07.07-07.14.10
Smiling
Have you noticed how people have learned how to smile in these days of ubiquitous digital cameras posting immediately to some dude's blog. (Hello!) You'd better know how to smile, or live with your scowl for a good long time online. Is that a lesson for our region? Here at Cool Cleveland, we're too busy helping our readers with the final installment of CareerTOOLBOX, unless you let us know you want more. And we'll give you even more to smile about: Mansfield is grateful for small victories, and we're publishing our hot links for kids and everyone else. We're even offering $100 for one last week to a lucky someone who comments on our new site and/or e-blast. Leave your comments here. We're listening and have already made adjustments: you'll see even more cool listings in this week's e-blast. That should make you smile. --Thomas MulreadyPictured: Steve Presser (L) of Big Fun and Weekly World News CEO Neil McGinness smiling at the Coventry Street Fair 2010.
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SPONSORED: It may be "Springtime for Hitler" but it's summer for Beck Center! And that means the opening of Mel Brooks' Tony Award-winning musical The Producers, which The New York Times calls "fast, fierce, shameless, vulgar and altogether blissful." Don't miss this outrageously funny "boffo" hit, Fri 7/16 - Sun 8/22. http://www.BeckCenter.org
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SPONSORED: Art, music and nature blossom along Cain Park's winding tree-lined pathways this weekend when 150 artists set up shop at the Arts Festival in Cleveland Heights. Admission is free on Fri 7/9 from 3-8PM, $5 on Sat 7/10 from 10AM-8PM, and Sun 7/11 from 12-5PM. Zydeco wildman Terrance Simien returns as well as other performers! 216-371-3000 or http://www.CainPark.com.
Music in the Metroparks Head to the South Chagrin Reservation for a series of free concerts beginning on Sun 7/11. Bring kiddos, a blanket or lawnchairs, and chill out w/ live tunes in our gorgeous Metroparks. This wk, hear the "modern olde timey" music of Hey Mavis [pictured].
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SPONSORED: Gilbert & Sullivan's hits Iolanthe & Patience are in rotating rep thru Sat 8/7 at the Ohio Light Opera on the beautiful College of Wooster campus, along with Kalman's The Gypsy Princess, Lehar's The Count of Luxembourg, and Sousa's El Capitan. Just an hour drive from Cleveland, enjoy the finest professional talent performing musical masterpieces. Good tix still available for all 7 shows. 330-263-2345 http://www.OhioLightOpera.org
WED
Gypsy @ Ohio Light Opera If you haven't seen Ohio Light Opera's performance of Gypsy, consider this a nudge to do so. Gypsy is based loosely on the autobiography of stripper Gypsy Rose Lee and is the quintessential Broadway musical.
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THU
Downtown@Dusk Akron Art Museum's wkly parties keep getting better. On Thu 7/8 hear roots rock from Colin Dussault. Also: Jerry Herron speaks on "Living with Detroit: An All-Purpose Guide to American Forgetting." While there, check out Detroit Disassembled: Photographs by Andrew Moore [pictured].
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FRI
Groucho's Garden Party The Cinematheque is showing the Marx Bros' first 7 comedies, from The Cocoanuts to A Day at the Races, starting on Fri 7/9. Kick it off w/ Groucho's Garden Party @ 6PM on Fri. Don yr best glasses and 'stache and munch on Marx-themed treats. [Photo: Son of Groucho]
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SAT
Bruising for a Good Time? The Battle for the Hazard Cup is on and the Burning River Roller Girls are more intense than ever. Catch the championship double header on Sat 7/10. Let the bashing begin in the race for the finals! [Photo by John Murphy.]
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SPONSORED: The Saturday afternoon opera broadcasts take a rest for this week (Sat 7/10) while WCLV goes to the Cain Park Art Festival for live reports throughout the day. WCLV's Jacqueline Gerber will be doing regular interviews with artists, about two per hour. That evening at 10PM, Robert Conrad on Weekend Radio presents the late comedian and folksinger Gamble Rogers and "Saturday Afternoon at the Baby Grand," and "The Passion of Miss Eulalah Singleterry." Very funny. Complete details of all of WCLV's programming at http://www.WCLV.com.
SUN
Hot Fun in the Summertime @ Now That's Class on Sun 7/11 = BBQ + free shows + record exchange + flea market... all happening on NTC's back patio. Music by Poppets, Sweet Sixteens & locals The Ethiopians and "one man monster band" Wolfboy Slim and his Dirty Feets [pictured].
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MON
Does the US export eating disorders? Hot topics at this month's Science Cafe: What socioeconomic conditions need to occur for eating disorders to emerge in a society? What are the socio-cultural risk factors for eating disorders within a society? Grab a beer and discuss w/ Eileen Anderson-Fye, Ed.D. and Lisa Damour, Ph.D.
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TUE
Sleigh Bells @ Grog Shop Sleigh Bells is one of the most buzzed-about bands in America. This experimental duo has everyone amped up over their sweet use of pop hooks paired w/ a rhythmic crunch. Hear what the buzz is about @ the Grog Shop on Tue 7/13.
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WED
Summer in the City 2010 is the Rock Hall's series of free summer concerts featuring the nation's most buzz-worthy bands playing on the museum's plaza. The series kicks off on Wed 7/14 with old-school innovators Carolina Chocolate Drops [pictured] with Lighthouse and the Whaler. This is summer livin' at its finest.
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A few months back I asked friends and loyal readers to join with me in an attempt to convince Lee Valley, a catalog company that sells gardening equipment, to include persons of color.
In every other respect it was a very fine catalog with lots of neat items... the only thing was, all of the models were white. The response from you guys who sent emails to the company expressing your outrage was overwhelming, very gratifying... and also effective.
When I raised the issue to the owner of the company, Robin Lee, we went back and forth quite a bit via email, but in the end fairness prevailed and you can go to this link and see for yourself...
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Carry On
Lakewood Project Rocks
If you haven't experienced it, it's a bit hard to explain.
Every 4th of July, Lakewood Park fills with 20,000 folks anxiously awaiting not only one heckuva fireworks display, but also the sounds of the first and only high school rock orchestra, The Lakewood Project.
Oh, and those strange shoulder-mounted string instruments? Those are electric Viper violins, violas and cellos. And boy do they rock.
Watch the video and think about how violin players are becoming rock stars in high school. Carry on, wayward children! Video & more on The Lakewood Project
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Review: Iolanthe @ Ohio Light Opera 6/30/10 by Laura Kennelly
Review: The Foreigner @ Porthouse Theatre 7/2/10 by Roy Berko
Preview: Cain Park Arts Festival Director George Kozmon by Susan Petrone
Review: 2 CDs by Josh Rzepka, by Greg Cielec
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Something Stinks I am a Southerner living in Cleveland for the past 4 years. During that time, I have experienced more racism than I ever experienced living in the South for 35 years. I get so tired of ignorant black people trying to throw the South under the bus while they allow white people to treat them like animals. Downtown, I have seen black men have water thrown on them by white managers of a chain store...
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Keep smiling Our writers give us reason to smile every week: Roy Berko, Greg Cielec, Mansfield Frazier, Laura Kennelly, Susan Petrone, Alex Sukhoy, 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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