This year the Cleveland International Film Festival is celebrating its 50th anniversary and kicked off this landmark year with a screening of “A Man with Sole: The Impact of Kenneth Cole.”

Both Cole and filmmaker Dori Berinstein were on hand for a quick Q&A.

Here’s what we saw.

The Cleveland Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, have co-organized the most comprehensive exhibition of Martin Puryear’s career in nearly two decades.

Martin Puryear: Nexus begins with work from the early 1960s and follows the artist’s innovations in form, material, and process since then.

The exhibition opens April 12 and runs ...

Canadian alt rockers Our Lady Peace played the House of Blues last night as a makeup date for their show that was originally scheduled back in late March.  The last gig on their tour, frontman Raine Maida said he loved that the tour ended up wrapping up here in the 216, as Cleveland and its fans was one of the earliest city to adopt the band way back in the early 1990s....

Carl Ewing had traveled to Cleveland’s African American Cultural Garden twice in his life before he took on the cause to finish its plans.

The second time was about a decade ago. He had first heard of the garden spot off Martin Luther King, Jr Blvd. in 2011, but drove past it mistakenly. Then, years later, Ewing tried again, even asking a nearby woman where exactly...

7:00 pm – No Exit Presents. The Either/Orchestra at Trinity Cathedral. Known for their unconventional jazz stylings, the group is an important champion and purveyor of Ethiopian music and Ethio-jazz. Repeated on Saturday at the Bop Stop.

7:30 pm – The Cleveland Orchestra at Severance with Santt...