Why A City Thrives

Don’t be afraid to click

The more you click, the more you learn. It changes you from a passive viewer into a pro-active researcher, drilling down on the issues you care about. And don’t forget to click over especially to our sponsors, including Progressive Urban Real Estate. They’ve been receiving a phenomenal response to their sponsorship of Cool Cleveland. If you’d like to learn more, send us an e-mail. You never know what doors it might open for your organization. 
Thomas@Mulready.com

 

Don’t get fooled again

The exciting version 2.0 of the Art/Tech/Dance networking party is filling up fast (the first one sold out). The date is Thu 2/20 from 4-9PM, and the place is the renovated Tower Press Building (http://www.towerpress.com), with tours of their cool live/work lofts, some of which are reserved for artist discounts. With sponsors Nesnadny & Schwartz (http://www.NSideas.com) and IdeaStar (http://www.ideastar.com), and a dozen arts & tech partners, the second edition of Art/Tech/Dance will feature digital art from the recently completed groundbreaking One Week In The Life of University Circle, along with DJs from Headrush Music so you get to drink, snack and dance to giant videos, meet someone new, and get creative. Register at:http://www.corpmeetings.com/register/thomas/arttech2/index.html 
Click here to register for Art/Tech Dance v2.0

 

Who Needs A Convention Center?

One reason many of us miss the Free Times is because now we don’t get our weekly dose of reality from Roldo Bartimole, Cleveland’s irrepressible political muckraker. And in case you haven’t been following his column in the not-so-widely-distributed City News, check out one of his latest rants on why Cleveland a) doesn’t need, and b) can’t afford a new convention center. According to him, one of the key problems is the local daily paper’s coverage of the convention center issue: “The Plain Dealer, framing the issue with heavy-handed propaganda, leads public opinion to believe it has choices. Then it limits the choices to where the facility will go, shies away from such important issues as cost, how and who will pay for it, whether it’s needed, and even what priority it has on a list of urgent community needs.” But don’t take my word for it, read it yourself on the City News site, and while you’re there, read up on his other delicious diatribes by typing “Roldo” in their search box: 
See City News

 

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Wanna claim an easy $20?

Have you collected your $20 payment from the major record labels & retailers yet? You are eligible if you purchased a CD, cassette or vinyl between 1995 and 2000. They’re forced to give $143 million in cash and CDs back to consumers because of collusion between record companies and distributors (why doesn’t this surprise me?), but since most people don’t know about it yet, it’s going mostly unclaimed. You don’t even need a receipt; you can only make one claim, but, hey, that’s 20 bucks you didn’t have yesterday. Read about it at Wired: Then click the link below to file your claim: 
Click here to claim your $20 from record company scum

 

Why A City Thrives: a mix of open minds

Cool Cleveland reader turned me on to this amazing article in the Austin American-Statesman analyzing why Austin and other cites experienced such high growth in the 90’s (high immigration, esp young people; an experimental/untraditional outlook; connections between disparate socio-economic-cultural groups; non-hierarchal, free of traditions, prejudices & constraints; medium-sized town with a good research univ; racially diverse and not segregated; lots of idea-producing workers, rather than assembly-line drones; build the people, not the infrastructure). They found that the number of people in creative occupations provided a better forecast of a city’s economy in the 1990s than the percent of a region’s population with college degrees. Hey, there’s nothing special in Austin that we can’t do in Cleveland. There’s not some magic mineral in the water over in Seattle, Boston, Raliegh/Durham, Portland, or San Francisco, either; they’ve experienced growth in part because of their open-minded attitude, and while Cleveland is probably not known for that today, attitude is something that can be changed. And remember that early in the last century, Cleveland was one of the biggest centers for innovation. It’s time to stop blaming your parents and their generation. You are in control of the future of this city. Open your mind. 
See Austin American-Statesman

 

Say Yes to Cleveland

is a new networking group dedicated to tapping into the emotional equity of non-resident Clevelanders (doesn’t that sound better than ex-patriots who still feel good about Cleveland) and getting them to consider moving or locating part of their company in Cleveland, through networking and social events planned around the country. First up is San Francisco in 4/03, with a wine tour and a meet-and-greet with the Indians, who will be in town playing the Angels. The best part is, a few lucky Cleveland companies will also be able to make the trip to rub shoulders with rich ex-Clevelanders, showcase their company, and do some quality networking in Napa Valley. All that’s required is a 50-word application by Mon 2/24, and the chosen CEOs could win trans & hotel to California. Heads up, entrepreneurs. 
Say Yes To Cleveland

 

American Splendor Opens Cleve Film Fest

The good news is that the Sundance Grand Prize-winning film about Cleveland comix writer Harvey Pekar’s life, American Splendor, filmed entirely in Cleveland, will be released to theatres in August (produced by HBO they could have held it for TV-only), but the better news is that it will be the opening film at the upcoming 27th Cleve Int’l Film Festival on Thu 3/20. The film, described as “a celebration of finding the ‘art’ in one’s own life,” is a guaranteed sell-out (so is the after-party with Harvey wife Joyce Brabner) so call 623-3456 now for tickets if you want to see it.
Cleveland Film Society

 

Take Back the Detroit-Superior Bridge

After years of planning, now the Federal Highway Administration is considering cutting the funds to implement the Bike and Pedestrian Promenade across the Detroit-Superior Bridge, one of only two crossings to Cleveland’s west side. Currently hazardous to pedestrians and bikers, the new plan closes the outer two lanes to traffic and turns them into a beautifully landscaped promenade that anyone would be proud to walk or bike across. What can you do? Read the story at Cleveland.com below. Contact FHWA Administrator Mary Peters atmary.peters@fwha.dot.orgmary.peters@fwha.dot.org and tell her to back off. In fact, here’s her phone: 202.366.0605 and fax: 202.366.3244. Ride your bike down to the next FHWA meeting onThu 2/13 11AM at NOACA 1299 Superior and speak out. 
See Cleveland.com

 

Looking for a really entertaining

and somewhat depressing way to use your computer for a few minutes? Take the Richard Florida interactive quiz to see how your city ranks against his Creative Class criteria. I would tell you how Cleveland stacks up but I think you already know. 
Click here for the quiz

 

Those wacky Pittsburghers

Here’s a really queer site put up by people who really love their hometown of Pittsburgh, complete with music. Obviously they have an edifice complex almost as bad as Cleveland. But here’s the question: do you know of any similar sites built as an homage to Cleveland? 
Pittsburgh lovers only

 

When will Cleveland realize that Kucinich is running for President?

It will be so ironic that the news media around the country will scoop local reporters on the biggest political story of recent times if (make that when) Dennis Kucinich, chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, announces his candidacy. (Why else would he be traveling to Iowa next week?) Just as always, our troubled history clouds our ability to see the future clearly. The site http://www.draftkucinich.com, started by a computer privacy consultant in Oklahoma City, has gone from a couple hundred hits a day to over 5000. Does he have a chance? No one thinks so, but as OSU political scientist Paul Beck was quoted, “I would have said the same thing about Jimmy Carter in 1974…”
See Politics1.com & Cleveland.com.

See AP story on Truthout.org

 

How’s your By-Laws?

Many non-profit and grassroots groups are popping up like wildflowers, bringing creativity and new energy to help solve the problems of Cleveland. Many of these groups operate under a set of By-Laws (code of regulations), and even established organizations should review their By-Laws every few years. In connection with a class being taught at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, free assistance with these issues is available in the next few months on a limited basis. Call 687-2348 or send e-mail.
Veronica.Dougherty@law.csuohio.edu

 

How to protest the war without freezing your butt off

A grassroots campaign has taken hold nationwide: place ½ cup uncooked rice in a small plastic bag & squeeze out all excess air. Seal it and wrap it in a piece of paper on which you have written, “If your enemies are hungry, feed them. Please sent this rice to the people of Iraq, do not attack them,” and send it to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Wash DC 20500 and attach 3 stamps. The anecdotal myth floating around is that a similar campaign twice dissuaded Eisenhower from attacking China in the 50’s (which sorta does make sense with the rice if you think about it). The way I figure, it certainly can’t hurt.

 

Cool Cleveland This Week 2.12-2.19

 

Anti-War/Pro-Peace Open Mic Poetry Reading

When Laura Bush cancelled a poetry symposium honoring Cleveland’s Langston Hughes, Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson, she probably had no idea it would stimulate over 3500 poets around the world to submit poems opposing the invasion of Iraq to http://www.poetsagainstthewar.org and inspire readings all over the country scheduled for Wed 2/12, the date of the original symposium. Cleveland, traditionally a strong area for poetry, is no exception, as we join the cacophony of peacification (with optional musical accompaniment) at 8:30PM at the Robin’s Nest, 4059 St. Clair Ave. Bring your own poem or just listen to Vince Robinson and the Jazz Poets as they accompany (or not) area writers doing what they do best. 

 

Benefit

for Leukemia and Lymphoma Society on Thu 2/13 6-9PM at AJ Rocco’s 816 Huron, just W. of E. 9th features a live band, food, auction, and happy hour prices all night long in a non-smoking space. 861-8358 

 

Reel Deal Film Series

How does CPT’s Big [Box] series work? “We open the doors, give the artists a key, show them how to turn on the lights, and let them experiment.” This week, Wild Plum Theatre Company deals expressly with gay, lesbian, bi and transgender issues, bringing to life new works and bringing new voices to classics, working through a collaborative effort of playwriting salons and workshops to empower authors who wish to transcend stereotypes and gender bias. Big [BOX] marks the debut of this promising new company, led by Artistic Director Denise Astorino. Thu 2/13, Fri 2/14 & Sat 2/15 8PM and Sun 2/16 3PM, CPT, 6415 Detroit Ave, 631-2727 
Cleveland Public Theatre

 

Beachland Ballroom

This is one of those weeks at the Beachland where they are firing on all cylinders—every night is another surprise… Thu 2/13 9PM in a multi-media presentation of over two hours of rare and unreleased material on the Life of Bob Marley hosted by Roger Steffens, founding editor of leading reggae magazine The Beat; Sat 2/15 9PM sees the return of Cleveland Hts High alum David Thomas & The Two Pale Boys, along with the Kidney Brothers (Robert & Jack from 15-60-75 The Numbers Band), featuring wild guitars and trumpets from the avant-garage; Sun 2/16 2PM sees the first (of what we hope will be many) dance events at the Beachland, on the floor of the beautiful Ballroom (which, by the way, was built for dancing), with Louder Than Words, directed by Nick Carlisle, formerly of Tom Evert Dance Company and Cleveland Ballet Dancing Wheels; Sun 2/16 7PM is when they kick off the Cleveland Poetry Slam Open Mic, wrangled by Kelly Harris, featuring Scott Woods; Mon 2/17 9:30PM check out critically acclaimed Shipping News and Nad Navillus in the Tavern with local electro-acoustic experimenters Plus Ultra opening;Mon 2/17 9PM semi-Clevelanders Birth cover the frontier from jazz to bass-n-drum. If you can’t find something to like at the Beachland Ballroom this week, you’re just not trying, 15711 Waterloo, 383-1124 
Beachland Ballroom

 

EcoCleveland

For a special way to celebrate with your sweetie, try a Food and Wine Tasting in a romantic nature setting with a crackling fire while you sample chocolates, cheeses, breads, and gourmet sauces, all expertly matched to the right wines, and, weather permitting, you can even take a stroll in the woods Fri 2/14 6:30-8:30PM Lake Erie Nature and Science Center, Huntington Reservation, 28728 Wolf Rd, Bay Village 440-871-2900 
Cleveland Metroparks

 

Tremont Art Walk

features over a dozen galleries, shops & pubs showcasing new artwork Fri 2/14 starting at happy hour and going late, including work by Bruce Edwards at Brandt Gallery, 1028 Kenilworth; jewelry by Rita Telaak and ceramics by Roger McAndrews & Jack Valentine (how appropriate) at Eye Candy Gallery in Lemko Hall, 2335 W. 11th #1; a Valentine’s Day Tribute to the goddess of love by various artists with music by MaceFace; Everybody Loves A Lesbian by Jackie Hammer at Edison’s Pub, 2372 Professor; and the coolest puppets you’ve ever seen by Scott Radke at the Treehouse, 820 College
Tremont Art Walk

 

Cleveland International Piano Competition

a first-time competition for regional high school prodigies, and the winners play at the Museum of Art Fri 2/14 7PM, Free, with judging by the last two Competition winners, Roberto Plano and Antonio Pompa-Baldi. Broadcast live on WCLV-FM 104.9 Cleveland Museum of Art, 1150 East Blvd, 421-7340 
Piano Competition at Cleveland Museum of Art

 

ARTcade openings

The best place to be this weekend may be indoors, and one of the most art-filled indoor spaces is the ARTcade, 530 Euclid, at the Colonial Marketplace, which runs between Euclid & Prospect at E. 6th, featuring a slew of art openings on Fri 2/14 5-9PM: The Grrlz of Buzz with live music by Timmie Boose; Kiss My Art at Gallery U with little books & wacky CDs by Scott Pickering and guitar string jewelry by Rebecca Yody, with live music by DJ Jimmy D and Luva; Lamps & luminaries by Andrew Kaletta at Lemur House; X, Y and Sometimes V at ArtMetro, featuring a dozen women artists using feminine iconography. In addition, ARTcade is now featuring live lunchtime music from noon to 1:30PM each Thu 2/13 Annie E. DeChant, and Fri 2/14 Up Ensemble 
ARTcade

 

Helga Sandburg

the daughter of Carl, performs poems from her new CD From In The Dream, 36 finely-crafted verses drawn from her 40-year publishing career (recorded in Cleveland at Cleveland Public Theatre’s Vine Court Studios), an internal travelogue addressing themes such as mortality, widowhood, challenges with cancer, and tributes to her father, at Borders Severance Town Center 346 Mayfield Rd on Fri 2/14 at 7PM 658-1800 
For more info, send e-mail to Vine Court

 

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

is so popular that some contend the play is being performed somewhere on earth at all times. What makes this warhorse worth checking out? The Beck Center has been on a roll this year, and I’d put my money on a bet that they cook up a sizzling Shakespeare, Fri 2/14 thru 3/9, plus, who doesn’t want to dream about summer right about now? And its only 10 minutes from downtown. Beck Center, 17801 Detroit 521-2540 
Beck Center

 

Brasilliance

Fri 2/14 and Sat 2/15 8PM and Sun 2/16 3PM part of the killer DanceWorks Series, CPT’s newest resident dance company features the music of Duke Ellington’s Latin American Suite, but the kicker will be the showcasing of Consort!, a 12-member ensemble of “socio-economically challenged” Cleveland youth performing artistic director Michael Medcalf’s Sacred Grounds. If you are missing this dance series at CPT, I don’t wanna hear you complain about there’s nothing to do. Get up get out and go see the beautiful bodies moving through space (and I’m not talking about arena football). CPT 6415 Detroit Ave, 631-2727 
Cleveland Public Theatre

 

Russian Ark

is one of the most acclaimed and talked-about films of 2002. It consists of one 90-minute tracking shot through the 33 rooms and corridors of the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, weaving around 2000 costumed extras and three orchestras, representing the flow of time, condensing 300 years of Russian history, directed by Alexander Sokurov and shot on digital video. Fri 2/149:30PM, Sat 2/15 7PM, Sun 2/16 4PM Cinematheque, 11141 East Blvd, 421-7450 
Cinematheque

 

Korean Dance Workshop

Lake Erie College Dance Department presents Traditional Korean Dance with guest instructor Tammy Starr teaching students a traditional Korean dance called the Kibon, and about the Korean culture through a lecture/demonstration. Sat 2/15 10AM-12:30PM LEC Dance Studio, register at 440-639-7856 or send e-mail. 
Register via e-mail

 

International Day of Protest

Join the thousands making the trip to New York City as The World Says No To War. Reserve your place on the buses to NYC or join locals on Sat 2/15 at noon at Trinity Cathedral, 2230 Euclid Ave for a rally and march to the Federal Building at E. 9th St., 732-3319 
More info via e-mail

 

Where’s The Love?

Third annual party for underground singles & others with all-request DJ & food on Sat 2/15 8PM-midnight Abbasso Underground Lounge (under Bottom’s Up), 1222 Prospect 566-7278 
Abbasso Lounge/Bottoms Up

 

One Weekend for Peace

a two-day international celebration of art, performance and resistance, featuring music, dance, theatre and spoken word from some of the best area artists. Sun 2/16 2-8PM Church of the Covenant, 11205 Euclid Avenue, A Show of Peace, with the likes of SAFMOD, Groundworks Dance Theatre, Cabaret Dada, Scott Plate, Mary Weems, CWRU Jazz Ensemble, Morning Star Baptist Church Mass Choir, and members of the Cleveland Orchestra, plus, from 2-4PM, mural making, beading and storytelling for kids. Mon 2/17 A Show of Unity, a demonstration for peace throughout Greater Cleveland. For info: smorton8@aol.com 
Weekend For Peace

 

Perspectives on a Sustainable NEOhio Food System

hosted by Entrepreneurs for Sustainability and the NEO Foodshed Alliance, this short conference focuses on tapping the NEO food market and the entrepreneurial farmer, and is open to restauranteurs, grocers, distributors, and anyone else interested in sustainable food, on Tues 2/18 5:30-8PM at Great Lakes Brewing Company Tasting Room, 2516 Market Ave, 371-1177 
Click here to register

 

Digital Mixer

Join the battle against the region’s brain drain on Tues 2/18 6-8:30PM as dozens of employers mix and mingle with hundreds of area college students interested in technology-related careers, encouraging them to stay in the region after graduation. Rather than a job fair, this event includes “Speed Networking” and usually leads to internships and employment opportunities. Sheraton Suites, 1989 Front St Cuyahoga Falls. 
NEOSA Northeast Ohio Software Association

 

Excursions

is a new concert series kicked off by new arts pub Urban Dialect, taking place every third Tuesday, showcasing live hip-hop and soul music, this week featuring Fertile Ground and Cleveland’s Aphrodesiatics, hosted by Rep Life and Verb Math, with a live open mic poetry set hosted by Q-Nice Tues 2/18 9PM, Spy Bar 1261 W. 6th, 737-0411, 751-6225 
Urban Dialect

 

Money for Writers

The Ohio Arts Council still gives cash directly to poets and fiction writers, but you have to know how to fill out the grant application forms. Fortunately, OAC Literature Coordinator Bob Fox will be at the Poets and Writers League of Greater Cleveland Wed 2/19 7-8:30PM to answer your questions, PWLGC, 12200 Fairhill 421-0403 
Poets and Writers League of Greater Cleveland

 

Instant Karma
quik reviews of last week’s events

If you go to one of the events listed in Cool Cleveland or some other cool event, send us a quick review and let’s hear what cool Clevelanders think about what’s going on in town.

 

From Cool Cleveland reader Carlo Wolff:

“Dominick Farinacci is a star in the making. He made beautiful music at Night Town Sunday night 2/9, serving up two sets to celebrate release of his import-only Manhattan Dreams. Backed by northern Ohio’s go-to bassist, Youngstown State University professor Dave Morgan, and his dorm mates Carmen Intorre on drums and Dan Kaufman on piano, the Mayfield Heights 19-year-old turned in strong takes on Embraceable You, the Theme from The Godfather and Benny Golson’s Stablemates. And that was only the first set. Farinacci is funny, kibitzes easily (having a full house packed with relatives and well-wishers probably eased the pain) and plays a pretty, lyrical trumpet. The Juilliard jazz studies student already sounds like a pro. –Carlo Wolff”

 

On the Sing-Along Sound of Music:

“I wanted to tell you that I went to a really cool event last weekend, the Sound of Music Singalong! I wish it was here longer because I would totally go back and bring friends. It was so funny and kind of a “rocky horror picture show” format.” 

 

Yr Turn
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“Glad the May show is coming back, am going to start a new painting tonight just for it!”

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“Thanks for sending the articles to me. Great reading on important topics.”

“This is great! enjoyed each article. Would love to read more about the classical concert scene; so far it’s more about “alternative” and otherwise under-publicized events.”

Thanks for your very cool Cool Cleveland. I really appreciate getting such a witty, opinionated synopsis of what’s going on and has the potential for going on in the underground and overground of Cleavageland. With poetry at the bottom, to boot!

“As a regular reader of your, column? I must say that I find it both informative and entertaining. It provides a quick fix on what’s coming up, and some really good commentary on events and happenings, of course you already knew this.”

 

On the economic future of Cleveland:

“Wish I could get you interested in my idea. All the ideas and no backing. Turning Downtown into a pilot city for all Outlets. All the empty stores people moving in and no shops. O well. Just thought we are right off the freeways, the center of it all and what a perfect city for outlets to move into. Would require meeting with building managers to lower rent. But lower the rent, fill the buildings, hire the people, bring in bus loads of people and be a pilot city who is now empty and hopefully fill it.”

 

On the Convention Center issue:

“[If at all…] What about that HUGE fucking wasteland across the river from Tower City that Forest City owns (called the oxbow?), between Scranton and Major Hoople’s. That’s where the fucking stadium should have gone (with a nice little bridge connecting it to West Huron by the Hard Rock). It’s enormous,totally unused, an eyesore, and so close to Public Square—why hasn’t Forest City been pressured to do something with it all these years???”

 

On CWRU, Peter Lewis and Richard Florida:

“Having listened to Peter Lewis expound on why he’s not supporting anything in Cleveland until CWRU gets its act together (yesterday on WCPN national program which is escaping by brain at the moment. It’s on at 10am Sundays, “Where art and real life collide”.), it seems to me that Richard Florida would be a perfect place for his money.”

“I listened to Richard Florida, author of “The Rise of the Creative Class,” speak on NPR about how to unleash the creative energy in a city’s population. Let me connect his thoughts to your new e-letter. Cool Cleveland may well be an example of the diverse and creative voices a city needs to propel new thinking and action – more so when it exposes ideas and opinions suppressed by our more traditional media source. Let me be one of the first readers to congratulate you on another outstanding edition this week!”

 

On TeamNEO:

“Not until reading your newsletter was I aware of how cool, in fact, Cleveland really is. As a boomerang child who has returned after nearly 19 years away (the last ten-plus in the growth bell-curve and most interesting stories of Silicon Valley), I had no idea. My timing for writing to you is in response to your first comments on Team NEO, and the sense of change it more fundamentally represents which I hope to see permeate how we judge and support the effort. As a truly new paradigm for this region, Team NEO’s operational planning has work ahead, and there will be varying levels of success across its decisions and evolution. This will be the very nature of the effort: this is a new community paradigm, and with taking risks in it will also evolve the community skills for risk management, response, and modification. The evolution, imperfect or perfect as it may be, must be gauged ultimately — as it would be gauged in any area with a high quotient of innovation — by how well we support and contribute to its success as a community. Provide insights on checks and balances, volunteer operational support, heads-up potential challenges, suggest alternate methodologies. How well *we* pave
the road for community innovation will be defined by how well we acknowledge that mistakes will and should be made, and permeate our response with not tolerance, but Evolution, trial, error, and the embrace of these things are exactly what develop a region in innovation and risk-taking. Whether Team NEO paves the road for future efforts, or marshals our resources to realize its potential now, is as much up to us and how well we support the work, as it has been thus far in the hands of its founders. That it has come this far is astonishing: fundamental change — beyond this symptom of regional thinking — is well underway. I have long found amazing since my return the assets this region has to leverage a (to me) dream-like potential. Team NEO will be one of many factors — your contributions, and each our own — that are increasing the momentum to the combined (and extremely rewarding) innovation and commerce-supported success of our home. We can’t afford to be our own worst enemies anymore, and why would we want to be? The story is too good. Let’s help Team NEO to tell it. Thanks again, Tom, for all your work to help keep Cleveland Cool.” 

 

Correction: On the debut of Repertory Project’s new post-Susan Miller era:

“Just a couple of corrections for you personally as I assume you are writing this commentary…male dancers have appeared as guests with The Repertory Project before. They included Tom Evert, Carter McAdams, Lawrence Kramer, Jose Bustamante, Brian Jeffery and Robert Post. McAdams and Kramer performed with the company in Susan Van Pelt’s Lost Stories at Cain Park, The Jewish Community Center, The Ohio Theater at Playhouse Square, Hall Auditorium in Oberlin and at Sullivant Hall at The Ohio State University in Columbus. These two men rehearsed with and performed with the company over two seasons as guests in this work. The other men appeared as guests with the company just as the men who will perform in the upcoming “debut” will also appear as guests, or at Hernando puts it in Wilma’s (don’t you mean Salisbury’s?) article, ‘floating in and out’.”

 

Believe it or not, there are still some Clevelanders who are not receiving Cool Cleveland. Turn them on and they’ll find a way to thank you. Send us their e-mail addresses or send them to Thomas@Mulready.com

 

If you didn’t have to work everyday, what would you be doing?

–Thomas MulreadyThomas@Mulready.com

 

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