The next Thursday Night Live event will kick off on July 10th, beginning at 5:00 PM off of West 9th Street in downtown. This event consist of street olympics where people can put together a team of 7 to 9 players, and compete in basketball, badminton, and corn hole for prizes! These amazing prize packages include Indian's tickets, movie passes, valet parking passes, gift cards to restaurants and bars, and much more! This event will also be accompanied by special happy hour drinks and live music. The hour happy drinks includes $4 mixed drinks, $3 wine, and $2 beer from participating restaurants and bars such as Anatomy Ultra Lounge, Blue Point Grill, Brasa Grill Steakhouse, D’vine Wine Bar, Gillespie’s Map Room, and Waterstreet Grill. So come and enjoy this fantastic event, whether you are competing or not, feel free to play in the streets, enjoy special happy hour drinks, and live music all off of West 9th!

Show your support for our amazing city, come on down and have a blast!

(Thanks Barbara!)

     Here goes....I drive three hours...it is close to 1am by the time I pull up to the Knights Inn, where I already had a reservation.   I walk in and my first clue should have been the bullet proof glass the desk clerk was behind.  He gives me my room key with a weird leer on his face, but I figure "It's late...I am tired...blah blah blah" So I just thanked him and left.

    I start to drive around the parking lot looking for my room, when I see the police car hiding in wait for locla drug dealers, prostitutes and other evils of the night.   Once again, should have been a clue as to what I was getting myself into.  

    I finally find my room...I hurry inside, bolt the door and stop!   i HEAR A STRANGE NOISE COMING FROM THE BATHROOM.   I go into the bathroom and the tub is running, apparently the faucet is broken.  I almost dismissed it until i noticed that the trim on the walls was actually mold...uck....

    I go to the phone and STOP again...and notice the bed has been slept in...hmmmn....I think "Perhaps he has just made a mistake...he has givenme the wrong room, wrong key etc.   SO our conversation goes like this....

     "Hello, this is room ***, I think you may have given me the wrong room...this one has the bed slept in and the tub is broken..."

"yes?" says the desk clerk

"Um, yes...the bed has been slept in and the sheets are all messed up like someone just got out of the bed." I say again thinking...is this guy slow?

"Would you like a set of clean sheets?" says the desk clerk...

Okay...are you ready for this?  By now I have figured out he thinks I am a hooker, because I arrived so late and by myself and he has given me the hooker room....

"No! I don;t want any *Explicitword* clean sheets.... do I look like housekeeping to you??  I want  a clean room, with a clean bed...and I want it now...I am coming up there...."  I slam down the phone and march up to the lobby.

    Now the clerk behind the bullet proof glass is looking a bit like he is afraid I am bringing armageddon with me...I calmly say..."May I please have another room?" 

He fumbles with the computer etc., and I stand waiting for me key, when the biggest scariest guy I have ever seen walks in and stands behind me..  I fidgit and look at th eclerk like I will kill him if he doesn't give me my key soon...when big scary guy sorta looks me up and down and says "Hey...how YOU doing?" 

   "Just fine!" I say as I grab my key.... and he says"You here with your husband?"

As I am running out the door clutching said key I say "Yes!  *pause for effect*  and he is REALLY BIG!!!

    I finally make it to my room...and I check the bed...looks clean...I check the faucets...look good....I check the walls and floors, not too bad...then I lock the door and notice the chain has been KICKED OFF...and rigged up on a piece of wood....I once again wonder where big scary guys room is....

    What is a tired girl to do??  I climbed into bed, lit a cigerette (Hay you didn't think I care is it is non-smoking at this point?????) turn on Law and Order....and try to get some rest...as I have a three hour test in the morning.  *siigh* 

    I did make it to my test...I did finish the test...then I went to find my car in the parking lot...and couldn't.  But, that's another story about Pedro,the golf cart, and me screaming "VERDI VERDI" isn't that green in spanish?  I was trying to tell him it was a green car I was looking for...and No Pedro....I am not drunk! 

That bloggin girl in Cleveland!!

Cleveland Institute of Music
11021 East Blvd.
Cleveland, OH 44106
General: 216 791-5000
Admissions: 216 795-3107

Upcoming concerts;
 Friday, February 2
8:00 PM
FACULTY RECITAL
PAUL KANTOR, violin
PETER SALAFF, violin
MARI SATO, violin
KIRSTEN DOCTER, viola
MERRY PECKHAM, cello
VIRGINIA WECKSTROM, piano
LINDA JONES, piano
Tuesday, February 6
Studio 113
7:30 PM
PIANOFEST
Wednesday, February 7 at 6:30 PM
NEW MUSIC SERIES SYMPOSIUM
MARGARET BROUWER, director
MICHAEL BRATT, assistant director
MARC SATTERWHITE, guest composer
Marc Satterwhite discusses his music and approach to composition.

Wednesday, February 7 at 8:00 PM
Kulas Hall
THE CIM ORCHESTRA
JAYCE OGREN, guest conductor
NATASHA OSPINA, soprano
MOZART Overture to The Magic Flute
BERG Seven Early Songs
BRAHMS/arr. SCHOENBERG Piano Quartet in G Minor, Op. 25
Presented in honor of NACCO Industries, Inc
Audio-Technica live broadcast on WCLV 104.9 FM
Seating Passes

Thursday, February 8 at 7:30 PM
Studio 113
NEW MUSIC SERIES SYMPOSIUM
MARGARET BROUWER, director
MICHAEL BRATT, assistant director
MELINDA WAGNER, guest composer
Melinda Wagner discusses her music and approach to composition.

Friday, February 9 at 8:00 PM
Kulas Hall
NEW MUSIC SERIES
CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT
MARGARET BROUWER, director
MELINDA WAGNER, guest composer
MARC SATTERWHITE, guest composer
MELINDA WAGNER Wick
ANDREW RINDFLEISCH What Vibes!
GREGORY D'ALESSIO Thread
MARC SATTERWHITE Bigaku

Wednesday, February 14 at 8:00 PM
Kulas Hall
FACULTY RECITAL
MARK JACKOBS, viola
ANITA PONTREMOLI, piano
HERVELOIS Suite in A Major
SHOSTAKOVICH Viola Sonata, Op. 147
J.S. BACH Sonata No. 2, BWV 1028
JENNIFER CONNER Changes
BRAHMS Sonata in E-flat Major for Viola and Piano, Op. 120, No. 2

Thursday, February 15 at 4:00 PM
Studio 229
NEW MUSIC SERIES SYMPOSIUM
MARGARET BROUWER, director
ANDREW RINDFLEISCH, guest composer
Andrew Rindfleisch discusses his music

Wednesday, February 28 at 8:00 PM
Kulas Hall
CIM OPERA THEATER
DAVID BAMBERGER, director
THE CIM ORCHESTRA
HARRY DAVIDSON, guest conductor
JOHANN STRAUSS II Die Fledermaus
The most popular - and zany - of Viennese operettas arrives at CIM in a fully staged production, complete with its irresistible mixture of comedy and champagne.
Presented in honor of US Bank, NE Ohio
Tickets: $15 adults; $10 students/seniors.
For tickets, call (216) 791-5000, ext. 411, Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Make it an evening in University Circle! Present your opera ticket upon ordering at That Place on Bellflower or Sergio's in University Circle and receive 10% off your entire order.

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Cleveland Public Library
325 Superior Ave
Cleveland, OH
(216) 623-2800
The Fire Inside: The Story and Poetry of Nikki Giovanni
Cleveland Public Library will host the debut stage reading of the Karamu House production of “The Fire Inside: The Story and Poetry of Nikki Giovanni,” on Saturday, February 17 at 3:00 p.m. in the Louis Stokes Wing Auditorium, the Main Library, 325 Superior Avenue. This is FREE and open to the public.

GRAB A SLED!!  (Brrrrrr)   Though I personally find no fun in being cold, possibly wet and tumbling down a hill, my daughter absolutely loves to snowboard and sled.  So in her honor-  check it out!

Edgewater Park in Cuyahoga County is public property, with a 65 degree slope that is easily accesible.  Directions: The sled riding hill is at Edgewater Park right off the shoreway.

Comments: The slope from Upper Edgewater down to the beach at Lower Edgewater is a hair-raiser. Not recommended for small children--hang-gliders launch themselves into the air from this slope. Parking is available in many of the parks lots. Gets busy sometimes, but is great fun. Big hill is steep and there is a smaller one with the large hill for the kids. My daughter wants to go every year and assures me I can just "sit in the car" while she rides. *sigh*Š