As much as we’ve struggled to control the forces of nature around us, our river, our sky, our artists and entrepreneurs continue to churn and create and burn with an unbridled passion. CMNH is screening Ohio: Wild at Heart, a big-screen film created by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources to showcase the natural landscape of Ohio: the eagles, the trumpeter swans, the cleaned-up rivers, the cliffs of Hocking Hills, the glacial grooves on Kelleys Island, the fireflies and Lake Erie’s shores. Visible Voice Books, initially launched in Tremont in ’07 when CoolCleveland was but five years old, has moved once again to a space on Lorain six times larger, offering triple the inventory, plus beverages, snacks, a full bar and a stage seating 150.
Learn how to keep your band’s finances in order at a session from Cleveland Rocks, attend the CAC meeting to express your outrage about the takeover of WCSB by ideastream, attend the UUCC’s forum on resisting authoritarianism and hear of Dan Hanson’s love for our Cultural Gardens.
Kid Tigrrr is on a tour that brings her back to her hometown this weekend at the Happy Dog, four women TCO moonlighters perform at Heights Arts’ Close Encounters Series, DANCECleveland presents a work by Cleveland choreographer Dianne McIntyre, and the Akron Symphony gets a jump on the holidays with Handel’s Messiah.
Join Vanity Crash and myself as we host the NEO Rewind Series, 10 events in 2026 celebrating the musical legacy of our region: Our Day Will Come: NEO Women Rock in March; The Birth of Punk in CLE, AKR & Kent in May, and first up in January, David Bowie in NEO, talking with special guests DJs Billy Bass & Denny Sanders, plus our own Anastasia Pantsios who also exhibits her rare photos. Be with us to honor those who shook things up.
*David Bowie in NEO shows how Cleveland turned the artists into a superstar, told by legendary DJs Billy Bass on 1/9 and Denny Sanders on 1/11 and photographer Anastasia Pantsios on 1/10, who exhibits her rare photos of Bowie’s area appearances all weekend long, plus 7/11 & 7/16 with special musical guests.
*Queue Up formed in the early 1990’s when “Goth punk princess from hell” Ali Garrigan joined Dennis Van Crash from the Cleveland New Wave scene, releasing songs like “I Hate You Mr. Einstein” to great acclaim, leading to a reunion on 2/13.
*Our Day Will Come honors NEO women rockers Chrissie Hynde, Tracy Chapman, Chi-Pig, Rachel Sweet, The Poni-Tails, The Secrets, Ruby & The Romantics and others, with musical guests on 3/13 & 3/19.
*The Birth of Punk in CLE, AKR & Kent traces Peter Laughner, Rocket From the Tombs, Pere Ubu, Dead Boys, DEVO, the Waitresses, Chrissie Hynde, Bizarros, the Pagans and others contributing to our region’s seminal role in punk, proto- and post-punk with musical guests on 5/13 & 5/23. Join us in celebrating the musical progenitors who made our region what it is.
