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May is Cleveland Bicycle Month, or maybe you knew that. The Wild Ride at the Zoo & a Bike-a-Palooza kick it off this weekend. Then you can take it wherever you can ride it.Guitar Riot sets up in the ArtCraft Building, and we've got the story. The Monster Drawing Rally is on at SPACES. MorrisonDance celebrates 15 years of movement at PHS. And Walk All Over Waterloo looks at beached plastic. Let your voice be heard at the VibrantNEO confab nearest you.
CPH mounts their New Ground Theatre Festival. NWT mounts Brel. Dr. Donald Shingler mounts Fashion Week Cleveland. Dancevert mounts geometry. Cool Cleveland reader Brittany Brown won $20 for using our mobile app. Just don't use it on your bike. --Thomas Mulready
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In its nine years, Dr. Donald Shingler's Fashion Week Cleveland has seen a lot of changes. Many of the benefits he's been predicting have started to come true. And national voices like CNN & Women's Wear Daily have started to take note, proclaiming Cleveland's Fashion Week as the third largest after NYC & LA.
Encouraging economic development and a strong fashion retail presence downtown, FWC this year kicks off on Fri 5/3 and runs through Sat 5/11 and features trunk parties, music, cash mobs, happy hours, flame throwers, wearable art runway shows, live bands, body painting, food trucks, a documentary film and a Designer Runway Show & Black Tie Gala. View the video interview with Dr. Shingler at the 5th Street Arcades where much of the action takes place.
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SPONSORED: Get Holden-ized and Buy Local at The Holden Arboretum Plant Sale Sat 5/4 & Sun 5/5. Holden-hybridized rhododendrons and 30+ species of Holden's wildflowers available. Featuring 40+ local venders selling trees, shrubs, flowers, herbs, garden accessories and more. Open 10AM - 4PM. Access to activities - free, $3 admission to gardens and trails all weekend. For info call 440.946.4400 or HoldenArb.org.
If you're a guitarist whose spent countless hours searching for the illusive perfect tone like wandering through a backstage maze searching for the Authorized Personnel Only stage entrance, your search may be over.
Guitar Riot, offering a unique collection of boutique, custom and hand-built electric guitars, tube amps and pedals, has set up shop in the ArtCraft building...
Read more from Hollie Gibbs here
SPONSORED: The first three Mondays in May are #MAYker Mondays at Cleveland Public Library and TechCentral! Don't miss our special 'maker' labs: learn how to create your own font, build circuits and structures, create digital abstract art, or create a custom cookie cutter. Can't make it to Main Library on Mondays? Try one of our bonus Saturday MAYker events at Lorain Branch. CPL.org
Now in its 4th year, The Hooley on Kamm's Corners is one of Cleveland's fastest growing street festivals. Eat, drink, mingle and experience one of Cleveland's friendliest neighborhoods on Sat 5/11 from noon - 8PM. The event is free and open to the public.
Taking over Lorain Avenue, the event is bracketed by two stages, the main stage at Rocky River and a family stage near W. 165th Street. The Main Stage features classic entertainment such as The Pipes and Drums of the Cleveland Police, Celtic music and rock'n'roll with The Westies. The Family Stage features Irish Dance and children's fun with DJ McNab. View the video from last year's Hooley here.
SPONSORED: Vintage Cleveland Cool Take a step back in time & find that perfect gift at this vintage department store and museum. The 2-story maze of rooms at Flower Child is filled with decor, fashion, toys and kitsch from the 1930s to the '80s. Find that special something during the Clifton Arts & Music Fest on Sat 6/15. Cudell Improvement, Inc.
May is Cleveland Bicycle Month so dust off your ride & meet up for workshops, groups rides & other two-wheeled fun. The Wild Ride at the Zoo & a Bike-a-Palooza kick things off Sat 5/3.Click here for more News and Biz
SPONSORED: You're outta here! Win a weekend trip to Chicago for two out of the Akron-Canton Airport on Southwest Airlines. You'll also receive hotel stay and tickets to a Cleveland Indians vs. Chicago White Sox game! Remember to check Southwest Airlines for low fares to Chicago Midway. Enter at AkronCantonAirport.com.
Now that the research has been conducted (and posted online), the greater NEO community is invited to a series of public sessions to help create a more resilient and sustainable region.
These video excerpts were captured during one of the initial sessions in Oberlin on Tue 4/29. Watch the video here.
The sessions continue on Wed 5/1 in Slavic Village and Canton, and on Thu 5/2 in Akron and Warrensville Hts. Join us! VibrantNEO.org.
Stephanie Morrison-Hrbek & Bob Navis, Near West Theatre's executive director and artistic director, discuss their upcoming production Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, which runs May 3-19, 2013.
Considering the wide range of themes in the show (war, death, loss, aging, loneliness, love), they ask whether Brel is an idealist or a realist. In fact, he's both, and the production, transformed from a 4-person cabaret act to a cast of 34, is a powerful expression of the human condition.
SPONSORED: The return of Latin Jazz Night with The Spanish Harlem Orchestra, 8:30PM on Sat 5/4 at the Tri-C Metro Auditorium. Buy tickets online or call the PlayhouseSquare box office, 216-241-6000 or 866-546-1352.
Follow Bryan Bowser, assistant director of Baldwin Wallace University's Conservatory, as he shows us how BW has doubled their square footage and integrated the nearby church into one comfortable, connected, state-of-the-art network of practice rooms, rehearsal halls and casual spaces.
Check out the intimate gathering spaces, the huge, transformed sanctuary of the former First Congregational United Church of Christ, their vocal music hall, and the massive percussion rehearsal hall at the Boesel Musical Arts Center, the home of BW's Conservatory.
Entrepreneurialism is embedded in every course of study at BW, as Bowser, who holds an M.B.A. in Entrepreneurship from BW, can attest. He also serves as Director of BW's Arts Management Program, preparing students to manage non-profit arts organizations, allowing students a variety of arts & business-related career paths. BW.edu.
SPONSORED: What's YOUR Vision for Northeast Ohio? Have a say in a collaborative, region-wide effort to create a vision for a vibrant, resilient and sustainable region. You can't say no one ever asks because this time we are. Vibrant NEO 2040 Public Workshop (April 30 - May 2). Share your ideas and register: VibrantNEO.org/WorkShops
SPACES Monster Drawing Rally is a unique opportunity to see over 100 local and regional artists perform live in a communal, creative environment.
The night is divided into three hour-long shifts of about 30 artists at a time sitting at tables set up around the gallery...
Read more from Josh Usmani here
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Click here to subscribe to the Cool Cleveland Podcast in iTunes.SPONSORED: Wow! Rhodies After Dark! Celebrate The Holden Arboretum's Rhododendron Discovery Garden opening at "Rhodies after Dark" on Sat 5/18 from 7PM-10PM. Enjoy Drinks, Dinner, Music, The Living Vines (performance art) and Fireworks in the beauty of the new garden. Tickets: $55 each or $90 per couple. For info call 440.946.4400 or visit HoldenArb.org.
It's hard to imagine how you could enjoy seafood that's any fresher. Heinen's seafood buyer & merchandiser Marty Gaul speaks on the phone directly with the fishermen on the boats, tells them what she wants, and they overnight fresh seafood directly to Heinen's stores. "We place a call by one 'o clock today, and the product will be here tomorrow," says Marty.
Not only that, the seafood is being delivered direct from some of the finest fishing area in the 50 states. "We get it five or six days a week, direct from Alaska, Honolulu, Boston and the state of Washington."
Listen as Marty proudly shows off her Halibut, Tuna and Swordfish from Hawaii or Boston, Mahi and Monchong from Hawaii, Yellow Perch from Lake Erie, and an overnight package of Sockeye Salmon that has just arrived from Alaska. "As you can see, the product comes in with these gel packs on it to keep the product below 40 degrees. The care that is taken is absolutely amazing."
Marty is even amazed herself. "Those fish are still jumping. They have to put ice on them to settle them down. You're not going to get anything fresher than this. It's absolutely beautiful." Heinens.com
SPONSORED: You Are Entitled to Events, Discounts & More! Cuyahoga Community College is actively engaged in the process of reconnecting with its alumni to build an active, ongoing network. Join the Alumni & Friends Association and enjoy the benefits of networking, mentoring, updated job search and resume resources. Plus, look for special alumni events throughout the year and special discounts. Sign-up now: Tri-C.edu/alumni.
A family-friendly day of laidback music, jamming, crafts, storytelling, and folk dancing on a church lawn -- that's the Blue Sky Folk Festival. While you can see some of the area's best folk and traditional artists and headliner Nora Jane Struthers & the Party Line on the indoor stage, you get a discount for bringing an instrument to join in one of the jam-session tents. It's about participation as well as listening. Fri 5/4.Read more Red Hot picks by Anastasia Pantsios here
SPONSORED: On Fri 5/3 at 7:30PM, discover "How Geology Influenced the War of 1812: The Battle of Lake Erie" at The Cleveland Museum of Natural History's Explorer Lecture Series. Dr. Charles E. Hernendorf with The Ohio State University will discuss the unique geologic features of Presque Isle Bay. CMNH.org
Free Comic Book Day is the biggest day of the year @ Carol & John's Comic Book Shop. Go get your free comics; kids, be sure to enter the Lego-sponsored costume contest.Click here for more Cool Cleveland Kids events
Brittany Brown just loves Cleveland. And she uses the Cool Cleveland app to find out what cool stuff is going on.
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Cora Harvey traveled the world as a travel agent, "I loved the life... the single life." But then it came time to settle down and start a career.
"I wanted to make sure I had the right education behind me." Tri-C offered her the classes necessary for her associate's degree and her credentials to allow her to become a home day care provider for the past 24 years. And she's still not done.
"I'm still taking classes to continue my education."
Listen as we talk to Gwen at a Tri-C and Friends Association alumni event at the JazzFest. Tri-C.edu/alumni
WED 5/1
Cleveland Orchestra honors 20th-century California composers at the Art Museum on Wed 5/1 & Fri 5/3. Wed's program includes the world premiere of Henry Cowell's Sinfonietta Dane Rudhyar: Out of the Darkness, and Lou Harrison's Suite for Violin with String Orchestra, feat Steve Rose.
Click here for more events on Wed 5/1
THU 5/2
The Breeders are an important piece of rock and roll history. This year, accompanying the reissue of Last Splash by the Breeders' label 4AD, the early lineup has reunited for a tour bringing them to Oberlin.
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FRI 5/3
BEACHED: Beach Plastic Photographs by Ivana Medukic. Participate in a dialog addressing our direct connection to water quality -- and what we can do to take action. Part of Walk All Over Waterloo.
Click here for more events on Fri 5/3
SAT 5/4
15 Years of MorrisonDance Zany dance troupe celebrates 15 yrs in a one-night-only performance. See their best stuff, plus some new choreography exploring the "quirks and rhythms of neighbors & neighborhoods."
Click here for more events on Sat 5/4
SUN 5/5
Cleveland Jazz Orchestra Benefit @ Nighttown. Dinner, Latin-inspired cocktails, silent & live auctions, & a concert of Latin jazz, featuring CJO's artistic director, trumpeter Sean Jones.
Click here for more events on Sun 5/5
MON 5/6
BW Music Theater Showcase Some day when they're big Broadway stars, you can tell your friends you saw them way back when. Before this year's Baldwin-Wallace class flies the coop, they're presenting the Senior Showcase at Nighttown, featuring selections from new musicals.
Click here for more events on Mon 5/6
TUE 5/7
Cleveland Independents' Bartenders Competition Who's the best bartender in the (Cleve)land? Let's find out. Competition kicks off today w/ West Side Semi Finals @ Jammy Buggar's.
Click here for more events on Tue 5/7
WED 5/8
Gospel jazz pianist Cyril Chestnut is known for his vast stylistic range. And he continues to tip his hat to his first musical love: gospel. Hear him @ Nighttown.
Click here for more events on Wed 5/8
SPONSORED: Next Wed 5/8 at 8PM, WCLV will broadcast the Cleveland April 2nd debut concert of the Linden String Quartet from Reinberger Chamber Hall. They offer a program that includes the Haydn String Quartet in D, Op. 76, No. 3; Three Rags by William Bolcom and the Schumann Piano Quintet in Eb, Op. 44. Joining the quartet for the Schumann is pianist Arhur Rowe.
Details at WCLV.com
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Dancer/choreographers Tom Evert and Susana Weingarten have been back in Northeast Ohio for a while but now it looks like they’re bringing back their company, Dancevert, as a concert group.
We sat in on a rehearsal recently and caught up on Evert and Weingarten's plans for their upcoming concert and beyond....
Read more from Elsa Johnson & Victor Lucas here
Like death, I've come to accept that parking must exist.
To rid our downtown of a substantial amount of parking in one fell swoop would incite the kind of rioting seen in other nations when attempting to topple a dictator...
Read more from Joe Baur here
We recently got sucked in and spent three hours watching video and reading reviews of The Better Half by Lucky Plush. We felt that our readers -- modern dance audience and theater audience alike -- should know more about this...
Read more from Elsa Johnson & Victor Lucas here
Two examples of how prisoners are treated in Cuyahoga County -- and elsewhere -- have been in the news lately, if not quite making headlines.
One has to do with the cost of prisoners making phone calls to their loved ones, and the other has to do with the exploitation of mentally ill prisoners by TV "mockumentaries"...
Read this story from Mansfield Frazier here
Read other recent pieces by Mansfield Frazier here
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REVIEW: RICH GIRL is Sure to Please Audiences @ Cleveland Play House by Roy Berko
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Remove The Elevated Shoreway Many of the other elevated highways that have been removed with positive results in other cities have been stubs of highways that were never completed, and were lightly used as a result. The Shoreway, on the other hand, has traffic of 38,000 vehicles per day...
Read the comment from Daniel Baxter here
The bridge is definitely a barrier but if you dig a little deeper there are other possiblilities which may be more acheivable. West 6th Street may not get you to the water but West 9th Street gets you to the river via Front Avenue....
Read the comment from Doug Wahl here
I live on the north side of Lakewood and work on the east side near CWRU. I take the Shoreway every day, along with thousands of other commuters. I often comment on how beautiful my commute is....
Read the comment from Sarah Chahy here
Why Cleveland never took advantage of its lakeside location has always been a mystery to me. The city has literally turned its back on its most precious (and beautiful!) natural resource.....
Read the comment from Nancy Likens here
Shouldn't there be a better way to activate the shoreway in Cleveland and re-allocate transportation priorities instead of a simple "snip it and people will begrudgingly alter their behavior to fit my world view" solution? ....
Read the comment from Dru here
MANSFIELD: Pssst! Want to Buy a Football Team, Cheap? yes, owned by Browns fans. LOVE IT!...
Read the comment from Ralph Solonitz here
Good suggestion, Mansfield, but don't hold your breath. Letting the fans into the club would break up the sweetest racket this side of casinos....
Read the comment from Dick Peery here
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1) 2) MANSFIELD: Pssst! Want to Buy a Football Team, Cheap?
3) ROLDO: Is It Time to Cry Yet?
4) Overalls Optional at the Fresh Fork Farm Fair
5) Beck Center for the Arts Expanding to Tremont
Big ups to our writers: Joe Baur, Roy Berko, Mansfield Frazier, Hollie Gibbs, Elsa Johnson & Victor Lucas, Anastasia Pantsios, Josh Usmani 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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