Monday, March 04th, 2013

Cleveland Museum of Art's big Pompeii show smolders with excitement

Disrespectful as it may sound, the Cleveland Museum of Art’s big new exhibition on “The Last Days of Pompeii” is downright entertaining, sometimes outrageous and often loads of fun.
 
This may not seem like the appropriate response to a show packed with death and destruction. But what else can...

Author: Steven Litt

http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2013/03/cleveland_museum_of_arts_big_p.html

Monday, February 18th, 2013

Western Reserve Historical Society helping people dig up family roots

Lisa Edgehouse burst into tears Saturday at the Western Reserve Historical Society research library. She had just found her mother's grandparents in census records -- names that she feared were lost in antiquity.

It was the kind of serendipity that the society encouraged because this is Family History Weekend there,...

Author: James Ewinger

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2013/02/wrhs_helping_people_dig_up_fam.html

Monday, January 28th, 2013

Videoconferencing opens enjoyable virtual realities-and real-time learning-for elders

University Circle Interactive Cleveland (UCIC) is on a mission: to promote education and lifelong learning through the use of videoconferencing. Developed more than a decade ago through a National Endowment for the Arts grant as an educational videoconferencing initiative,
UCIC programming involves cultural institutions in and around Cleveland—from the Cleveland...

Author: Sandy Kreisman

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Monday, January 21st, 2013

Art museum and university team up and University Circle will benefit: editorial

The decision by the Cleveland Museum of Art and Case Western Reserve University to purchase a piece of property jointly to keep it out of the hands of a private developer is smart thinking, even if they haven't decided yet what to do with the land.
 
The 4.1-acre plot on...

Author: Plain Dealer Editorial Board

http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2013/01/post_92.html