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Welcome to the new CoolCleveland Shorter and sharper. Less text, more links. Click where you want in pursuit of all things cool. The new design spotlights regional landmarks. Did I mention that it’s shorter? Our new site www.CoolCleveland.com [pictured] dishes up videos, events and blogs for news, biz and cool kids. The e-blast is shorter, but still features more great content each week: Lorain’s Int’l Fest, emerging chefs, Tremont’s secret gardens, Mansfield’s Father’s Day tribute, video of a young mommy blogger, and Roldo watchdogging corruption. Don’t forget to click for more cool events on each day. Send us your ideas, feedback, photos & videos and we’ll find a way to use them: Info@CoolCleveland.com Who else does all this? And it’s shorter! –Thomas Mulready
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How does one celebrate diversity and community at the same time? One way to pull it together is at the Lorain International Festival, which begins on Mon 6/21. Lorains annual International Festival is a one-of-a-kind festival that celebrates cultural diversity.
During the week-long festivities, the people of this multi-cultured city will show off their traditions and keep them alive… Read the story by Claudia Taller here
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Emerging Chefs of Cleveland Cle is quickly becoming known as a city with damn good food. On Thu 6/17 at 11:30AM, hear up-and coming chefs discuss their visions for their companies and our region. Plus, each chef will have a tasting station to please your palate.
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SPONSORED: Test yourself on the trails of The Holden Arboretum during the annual Woodland 5K Run on Sun 6/27. The race kicks off at 8:30AM and winds through woodlands and gardens. Registration is $16 before June 23. First 250 runners receive race t-shirt. Learn more or register at http://www.HoldenArb.org.
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SPONSORED: Who are we, and where did we come from? “The Genographic Project,” a NEW exhibit at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, explores the tale our genes can tell: where we originated, and how we came to populate the Earth. Opens Sat 6/19! CMNH.org
Choo-chooo!! On Sat 6/19, it’s Train Day @ the Cle Metroparks CanalWay Ctr. Check out model trains, take a hike on the Hobo Highway (complete with reenacted hobos!), hear tales from Boxcar Jenny and Railway Jim, watch a Thomas the Train movie and take a mini train ride. All aboard!
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WEDThis Ain’t Yr Mama’s Trunk Show Ladies, grab your friends and browse hip jewelry (rocks) while listening to live music via Rachel’s Secret Stache (they rock). Hence the name: Rocks That Rock, on Wed 6/16 @ MOCA. [Necklace at left by Reckless Eye Studio.]
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THUCoventry Village Street Fair Last year over 12K people herded onto Coventry to enjoy the sights, sounds and tastes of the Coventry Village Street Fair. Be one of them! The Street Fair offers live music, hands-on art projects, art and dance, handmade goods, and a free screening of The Wizard of Oz at 9PM, all on Thu 6/17.
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FRIGet a glimpse into the life of local refugees with Voices Worth Hearing, Art Worth Sharing, an innovative multimedia exhibit premiering in the Gordon Square Arts District on Fri 6/18. View the joys and challenges of 3 local refugee families as captured by award-winning photographers.
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SATCMA Summer Solstice Party The Cleveland Museum of Art knows how to throw a bash, and if you need any proof, get to their Summer Solstice Party on Sat 6/19 from 5:30PM 2AM. Globe trot through the museums new galleries of world-renown art, while international musicians from Africa, the Middle East and the US pump up the volume and fill the air w/ exotic tunes.
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SPONSORED: WCLV 104.9 FM is northeast Ohio’s window on the world of orchestral concerts. In addition to the two Cleveland Orchestra broadcasts, Saturdays at 8PM and Sunday at 4PM, WCLV presents weekly concerts by the New York Philharmonic, Mondays at 9PM; the Chicago Symphony, Tuesdays at 9PM, and the New Jersery Symphony, Saturdays at 6AM. In addition, Symphonycast, Thursdays at 9PM, presents concerts by many leading orchestras, including the Cleveland, from around the world. Full details on all of WCLV’s classical music programming at http://www.WCLV.com.
SUNTour Tremont’s Secret Gardens on Sun 6/20. Get your tix for the TremontGardeners Secret Garden Tour and get a glimpse of the lush gardens of Tremont, including private gardens not open to the public. Feast your eyes on flowers and beautiful urban landscapes on a self-guided tour.
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MONSummer Solstice Yoga Festival Don’t spend the longest day of the year stressed out. Find your zen at Free Akron Yoga’s 1st annual Summer Solstice Yoga Festival on Mon 6/21 from 6 – 10PM. Do free yoga… in a park… while watching the sunset. Ommm….
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TUERobin Stone @ Cain Park You officially have no excuse to miss Robin Stone and Co. when she plays Cain Park on Tue 6/22. After all, it’s $2 Tuesdays!! Don’t miss an evening grooving w/ Cles own skinny, funky, white, chocolate soul chanteuse.
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WEDOrchestral Manouevres at the Dog Five members of the Cleveland Orchestra step out of Severance and into a hot dog shop (gasp!) for a special one-night only performance on Wed 6/23. Meet at Happy Dog for an evening of quirky chamber music, beer, tater tots, and the best gourmet hot dogs 5 bucks can buy.
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Few males, I would venture to guess, can – upon reflection years later – recall the instance or incident whereupon they started to become men; where, when and what happened that caused them to take their first, tentative, mental steps onto the bridge that would ultimately lead them across the yawning chasm that separates soft, carefree puberty from the onset – the hardening – of eventual manhood.
Fortunately for me I can recall the time and date of the beginning of my personal transition and journey with such an evocative clarity I swear it seems as if the vignette played out only yesterday…
Read this story from Mansfield Frazier here
Read other recent pieces by Mansfield Frazier here
Cleveland’s Young Mommy Speaks Out
Long gone are the days when having your first child in your 30’s is the exception to the rule. These days, women are waiting longer and longer to start a family, leaving young mommies, who have their first children in their late teens or early twenties feeling left out of the mainstream mommy community. But, as Tara Jefferson, who started the blog The Young Mommy Life clearly demonstrates, these young moms are balancing everything including college, graduate school and a job, all while taking care of their families…
Watch the video interview by Julie Cajigas here
So why have we wasted all the time and energy with a supposed reformed Cuyahoga County Government when Joe Roman and the Greater Cleveland Partnership can decide for us.
Why bother with any democracy? Who needs it…
Read this story by Roldo Bartimole here
Read other recent pieces by Roldo Bartimole here
Previews, reviews, comments and commentary
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Preview: From Ingenue to Grand Dame- Ohio Light Opera 2010 by Kelly Ferjutz From an ingenue to Broadway’s Grand Dame, and nearly every heroine of noble rank in between-that’s been the on-going role for Julie Wright at The Ohio Light Opera Company during the last 22 years.
The vivacious performer offstage for a breather during rehearsals before the season begins on Sat 6/19, comments, “My first season here was in 1988! I portrayed Nadina in Oscar Straus’ The Chocolate Soldier.” And now, she’s preparing for perhaps the most demanding stage role in the repertoire… Read the preview by Kelly Ferjutz here.
Roldo: Jackson flubs interview Funny, Jackson’s “way” is the old way of doing things. Plus much of it is self contradictory gibberish. About the most positive thing you could hope to read into whatever that was (and you really have to try) is the need for a fast track process. Were I an optimist, you might be able to guess that’s what was this botched deal was attempting…
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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) Wade Oval Wednesdays are back! Starting Wed 6/16 with Carlos Jones and the P.L.U.S. band.
2) Review: God Never Blinks by Regina Brett.
3) LEAF nights every Wed. Sign up to receive your veggies weekly at Lakewood Library.
4) Roldo Can You Spare A Dime For Randy Lerner?
5) Mansfield It’s Working
What doesn’t change is the quality of our writing and writers: Roldo Bartimole, Roy Berko, Julie Cajigas, Greg Cielec, Kelly Ferjutz, Mansfield Frazier, Claudia Taller, and 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.
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