Posted By Sam Allard on Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 10:12 AM click to enlarge Courtesy NFL The City of Cleveland has partnered with the National Football League to deploy surveillance drones during the NFL Draft festivities that begin Thursday evening, according to a police commander who briefed City Council at a Safety Committee hearing Wednesday. Commander Harold Pretel said that the city s police drone program is still in its infancy but that the partnership with the NFL was consistent with Safety Director Karrie Howard s desire for permanent police drones in Cleveland. The NFL declined to comment on the partnership, specifically on the questions of who would retain ownership of the drones and the footage that they capture this weekend. It was not immediately clear how many drones w
Posted By Vince Grzegorekvgrzegorek@clevescene.com> on Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 10:40 AM click to enlarge Genesis has a Cleveland date on its North American tour The major Cleveland concert announcements for 2021 continue to roll in as fans get ready for a summer and fall of sweet live musical redemption after a year of the pandemic.
Genesis announced details and dates today for its highly anticipated North American tour, its first in the states in 14 years.
The 2010 Rock Hall inductees will stop at the Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse on Tuesday, November 30th. The Last Domino? tour dates have Tony Banks, Phil Collins, and Mike Rutherford, playing major cities across the U.S. and Canada this November and December 2021. The group will be joined by Nic Collins on drums, and the band’s long-time lead guitar and bass player Daryl Stuermer.
Posted By Jeff Niesel on Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 1:14 PM click to enlarge Courtesy of Sharkey Barcus Local indie musician Alex Ashbrook, aka Sharkey Barcus. Sharkey Barcus, the indie pop project helmed by talented local singer-songwriter Alex Ashbrook, has just released release
BLIP! its third LP, on all digital streaming services. Ashbrook says the concept of a “blip” dates back to 2012 when he broke his leg skateboarding. “I had a very positive-minded physical therapist who liked to remind me that my recovery, which I think was something like four months in bed, was just a blip on my timeline and that someday my brain would just forget it for me,” he says in an email.
Posted By Douglas Trattner on Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 12:57 PM click to enlarge Douglas Trattner Buns on display at Koko Bakery in Cleveland.
For more than 15 years, Koko Bakery (3710 Payne Ave., 216-881-7600) has lured Asian food fans to its downtown store for fresh-baked buns, colorful fruit tarts, cakes and pastries, hot lunches and delicious bubble tea. Come this summer, the popular Asiatown shop will open its second location, this one out east in Coventry Village. “A lot of American people come to my store and enjoy our pastry and buns, so we are opening the one on Coventry to let the people enjoy more of the best bubble teas and pastry,” says owner Jian Xu.
Posted By Sam Allard on Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 3:56 PM Some of the most well-known candidates for Cleveland mayor appeared alongside some of the most obscure in a virtual forum focused on criminal justice and re-entry Wednesday evening, sponsored by the Greater Cleveland Re-Entry Leadership Coalition and Towards Employment. The event was theoretically an opportunity for the candidates to stake out positions in the hot-button policy arena of criminal justice occasioned by Re-Entry Week but the unanimous agreement on the need for reform, the scripted responses to questions and the lack of direct interaction among candidates made for a fairly dry evening.