What a Wednesday
Collinwood / Downtown / Gordon Square / Must-Do / University Circle
July 12, 2011All this looking ahead to Thursday’s Midtown Chowdown and Kinsman/Central bike ride has totally made me overlook Wednesday. And what a Wednesday indeed.
Walnut Wednesday
It’s starts with your weekly Walnut Wednesday noshfest downtown, featuring a collection of mobile food eats from your favorite grub trucks.
Hit Walnut and East 9th between 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. (But don’t fill up too much — Midtown Chowdown is a must-do for Thursday!)
Community Solutions Dialogue
If you’re a Heights community member (or just an interested neighbor), the Heights Community Congress is hosting a community dialogue on Wednesday night at the Heights Library (2345 Lee Road) from 7-9 p.m.
The discussion will cover recent incidents in the Heights involving diversity issues, flash mobs and troublesome young people, as the broad range of emotion and reaction by community leaders, officials, police, business owners and the general public.
The program aims to get your answers to one big, hot question: how can the community work with the youth population to create a positive, safe and productive environment for everyone? Bring your thinking caps and open minds. It’s free and open to the public.
Fushi
It’s going on at Touch Supper Club. And evidently it’s a bit of a surprise. What is Fushi? Well, whatever it is, it’s happening from 5 p.m. – 2 a.m. So, if you’re in the know or into surprises, stay tuned to the Fushi event page for more info.
Wade Oval Wednesday
Free music offering numero uno: the Speedbumps, from Kent, take the Wade Oval stage in University Circle, as part of this party-in-the-park series.
Next week features Irish-Celtic band New Barleycorn. Plus, it’s movie night with The Karate Kid.
Bring a blanket, your family/friends, a picnic or bucks for vendor food, and your dancing shoes. The party rocks 6-9 p.m. each week until Aug. 31. See the Wade Oval Wednesdays page for bands, movies and more info.
Rock Hall Free Show
Summer in the City live concert series is your free-music option number two. Wednesday night’s drops a hip-hop beat with a line-up that features Das Racist and two Cleveland-based bands: Smoke Screen and Muamin Collective.
I’m not going to lie: I discovered Das Racist a couple years ago when my friend Jersey-City friend Dan force-fed us “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.”
Then I got hooked. Yes, on CPHTB and plenty of their other, more solid tunes. I’m so there. And while I haven’t seen Smoke Screen or Muamin Collective, I’m checking out MySpace music pages now and thinking this show will be a good one. It starts at 7 p.m.
Beachland Ballroom and Tavern
Rounding out the musical trifecta: Beachland Ballroom‘s Wednesday night jam with Orgone, a sizzling-hot, Los Angeles-based funk, soul and hip-hop group. Take a listen to some Orgone tunes. Zoogma, whom they say combines the sonic diversity and precision of a DJ with the excitement and immediacy of a five piece rock group, opens. Bound to be one helluva jammin’ night. Plus, it gets you to Collinwood, which you know you should visit more often anyway. Doors open at 8 p.m. Show starts at 9 p.m. Tickets are $12.
Speaking of Beachland: make it back to the ballroom on Thursday for a free show and jam session with Northeast Ohio Drum and Music Jam. It’s a fun, casual gathering for all ages and music-minded folk who want to make tunes and have a swell time. Doors open at 8:30 p.m. Jam starts at 9 p.m.
Our Lady of Mount Carmel West Italian Festival
What’s summer without Italian festivals? Our Lady of Mount Carmel (6928 Detroit Ave) kicks off its summer festival on Wednesday with carnival rides, games and casino stops, nighttime entertainment, raffles and, of course, Italian food. The festival runs through July 17.
The church will hold a mass and lead the Procession of Saints through the neighborhood, beginning at 11:30 a.m. on Sunday. Don’t miss it.