Once a year, during the brief run of the Cleveland International Film Festival, Cleveland feels like one of the great cities of the world. For a little more than a week the grand space of Tower City is filled with life; diverse crowds of art lovers flow in and out, steadily buzzing with excitement for what they are experiencing. Because it only happens once a year, it is easy to overlook The Cleveland International Film Festival as one of Cleveland's greatest assets.
 

Art Digital Magazine presents: Don Relyea and Jay Montgomery

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The Social Sciences Dept. of the Cleveland Public Library is facilitating a non-fiction book club.  Our next discussion will be held on April 9, 2009 at 12:00 PM.  We will discuss the book entitled, "Raising Blaze: Bringing Up an Extraordinary Son in an Ordinary World," by Debra Ginsberg.  All book club members may register and pick up their books in the Social Sciences Dept.   All questions may be directed to the Social Sciences Dept. at 216-623-2860.

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Yesterday the New York Times ran a front page story about the impact of the economic crisis on flower shows across the country.: "Hard Times for Flower Shows, Once and Urban Rite of Spring

Only a few more weeks until spring planting! I have been working on a planting list over the last few days. The following is what I plan to grow on my urban farm this year. I have grown nearly everything on the list before, but most will be new to my farm in East Cleveland. As you can see from the list, some of the plants will probably not produce this year or they will mature in the coming years, but this is my investment in my home and my city.

As art and science move a step closer, becoming as one, there is at least one online digital arts journal that attempts to capture it all, Art Digital Magazine!

You may not be familiar with Charles Chestnutt, but he was a Cleveland writer who first broke the color line with his popular novel, House Behind the Cedars.  

This was your NEO

This is your NEO on FFOEF

On March 7th, 2009 at 2pm the Fine Arts Department will present Javier González, piano (faculty member at The Beck Center and Baldwin Wallace Conservatory) and Gabriela Martínez, soprano (member of the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus) performing music from Spain and Latin America. The recital will be on the 3rd floor lobby of Main Library (325 Superior Ave., Cleveland, Ohio, 44114).

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I prefer to write about the arts, but my experience the other night has me inspired to blog about online tax programs.

This year I decided to try Turbo Tax for my Federal and State tax returns -- it was such a waste of time. I ended up starting over and filing with Free Tax USA.

Materials and supplies collected from local architects and interior designers will be distributed to arts educators, art students, and artists at the ZeroLandfill Akron project site in downtown Akron.

Join in this resource harvest every Saturday in February from Noon to 4pm.

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Tonight on WVIZ and Monday Night on WEAO/WNEO Kent see Jerome Robbins on American Masters

Balanchine pales in comparison to this guy who shaped the face of dance in America more than anyone.  Here's his choreography that you're sure to know - Dance at the Gym from Westside Story - You'll also remember "the sharks and the jets - which features a young Eliot Feld.

Don't give up, yet...A few more weeks, and Cleveland can celebrate St. Patrick's Day, and then we are home clear once the film festival starts!  The winter of 2008-09 is almost, almost, almost over...  

Find a sunny, south-facing wall and hold on.  We will all be okay!

Ed was as furious as I can ever remember seeing him, as he shouted "the process is broken".

Ed was so right.

Cleveland Heights
February 26-March 15, 2009
Performing Arts Center, Cuyahoga Community College Eastern Campus
4250 Richmond Rd, Highland Hills OH 44122

Written by Keith Reddin
Directed by Brian Zoldessy

Co-produced with Cuyahoga Community College-Eastern Campus Theatre Arts

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April 2009

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Rarely does one find an artist who is as comfortable with a span of media and substrates, ranging from glass to light to ceramic to electronic ink and virtual illustrations.

Simply the best show in Cleveland for seeing the work up and coming talent in the art world. Many amazing works are for sale at low prices.

The show runs from Feb 13, 2009 - Mar 14, 2009

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Artist Anna Arnold with her painting Angel on My Shoulder, from her website

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Friday the 13th may bring bad luck but The Gallery at Gray's is bringing great art to Cleveland tonight with the opening of a new show Aftermath: Works by Chris Zahner.

The Gallery at Gray's is located in Gray's Auctioneers, on Cleveland's Westside. It is a great space if you have not seen it -- one especially designed for exhibiting art. Owner/auctioneer Deba Gray is herself an artist.

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The Social Sciences Dept. of the Cleveland Public Library is facilitating a non-fiction book club.  Our first discussion will be held on March 12, 2009 at 12:00 PM.  We will discuss the book entitled, "Green River, Running Red," by Ann Rule.  All book club members may pick up of their books in the Social Sciences Dept. OR request them at any library.  All questions may be directed to the Social Sciences Dept. at 216-623-2860.

In the Fall of 2008, I proposed to Cuyahoga County Commissioner Peter Lawson Jones that the local foods sector offers the people of Northeast Ohio $ billions in economic development opportunities that may be distributed to a huge percentage of our 1,000,000s of residents in very socially equitably ways. I also proposed similar opportunities are available in open source information and social computing. And I pointed out regional organizational, strategic, social and operational barriers to success and proposed specific solutions to maximize workforce and infrastructure development, massive scaling, and social equity.