SHAKER HEIGHTS, OH (WOIO) –
It may be dangerous but you can walk across the street and chat. But the street signs tell the story as you drive into Shaker, get off the phone. Using your cell phone while driving, is now illegal in the city. But some there don’t see the cell phone crackdown as necessary.
“If you’re speaking on the phone I don’t see why you can’t focus while driving when you’ve got the phone as well so I don’t know why they’re doing that,” said Leo Torres.
Shaker Heights City Council Members voted to ban the use of hand-held cell phones to talk or text while driving this past February.
After three months of warnings, today police will be handing out tickets.
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Best of Rock Hall Jazz on Film Exhibit [PHOTOS]
Best of Rock Hall Jazz on Film Exhibit [PHOTOS]
1. Rock Hall Jazz on Film Exhibit
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2. St. Louis Blues, 1929 RKO/Sack Amusements FREE Screening (one of several shorts), Feb. 26th, 7:30pm, Rock Hall - This sixteen-minute short film shot in Astoria, Queens, New York City, is blues singer Bessie Smith’s only screen role. In it, she plays a long-suffering wife of an uncaring gambler. Co-produced by W.C. Handy, author of the title song, the film also features Isabelle Washington (sister of actress Fredi Washington) who plays the “other woman.” Pianist James P. Johnson and the Hall Johnson Choir accompanied Smith and added to the overwhelming pathos of her singing, making this dramatized interpretation of the blues a true film classic.
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3. Rock-n-Roll Revue
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4. Listen Up The Lives of Quincy Jones
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5. Caldonia
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6. Cabin In The Sky
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Continue reading Best of Rock Hall Jazz on Film Exhibit [PHOTOS]
Best of Rock Hall Jazz on Film Exhibit [PHOTOS]
JAMMIN’ JAZZIN’ and JIVIN’: JAZZ ON FILM Exhibition of classic film posters now at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum In 1927, the success of Warner Bros.’ The Jazz Singer, the first so-called “all-talkie feature,” launched not only the “sound era,” but also initiated a three decade period during which some of the greatest names in jazz music – Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Benny Goodman – appeared on film. After major film studios began exploiting the popularity of jazz, both black and white independent film producers began the production of black cast films, intended for distribution to theaters catering to black audiences. However, due to the method of distribution, the films themselves have often become lost over time and, in these cases, the paper promotional materials are the only evidence we have of their production and release. Concern for detail, often striking use of color, stylized presentation of the film’s content, and use (or avoidance) of the racial and ethnic stereotypes of the period make these posters worthy of our critical study, appraisal and appreciation. Three nights of film screenings will take place at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland this month, in celebration of Black History Month. FREE with a reservation. Visit www.rockhall.com to RSVP.
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