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Get Out: Outdoor Entertaining Class, Four-Course Dinner and Cleveland Asian Festival
Plan your week around these events for kids and adults
PATRON TEQUILA DINNER AT MCCORMICK & SCHMICKS
Where/When: / Thursday, May 26 at 7 p.m.
Why Go: A four-course meal will be served for this special event, including cilantro salad with cranberry and orange supremes, terrine of salmon gravlax with spinach, eggs and bacon, Havana smoked duck breast and ginertuille with chocolate and orange flan.
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Price: $50 (gratuity not included)
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Where/When: / Sunday, May 22 at 10 a.m.
Why Go: Sure, it’s pouring rain now, but that summer sunshine has to be just around the corner. You’ll be prepared for it when it does arrive with this class taught by the experts at Pottery Barn. Class participants will receive a 10 percent off coupon for the store.
Price: Free
SING INTO SPRING: EARLY CHILDHOOD FUNDRAISER
Where/When: / Sunday, May 22 from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.
Why Go: This benefit for the JCC’s early childhood programs will feature appearances by Buzz Lightyear and Jesse from the Toy Story movie franchise, arts and crafts, cereal buffet and silent auction. Music will be provided by DJs from Atomic Entertainment.
Price: $20 for immediate family pass, $5 per individual
Where/When: Asiatown / Saturday and Sunday, May 21 and 22, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Why Go: Celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at the Cleveland Asian Festival. The event features an egg roll eating contest, live performances including martial arts demonstrations, inflatable sumo wrestling, craft area, storytelling, karaoke and more than 60 shops and stands. Asian-American celebrities Dat Phan, a winner of NBC’s Last Comic Standing, will perform two shows Saturday at 1:30 and 4:30 p.m. and actress Yin Chang, from the Disney movie Prom, will also make an appearance.
Price: Free admittance.
Where/When: House of Blues / Friday, May 20 at 10:30 p.m.
Why Go: After the success of last year’s show, a second installment of Cleveland’s most popular comedians will again come to the House of Blues. The show will be led by the host of one of Cleveland’s most popular afternoon radio shows, Alan Cox, of WMMS’ The Alan Cox Show, and feature Mike Polk, made famous for his Cleveland Tourism videos and the city’s most recognizable funnyman; Jim Tews, who recently moved to New York City and writes for the funny online site, Holy Taco; Chad Zumock, Cox’s sidekick and a regular in local comedy clubs; and Bill Squire, a Medina native who has won both the Car Crash Comedy contest in New York and Give Us Your Best on Comedy Central.
Price: $12 in advance, $15 day of show