09.14-09.21.11
Anticipation
You've been waiting all year for our fabulous fall weather. Now comes Cool Cleveland to help you get out and enjoy it: IngenuityFest is finally here, which I'm proud to say is in its 7th year after James Levin and I kicked it off in '05. Watch our exclusive VIDEO. But that's not all: the Cleveland Play House finally opens at the Allen Theatre (see sneak peek VIDEOTOUR), the Cleveland Italian Film Festival lands, Hardship to Hope comes to the Maltz, The Marvelous Wonderettes at Beck, the Chalk Festival, The Swell Season at the Capitol, the Head of the Cuyahoga Regatta, the Cleveland Dragon Boat Festival, the Tremont Arts & Cultural Festival, the Heights Heritage Home & Garden Tour, a comedy festival, a climate change lecture at CMNH, a Johnny Appleseed Festival, and a debacle of an Akron music festival. And it's all in this week's issue of Cool Cleveland or on your iPhone or iPad. I am not kidding. If you don't find something cool to do this week, you must be comatose. As for us, we've been anticipating this stuff all year long. --Thomas Mulready
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When I heard that a documentary about The Swell Season would be playing at the Capitol Theatre from Fri 9/9 - Thu 9/15, I dropped everything to find tickets.
According to the Cleveland Cinema website, the documentary, which had its premiere at prestigious film festivals, would be playing right here in Cleveland as a "sneak peek preview" weeks before it would open in Los Angeles or NYC... Read more from Julie Cajigas here
SPONSORED: You've Waited All Year IngenuityFest, the annual celebration of art, technology, music, performance and more is back! Join us Fri 9/16 from 5PM - 1AM, Sat 9/17 from noon - 1AM, and Sun 9/18 from noon - 5PM on the streetcar level of the Veterans Memorial (Detroit-Superior) Bridge. The Festival is FREE! Find more information and a schedule of events at IngenuityCleveland.com.
Community service can be fun! United Way's Fall Ball, scheduled for Sat 10/8 at the Ritz Carlton's Silver Grille, is one of the coolest ways to support our community, while having a ton of fun at the same time. Watch this interview with United Way Young Leaders cabinet member Chijioke Asomugha as he talks about his involvement in United Way chapters from LA to SF to NYC, and how much fun he had at last year's event, and their plans for Fall Ball 2011. Watch the video and get more information here.
Creative Placemaking: Using the Arts to Drive Community Revitalization discussion on Tue 9/20 @ Sammy's. Cuy County loves its art. Let's discuss how arts play a role in economic development.Click here for more News and Biz
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One of many performances at IngenuityFest this weekend centers on the work of local innovator Jason Walters who has combined a Microsoft Kinect Sensor (the kind we're familiar with from Xbox and other gaming applications) with custom software to create something we find way, way cooler than commercial video games. As Walters' collaborator, local dancer / choreographer Alyssa Lee Wilmot, moves within range of the sensor, a very cool avatar of her movement is projected onto the screen. Click on the video and see what we mean.
At Ingenuity, you can find Walters and Wilmot in the catacombs (near the Superior Viaduct Entrance on the West side of the Cuyahoga River) on the subway level of the Detroit-Superior Bridge during IngenuityFest 2011. They're listed on the schedule as "Jason Walters' Spyrobeam" under -- not dance but -- "interactive art," Fri 9/16 from 5PM to 1AM; Sat 9/17 from noon to 1AM; and Sun 9/18 from noon to 5PM. Get more information and watch the video here.
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Bust out the chalk -- it's Chalk Fest time! Head to CMA on Sat 9/17 & Sun 9/18 to see chalk pros at work. Go decorate the sidewalks.Click here for more Cool Cleveland Kids events
SPONSORED: The new Explorer Lecture Series kicks off on Fri 9/16 at The Cleveland Museum of Natural History. At 7:30PM, Dr. David Karowe will discuss the global, national and regional effects of climate change on plants an animals. Don't miss Dr. Heidi Cullen on Fri 9/23 and Dr. M. Beatrice Magnani on Fri 10/14. Select one lecture, a few, or subscribe to the whole series! CMNH.org.
WED 9/14
Hardship to Hope: African-American Art from the Karamu Collection. Take a peek into 1930s Cle, a time of turbulence & creativity, via 65 artworks & artifacts displayed @ the Maltz Museum. Hard times, but w/ glimmers of hope.
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THU 9/15
The Cleveland Italian Film Festival brings authentic award-winning Italian films to both sides of Cle starting on Thu 9/15. These films are the real (Italian) deal.
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FRI 9/16
Coming Home: An Event Celebrating Cleveland's Neighborhoods on Fri 9/16. Raise funds for Cogswell Hall while tasting 4 historic Cle neighborhoods. Get lost in the past w/ photos from the Cleveland Memory Project.
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SPONSORED:WCLV 104.9 is live at Baldwin-Wallace's Kulas Hall for a concert by Africa-West this Fri 9/16 at 8PM. Next Wed 9/21 at 8PM WCLV will be at Severance Hall for the first of this season's CIM Live broadcasts featuring the CIM Orchestra conducted by Carl Topilow. Natalie Lin will be the soloist in the Britten Violin Concerto in d. Also on the concert, Michael Torke's "Bright Blue Music," and Ravel's orchestration of Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition." WCLV.com.
SAT 9/17
Head of the Cuyahoga Regatta Watch in anticipation as rowers race around the twists & turns of the mighty Cuyahoga on Sat 9/17 in this major regatta. Race sponsored by Cleveland Rowing Foundation.
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SUN 9/18
Tour the White Boxes Tour Robert Maschke's iconic homes, infamously visible from the W Shoreway, on Sun 9/18 during a benefit for Cle's Intermuseum Conservation Association. Art, refreshments & heavy hors d'oeuvres offered.
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MON 9/19
Consumer Landscapes View work from Michelle Muldrow, a 2011 CPAC Creative Artists Fellowship recipient, @ Bonfoey Gallery. See her work Consumer Landscapes on Mon 9/19.
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TUE 9/20
Wynton Marsalis @ EJ Thomas Hall Wynton Marsalis is the face of modern American jazz (well one of them, anyways). Watch this jazz virtuoso in action on Tue 9/20. With Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.
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WED 9/21
Dinner in the Valley: Fall Apple Festival. All parts of the menu on Wed 9/21 will have to do w/ apples. Mmmm. Bring the fam & enjoy dinner @ Stanford House in CVNP. Apples everywhere!
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We may as well get a room downtown with all the festival activity on the streets of Cleveland this weekend. Wake to the sound of the city coming alive, see trolleys start to move while eating breakfast, hear music play on your morning walk, and see vendors set up their tents in preparation for IngenuityFest. But Ingenuity isn't the only thing happening this weekend... Read Claudia Taller's picks here
This weekend, IngenuityFest 2011 presents a whole bunch of dance. In a totally subjective way we selected two of the choreographers and arranged phone interviews, the better to appreciate what they're doing at IngenuityFest.
Chicago-based artist Erica Mott's Victory Project "examines the use of the female body to portray victory through various historical eras..." Read more from Elsa Johnson & Victor Lucas here
As Tip O'Neill, the famous former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, once wisely noted: "All politics are local."
The fact is, you can't escape politics, the playing of them, or their effect on your life and well-being. Of course you can refuse to participate, but you do so at your own peril...
Read this story from Mansfield Frazier here
Read other recent pieces by Mansfield Frazier here
From open-mic nights around town to Dave Schwensens' comedy workshops (which seemingly everyone has taken over the past decade or so), there are plenty outlets for aspiring Northeast Ohio comedians to hone their craft... Read more from John Benson here
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VIDEO/REVIEW: Pandemonium @ CPT by Carol Drummond
SLIDESHOW: Garlic Festival @ Shaker Square by photographer Elisa Vietri (see photo at top)
VIDEO/REVIEW: Cleveland Play House Grand Re-Opening at Allen Theatre
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VIDEO: Tour the White Boxes With Robert Maschke Love 'em or hate them, you can't miss them. It is great that Maschke is offering to share them with the public this way (via the ICA). What a fantastic opportunity to take a closer look at a style of home most do not have the fortune to visit. This is an example of great community involvement/education/exposure (from an architectural point of view), and not a bad marketing strategy to boot!...
Read the comment from Dru McKeown here
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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) 2) VIDEO: Pan or Pandemonium?
3) Fashion's Night Out: ShopHop Northeast Ohio
4) VIDEO: Tour the White Boxes With Robert Maschke
5) VIDEO: Hot Fudge Hotties
Anticipate only quality from our contributors: John Benson, Julie Cajigas, Carol Drummond, Mansfield Frazier, Elsa Johnson & Victor Lucas, Claudia Taller, Jayna Thomas, Sarah Valek and Elisa Vietri. 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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