https://akronartmuseum.org/media/exhibition/state-of-art-constructs/

Ingenuity Cleveland is currently recruiting volunteers for IngenuityFest to be held September 26 – 28, 2014. They are looking for volunteers to assist with many tasks, such as greeting visitors, passing out programs, assisting artists, setting up before the event, selling merchandise, and more. Shifts are 3 - 4 hours long. To find out more information on volunteering, visit: www.ingenuitycleveland.com/volunteer2014. IngenuityFest is a three day festival of art, music and technology.

CLEVELAND’S WORLD-RENOWNED ‘FREE STAMP’ SCULPTURE ENCLOSED WITH CHAIN-LINK FENCE!

WHAT’S UP???

CLEVELAND’S ‘FREE STAMP’ SCULPTURE IS UNDERGOING REHABILITATION TO RESTORE IT TO A LIKE-NEW CONDITION AFTER EXPERIENCING GRADUAL DETERIORATION FOR 24-YEARS!

Brown Bag Book Clubs at Main Library -- Non-Fiction

Thursday, September 13, 2012

Join us to discuss -- Crazy, With the Papers to Prove It:  Stories About the Most Unusual, Eccentric & Outlandish People I've Known in Four Decades as a Sports Writer by Dan Coughlin

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Step into Fashion

Come to the Cleveland Public Library and check out the latest Fashion Display.  Social Sciences Department is highlighting books from their collection on fashion.  Check out the cool photographs of fashions from the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.

WHERE: Cleveland Public Library Social Sciences Department, 5th floor of the Louis Stokes Wing, 325 Superior Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44114

WHEN:  Monday - Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

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Cleveland International Tattoo-An Annual Event produced and coordinated
by the  Greater Cleveland Peace Officers Memorial Society

Spectacular Performances of Music, Song, Drill and Dance

Saturday, May 19, 2012
7:30 PM
Public Auditorium
500 E. Lakeside Ave., Cleveland  44114

Gary Spinosa's back at the non-profit Sandusky Cultural Center. The new show, Preconceived Objects, also includes Geoff Buddie, Elizabeth Emery, Jon Gott, Josh Haplea, Carey McDougal, Wendy Partridge, Emily Sullivan, and Chris Rom.
The opening's Sunday, April 15, but the show runs through May 20.

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I am a TREE!!!

Listen to ME!

Two elementary students from Buhrer Dual Language K-8 School on Cleveland’s near west side will travel to New York City to perform their original poems at the historic Apollo Theater for the sixth annual National Poetry SLAM on Monday, April 16. Fifth grader Tamia B., age 11, and fourth grader Sebastian M., age 10, will represent America SCORES Cleveland alongside 28 youth from 15 cities across the country.

For a great trip--the Megabus to Pittsburgh can't be beat.  Here are some images:

My Husband, Dale and I are pleased to present our most popular workshop series once again to photographers in and around the Cleveland area.  Lighting 101 is designed to help you understand and control light in just about any situation.  Who are our workshops for?

Dale and Jenn Simmons host an intensive workshop in photographic lighting. The Feb. 21 session is a theory session to be followed by one of two Saturday workshops with professional models to practice the many techniques taught. session 1: Pro Lighting 101- is Saturday, Feb.25 from 10:00am to 6:00pm Session 2: Lighting on a Budget- is Saturday March 3 from 10:00am to 6:00 pm Cost for theory session only: $75 Theory plus one Saturday Workshop: $200 Theory plus BOTH Saturday workshops: $300 For more information or to register: Register [at] BlackWatchArt [dot] com

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The Donegal Doggs are Jenny O'Boyle, Paul Kirk Jr., and Vincent Polowy. 
If you missed them at the Flat Iron, make an effort to get out and prime yourself for St. Paddy's Day.  They definitely warm the cockles! Great pub fare,too.

Ever wonder what poetry and soccer have in common? Find out on Friday, November 18th at America SCORES Cleveland’s 2011 Poetry SLAM, Where Words SCORE.

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"Portrait of Ray". Oil on canvas, signed lower left and inscribed in red "1911" on verso. In Boston pattern aluminum leafed frame overall 22" x 20". Provenance; Ray Sommer; to Joseph Erdelac (1974); to Dr. William Gerdts, New York (1975); to present owner.

A beautiful day in the Brooklyn Centre neighborhood of Cleveland.  Thank you to all of the wonderful folks who put together a tribute to three of the greats buried at Riverside Cemetery: Robert Lockwood Jr., Roberto Ocasio and Robert "Skeets" Ross.

From the program:

The Fine Arts Department is pleased to present The Marimba Masters of Cleveland on Saturday, October 1st, at 2 p.m. on the 3rd floor of Main Library. This recently formed group will perform transcribed works for marimba quintet by Mozart, Smetana, Rachmaninoff, Zez Confrey, and more. This program is FREE and open to all ages. For more information please call: 216-623-2848 or email finearts [at] cpl [dot] org.

The Marimba Masters of Cleveland consists of five Cleveland area percussionists who have come together to foster the performance of music written and arranged for the marimba. The group was started by Joseph Adato, retired percussionist of The Cleveland Orchestra and includes: Donald Miller, Cleveland Orchestra percussionist and music librarian; Matt Hunsaker , Cleveland area freelance percussionist; Andrew Pongrace, Timpanist, Cleveland Pops Orchestra; and Bruce Golden, Cleveland area freelance percussionist.

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I’ve so far given away over 30 bouquets of roses, starting with old garden rose bouquets to TWDC’s Chris Garland, ODOT’s Craig Hebegrand and to Director Ron Brown of Cleveland Planning in gratitude for his help. At the recent ODOT update and Q&A at Sokolowski’s, Safety Director Marty Flask sat beside me and said he’d heard about the bouquet for Director Brown, it was mentioned at a meeting, adding that City Hall is a small place.

I happened on this online service called Kickstarter when my friend, Valerie Mayen, used it to fund her local fashion incubator start up "Buzz and Growl". Here's what Kickstarter has to say about their service:

I'm always happy to hear from eternal real NEO activist Max Eternity and see his fascinating work - whether his art or his commentary on the art or others, Max Eternity is unique... and is always exploring "What is Art"?

What Is Art is a new podcast series that I'm making available on Youtube.  In this first installment, I critique a rather peculiar doll I stumbled across on the sidewalk, while on a trip back from a nearby grocery store.

The Other Night I Remembered A Dream - And I Never Remember Dreams. This Was Serious.

Evelyn and I were sitting in the foyer of our home talking, at night, when gunmen in black masks suddenly rushed through our front door. We dove to the ground and lay there wondering what would happen. Suddenly there was a nine millimeter pushing forcefully against my forehead.

Then, I felt a numbing pain in my back and I could feel something was sucking the life out of my spine - and thank God I awoke.

Now I have been stabbed in the back so many times by so many people in Cleveland it is made of steel. I'm in the middle of showdowns with liars and cheaters all over town and the country - no big deal. No - this was near and dear. Big surprise to find out the chairman of realNEO Jeff Buster has been in hyper-back-stab mode and trying to destroy My realNEO. Your realNEO!

IntraCom/UCANX Update: GROHIO Sprouting - States of Emergencies - On the road again - BTWs

1. Ohio-based Board members have spent lots of time this week meeting and discussing options for development of the cannabis industries in Ohio - dozens of emails a day - and we have made various outreaches in our own ways. We'll compile a report for the board.

   In brief, while we agree Ohio is a perfect place to base the hemp industries, and it looks the same for MMJ, assuming Lewis' campaign is successful, the politics of Northeast Ohio have been and still are so corrupt, corrupting so much here, we are not confident leaders here will make good decisions. We have certainly not thrown in the towel - we have been focused on Cuyahoga County, VC-types, and the broader community... which is very receptive. Next week, we will expand our focus away from Northeast Ohio, to a broader state-wide exploration.

   Feel free to start reaching out in your states as well, as I can't guarantee Ohio leadership will make the right decisions, and we need to be prepared for serious action ahead.

The field of ESTA-1 variety hemp, showing the relatively weed free ground below the plants.
Ontario, CANADA's Renfrew County - the farm of John and Rae Ann Briscoe - Harvest 2006

Dear President Obama,

I'll be brief, here. The Environmental Protection Agency has further correspondence from me regarding government incompetency in Northeast Ohio, you may want to investigate.

Today, I am writing out of concern for your apparent lack of familiarity with basic science and technology. I don't know where you are from, but in America the Earth is round, and hemp grows here by God! You have scientists in your employ who will confirm that, and that hemp may easily be grown by American farmers without setting off a wave of reefer madness.

Your Chief Technology Officer, Aneesh Chopra, may confirm modern information technology enables monitoring of just about anything and everything on Earth, down to the nanoscale, including big fat hemp plants, so there is adequate technology in existence today to guard hemp crops against drug dealers more incompetent than DEA agents, who may mistake hemp for marijuana, or who are moronic enough to commingle the two.

realNEO Matters - April 2011 web statistics of primary economic development portals in Northeast Ohio

Since the 1990s, my personal professional mission has been "To Optimize Information Technology for All".

I've helped the world's greatest organizations optimize IT for all their stakeholders, as a consultant working around the globe, and I am enabling Ohio and the world to optimize IT for all citizens, as an information technology innovator in my home of Northeast Ohio. One important expression of my mission to optimize IT for all is realNEO.US - Regional Economic Action Links for North East Ohio - which I founded in 2004, moved into the dysfunctional but living Real Coop co-operative owned structure a few years later, and have since used to transform the information, technology, insight and action of the people of the world interested in Northeast Ohio, and the world.

I recently received an email from Bill Densmore, co-director of Journalism That Matters, inviting me to "Create or Die 2", offering a nice global opportunity to share the realNEO story more broadly. Journalism That Matters is "an evolving collaboration of individuals supporting the pioneers who are shaping the emerging news and information ecosystem" - Create or Die 2 is about "Disrupting the Status Quo with Journalism Innovation and Entrepreneurship" - and I can't imagine initiatives that fit better with realNEO and my mission.