The signature fun event for local professionals and wanna-bees in the NEO architecture, engineering and design community--sells out fast--there are only so many seats on the boat:

Cleveland International Tattoo-An Annual Event produced and coordinated
by the  Greater Cleveland Peace Officers Memorial Society

Spectacular Performances of Music, Song, Drill and Dance

Saturday, May 19, 2012
7:30 PM
Public Auditorium
500 E. Lakeside Ave., Cleveland  44114

Gary Spinosa's back at the non-profit Sandusky Cultural Center. The new show, Preconceived Objects, also includes Geoff Buddie, Elizabeth Emery, Jon Gott, Josh Haplea, Carey McDougal, Wendy Partridge, Emily Sullivan, and Chris Rom.
The opening's Sunday, April 15, but the show runs through May 20.

Location

I am a TREE!!!

Listen to ME!

Two elementary students from Buhrer Dual Language K-8 School on Cleveland’s near west side will travel to New York City to perform their original poems at the historic Apollo Theater for the sixth annual National Poetry SLAM on Monday, April 16. Fifth grader Tamia B., age 11, and fourth grader Sebastian M., age 10, will represent America SCORES Cleveland alongside 28 youth from 15 cities across the country.

Aspire Auctions, located on the web and headquartered in Cleveland Ohio, is about to celebrate 10 years in business. Starting on Larchmere Blvd. in Shaker Heights, the company started out with three people and now has a fulltime staff of 11 and two locations. The auction house moved to it's current location in the historic Bloch Building in Downtown Cleveland three years ago and has a second location in Shady Side near Pittsburgh PA. 

Location

OPEN CHESS

Every day in the Social Sciences Department

(Home of the Cleveland Sports Research Center)

Request a chess set available at the reference desk, 5th floor, Louis Stokes Wing.  For more information, please contact the Social Sciences Department 216-623-2860.

The Social Sciences Department of the Cleveland Public Library will hold their non-fiction book club discussion on Thursday, April  12, 2012 at 12:00 PM in the Social Sciences Department (Sports Research Center).  We will discuss the book entitled, "The WHORE of AKRON: One Man's Search for the Soul of Lebron James." (Scott Raab)

No real story here--just intrigued by the image-- :)

See the movied Urbanized: A Documentary Film by Gary Hustwit--at the Cleveland Museum of Art TODAY. 

Taking a break from the usual fare here--I will share a book with REALNEO.  At the recommendation of a young girl, I ordered Good Fortune by Noni Carter through the library.  I was hesistant at first.  I'll admit that I am weary of the recently popular, go-to thematic choices for young adult literature--vampires, gangs, and slavery.

Brownbag Lunch Sports Series

"The Meaning and Process of Collecting Sports Memorabilia"

Tuesday, February 28, 2012   12:00 PM

The Role and Reality of Education in Freedom's Struggle

Rev. Jawanza K. Colvin of the Olivet Institutional Baptist Church, a powerful, dynamic, energetic theologian will speak on the role of faith and education in the struggle for freedom.  Also featured will be a presentation by W. Daniel Bickerstaff II, designer of the African American Cultural Garden and Andrew Jackson, chairman of the Garden's Task Force.

Saturday, February 18 * 1:00 PM

Martin Luther King Branch

1962 Stokes Blvd.

Photo of building at 4250 Pearl Rd. Cleveland OH 44109