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Cleveland will tap endowment to fix historic cemeteries Published: Monday, October 31, 2011, 5:51 AM Thomas Ott, The Plain Dealer By Thomas Ott, The Plain Dealer CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Voices -- not of the dead but for the dead -- have persuaded Cleveland to sink money into three aged municipal cemeteries filled with prominent historical figures. The city will withdraw $2.3 million from a cemetery endowment fund, more than a third of the principal, largely to fix three old graveyards: Erie, off downtown's East Ninth Street; Woodland, located on Woodland Avenue between East 66th and East 71st streets; and Monroe Street in the West Side's Ohio City neighborhood. http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2011/10/cleveland_will_tap_endowment_t.html

A nice showcase of Ivan Schwarz: Ivan Schwarz wants to shoot Cleveland to revive it: My Cleveland Published: Saturday, October 29, 2011, 2:00 PM Updated: Sunday, October 30, 2011, 12:41 AM By Grant Segall CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Ivan Schwarz used to be a Hollywood producer and location manager. For the past five years, he's lured more and more of his old colleagues here as head of the Greater Cleveland Film Commission. http://www.cleveland.com/mycleveland/index.ssf/2011/10/ivan_schwarz_wants_to_shoot_cl.html

A little showcase from Central Ohio coming from Columbus Underground: http://www.columbusunderground.com/travel-the-non-positively-cleveland-guide-to-cleveland

I like it.

Where the hell did this come from and how come we didn't know about this?? Tennis Takes Center Stage at Cleveland's Public Hall Tonight http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/17714

I'm still a probable.

E.17th has a new college bar. Jay Ross's Bar & Grill has replaced the old time spot of Moe's. No review of the place yet, but I did see the CSU types walking in and out.

Aretha Franklin to get honorary degree from Cleveland university to wrap up weeklong tribute CLEVELAND — Aretha Franklin will receive an honorary degree from Ohio's Case Western Reserve University at the end of a weeklong tribute to the Queen of Soul. The celebration by the university and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland kicks off next Monday. Franklin is a member of the rock hall but is being honored again as part of its American Music Masters series. http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/46c7ba3ac24643c1915575e5a5cf58f2/OH--Music-Aretha-Franklin/

^I've used CAK for my last 3 flights...and I even live a train ride away to CLE. I really don't understand the rise of airfare in Cleveland. my girlfriend even used Pittsburgh this weekend to fly out West.

Most days I cannot even find a seat during the day. I hope they consider more vehicles running at a higher frequency in the near future!

Cleveland Museum of Natural History is moving the SmartHouse today! (let's wheel out a few houses from East Cleveland while we're at it before they get destroyed...) Moving the PNC SmartHome Northeast Ohio's first house built without a furnace and designed to meet passive house standards is slated to move from its temporary exhibit site on the grounds of the Museum to its permanent location at 11601 Wade Park Avenue, Cleveland, on October 24, 2011, beginning at 9:00 a.m. AA House Movers will move the SmartHome less than a mile to its permanent lot. The move is expected to take one working day, with the home's anticipated arrival at the site 
before 5:00 p.m. The SmartHome will be transported slowly – approximately 3 to 4 miles per hour – through the streets of University Circle. As the home is moved, utility crews will work to move and modify electrical, cable, telephone and fiber optic wires. One traffic signal at E. 115th Street and Wade Park Avenue will be moved. Parking along the route will be closed until after the SmartHome passes various sections of the route. Heavy rains or lightning may cause the move to be rescheduled. http://www.cmnh.org/site/AtTheMuseum/OnExhibit/PastExhibits/SmartHome/MovingSmartHome.aspx

Two articles: 1) Gotta Grove records in the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/magazine/you-are-here-building-a-house-of-wax-in-cleveland.html 2) Cleveland guide in the Pittsburgh Tribune: http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/lifestyles/travel/s_763109.html

I believe this is open to the public as well: Students invited to State of the University Address with President Snyder Nov. 1 Posted: October 21st, 2011 | Author: thedaily | Filed under: events, students | No Comments » President Barbara R. Snyder will hold a State of the University Address for students Nov. 1 from 6:30 to 7:15 p.m. in Strosacker Auditorium. This event is tailored to students and will include an open discussion period. http://thedaily.case.edu/news/?p=3341

The Cleveland Clinic brand: Abu Dhabi expansion.

Anthony Bourdain gives another shout out to Cleveland: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/10/19/2703667/anthony-bourdain.html#ixzz1bCbf8Hj1 Q. Best food town in the United States?

Damn...it'd still be about a 25-30 min walk from the North Collinwood neighborhood to the closest stop. EDIT: wait...I think I misread something. Rail access to North Collinwood please!!! KJP's most northern proposal seems to allow this.

Sasa's Scott Kim to open pan-Asian Accent restaurant in University Circle's Uptown project Published: Tuesday, October 18, 2011, 12:30 PM Joe Crea, The Plain Dealer By Joe Crea, The Plain Dealer Its merging of Asian and Western sensibilities marks Sasa as one of Cleveland's most imaginative restaurants. If Scott Kim's Shaker Square izakaya, or pub, is any measure, adventurous diners should be looking forward to the chef's next innovation. That will come in the spring, when Accent is expected to open in the Uptown project in University Circle. He'll join Jonathon Sawyer (Greenhouse Tavern, Noodlecat), who is toying with an Italian-inspired menu at another space in the project. ABC the Tavern, a popular spot on West 25th Street in Cleveland's Ohio City neighborhood, has agreed to open a second location there. And Constantino's Market, Panera Bread, Chipotle and Jimmy John's have all signed on, too. Kim saw an opportunity to present a different aspect of Eastern cuisine at Uptown. "This will be a pan-Asian menu, and I will bring in Korean and Chinese and Japanese -- and Western, American -- flavors," says Kim. http://www.cleveland.com/dining/index.ssf/2011/10/sasas_scott_kim_to_open_pan-as.html

I wish there was a way to do more of this: http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,24480.msg514680.html#msg514680 ...than demolition. In a way, I could see it mirroring the general concepts of Youngstown's "shrinking city" policies regarding consolidating assets and opening up land; however, this could be used to collect random scattered historic properties and line them up in new developed streetscapes and neighborhoods....this could be done on the UC-EC border, while still remaining in EC city limits. Secondly, it would open of land for new construction and development. I have a strong feeling much of EC will be demolished in the next 10-20 years if nothing changes. The structures continue to rot and fall apart, many of which can still be saved if we acted in the next decade. East Cleveland still has a ton of strengths that can be built around, including employment centers, such as Nela Park, and Windermere Station/Public Transportation (including access to the Healthline and Redline). Like stated above, it still retains historic, elaborate, and interesting structures (mansions, apartment buildings, original standard oil gas station, etc) Essentially, something major needs to be done on a mass scale. Patchwork development will only help plant the seeds, which is what I see the Circle East apartments doing besides extending wealth.

They've added a couple panels on the facing Euclid Ave as well. I'm guessing those were the test panels because they went on before these ones on the end.

I need to get a camera again...lost mine in San Fran... I live essentially in the epicenter of all this development and all I can do is walk past and smile. I'll do my best to snap some updates as they start popping up from the ground.

University Circle Development is spilling into East Cleveland: Groundbreaking for Circle East Apartments Project sparks new cooperation between to cities. (East Cleveland) - Ground was broken for the Circle East Townhomes at Euclid Ave. and Lakeview Road, along the border with Cleveland. The project will include 20 two-bedroom apartments which come with 2.5 bathrooms and 2-car garages. East Cleveland Mayor Norton explains Circle East will provide housing for people who want to live near University Circle which is one of the fastest growing economic regions in the state. Norton says this also marks the beginning of economic cooperation between East Cleveland and the City of Cleveland, and actually expands the radius of University Circle. http://www.wtam.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=122520&article=9253493

This is a tough article to place....there is both a "VA Hospital" and "UH" thread. Please move if needed, but I'm going to throw it into UC thread since it talks about the area in general: I personally like walking past to new Seidman Cancer Center...not sure why the critisisms are so strong on this thing. A tale of two hospitals: Veterans Administration tower and Seidman Cancer Center, both designed by George Nikolajevich, produce different architectural results Published: Sunday, October 16, 2011, 6:00 AM By Steven Litt, The Plain Dealer The Plain Dealer Cleveland’s University Circle district has suddenly become the setting of a dramatic architectural conundrum. The area boasts two large new hospital buildings, built at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars, both designed by the same principal architect, George Nikolajevich of the Cannon Design office in St. Louis, Mo. The catch is that one of the buildings, the new $102 million CARES Tower of the Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center on East Boulevard at East 105th Street, has a pitch-perfect relationship to its urban surroundings and the overall medical campus into which it fits. The other one, the $260 million Seidman Cancer Center at University Hospitals on Euclid Avenue, looks so out of place that it produces a grating, nails-on-the-blackboard sense of visual discomfort. How is it possible that two buildings designed by the same architect are so different? The answer lies in the intense technical demands of hospital design, in which functional considerations such as the layout of a nursing station can end up driving the look and style of an entire building, even to the extent of determining how it affects the urban spaces around it. http://blog.cleveland.com/architecture/2011/10/a_tale_of_two_hospitals_vetera.html

I think this is the proper thread for this: Opera Cleveland's curtain could rise again Published: Sunday, October 16, 2011, 6:00 AM By Donald Rosenberg, The Plain Dealer The Plain Dealer Nearly a year has passed since Opera Cleveland made a sound. After presenting the double bill of Poulenc's "La voix humaine" and Leoncavallo's "I Pagliacci," the company went on hiatus to take stock of its future. More than a few skeptics in town believe it will never come back. Not necessarily, said board President Nikki DiFilippo. "Opera Cleveland still exists," she said in a joint interview with former President Pauline Ramig. For now, at least. In January, the job of exploring how -- if -- Opera Cleveland could continue was entrusted to a task force of local and national figures, who submitted a report to the board several months ago. At this point, the company's remaining 13 board members -- down from a high of 55 -- continue to ponder the task force's recommendations. The report advises Opera Cleveland to perform small-scale productions in small venues -- not at the State Theatre in PlayhouseSquare, where it performed for 26 years -- and to partner with local organizations to share resources. http://www.cleveland.com/musicdance/index.ssf/2011/10/opera_cleveland.html

I have a feeling these tours are key to getting the Cleveland Orchestra rep in the international spotlight: Cleveland Orchestra hopes to forge new ties on 2011 European tour Published: Sunday, October 16, 2011, 6:00 AM By Zachary Lewis, The Plain Dealer The Plain Dealer Sure, there are fans to be made and concerts to play. Thirteen of them, in fact, over 17 days in five countries. But as the orchestra embarks this week on its 2011 European tour, forming and strengthening official bonds are equally high priorities. "Any time we begin to develop a presence in a major music capital, we're always exploring a long-term relationship," said executive director Gary Hanson. Broadly speaking, the tour follows a large, northeasterly arc, beginning Thursday in Madrid, Spain, and ending Saturday, Nov. 5, at the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria, where the group is set to collaborate with the famed Vienna Singverein in two performances of Mozart's C-Minor Mass. In between are several shorter trips by plane, train and bus, as well as concerts in Valencia, Spain; Paris; Luxembourg; Cologne, Germany; and Linz, Austria, hometown of music director Franz Welser-Most. http://www.cleveland.com/musicdance/index.ssf/2011/10/cleveland_orchestra_hopes_to_f.html