02.13-02.20.13
Unexpected
The closer you pay attention, the more surprised you'll be. Even with the bar being raised regularly around here, we're amazed at how the Cleveland area is unexpectedly overachieving and pushing forward.Neon talent Jeff Chiplis' art is seemingly simple yet complex at the same time ("dazzling, frigid"); catch our feature and his opening at Busta this week. At another end of the spectrum, Molly Pamela installs Heavy Petals at BUCKBUCK: her revealing interview is below. The Callaloo Cafe & Bar is officially open on Waterloo, The Devil's Music opens at CPH, Winter Brite Festival returns, NWT throws a sock hop at Trinity, and there's death pop/electronica at Pat's in the Flats. Oh, and another lucky mobile app user won $20. As expected.
And yet, with all this creativity swirling around, commentator Richey Piiparinen thinks "Creative Class" is too narrow an ambition for Cleveland. That's unexpected. Or was it? --Thomas Mulready
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Cleveland-based neon artist Jeff Chiplis is debunking the old adage "lightning never strikes the same place twice."
A decade ago, some art-world buzz around his work constructed from repurposed found neon netted him a show at New York City's White Box Gallery.
He did not instantly become the next big art star...
Read more from Anastasia Pantsios here
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SPONSORED: Get Out of the Cold and Pack The Q! Buy discount tickets to watch Kyrie Irving and the Cleveland Cavaliers take on Blake Griffin and the Los Angeles Clippers, Fri 3/1. The Cavs will donate $5 for every ticket sold through this promotion to United Way of Greater Cleveland.
Remember the '70s television commercial for Reese's Peanut Butter Cups where one unsuspecting fool would inadvertently put their chocolate into peanut butter?
Well, that's sort of what Youngstown native and Lakewood resident Molly Pamela has in mind regarding her debut installation Heavy Petals, which appears Sat 2/16 - Sat 4/6 @ BUCKBUCK...
Read more from John Benson here
The question of how you "become" as a city has been weighing on me lately. Is it enough to get people back in the emptiness? Is it enough to pretty the derelict?
I mean, is the trajectory of Cleveland's success simply a collection of micro-everythings, start-ups, and occupancy rates? That is, is Cleveland's reward simply the benefit of being creatively classed?
I hope not. It won't work. Here is why...
Read more from Richey Piiparinen here
SPONSORED: Before there was Les Miz... Francis Poulenc gave music lovers something to talk about! Decades before anyone heard the name Jean Valjean, Poulenc penned Dialogues of the Carmelites - a hauntingly beautiful story of sacrifice set during an earlier French revolt. Presented by the CIM Opera Theater Wed 2/27 - Sun 3/2, tickets: 216.795.3211 or CIM.edu/dialogues
Bobby Womack returns to his hometown for a special interview & performance at the Rock Hall on Fri 2/22, on the heels of his first album in 12 years -- The Bravest Man in the Universe.Click here for more News and Biz
Three years ago, a couple of Case grad students had the idea to get several bands they knew to play outdoors on the banks of the Cuyahoga River -- in February.
With a couple of bonfires, some games, and a nearby Italian restaurant for warmth and food, they had themselves a little festival...
Read more from Anastasia Pantsios here
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Terrance Simien Brings Zydeco to Kids Experienced in translating regional culture to audiences who aren't quite sure what a "bayou" is, Simien is the perfect artist to introduce zydeco to kids. He'll do that in Creole for Kidz & the History of Zydeco at PlayhouseSquare.Click here for more Cool Cleveland Kids events
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Kidney + Krivda join forces for a concert benefiting The Cleveland Arts Prize. Both Kidney and Krivda are their 60s now, but both are still vibrantly creative and neither seems inclined to taper off his musical activities much.Read more Red Hot picks by Anastasia Pantsios here
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WED 2/13
Jazz prodigy Grace Kelly, still a few months shy of 21, is already making her mark. She recorded her first album at age 12; she now has eight recordings under her belt. Go see her @ Nighttown.
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SPONSORED: Today and tomorrow, WCLV 104.9 is airing the ten winners in its Valentine's Day Love Poem Contest as read by Jackie Gerber and Robert Conrad. The station continues its first Charter Membership Fund Raising Drive. You can help support the station's award winning classical music programming by calling 877-696-1049 or go online at WCLV.org.
THU 2/14
Night of the Loving Dead @ SPACES Andrew Alden brings his diverse ensemble of percussion, guitars, strings, piano, sound effects, samplers & synths to The Night of the Living Dead, transforming the film into a new experience.
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FRI 2/15
The Devil's Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith opens @ Cleveland Play House. Actress-singer Miche Braden is stellar as blunt-talking, hard-living, raw-belting female blues singer Bessie Smith.
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SAT 2/16
Sock-Hop in the Cathedral at Near West Theatre's annual benefit, "You Can't Stop the Beat." Food & drink, DJ & dancing, silent auction & raffle -- all hosted by Hairspray's Edna Turnblad. NWT throws the best parties. Really.
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SUN 2/17
Gospel at the Library Hear a concert highlighting African American church music through the decades, w/ songs featuring audience participation in Yoruba language to ones more European classical.
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MON 2/18
Cold Monday, Hot Music at Pat's in the Flats w/ Altanta trio VYIE, which calls its music "death pop/electronica." Also on the bill: Des Arae Darling, Hriliu and Wesley Washington.
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TUE 2/19
Cinderella's Tom Keifer @ Peabody's Is Tom Keifer "cool"? Those who recall that he was the frontman for '80s hair-metal band Cinderella would probably not think so. But Cinderella was one of those bands whose music had more depth than their image. Catch him in a scaled-down show tonight.
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WED 2/20
Hope for the City Annual Lenten Leadership Series kicks off w/ designer, architect & city planner Jeff Speck, who's also author of Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time.
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Optimism. This seems to be the theme of 2013.
Whether talking to friends or family, former students or present career clients, it seems like there's a breath of hope in the air. People are feeling good about this year and that energy fosters all kinds of new directions and opportunities...
Read more from Alex Sukhoy here
Now that the case of the officers who fired the 137 shots into a vehicle is in the hands of County Prosecutor Tim McGinty, it's liable to get political real fast... if for no other reason than the first organization listed on his campaign literature when he was running for the job last year is the Cleveland Police Patrolman's Association...
Read this story from Mansfield Frazier here
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Film producer David Levy is a big deal. He's worked with both Helen Mirren and with Meryl Streep.
His Robert Altman-directed production of Gosford Park earned him his first Oscar nomination. And he partnered with the late and great director for three decades, including on such cinematic masterpieces as The Player, Short Cuts and A Prairie Home Companion.
In the industry of make-believe, David is the real deal...
Read more from Alex Sukhoy here
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REVIEW: Take The Kids to See Avenue Q at The Beck by Thomas Mulready
REVIEW: Avenue Q Deserves Wider Audience @ The Beck by Elsa Johnson & Victor Lucas
REVIEW: none too fragile's A Behanding in Spokane Not for the Language Police! by Roy Berko
REVIEW: Cute You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up! @ 14th Street Playhouse by Roy Berko
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ROLDO: No One All Bad; No One All Good - Art Modell Roldo, Ah, more memories... and I see things in Cleveland have not changed much. Sigh....
Read the comment from Dale Dimitro Maharidge here
We get angry at the players when the real guilty party is the game. As long as the NFL and other sports leagues are free to use robber baron bludgeons to batter cities into submission we will continue to rage against villains while we forfeit our children's futures to pay for millionaire playgrounds instead of education...
Read the comment from Dick Peery here
Who cares if Cleveland has some kind of "cry baby" reputation amongst a bunch of people who don't give a shit about the town and would dismiss it no matter what....
Read the comment from Larry Durstin here
Sell Burke Lakefront Airport I am greatly disappointed by the lack of research this article demonstrates. For one, Burke handled over 64,000 operations in 2011...
Read the comment from Matthew Lee Grabski here
Agreed. I pass this everyday and it is such a waste of space. So much potential, even if it was just turned into a giant park that would be a huge improvement....
Read the comment from Jaclyn Godic here
Lose Burke and we lose our branch of the federal reserve bank....
Read the comment from mike here
PUT IT BLUNTLY... WE DO NOT need more unnecessary costly projects... THE money, politco stomach isn't there... IF there really was demand there WOULD have interests showing interest... AND I TRULY do NOT see any....
Read the comment from bob here
Burke was built on landfill. 60ft down and you'll probably hit water. I would like to see Burke become an airport again....
Read the comment from Eric replies here
MANSFIELD: Not Falling For It News Flash: 11 PM white couple shot in Strongsville by Cleveland police 140 times after 20 mile chase. Witnesses say that the white occupants of Honda Accord yelled, "Murderers, Trigger Happy Murderers" at two cops in the Flats who gave chase and radioed for assistance....
Read the comment from Jerry Dolcini here
An outside agency has to investigate the deaths in East Cleveland. The county prosecutor is too close to the Cleveland police to call it murder....
Read the comment from Dick Peery here
Agree with you, Mansfield. Blaming the system is a cop-out. (Ah, pun.)....
Read the comment from AGF here
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Most clicked
Here are the Top 5 most clicked links from last week's issue, with one more chance for you to click.
1) 2) Abandoned Cleveland: A look inside the Fifth Christian Science Church
3) Sell Burke Lakefront Airport
4) ROLDO: No One All Bad; No One All Good - Art Modell
5) VIDEO: Katherine Boyd Launches The Cleveland Connection
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