The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s Cleveland Museum of Art exhibit

The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s is the first major museum exhibition to focus on American taste in art and design during the 1920s and early 1930s. Through a rich array of over 300 extraordinary works in jewelry, fashion, automobiles, paintings and decorative arts, featuring the events and people that punctuated the era, the exhibition explores the impact of European influences, American lifestyle, artistic movements and innovation during this exciting period.

The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s is co-organized by the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, and is on view in the Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation Hall from September 30, 2017 through January 14, 2018.

There are all kinds of different items on display from classic cars to paintings, furniture, jewelry, clocks and more.

Josephine Baker

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Classic Cars - 1925 Rolls Royce and 1937 Cord 812 Phaeton Roadster at Cleveland Museum of Art

Two classic cars are on display at the Cleveland Museum of Art exhibit titled “The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s”


Here's a short video tour.

First is the Cord 812 Phaeton Roadster, 1937 from the Auburn Automobile Company of Auburn Indiana. The model 812 front-wheel-drive Cord (along with the 810) made its debut at the 1935 New York Auto Show and was an immediate success.

 The other is the Piccadilly Roadster, 1925. Rolls-Royce. Manufactured with American parts in Springfield, MA, 1924–25. The American market for luxury automobiles grew so rapidly that by 1920 Rolls-Royce had purchased a manufactory in Springfield, Massachusetts, to assemble cars for its wealthy American clientele. The original owner of this roadster was a woman in Rye, New York, who paid over $15,000 for it in 1926.

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Foreign Language Trends in Ohio

It's interesting to see how different languages have shifted positions from the 2005-2006 school year to the 2015-2016 year.

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Teacher Appreciation Day 2017

Sponsored by the Office of Chinese Language International Council (Hanban), the Confucius Institute at Cleveland State University was established in August 2008.

Each year they hold an event to honor teachers. About 270 teachers, students and administrators from 26 different schools and organizations attended the 2017 event.

Throughout the event there were Chinese workshops and teaching demos as well as the main program.

Photos and videos from Teacher Appreciation Day

Sikh Spiritual Leader Visit to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point

Giani Gurbachan Singh, the current Jathedar of the Akal Takhat and the spiritual leader of the Sikh religion, visited the United States Military Academy at West Point on September 11th, the first visit ever of a Sikh spiritual leader to any U.S. military installation.

Sikhs have faced hate crimes, bullying and job discrimination in the wake of 9/11.

As the founder of Sikh American Veteran’s Alliance (SAVA), LTC Kalsi states, “This visit helps to push back against discrimination by promoting Sikh military service in one of our nation’s oldest and most revered institutions.”

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Kol Israel 2017 Holocaust Memorial

Kol Israel Foundation is an organization of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, their families, and supporters. Each year they hold an annual Memorial Service.

The 56th annual Memorial Service was held at Zion Memorial Park in Bedford Heights on Sunday September 24, 2017. It was co-sponsored by Kol Israel Foundation and the Jewish Federation of Cleveland. In 1961, Kol Israel built one of the first monuments in the United States dedicated to the 6 million Jews who perished in the Holocaust. Ashes of the victims from concentration camps are buried beneath it and the names of deceased family members are engraved on its surrounding wall.

The ceremony included a special dedication of the Kol Israel Memorial Monument’s Historical Marker. The marker, granted by the Ohio History Connection, acknowledges the Monument as the first of its kind in the United States.

Photos and videos from the Holocaust Memorial event

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Holocaust Memorial at Zion Memorial Park

In 1961, the Kol Israel Foundation built one of the first monuments in the United States dedicated to the 6 million Jews who perished in the Holocaust. Ashes of the victims from concentration camps are buried beneath it and the names of deceased family members are engraved on its surrounding wall.

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Republic of Slovenia Prime Minister Miro Cerar in Cleveland

The Consul General of the Republic of Slovenia Mr. Andrej G. Rode hosted a reception in Honor of His Excellency Dr. Miro Cerar Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia on Friday, September 22, 2017 at the Slovenian National Home in Cleveland Ohio. Slovenian Ambassador to the US Stanislav Vidovic also attended.

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Cleveland Indians Hispanic Heritage Night

The Cleveland Indians hosted Hispanic Heritage Night on Friday, Sept. 15 at Progressive Field as part of Major League Baseball’s broader Hispanic Heritage Month efforts.

The Tribe played host to a large group of Hispanic fans at Progressive Field that evening, plus a DJ played the club’s players’ favorite Latin music throughout the game.

The Tribe’s 40-man roster includes 13 players of Hispanic descent, including fan favorites Francisco Lindor, Jose Ramírez, Carlos Carrasco, Edwin Encarnación and more. On Opening Day, 235 players -- almost 30 percent of the league -- were of Latino descent and in a recent ESPN poll, more than 60 percent of Hispanic people living in the U.S. consider themselves fans of Major League Baseball.

The increased activity surrounding Hispanic Heritage Month is an extension of the league’s “Ponle Acento” (“Put an Accent on It”) campaign, launched in 2016 to highlight the distinctive mark that Hispanic and Latino players and fans leave on the game.

Players wore #PonleAcento shirts during Batting Practice that day as seen in these photos by Brittney Zivcsak courtesy of the Cleveland Indians.

Carlos Santana

Francisco Lindor

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Žumbercani Tamburitzans Orchestra in the Croatian Cultural Garden

The Croatian Heritage Museum & Library hosted a concert of Croatian tamburitza music in the Croatian Cultural Garden on Sunday September 17, 2017. The Žumbercani Tamburitzans Orchestra performed a concert of traditional Croatian tamburitza music.

Photos and videos of the Žumbercani Tamburitzans Orchestra performance

Bayda Ukrainian Quartet on One World Day

The Bayda Ukrainian Quartet performed on the main stage of the 72nd annual One World Day in the Cleveland Cultural Gardens.

Watch videos of the 4 songs they sang at One World Day

Ukrainian Cultural Garden on One World Day

Over 25,000 people attended the 72nd annual One World Day in the Cleveland Cultural Gardens on Sunday August 27, 2017. The Ukrainian Cultural Garden looked beautiful.

Members of the Ukrainian community marched in the Parade of Flags.

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14th Annual Slovenian Sausage Festival

Smoked sausages and polka music attracted a crowd of more than 1,200 to SNPJ Farm in Kirtland, Ohio, for the 14th Annual Slovenian Sausage Festival hosted by the National Cleveland-Style Polka Hall of Fame and Museum on a warm and sunny Wednesday, September 13, 2017.

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Impromptu Polka Jam

Winner of judge's choice for best sausage

Lucky Kids - American High School Students in China

This past summer (2017), twenty-seven American students from eleven different schools received the opportunity of a lifetime. Thanks to the co-sponsorship of the Honorable Marcia Fudge and Chinese Vice Premier LIU Yandong, these students were able to partake in the Chinese Bridge Program.

Through the program, organized by the Cleveland State University Confucius Institute and joint-organized by the Capital University of Economics and Business(CUEB) in Beijing and Yunnan Normal University in Kunming, students received the chance to spend two weeks immersed in Chinese language, history, food, sights and culture in the cities of Beijing and Kunming (of Yunnan Province).

See lots of photos and learn more about the Chinese Bridge Program.

Say it ain't so Smokey

Self-proclaimed Geek David Huang rocks this t-shirt which says "Only You can prevent Forest Fires. Seriously. We've been defunded. It's only you now.".

Shut up and Dance with me

The Cleveland Glockenspiel performed hourly at the 2017 Cleveland Oktoberfest at the Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds.  In this hour they acted like puppets and then danced to Shut up and Dance with me.





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Cleveland Glockenspiel at Oktoberfest – Sweet Caroline

The Cleveland Glockenspiel performed hourly at the 2017 Cleveland Oktoberfest at the Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds.  In this hour they led the audience in Sweet Caroline.  And the people went nuts.

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Live Glockenspiel at Cleveland Oktoberfest

5 guys became a live Glockenspiel at the 2017 Cleveland Oktoberfest at the Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds.

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Schnitzels and Giggles at Oktoberfest

Gotta love the name.

Górale Polish Folk Dancers and Syrena Polish Folk Ensemble at Cleveland Oktoberfest

The Górale Polish Folk Dancers and Syrena Polish Folk Ensemble performed at the 2017 Cleveland Oktoberfest on September 3, 2017.

They performed dances and wore costumes from Lublin, Gdansk and other regions of Poland.

Photos and videos of the Polish dancers