What more can I say?
Saturday, June 28th
Beachland Tavern
9pm
$2
Right?
right.
thanks, Music Saves!
Monday, June 23, 2008
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Kamm's Corners Farmers Market Grand Opening
Kamm's Corners Farmers Market Grand Opening
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
The Kamm’s Corners Farmers Market is in the municipal parking lot located at W. 168th Street and Lorain Avenue, near Rocky River Drive. Parking nearby is free and plentiful. It is not at Kamm’s Plaza Shopping Center.
map
10am - 2pm
...with all the talk of eating, shopping, thinking, living local nothing spring/summer is the best time to begin re-evaluating your diet as local options and choices are at their greatest. Take advantage of the weather and the Kamm's Corner's Farmers Market Grand Opening
What's in season schedule
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
The Kamm’s Corners Farmers Market is in the municipal parking lot located at W. 168th Street and Lorain Avenue, near Rocky River Drive. Parking nearby is free and plentiful. It is not at Kamm’s Plaza Shopping Center.
map
10am - 2pm
...with all the talk of eating, shopping, thinking, living local nothing spring/summer is the best time to begin re-evaluating your diet as local options and choices are at their greatest. Take advantage of the weather and the Kamm's Corner's Farmers Market Grand Opening
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Renowned Irish dancer Patrick Campbell, owner of Brady Campbell’s Irish Dance School and former lead in Lord of the Dance, will be performing at 11:30 a.m. along with students from his school.
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Matt Spinner with the award winning Great Lakes Brewing Company will be doing a chef demonstration at 12:30 p.m.
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Marilyn Valentino, owner of Westpark Massotherapy, will be administering chair massages during market hours for a small fee.
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Musical guest and neighborhood favorite, Brand New Hat, will be entertaining throughout market hours.
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Local Clergy will help us start the season off right with an ecumenical market “blessing” at 12:00 a.m.
What's in season schedule
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
1/3 Movie Night - Amarcord
1/3 Movie Night presents AmarcordBela Dubby
13321 Madison Ave.
Lakewood, Oh
7.30pm - 10pm
Amarcord IMDB page
Ted F's evil twin brother, Ted Alexander, was interviewed by Scene Magazine regarding 1/3 Movie Night...the kid is a STAR! Come on out to watch a movie and as an added bonus, meet TED (which ever Ted shows up)!
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Bloomsday - Celebrate your neighborhood.
Straight from wiki-land:
Bloomsday (Irish: Lá Bhloom) is a commemoration observed annually on 16 June in Dublin and elsewhere to celebrate the life of Irish writer James Joyce and relive the events in his novel Ulysses, all of which took place on the same day in Dublin in 1904. The day is a secular holiday in Ireland. The name derives from Leopold Bloom, the protagonist of Ulysses, and 16 June was the date of Joyce's first outing with his wife-to-be, Nora Barnacle, when they walked to the Dublin village of Ringsend.
Not that you need an excuse to get off your duff, turn off the television and walk around your neighborhood, getting to know your neighbors and the amazing shops and restaurants that no doubt exist, but if you did, here is a fine excuse to take advantage of the weather and figure out a way to make something good of Monday.
Bloomsday (Irish: Lá Bhloom) is a commemoration observed annually on 16 June in Dublin and elsewhere to celebrate the life of Irish writer James Joyce and relive the events in his novel Ulysses, all of which took place on the same day in Dublin in 1904. The day is a secular holiday in Ireland. The name derives from Leopold Bloom, the protagonist of Ulysses, and 16 June was the date of Joyce's first outing with his wife-to-be, Nora Barnacle, when they walked to the Dublin village of Ringsend.
Not that you need an excuse to get off your duff, turn off the television and walk around your neighborhood, getting to know your neighbors and the amazing shops and restaurants that no doubt exist, but if you did, here is a fine excuse to take advantage of the weather and figure out a way to make something good of Monday.
Ohio 21st Century Task Force Meeting
Ohio 21st Century Task Force Meeting
Tuesday,June 17th
Joseph E. Cole Center
Cleveland State University
3100 Chester Ave.
Cleveland, OH 44115
Presentations 4-6pm
Public Comments 6-8pm
There are currently scheduled a series of public "Task Force" meetings that will take place around Ohio. We are slotted to have one this Tuesday. The main issues of concern is how the current rising gas prices affect not only public transit ridership but also their costs, services and mission.
This meeting will also allow comments and discussion on public transit for walkable community design, biking, freight and airport access so even if you don't take the bus or train to work chances are that this meeting will cover topics that directly affect you.
There are 3 main points of concern that will be brought up at this particular meeting by Ohio Public Transit Association OPTA President, Joseph Calabrese.
1. Having a public transit network is not an option, but a necessity.
Mora than 60% of all trips on public transit in Ohio are work-related. In rural areas, more than 60% of all trips serve senior citizens or the disabled, and 20%% of senior citizens do not drive. Transit agencies also provide low-cost transportation to thousands of students, thus saving Boards of Education millions of dollars. ON a national basis, public transit reduces our dependence on imported oil.
2. Additional State funding must be provided so that transit systems can retain existing customers and attract new customers.
In Ohio, transit systems serve more than 500,000 customers daily, and remove more than 1000,000 cars from the highways. This reduces congestion and pollution for everyone, and greatly improves the quality of life for all Ohioans. In recent years, State funding to public transit has been reduced by 63%, and is not about 3% of an agency's budget. Nationally, State funding levels average 23%. This low level of State funding has placed a much greater strain on local resources, and most systems in Ohio have either increased fares, reduced service, or both. Without additional funding, service cuts will continue.
3. While rising fuel costs have driven more to use public transit, these same costs have also significantly increased transit expenses.
At RTA for example my (Calabrese) budget for diesel fuel in 2004 was approximately $4 million, while my (Calabrese) projected expenses for diesel for 2008 is $20 million.
Public Transit Survey
Ohio 21st Century Transportation Priorities Task Force website
Public Transportation State Funding Crisis pdf.
Tuesday,June 17th
Joseph E. Cole Center
Cleveland State University
3100 Chester Ave.
Cleveland, OH 44115
Presentations 4-6pm
Public Comments 6-8pm
There are currently scheduled a series of public "Task Force" meetings that will take place around Ohio. We are slotted to have one this Tuesday. The main issues of concern is how the current rising gas prices affect not only public transit ridership but also their costs, services and mission.
This meeting will also allow comments and discussion on public transit for walkable community design, biking, freight and airport access so even if you don't take the bus or train to work chances are that this meeting will cover topics that directly affect you.
There are 3 main points of concern that will be brought up at this particular meeting by Ohio Public Transit Association OPTA President, Joseph Calabrese.
1. Having a public transit network is not an option, but a necessity.
Mora than 60% of all trips on public transit in Ohio are work-related. In rural areas, more than 60% of all trips serve senior citizens or the disabled, and 20%% of senior citizens do not drive. Transit agencies also provide low-cost transportation to thousands of students, thus saving Boards of Education millions of dollars. ON a national basis, public transit reduces our dependence on imported oil.
2. Additional State funding must be provided so that transit systems can retain existing customers and attract new customers.
In Ohio, transit systems serve more than 500,000 customers daily, and remove more than 1000,000 cars from the highways. This reduces congestion and pollution for everyone, and greatly improves the quality of life for all Ohioans. In recent years, State funding to public transit has been reduced by 63%, and is not about 3% of an agency's budget. Nationally, State funding levels average 23%. This low level of State funding has placed a much greater strain on local resources, and most systems in Ohio have either increased fares, reduced service, or both. Without additional funding, service cuts will continue.
3. While rising fuel costs have driven more to use public transit, these same costs have also significantly increased transit expenses.
At RTA for example my (Calabrese) budget for diesel fuel in 2004 was approximately $4 million, while my (Calabrese) projected expenses for diesel for 2008 is $20 million.
Public Transit Survey
Ohio 21st Century Transportation Priorities Task Force website
Public Transportation State Funding Crisis pdf.
Friday, June 13, 2008
Tremont Art Walk
Tremont Art Walk
June 13, 2008
Tremont Neighborhood in Cleveland, Ohio
6 to 10pm
Locations and link to map
It may be hot and hazy but that can be easily beat with air conditioning and cool drinks. Go explore one of Cleveland's jewel neighborhoods.
June 13, 2008
Tremont Neighborhood in Cleveland, Ohio
6 to 10pm
Locations and link to map
It may be hot and hazy but that can be easily beat with air conditioning and cool drinks. Go explore one of Cleveland's jewel neighborhoods.
Saturday, June 07, 2008
|re|design cleveland query 2 up and running
|re|design cleveland has launced the second query based upon rethinking and reusing a "public" space.
This particular site for intervention is located at West 54th North of Detroit Avenue in the Detroit Shoreway neighborhood and runs from June 4th to August 4th.
You can find more information here.
|re|design cleveland is part of the LAUNCH family.
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
Kick the Carbon Habit - World Environment Day 2008
Thursday, June 5th, 2008
What are you going to do?
Get some ideas here or more North American ideas here.
About World Environment Day 2008
World Environment Day, commemorated each year on 5 June, is one of the principal vehicles through which the United Nations stimulates worldwide awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and action.
The World Environment Day slogan for 2008 is Kick the Habit! Towards a Low Carbon Economy. Recognising that climate change is becoming the defining issue of our era, UNEP is asking countries, companies and communities to focus on greenhouse gas emissions and how to reduce them. The World Environment Day will highlight resources and initiatives that promote low carbon economies and life-styles, such as improved energy efficiency, alternative energy sources, forest conservation and eco-friendly consumption.
The main international celebrations of World Environment Day 2008 will be held in New Zealand. UNEP is honoured that the city of Wellington will be hosting this United Nations day (read the press release).
The day's agenda is to give a human face to environmental issues; empower people to become active agents of sustainable and equitable development; promote an understanding that communities are pivotal to changing attitudes towards environmental issues; and advocate partnership, which will ensure all nations and peoples enjoy a safer and more prosperous future.
What are you going to do?
Get some ideas here or more North American ideas here.
Doing something with nothing, while waiting
Rust belt cities suffer from the heavy mantle of industrial exodus. The loss of jobs is reflected in the loss of tax revenue which decreases the city's ability to maintain its infrastructure, pay for basic services such as education and protection and maintain amenities such as entertainment or arts.
While lands are left vacant waiting for the local economy to turn there exists the potential to use the extended lag periods to passively increase the viability of polluted city sites in order to take advantage of passing opportunity. Many phytoremediation or phytoextraction strategies could be utilized to remove or decrease toxins from the polluted soils of vacated manufacturing plants. Phytostabilization or phytotransformation are strategies for stabilizing/containing a pollutant and for breaking down organic pollutants such as pesticides.
Passing over the Cuyahoga this morning I wondered how difficult or expensive it would be to begin a phytoremediation program to clean up selected sites in The Flats that are not currently slated for any development or where development is many years off.
Would it make sense to begin natural clean up solutions to decrease the toxicity? Would it increase the inherent land value for resale? Could brownfield clean up grants be available for such a project and if so could educational institutions become involved as part of biology or environmental study groups to monitor progress and attempt various techniques?
Could Cleveland become the case study for phytoremediation techniques, utilizing the massive amounts of undeveloped, post-industrial, poisoned land and turning these sites into amenities such as public parks, nature reserves, community gardens while they sit unused waiting to be developed?
Would a program such as this take too long to have an affect? Are we waiting for something worthwhile or amazing to happen instead?
While lands are left vacant waiting for the local economy to turn there exists the potential to use the extended lag periods to passively increase the viability of polluted city sites in order to take advantage of passing opportunity. Many phytoremediation or phytoextraction strategies could be utilized to remove or decrease toxins from the polluted soils of vacated manufacturing plants. Phytostabilization or phytotransformation are strategies for stabilizing/containing a pollutant and for breaking down organic pollutants such as pesticides.
Passing over the Cuyahoga this morning I wondered how difficult or expensive it would be to begin a phytoremediation program to clean up selected sites in The Flats that are not currently slated for any development or where development is many years off.
Would it make sense to begin natural clean up solutions to decrease the toxicity? Would it increase the inherent land value for resale? Could brownfield clean up grants be available for such a project and if so could educational institutions become involved as part of biology or environmental study groups to monitor progress and attempt various techniques?
Could Cleveland become the case study for phytoremediation techniques, utilizing the massive amounts of undeveloped, post-industrial, poisoned land and turning these sites into amenities such as public parks, nature reserves, community gardens while they sit unused waiting to be developed?
Would a program such as this take too long to have an affect? Are we waiting for something worthwhile or amazing to happen instead?
Monday, June 02, 2008
1/3 Movie Night - Battleship Potemkin
1/3 Movie Night presents: Battleship Potemkin
Bela Dubby
Thursday, June 5th
7.30pm
Free movie at a glorious cafe/gallery that also has beer.
MMMMMMMMMM.
Greening Bays Competition
Sure, way back in 2006 we did celebrate Park(ing) Day in Cleveland. I was even able to capture some of the lawn-tivities on camera. For some reason we skipped 2007.
Now as we gear up for 2008 (September 19th this year)it is becoming apparent that people are realizing just how much space their car takes up in the city. As part of an urban exercise and London's Festival of Architecture (which will now be my war cry when someone asks me why I think "other" cities may actually celebrate design and Cleveland doesn't quite yet) the LFoA is holding a competition to locate 14 teams to design and construct these interventions.
While I am actually quite excited about the event I feel I cannot enter simply because I would not be able to fly to London to build the thing.
HOWEVER...
there is no reason we couldn't make 2008 a banner year in Cleveland. Not one at all.
Now as we gear up for 2008 (September 19th this year)it is becoming apparent that people are realizing just how much space their car takes up in the city. As part of an urban exercise and London's Festival of Architecture (which will now be my war cry when someone asks me why I think "other" cities may actually celebrate design and Cleveland doesn't quite yet) the LFoA is holding a competition to locate 14 teams to design and construct these interventions.
While I am actually quite excited about the event I feel I cannot enter simply because I would not be able to fly to London to build the thing.
HOWEVER...
there is no reason we couldn't make 2008 a banner year in Cleveland. Not one at all.
Sunday, June 01, 2008
The public use of public land, reap what you sow
I remember years ago reading about folks in the UK who would drive around in the dark of night, find some despot of a site, overgrown, forgotten, filled with trash, and then lovingly clean, replant and care for the little oasis. I always found the occurrence scary in a wondrous way. There are so many residual spaces, little areas that are surrounded by public way, confused as to whom has ownership, so they lapse into becoming forgotten hardened dirt, adding nothing to the identity of the area and offering no respite from the hardened facade of the urban jungle.
I was debating with some of the LAUNCHies about the act of Guerrilla Gardening. Surprisingly the few that I talked to about it got all excited and bothered. Some quick research went into the beginning nuances. How best to distribute seeds or plants, what areas would be most beneficial to plant, were we going for a statement, for aesthetics or for balancing the natural order?
We quickly found some rather helpful links, tips and ideas (hint: Google "Guerrilla Gardening").
Then, as some get ready to begin our due diligence I stumble across an article about an LA area Guerrilla Gardener whom has been planting medians with Agave for 10 years, a succulent that has low moisture needs and thrives in the local climate. The best part of the article was that the Superintendent of Grounds Maintenance for the city of Long Beach is rather impressed by the gardeners use of drought tolerant plants and notes that "there is no law against planting on city landscaping, except for ficus tress, who's roots wreck roads and sidewalks".
Not that I want to take the subversive fun out of the act but perhaps this may be a good time for local activists who would like to beautify their cities to start cooperating with local officials to create gardens and local parks (Cleveland already has many programs already with this aim, I will make note of them as I get more information from the various groups - WCPN Sound of Ideas recently discussed how urban gardening may be used to battle the foreclosure crisis). As a renter I do miss digging in the yard. I suppose now I can treat my whole city as, well, mine.
See you on the side of the road with a shovel.
Guerrilla Gardening homepage
I was debating with some of the LAUNCHies about the act of Guerrilla Gardening. Surprisingly the few that I talked to about it got all excited and bothered. Some quick research went into the beginning nuances. How best to distribute seeds or plants, what areas would be most beneficial to plant, were we going for a statement, for aesthetics or for balancing the natural order?
We quickly found some rather helpful links, tips and ideas (hint: Google "Guerrilla Gardening").
Then, as some get ready to begin our due diligence I stumble across an article about an LA area Guerrilla Gardener whom has been planting medians with Agave for 10 years, a succulent that has low moisture needs and thrives in the local climate. The best part of the article was that the Superintendent of Grounds Maintenance for the city of Long Beach is rather impressed by the gardeners use of drought tolerant plants and notes that "there is no law against planting on city landscaping, except for ficus tress, who's roots wreck roads and sidewalks".
Not that I want to take the subversive fun out of the act but perhaps this may be a good time for local activists who would like to beautify their cities to start cooperating with local officials to create gardens and local parks (Cleveland already has many programs already with this aim, I will make note of them as I get more information from the various groups - WCPN Sound of Ideas recently discussed how urban gardening may be used to battle the foreclosure crisis). As a renter I do miss digging in the yard. I suppose now I can treat my whole city as, well, mine.
See you on the side of the road with a shovel.
Guerrilla Gardening homepage
Friday, May 30, 2008
Admitting you have a problem is the first step...
I hate to completely summarize a news article but I feel that this is a rather important stepping stone to society assuming accountability for our actions.
Four years late and under the shadow of a court order demanding it the White House produced their climate report this past Thursday.
Scientific Assessment of the Effects of Global Change on the United States
While offering no "new science" it does collaborate previous studies and reports that concentrated on human action, climate change and the resultant environmental impacts upon natural systems.
In 1990 the US Global Change Research Act of 1990 was passed stating that the United States government must issue a comprehensive science assessment of global warming but had not released one since 2000.
I have not had the chance to read the 271 page report. I will try to get through it this weekend however there have already been some tidbits bantered around the internet that I found interesting.
...from the New York Times; The Bush administration, bowing to a court order, has released a fresh summary of federal and independent research pointing to large, and mainly harmful, impact of human-caused global warming in the United States.
...from Yahoo AP ;
• Increased heat deaths and deaths from climate-worsened smog. In Los Angeles alone yearly heat fatalities could increase by more than 1,000 by 2080, and the Midwest and Northeast are most vulnerable to increased heat deaths.
• Worsening water shortages for agriculture and urban users. From California to New York, lack of water will be an issue.
• A need for billions of dollars in more power plants (one major cause of global warming gases) to cool a hotter country. The report says summer cooling will mean Seattle's energy consumption would increase by 146 percent with the warming that could come by the end of the century.
• More death and damage from wildfires, hurricanes and other natural disasters and extreme weather. In the last three decades, wildfire season in the West has increased by 78 days.
• Increased insect infestations and food- and waterborne microbes and diseases. Insect and pathogen outbreaks to the forests are causing $1.5 billion in annual losses.
Alright, so what are we going to do about it? More importantly what are you? The tools are right there to become informed, now act upon the information. Inaction is no longer a viable option.
Four years late and under the shadow of a court order demanding it the White House produced their climate report this past Thursday.
Scientific Assessment of the Effects of Global Change on the United States
While offering no "new science" it does collaborate previous studies and reports that concentrated on human action, climate change and the resultant environmental impacts upon natural systems.
In 1990 the US Global Change Research Act of 1990 was passed stating that the United States government must issue a comprehensive science assessment of global warming but had not released one since 2000.
I have not had the chance to read the 271 page report. I will try to get through it this weekend however there have already been some tidbits bantered around the internet that I found interesting.
...from the New York Times; The Bush administration, bowing to a court order, has released a fresh summary of federal and independent research pointing to large, and mainly harmful, impact of human-caused global warming in the United States.
...from Yahoo AP ;
• Increased heat deaths and deaths from climate-worsened smog. In Los Angeles alone yearly heat fatalities could increase by more than 1,000 by 2080, and the Midwest and Northeast are most vulnerable to increased heat deaths.
• Worsening water shortages for agriculture and urban users. From California to New York, lack of water will be an issue.
• A need for billions of dollars in more power plants (one major cause of global warming gases) to cool a hotter country. The report says summer cooling will mean Seattle's energy consumption would increase by 146 percent with the warming that could come by the end of the century.
• More death and damage from wildfires, hurricanes and other natural disasters and extreme weather. In the last three decades, wildfire season in the West has increased by 78 days.
• Increased insect infestations and food- and waterborne microbes and diseases. Insect and pathogen outbreaks to the forests are causing $1.5 billion in annual losses.
Alright, so what are we going to do about it? More importantly what are you? The tools are right there to become informed, now act upon the information. Inaction is no longer a viable option.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Live! Work! Waterloo! - Housing Symposium
Waterloor Village Artist Housing Symposium
Sunday, June 8th
Arts Collinwood Gallery
Free and Open to the public
11am :: brunch at the Beachland Tavern - DELICIOUS!
1-3pm :: Arts Collinwood Gallery, 15605 Waterloo
treats, info, speakers:
Arts Collinwood
Northeast Shores
Cleveland Action to Support Housing
Community Partnership for Arts and Culture
Primerica Financial Services
Waterloo Artists and Residents
COSE
3pm - ? Tour the Waterloo Village:
Residences, shops, galleries, taverns, restaurants, etc.
(a map will be provided)
Ever since the Midtown TOIstudio flooded the MarJ and I have been debating whether I should take the plunge and start anew. I really like the Collinwood area and enjoy watching it develop over the past 3 - 4 years that it has been really taking off. I enjoy looking at the buildings and thinking to myself. Dang, TOIstudio 2 could work in that space rather well. Right by the freeway, off the lake, near a Home Despot, pretty dang close to Downtown and right near the Euclid Corridor. Actually it is probably closer to downtown than where I am now. Hmmmmm.
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