There are tons of free things to do in Cleveland this summer.  I am particularly excited about all of the live music that can be enjoyed outdoors.  

Check out this schedule of the free events during the next week & beyond {here}.

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A public, open-mic discussion of ideas about revitalizing Cleveland's communities. This event is FREE! This program is part of Building our Future Beyond Foreclosure, an 11-part forum organized by the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University. This program is also in collaboration with the Cleveland Neighborhood Development Coalition. 5:30 - 6:30 pm: Tour the exhibitions 6:30 pm: Program begins Special thanks to Heinen's Fine Foods and Great Lakes Brewery for generous donations to these events.

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Latino artist Danilo Lejardi “paints” 3D scenes to capitavate the psyche and soul.  Currently living in Argentina, he was born and raised in pre-Castro Cuba.

Yesterday, I happened to be off (I work Saturdays), so I got to take it easy and enjoy the sights and sounds of Cleveland.  Here are a few images from the Ingenuity Festival, to Tregoning Gallery (featuring the wonderful Matt Dibble), and, finally, to Sokolowski's University Inn.  A great day in the city.

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Who knew Cleveland?  Suddenly, I don't feel so blue.

Nominate a Woman of Worth, someone making a REAL difference in your community.  Win $25,000 towards your cause :)  Hello Gloria--I am nominating you!

Think Peace - Michael was listed in the 2000 edition of the Gui

 Aspire Auctions, Inc. presents property from the estate of Muriel S. Butkin, prominent art collector and philanthropist, to be sold for the benefit of the Cleveland Museum of Art. The first lots will be offered in an estate sale to be held Friday July 10th, 9-4, and Saturday July 11, 9-4, at Aspire Auctions, Inc., 12730 Larchmere Blvd. Cleveland OH 44120.

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As I've mentioned previously, many of my six years with REALNEO to date have been spent in pursuit of a core research question - that economic development and community development can become equated under a frame of quality of life and place enrichment.  This has been proposed previously and backed by many of my theoretical pieces.  Now, as I shift to operationalization of the theory, it becomes more important to request feedback and input from the variously communities

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Did you know the Cleveland Clinic has a concert band?  Why not check them out at 12 noon on Friday July 3rd, 2009 here at the library? The band will give a free concert in the Main Library's Eastman Reading Garden.

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For my friend Caroline P.  Okay, you need to join REALNEO, already!

Photo credit: New York Times

Dust off your Jean Jacques Rousseau NEO--Google "social contract" Cleveland, and, then, "social contract," Atlanta.

The game here will all start to make sense--after you PLEASE READ:

Atlanta Is MakingWay for New Public Housing, New York Times

Another attempt to spin off REALNEO...only with strings in all the right places...

Norm--Chris reminds me that it took Einstein years of working in obscurity to finally get recognition for his ideas...I suppose you should take the attitude that imitation is the sincerest form of praise, but these spin-offs are just that...spinning...spinning..around and around...to nowhere.

Over the past 20 years, I've spent most of my "professional" time as an entrepreneur, with world-class expertise conducting multi-dimensional, multi-client relational comparative data and best practice analyses of any aspects of the world's largest and best global enterprises, environments and systems, and developing and consulting on innovations and total quality improvement. This work has generated a wealth of knowledge on large general systems, with a unique expertise in information systems and telecommunications. REALNEO is a product of this highest level expertise, drawn from the best practices of the best organizations on Earth. What REALNEO has developed for Cuyahoga County - what has been generated out of the REALNEO-generated Real Cooperative - takes general systems innovation to a whole new level of making us the brightest greenest place on Earth. So, we really do have a purpose to Cuyahoga County owning the Breuer, and the vision is beautifully expressed in this great rendering above, to be REAL COOP citizen headquarters of the open source capital of this brightest greenest state of Earth.

It's an interesting experiment, live blogging from the final dress rehearsal of Verdi's opera "Fallstaff.  We've been promised full access - backstage, the house, conversations with staff and actors (as long as they are willing), but for now, The stage manager’s called “places, five minutes”, so I’m going off to the seats. I don’t want to miss anything.