October 16, 201014 yr Really. No one has posted this yet. All you Cleveland ambassadors should be ashamed of yourselves.... Newcomers find Cleveland is a great place to live Published: Saturday, October 16, 2010, 6:43 AM Sarah Crump, The Plain Dealer Sometimes it takes a newcomer to show longtime Clevelanders exactly what's right -- and what could be improved -- about the city. We asked seven people, all of whom live or work in the city, their first impressions of Cleveland, and if those opinions have changed. READ MORE AT: http://www.cleveland.com/living/index.ssf/2010/10/post_4.html "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
October 16, 201014 yr Good article for a change. Just a few comments on some comments....In reference to the first couple thinking a mixed relationship stands out. Actually it is not unique and it is very common..and I am actually glad some people stay in their own neighborhoods because I shudder to think of the problems the wrong element would bring into otherwise stable ones. (Disclaimer... to a select few forumers...please don't deal a prejudiced race card because my comment applies to any flavor who has bad behavior) Second girl who commented on all the old buildings... Glad we still have a handful left and I hope its not roadkill she is seeing 'on the roadside.'.... More.... RTA seems to get not the greatest hints at its user friendliness in the article.. (RTA take notes) and lastly, I would have hate to read the plethora of turd-in-the-punchbowl comments by the peanut gallery on CDC. The comment feature appears to be disabled. Is it? If so... Gee, I wonder why! :-o
October 16, 201014 yr I would say that interacial relationships between white males and Asian females are extremely prevalent in Cleveland, in particular the University Circle/hospitals/Case community. And so I agree with you, ETC, that interracial relationships are common, but I'm not sure what you mean by wrong element? As to the article itself, what a great read.
October 27, 201014 yr Nice article about Valerie Mayen, local designer and Project Runway contestant. We need to have more and more attention on young local entrepreneurs ... Here we have a transplant who moved here for school (Cleveland Institute of Art), fell in love with the place and is now using her cache to try to establish a fashion design incubator in Asiatown. You can support the effort by voting for it to receive a $50,000 grant at http://www.refresheverything.com/buzzandgrowl or making a small donation at www.buzzandgrowl.com/pledge. Cleveland fashion designer Valerie Mayen has big plans after 'Project Runway' Andrea Simakis, The Plain Dealer Wednesday, October 27, 2010 From the article: ... Your next project is Buzz & Growl. How will the city and Northeast Ohio benefit from Buzz & Growl? Cleveland has four design schools, and a lot of the designers here, when they graduate, they move to Chicago, New York, Los Angeles or wherever they feel there are greener pastures or have more resources for them. Just yesterday alone, I talked with three girls. All three of them were like, "Oh, I don't wanna move to Chicago, my family is here, but there's nothing for me." These were all young designers? Yes. They're all graduates from design schools. They're all struggling to make ends meet. They're working at Starbucks and they're trying to get freelance gigs, but there's nothing for them here. And so, if there was a place like Buzz & Growl, they could continue to develop their skills so that their products would be more marketable and they would be able to make a living. . . . It's just a matter of the right resources being made available to them. . . . The students are already here -- why not keep them here? And if we could keep talent here, we can build more businesses, we can create more jobs ... ... For more, please visit http://www.cleveland.com/tv/index.ssf/2010/10/cleveland_fashion_designer_val_1.html.
October 27, 201014 yr Really. No one has posted this yet. All you Cleveland ambassadors should be ashamed of yourselves.... Newcomers find Cleveland is a great place to live Published: Saturday, October 16, 2010, 6:43 AM Sarah Crump, The Plain Dealer Sometimes it takes a newcomer to show longtime Clevelanders exactly what's right -- and what could be improved -- about the city. We asked seven people, all of whom live or work in the city, their first impressions of Cleveland, and if those opinions have changed. READ MORE AT: http://www.cleveland.com/living/index.ssf/2010/10/post_4.html As we know here (recent example Jeffrey's visit) this continues the trend that those from outside the city/region appreciate the city more than the majority of longtime/lifetime residents. EC and TB may be on to something as there are lots of Asian interratial relationships with a connection to UC/Case/CC. I have cousins on both sides of my family that are married to Asians. One couple met when they worked at UC/Case partnership. The other met while at a restaurant.
October 27, 201014 yr ^^Maybe we need a fashion festival, or a pop-up-city type pop-up-mall (or even take a ghost mall like Euclid Sq.) and showcase local designers and students. Having it as a once a year event, it will make more of an event that people will go to. (this may be what Buzz and Growl is all about, for some reason CLE.com is not coming up on my computer)
October 27, 201014 yr Buzz & Growl is more about the production end. It'll be a 4,000 sq. ft. space equipped with a variety of sewing equipment and a couple of master seamstresses. The idea is that established designers can commission the seamstresses to do work, students and emerging artists can receive additional instruction and have access to equipment to experiment and refine their work and novice sewers can take classes to learn more basic skills. The idea is that, by creating a one-stop design shop, you can create a major win-win-win situation: Established designers can produce at lower price points, emerging designers can have access to equipment and education that would be cost-prohibitive on their own and seamstresses can raise their visibility and supplement their income. I think there's also been some discussion of a Buzz & Growl shop-type component, but I don't know if the details of that have been worked out. There is a Cleveland Fashion Week that's pretty well attended, but sadly, the flagship events are mainly in the suburbs (I'm thinking Eton Collection, IIRC). I think there have been some discussions of some pop-up shop opportunities for local designers, but I don't what came of that. In the meantime, yay Buzz&Growl :)
October 27, 201014 yr I'm not really sure exactly what the pop-up mall concept is but I know another place besides Euclid Mall that might work for something like this. The Colonial Marketplace is almost empty apparently partially due to the fact that the stores are too small to be used for much anymore. They might however be the perfect place for students or beginning designers to rent out. It would be awesome if something like this were set up and then maybe the successful boutiques could move out onto Euclid eventually. It would be like a fashion incubator.
October 27, 201014 yr I'm not really sure exactly what the pop-up mall concept is but I know another place besides Euclid Mall that might work for something like this. The Colonial Marketplace is almost empty apparently partially due to the fact that the stores are too small to be used for much anymore. They might however be the perfect place for students or beginning designers to rent out. It would be awesome if something like this were set up and then maybe the successful boutiques could move out onto Euclid eventually. It would be like a fashion incubator. You beat me to it. the CM along with places like the Armory, Halle and Higbee Buildings are perfect venues for events like this.
October 27, 201014 yr I'm not really sure exactly what the pop-up mall concept is but I know another place besides Euclid Mall that might work for something like this. The Colonial Marketplace is almost empty apparently partially due to the fact that the stores are too small to be used for much anymore. They might however be the perfect place for students or beginning designers to rent out. It would be awesome if something like this were set up and then maybe the successful boutiques could move out onto Euclid eventually. It would be like a fashion incubator. There are currently other plans in the works for the Colonial Marketplace.
November 1, 201014 yr Soloist with Cleveland Orchestra to appear first at local grocery store http://www.cleveland.com/musicdance/index.ssf/2010/11/soloist_with_cleveland_orchest_1.html synergy n. , pl. , -gies . The interaction of two or more agents or forces so that their combined effect is greater than the sum of their individual. Little things like this make me proud and exited about Cleveland. We have invested so much into these assets, which for a long time they were islands. Now whether it is a plan to physically link downtown parks or having a member of the nation's premier Orchestra entertain residents in an urban grocery store, our assets are beginning to compliment each other more and more. I <3 Cleveland!!!
November 10, 201014 yr While "knotting" this morning - Me: "Not much goin' down here. I am excited, though, because all of FI's upstate NY family (all 25-ish of them) are coming here instead of us going there for Thanksgiving! There is so much that goes on in Cleveland Thanksgiving weekend that I am stoked to show them around :-D." Other poster from C-Town: "What exciting things do they do in Cleveland over Thanksgiving Doc? I think they light the tree downtown in Public Square, but I have lived here 9 years and haven't really heard of anything else?" Me: "Ahem.... Progressive Field Snow Days (Ice Skating, Snow Tubing, and general wintery-ness) – 12-10pm Friday, 10am-10pm Saturday Winterfest (Tree Lighting) – 6-7:30pm Saturday Cavs Game – 7:30pm Saturday Cleveland Museum of Art – 10am-9pm Friday, 10am-5pm Saturday Rock and Roll Hall of Fame – 10am-5:30pm Friday and Saturday Great Lakes Science Center – 10am-5pm Friday and Saturday The Santaland Diaries @ Playhouse Square – Friday 7:30pm, Saturday 5pm and 8:30pm Bodies on E. 4th – Friday and Saturday 10am-10pm Cleveland Orchestra – The Planets: An HD Odyssey – Saturday 8pm There's probably more stuff that I'm forgetting. " Please excuse me while my head explodes. I KNEW I would get a clueless comment about my post from other C-Town posters/lurkers.
November 10, 201014 yr While "knotting" this morning - Me: "Not much goin' down here. I am excited, though, because all of FI's upstate NY family (all 25-ish of them) are coming here instead of us going there for Thanksgiving! There is so much that goes on in Cleveland Thanksgiving weekend that I am stoked to show them around :-D." Other poster from C-Town: "What exciting things do they do in Cleveland over Thanksgiving Doc? I think they light the tree downtown in Public Square, but I have lived here 9 years and haven't really heard of anything else?" Me: "Ahem.... Progressive Field Snow Days (Ice Skating, Snow Tubing, and general wintery-ness) – 12-10pm Friday, 10am-10pm Saturday Winterfest (Tree Lighting) – 6-7:30pm Saturday Cavs Game – 7:30pm Saturday Cleveland Museum of Art – 10am-9pm Friday, 10am-5pm Saturday Rock and Roll Hall of Fame – 10am-5:30pm Friday and Saturday Great Lakes Science Center – 10am-5pm Friday and Saturday The Santaland Diaries @ Playhouse Square – Friday 7:30pm, Saturday 5pm and 8:30pm Bodies on E. 4th – Friday and Saturday 10am-10pm Cleveland Orchestra – The Planets: An HD Odyssey – Saturday 8pm There's probably more stuff that I'm forgetting. " Please excuse me while my head explodes. I KNEW I would get a clueless comment about my post from other C-Town posters/lurkers. With all due respect regarding what is going on Thanksgiving weekend, I wouldn't consider some of those to be specific to that weekend. Cavs, CMA, Rock Hall, GLSC, and the Bodies Exhibit aren't specific to Thanksgiving Weekend. They are ongoing events that happen to fall over that time period. I would consider Winterfest, Snowdays, and Santaland Diaries to be specific though. So there is more than just Winterfest for sure, but I would be hard pressed to include events that have been or will be going on for 6 months or more.
November 10, 201014 yr ^ Look at the DCA blog to see all that is going on during this time of year... You can learn a lot from that blog. Its amazing how many people still have no clue what is happening. What would you like to happen?
November 10, 201014 yr I hope that it's nicer for winterfest than it it's been the last few years, of course my kids are older so I would be more willing to drag them out than I would have been in the past.
November 10, 201014 yr ^ Look at the DCA blog to see all that is going on during this time of year... You can learn a lot from that blog. Its amazing how many people still have no clue what is happening. What would you like to happen? I admitted, or thought I did, that there was probably more going on than was mentioned. Not arguing that. I simply would not roll Cavs games, a trip to CMA, Rock Hall, GLSC into a Thanksgiving weekend event discussion unless they were doing something specific regarding holidays/thanksgiving/etc. Point in case the DCA blog does not mention any of these when listing their holiday events http://downtowncleveland.org/blog/index.php/2010/11/down-aroundtown-holiday-events-specials/
November 10, 201014 yr I hope that is it nice and snowy for winter fest...as winter is supposed to be that way. The scene looks better with a blanket of fresh snow, lights, and glitter.
November 10, 201014 yr I agree that the local knotties I found online were mostly clueless. But I did find one who turned into one of my best friends, and it's nice to have someone whose baby is the same age, even if she does live 40 minutes away. But I have to agree with tedders, I think most of those things are just general things going on downtown, and your OP sort of implied that there were a lot of specific, T-day weekend things that always happen. Like Memorial Day weekend, that is a weekend where there's always a lot going on specific to that weekend, with the greek festival in tremont, the rib burn off, sometimes other festivals, etc.
November 10, 201014 yr You guys are a bunch of nit-pickers! :-P I would love to go see the Orchestra do Planets. I might pull the trigger on that if it isn't sold out.
November 10, 201014 yr I more meant to say "there is a lot going on over Thanksgiving weekend" as opposed to "there is a lot that goes on Thanksgiving weekend". Slip of the fingers! However, her comment came across to me as one of those "I've lived in Cleveland for _, and this place sucks!" Or maybe I've just been around UO for too long that I see the negative in those kind of comments from Clevelanders....
November 10, 201014 yr Cleveland Critical Mass happens regardless of the weather 11/26, the day after Thanksgiving.
November 10, 201014 yr ^ Stop in at the "cube on the square" for some great healthy quenchers on the go or after!
November 12, 201014 yr Sometimes visiting other cities reminds me what I love about Cleveland. Staying in Downtown Denver right now is doing that. It's perfectly nice, just not for me.
November 13, 201014 yr StrapHanger, I know what you mean. I am not sure what it is about Cleveland that makes people fall in love with the city with such intensity. I usually have the same feeling you expressed when I have to go to Seattle for work. Seattle is nice, but just not for me.
November 13, 201014 yr I just spent the last 5 hours at University Circle with a friend who is somewhat anti Cleveland - talk about an amazing area! We hit up the Art Museum, had lunch at that diner (free coffee!), walked EVERYWHERE on Euclid (from Cleveland Clinic to near East Cleveland), walked by the various institutes (all the ones I could think of), hit up the medical library, enjoyed the patio at that neat coffee shop by the frats, watched some of the football game, played frisbee on Wade Lagoon, played frisbee at the front of the library, took some photos and video, marveled at the multitude of new construction, and so on! My friend definitely has a FAR better impression on the city now. Let's hope that downtown someday has that kind of in-your-face, visual, construction everywhere, momentum. I wonder how UC compares to other cities in regards to massive redevelopment within a relatively small radius. It just made me proud to be a Clevelander.
November 13, 201014 yr I always take people with anti Cleveland attitudes who think downtown is dangerous on tours of downtown. We walk around and just look at buildings and people and go through cool lobbies. Then at the end they leave really impressed and say that they never knew how nice it was. I always ask them if at any time they felt threatened or scared and they all say no and then I sort of make fun of them for thinking it was sooo dangerous. :lol:
November 13, 201014 yr I take them to the west side market and a restaurant, that's usually enough to sell them :)
November 14, 201014 yr ^Right on. West Side Market's also my top priority when showing visitors the city.
November 14, 201014 yr I didnt realize this guy spend time in Cleveland. Nice story of why Cleveland is special... Travel Channel's Adam Richman is hungry for Cleveland Published: Saturday, November 13, 2010, 10:05 PM Adam Richman likes Cleveland. A lot. How much does the Travel Channel's "Man vs. Food" host like Cleveland?....... "There is just so much to experience in The Cleve," Richman says. "The chance to shed light on the amount of heart, the sheer joy of that city, is important to me. It has such a bountiful amount of heart. http://www.cleveland.com/books/index.ssf/2010/11/travel_channels_adam_richman_i.html
November 15, 201014 yr Not entirely Cleveland-centric, but there is a nice Cleveland focus. Glad to see more attention being paid to the relative advantages of life in the Cleve (and Berlin and Detroit and Minneapolis and Portland). Artists fleeing the city High cost of living, fewer part-time jobs drive them out of New York. By Miriam Kreinin Souccar, Crain's New York Business November 14, 2010 5:59 AM For 25 years, Elyas Khan tried to make it as a musician in New York. The front man for the band Nervous Cabaret, Mr. Khan lived in at least 20 places, from Bay Ridge to Washington Heights, moving each time his lease expired and the landlord jacked up the rent. He worked so many part-time jobs to make ends meet that he barely had time to compose new songs. Two years ago, he and his wife, Melissa, got the boot from their live/work space in Dumbo when the landlord turned the building into luxury commercial space. That was the day Mr. Khan gave up on New York. ... More available at http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20101114/FREE/311149985.
November 15, 201014 yr I just spent the last 5 hours at University Circle with a friend who is somewhat anti Cleveland - talk about an amazing area! We hit up the Art Museum, had lunch at that diner (free coffee!), walked EVERYWHERE on Euclid (from Cleveland Clinic to near East Cleveland), walked by the various institutes (all the ones I could think of), hit up the medical library, enjoyed the patio at that neat coffee shop by the frats, watched some of the football game, played frisbee on Wade Lagoon, played frisbee at the front of the library, took some photos and video, marveled at the multitude of new construction, and so on! My friend definitely has a FAR better impression on the city now. Let's hope that downtown someday has that kind of in-your-face, visual, construction everywhere, momentum. I wonder how UC compares to other cities in regards to massive redevelopment within a relatively small radius. It just made me proud to be a Clevelander. When I was watching the CWRU football game this past Saturday, the guy next to me (a Carnegie Mellon fan) exclaimed "wow, there's a lot of construction going on around here!" and also marveled at the "castle on the hill" (the Garfield Monument).
November 15, 201014 yr Not entirely Cleveland-centric, but there is a nice Cleveland focus. Glad to see more attention being paid to the relative advantages of life in the Cleve (and Berlin and Detroit and Minneapolis and Portland). Artists fleeing the city High cost of living, fewer part-time jobs drive them out of New York. By Miriam Kreinin Souccar, Crain's New York Business November 14, 2010 5:59 AM For 25 years, Elyas Khan tried to make it as a musician in New York. The front man for the band Nervous Cabaret, Mr. Khan lived in at least 20 places, from Bay Ridge to Washington Heights, moving each time his lease expired and the landlord jacked up the rent. He worked so many part-time jobs to make ends meet that he barely had time to compose new songs. Two years ago, he and his wife, Melissa, got the boot from their live/work space in Dumbo when the landlord turned the building into luxury commercial space. That was the day Mr. Khan gave up on New York. ... More available at http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20101114/FREE/311149985. Thats awesome! It would nice to keep improving our artistic scene
November 16, 201014 yr the overwhelming majority of the CIA grads I know live in NYC now. they graduated in 2004-5 or thereabouts. give em a few more years? a lot of em are involved with the IFC show Food Party.
November 16, 201014 yr My artist friends have left New York.... well, they haven't officially left (they are subletting their place).... but they are residing in Norway now and thinking about coming back home.
November 16, 201014 yr While "knotting" this morning - What is "knotting"? I Google'd it and the second result was the definition from urbandictionary.com, and I'm pretty sure that's not what you were doing! :)
November 16, 201014 yr Posting on The Knot's message boards - the knot is a wedding planning board. Knotting (posting), Knotties (posters on the board). (ETA: like tying the knot)
November 17, 201014 yr Got it, thanks. I've heard of The Knot, I just didn't know there was cult terminology surrounding it. :)
November 17, 201014 yr You mean the conversation that had already resolved itself after a whopping 4 posts? Well, it HAD resolved itself. :roll:
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