Impetuous but insightful, bracing but brilliant, Thursday's performance by Vladimiar Ashkenazy stood as a potent reminder of why the conductor-pianist has been a regular guest at the Cleveland Orchestra since 1968. French pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, meanwhile, made a stunning debut. Full story »
Ivanka Trump's reported stalker is arrested, Julianne Moore returning to soap role, Lady Gaga is sued, Sandra Bullock's reported marriage woes and a lot more in PM links. Full story »
The temple will continue to use its richly historic building for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services and other events, and as part of the plan, CWRU will not have to build an arts center of its own. Full story »
Peter Mayle started it, Frances Mayes continued it, and countless others imitate it: buying-a-house-in-a-foreign-country memoir. The ingredients are: baffling rules and customs; bad wiring, plumbing and masonry; Bacchanalian enjoyment of local food and wine; bumbling workers; and lots of charming, if quirky, characters. Full story »
Rather than cancel a performance Thursday at Oberlin College due to second violinist Karoly Schranz's need to undergo surgery, his colleagues in the Takacs Quartet devised a rich meal of duos and trios by composers who also excelled in the string-quartet genre. Full story »
"There is only one person to blame for this whole situation, and that is me," James said in a statement. "It's because of my poor judgment that I deserve everything bad that is coming my way." Full story »
Cleveland's annual cinema celebration takes off Friday in Tower City with 37 films on seven screens. The fun starts at 9:15 a.m. and runs past midnight. The next 10 days will bring us more than 300 movies from 84 countries in the 34th Cleveland International Film Festival. It's the festival's 20th year at Tower City Center. They moved the show from the Cedar Lee Theatre in Cleveland Heights in 1991. Full story »
If a long-lost, unrequited crush has orbited back into your life, you can relate to the plight of Rahel. She lives in a postcard-perfect Swiss town, but she's miserable. By day she's a civil registrar (kind of a justice of the peace), joining wide-eyed couples in matrimony. By night she stews about her inattentive husband and disengaged teenage son. Full story »
Crossing the Coen Brothers with Werner Herzog might seem as unlikely as Javier Bardem hauling a ship over a mountain. But that's the vibe of "Bad Day to Go Fishing," Alvaro Brechner's tale about an Italian con man and a German strongman who scam villagers with rigged wrestling competitions. Full story »
Although writer-director Paul Cotter runs out of gas in the final third, he injects "Bomber" with some good laughs and pithy insights into closure, marriage and family dynamics Full story »
"Out of Place," a documentary about the dedicated surfers who brave storms and chilly temperatures to surf Lake Erie, screens today, Sunday and Monday at the Cleveland International Film Festival. Full story »
"Diary of a Wimpy Kid," the movie based on the wildly popular illustrated children's book series, is a bit of harmless fun. It has charming actors and a sweet story with a predictable amount of gross-out and body-function humor sprinkled throughout. Full story »
Audiences blast off with a space shuttle crew tasked with fixing the Hubble Space Telescope in the Imaxmovie aptly named "Hubble." Shuttle astronauts must catch up to Hubble and attempt to replace worn-out parts on the massive space telescope. The movie is showing exclusively at the Great Lakes Science Center's Omnimax Theater. Full story »
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