Friday, October 2 – Cocktail Muse: In the past couple of years, craft cocktails have become increasingly popular. Tonight at Cocktail Muse, a Scene sponsored event, you can sample a variety of signature cocktails including Appleton rum old fashioned, a Dobel margatini, Tito’s harpoon, Tino’s Collins and more. DJ Peter Pleasure Cruise provides the tunes and there will be free bowling and complimentary food. Zygote Press will provide on-site screen printing. Tickets are $30, and the event runs from 8 p.m. to midnight. Sixties-inspired attire is encouraged. (Niesel) 11409 Euclid Ave.,
Friday, October 2 – MIX: The Cleveland Museum of Art’s first Friday MIX Happy Hours take place on the first Friday of the month, and October’s theme is Cultura, honoring Italy – from ancient Rome to the Rennaissance and up to contemporary Italian cultura. Partners for this event include Italiani a Cleveland, the Northern Ohio Italian American Foundation and the Honorary Consulate of Italy in Cleveland. The event runs from 5 to 9 p.m. and includes live music, cash bar and a special pop-up restaurant by Provenance in the atrium. Tickets are $8 in advance, $10 day of event. It’s free for CMA members. (Usmani, photo via Emanuel Wallace)
Friday, October 2 – Ingenuity Cleveland: Now in its eleventh year, Ingenuity Cleveland offers a family friend collection of exhibits that combine art and technology. This year’s highlights include: Big Tippy?, a “claw game” created by Tesla Orchestra?; SWITCHBOX?, a wooden structure outfitted with passive infrared sensors; ??Pipe Dream?, a collaborative artwork that brings participants together to “paint a picture of what is and what could be”; and CUbE x WORK?, a three-dimensional steel sub-structure mounted on a low rising platform. Weird stuff, for sure. The event takes place today from 5 p.m. to 1 a.m. at Voinovich Park. There will also be a Dancing Wheels Parade in honor of Dancing Wheels Company’s 35th anniversary and a competition where four teams compete to create a unique seating environment within the festival grounds using an array of materials. Admission is free. The event continues through Sunday. (Niesel. Scene archives)
Saturday, October 3 – Hingetown Hoedown: If there’s one thing the Cleveland music scene is missing, it’s folk music— or so says Adam Reifsynder, co-founder of the Hingetown Hoedown, a day-long bluegrass festival set to take place for the first time Oct. 3 in Hingetown. Inspired by Duck Creek Log Jam music festival, a weekend-long fest celebrating string bands, camping, and all things granola, Reifsynder and fellow Honeybucket bandmates came up with the idea to take that country feeling and drop it down in Ohio City. “There’s an audience for that type of music,” Reifsynder says, “but there isn’t really anything like it in Cleveland.” The Hingetown Hoedown will be held today from 1 to 10 p.m. on that little intersection of Church and West 29th Street known as Hingetown. The band has teamed up with the Transformer Station as well as with a slew of local businesses to create a free event that will get visitors in the mood for fall. It’s safe to say there will also be lots of craft beer and flannel shirts. The event will feature a mix of new-grass bands like Shivering Timbers of Akron and more traditional bluegrass bands like the Wayfarers of Cincinnati. Bands will perform on the main stage as well as a mini stage. There will also be a variety of art vendors and activities for all ages. (Xan Schwartz, courtesy photo)
Saturday, October 3 – Rocky Horror Picture Show: Because it’s the first Saturday of the month, the Cedar Lee Theatre will host a midnight screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the 1975 film that still draws an exuberant, costumed crowd that likes to throw rice and dry toast and sing along to the songs in the movie. Tickets are $9.50. (Niesel, photo via IMDB)
Saturday, October 3: Arlo Guthrie – Over the years, the appeal of “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree,” Arlo Guthrie’s rambling folk ditty about how dumping some garbage on Thanksgiving Day got him in a heap of trouble and inadvertently helped him avoid the draft for the Vietnam War thanks to his criminal record, hasn’t diminished. On Thanksgiving Day, classic rock stations throughout the country will spin the 18-plus minute song in its entirety. And Guthrie is on a lengthy tour to mark the 50th Anniversary of the event that inspired the song. On the current tour, he’ll perform the song in its entirety each night with some help from his backing band, which includes Terry Hall (drums), Bobby Sweet (guitar, vocals), Darren Todd (bass), and his son, Abe Guthrie (keyboards). Guthrie’s daughter Sarah Lee Guthrie, a singer-songwriter who has a career of her own, will open select shows as well. The concerts will also feature an “awe-inspiring” light show created specifically for the tour by 44 Designs, Inc., along with previously unseen images from the Guthrie archives. More than 75,000 photos have recently been digitized, and selections will be projected during the evening. (Niesel) $46.50-$80.50 (Courtesy photo)
Saturday, October 3: Collective Photography and Current Trends – Barbara Tannenbaum, Curator of Photography at the Cleveland Museum of Art stops by the Artists Archives of the Western Reserve for a special, free presentation on collective photography and current trends in the art market, both locally and nationally. Before accepting the position at the CMA, Tannenbaum was in charge of the Akron Art Museum, where she grew its photography collection from 500 to over 2,500 photographs. Tannenbaum’s talk begins on 1 p.m. today. The event is free, but RSVP is available through Eventbrite.com. (Usmani, photo via Wiki)
Sunday, October 4: Margaret Cho – Inspired by Robin Williams, her “father in comedy,” and Joan Rivers, her “mother in comedy,” comedian Margaret Cho pays tribute to both comics during her show. Rivers reportedly encouraged Cho to “remain fearless.” Tonight’s performance will also feature material that Cho has developed over the past few months. Expect to hear references to police brutality, racism and the rising tide of violence against women. She’ll also address Caitlyn Jenner’s transition. The concert begins at 8 p.m. at Hard Rock Live, and tickets are $29.50 to $49.50. (Niesel, courtesy photo)
Sunday, October 4: Ustatshakirt Plus – After the demise of the Soviet Union, Western pop culture began to infiltrate the Kyrgyz Republic in Central Asia. As a result, bands that played traditional music began to disappear. Nurlanbek Nyshanov, the leader of Ustatshakirt Plus, has tried to keep Kyrgyz mountain music alive with his group. The ensemble features traditional instruments such as the choor (wood flute), the kyl kiyak (bowed, two-string instrument), and the jaw harp. The group performs today at 2 p.m. at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tickets are $33 to $45, $30 to $40 for CMA members. (Niesel, photo via Facebook)
Sunday, October 4: Violins of Hope – Master violinmaker Amnon Weinstein and author James A. Grymes, author of Violins of Hope: Violins of the Holocaust— Instruments of Hope and Liberation in Mankind’s Darkest Hour, will be at the Maltz Museum today at 1 p.m. to discuss the incredible story behind the Violins of Hope exhibition at the Maltz Museum. The exhibit includes a display of restored Holocaust violins. Tickets are $12, $6 for Maltz Museum members. (Niesel. photo via Wiki)

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