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  • Board of Zoning Appeals approves Loren Naji Gallery’s parking variance request

    by Rich Weiss (Plain Press, July 2014) At a 9:30 a.m. hearing on Monday, June 23, on the 5th floor of Cleveland City Hall, The Board of Zoning Appeals (BOZA) approved a parking variance request for the Loren Naji Studio Gallery, located at 2138 W. 25th Street. The BOZA room was empty around 9 a.m.,…

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  • Cleveland Public Library asked to invite authors to speak as a response to violence in society

    To the editor: An Open Letter to The People’s University: (Plain Press, July 2014)Would you invite Louise Erdrich and William Least Heat Moon to please share your stage and together mine the great and much neglected wisdom in that fine passage of T. C. McLuhan’s, Touch the Earth:  “The Lakota knew the softening influence of…

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  • Party in Gordon Square

    PHOTO BY DEBBIE SADLON Saturday, June 14, 2014; Party in Gordon Square, Artisan Collective Cleveland show, 6706 Detroit Avenue: An untitled work by sculpture Anthony Bocchicchio. A plumber by trade, Bocchicchio, used left over pieces of copper piping to create this sculpture.

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  • West Park Summerfest

    PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Sunday, June 1st, 2014; West Park Summerfest, Jefferson Park, Lorain Avenue between W. 133 & W. 134th Streets: A young child seems thrilled to be able to hold the snake while visiting with Jungle Bob.

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  • Open House at 78th Street Studios

    PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Friday, June 13, 2014; Open House at 78th Street Studios, 1300 W. 78th Street: Artist Susie Frazier of Earthminded Style stands by a display holding some of the natural materials she uses in her art.

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  • Hillary Clinton meets Westside Community House Teenagers

    PHOTO BY PAUL JEFFREY FOR UNITED METHODIST WOMEN April 26, 2014; United Methodist Women’s Assembly, Kentucky International Convention Center, Louisville, Kentucky: Hillary Rodham Clinton greets 13—year old Christina Robinson and other members of the Summer of Sisterhood, a musical group from the Westside Community House in Cleveland, Ohio. Clinton, a lifelong member of United Methodist…

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  • Jean Brandt Gallery

    PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Friday, May 9, 2014; Jean Brandt Gallery, 1028 Kenilworth: (L-R) Artist Phoebe Nelson, gallery owner Jean Brandt and artist Bruno Casiano. Jean Brandt hosts the last opening at her art gallery. The gallery will hold a farewell party at the closing reception of the current show, Constant Background — new prints…

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  • W. 25th Street Gallery given ample time to comply with law prior to liquor inspection

    by Henry Senyak (Plain Press, June 2014) In the past few weeks you may have read in the Plain Dealer and Cleveland Scene articles and opinions regarding a liquor inspection by State of Ohio Department of Public Safety agents at the Loren Naji Gallery. The Gallery is a located at 2138 West 25th Street. Some…

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  • Bound for Gordon Square, Near West Theatre stages big musical farewell to its 36-year home

    (Plain Press, June 2014) It all started in 1978 with 13 teens, an $800 budget, a young director named Stephanie Morrison-Hrbek and a production of Godspell in the St. Patrick Catholic Church Club Building in Ohio City. Near West Theatre has grown and grown since then and is headed for a new home in the…

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  • Tremont Montessori Art Show Elephant

    PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Friday, May 9, 2014; Tremont Montessori Art Show: A mural by Tremont Montessori Preschool Class of 2011-12 created under the direction of Artist in Residence Wendy Mahon of Young Audiences. Students created the figure of an elephant to represent a character in the story Elmer by David McKee.

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