07.13-07.20.11
Connecting
In our fractured world, how do we connect with each other? At Cool Cleveland, we do it by providing you with links to the coolest stuff happening: via our weekly e-blast, on our site, posted to Facebook and Twitter, and now, on our free mobile app for iPhone and iPad. Here’s how we’re helping you connect this week: a feature on ARTSYISM, to cure autism; an exclusive interview with Hairspray playwright Mark O’Donnell who returns to Cle to speak to the new Connect to Beck group; an invite to Ingenuity’s Speakeasy 2.0; a scan of summer festivals this weekend. We hope you get out and make the connection. –Thomas Mulready
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Autism affects approximately 9 per 1000 children in the United States.
Help change that by going to ARTSYISM, a Sun 7/17 backyard garden party. While there, you’ll experience the culinary, musical, and visual arts… Read more from Claudia Taller here
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Cleveland native Mark O’Donnell, Tony award winner for writing the Broadway play Hairspray, returns to his roots (he once acted in Our Town at Lakewood Little Theatre, before their name change) to kick off the inaugural event for the Beck Center’s new group, Connect to Beck, (C2B) helping to introduce people in their 20’s, 30’s and 40’s to Beck Center through social, cultural and insider events. O’Donnell will speak at 6PM on Sat 7/16, and C2B members will meet-and-greet, have drinks and apps, and then attend the 8PM presentation of Hairspray on the Mackey Main Stage at the Beck Center.
Listen to this exclusive interview with Mark O’Donnell about growing up on the West Side of Cleveland with 10 brothers and sisters, then graduating to Harvard University, the Harvard Lampoon, National Lampoon, and Saturday Night Live, which led to his work with John Waters on the Broadway adaptations of his films Hairspray and Cry-Baby, making him one of the pioneers of a fresh comedic style still popular today. He also talks about his work as a writer, with 5 books, 2 humor collections, and his poetry, cartoons and humor being published by the likes of The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and McSweeney’s. In photo at left, Mark O’Donnell is surrounded by Hairspray producer Margo Lion and Bruce Vilanch as Edna Turnblad. Listen to the interview and learn more.
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SPONSORED: Lean Six Sigma Information Breakfast Organizations and professionals look to Lean Six Sigma methods to become more efficient. Corporate College’s blended programs combine classroom and online training. Attend a free information breakfast on Tue 8/9 at Corporate College. Call 866-933-5167 to reserve your seat or visit CorporateCollege.com/lss.
Oberlin: Blueprint of small town sustainability Rural areas face unique challenges on the path to sustainability. Oberlin, however, is to become a blueprint for energy efficient mobility that other towns can replicate.
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SPONSORED: It’s OK to Wine A Little at Cain Park’s “Wine Pairings for Cookouts!” For just $8, Sip, Sample and Savor while wining to your heart’s content! This event is exclusive to ticketholders enjoying the worldly, jazz sounds of The Rippingtons. It’s all smooth jazz and smooth blends Fri 7/15. 216-371-3000 CainPark.com
Technological innovation may be the driving force behind IngenuityFest, but some unique ideas turn out to be just, well, bad ideas.
For example, the notion of Prohibition, which seems as surreal today as it was putting a man on the moon back in the 1920s, proved to be a failure. Still, IngenuityFest celebrates the era with Speakeasy 2.0 on Fri 7/15… Read more from John Benson here
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I Hear What You Are Painting @ MOCA “Ping! Ping! Ping!” — when you hear this sound, do you see dashes or zigzags? Create sounds into drawings @ the next MOCA Family Fun Day on Sun 7/17. Watch the Aleph performance & create stories inspired by art in the gallery.
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Have you seen this image? If so, maybe you’re a Clevelander, or maybe you’ve seen it in an earlier issue of Cool Cleveland. Since February, 2011, Cool Cleveland has featured the work of photographer Elisa Vietri in virtually every issue. Often, the first image you see at the top of the newsletter is work by this relatively unknown artist. Well all that is about to change. At least the unknown part.
Save the date Cool Cleveland and Travel Art Gallery are celebrating the work of Elisa Vietri with her first one-woman show at the Beck Cafe, with a free opening event on Fri 7/29 beginning at 6PM. Prepare your eyes for a feast of Cleveland images. Join us for a little wine and sample the delicacies. Click here for more information and registration for this FREE event.
WED 7/13
Das Racist + Smoke Screen + Muamin Collective The Rock Hall’s free Summer Concert Series continues on Wed 7/13 with clever rap group (aka hip-hop punks) Das Racist [pictured] w/ Smoke Screen & Cle’s own rap supastars Muamin Collective. FreeFREEfree @ Rock Hall Plaza! [Photo: Kyle Johnson.]
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THU 7/14
Lunch & Listen Recitals @ CIM Add some class to yr lunch hour. Bring a brown-bag lunch to CIM on Thu 7/14 (& every Thu in July). Eat yr food then listen to live concert performances in Mixon Hall. Whatta lovely lunch hour.
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FRI 7/15
Fourth Coast Pop-Up Market Looking to spend some dough on handmade goods? (Aren’t we all?) The next Fourth Coast Pop-Up Market on Fri 7/15 features jewelry, art, clothing and more — all local & handmade.
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SAT 7/16
Euclid Beach Blast! Celebrate the past, present & future of Euclid Beach Park on Sat 7/16. Clean the beach, build sandcastles, view the pop-up art show & purchase yummy food from one of the many food trucks. Stay later for the After Blast! Party @ Cafe Arts Collinwood.
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SPONSORED: How do you get to Carnegie Hall? You become The Cleveland Orchestra, This Sat 7/16, at 8PM, WCLV 104.9 FM presents The Cleveland Orchestra in concert at Carnegie Hall. There are two superstar soloists. Leif Ove Andsnes is the soloist in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 17 and Dorothea Roeschmann is the soprano in two arias from Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro. Franz fills out the concert with Suppe’s Light Cavalry Overture and a brace of selections by Johann Strauss, Jr. Complete details on all of WCLV’s classical music programming at WCLV.com.
SUN 7/17
Taste of Tremont It ain’t no secret that Tremont is a foodie’s paradise. Revel in the deliciousness of the neighborhood on Sun 7/17. Tremont streets close off for a day of sitting around & eating. Live music, too.
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MON 7/18
Farm to Table Dinner Cleveland Botanical Garden & North Union Farmers Market brings Cle’s top chefs together for one resplendent summer evening. Sample dishes cooked w/ local, fresh ingredients. Plus live music & keynote speaker Dr. Michael Roizen.
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TUE 7/19
How to Meditate Meditation is plain awesome. Not only does it relieve anxiety, it can help you sleep better & lower yr blood pressure. Larry Terkel, author of How to Meditate: Secrets to the Easiest and Most Effective Meditation Technique will teach you the basics on Tue 7/19 @ Hudson Library.
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WED 7/20
NEO Food Tour: Gateway & E. 4th Go on a culinary tour of Cle, one neighborhood at a time. On Wed 7/20 check out Pura Vida, House of Blues Foundation Room, La Strada, & Zinc. Sample special “off menu” creations.
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The festival scene took a back seat to 4th of July, letting the masses celebrate the birth of the United States with picnics, snow cones, and popguns, but festivals are now back in full swing… Read more from Claudia Taller here
Last week I briefly touched on the recent incident of bands of Black youth supposedly running wild at the Coventry Street Fair in Cleveland Heights and then allegedly marauding through adjoining neighborhoods…
Read this story from Mansfield Frazier here
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It was like the setup for a joke. Two choreographers walked into a vegan restaurant and the one, a local guy, said, “You gotta try this great restaurant; it belongs to Chrissie Hynde,” and the other choreographer, from New York, said, “Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders? Why does she own a restaurant in Akron?”
And he explained that Hynde is from Akron so the choreographer from NYC says, “You should do a piece to Hynde’s music…” Read more from Elsa Johnson & Victor Lucas here
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A Cleveland Story (for Harvey Pekar) Marvelous story on Harvey Pekar, and I agree about the three degrees of separation. I met Harvey, and spoke with him by phone, when I worked at The Plain Dealer. He had an intensity that was rare…
Read the comment from Mary Anne Sharkey here
Wonderful story about a great guy. I was hoping to find out whatever happened with his grave… last I heard he was going to be buried in Lakeview next to Elliott Ness…
Read the comment from Rick here
MANSFIELD: Fattenin’ Frogs for Snakes This seems to imply that if it is one of the children of your friends at the ACLU that a solution to this new menace wouldn’t be needed. What difference does the color of the victim have…
Read the comment from Hank Wait here
If 10 out of 11 families want a plea agreement, then 1 out of 11 does not. For that reason, the trial must be held…
Read the comment from TellsItLikeItIs here
I have been hearing around for months that Nina Turner might be considering a coup against Marcia Fudge, and it’s disturbing to me that the Plain Dealer wants to push this idea. It’s not a good one…
Read the comment from Anastasia P here
Sweet Spot Opens in Lkwd Serving Gelato Rosso Gelato in Rocky river has been open for at least a year, so I’d object to calling this the “first” west side gelateria. Very nice, passionate people…
Read the comment from greg here
Ohhh my gosh!!! I love this Gelato. It is so far superior to “old school” ice cream…
Read the comment from George here
You’d Look Better on a Bike One thing that has struck me about the participants in the Crank-Set Rides and Cleveland Critical Mass events is how nice, friendly and positive everyone is…
Read the comment from Matt Jauch 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) A Cleveland Story (for Harvey Pekar)
2) 60 pages of local job listings
3) Made in the 216 + Dredgers Union Grand opening
4) You’d Look Better on a Bike: Meet Cle’s (many) bike advocates
5) Sweet Spot Opens in Lakewood Serving Gelato
Making connections is what our writers do best. Kudos to John Benson, Roy Berko, Mansfield Frazier, Elsa Johnson & Victor Lucas, Claudia Taller 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.
Hope this helps you connect,
–Thomas Mulready
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