Rocky River was named one of the “150 Best Places to fish in America” in the June 2007 issue of Field and Stream magazine ... (Note: The fishing report is updated monthly in June, July, and August and weekly every other month) ... As we move into summer, highlight species targeted by anglers along the Rocky River are smallmouth bass, carp, panfish, and channel catfish. To monitor the most recent river water level and temperature you can check the following link: ... ...
And more local arts news ... by Michael Gill ... There's been a minor changing of the guard at Cuyahoga Arts and Culture. By replacing someone who's had a long career with a person at the beginning of his, it puts a younger face on the arts funder's board of trustees. David Bergholz, who retired after 15 years as executive director at the Gund Foundation, has stepped down, and the organization has appointed Matthew Charboneau in his place. Charboneau — a graduate of the Oberlin College
Rocky River was named one of the “150 Best Places to fish in America” in the June 2007 issue of Field and Stream magazine ... The Rocky River is currently exhibiting very good fishing conditions. The water is transitioning to a green stain with moderate flow. Based on the weather forecast for the coming days, the river will continue to drop in level and clear into the weekend. Anglers can keep an eye on the flow gage for the latest trend in river flow and temperature at the following
By way of introduction: hi, I’m Ron. I’m the Art Director at Scene and a musician participating in the 2010 Cleveland Lottery League, a massive, apparently bi-annual experiment in indie rock deck chair rearrangement. Its draft event is tonight (Fri, 02/05/2010) at the Beachland Ballroom. It's $5 a head for civilians, and it ought to be a hoot ... I am not a first-timer — I was involved in the 2008 inaugural iteration of this monstrous undertaking, wrote about it for the then-extant
By way of introduction: hi, I’m Ron. I’m the Art Director at Scene and a musician participating in the 2010 Cleveland Lottery League, a massive, apparently bi-annual experiment in indie rock deck chair rearrangement. Its draft event is tonight (Fri, 02/05/2010) at the Beachland Ballroom. It's $5 a head for civilians, and it ought to be a hoot ... I am not a first-timer — I was involved in the 2008 inaugural iteration of this monstrous undertaking, wrote about it for the then-extant
Cuyahoga Arts and Culture, the cigarette tax-funded grant maker, announced Tuesday the appointment of Karen Gahl-Mills to lead the organization, starting in February. Among her major challenges will be to build the organization’s public profile — or more specifically, the profile of the work they fund — so that in 2016, when the time comes to re-authorize the tax, voters will approve ... The challenge is complicated by a collision of circumstances. A year after CAC began to make grants
The Bang and the Clatter Theater is not packing it in, as Scene theatre critic Christine Howey heard from co-director Sean McConaha earlier this month, but the company is proceeding on what he describes as “a show by show” basis ... McConaha had called Howey to tell her a production of John Kolvenback’s On An Average Day , scheduled to open August 7 at the Akron venue, was canceled, and that the theater was going to suspend operations. “The business issues are a tax credit we didn’t
In the early ’90s, George Takei — Star Trek ’s original Mr. Sulu — guest-starred on 3rd Rock from the Sun , playing himself at a sci-fi convention. But Takei has done more than just milk his most famous role. On I’m a Celebrity! Get Me Out of Here! last year, he lived in the Australian jungle for 21 days. His big baritone voice also landed him a stint on The Howard Stern Show ... That voice and those Star Trek creds make him the perfect narrator for the Cleveland Orchestra’s
Pianist David Fray interprets music note by note, a skill that’s netted comparisons to consummate recitalist Glenn Gould. The 28-year-old musician began playing piano when he was four, graduated from the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique with top honors and has been busy ever since recording and touring. Last year, the documentary Swing, Sing and Think chronicled Fray’s 2008 recording of keyboard concertos by J.S. Bach. That same year he made his New York debut and married
A new vision for the subway level of the Detroit- Superior Bridge ... by Michael Gill ... In his "Metaphors of a Magnifico," American poet Wallace Stevens wrote about individual perspectives on the same experience: "Twenty men crossing a bridge/Into a village/Are twenty men crossing twenty bridges/Into twenty villages/Or one man/Crossing a single bridge into a village." Last week, Ingenuity Festival director James Levin took about 30 people across the subway level of the Detroit- Superior