Jan 26 2013

The Cleveland Skyline

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Downtown Cleveland Skyline

Today’s photo of the Cleveland Skyline! Did you know that there are a whole bunch of famous Clevelanders? Here is a list of some of them from the Positively Cleveland Website:

Halle Berry – Actress/producer – the first African American actress to win the Oscar for Best Actress

Drew Carey – Creator/producer and star of ABC-TV’s “The Drew Carey Show” and host of “The Price is Right”

Traci Chapman – Singer/songwriter

Tim Conway – Comedian/actor

Ben Curtis – Graduate of Kent State University and the 2003 PGA British Open Champion

Dorothy Dandridge – Actress – First African American woman to receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress

Phil Donahue – Talk show host and winner of 19 Daytime Emmys

Alan Freed – D.J. who coined the phrase “Rock n’ Roll”

James A Garfield – 20th US President

Arsenio Hall – Comedian/Actor – The first African American host of a nationally televised late night talk show

Patricia Heaton – Actress

Anne Heche – Actress

Langston Hughes – Poet

Bob Hope – Actor/Comedian – Winner of 5 Special and Honorary Oscars

Sammy Kaye – Band leader – Kaye had more than 100 hit records from 1937-1953

Don King – Boxing promoter

Henry Mancini – Composer of “Moon River,” “The Pink Panther” and many more memorable melodies. Winner of 20 Grammys and four Oscars

Toni Morrison – Winner of 1993 Nobel Prize for literature

Paul Newman – Actor, director, race car driver and Oscar Winner for Best Actor

The O’Jays (Eddie Levert & Walter Williams) – Popular R&B group

Jesse Owens – Olympic track star

John D. Rockefeller – Standard Oil founder

Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster – Creators of Superman

Molly Shannon – Actress and cast alumni of Saturday Night Live

Henry Sherwin – Founder, Sherwin Williams

Don Shula – Football coach

Tris Speaker – Baseball player

George Steinbrenner III – Former owner, NY Yankees

Vernon Stouffer – Founder, Stouffer Foods

Joe Walsh – Singer, songwriter, guitarist and member of the “James Gang” and the “Eagles”

Archibald Willard – Artist, painted “Spirit of ’76”

Tom Wilson – Cartoonist, Ziggy

Debra Winger – Actress

Cy Young – Baseball player

 

For more info on visiting Cleveland:

http://www.positivelycleveland.com/


Jan 21 2013

Clevelands Nautica Entertainment Complex

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Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica

“Nautica Entertainment Complex in Cleveland, Oh invites you to experience exceptional dining and exhilarating entertainment in a dramatic setting where you can see giant lake freighters maneuver the Cuyahoga River. Since its opening in 1987, the Nautica Entertainment Complex has attracted millions of people annually. Anchored by two dramatic jackknife bridges, the distinctive character of the Flats is accentuated by Cleveland’s finest entertainment venues.

Nautica Entertainment Complex includes the FirstEnergy Powerhouse (home to the Greater Cleveland Aquarium, Windows on the River banquet facilities and Trolley Tours); the Sugar Warehouse with Shooters on the Water, the IMPROV Comedy Club and Restaurant and Great Lakes Watersports; Jacobs Pavilion (a 5,000 seat outdoor amphitheater); the Nautica Queen dining/cruise ship, and the Apartments at Nautica building with McCarthy’s Downtown and the Nautica Charity Poker Festival At the Cuyahoga River’s edge is the half-mile long Nautica Boardwalk offering special views of boats on the river and Cleveland’s resurgent skyline.”

For more info- http://www.nauticaflats.com/venues/a/jacobs-pavilion-cleveland-concert-event-venue

Todat’s quote: Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. – Voltaire

 


Jan 19 2013

Clevelands Wade Park

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Cleveland wade Lagoon

Today’s Photo: Wade Park in Cleveland, Oh

From Wikipedia: “Wade Park is a park in the University Circle neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio. An idyllic swath of land in one of Cleveland’s busiest neighborhoods, the park was built on land donated by Jeptha Wade with the intention of using part of the property building for an art museum. Its most prominent feature is the Cleveland Museum of Art and the adjacent Wade Park Lagoon. While not technically a historical landmark on its own, the park falls within the eponymous Wade Park historical district and essentially serves the landscape for most of the buildings included in the registry entry.

Established on the land donated to the city by Jeptha Wade in 1882, Wade Park today largely serves as a museum campus for the Cleveland Museum of Art, as well as several other Cleveland cultural institutions. One of the most prominent features of the park — and of University Circle — is the Wade Lagoon. The lagoon is situated on the south end of Wade Park, in front of the museum. Bounded by East Boulevard on the west, Martin Luther King Jr. Drive on the east and Euclid Avenue on the south, the lagoon provides a tranquil retreat as well as a home for fish, which are mainly ornamental koi.”

For more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wade_Park_(Cleveland_park)

Today’s Quote: “Light makes photography. Embrace it. Admire it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know photography.” – George Eastman


Jan 14 2013

Peter B. Lewis Building in Cleveland, Oh

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Peter b Lewis Buliding

Today’s Cleveland photo is of the Peter B. Lewis Building in Cleveland, Oh.

From the Case Western Reserve Website:

About the Building:

The home of the Weatherhead School of Management is the Frank Gehry-designed Peter B. Lewis Building. The Lewis Building reflects the spirit of Weatherhead’s innovative approach and clearly places Weatherhead in the vanguard of business education. It redefines the way a business school should look, just as Weatherhead redefines the way management education should be taught.

About Peter B. Lewis:

In 1965, in one of the first leveraged buyouts in history, Peter B. Lewis took control of his family’s 100-employee Cleveland insurance company. His radical idea: insure drivers no other company would touch. Forty years later, he is Chairman of the Progressive Corporation, the nation’s third largest auto insurer with 27,000 employees and sales of $13.4 billion. In 1999, Mr. Lewis donated $36.9 million to the Weatherhead School for the building that bears his name – the most recent gift in a series of contributions to Case Western Reserve University honoring four generations of the Lewis family who have attended the University.

For more information please see: http://weatherhead.case.edu/about/facilities/lewis/default.cfm

Today’s Quote: “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it” – Aristotle


Jan 12 2013

Clevelands Little Italy

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Clevelands little italy

Today’s Cleveland photo was taken in Cleveland’s Little Italy:

From About.com: “Clevelands Little Italy neighborhood, located on Mayfield Road, just south of Euclid Ave., grew up in the late 19th century, fueled by scores of immigrants that came to the area to work as stone-cutters for nearby Lake View Cemetery and to work in clothing factories.

Early residents included Joseph Carabelli, who donated the land for Holy Rosary Church and helped to found Alta House, a charitable organization that still thrives.

Today, Clevelanders of Italian descent are located all over the city, but Little Italy retains that “Old World” flavor with restaurants, art galleries, and the popular “Feast of the Assumption” festival each August”.

For more info on Cleveland’s Little Italy visit:

http://cleveland.about.com/od/neighborhoods/ss/littleitalywalk.htm

http://ech.cwru.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=LI1

“Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt


Jan 5 2013

Atrium at the Cleveland Museum of art

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Cleveland Museum of art atrium

Atrium at the Cleveland Museum of art

From Cleveland.com: “In a way that’s palpable but hard to measure, Cleveland just became a better place to live, thanks to the completion of the new central atrium at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

This grand interior space — nearly as big as a football field — was intended by New York architect Rafael Viñoly to be the centerpiece of the $350 million expansion and renovation he designed for the museum a decade ago.

Now it has the chance to do that job, and much more.

The atrium opened at 10 a.m. Tuesday without fanfare, seven years after construction began at the museum and four years after the new and renovated galleries started opening. Director David Franklin and several staff members waited quietly in the low and shadowy North Lobby as the first visitors trickled past them to enter the atrium.

They gazed up, open-mouthed, at the skylight high overhead and slowed down to take in the surrounding architecture, which includes the restored north facade of the museum’s white marble 1916 building, plus Viñoly’s glass, wood and metal gallery and office areas, which will wrap the other three sides of the space when they’re complete.”

For more on this article and Structure:

http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2012/09/cleveland_museum_of_art_atrium.html

http://www.clevelandart.org/

Today’s Quote: ”All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space”. – Philip Johnson