The new “Summer Sundae” event at the Massillon Museum on Sunday, June 24, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m., will be a family day of fun for everyone. Pre-World War II vehicles will fill the front lawn and music will fill the air. Admission is free, but the best part will be choosing a handcrafted bowl (for a donation to the Museum’s Endowment Fund) and getting a free bowl of ice cream. Pottery ice cream bowls—handcrafted and donated by volunteers and staff members—will be displayed in the lobby of the Museum beginning on Tuesday, June 12. Museum friends are invited to choose a bowl and r...
REDHOT features the bold canvases of James Johnson, a first-generation Abstract Expressionist who found a home in Northeast Ohio in the 1950s. The authenticity of his work is derived from his involvement with the New York School, followed by working with the San Francisco Bay artists. Born in New York City in 1925, Johnson was raised in a broken home that led him to lie about his age in order to join the Navy during World War II. When Johnson returned to New York in 1949, he found himself submerged in an artistic culture of Post War abstraction advocated by Hans Hoffman, established around Gr...
Cleveland is a city that proudly touts its rock ’n’ roll legacy. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum website paints a cozily nostalgic picture of post-World War II teens packing downtown record stores to shell out money for the latest tunes. It details the Beatlemania frenzy that led then-Mayor Ralph Locher to ban the mop-headed Brits from Cleveland in the mid-’60s. Even the term “rock ’n’ roll” was mainstreamed locally, thanks to Record Rendezvous owner Leo Mintz and deejay Alan Freed, or so the legend goes. Elvis Presley, the O’Jays, the Rolling Stones, Bruce Springst...
Haywire Nationwide Steven Soderbergh gathers a star-studded cast in this action thriller about a black-ops super soldier who seeks revenge after she’s betrayed during a mission. Mixed-martial artist Gina Carano makes her acting debut as the lead and is surrounded by a who’s who of A-listers, including Michael Douglas, Ewan McGregor, Antonio Banderas and Michael Fassbender. Opens 01/20 Red Tails Nationwide This exciting new film follows a group of African-American pilots in the Tuskegee training program during World War II. Cuba Gooding, Jr., Terrence Howard and “Breaking Bad’...
When Cleveland-based pen-and-ink artist Derek Hess talks about his art, the conversation starts, anachronistically enough, with 1930s U.S. history. “My dad was of the World War II generation. He flew a B26 bomber, and the people he rolled with were of that generation,” he said. “When those people chose to go to art school, schooling was about fundamentals. You learned fundamentals from teachers, who’d learned from their teachers, who’d learned from theirs.” The technical precision Hess’s father, who later became the head of the industrial art department at the Cleveland Ins...
10/7 Ides of March Clooney makes a return to the director’s chair after the misstep of “The Leatherheads,” which came nowhere near the brilliance of this previous two directing efforts (“Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,” “Good Night, Good Luck”). The story unfolds during the frantic last days before an Ohio presidential primary. Ryan Gosling plays a young campaign press secretary who gets wrapped up in a political scandal involving his candidate (George Clooney) and must choose where his beliefs lie. Paul Giamatti and Marisa Tomei also star. Machine Gun Preacher (Limited) ...
By Jericho McCune Hollywood has been mining World War II for stories since before World War II was over. Through the magic of cinema, all of the major battles are readily available to experience vicariously through film. More often than not, big budgets and exciting explosions dominate the screen. Films like Pearl Harbor and Saving Private Ryan allow us to relieve the most exciting parts of the war from the hero’s perspective, and in the end we can be rest assured we will feel good because regardless of the outcome we know we were fighting the good fight. WW2 was about much more than pop...
“L.A. Noire” is Rockstar Games’s newest edition of their long, acclaimed line of sandbox crime drama games — only this time, you’re the cops, not the robbers. Heavily influenced by the film noir genre, this gritty and graphic game feels like a love letter to those 1940s cinematic gems. As Cole Phelps (portrayed by Aaron Staton for TV’s “Mad Men”), you play a young detective on a fast track to the top in the Los Angeles Police Department in 1947. Phelps, a good-hearted but flawed man, served as an officer in the U.S. military during World War II, a back story presented in...
