03.06-03.13.13
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While the economy may still be on shaky ground, we're doing surprisingly well in these parts. Site Selection magazine ranked Ohio #2 in the country in major projects. Our region has stayed focused on what it does best, using technology to do it better, faster and cheaper. Our talent pool continues to retrain and stay current, and our traditionally intransigent relationship between labor and management has become more collaborative. Insourcing is becoming the fashion, with manufacturers preferring to make stuff here, in the center of their market, reducing shipping cost, and just as importantly, time to market. We've always worked harder around here; now we're working smarter.There's some pretty smart people doing some cool stuff this week. Young Audiences celebrates a remarkable 60 years of art in the schools, while Mahall's, only a year old, presents poetry, roots/rock/zydeco & be-boppin' jazz & greek music. We talk with Miche Braden as she inhabits Bessie Smith. LEAF is thinking spring with an Open House, and NEO becomes more vibrant with a series of public workshops. Barbarajean Nolan donates her $20 for using our Cool Cleveland mobile app in honor of her dad, "the coolest guy in the universe." That's pretty smart. --Thomas Mulready
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The multi-talented Miche Braden is more than just the star of The Devil's Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith. She's also the music director and she co-wrote some of the music.
Watch this fascinating exploration of the music of Bessie Smith, as Braden sets the stage: "We are getting ready to have a ball with a woman who does not hold anything back. Nothing at all. So you're coming to have some fun. Because Bessie's coming in to have some fun."
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SPONSORED: Wouldn't it be cool if you could travel by rail through a National Park -- and along the way, sample unique wines or beers... served with chef-prepared, locally grown hors d'oeuvres?! Climb aboard for Ales on Rails - Beer-Tasting excursion or "Grape Escape" Wine-Tasting excursion. Sample 5 unique beers or wines while enjoying the incredible view. CVSR.com
Passed Lives opens Proximity Gallery's 4th year of exhibitions in Downtown Cleveland. The show is a combination of work by local artists Linda Ayala and Andy Dreamingwolf. For this exhibition, both artists created fictional portraits with dynamic personalities.
Ayala's work has a lyrical, almost fairy tale quality. Dreamingwolf's portraits also have mysterious personalities, but often with a darker tone...
Read more from Josh Usmani here
SPONSORED: Knit & Nosh at the Maltz Get hip to the trend of knitting in honor of Women's History Month, on Wed 3/13 at the Maltz. Knit a scarf for yourself, or your family, or a Gathering Place client. Don't know how? No worries, someone will show you. MaltzMuseum.org
Literary Lots Kickstarter Launch Party A group of Cle-based organizations have joined together to create Literary Lots, a program that will be bringing stories from children's books to life in several vacant lots in the city this summer. Check out our PHOTOSTREAM of its Kickstarter launch.Click here for more News and Biz
SPONSORED: Be part of now as MOCA Cleveland unveils two new exhibitions: a sculptural installation and videos by Kate Gilmore alongside one of Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller's most acclaimed multimedia works, The Paradise Institute. Enjoy cocktails while experiencing the sounds of Sam Harmon and projected video by Jeremy Bible. Fri 3/15 from 7-10PM. Free to MOCA Members, $10 Nonmembers. MOCAcleveland.org
March at Melt Bar and Grilled The Legend of the Rueben Melt!Vegetarian and vegan option available. Yum!
SPONSORED: Students from the Tri-C Jazz Studies program will perform at the first-ever Jazz Brunch at Whole Foods Market at Cedar Center. Stop by from 11AM to 2PM Sun 3/10, for sweet tunes and savory nibbles. Whole Foods is at 13998 Cedar Road, University Heights. Call (216) 932-3918. Visit Tri-CJazzFest.com
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Click here to subscribe to the Cool Cleveland Podcast in iTunes.SPONSORED: Scientist, scholar, animal rights advocate and best-selling author Temple Grandin is autistic. She has been profiled on 20/20, ABC News, and NPR, and in the famous Oliver Sacks New Yorker profile, "An Anthropologist on Mars." Catch her at Cleveland Public Library Sat 3/9 at 2PM, Main Library. Visit CPL.org for more details about this FREE event.
Justin Roberts & The Not Ready for Naptime Players bring their raucous, high-energy music to the Beachland Sat 3/9. Bring your kiddos & sing along to songs about pop flys, gym class parachutes, trucks & other joys of childhood.Click here for more Cool Cleveland Kids events
SPONSORED: Help With Your Job Search for Tri-C Alums 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. Sign-up now: Tri-C.edu/alumni.
Frank Green Memorial @ the Beachland Performance artist, art critic and AIDS activist Frank Green swashbuckled his way through the Cleveland art scene in the '90s. Pay tribute Sun 3/10 at a free memorial event. All are welcome, whether you knew Frank or not, to learn about the impact he & his work had.Read more Red Hot picks by Anastasia Pantsios here
Barbarajean Nolan is totally down with Cleveland. "Thank you for all you have done to remind us of Cleveland's cool factor and encouraging us to become part of it... as often as we like! The mobile app makes it soooo easy : )." When Barbarajean heard she won $20 from Cool Cleveland, she asked us to donate her award. "I am accepting the $20 in the name of my father, Robert Nolan - and on behalf of the American Cancer Society Hope Lodge. It was at the Hope Lodge where he volunteered once a week for almost 10 years - baking bread for families facing the struggles of cancer. He succumbed to complications from Parkinson's in December but he remains the coolest guy in my universe."
Yet another donation is being made to a charity in the name of Robert Nolan and all our Cool Cleveland readers and app users. You are an incredible, warmhearted bunch, Cleveland!
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WED 3/6
Susie Arioli Makes Nighttown Debut The Montreal-based jazz singer has had quite a bit of success in her native Canada over the last decade & a half but hasn't made much of a splash south of the border yet. She'll bring her sultry sounds to town tonight.
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THU 3/7
Reggae Night Kick back on a Thu evening to some mellow reggae grooves, served up by some local veterans of the Cleveland reggae scene: Outlaws I & I and Jah Messengers.
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FRI 3/8
Cellar Door Rendezvous Cellar Door Records presents a gala showcase of some of the best local bands. Get a taste on Fri w/ two fairly established bands, followed by Sat night's big ten-band extravaganza.
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SAT 3/9
Rubber City Beatlemania Those of you on whom Beatlemania hasn't loosened its grip in 50 years -- and those of you newly in its thrall -- should hustle down to Akron for this event. Three bands will be onstage trying to take you back in time.
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SPONSORED: It made a big splash at Severance Hall last December when Bela Fleck performed in his own Banjo Concerto. It's on WCLV 104.9 this Sat 3/9 at 8PM. Of additional interest is Bela's encore -- a tribute to Earl Scruggs. In the KeyBank Studio on Tue 3/12, we'll have a live broadcast by the Solaris Wind Quintet, who will preview their BWU concert on 3/17 sponsored by the Cleveland Composers Guild. Full details on WCLV's classical music programming at WCLV.org.
SUN 3/10
LEAF Open House Think spring. "Rent" a community garden plot, register for the first CSA shares & bring seeds to swap. Meet some fellow locavores & learn of new volunteer opportunities.
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MON 3/11
Celebrating Arts Education in Cleveland YANEO is celebrating 60 years of changing students lives through art. Attend an evening of performances from local students & witness drumming, poetry, visual arts & more. Support creative youth.
Click here for more events on Mon 3/11
TUE 3/12
Hearing Voices Spend an evening w/ hot dogs, tater tots & the region's best emerging writers, who'll speak on work & the writing process. Part of Ohio City Writers' Write to Assemble Series.
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WED 3/13
White Buffalo Woman, a quartet from the Canton-Massillon area, recently released a self-titled four-song EP that sounds like it emerged from a place much farther south than Stark County & a time much further in the past than 2013 -- about 1973. Hear 'em @ the Grog.
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I can already hear the blowback echoing throughout corners of the 'burbs. "Less parking!? We need MORE parking!!!"
No. No, we don't.
Think for a moment when cities were at their most populous and powerful. There wasn't any parking to speak of...
Read more from Joe Baur here
The Internet allows for a high degree of interaction -- albeit not all of it positive, at least not all the time.
Individuals can pose legitimate questions (as my good friend Gloria Ferris, who puts her name on her queries, did in response to my column last week) or haters can use its anonymity to make smarmy comments, as do some curmudgeons who occasionally post on this site...
Read this story from Mansfield Frazier here
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PHOTOSTREAM: A Visit to Rising Star Coffee in the Ohio City Firehouse.
REVIEW: GroundWorks @ Breen - Weare's Wares by Elsa Johnson & Victor Lucas
REVIEW: Beck's Next To Normal is Next To Perfect by Thomas Mulready
REVIEW: Well Done NEXT TO NORMAL @ Beck by Roy Berko
REVIEW: Verb Ballets @ Breen by Roy Berko
REVIEW: EARTH - More devised theater @ Cleveland Public Theatre by Roy Berko
REVIEW: Mark Morris Dance - A contrast of two acts @ PlayhouseSquare by Roy Berko
REVIEW: Not So Blue - The Devil's Music @ Cleveland Play House by Laura Kennelly
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MANSFIELD: Comfort Zone Mansfield when I hear of this behavior it strikes a cord in me that makes me just want to scream! I feel sorry for that women who treated you this way...
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Mr Frazier, let me apologize for the ignorant barmaid. It is a shame and should be a crime for people to treat other people, regardless of the color of their skin, this way...
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If you don't out the institution that did this, how is anything ever going to change?...
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If I knew which establishment treated you (and others) so poorly, I would go out of my way to NOT go there...
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In Ohio Governor's Race, You Can't Beat Somebody With FitzGerald Very informative article and perspective. Just one thing...
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Sutton is a troubling choice for statewide. She has a nasty side which would come out in a statewide election...
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