commentator Larry Durstin suspects politics in Sherrod Brown’s recent relocation. Yeah, we’re sounding off.
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SPONSORED: One World Festival With 2 main stages and 3 additional performance areas, visitors will finally be able to fully enjoy the recently-restored Cultural Gardens with Chinese Acrobats, Italian Opera, Japanese Taiko drums, Tango, Irish dancers, magicians, buskers, Nature Photo Walks, plus ethnic food and wine & beer from around the world. Be there Sun 8/25 from noon to dusk! http://clevelandoneworldfestival.com
This Saturday, MOCA throws an eclectic party to celebrate both the return of the area’s college students as well as its newest exhibition Everything All at Once, featuring four Cleveland-based artists.
Sound Your Engine will feature contemporary art, experimental music performances & custom car culture…
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SPONSORED: Let’s Celebrate! The Cleveland Clinic Office of Civic Education Initiatives celebrates the graduation of its 2013 Summer Internship Program participants. These talented and bright students engaged in an intensive, hands-on nine week program working alongside nationally renowned healthcare professionals at Cleveland Clinic, its community hospitals and family health centers. Congratulations to our interns! ClevelandClinic.org/CivicEducation
Mahall’s in Lakewood has become a major showcase venue for underground touring bands and original local acts in the last year and a half. They celebrated their new mission last year with the first LKWD Music Fest. The second is even bigger, with national headliner Talib Kweli (pictured). Sat 8/24.
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In the summer of 2013, as the country watched the all-seeing eyes of Gatsby’s billboard looming overhead, another pair of faceless bespectacled peepers peered at citizens from bumper stickers, shirts, and coffee mugs.
The fearless eyes belong to none other than luminary Spencer Gansert…
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Art Appreciation for Babies Babies aren’t just welcome to this guided tour at The Cleveland Museum of Art — they’re required. A museum educator will lead parents & tots on a casual tour & discussion.
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WED 8/21
CIA Life Drawing Classes operate on a pay-as-you-go basis. Tonight, get to the last one of the summer. Bring your own supplies; drawing skills optional.
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THU 8/22
Pack up your pooch & get to Yappy Hour at Pet-tique. Enjoy food from Nature’s Bin while raising funds & donations for My Best Friend’s Bowl, an org helping ppl in need keep their pets.
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FRI 8/23
The Incredible Brightness of Seeing Rita Montlack’s photos from around the globe will change the way you see things. See global connections, not only through people, but also places. Held @ 1point618.
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SAT 8/24
Enjoy a summer evening of reading, art & culture w/ Cool Cleveland‘s Alexsandra Sukhoy, who’ll read from her new book The ’90s: Diary of a Mess. Plus, beautiful art & visual poetry from Sara Hurand & Deena Nyer Mendlowitz.
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SUN 8/25
Cleveland One World Fest is a brand new fest brought to you by Ingenuity co-founder James Levin. The fest will offer a cultural smorgasbord of performances, dancing, food, music, theater, art — all in celebration of Cle’s amazing diversity. Don’t miss out!
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MON 8/26
A Taste of Cuba is the theme of Fire Food & Drink’s next special dinner event. RSVP for a Cuban dinner buffet, beverages, appetizers & dessert w/ a Cuban food expert as special guest.
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TUE 8/27
The near Eastside of Cle needs better connections to the lake, right? Then join up to plan a change. Join up w/ the Eastside Walk & Ride for a fun guided tour w/ discussions on connectivity.
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WED 8/28
Ladies, hop on a bike for this installment of Two Wheels & Heels. Meet at the West Side Market & bike it over to the last Wade Oval Wednesday of the year.
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This Friday, SPACES invites the community to a reception celebrating the latest installations from Mimi Kato and Brandon Juhasz.
Kato will spend time with an invasive plant control team in the North Chagrin Reservation as they cut back and spray herbicide on the invasive plants. As each plant is removed, Kato will wrap the stumps with reflective tape…
Read more from Josh Usmani here
When it was announced that Senator Sherrod Brown and his wife, Connie Schultz, would be relocating from Avon into the Mill Creek residential community located in southeast Cleveland, some local pundits speculated that there was a political motivation behind the move…
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Lee Daniels superbly directed the all-star ensemble of Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, John Cusack and Jane Fonda in The Butler, the historical drama that focused on the life of Cecil Gaines, a While House butler who served eight presidents during his tenure.
But, alas, the film might only attract a limited audience…
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Cleveland needs a brutal political shake-up. Soon.
The mayoral election this year will be a joke. Mayor It Is What It Is vs. What’s His Name. Yawn.
So here’s one way of shaking the system but it will take the voters and a ballot issue to do it…
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PREVIEW: Winsor French, Cleveland Legend, to Come Alive at Beck Center by Roy Berko
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MANSFIELD: The “Niggranazation” of White Americans Is there anything new here? Racism has caused poor white folks to work against their own self-interest for centuries…
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ROLDO: Cleveland is Disappearing, Bit By Bit Wasting valuable assets has been the way to do things around here ever since I can remember. Given an embarrassment of riches, few make a distinction between market value and intrinsic value…
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I sympathize. Do what can. Take victories when can, let mother Nature, arson, urban gardens, etc. do the rest…
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“Uncool” Cleveland Detroit doesn’t even have a measurable core-downtown population. Detroit stats measures a 36,000 (not 50,00) population figure for its GREATER DOWNTOWN area — which is “a 7.2 square mile collection of neighborhoods…”
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Mahall’s LKWD Music Fest… with Talib Kweli! What time will Kweli be on?!?!?!…
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4) MANSFIELD: This, That and The Other
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