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Written by Roger Zender
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Wednesday, 01 July 2009 00:05 |
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Spangler Roger Zender is back for his monthly dose of the best concerts in town and in the region.
Hasn’t June turned out to be a great month in Cleveland (be it weather, events or hot show)? July is looking to be just as spectacular, punctuated by the following great shows.
This coming month brings an impressive range of musical genres (as usual), highlighting some of the best pop, rock, rap and country-esque concerts coming right here to Northeast Ohio. July also dives head-first into the festival scene, providing a robust list of road-trip shows worthy of the drive.
Get out and enjoy the best Cleveland (and the Midwest) has to offer.
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Written by Brian Patrick Thornton
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Friday, 26 June 2009 00:05 |
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If you’re going to put one of the country’s best collections of art in storage for a few years while you renovate and expand, you better create something pretty compelling when you reopen.
Last year, when the Cleveland Museum of Art open the first phase of its overhaul — the 1916 building — we gave it a big thumbs up. And this Saturday, the public gets its first crack at the brand-new East Wing, a 139,000 sq. ft. addition clad in striking granite and marble stripes that serves as a visual transition between old and new.
And it’s a stunner.
Spangle had the chance to check out the building before its opening, with inside information provided by chief curator Griff Mann and other staffers. Come along as we take you through the space. |
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Written by Tim Marshall
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Tuesday, 23 June 2009 00:10 |
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Do all of your household goods come from Target? Clothes via H&M? Objets d’art from Crate and Barrel?
Then you probably have no idea where any of them come from. (Guatemala, perhaps? Vietnam? China?) Perhaps you should take a shot this weekend at purchasing some items that are homegrown.
Over the past year, Danielle DeBoe, owner of the eclectic home-goods boutique Room Service, has brought hundreds of consumers to the Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood with her Made in the 216 event series. At each of these “shopping parties,” guests have been wowed with clothes, accessories and home accents designed by local artisans. The first party was a hit; the second was even better.
There may have been but one drawback: Room Service’s charming yet modest space couldn’t contain all of the wares and the patrons. So the old saying that the third time’s a charm will hold true this weekend, when DeBoe will hold her next Made in the 216 event all over the Gordon Square Arts District — from Room Service to a blocked-off section of Detroit Avenue to the renovated (but yet to open) Capitol Theater to an unused 3,000-square-foot loft space.
Add to the mix live music, gourmet eats, beer, wine and some hot after-parties, and anyone who attends is sure to have it made. (In the 216. Keep up with us here.) |
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Written by Brian Patrick Thornton
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Monday, 29 June 2009 00:27 |
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From the editor's blog ...
It’s the 40th anniversary of Stonewall this month. But did you know there’s another June milestone at hand? One in which your Spangle editor played a very large role?
Sit down, kids, and listen to a story.
Ten years ago this week, the phone rang on Saturday morning at my then-boyfriend’s apartment. On the line was Michael Moore’s producer (yes, that Michael Moore, of Fahrenheit 911 fame). Rich’s connection to the famed in-your-face documentarian? He’d appeared in an episode of Moore’s show The Awful Truth, in a segment delightfully titled “The Sodomobile.”
The producer had two simple questions for Rich: Would you kiss a boy on TV? And do you have a boy who would kiss you on TV?
It was the summer after the first season of Will and Grace, 22 episodes in which single hetero Grace managed to get up on a man or two, but single homo Will had gotten nothing. And so news reports circulating the media said the show intended for Will to kiss a man in the second season, thus breaking a man-on-man barrier that had existed since the dawn of, well, forever.
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Thursday, 25 June 2009 00:50 |
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Before Howard Ashman and Alan Mencken made you want to trade in your fins for a man, fall for a beast and go soaring on a rascal’s magic carpet, they created a lil’ musical called Little Shop of Horrors. It’s about love, fame and a plant that likes to eat people.
You know, the usual stuff.
Suddenly, Seymour, Little Shop is back in Northeast Ohio, opening Friday at the Beck Center for the Arts. We’ll have the Spangle review next week, but in the meantime, the Beck is offering a special deal to our readers.
Call 216-521-2540 x10 and mention the code “Spangle,” and you’ll receive $5 off adult tickets to any performance. (You can get the discount on up to four tickets per household.)
Enjoy! And be super careful around any hungry-looking vegetation.
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Written by Brian Patrick Thornton
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Wednesday, 24 June 2009 00:32 |
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From the editor's blog ...
Cleve Jones is having a year.
The longtime activist, previously best known as the creator of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, came back into the public eye as a historical consultant for the well-received film Milk. (Jones worked in Harvey Milk’s office prior to the San Francisco supervisor’s assassination.)
And now, in the wake of actions by the Obama administration that have disappointed some queer activists, Jones is calling for a new march on Washington, dubbed the National Equality March.
Recently, Obama has passed the buck to Congress on repealing the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy that bans gays in the military. His administration also filed a court brief supporting the Defense of Marriage Act. And bloggers were none too pleased with Obama’s Pride Month move to offer limited benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees. (Notably, health care was left out.) |
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Tim Miller is pissed — and characteristically blunt.
