6:30 PM
Cedar Lee SID Business Mixer
Do you own a business in the Cedar Lee District?

Please join your fellow business owners [or an employee representative] a buiness mixer at Brennan's Colony.

All owners are welcome and encouraged to attend!
Location:
Brennan's Colony Pub
2299 Lee Road
Cleveland Heights, OH 44118
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6:30 PM
Exclusive Film Premier of the Independent Dark Comedy "Death, Taxes...and Chocolate"
The Northeastern Ohio Chocolate Festival along with A Levinson Film and Sheffield Entertainment Television presents a very special event: the exclusive film premier of “Death, Taxes…and Chocolate!”

“Death, Taxes…and Chocolate” is a dark chocolate feature film. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll die for a piece of chocolate! To see the film’s trailer, please visit www.deathtaxesandchocolate.com.

The film premier takes place at the Cedar Lee Theater at 2163 Lee Road on May 8, 2008. There are two showings, 6:30 p.m. and 8:20 p.m. with a wine and chocolate reception to follow at Jimmy O’Neill’s at 2195 Lee Road. The wine and chocolate reception begins at 8:00 p.m. until 12:00 a.m. Meet the film’s Executive Producer Dr. Andrea Levinson along with cast and crew of the film. All attendees to the film premier will also receive a ticket to the Northeastern Ohio Chocolate Festival.

Tickets are $20.00 pre-sale per person, and can be purchased at the Northeastern Ohio Chocolate Festival website www.neochocolatefestival.com. Tickets are $25.00 on the day of the show.

Location:
Cedar Lee Theater, 2163 Lee Road, and wine and chocolate reception is at Jimmy O'Neill's Tavern at 2195 Lee Road.
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6:30 PM
Free Life Drawing at Utrecht Art Supplies
Join us for a free life drawing session. A clothed model will be provided at no cost. Feel free to bring your medium of choice and your favorite sketchbook or tablet. Some clipboards and easels will be provided on a first-come-first-served basis.

The session will start promptly at 6:30 with a few warm-up gestures, so we ask if you will need to buy supplies for the event, that you do so prior to the start time. This way, you won’t miss out on any of the poses.

You can register for the event by emailing us at store30@utrecht.com
Location:
Utrecht Art Supplies
1798 Coventry Road
Cleveland Heights, OH 44118
(216)-371-3500

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7:00 PM
All the Sad Young Literary Men
Keith Gessen, author of All the Sad Literary Men (Viking Penguin, 2008) will read and sign books at Mac’s Backs~ Books on Coventry in Cleveland Heights on Thursday, May 8th at 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

Keith Gessen’s first novel All the Sad Literary Men centers on three young men scrambling towards literary careers and meaningful relationships. The characters have little in common outside of their quest for fame. Witty and ironic, Kirkus calls the writing black comedy, which “strikes a marvelous balance between pitilessness and affection toward these young men, and manages the impressive feat of being simultaneously savage and tender.” Andrew O’Hagan,writing for the New York Times Book Review observed: “the ambition of young literary Americans is a kind of trench warfare, and Gessen, an editor of the magazine n+1, proves himself not only a capable observer but a natural novelist with a warm gun.”

Location:
Mac's Backs--Books on Coventry
1820 Coventry Rd.
Cleveland Heights, Ohio 44118
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