Applause is an Emmy award-winning locally produced TV show that celebrates artists and cultural groups around Cleveland and Northeast Ohio. Each week this on-air arts magazine broadcasts a fresh half-hour of features, performances, on-location reports, and interviews from the studios of WVIZ/PBS ideastream. Special thanks to the Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College for the use of their Steinway Piano on Around Noon/Applause.

Thursday, August 27, 2009

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During the 1950's, Cleveland's jazz-scene was thriving. And shutter-bug Frank Kuchirchik, a huge fan of the genre, began shooting at one of his favorite haunts, Lindsay's Sky Bar - a popular east side nightclub. Ideastream's Dan Polleta sits down with Frank about his memories of one of the hotspots of Cleveland.

In his 16 years as a photographer for the Plain Dealer Mike Levy framed the visuals for all sorts of news stories. About six years ago, Mike went off to shoot a story which seemed like a routine assignment at a local house of worship but it turned out to be the first step on a spiritual journey. That journey is now chronicled in Mike's book of photo essays titled "Revelations: Photographs of Cleveland's African-American Churches."

A passing glance at the paintings of Doug Sanderson might remind you 1960's OP - ART, but his work is far from an illusion. Inside some of his latest works, Arcane Images, there’s a much deeper meaning inside those geometric shapes.

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