04.17-04.24.13
Breakneck
We're rolling at quite a rate these days. Making up for lost time? Reveling in our newfound rust belt mojo? It doesn't matter. We're digging the breakneck pace. Whether it's the 2nd annual Urban Film Fest or the 34th annual Tri-C JazzFest, this town's got it going on, and Cool Cleveland is right there, with a feature on the GCUFF and an interview with JazzFest's irrepressible impresario Terri Pontremoli.
Breakneck Gallery's hitting their stride with a show that allows you to collect art just like baseball cards. The Missing's been cooking at quite a pace themselves, as they celebrate 5 years & 50,000 brews. Project MOCA shows some style, EarthFest shows us another way to relate to our environment, InsideCPH shows us how to build a play, 3 Guys and A Lady shows us how to network. Don't miss CWAL's show that closes this week, or Noises Off, which opens at BW.
Record Store Day draws us back into our favorite independent record stores, looking for fresh vinyl. Or stop into the Winchester for National Open Mic Night, or Ms. Julie's Kitchen in Akron for the Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale.
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Now that the CIFF has wrapped up, movie lovers in Cleveland need not panic. The second annual Greater Cleveland Urban Film Festival comes to Shaker Square Cinema Thu 4/18 - Sun 4/21, and it's bigger and better than last year's.
Peter Lawson Jones, who has masterfully transitioned his career from our County Commissioner to actor (Alex Cross, Made in Cleveland) and filmmaker (Fatherhood 101), offered his unique perspective...
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Breakneck Gallery's Artist Trading Cards (ATC) Show allows visitors to collect art like baseball cards.
There's a good chance you could walk in with $20 in your pocket and walk out with your new favorite work of art. Walk in with $50 and you could start an art collection...
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Beck Center brings its arts education to Tremont. New storefront location to offer adult education classes, with classes on improv & drawing starting next month. Grand opening on Fri 5/10.Click here for more News and Biz
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Bravado is rarely in short supply when The Missing is playing a local show. Such bluster is evident as the Cleveland rock act prepares for its 5 Year and 50,000 Beer Anniversary Party taking place Sat 4/20 at Peabody's.
Armed with its latest effort White Gold, the quartet promises plenty of tunes, suds and fun at the soiree celebrating its half-decade together...
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SPONSORED: Tickets are selling fast for the 34th annual Tri-C JazzFest. Get yours for Aaron Neville, Natalie Cole, Bill Frisell, Robert Glasper, Michael Feinstein, Kenny Garrett, the Smooth Jazz All-Stars, Lionel Loueke, Spanish Harlem Orchestra and more! Visit Tri-CJazzFest.com. Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.
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"Who's Your Mama?" Earth Day & Environmental Film Fest has plenty of kids activities. From kids films at the film fest to a giant street party, there's something for all ages.Click here for more Cool Cleveland Kids events
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WED 4/17
CIA Biomedical Art Spring Show Biomedical art merges science, technology & applied art to create visual education materials on scientific & medical topics. And it's pretty amazing stuff. Go see for yourself at the opening reception today.
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SPONSORED: Tonight, WCLV 104.9 is live at Severance Hall for a CIM Live broadcast featuring the Kalichstein- Laredo-Robinson Trio and the CIM Orchestra under Jamie Laredo in the Beethoven Triple Concerto. Also on the program, the Beethoven Symphony No. 3. Details on all of WCLV's unique classical music programming at WCLV.com
THU 4/18
Go Outside and Play! Why Our Parents Had it Right. Learn the importance of getting kids outside in a series of lectures & workshops for educators & parents.
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FRI 4/19
Project MOCA: A Cinematic Fashion Competition. Local design students create styles based on MOCA's current exhibitions. Femininity will be redefined. Go & vote for your favorite.
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SAT 4/20
Damnation of Adam Blessing rocker to speak at new gallery Space: ROCK. Hear about a disappointing band, a music career & some perspective on the myth that getting signed means you've "made it."
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SUN 4/21
EarthFest 2013 Ohio's largest environmental education event & the longest running Earth Day celebration in the nation continues... in a new location. 200+ exhibits, Ohio's first biodiesel powered amusement park rides, music & more.
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MON 4/22
How To Build a Play Get the scoop on the inner workings of Cleveland Play House and the theatre biz... for free. Want to know how to build a play? RSVP for April's InsideCPH session & learn the skills of the playwright.
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TUE 4/23
CIA Persona Runway Show A student-organized fashion show packed with experimental & conceptual approaches to fashion. Expand your mind in regards to clothing.
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WED 4/24
3 Guys & A Lady make networking fun. Meet interesting ppl as you tour LAND studios & learn about the green space & public art planning taking place in Cleveland.
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One of the top jazz festivals in the world, the Tri-C JazzFest is in the capable hands of managing director Terri Pontremoli, who gives Cool Cleveland the lowdown on this year's schedule of events running from Fri 4/19 to Sat 5/4.
From artists sporting a solid Cleveland connection (Joe Lovano, Dominick Farinacci, Tommy LiPuma) to edgy artists (clarinetist/saxophonist Anat Cohen & guitarists Bill Frisell Lionel Loueke) to stone legends (Aaron Neville & Natalie Cole), to a night of smooth jazz heavyweights and an evening dedicated to legacy of Dexter Gordon, this year's fest covers an increasingly wide range of styles that are comfortable with calling themselves "jazz."
They're featuring the Robert Glasper Experiment, who won the 2013 Grammy for best R&B album, and Dr. John, who just collaborated with Akron's Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys on his recent critically acclaimed album. Michael Feinstein mines the Great American Songbook with "The Gershwins and Me," and the Spanish Harlem Orchestra closes things out on Sat 5/4.
For the next couple weeks, Cleveland can truly say, "Jazz Lives Here."
CWAL's 6 in Studio closes this Fri 4/19 with an exhibition of work created by the artists in their collective, creative environment. Over the past month these artists have shared the Cleveland West Art League's gallery as a communal studio.
The result?: Each artist found a way to make work that creates a dialogue with the other installations and the space itself...
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The ongoing national (and often raging) debate over gun control took a very personal turn for me recently, and here's how.
My daughter called me in a tizzy; her daughter, my granddaughter Catie, who lives, works and goes to school in Columbus, was being threatened with bodily harm....
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I had to chuckle reading Steve Litt's lead on his umpteenth piece ballyhooing a revamp of Public Square.
"Cleveland's drab and gray Public Square..." Litt starts the latest propaganda push for more downtown public dollars. Public Square is an essential property for the city. Is that why we put a gambling joint at its doorstep? To dress up the place. Good thinking...
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PHOTOSTREAM: Lottery League @ the Agora by Anastasia Pantsios
PHOTOSTREAM: Cuyahoga County Democratic Dinner @ Intercontinental Hotel by Anastasia Pantsios
REVIEW: THE TINDERBOX Offers Kids Food for Thought by Sarah Valek
REVIEW: none too fragile's WHITE PEOPLE Wrenching, Powerful Theater! by Roy Berko
REVIEW: Compelling WARHORSE Grasps the Imagination @ the Palace by Roy Berko
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Roldo's Unforeseen Journey My admiration for you and your work remain boundless. Keep up your good and necessary work -- Telling truth to and about the powerful and shining a much needed light on the powerless. And keep in mind always, that 80 is the new 50....
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This is a beautiful piece of writing. A lot has not changed -- editors still don't want to run these kinds of stories. The big mainstream book publishers are more focused on the bottom line than ever...
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This is great -- but incomplete. Among Roldo's other successes is in his critical view of the media. Those of us who worked on The PD read Roldo to find out what was happening at 1801 Superior Ave...
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Bless you and thank you, Roldo. I'm 60, and I can't remember a time when you were not speaking truth to power with clarity and courage. Don't ever stop....
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The only thing that troubles me is that he is 80 and still writing the best, insightful stories that we see in journalism here. Where are his followers...
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I was a longtime subscriber to Point of View, even after leaving Cleveland. It was a great spur to me in my journalism career. Roldo rocks. Always...
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The Rust Belt Is Dead God, I'm sorry but I think this is a really tired trope. If people are unhappy about something in Cleveland it's their own personal baggage. Do you know what the infant mortality rate is in this city for black children? It's positively third world....
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Angie, I don't think this judgement (people's unhappiness) is an either/or proposition. If you read this article without taking Cleveland into context, you can conclude that the piece is ignoring tangible things that are wrong in Cleveland...
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