The Weather in Cleveland This Week Will Be Weather
Snow. Snoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow. There will be some amount of it this week, starting sometime between now and Wednesday, and ending sometime after it starts. It could possibly exceed the forecasted snowfall totals that have been expertly and scientifically estimated by your favorite local weatherperson. It may fall short of those numbers. It very well might deliver…
Update: CIFF to Screen Local Singer-Songwriter Diana Chittester’s Latest Music Video
Update: Earlier today, local singer-songwriter Diana Chittester announced that her music video for the song “Paradox” was accepted into the 43rd Cleveland International Film Festival. The video will be part of CIFF’s Shorts Program. The program takes place at 7:15 p.m. on Thursday, March 28, at Tower City Cinemas. Original Post 1/21/19: One of the…
New nuCLEus Renderings Feature Much Smaller Tower, Ditch Jenga-Like Design
Updated renderings for the proposed nuCLEus project uploaded to Stark Enterprises’ website show that plans for the jenga-like tower have been abandoned and the ambitious height of the tower itself, originally pinned at 54 stories, greatly reduced. (Note: The renderings are currently offline but were saved by a Reddit user. The original rendering can be…
Bop Stop to Host an Opening Party Next Week for a New Exhibit of Artistic Concert Photos
Growing up in Cleveland with a mother who nurtured his artistic impulses, the local artist and photographer No Numbers (aka Arron Bound) started dabbling in art at an early age. “My mom is an artist, and she was always creating something,” says Bound one recent Saturday afternoon from his Ohio City home. Bound’s concert photos…
Local Rapper Case Bargé Releases a Music Video for His New Single, ‘Ascension’
In 2017, local rapper Case Bargé issued a music video for “Manifest,” a tune that addresses issues such as politics, religion and “today’s media.” Last year, he followed it up with a music video for the equally profound “You & I.” Now, he’s just released yet another ambitious music video. This one is for the track “Ascension.”…
Cleveland Lead Advocacy Group to Move Forward With Ballot Initiative
Cleveland Lead Advocates for Safe Housing (CLASH) issued a press release Tuesday afternoon saying that their coalition of activist organizations intends to move forward with a ballot initiative. A Tuesday morning press conference at City Hall was meant to unveil the city’s new lead strategy — the culmination of years of fact-finding and stakeholder engagement…
A Former Clevelander, Guzheng Master Jarrelle Barton Coming to Northeast Ohio for a Series of Recitals
When he was still a teenager, Jarrelle Barton, who grew up in Cleveland, discovered the guzheng, an ancient Chinese zither. Barton progressed as far as he could on his own and then moved to Minneapolis to study with a guzheng master from Beijing who was living just outside the city. A decade later, Barton has…
The Two Souls to Perform at Prosperity Social Club’s Special Valentine’s Day Celebration
The Two Souls, a Cleveland group featuring singer/songwriter Gary Lee (the Kwiklees, Abbey Road, the Echos, Jasmine & Tristand) and guitarist/bassist/vocalist Dave Huddleston (Hillbilly Idol, Rachel & the Beatnik Playboys, the Echos, the Hot Wax Express), are known for their renditions of Beatles classic such as “She Loves You,” “Love Me Do,” “Can’t Buy Me…
Armond Budish Lawyers Up as Various Investigations Swirl Around County Jail and Administration
Included in today’s news from Cleveland.com that the U.S. Attorney’s Office is reviewing the scathing report on conditions in the Cuyahoga County Jail prepared by the U.S. Marshals to assess whether any criminal or civil charges might be warranted is the tidbit that Cuyahoga County Executive Armond Budish has hired former U.S. Attorney and current…
Tash Sultana Coming to Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica in May
A self-taught musician who’s mastered over 15 instruments, Tash Sultana started by busking on the streets of Melbourne, Australia. Now, she’s become an international star and recently won an ARIA award for Blues and Roots Album of the Year. Last year, she performed at both Coachella and Lollapalooza, and she’s just announced dates for a…
Cleveland Music Community Mourns the Loss of Saxophonist Norman Tischler
Yesterday, Cleveland lost one of its great musical treasures. Saxophonist Norman Tischler, who had esophageal cancer, passed away. A true character, he was a terrific musician and beloved by the local music community. Tischler, who taught brass and woodwinds at Northshore Music in Euclid and played with the swing/blues band Blue Lunch, also subbed in…
Hotz Cafe Celebrates 100 Years in Tremont Saturday
Over the last century, Hotz Cafe, 2529 W. 10th St., has stood tall as its Tremont neighborhood surroundings ebbed and flowed. Presidents (FDR, allegedly), baseball players (yes, the Great Bambino) and actors (we’re talking the cast of The Deer Hunter here, including Meryl Streep and Robert De Niro) have all ventured inside the family-owned establishment for…
Mott the Hoople to Bring Its Reunion Tour to the Masonic Auditorium in April
Earlier today, British rockers Mott the Hoople announced the details for their first U.S. in 45 years. The jaunt will feature the band’s core members — Ian Hunter, Ariel Bender and Morgan Fisher — and it celebrates the 45th anniversary of the band’s famous 1974 U.S. tour as well as the original release of The Hoople and…
The ‘Balls and Cocktails’ at Polpetta Are Now Available for Lunch
Polpetta, the chef-driven choose-your-own meatball and cocktail joint that opened in Rocky River in September, is now offering lunch service. Starting today, the restaurant now opens at 11 a.m. daily and offers a beverage happy hour from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the bar. While there are plenty of appetizers, salads and “go-to” meals…
Akron’s Broken Transmitter to Perform at This Year’s Wizard World Comic Con
The Akron band Broken Transmitter travels nationally with Wizard World Comic Con and will perform at the event when it comes to the Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland again this year on March 8, 9 and 10. The affable Kato Kaelin will host the main stage where bands perform, and Broken Transmitter will be the main musical…
Ohio Marijuana Card to Host a Health and Wellness Event at Red Space on Saturday
Thirty-six vendors from the health and holistic field as well as cannabis-related businesses will be on hand for the Ohio Marijuana Expo: Cleveland that takes place from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday at Red Space. The event will also feature a meet-and-greet with rapper Wish Bone from the Grammy-winning local hip-hop group Bone…
The Cleveland International Film Festival Expands to Both Sides of Town This Spring
This year’s Cleveland International Film Festival, kicking off in March, is bringing films to both sides of the city. As usual, the 43rd installment of the event is playing hundreds of films during the festival run at Tower City downtown. But this time around, people who don’t like to travel to far from their neighborhoods can…
In Advance of This Week’s House of Blues Show, Country Singer Dylan Scott Talks About His Forthcoming EP
Late last year, singer-guitarist Dylan Scott hosted the inaugural Bayou Stock in Sterlington, LA, as a way to give back to his hometown community. The event raised about $30,000 to buy Christmas presents for underprivileged kids. Scott, who now lives in Nashville, says that growing up in rural Louisiana helped form the musician he is…
Jeni’s Ice Cream in Chagrin Falls to Open at 9 a.m. on February 2 for Ice Cream for Breakfast Day
Ice cream is such good stuff, why the hell not eat it for breakfast? On Feb. 2, Ice Cream for Breakfast Day, Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams in Chagrin Falls will open at 9 a.m., so you can indulge and have a few scoops of Banana French Toast, the special flavor that the place is whipping…
(Trumpets!) Cuyahoga County Indictments Released … (Fart Noise)
The “corruption” on display in the Cuyahoga County indictments released Friday by prosecutor Michael O’Malley is virtually indistinguishable from the standard practice of many other regional elected leaders, including Humanitarian of the Year Armond Budish. It’s heartening, we suppose, that O’Malley is vigilantly guarding against unethical behavior at the county, but if these indictments represent…
Watch Party Planned for Upcoming ‘The Zimmern List’ Cleveland Episode
Andrew Zimmern, a man known for eating any number of bizarre foods, recently made a stop in Cleveland for his newish Travel Channel show The Zimmern List. In honor of the episode airing Jan. 26 at 10:30 a.m., Terrestrial Brewing in Battery Park has teamed up with the folks at Saucisson for a watch/brunch party that day…
Prosecutors Drop Charges Against Radio Personality Will Burge in Wrong-Way Highway Crash Incident
Charges of aggravated vehicular assault and OVI against Will Burge in connection with a late-night wrong-way accident on I-90 last year were dropped by the Lake County Prosecutor’s Office on Jan. 10. The nolle prosequi motion (basically fancy Latin for dropping charges) was entered pending further investigation. Police and prosecutors had said Burge was intoxicated…
It Sure Looks Like Armond Budish Bought a ‘Humanitarian of the Year’ Award
Cuyahoga County Executive Armond Budish will tonight be awarded the “Humanitarian of the Year” award by the Greater Cleveland chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. And what a meaningful honor! Former municipal court judge C. Ellen Connally put it succinctly when she wrote, for CoolCleveland.com, that Budish “just doesn’t qualify” for the award. “Spend…
Forest City Brewery Now Hosting Live Music in Its New and Improved Beer Hall
Originally, when Jay Demagall and his business partner Matt Mapus decided to start a small business in the brewing industry, they weren’t looking to buy a building. But three years ago, when they came across an old brick building on Columbus Rd. in Tremont, they decided it was too good of an opportunity to pass…
Cleveland Named ‘Say Yes to Education’ City, Scholarship Fund To Cover Full College Tuition for Eligible CMSD High Schoolers
Cleveland was today officially named a Say Yes to Education city, which, thanks to a $90 million endowment fund, means that eligible four-year graduates of a CMSD high school will have access to “last dollar” scholarships to 117 private colleges and universities and all 37 public Ohio colleges and universities that will cover all tuition…
King Crimson to Bring Its 50th Anniversary Tour to Hard Rock Live in September
The veteran prog rock act King Crimson has just announced the dates of a 2019 tour designed to celebrate the band’s 50th anniversary. The tour includes a stop at Hard Rock Live on Sept. 25. Since it returned to live performance five years ago, the group has toured relentlessly, delivering two defining shows at the…
Live Nation Announces the Details For This Year’s Country Megaticket
Live Nation has just announced that it will once again offer a Country Megaticket that’ll include access to all the country music concerts coming to Blossom this summer. According to a press release sent out this morning, “Purchasing a Platinum, Gold or Bronze Megaticket guarantees a reserved seat for all shows within the Megaticket package.”…
Moshuro Teams Up With Local Rapper 2SSAINT on Its New Single
Local keyboardist Eli Hanley plays with a number of local acts, including the Katy, Emily Keener and the Brother Nature. His latest project, the indie rock act Moshuro, formed in 2017 and has appeared as a backing band for local artists such as Freshproduce and Daniel Gray-Kontar. The band consists of Hanley (keyboards/synths), Dan Fernandez…
‘Daytime Pyrotechnics’: Leaders Celebrate Q’s Final Steel Beam, While Related News Goes Unmentioned
Officials convened across from the Quicken Loans Arena Wednesday afternoon to celebrate the completion of structural steel work on the Q’s expansive new Huron Road facade. The public subsidy for the construction project, now with a price tag of $185 million after Dan Gilbert announced earlier this year that he’d be chipping in $45 million…
5 Concerts to Catch in Cleveland This Weekend
FRIDAY, JAN. 18 Donna the Buffalo/Jen Maurer and Anthony Papaleo Bluegrass wasn’t that popular when Donna the Buffalo started 30 years ago, but thanks to the popularity of bands like the Avett Brothers and Yonder Mountain String Band, it’s seen a resurgence in popularity, giving bands like Donna the Buffalo a well-deserved boost. The band’s…
Now That’s Class to Host the Fourth Annual Fear of a Black Planet Hip-Hop Showcase
Four years ago, MC Josiah “Zion” Quarles, a local guy who plays in the hip-hop group MuAmin Collective, launched a showcase for local acts that he dubbed Fear of a Black Planet. He’s just announced the details for this year’s event, which will feature a tribute to the late hip-hop producer and rapper J Dilla…
Critics Question EPA Nominee’s Coal Past
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Moms from Ohio are among those asking elected leaders to think hard about making Andrew Wheeler the nation’s top environmental steward. In the seven months since becoming acting administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Wheeler has moved to unravel regulations, including clean water rules and methane emissions from oil and gas drilling.…
Playhouse Square Introduces a ‘Late-Night Ticket’ for This Year’s Jump Back Ball
Organizers of the Jump Back Ball, the annual party that takes place at Playhouse Square each winter, have anounced that this year’s event will feature a special late-night ticket. Taking place on Feb. 23, the 28th annual incarnation of the event has adopted a unique theme, which is “Jump Back Across the Pond. “Think royal…
Brian ‘Trailhawk’ Zimmerman Just Got a Taxpayer-Funded $44,000 Gas-Guzzler
Shortly after Cleveland Metroparks CEO Brian Zimmerman received, via board approval, yet another lavish pay raise, and one week before the Metroparks evicted about 10 homeless people from an encampment beneath the Detroit-Superior bridge on only 24 hours notice, the publicly funded regional parks district bought Zimmerman a brand-new SUV. The $44,000 2019 Jeep Grand Cherokee,…
M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘Glass’ Brings the Director’s Trilogy to a Ho-Hum Conclusion
A sequel to 2000’s Unbreakable and 2016’s Split, M. Night Shyamalan’s Glass completes a trilogy that the writer-director had reportedly originally intended before he changed the Unbreakable script and then made the character he had left out of that film into the subject of Split. Yes, it’s all very meta, and Glass is a heady…
Ladysmith Black Mambazo to Perform at Trinity Cathedral in February
A few years ago, the locally based Elevation Group, producers of the LaureLive music festival at Laurel School’s Butler Campus, conceived and created the Cathedral Concert series that takes place at Trinity Cathedral. Previous Cathedral Concerts have included acts such as the Airborne Toxic Event, Red Wanting Blue, Glen Hansard, Bruce Hornsby, Marc Cohn, the…
Annual Blax Museum Artist Showcase to Take Place at the East Cleveland Public Library on February 2
A poet, blogger, educator and cultural facilitator, Michelle R. Smith has recently been a featured poet and panelist at the Coast Line Poetry Series at Lakewood Public Library, the Ekphrastic Poetry Invitational at the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Great Lakes Black Authors Expo and Writers Conference. Earlier today, she announced that she’ll bring…
Decade-Old Pro-Business Ohio Bill Let Lead-Paint Manufacturers Off the Hook for Paying for Cleanup
In October of last year, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a California case in which the state courts found that paint manufacturers – one of which was Cleveland-based Sherwin-Williams – must pay the cleanup bill for thousands of homes contaminated with lead paint. The manufacturers will be paying $409 million for the California home contamination…
‘Lucky Number 10’ for Yours Truly: Next Up, Solon
“Today, on the day of this announcement, we are celebrating 38 years,” says Larry Shibley, Chairman of the Board of Yours Truly Restaurants. “I’m guessing that we’re the oldest ongoing local chain.” Shop number one opened in Beachwood on this day in 1981. Since then, Yours Truly has expanded its reach across the suburban Northeast…
OHSAA Blames Super Rude Parents for Dwindling Numbers of High School Sports Refs
The Ohio High School Athletic Association (OHSAA) recently unleashed a strongly-worded letter addressed to parents of high school athletes, essentially blaming them for dwindling numbers of high school sports officials. In the essay titled “Dear Mom and Dad: Cool It,” OHSAA, with the support of the National Federation of State High School Associations, explained that parents…
In Advance of Next Week’s Show at House of Blues, Lettuce Drummer Adam Deitch Talks About the Band’s Tribute to Miles Davis
Many bands that form when band members are in their teens don’t stay together long enough to see band members enter their 20s or even 30s. That fact makes Lettuce’s story all the more remarkable. The guys in the psychedelic funk/jam band first met when they were teenagers at a summer music program at Berklee…
Santana’s Supernatural Now Tour Coming to Blossom in August
To mark the 20th anniversary of his Supernatural album and the 50th anniversary of his Woodstock performance, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Inductee Carlos Santana has announced he’ll hit the road with his band this summer on what he’s calling the Supernatural Now tour. The three-month, 29-date celebration will come to Blossom on Aug.…
Uptown Was Supposed to be a Unique Destination, But Critics Say It’s Become a Bland Fast-Casual Food Court
When the $200 million development of housing, shops, cultural institutions and public spaces along Euclid Ave. first opened in 2012, it was touted as the new main street for University Circle. “Just a short walk from the institutions on Wade Oval, and within campus borders of Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Institute of…
Get Out: Everything You Should Be Doing in Cleveland This Week (Jan. 16-22)
WED 01/16 Cleveland Stories Dinner Parties Cleveland Stories Dinner Party is a weekly series that pairs fine food with storytelling. Through it, the folks at Music Box Supper Club hope to raise awareness of the mission of the Western Reserve Historical Society’s Cleveland History Center. The goal of the Cleveland Stories Dinner Party is to…
Bex Fuller and Maeve Billings Tackle Fear, Insecurity and Horror at Waterloo Arts
“All that art-for-art’s-sake stuff is BS,” states the great Toni Morrison regarding politics and art, adding that, “All good art is political! There is none that isn’t. And the ones that try hard not to be political are political by saying ‘We love the status quo.'” We enter the two-person exhibition, Collected Spaces at Waterloo…
Masterful ‘Shoplifters’ is Better Than Comparable Critical Darlings
Shoplifters, from Japanese auteur Hirokazu Koreeda (Our Little Sister, After the Storm), is a captivating domestic drama with salient moral themes. It’s about a ragtag family of small-time crooks making ends meet in Tokyo. The film is the best of Koreeda’s I’ve seen and took home the Palm D’or at last year’s Cannes Film Festival.…
British Dramedy ‘Adult Life Skills’ Offers Quirky Charm, Despite Lack of Compelling Plot
Coping with the death of a family member can be difficult. Dealing with the death of a twin can be an even more emotional ordeal. That’s the theme of Adult Life Skills, a 2016 British dramedy just making its way to U.S. theaters. The movie, which opens on Friday at Tower City Cinemas and arrives…
Band of the Week: Donnie Lynee
MEET THE BAND: Donnie Lynee (vocals) AN EARLY BLOOMER: Lynee, who grew up in Glenville, started singing when she was 4. Back then, she used to sing Aretha Franklin’s “Respect” at family gatherings. “They’d be playing all the soul songs over the weekend,” she says. “They would tell the kids to sing. I just knew…
Savage Love: Big Little Lies
I’m a middle-aged man dating a younger guy. He wanted to be a “boy” to a Dom top daddy, and I was happy to oblige. The sex is amazing, and we click as people, too. Then a couple days ago, he told me he wanted to explore small penis humiliation (SPH). I was taken aback—not…
