Paid Parking at West Side Market Lot Begins This Month
Update: Paid parking at the West Side Market lot will begin on Feb. 27, the city announced today. A quick recap: The first 90 minutes will be free between the hours of 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. After that it’ll be $1 per hour with a max of $10 per day. You’ll grab a ticket…
The Fourth Annual Cruel Winter Fest Hits the Grog Shop With a Packed Lineup and a Softer Touch
Produced by Grog Shop talent booker Wallace Settles, Cruel Winter’s first three iterations have given a stage to a curated assortment of the city’s hottest hip-hop talent. From the Bone Thug’d stylings of Tae Miles to the Yo Gotti-signed drawls of 55Bagz, Settles has stitched together top-notch showcases each of the past three Decembers. And…
Apollo’s Fire Gets in the Holiday Spirit and Five More Classical Music Events for the Week
It’s not exactly opera, but The Cleveland Opera is currently touring a staged and costumed performance of two of Robert Schumann’s song cycles around Northeast Ohio. Soprano Dorota Sobieska and tenor Brian Skoog will act out Frauenliebe und -Leben (“Woman’s Love and Life”), and Dichterliebe (“Poet’s Love”) with Jacek Sobieski at the piano. Four of…
Miracle Pop-Up Bar Brings Christmas Cocktails to Cleveland
What began as a holiday-themed pop-up cocktail lounge in the midst of a New York City bar’s construction four years ago, has now spread to 50 bars around the world this Christmas season. And this time the Miracle pop-up bar has come to the Spotted Owl in Tremont. Miracle’s beverages — with appropriate drink names like…
Betty Sutton Urges Governor to Revoke Rover Pipeline Permit, Citing Pattern of Spills in Ohio Wetlands
Betty Sutton, a former U.S. rep and a current gubernatorial candidate, asked Gov. John Kasich this week to revoke the Rover pipeline permit. She cited the company’s 19 Ohio EPA violations and its series of “drilling fluid” spills in the northern part of the state. In its place, she wrote, the governor and the Ohio…
Local Bands to Play Concert at Coda to Raise Awareness About National Monuments
Several local bands will perform at 7 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 1. at Coda in Tremont as part of an effort to show support for national monuments and public lands. The concert is being held to raise awareness of President Trump’s plans to eliminate vast portions of the Grand Staircase National Monument and the Bears…
Close City Council Races Got Closer, But Results Unchanged After Official Count
Councilmen Joe Jones in Ward 1 and Basheer Jones in Ward 7 can rest a little easier: after official tallies by the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections, their close electoral victories earlier this month have been confirmed. Joe Jones defeated incumbent Terrell Pruitt in Ward 1 (Lee-Harvard). After election night, he was ahead by only…
Cleveland Lands on National Geographic’s List of 21 Best Trips for 2018
If there’s one thing we’re known for, we like to say, it’s the near-ubiquitous gas porch lights you’ll find all around the city. If there are two things we’re known for, it’s those gas porch lights and getting ebulliently joyful when we’re included on lists. Which means today is a great day. Cleveland was one…
Beau Bishop on Buckeyes, TV Gigs and Twitter Mobs — The A to Z Podcast With Andre Knott and Zac Jackson
Knower of Stuff Beau Bishop joins Andre and Zac for a discussion on the College Football Playoff, J.T. Barrett’s legacy, the Big Ten title game and the sports media business.
Old Detroiter Space in Lakewood to Become Ivory Keys Dueling Piano Bar
First-time operator Thomas Russo thinks that now is the time for a new piano bar and that Lakewood is the right place to open it. He’s been hard at work converting the old Detroiter (and World of Beer) space along that suburb’s busy restaurant row into Ivory Keys (14701 Detroit Ave.), a dueling piano bar.…
Cleveland City Council to Renew Big Contracts with Familiar Consultants
Cleveland City Council will pass, as emergency ordinances, seven pieces of legislation Monday night that will renew contracts for consulting work and other professional services. The ordinances will greenlight yearlong commitments to the following folks: a project manager, a public relations guru, a CPA, a lobbying firm, an IT firm, a public utilities consultant and…
You Can Soon Catch Free Screenings of Christmas Classics at Akron Civic Theatre
There’s certainly a time to watch Christmas classics like Elf and It’s a Wonderful Life while wrapped up in blankets on your own couch, and also a time to catch the flicks with fellow fans in a public setting. This December, the Akron Civic Theatre, 182 S. Main St., offers the latter. First up is Elf…
The Organ’s Beauty Sparkles in a Refreshing Program of Copland, Paulus and Tchaikovsky
Thank goodness for Giancarlo Guerrero, whose Cleveland appearances are among the dwindling reasons to keep going to the orchestra. On Friday evening at Severance Hall, Guerrero led a program consisting of Aaron Copland’s “El Salón México,” Stephen Paulus’ “Grand Concerto” for organ and orchestra, and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4. I briefly met Paulus before the…
Radio Shack Robberies in Michigan and Ohio Led to This Week’s Major Fourth Amendment Supreme Court Case
The U.S. Supreme Court will take up Carpenter v. United States this week, turning the judicial system’s eyes toward prosecutorial discretion in searching cell phone records in criminal cases. At issue is interpretation of the Fourth Amendment, which defines illegal and unreasonable searches and seizures. In this case, prosecutors culled cell phone data to track Timothy…
Hanging in Ohio City Among Cleveland’s Several Violent Deaths over Thanksgiving Weekend
A 24-year-old woman was found late Saturday night hanging from the balcony of a home on Mabel Court in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood. The woman, identified by the Cuyahoga County Medical examiner as Megan Springsteel, was one of several violent deaths over the Thanksgiving weekend. Twelve-year-old Abdel Bashiti was killed when he was struck by…
Tool, Avenged Sevenfold, Alice in Chains Headlining 2018 Rock on the Range
Next summer’s Rock on the Range bill has been released, and psychotropic rockers Tool top the lineup. Avenged Sevenfold and Alice in Chains join them in the large print, as well. The Tool booking continues Rock on the Range’s trend of upping the ante each year. Last year featured Metallica and Soundgarden at the top…
Moon Hooch Continues Making People Dance, One Show at a Time
It began in balmy New York City subway stations. Two guys blaring through saxophones, accompanied by an often-shirtless drummer. Somehow this trio, who’d eventually call themselves Moon Hooch, successfully crafted a fusion of noodly stylized jazz and EDM that made busy passersby not only listen, but move. “To the everyday person, it was mania,” saxophonist…
Gov. John Kasich Once Again Discourages Use of Letter ‘M’ on ‘Scarlet Letter Saturday’
Get all your M’s out while you can, folks. All your “marmalades,” your “marsupials,” even your “mawkish mammoths.” Gov. John Kasich has once again urged all Ohioans to refrain from using “the alphabet’s unlucky 13th letter” tomorrow, Nov. 25, the day of the annual OSU-Michigan football game. According to tradition, Kasich’s office released the state’s…
State Report Shows Increased Crashes, Fatalities on Ohio Highways With 70 MPH Speed Limits
Since July 1, 2013, when the speed limit on portions of six highways in Ohio was increased from 65 mph to 70 mph as part of the state’s budget transportation bill that year, there has been a 24-percent increase in crashes on those stretches and a 22-percent increase in crashes involving fatalities or injuries, according…
9 Concerts to Catch in Cleveland This Weekend
FRIDAY, NOV. 24 10,000 Maniacs/Max Garcia Conover The independent route is nothing new for 10,000 Maniacs — as their promotional biography notes, they were “the original indie band,” having released an EP and an album independently on their own prior to signing with Elektra to release their second album The Wishing Chair in 1985. But…
Electropop Singer Halsey Delivers Rousing Show at the Wolstein Center
When electropop singer Halsey played Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica last summer, she performed with an undeniable swagger and regularly engaged the sold-out crowd during a visceral performance. It was as if she wanted to prove that she could command the big stage. Last night before a near-capacity crowd at Wolstein Center, she made reference to…
Grog Shop Offers Special BOGO Black Friday Ticket Promotion
The Grog Shop has just announced that it will offer a special Black Friday promotion for most of its upcoming concerts. If you buy one ticket on Friday, you’ll get one ticket free. The promotion takes place from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Friday, and this weekend’s concerts qualify, so the deal will apply…
Kickstarter Campaign Aims to Get Friend Back in the Restaurant Biz
[image-1]”Many of you know and love Ehab Enaia and his former place, Cafe Falafel,” says Diane Sikorski, who many know as the gal behind Humble Pie Baking. “When he made the decision to close the cafe last year, I knew I wanted to do something to help him reopen in a new location. This Kickstarter…
TubaChristmas Cleveland and More Holiday Weekend Classical Music Fun
Most classical music organizations are lying low during Thanksgiving week, but The Cleveland Orchestra will fill the weekend with interesting concerts, and the Christmas season gets a late November leg up with two other events. Concert organist Paul Jacobs returns to Severance Hall for three performances of Stephen Paulus’s Grand Concerto for Organ and Orchestra,…
Forrest, Bull Mastiff at Center of 2013 Animal Cruelty Case, Has Died
Forrest, the bull mastiff who was found shot and chained to a tree in Cleveland Heights and who later became the centerpiece of an Ohio animal cruelty criminal case, died last weekend. We published an extensive feature on the case in January 2013. Robin Stone and Patti Harris adopted Forrest and gave him a tremendous…
Band of the Week: SYNCPULSE
MEET THE BAND: Craig Brodhead (synth), Mike Gantzer (guitar), Rob Houk (drums) ORIGIN STORY: SYNCPULSE is an electronic improvised funk supergroup, if you will — a powerhouse collision of two rising young bands. In one corner, Craig Brodhead anchors this trio with DJ synth grooves; he’s the guitarist in the nine-headed funk hydra, Turkuaz, out…
The Flying Monkeys Will Save Us, Or at Least Distract Us For a Moment, in the Soaring ‘Wicked’ at Playhouse Square
The outrageously successful musical Wicked is approaching its 15th anniversary, and now it’s back at Playhouse Square on one of those regular return visits common for touring Broadways shows. This might elicit a yawn from people who have either seen the dazzling Wicked staging in years past and are satisfied with that, or who have…
Cleveland Kraut is Poised to Make a Big Move
Sauerkraut is one of those foods that people either love or loathe. Getting those who dislike it to even try it can be a nearly impossible task. “It can be an uphill battle,” admits Mac Anderson. “A lot of people have this memory of their grandmother or mother forcing this mushy, smelly stuff on them.…
Savage Love: Public Players
Dear Dan, I’m a twentysomething straight woman. About a month ago, I had a really vivid dream in which I was at a party and engaging with a guy I had just met. We were seriously flirting. Then my fiancé showed up — my real, flesh-and-blood, sleeping-next-to-me fiancé — who we’ll call G. In the…
Frances McDormand Shines As an Angry Mother in ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’
British and Irish playwright, screenwriter and film director Martin McDonagh has a wicked sense of humor. His distinctively dark sensibilities and sharp dialog distinguish fine, underappreciated films such as 2008’s In Bruges and 2012’s Seven Psychopaths. You can now add Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri to McDonagh’s canon of cult films. The movie opens areawide…
Pixar Animator Talks Bringing ‘Coco’ to Life in the Land of the Dead
When he was a kid growing up in Pittsburgh, Christian Hoffman used to go to animation festivals with his father. He particularly loved shorts created by Pixar Animation Studios. When Pixar released 1995’s Toy Story, he set his sights on getting a gig with the studio; he would land there in 1996. During his tenure…
Get Out: Everything You Should Do This Thanksgiving Week in Cleveland (Nov. 22-28)
WED 11/22 Cavaliers vs. Brooklyn Nets Earlier this season, the Brooklyn Nets caught the Cavaliers off-guard and handed them a five-point loss in Brooklyn. While the Nets, a team that now includes former Ohio State star D’Angelo Russell, has gotten off to a decent start, the group just doesn’t have the talent to compete against…
The 2017 Shop Local Gift Guide
If you haven’t already begun scoping out gifts for friends and family, rest easy, you are definitely not alone. There’s still, thankfully, plenty of time to secure that special something for everyone on your list, and we’re here, as always, to help make it as easy and painless as possible. From sports to art, from…
