The Cuyahoga County Planning Commission will give a presentation of the Southern Bridge Alignment "Signature Bridge" plan to the Cleveland City Planning Commission on Friday, December 16.  The planning commission meeting will start at 9:00 am at Cleveland City Hall in Room 514.

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My daughter is going with her grandmother to The Nutcracker on Saturday night at the Allen Theatre at Playhouse Square. For my daughter, moving to Cleveland will be a huge advantage over Okinawa (Prefecture Government, Tourist Bureau, Wikipedia ) in that she will have vastly more opportunity to see professional performances.

The Cache Shop is a thrift store in the basement of the Church of the Covenant on Euclid Avenue in University Circle. It is open Tuesdays and Thursdays and staffed by some very nice volunteers.They have special tables set up for the holidays with holiday decorations -- some vintage and all very cheap. 

Rollout of the "alternatives Report for the Cleveland Innerbelt - December 2005 (no deadline date available at this time).  A full report will be available via www.innerbelt.org, and at branches of the Cleveland Public Library, which will outline ODOT's Recommended Alternative.  ODOT will receive public comment on this report.

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Gift giving can take many manifestations, tangible and intantible. The most valuable are sometimes less obvious.  Children, for example, revel in things in which they can participate and activity can assume many guises.  Advertising pushes products or activities but what about unpromoted activites?  The internet offers both small and large entrepreneurs a level playing field by enabling them equal access to consumers.  Thus the internet becomes the zone for entrepreneurs and participation.  Search engines connect everyone to everything, creating great opportunity.  Think how this changes the way children and their parents "shop."  Two things are true: It will never be the same but how and what we "shop" for is still being defined as an extension of the old ways.  Consider this, the early auto-mobiles' design were simply motor-powered carriages.  The same holds for innovation today:  the great spurt in innovation is yet to come, and its arrival will be hastened as more people participate on the internet.  Search engines enable people to leverage their intellectual property by lowering the barriers to consumers' access to products and services.

On November 17 an 18, I participated at the last three meetings regarding ODOT's “Recommended Preferred Alternatives” for the Cleveland Innerbelt Plan. My conclusion is that ODOT must hit the brakes and reconsider the Southern Bridge Alignment Plan (South Bridge) before it is too late... read the whole story at NEO Bridge today!

... http://neobridge.net/blog/ed-hauser

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The time for gift giving is nigh. A flurry of economic activity is already in action. As you make your lists and check them twice, please consider giving the gift that lasts – art. Visit From the Heights – A Holiday Store the next time you are in the Cedar Lee neighborhood and select from the wonderful and thought provoking selection Heights Arts has assembled. You will be supporting the economy of Northeast Ohio in many ways. And even if your shopping list doesn’t include art, jewelry, books, music, stop by and see the cornucopia of creativity that springs forth year round from our talented neighbors. It is gathered in the small space just south of the Cedar Lee Theater, the Heights Arts gallery. If you go I hope you’ll enjoy your visit. If you have already visited the store, stop back as new things are finding space in the store each day.

Happy holidays,

The contents of Wally Skinner's Americana Books, Suite 316 of the Caxton Building at 812 Huron Road, will be offered for sale to the public on December 9, 10 and 11 - from 10 AM - 4 PM.

They will be selling office equipment and furnishings as well as many items from Wally's collections of prints, posters, artwork, records, video disks, books, photos, Americana, Cleveland historic ephemera, magazines, matchbooks, interesting artifacts and an amazing number of collectibles and interesting things. 

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I'm not a fan of the Christmas Story leg lamp, but I thought these sexy little leg earrings were in good taste. I think it was the high quality of the craftsmanship or the beauty of the materials that appealed to me more than the subject, but I thought the concept was clever too. I bought these at the CIA Holiday Sale. I'm not sure who made them -- they did n't include their card with the box and they were not there at the sale. 

We hope to see you this Friday night at Convivium33 Gallery. Their debut show will feature new work from Cleveland painter Thomas Frontini.

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Gift giving is the most widespread manifestation of the holiday season. The eternal question: What to give Johnny or Jane?  Mass merchandisers work hard at creating push for their products.  Tie-ins between movies and products, co-branding sports figures and products are examples of the sometimes creative approaches used.  What's too frequently missing from the mix are artisans' works sold through channels that don't promote themselves like mass merchandisers do. 

If you missed seeing Horst and all his gorgeous felt at The Gift Event at Kilgore Trout there is still the holiday sale at the Artcraft Building -- check the realneo events calendar for more details. The latice scarves he made exclusively for the event at Kilgore Trout were so cool!

Change of plans Friday night. I decided to stay in with the snow piling up outside in excess of 10". I searched Ebay for works by my favorite Pop Art artist Claes Oldenberg and found  some interesting things. Many prints, posters and books were affordable. Buyer beware though, Ebay has gotten some bad press lately with that guy who cheated people, supposedly selling Ohio State tickets

Minutes for Net Impact Meeting - AJ Rocco's Nov 29     7-9 PM

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Akash Abraham

Katya Chistik

Yesterday was thrift store shopping, today will be all about art. Tonight I plan to go to the Cleveland Institute of Art Holiday Sale and the Hodge School Open Studio and Exhibition.

    Some of the artists at the Hodge School will have works for sale -- or maybe you could commission something for that special person on your list? One of my favorite locaI  artists Charmaine Spencer will have her basket weave sculptures for sale. The are so beautiful and very affordable!

"I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night" is a collaboration between e. gordon gallery and The Cleveland Institute of Art. This interdisciplinary exhibition explores the themes of dream and escape in contemporary culture.

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Check out these pictures! The Side Door shop at St. Paul's Church (corner of Coventry and Fairmount) is the place for eclectic bargains. I could probably do all my holiday shopping there because there are so many interesting and practical things.

Support CIA students and buy cool gifts for everyone on your holiday shopping list, admission is free, check it out in the Kulas Auditorium, third floor, Joseph McCullough Center for the Visual Arts B

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Support CIA students and buy cool gifts for everyone on your holiday shopping list, admission is free, check it out in the Kulas Auditorium, third floor, Joseph McCullough Center for the Visual Arts B

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Support CIA students and buy cool gifts for everyone on your holiday shopping list, admission is free, check it out in the Kulas Auditorium, third floor, Joseph McCullough Center for the Visual Arts B

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An annual event, a great place to buy gifts made by local artists and designers, including hand crafted felt clothing and accessories by Horst

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An annual event, a great source for gifts made by local artists and designers, including hand crafted clothing and accessories by Horst

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Don't miss this opportunity to buy gorgeous hand crafted felt clothing and accessesories by local artist/designer Horst -- they make great holiday gifts!

216-831-0488, www.kilgoretrout.net 

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All free of charge, 20 museums and other University Circle Institutions will be open and hosting entertainment and other special events for the holidays. Don't miss the Cleveland Museum of Art's spectacular Winter Lights Lantern Festival on Wade Oval from 5:30 p.m. - 6 p.m.

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It's December 1st already! Only 24 days to find a special gift for everyone on my list -- and that includes some hard to please friends and relatives. Where do you shop in Cleveland if you hate Walmart and try to avoid the crowds and monotonous merchandise of the malls? There are plenty of galleries, boutiques, books stores, thrift stores and websites with unique gifts and shopping them can help support local artists, entreprenuers and charities.