02.23-03.02.11
Cool Cuisine
Yes, Cleveland is taking cool to a new level this week, with an ice blanket that crystallized everything. But inside, Cleveland cuisine is hot, so we're launching Cool Cuisine, with a manifesto by our new food columnist Alan Block, and our first installment on Clyde's Bistro & Barroom. We chill out with an exclusive interview with mash-up artist DBR, a peek at the comedy underground, videos of Inlet Dance Theatre and the Beck Center protesters, and commentary by Mansfield Frazier and Roldo Bartimole. Now, can't you just feel things starting to thaw? --Thomas MulreadyClick here to subscribe or for a web version of this email
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Cleveland food is cool, and it's time we started saying so.
That's the vision of CoolCleveland's new food columnist Alan Block. His column, Cool Cuisine, will take you behind the counters & into the kitchens to witness what (and who) makes our gustatory genius.
Read Alan's manifesto on the coolness of our cuisine (and our city) here. Then read his first installment, wherein he takes you behind-the-scenes at Clyde's Bistro & Barroom in Cle Hts (see article below).
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Re-Imagining Cleveland: Ideas to Action resource book is now available to download. The packet aims to "put ideas and helpful information into the hands of people who can & will change the city for the better" by outlining exactly how to plan a community land reuse project.Click here for more News and Biz
SPONSORED: Conversations With a Trappist Monk... Really! Acclaimed poet and photographer, Brother Paul Quenon, who melds the solitude of being a Trappist monk with universal spirituality, will share his insights Wed 3/2 through Thu 3/3 at Baldwin-Wallace College as part of the Theo and Belle Moll Lecture Series. Quenon, who trained under Thomas Merton, is noted as a powerful presenter whose quiet presence and universal wisdom speaks to the soul. The Moll Lectures are no charge to the public. BW.edu.
Cool Cleveland Podcast Weekly roundup of cool events, in an easy-to-digest 3 minute audio format, for playback on your computer or iPod.
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Daniel Bernard Roumain (known as DBR) a Haitian-American from South Florida, came bolting out of the classical music world, and with his hand-made 6-string electrified violin, mashed-up Hip-Hop beats and collaborations with the likes of DJ Scientific, but he harbors no responsibility for the current dire straits of classical music:
"I'm a derelict, I'm a nomad, I am gutless, I am completely consumed with myself... I need to be absolutely true to my music and my work."
DBR workshops all week in Cleveland, then performs in the new Black Box theatre on Tri-C's Metro Campus this Sat 2/26 at 8PM, with Woodbox Beats and Balladry. Listen to the exclusive Cool Cleveland interview here.
Breakfast with the Birds Eat a stack of pancakes while in the company of wild birds on Sat 2/26 @ the Nature Ctr at Shaker Lakes. Learn all about our feathered friends w/ a birds of prey show, activity stations & nature hikes. Proceeds benefit good causes.Click here for more Cool Cleveland Kids events
When I pulled into the parking lot at Clyde's Bistro and Barroom, the Black Keys were blaring on my radio and the sun was blazing on the metal siding of this former diner. I thought of my first visual impression of the Black Keys, two young white guys from Akron, and how I never would have guessed they could conjure the deep, honest, real sounds of legends like John Lee Hooker. But first impressions are often deceiving, so don't let the soda-fountain-first-impression of Clyde's through your salty car window deceive you: the well-crafted food and the people who make it here are deep, honest and real... Read Cool Cuisine and watch the video by Alan Block here.
WED 2/23
Yasmin Levy @ CMA Israeli singer Yasmin Levy comes to the Cleveland Museum of Art on Wed 2/23 to sing Ladino songs: 500-year-old Sephardic/ Spanish-Jewry songs that have been passed down orally from generation to generation. Described as emotionally penetrating & spiritually uplifting.
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THU 2/24
The Taqwacores @ Cinematheque Set in Buffalo but shot in Cle, The Taqwacores details the world of Muslim punk rock & unorthodox Islamic twenty-somethings who "pray all day and party all night." Filmmaker Eyad Zahra will be in the house on Thu 2/24 & Fri 2/25 to answer Qs.
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FRI 2/25
The Garbage Insurrection Circus & Angel of History Passion Play. Does the doom & gloom of American society bring you down? Seek insurrection & the ability to laugh at this absurd world. Join Possibilitarian Puppet Theater for political puppet performances, art & food on Fri 2/25 & Sat 2/26 @ Pilgrim.
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SAT 2/26
DBR: Woodbox Beats & Balladry @ Tri-C Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) is a classically-trained composer, violinist & band-leader who mashes elements of jazz, rock & hip-hop together in one high-energy show. He even plays a 6-string violin he calls a "Frankenstein monster." See him on Sat 2/26 @ Tri-C's Black Box Theatre.
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SPONSORED: This time of the year, most Saturday nights, WCLV 104.9 has a live concert by The Cleveland Orchestra. This Sat 2/26, at 8PM, Andrey Boreyko conducts the Band in Bartok and Prokofiev, plus a rare piece - an English Horn concert with cor anglais principal Robert Walters. Next Sat 3/5, WCLV is live from Miami for the Orchestra's second concert in this year's residency. Giancarlo Guerrero conducts. Details at WCLV.com.
SUN 2/27
Road to the Red Carpet Walk the red carpet @ The Greater Cleveland Film Commission's Hollywood-inspired gala, Road to the Red Carpet on Sun 2/27. Watch the Academy Awards on jumbo screens, vote on your favorite flicks, drink cocktails & act like a celebrity (minus the pompousness).
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MON 2/28
Janus Trio comes to Cleveland State University on Mon 2/28 to perform colorful & dynamic new repertoire for flute, viola & harp. They keep it traditional while breaking into unexplored sonic frontiers. An intriguing combo of "something bowed, something blown & something plucked."
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TUE 3/1
Leadership in Sustainability Ever wondered why leaders in corporate sustainability do what they do? Are they driven by values & consciousness or merely the bottom line? Find out @ the Leadership in Sustainability: Motivations, Passions, Convictions round-table on Tue 3/1 @ Baldwin-Wallace. Register by Thu 2/25.
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WED 3/2
Gloria Steinem @ Oberlin College One of America's prolific feminists comes to Oberlin on Wed 3/2 at 7:30PM. Steinem has done it all -- founded Ms. magazine, organized the National Women's Political Caucus, helped found Choice US & created Take Our Daughters to Work Day. And she was a driving force behind the womens' rights movement.
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This week is ALL ABOUT PUNK ROCK. Grab a PBR (hipster, right?) and spend an evening with Burning Down Broadway's Time is Money.
The album is polished in the sense that it sounds good -- no distractions with rough quality and, just the same, no distractions with over-production. Released in July 2010, Time Is Money is the Cleveland band-o'-four's third release and something you will most likely dig... Read more from Laurie Wanninger here
Uriah Stephens, Mother Jones, Woody Guthrie, Paul Roberson, A. Phillip Randolph, Albert Shanker and a host of other long-dead champions of working-class Americans must all be spinning in their graves as workers and their rights are coming under attack all across America from the far right.
In state after state newly-elected Republican governors are speciously using budget deficits to scare legislators into rolling back hard-won gains of labor unions... while threatening to decimate the middle class in the process...
Read more from Mansfield Frazier here
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At the very least, the name Chucklefck will catch your eye and maybe even warrant a, well, chuckle. That's the idea, says comedian and Chucklefck driving force Ramon Rivas II, who is hoping to reinvent comedy in Northeast Ohio one small show at a time.
For the past four years, the underground comedy promoter has booked shows at Bela Dubby; however, Rivas feels the time is right to expand with a Beachland Tavern debut gig called "Bash at the Beachland" on Sun 2/27... Read more from John Benson here
People surely believe that Cleveland has shrunk. It has diminished in more ways than mere loss of population. The Census figures soon will tell us how much.
Do we realize just how it has diminished? For what reason?...
Read more from Roldo Bartimole here
Watch this video interview with Inlet Dance Theatre's Bill Wade as Inlet Dance Theatre rehearsed on a snowy afternoon recently. Maybe it was the dreary weather out of doors, but many familiar repertory pieces shined with a new light. Beauty in Tension (2010), imPAIRed (2004), Wondrous Beasts (2005), Ascension (2006), Snow (2007), A Close Shave (2006), and BALListic (2002) are all on the upcoming program at Chagrin Falls High School's Performing Arts Center.
"This is our 'Best Of' concert," said Artistic Director Bill Wade as he ran down the concert and told us how snow is beautiful - really. Watch this exclusive Cool Cleveland video interview by Elsa Johnson & Victor Lucas.
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Building a Dynamic Campus Neighborhood: The transformation of CSU Thank you for covering the exciting growth of CSU. As a CSU graduate and current downtown Cleveland resident, I am amazed every time I talk to my family and friends in the suburbs where I grew up who have no clue what is going on downtown. Some of them think it hasn't changed since the 60s...!
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Letter To The Editor: Roldo Bartimole Thanks for the tip, Roldo, and I hope you'll feel like returning to CoolCleveland with more columns - they provide a necessary reality check about area politics.
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COMMENT: Do Not Be Angry With Governor Kasich It's Not His Fault, It's Ours I do not know to much about him but iI do know he was elected by a majority and needs to prove himself and should have a free hand for at least a couple of years and if there is no improvement by than I may join in the crucifiction or lynching wich ever you prefer...
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MANSFIELD: McCloud: What's in a Name? I am the young mans mom who Demerick Mccloud beat. Yes Brandon McCloud is Demerick brother. Justice was not served at all. Now my son is out here wondering will he be attacked again. McCloud is a loser and he will strike again...
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MANSFIELD: McCloud: What's in a Name? Well, Mansfield, I am sure you know what the stumbling block is. The Harlem Children's Zone project was phenomenally expensive; hundreds of millions of dollars were poured into it by various foundations etc. This country doesn't have the will or the compassion to find the money to do this, even though it would benefit our society in innumerable ways - the wealthy must have more tax breaks...!
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Thank you to our correspondents & contributors. Roldo Bartimole, John Benson, Alan Block, Mansfield Frazier, Elsa Johnson & Victor Lucas, Sarah Valek and Laurie Wanninger. 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.
Tasty,
--Thomas Mulready
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