Artist Ed Raffel Talks About the Work in his Current Show at BAYarts

Cool Cleveland Events 4/23 7:14A Anastasia Pantsios

Sat 4/27 @ noon Reading about Cleveland mixed-media artist Ed Raffle’s work can make it sound pedantic. But seeing it can elicit a “wow!” For instance, the artist statement for his show, Analog Man in...

Medieval Music Ensemble Explores 14th Century Florence

Cool Cleveland Events 4/22 11:50A Anastasia Pantsios

Fri 4/26 & Sat 4/27 @ 7PM Sun 4/28 @ 3PM Northeast Ohio has several well-known period music groups, but smaller ensembles keep popping up as well. For instance, there’s Trobár, a Cleveland-based group...

Coventry’s PEACE Campus Building Shows Off its Creativity at PEACE Pops

Cool Cleveland Events 4/22 10:37A Anastasia Pantsios

Fri 4/26 @6-9PM A number of arts-related organizations and businesses are located in the Coventry PEACE Building in Cleveland Heights, and every three months, they get together to host PEACE Pops,...

Regional Breweries Offer More than 70 Types of Beer at Medina Beer Fest

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Sat 4/27 @ 6:30-10:30PM Love beer? Then the Medina County Community Center at the Medina County Fairgrounds is the place to be this coming Saturday April 27 when Main Street Medina hosts its Beer...

Women’s Air & Space Museum Holds Benefit Trivia Night

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Tue 4/30 @ 6-8PM It’s time to test your knowledge of space, as well as museums, Cleveland and women’s history at the International Women’s Air & Space Museum (IWASM)’s 3 rd annual Trivia Night. It’s a...

NEWS: Cleveland Burlesque Queen Bella Sin Dazzles in Las Vegas

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L to R: Bella Sin, Kate La Dame Derriere, Gigi Holliday. Photo by Tim Hunter As everyone in her wide social circle knows, Cleveland Burlesque Queen and founder/promoter of the August Ohio Burlesque...

Visit a Locally Owned Bookstore on Independent Bookstore Day

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Sat 4/27 For some of us, there’s never a bad day to visit an independent bookstore (unless we’re worried about spending too much!) But on Independent Bookstore Day, Saturday April 27, you might want...

Take a Spring Bike Ride Through the Metroparks with West Side Cycling Club

Cool Cleveland Events 4/22 9:53A Anastasia Pantsios

Sat 4/27 @ 8:30AM-3PM The Lake Erie Wheelers is a bicycling club based on the west side of Cleveland that’s open to all cycling enthusiasts including families. Founded in 1972, it’s promoted all types...

Cleveland Public Theatre Presents Premiere of Pro-Choice Play

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Thu 4/25-Sat 5/11 Power-hungry rightwing anti-abortion forces miscalculated the impact of the overturning of Roe v. Wade nearly two years ago. The media helped them out by suggesting that women would...

Ohio Shakespeare Festival Follows the Yellow Brick Road to Oz

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Thu 4/25-Sun 5/12 Frank Baum’s 1900 children’s story The Wonderful Wizard of Oz has had enduring popularity, reworked in many forms, most notably the 1939 musical film starring Judy Garland. Its...

Baldwin Wallace Music Theatre Seniors Perform Pre-NYC Showcase

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Mon 4/29 @ 7PM The music theatre program at Baldwin Wallace University is known as one of the top such programs in the country, sending almost all its graduates on to careers onstage, in films and on...

Young Pianist Makes her Cleveland Orchestra Debut in Rachmaninoff Concerto

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Photo by Simon Fowler Fri 4/26 @ 7:30PM Sat 4/27 @ 8PM Sun 4/28 @ 3PM Most pop music fans will recognize the second movement of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s enduringly popular 1901 Piano Concerto No. 2:...

Join Local Officials for a Ten-Mile Bike Ride on Celebrate Trails Day

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Sat 4/27 @ 1PM Want to see how county executive Chris Ronayne handles a bicycle? You’re in luck. On Celebrate Trails Day, the fourth Saturday in April, a group will be gathering for an informal...

Pulling Weeds Will be Fun at Shaker Lakes Nature Center

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Sat 4/27 @ 1-3PM Some of us love to weed, finding it almost meditative. Others find it a chore. There’s no accounting for preferences but maybe, just maybe, they’ve yet to discover the joy and...

Valley Art Center Panel Offers Guidance for Emerging Artists

Cool Cleveland Events 4/22 5:57A Anastasia Pantsios

Thu 4/25 @ 6PM The Valley Art Center in Chagrin Falls is currently hosting its 3 rd annual Emerging Young Artists exhibition for artists ages 16-22, which will be on view through May 8. In conjunction...