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Cinematic
Just try it. Look at your hometown through the lens of a visitor. Or a cinematographer. It's easy. Producer Tyler Davidson did just that and came up with a cinematic masterpiece that's won accolades at Sundance, Cannes and the Spirit Awards. Next stop: the Academy? Meanwhile Candice Klein graduates her first 10 women entrepreneurs with Bad Girl Ventures, worlds collide at Nighttown, and Mansfield takes off the gloves.Try this: download our mobile app and pretend this week is your extended holiday vacation. Pretend you're a tourist. We can't wait till you post your vacation videos. --Thomas Mulready
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Tyler Davidson's N.E. Ohio produced cinematic masterpiece Take Shelter recently got nominated for five Independent Film Spirit Awards.
These accolades add to recognition at Sundance and then Cannes, where the film won the prestigious Critics Week Grand Prize. The National Board of Review just named Take Shelter one of its Top Ten Independent Films of the Year... Read more from Alex Sukhoy here
SPONSORED: Somewhere In Time at WRHS. Dig it! Party like it's 1969! VIPs will start with private cocktails and dinner in the library turned 1960's sit-in at 6PM, then party with everyone till midnight to the groovy sounds of the 60's - dance lessons included! Dress in period fashion and win prizes, check out the reproduction of Janis Joplin's psychedelic 1965 Porsche 356C Cabriolet after dropping your own car with the complimentary valet service. Missed the 1960's? Dig it on Sat 1/28 at Western Reserve Historical Society. WRHS.com.
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While women own 50% of privately held companies and earn 60% of all Bachelors degrees, they only have access to 5% of traditional capital. Candace Klein, an attorney, and the founder of Bad Girl Ventures (BGV), noticed the disparity and hatched a plan to help.
In addition, she saw her own female legal clients signing bad contracts or getting involved with the wrong contractors -- from there, an idea was born... Read more from Julie Cajigas here
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All in Favor of Ruin Porn... Can ruin porn save the Rust Belt? Ruin porn -- photographs of abandonment, decay & the like -- has been called many things but Cle writer Richey Piiparinen makes the case for ruin porn as tool for change.Click here for more News and Biz
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Meet a Chickadee Can you be patient enough (and still enough) to entice a chickadee to land in your hand? Fill your palm w/ sunflower seed & try your hand at hand-feeding chickadees @ the RR Nature Ctr on Sat 1/7.Click here for more Cool Cleveland Kids events
WED 1/4
Rob Montague & The Flat Earth Society @ HOB Rob Montague and co. play "hard/modern/rock with the epic feel of the Grand Canyon" or what they describe as the "new sound emanating through the burnt out steel mills and dirty streets of Northeast Ohio." Whatever it is, it's good & you'll wanna hear it.
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THU 1/5
CPT: Big Box 2012 Cleveland Public Theatre's annual hotbed of homegrown creativity kicks off on Thu 1/5 with The Dreamer and My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters through the Ages -- two highly artistic, thought-provoking shows.
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FRI 1/6
Waterloo Alley Cat Benefit Concert Learn about the super cool, ultra necessary Waterloo Alley Cat Project (which takes care of strays in N. Collinwood), listen to the Night Sweats & Restless Habs (among others) and dig in to free food on Fri 1/6. Hell, the whole concert's free!
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SAT 1/7
Kentucky Border bluegrass Boot-stompin' ol' time music from a modern bluegrass band. Kentucky Border is an Ohio band mixing modern & traditional sounds and, yes, there's a banjo & fiddle in the band. (It wouldn't be bluegrass without it.) See 'em this Sat 1/7.
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SPONSORED: The first of the annual all-request Weekend Radios will be aired on WCLV 104.9 this Sat 1/7, at 10PM, with the second all-request outing on Sat 1/14. Many goodies including Ray Steven's sung version of "The Bricklayer," Chris Columbi's masterful rendering of "The Non-Scandelous Political Smear Speech" from a 1980s City Club Anvil Review, and the ever popular "Bulbous Boufont" by the Vestibules. Details on WCLV's programming at WCLV.com.
SUN 1/8
Everything is Winterrific on Sun 1/8 @ Mill Stream Run Reservation. Get out & enjoy winter w/ a day of nature hikes, sled dog demos, snowshoe rental & instruction, a snow bike demo from Century Cycles & much more.
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MON 1/9
First Mondays is back w/ a mock broadcast of Archie's Girl, a radio drama in '30s style about a feisty American girl & and oh-so-British butler. The 2012 season kicks off Mon 1/9 @ Judson Manor.
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TUE 1/10
Regina Brett's Be The Miracle is perfect reading material for the new year. Meet local author Regina Brett on Tue 1/10 & snag a copy of her book about making a difference & believing change is possible.
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WED 1/11
Worlds collide @ Nighttown when French vocalist Cyrille Aimee teams up with Brazilian guitarist Diego Figueirido on Wed 1/11 for a concert of French gypsy music (sounds exotic, right?) infused w/ Dominican rhythm & spice. Get cultural.
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Last week I finished off by writing that one of the candidates for county prosecutor is so conservative, that if he were elected, people would soon wish to have Bill Mason back.
Of course some folks might respond that, given the extent of social disorder we are constantly bombarded with, having a tough, no-nonsense prosecutor is exactly what the county needs... and I wholeheartedly agree...
Read this story from Mansfield Frazier here
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L.A. rocker Misty Gonzales recently returned to Cleveland for a set at Brother's Lounge, rocking out the audience with her unique style and impeccable vocal chops.
Misty has made Cleveland her second home, following a tremendous performance at the Rock Hall earlier this year and then singing the National Anthem at the Cleveland Brown's game this past October... Read more from Alex Sukhoy here
With newspapers in such precipitous decline my thoughts have traveled back to my first newspaper job in Bridgeport Conn. in 1959.
It made me think that I was lucky enough to experience the days of old newspaper people and when the daily newspaper WAS the news. I had the opportunity to enjoy newspapers as we remember them... Read more from Roldo Bartimole here
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The Nature Preserve At Dike 14 I live in Bratenahl and pass Dike 14 everyday, either by car, bike or foot. I understand the need to preserve the space, but there has to be some kind of happy medium between opening it only twice a year and leaving it fully open...
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Allowing full time access to this place ideally sounds like a nice thing... however, without proper staffing or watch, given the current lack of understanding the concept amongst the general public-of preserving the bio-integrity-will surely lead to many problems that would compromise the quality of the preserve and mostly likely have local law enforcement having to field a barrage of problems...
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Save the Dates: Upcoming Special Programming at the Cleveland Lakefront Nature Preserve:...
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ROLDO: Public Welfare - Shifted From the Poor to Corporations DEAR FITZ! would dump ol AmeritrustCleve.Trust bldg... dont believe wiggedout hype bout noveaurichiewannabe hipchic Yuppesque revival... SOME downtowners WILL do loftliving thing...
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5) MANSFIELD: Crunch Time at Karamu, or "The Play's The Thing"
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