📰 Pride in the CLE Is Back This Saturday

Good morning, Cleveland! This is The 216 Scoop: Little Italy is giving us the holy trinity this week: galleries, good weather, and gelato. We don’t make the rules. We just strongly encourage you to attend 🇮🇹🎨🍨

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John Petkovic & Jude Perez

You’ve come a long way, baby. Pride celebrations have evolved from coming-out parties in bars and on streets to a massive celebration that attracts all walks.

From 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, the 11^th annual Pride in the Cle will step off from Public Square with parade and proceed to Malls B and C, with performers, food trucks, vendors and bands.

There are several Pride-related events around town this weekend:

The bars and clubs should celebrate. After all, in the 1970s and ‘80s they fostered the LGBTQ+ community that led to Pride.

“Downtown was dead, but clubs were hotbeds of activity,” says Dean Rufus, a DJ who provided the soundtrack to the nightlife.

"People might talk about the mainstreaming of gay culture, but in many ways you had a more integrated crowd at a place like Traxx,”  he adds, referring to the Warehouse District club that brought all walks together onto the dance floor.

Read our deep dive into decades of Gay Cleveland — when Secret Bars Spawned Pride — by subscribing to 216 Insider.

Superheroes and serial killers. We got it all, Cleveland.

Enter the Cleveland maniac who dismembered and decapitated transients and sex workers in a grisly rampage.

Ninety years after his first victim, the Torso Killer remains one of America's first modern serial killers.

Now, there’s a film about the subject – and it was made in Cleveland.

At 4 p.m. Saturday, “Kingsbury Run” will make its premiere at Capitol Theater. Info.

It explores the efforts of Eliot Ness (Cleveland’s most famous crimefighter after Superman) to track down the serial killer of 12 people during the Great Depression in Kingsbury Run – a shantytown running from East 90th Street and Kinsman Road to the Cuyahoga River.

Director Jon Price and Jim Osso – who plays Ness – will be on hand for the premiere.  

You're just as likely to hear the broken English of an exchange student than Italian. And the neighborhood is home to more cocktail sippers than stonemasons.

But no place in Cleveland has retained the historical look and Old World charm more than Little Italy.

Here come Little Italy’s Annual Summer Art Walk. The three-day event – Friday through Sunday – kicks off a rush of summer art fests and parties. Info.

It features galleries, studios and street exhibits showcasing area artists. The walk also dovetails the past and present by showcasing Little Italy's blend of artful spirit and epicurean sensibilities.

Of course, there’s also pasta, pizza, cannoli, gelato and cigars in a neighborhood where the songs of Dino and Frankie still play on the street.

FRIDAY

Parma Heights Cemetery Tour: The walk among tombstones explores the stories of the earliest residents of Parma Heights and Parma. The costumed interpreters will also recount the history of both cities. 7 p.m. Info.

Krewella: Sister duo Jahan and Yasmine Yousaf bring their high-energy, genre-bending EDM to FWD Day + Night Club. 9 p.m. Info.

SATURDAY

Mystic Faire: Cleveland’s most haunted house – yes, Franklin Castle – rolls out psychics, readers, mediums, vendors and Medieval music for this spooky fun times. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Info.

Batuqui Brazil Party: Viva o Brasil! The charming restaurant in Larchmere will host a pre-game party at 1 p.m. And, yes, the game is Brazil vs. Egypt at Huntington Bank Field. Info.

Art by the Falls: Set along the falls in Chagrin, this juried fine art and contemporary craft festival draws 170+ artists and 25,000 attendees from across the country. (Also Sunday.) Info.

Robyn Hitchcock: The great rock ‘n’ roll surrealist who co-founded the legendary Aussie band the Soft Boys brings his wit and songs – and a full band – to the Beachland Ballroom. 8 p.m. Info.

SUNDAY

Heavy Metal Flea Market: Always a blast, it’s a party with vendors where metal, punk, noise, hardcore and rock fans hang and mingle. 4-9 p.m., No Class. Info.

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It opened with a bold statement, “For the benefit of all the people forever.” The Cleveland Museum of Art is still living up to the promise 110 years later.

Its collection of 66,500 works span 6,000 years. It’s been hailed by as one of the most important museums in America – with one of the top collections of Asian art in the world.

And general admission has been free since its June 6, 1916 opening.

Funded and built on land donated by Cleveland’s industrialists, it’s also a reminder of a time when the wealthy were dedicated philanthropists – unlike the freaky tech oligarchs of our time.

On Saturday, the CMA will celebrate the milestone by extending free admission to its current exhibitions: Manet & Morisot and Martin Puryear: Nexu.

It will also offer cookies to diners at Provenance Café, book store discounts – and will commemorate the anniversary at Parade the Circle (June 13). Info.

Covers of High Gear, Cleveland premier gay magazine. Published between1974 to 1982, it featured stories about clubs, yes, but also advocated for equality. It’s publisher – the GEAR Foundation – organized Cleveland’s Gay Pride Picnic on June 22, 1975, at Edgewater Park.

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85 °F 🌡️ 70 °F | ⛅ (Partly Cloudy) | 2% | 💨 ↑ ≈ 14 mph SW (≈ 12 knots)

77 °F 🌡️ 65 °F | ⛅➡️⛈️ (PM Thunderstorms) | 72% | 💨 ↑ ≈ 15 mph WSW (≈ 13 knots)

74 °F 🌡️ 63 °F | 🌫️➡️☀️ (AM Fog, PM Sun) | 23% | 💨 ↑ ≈ 9 mph N (≈ 8 knots)

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