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Good morning, Cleveland! This is The 216 Scoop — letting you know that we’re two-thirds of the way through winter and the calendar is heating up with festivals, shows and dance parties. Let’s go. ❄️🔥💪
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In today’s 216 Scoop Edition:
Embrace the cold: 16th annual Brite Winter fest hits Flats East Bank
Open house: Now, you too can stay in a Frank Lloyd Wright dream home
One of the longest-running, biggest car shows pulls up to Cleveland
Emo anniversary weekend at Mahall’s
Yugo Rock! hits Slovenian National Home
John Petkovic, Mark Espinosa, Victor Takakura
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IN THE NEWS
Embrace the cold: 16th annual Brite Winter fest hits Flats East Bank
Photos courtesy Brite Winter and Flats East Bank
It sounded like a crazy idea at the time: An outdoor music festival in the middle of winter featuring dozens of band funded by a $4,000 Kickstarter campaign?
Sixteen years later, Brite Winter is one of the area’s biggest festivals any time of the year. It attracts 10,000 people willing to brave the cold and the chattering of teeth to hear music.
At 1 p.m. Saturday, it hits the Flats East Bank after spending a decade on the other side of the Cuyahoga.
The bash features three outdoor and two indoor stages along Old River Road and West 10th Street – to go with 29 bands and headliner E-V, a Cleveland-based DJ who has worked with Machine Gun Kelly. For band schedules and tickets, go here.
Organizers whittled the lineup down from 325 acts initially in consideration. The music is eclectic, spanning a wide range of genres: rock, country, hip-hop, electronic and acoustic.
The move to the East Bank provides a more consolidated footprint for kids-friendly amenities and places where attendees can hide from the cold.
The move is also a win for the Flats East Bank. Winter is the slowest time for the district, which is also going through a transitional phase in the wake of the passing of Scott Wolstein.
The developer, who died in 2022 from melanoma, was a hands-on visionary who made the ambitious live-work-play district a reality.
The Flats East Bank is adjusting to a post-Wolstein world.
His passing resulted in a number of foreclosures and litigation – which led to a lender taking over the Flats East Bank apartment building in 2023.
Ernst & Young moved out of the Ernst & Young Tower. It’s now called the Oswald Tower, to reflect its biggest tenant, Oswald Companies. The Wolstein family still owns the building and the adjacent Aloft Cleveland Downtown Hotel.
The buildings that house Welcome to the Farm and I Hate Cowboys; Hi 5 sports bar; and Glamper went up for auction at the request of a lender, Cleveland International Fund, that’s trying to recoup its $14 million investment.
Long-running tenants Beerhead and Big Bang Dueling Piano Bar both closed in January. The latter is expected to re-open in March as Decades, a dance club with an ‘80s and ‘90s theme.
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Open house: Now you too can stay in a Frank Lloyd Wright dream home
Photos courtesy RiverRock
There are 11 Frank Lloyd Wright-designed houses in Ohio. Whoops, make that 12.
Sixty-five years after the passing of the great American architect, construction has just been completed on a new Frank Lloyd Wright house in Willoughby Hills.
The 2,000-square-foot home – dubbed RiverRock -- features three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a full kitchen, a glass-walled living room, a wood-burning fireplace and offers wide-ranging views of the wooded property.
The story is as fascinating as the home. In 1952, Louis Penfield, then owner of the property, contracted Wright to build what would be known as the Louis Penfield House.
He then contacted Wright to build another home next to it. Wright recoiled because he had enough work to last “the rest of his life,” but relented because Penfield was a former client.
Wright passed away in 1959 and Penfield assumed the plans died with him – until a mailing tube showed up at his house days after the funeral.
It sat for years until Sarah Dykstra purchased the Louis Penfield House in 2018 and discovered the plans for the second home. In 2022, she set out to build it – and make both houses available for rentals.
Yes, you can stay there. For reservations, go here.
Wright is renowned for the Guggenheim Museum, The Ennis House and Fallingwater. But he also designed Usonian homes like RiverRock and the Penfield House.
The style was meant to serve the American middle-class with smaller, more affordable homes that feature an open floor plan, ample windows and natural materials. There are about 60 such homes that were built across the country between the 1930s and ‘50s.
One of America’s longest-running, biggest car shows pulls up to Cleveland
Photos courtesy Cleveland Auto Show and Cleveland Memory Project
There were 15 locally-made cars on display when the Cleveland Auto Show made its 1903 debut at Gray’s Armory. Back then, Cleveland was the home of auto companies like Winton, White, Jordan and Peerless – and we were considered the Motor City.
Ah, those were different times. But the love affair with automobiles, not to mention pick-ups and SUVs, continues – and this time of the year always reminds us of that.
Bring on the Cleveland Auto Show – one of the biggest and longest running car extravaganzas in the country. The consumer show opens today and runs through March 2 at the I-X Center.
Yes, it rolls out new, pre-production and concept vehicles from most automakers.
It also features a classic car show; a “Millionaire’s Row” display of high-end brands like Rolls-Royce, Bentley and Aston Martin; test-drives on indoor tracks; food, entertainment and celebrities – from Browns greats Joe Thomas and Nick Chubb to Cavs legends Larry Nance and Campy Russell.
For tickets and a schedule, go here.
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The 216 Rundown
Bring on the heat: Tropical Cleveland Latin dance party
It’s cold outside, but you wouldn’t know it at a Tropical Cleveland dance party. Check out Noche en Rojo (“night in red”). At 9:30 p.m. Saturday, the Latin Dance party will crank up the heat at Nuevo, 1000 East Ninth Street, Cleveland. The celebration of love, Latin-style, features DJ Danny Vey & Loz spinning salsa, bachata, merengue and reggaeton. For more info, go here.
Emo anniversary weekend at Mahall’s
It’s the 10-year anniversary of Emo Night Cleveland and the monthly bash – aka Jukebox Breakdown – is going all out with a weekend of events at Mahall’s and its adjacent club Roxy, 13200 Madison Avenue, Lakewood. Friday: It’s 3OH!3, Hit The Lights and emo tribute band Memory Lane. Guest DJ JT Woodruff of Hawthorne Heights will spin tunes. DJ. (8 p.m.) Saturday: It’s an Emo Flea Market and Brunch (Noon-5 p.m.) followed by a show featuring acoustic sets by Derek Sander of Mayday Parade and Scott Ayotte of Born Without Bones and guest DJ sets. For more info, go here.
Cheers for beers: Cleveland Beerfest
Since 2014, Cleveland Beerfest has summoned area brew hounds to get a taste of the area craft scene. It’s become more than a celebration of beer with the inclusion of hard seltzers and cocktails. The two-day bash starts at 7 tonight and 11:30 a.m. tomorrow at Huntington Convention Center. For more info, go here.
Hayley Williams and Kathleen Hanna meet at Rock Hall
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is celebrating Women’s History Month in March with two female music icons. Bikini Kill and Le Tigre founder Kathleen Hanna and Paramore’s Hayley Williams will appear in the hall’s Foster Theater for a conversation at 7 p.m. March 8. Tickets go on sale today at 10 a.m. $100. For tickets, go here.
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Photos by John Petkovic
6 p.m. Friday, Yugo Rock!
Yugoslavia doesn’t exist anymore. But more than three decades after it came apart in civil war, the music of the Balkan country lives on in the heart and on the turntable of Stanislav Zabic.
At 6 tonight, the Lyndhurst resident and DJ will bring his YU Night! to the Slovenian National Home, 6417 St. Clair Avenue, Cleveland. The popular dance party will feature Zabic tracing the history and spinning the tunes of Yugoslavia.
While it was a socialist country, Yugoslavia was also a non-aligned – walking a tightrope between the west and the Soviet Union. As a result, it had greater access to American and U.K. rock ‘n’ roll, which led to a vibrant homegrown scene that paralleled scenes and music trends in the west.
He’ll spin girl groups, mod and psychedelic bands, hard-rock, punk and new wave outfits. It’s one of the most unique and fun parties in the city – and attracts Yugo natives and music fans of all backgrounds.
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Clevelander and Olympian Jesse Owens returns home August 25, 1936 following his triumph at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
Photo courtesy Cleveland Public Library
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WEATHER
Friday - 02/21
25°F 🌡️ 19°F | ☁️🌤️ | 0% | 💨 NW 10 mph (9 knots)
Saturday - 02/22
35°F 🌡️ 26°F | ☀️ | 0% | 💨 SW 8 mph (7 knots)
Sunday - 02/23
38°F 🌡️ 28°F | ☀️ | 0% | 💨 SW 10 mph (9 knots)
Note: This forecast is based on data from weather.com.
Live Shows in the 216
Friday - 02/21
Saturday - 02/22
Sunday - 02/23
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Upcoming Games
Cavaliers
Home vs. New York Knicks, 7:00 p.m., Friday, Feb. 21
Home vs. Memphis Grizzlies, 7:00 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 23
Cleveland Monsters
Home vs. Belleville Senators, 12:00 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 23
Home vs. Belleville Senators, 7:00 p.m., Monday, Feb. 24
Cleveland Charge
Home vs. Birmingham Squadron, 7:00 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 22
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