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Spot Night slows down: The Commonwealth plays to small crowd

Anne Nickoloff, Music Reporter September 14, 2013

Rarely does a concert opening band have a larger audience than the headliner. But at this week's Spot Night, Case Western Reserve University student and musician Henry Hershey drew a crowd at least three...

From the rearview mirror: WRUW’s Studio-A-Rama

Tracy Boachie, Arts & Entertainment Reporter September 9, 2013

Disclaimer: A band's name that performed at the festival contains profanity. This is not intended to offend, and the content of this article does not necessarily represent the views of The Observer or...

Observer’s Playlist of the Week: 9/6

Jason Walsh, Staff Reporter September 6, 2013

Danny Brown — “Old” “Old” is a single from Danny Brown’s upcoming debut album, “OLD,” which is due out Sept. 30. Although Brown’s been on the mixtape circuit for a while, this will be...

London-Based Theatre Hits the Big Screen in Cleveland

Lily Korte, Film Critic July 16, 2013

One of the defining features of theatre has always been the immediacy of the medium. Neither film nor television enables an audience to watch actors as they perform, live on stage, night after night. Of...

Lost State of Franklin Finds Its Way to Wade Oval

Anne Nickoloff, Music Reporter June 23, 2013

Wade Oval Wednesday's (WOW) most recent concert picked up the summer heat with Lost State of Franklin's energetic performance. Described as a mix of Americana, rock, and country, I expected a very...

Chozen Few Band Opens Wade Oval Wednesday Festivities

Anne Nickoloff, Music Reporter June 16, 2013

Sprinkling rain came and went in Cleveland this past Wednesday, ready at any moment to break out into the storm that kept many Ohioans from leaving the comforts the indoors. But Chozen Few Band wasn’t...

Stephen Sondheim’s 1990 musical “Assassins” opens as a dinner theatre production at the Jolly Scholar tonight. Tickets are $5 at the door.

Ever thought an “Assassin” was sitting next to you?

Katy Witkowski, A&E Editor April 26, 2013

John Wilkes Booth walks into a bar with Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley, Sara Jane Moore, and Leon Czolgosz. What does Booth do? Being the infamous assassin that he is, he influences the others to follow...

Short Sweet Film Fest at Market Garden Brewery

Sheehan Hannan, A&E Editor February 22, 2013

For a generation weaned on Youtube and educated through Netflix, short films are a vocabulary of sorts. A local film festival, co-organized by a CWRU graduate student, seeks to capitalize on that love...

AAA Night: Stealing the Spotlight

Anne Nickoloff February 15, 2013

Tomorrow, Asian festivities will be brought to the Thwing Ballroom, transforming it into an evening full of culture. The Asian American Alliance (AAA) will be hosting their annual AAA Night open to...

A Carol for Cleveland at Cleveland Play House

A Carol for Cleveland at Cleveland Play House

Joseph Verbovszky, Theatre and Dance Reporter December 15, 2012

Things certainly have changed since Dickens’ time. The miserly scrooge-like main character is now poor and has a family but still cannot feel the Christmas spirit. It’s almost like a peak into the...

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