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GOV. JOHN KASICH IS SETTING in motion his administration’s plan to cut down on opiate prescriptions and, in doing so, chip away at the state’s far-reaching addiction and overdose crisis. Kasich’s plan, announced last week to much fanfare, caps prescription painkillers like morphine at seven-day supplies for adults and five-day supplies for children. The idea is to keep patients tethered close to the hospital, rather than cutting them loose with enough pills to generate an addiction. That said, Kasich’s plan would also allow physicians to go above and beyond the limits for certain identified reasons. If physicians (or dentists or nurses) fail to cite a specific reason for exceeding the limit, Kasich said that they will risk losing their licenses. The marquee takeaway from Kasich’s news conference was that he and state health officials estimate 109 million fewer opiate doses will be prescribed annually. The most recent numbers show that 3,050 people overdosed and died in Ohio in 2015. “We’re paying the price now for a lot of the neglect we had in the past,” Kasich said during his public announcement. One of the primary funnels for people (across a wide spectrum of demographics, mind you) ending up on the wrong end of opiate addiction is physicians’ long-running record of over-prescribing pain pills. Critics of the plan suggest that shorter prescription time frames will only drive patients more quickly to the streets, where heroin is readily available and much cheaper. In the Statehouse, meanwhile, newly introduced Senate Bill 119 and House Bill 167 propose a more
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stringent route, capping morphine prescriptions at 50 mg per day for a three-day block and imposing training quotas on any physician who would seek to prescribe beyond the limit. Lawmakers also suggest naltrexone (Vivitrol) as an option at all treatment centers. Vivitrol blocks opioid receptors in the brain, effectively canceling out the synaptic addiction for one month at a time. That monthly injection can run up to $1,000, however, keeping it out of reach for many people. — Eric Sandy
COUNTY PASSES Q DEAL, CITY SUSTAINS CAVS’ LIES Due to the eternal frustrations of print deadlines, we’re unable to bring you the latest news of city council’s deliberations on the proposed, highly controversial, Quicken Loans Arena renovation deal. (Check clevescene.com for the latest.) Tuesday, council’s Planning, Development & Sustainability
Committee was expected to pick up where they left off last week, interrogating Cavs’ president Len Komoroski, attorney Fred Nance, and “County Financial Adviser” Tim Offtermatt, a man who, until very recently, was the board chair and CFO of Gateway Economic Development Corporation, the Cavs’ landlord. The biggest-ticket news item last week, though, was that county council voted to authorize the sale of $140 million in revenue bonds that will generate the funds for the deal. The county legislators voted 8-3, with voices of dissent coming from Jack Schron, Nan Baker and Yvonne Conwell. Earlier that very day, city council members fumbled through questions and speeches in an effort to chlorinate the deal’s murky financial waters. That proved difficult as, by Offtermatt’s own admission, the numbers in the deal are all, to varying degrees, subject to change. Subject to change may as well be the tagline for the Cavs’ propaganda
on the deal, which tends to evolve as it adapts to criticisms. The “Q Transformation,” as it’s called by the Cavs’ execs, their negotiators and now even members of city council, was of course initially billed as a 50/50 split between the team and its public partners. County executive Armond Budish, flying boldly in the face of fact, continues to cite the deal as a 50/50 proposition and continues to peg the total cost of the project at $140 million. But just about everyone else now realizes that the costs will be much greater, and that a greater share will be borne by the public. Yet carelessness (if not recklessness) with the deal’s numbers is continually on display. The City of Cleveland’s official Twitter account sent this out a tweet during the council hearing with a wildly inaccurate figure. It suggested that the City of Cleveland’s total contribution to the arena upgrade would be $26 million. That’s just not the case. Cleveland will be contributing its share via a portion of an admission tax at the Q’s ticketed events. With the addition of playoff tax revenue, the city’s contribution has been projected at about $97 million. City and county leaders (and to a lesser extent, the local media) probably aren’t deliberately misleading the public. But they may be the unwitting puppets or megaphones for the Cavaliers. And the big problem with that arrangement is that the Cavs have demonstrated systematically they will lie up until (and often long after) the moment they are corrected. Take for example the fact that multiple presenters last Tuesday — Offtermatt and the city’s own finance
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director Sharon Dumas — repeated the lie that the Cavs would cover all shortfalls on the project. That’s a lie. As was mercilessly dissected at county council on Feb. 28, the Cavs will only “cover” shortfalls in the sense that they will advance the county the necessary funds after all money in one of two designated reserves has been exhausted. This will be in the form of what’s being called “contingent rent.” When the reserve is sufficiently replenished, the Cavs will be reimbursed. And yet the Cavs and their negotiators, to say nothing of local elected officials and editorial boards, continue to promote this fiction. Council president Kevin Kelley, to his credit, after a string of aggressive tweets from a reporter in attendance at this morning’s meeting, clarified the situation. But he emphasized, as the “bottom line,” the fact that the city would not be on
DIGIT WIDGET 20 PERCENT Increase in total allowable catch for walleye in Lake Erie this year.
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the hook for the shortfalls. “That’s a very good synopsis,” Offtermatt said, when Kelley interrupted the meeting to address the point. What Kelley — or someone — ought to have done is ask why Offtermatt et al. continue to cite this particular point as a measure of the franchise’s generosity. Offtermatt literally called the arrangement “unprecedented” today. But this arrangement had been exposed as a sham at county council last month, thanks in no small part to Jack Schron. Later in the meeting, when asked by councilwoman Phyllis Cleveland about how this upgrade differs from Sin Tax projects, Offtermatt rattled off a list of items the Sin Tax has covered (any capital expense greater than $500,000, per the lease): seating, HVAC, roofing, lighting, “indeed, the scoreboard, which has been talked about.” And yet, less than an hour earlier, Len Komoroski had presented a slide that alleged that the Cavs’ had covered “100% of all operating, maintenance, repair, and capital expenses” for the arena’s operating life to date. That is a lie. The Cavs continue to cite, as a further sign of their peerless magnanimity, their payment of Gateway’s (their landlord’s) operating expenses. But they don’t bother to mention that those payments are wrapped up (“encompassed”) in the team’s paltry rent. The Cavs also pay no taxes on the structure they inhabit. If they did, as Roldo Bartimole has argued for years, millions of dollars would go to the Cleveland public school system every year. The Cavs lie, repeatedly and shamelessly. In the packet they distributed to attendees at the first December press conference, they exclaimed in a subordinate clause that the team would be paying for “at least 50% of the Transformation project.” That is a lie. When Zack Reed mentioned the Oakland Raiders, and the NFL’s 31-1 vote to allow the franchise to move to Las Vegas, Komoroski responded that “this situation is the exact opposite. We have done nothing but invest in this community. And we’re here to talk about a scenario: a lease extension. “The ownership group wants to extend its agreement to stay. To stay,” Komoroski said. “To continue to be able to make the impact that we’re making within the community, the investments we’re making in the
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that the figures were influenced to a large degree by the RNC and were therefore useless as an accurate predictor of future years’ economic impact. The Cavs lie. And yet this is the private partner with whom the city is rushing to ratify a complicated financial arrangement that no one yet understands and that can’t even be subjected to meaningful amendment. This was negotiated in private — Jeff Johnson got the mayor’s chief of staff Ken Silliman to confirm that Frank Jackson only entered the negotiations in November 2016, one month before the glitzy press announcement at the Q — and has no contingencies in place if either the city or the county were to vote it down. Watchers of local politics might have expected Silliman to mutter: “We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.” The costs of the project aren’t even known. There have been no bids. Last we heard, drawings and designs for the upgrade were about 70 percent complete. The closest thing to a budget were a few limp projections corralled at the request of county council. Mike Polensek mockingly held up the few pages
of handouts council had been given and asked for something better “in writing.” As the project will be managed by the Cavaliers themselves — not subject to public scrutiny — there are no safeguards built into the investment down the road. — Sam Allard
LAKEWOOD REFUSING TO RELEASE HUNDREDS OF PUBLIC RECORDS IN HOSPITAL DEAL The Lakewood Hospital debacle has evolved into two fronts: the first being the city’s efforts to set up a “family wellness center” on the site and develop a few acres of now-vacant land, and the second being a civil appeals case that confronts local and state public records laws. As for the latter, a court document filed last week paints a grim picture of Lakewood city hall’s public records responses. In Brian Essi v. City of Lakewood, resident Essi has taken to the Cuyahoga County Court of Appeals to compel the city to turn over more than 250 requested public records related to the deal constructed by the Lakewood Hospital Association and the Cleveland Clinic — and
later ratified by city council and Lakewood voters. (Essi has been one of the most vocal critics of the Lakewood Hospital Association/ Cleveland Clinic deal, often publishing detailed analyses and records via the Lakewood Observer’s website. He has been a frequent guest at council meetings since mid-2015.) Read the full motion at clevescene.com. The document includes all records requests initiated by Essi since March 2016, including email records, electronic calendar records, city hall office access logs, city hall internet data logs, drafts of public documents, etc. — a tapestry of documents that would explain who knew what and when as the deal was being crafted. As far as the timeline goes, a summary judgment is due in this appeal on May 1. Essi’s attorneys argue that they need these records to dutifully depose the named defendant and the city’s public records custodian, law director Kevin Butler. Contained within the motion is a curious discussion of the amount in damages that may be assessed against a government entity that fails to deliver on public
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Ron Baron, the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority’s director of eet management, resigned earlier this month after working at RTA for more than 11 years. But in a curious turn of events, he was re-hired only one week later. As with past personnel inquiries, RTA’s ofďŹ cial explanation of the situation clashes with internal rumors. RTA spokesperson Linda Krecic told Scene that Baron resigned in order to take another position earlier this month but said she did not know what position or with whom. “He called within a few days of leaving the RTA saying that he made a mistake,â€? said Krecic, “and asked if he could return to his previous position.â€? Krecic claimed that Baron was re-hired at the same rate of pay — in 2o16, that was roughly $113,000 — and that because his departure had not fully cleared the RTA separation process, re-installing him was “not
an issue.â€? Michael York, RTA’s deputy general manager of operations, promptly sent an email welcoming Baron back to the team. “I am very happy to inform you that Ron Baron will be returning to the RTA effective Monday, March 13,â€? York wrote in a memo on March 9, with no elaboration. “Ron will resume the Director of Fleet Management position.â€? That was the email in its entirety. Prominent among our questions is: What sort of “mistakeâ€? did Ron Baron make? Did he simply change his mind after he’d decided to take employment elsewhere? Was his job offer not as ďŹ rm as he thought it was? When Scene speculated that Baron’s new employer — whomever it might be — probably wasn’t too pleased when Baron returned to RTA so suddenly, Krecic said that that was “not really [RTA’s] concern.â€? We were told by one source, who requested anonymity in the wake of RTA’s witch hunt following a Scene story last year, that Davey Tree, headquartered in Kent, may have been the potential landing spot for Baron. And indeed, according to Davey Corporate Communications, Ron Baron was ofďŹ cially an employee there, March 6 to 8. Both Baron’s and York’s names may be familiar. They ďŹ gured prominently in our coverage last year of a “cultural chasmâ€? (i.e., a racially hostile environment) at RTA’s Central Bus Maintenance Facility. Baron oversaw the wrongful termination of a black employee there. Baron’s “resignationâ€? was rumored by employees to have been not entirely voluntary. His “rehiringâ€? was thought to be primarily the work of York, who was angered by Baron’s treatment. In related personnel news, Dr. Floun’say Caver, who was the director of RTA’s Hayden Garage in East Cleveland, has been promoted to the director of the Integrated Communications Center at RTA’s Main OfďŹ ce. It’s “like air trafďŹ c control but for buses and trains,â€? said Krecic. Caver is also “assistingâ€? the deputy general manager of operations, Michael York. Last year, Caver and Baron were thought to be the prime candidates for the deputy general manager job if RTA were to make an internal hire when York retires. — Allard
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TRIBE FANS: WE ARE ALL LEBRON How King James taught us to stop worrying and get excited about baseball again By Jack Buehrer
REMEMBER RAJAI DAVIS’ EPIC GAME-TYING home run in Game 7 of the 2016 World Series? Of course you do. It was one of the most thrilling sports moments in what was, for Cleveland, a year that was filled with thrilling sports moments — the final score of the game (and series) notwithstanding. Just after Rajai’s laser cleared the 19-foot wall in left field, sending most of Northeast Ohio into complete and frenzied bedlam, there was an image that provided not just a beautiful summary of the moment but a perfect bookend to the past decade of Cleveland sports. It wasn’t the Indians’ jubilant dugout emptying to greet the city’s newest hero at home plate. It wasn’t
even Davis himself banging his chest and pointing to the sky as he rounded first base. In fact, it wasn’t an image of a player at all. At least not a baseball player. As the Fox broadcast showed a series of cutaways from the dugout, the Gateway Plaza and the field itself, there was one shot that should still be seared in the brain of every Clevelander who has ever
given a fraction of a shit about sports, this city, or sports as they relate to this city. It was LeBron James, in the private box from which many of the Cavaliers had watched several postseason games. The cameras caught him in mid-scream. He was leaning over the guardrail, flexing — his arms and shoulders nearly bursting out of his black “Cleveland or Nowhere” T-shirt. LeBron has carefully maintained a mostly stoic public image throughout his career, but this was 100 percent unscripted. It was primal. It was us. It was Cleveland. It was also a far cry from the LeBron we knew 10 years earlier. Remember the Yankees hat? Again, of course you do. During the 2007 American League Division Series against the Bronx Bombers, back before anyone knew
that troll could be used as a verb, Cleveland’s favorite native son showed up at then-Jacobs Field wearing the baseball equivalent of a Darth Vader mask — an official MLB-licensed navy blue cap with the iconic interlocking “NY.” He was, the story went at the time, a lifelong Yankees fan. A fair enough (and unbelievably disappointing) reason, but that didn’t stop the backlash from coming fast and furious. “The guy is the face of Cleveland sports and he’s not even rooting for a team that’s 100 feet from the building he plays in,” one fan told ESPN. Imagine if, back then, Twitter had been more than a fledgling startup that nobody understood as LeBron hoisted the devil’s wear into the air with both hands, his Hollywood smile beaming for the cameras. After the Yankees hat incident, | clevescene.com | April 5 -11, 2017
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LeBron, the Cavs and the Indians each took wildly different paths before converging once more for the batshit celebration during Game 7 in November. It’s important to remember during the 2016 MLB postseason, LeBron was just six months removed from winning the ďŹ rst professional sports championship Cleveland had seen since 1964. When he rocked the Yankees hat, he was six months removed from having been swept by the San Antonio Spurs in his ďŹ rst NBA Finals appearance. It’s also worth mentioning that just shy of two weeks later, the Indians would lose to the Red Sox (managed by Terry Francona) in the American League Championship Series after blowing a 3-1 lead. Years passed, and Cleveland’s relationship with LeBron, the Cavs and the Indians would waver, at various times, between loving, tense, apathetic and outright hatred. The Cavs were plenty good in 2008 and 2009, but both seasons saw the team lose in disappointing fashion in the postseason while LeBron grew more and more unhappy. Meanwhile, the Indians followed up their emotional 2007 run with a .500 ďŹ nish in 2008, then three consecutive losing seasons. In 2010, LeBron tore off his Cavs jersey in disgust — both ďŹ guratively and literally — and decamped for Miami. In the process he became the most hated man in Cleveland since Art Modell. Both teams were in the tank (joining the Browns, naturally) and all of a sudden it was 1974 in Cleveland again. Which brings us back to Game 7. Obviously LeBron had nothing to do with the Indians’ postseason success. He had nothing to do with Rajai Davis’ home run. Hell, the Indians didn’t even win the fucking series. But with that scream, with that Hulk Hogan pose, with that “Cleveland or Nowhereâ€? T-shirt, he became the personiďŹ cation of our own id as Cleveland sports fans. What was fascinating about his rare show of unbridled enthusiasm was that he didn’t look shocked. He looked like he’d been waiting for something just like that to happen. He expected it. The scream was not just pure excitement; it was the relief one feels when validated. When the Cavs won the NBA title, he felt a different kind of relief, and it brought him, and many
others throughout Cleveland, to tears. This time he was just a fan, a witness himself. And he was showing us that it was okay to possess and show that one thing this city’s sports fans had lacked for a generation: He was conďŹ dent. And look at us now, on the eve of another baseball season. When was the last time you remember the city having this kind of swagger? Sure, the Cavs are coasting into the playoffs on fumes, but they’re still the favorite to represent the Eastern Conference in the NBA Finals. The Indians are loaded and are expected to repeat as Central Division champions. Edwin-freaking-Encarnacion has come to town. Michael Brantley is (supposedly?) healthy. Every member of the pitching staff still has his limbs. And for the ďŹ rst time since 2008, the season after the team’s last deep playoff run, the Indians are expected to draw 2 million fans. Almost. It’s a word we’re familiar with here. The 1980s produced two almost-Super-Bowl appearances for the Browns. In the ’90s, the Indians gave us two more almostWorld-Series crowns. This century, LeBron became the king of almost — until he wasn’t. Which is why there is something poetic about the man who ďŹ nally won Cleveland a championship becoming the lasting symbol of yet another almost-title just a few months later. Only this time it was different. It wasn’t Bernie Kosar consoling Ernest Byner. It wasn’t Julian Tavarez sobbing in the dugout. It wasn’t a shellshocked Jose Mesa or Omar Vizquel’s dejected thousandmile stare. This was the city’s most-beloved, then most-hated, then mostforgiven athlete showing us it was okay to want, and expect, more. For a long time after Game 7, I couldn’t watch the replay of Rajai’s dinger. Eventually I did, dozens and maybe hundreds of times by now. (Yup, just watched it again, and so should you.) When I watch it or think about it, it’s not painful, because there’s LeBron, there’s me, there’s Cleveland. And it’s what we should all remember when we think about the moment we found, or at least rediscovered, our collective mojo. It’s springtime in Cleveland and the city is ďŹ nally ready to be excited again.
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FEATURE THE VIEW FROM THE SIDELINE Andre Knott on his favorite Tito moment, Brantley, the Tribe cutting through the Browns noise, and more By Vince Grzegorek
ANDRE KNOTT IS PROBABLY BEST KNOWN AS the better-looking half of the A to Z Podcast, proudly brought to you by Scene, of course. But when he’s not podcasting he moonlights as the Tribe in-game reporter for Fox Sports Ohio. We caught up with Andre before the Indians opened the season against the Rangers to pick his brain on the 2017 season. VINCE GRZEGOREK: You told me a great Tito story after the season. Tell it to our readers, because if this team meets expectations this year, a lot of that is going to have to do with Francona.
ANDRE KNOTT: There was a really tough series in Kansas City in the summer (June 13-15). The weather had changed and it was hot. Tito made batting practice voluntary that series. They ended up getting
swept. He didn’t like how they played. I’ll never forget, postgame, he told the guys, “I put this series on me.” It was pretty obvious he wasn’t happy. Whether it was said at the onset or not, everyone knew KC had done some great things the previous two seasons, and to go in there and get swept, it was a punch in the gut. They felt they were on the same level as the Royals and that series showed they weren’t, that they were far off. It’s a 162-game season. On most flights, it’s kind of like, we lost, we won, whatever, let’s move on.
But coming home from Kansas City after that series it felt different. Tito basically told the guys, I believe in you, but we have to do things the right way; we can’t play like that. And he put it on himself. Then, of course, they win 14 in a row. No one knew going in that’s
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AK: It’s an easy narrative. I get it, it’s great for T-shirt companies in Cleveland, it’s great for TV and radio scripts, but the Indians have to forget that. That narrative has to go, because it’s not going to win you one game. They gotta come back hungry, and it’s going to take a big step. I was talking to Napoli two weeks ago. Now Nap, I’m not going to say he’s emotionally hurt, but he invested a lot in the team and they invested a lot in him. It’s hard for him. He said, “Tito’s always going to be family to me.� He brought up leadership. Now, that can be oversaturated and we talk about it too much for sure, but there’s something to it. What Nap did was convey how Tito felt about his team. Tito didn’t have to go bitch about getting to BP on time, because Nap would do it for him. I asked him what his absence means. He said he and Tito thought last year’s team was young and talked about getting them to believe. These young guys have grown up and know how good they are now. When you know that, you shouldn’t need a kick in the butt. The last thing he said was that he only signed in Texas because he thinks now he’ll meet the Indians in the ALCS and that’s how it should be.
dude, a follow-my-lead guy like Kluber. Neither of them are rah-rah guys, but they bust their ass. I don’t want to put words in his mouth, but what he’s been through, not being able to play, I think Brantley cares more about this team, I don’t want to say more than anyone, but he cares a lot. I’ve seen him sit in the dugout after a game when he didn’t play well for 20 or 30 minutes, pissed off. I watched him help Naquin ďŹ gure out what pitches are coming. He’s almost like a second hitting coach. I think he becomes that Nap guy but he’s also always had it. After he ďŹ rst had surgery, he couldn’t sit in the dugout, so he’d go sit with the bullpen and watch. He basically played every role on the team. I realized this three weeks ago, that he’s different this year. Last year he just watched, wasn’t busting balls. Now he’s like, okay, I’m back, I’m going to kick ass. VG: What do they have to do to cut through the Browns draft crap nonsense and get some attention? AK: This was their 10th year in Goodyear, and I’ve been going there for six years now. I live ďŹ ve minutes from the ballpark and it was the ďŹ rst year it was taking me 20 minutes to get to the park. There was a buzz. I think they’ll get close to 3 million fans this year. There are days when we have gotten to the park and a guy will say, “I can hear myself breathe.â€? If you’re a fan and you’re reading this, it helps. The players get off on having people there. They’re sick of feeling like a stepchild. With this team, what’s your excuse? If you thought they were cheap, I don’t know how you call them cheap now. Not only that but they’ve put money into the farm system and it’s coming through now and they’re building on that. VG: You have an off day, doesn’t matter what city. Who you partying with? Who would you choose? AK: A couple ways to answer that. If I want a great meal, Brandon Guyer. He always brings in the best meals. For pure fun, I mean Nap’s gone now. If I want the most stylish night I’ve had, Lindor or Santana. If I’m going out to go out? Tyler Naquin. He’s got that old country boy delinquent streak. Actually, Tito, ha. VG: You going to make sure Bauer isn’t around before you take a nap this year? AK: Man. Yeah. DeďŹ nitely.
VG: Someone has to take on that role though. Who’s it going to be? AK: Brantley, I think. He’s a quiet
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FEATURE TREASURE KEEPER Meet the guy making sure something like the Indians’ 1948 pennant is never lost again By Vince Grzegorek
JEREMY FEADOR WAS A PRETTY POPULAR GUY last fall. Anything and anyone connected to the Indians during the World Series run was popular, of course, but it’s not often the media is seeking out the team’s archivist and historian for interviews. A baseball from the first game at Jacobs Field
Everyone wanted to rehash the story of the 1948 pennant. You know the one. In September of the following season, with the Indians having been eliminated from postseason contention, owner Bill Veeck ceremoniously buried the pennant in a coffin just past the outfield wall of old Municipal Stadium. It’s been missing ever since. “Yeah, it came up a lot,” says Feador. “What I thought was it wasn’t dug back up and got lost from there, but someone said, and this is what’s nice about doing stories with the
media, the guy said he remembered Hal Lebovitz writing that Veeck dug it up the next day because the casket was expensive and he had to return it. And there’s a picture of the grounds crew unfurling it in the 1960s, so yeah, part of me hopes it’s still around. But maybe in the ’70s or ’80s someone found it and wondered what was this thing collecting dust, or maybe something was leaking on it and they tossed it.” The pennant is, naturally, one of Feador’s holy grails, as is a 1921 Indians World Champions jersey,
another indelible part of the Tribe’s history that has since vanished into thin air. Things are bound to get lost over the course of a century, but it’s vexing to think two of the most important tangible pieces of the franchise could just disappear. It makes a little more sense, though, when you know that the team never had an archivist before Feador, who’s now in his fourth season with the organization. Feador, 30, grew up in North
Olmsted and now lives in Rocky River with his wife and daughter. He went to Baldwin Wallace for undergrad, studying history and political science, then Wright State for a masters in public history, specializing in museum and archive work. After graduation, he bounced around various part time jobs at Hale Farm, BW, and the Ohio Turnpike before landing a gig with the Browns. “I had seen that the Ravens had an archivist so I just wrote the Browns
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and suggested they should too,â€? he says from what you can charitably call his ofďŹ ce at Progressive Field. It wasn’t exactly the perfect ďŹ t. “I’m 30, so my formative years were watching the Indians when there were no Browns. I contacted the Indians, who didn’t have an archivist, and we talked and the timing was right. But these stories were coming out about teams like the Yankees and Red Sox who have team historians and I’d send those along.â€? Eventually the Tribe invited Feader to intern — “Yes, I was a 27-year-old intern,â€? he says — and slowly but surely his role grew. He arrived to ďŹ nd the organization’s history not in disarray, per se, but scattered, and deďŹ nitely unorganized. “There was this big cage ďŹ lled with stuff and a lot of it was trying to ďŹ gure out what the stuff was,â€? he says. He pulls open a small closet and pulls out a bat. “Like this. It has Hal McCray’s name on it, but why do we have this? Is there history connected to it? Is it just ďŹ ller? You ďŹ nd a broken bat and maybe it’s the broken bat from the 12-0 run comeback. And then you look at photos and it doesn’t match. You get so excited when you ďŹ nd something.â€? The Indians were actually the ďŹ rst major league team to open a museum, back in 1951 at the old stadium. Feador says newspaper reports show that treasured pieces like a Nap Lajoie bat, the Bill Wambsganss unassisted triple play ball from the 1920 World Series, and the bat Elmer Smith used to clobber a grand slam in that same series were all on display. But the museum closed in 1972 when the team stunk and the stands emptied. And while some of it made its way to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, not everything did. And it drives Feador a little crazy. “People have saved stuff though. While a lot of stuff might have been eighty-sixed when we moved from Muni, someone had the wherewithal to save some stuff like the last out ball from the last game there. I know a lot of Browns contracts ended up in the dumpster when Muni closed, but we saved a bunch. We have Doby’s contract from 1947 — one of the most signiďŹ cant contracts not just in Cleveland but in baseball. Actually, we have two copies.â€? Nowadays it’s up to Feador and some other people to make sure history is saved as it’s made. When Rajai Davis hit for the cycle, the team let him know they’d like
something for the archives. Davis kept his helmet, gloves, bat and ball, but offered up his jersey and hat. “And when Naquin hit the walkoff inside the park homer, the players ripped his jersey in the celebration, which was nice because it couldn’t be reused. So we got that. Or when Kluber had 18 strikeouts, the ball from the 18th was ipped into the crowd by Perez. Like Asdrubal Cabrera’s triple play ball, that happens. But Kluber gave us the ball from the 14th.â€? The search to maintain and preserve the team’s long history is a bit like Pawn Stars mixed with Antique Road Show — except, of course, the team doesn’t pay to buy anything, and the provenance of memorabilia is sometimes hard to prove. “One guy called and said he had Elmer Smith’s grand slam bat,â€? he says. “So I said what’s the story behind it. And the guy told me, and I said, well, there’s an article that mentions it was in our hall of fame at one point and it doesn’t jibe with the timeline of the bat you have, plus the bat had Nap Lajoie’s name on it. He could have used it, but it just didn’t ďŹ t. You always get people calling about stuff connected to 1920 and 1948. It’s never 1957 or 1935 or something. But sometimes it checks out. Someone called and said they had Tris Speaker’s pocketwatch from 1920. I looked it up and yup, a company gave Tris and a few other guys watches and there were pictures. It’s cool when it checks out.â€? While there are small exhibits throughout the stadium — the Feller exhibit in the Terrace Club, for instance — there’s no team museum yet. But Feador has hopes and points to the obvious beneďŹ t for fans. “I love Bob Feller and the ’90s Indians as much as the next guy, but so much of our history is lost in the shufe of those two things,â€? he says. “There’s Speaker and Joss and Lajoie, and we’re trying to get those names and those stories out there. I know we’re a football town and that the ’70s and ’80s weren’t great, but if you measure a team’s history by World Series, there’d be like ďŹ ve good teams. And a lot of our Hall of Famers played before there were uniform numbers. We have 100 and some odds years of history here, dating back to 1865 and the birth of amateur baseball in Northeast Ohio. History and baseball go hand in hand. And it’s part of our mission statement, you know, connecting generations. What better way than to look at something like Rocky Colavito’s bat or something from Sam McDowell?â€?
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Keep Talking Keep Talking is an exciting storytellers program where locals can share their real-life experiences on a theme. The series offers attendees the chance to grab a drink and a dog while listening to some of their Cleveland neighbors tell tall tales. The theme for tonight’s event is My Weird Thing. It starts at 8 p.m. at the Happy Dog. Admission is $5. (Niesel) 5801 Detroit Ave., 216-651-9474, happydogcleveland.com. ART
Project Snapshot Who says film is dead? Now in its fourth year, the Cleveland Print Room’s Project Snapshot is an educational program that teaches darkroom fundamentals to students at Maple Heights High School and Saint Martin de Porres High School. During the program, students learn
the fundamentals of film photography and become familiar with traditional darkroom equipment. Thanks to a one-night-only exhibition, students also learn professional art practices relating to editing, framing, installing, pricing and selling their work. The free Project Snapshot Student Exhibition takes place tonight from 5 to 8. In addition to exhibiting at the Cleveland Print Room, each student will have one framed 11-inch-by-14inch print installed at the Ohio Civil Rights Commission for one year beginning in June. (Josh Usmani) 2550 Superior Ave., 216-401-5981, clevelandprintroom.com.
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Mitsuko Uchida’s Mozart Known for her intelligent and elegant interpretations of Mozart, pianist Mitsuko Uchida continues her collaboration with the Cleveland Orchestra tonight as she conducts the group from the keyboard at 7:30 at Severance Hall. An hour prior to the concert, guest speaker Cicilia Yudha, assistant professor of piano at Youngstown State University, gives the pre-concert lecture, Exquisite Dualism. The concert program repeats at 8 p.m. tomorrow and Saturday. Tickets start at $29 11001 Euclid Ave., 216-231-1111, clevelandorchestra.com.
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Art Therapy Studios On the first Thursday of each month, Spaces hosts its Art Therapy Studios,
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of “magic lantern” slides from the New York State Psychiatric Institute and Hospital, now known as the Neurological Institute of New York, part of the Columbia University Medical Center. Although
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Lewis Black: The Rant, White & Blue Tour When comedian Lewis Black came through town two years ago, he delivered a show that, as he put it, touched on “topics that include current events, social media, politics and anything else that exposes the hypocrisy and madness in the world.” Given the recent election of Donald Trump as president, Black’s analysis of the “hypocrisy and madness in the world” seems all the more relevant. Expect Lewis to rail against Trump when he performs at 8 tonight at the State Theatre. Tickets are $25 to $75. (Niesel) 1519 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.
remains on view through May 13. Live performances will take place between 7:30 and 8:30 p.m. Admission is free. (Usmani) 2550 Superior Ave., 216-401-5981, clevelandprintroom.com.
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Experiment in Progress: Do Not Disturb Earlier this year, the Cleveland Print Room hosted Inside Outside: Dr. Jelliffe’s Slides, an exhibition
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Mix: Revel As if there weren’t enough art-related events on the first Friday of each month, the Cleveland Museum of Art hosts its monthly Mix event, an evening of art, music, dancing, refreshments and mingling. With spring in the air, April’s Mix theme is Revel, celebrating flowers, warm weather and sunny skies. Mix: Revel takes place from 6 to 10 p.m. Admission is $10 in advance or $15 at the door. In addition to partaking in the revelry in the atrium, guests can tour the museum’s galleries and special exhibitions, including Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks. (Usmani) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.
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Sir Doug and the Genuine Texas Cosmic Groove Celebrating the Summer of Love 50th anniversary
A Hard Day’s Night Beatles. Classic.
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Open Projector Night Calling all young filmmakers! Today MOCA Cleveland hosts a special teen edition of its Open Projector Night, exclusively featuring videos produced by local teens. Stop by from 8 to 10 p.m. to see a sampling of the submissions. Admission is “pay what you can,” with a $5 suggested donation. (Usmani) 11400 Euclid Ave., 216-421-8671, mocacleveland.org. ART
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Cavaliers vs. Atlanta Hawks After a tough March that saw the Cavaliers suffer an embarrassing loss to the San Antonio Spurs as they struggled to hold onto the top seed in the East, the Cavaliers get a chance at redemption tonight when they face the reeling Atlanta Hawks. The Hawks suffered a losing streak that caused them to slip in the Eastern Conference rankings. The Cavs should hand them another loss tonight when the two teams face each other at 7:30 at the Q. Tickets start at $34. (Niesel) 1 Center Court, 216-420-2000, theqarena.com.
announced plans to close its doors later this month. (Usmani) 2731 Prospect Ave., 888-273-1881, 2731prospect.com.
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the photographer of these slides is unknown, the collection was formerly owned by Smith Ely Jelliffe, M.D. and Ph.D., who used the slides for public and professional presentations. The slides include photographs of patients, hospitals, diagrams, X-rays and even artwork by patients. Cleveland Print Room’s newest exhibition, Experiment in Progress: Do Not Disturb, showcases artistic responses to the original slides by 15 local artists and musicians. Opening with a reception from 5 to 9 p.m. today, the exhibition
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From Broadband to Infinity: Current Issues in Expanded Media In partnership with the Sculpture Center, 2731 Prospect hosts From Broadband to Infinity: Current Issues in Expanded Media, a free panel discussion featuring local sculptors, moderated by Rian Brown-Orso. The panel convenes from 7 to 9 p.m. in advance of the Cleveland Sculptors Network’s Master Review session the following day at the Sculpture Center. Don’t miss one of the last events in the gallery, as 2731 Prospect recently
Walk All Over Waterloo April’s Walk All Over Waterloo art walk features several new and continuing exhibitions. At Waterloo Arts, you’ll find From San Juan to the Cuyahoga: Artist Books from Ediciones Vigia, featuring elaborate handmade books made entirely from recycled materials. The show opens tonight from 5 to 9 p.m. and remains on view through May 19. Meanwhile Satellite Gallery, a former home converted into a venue for experimental installation art, debuts its latest round of art installations, Natural Environments: Serene, Wild & Growing, which includes site-specific installations by nine local artists. Continuing exhibitions include Paul Sydorenko’s 366 Days of Skulls at Maria Neil Art Project. Shots in the Dark, a new exhibit of photographer Kevin McCann’s work, opens at Space: ROCK Gallery with a party from 5 to 10 p.m. Also continuing this month, Centrifugal at Praxis Fiber Workshop showcases hand and jacquard weaving, quilt and fabric installation, painted soft sculptures and video by
four artists from outside Northeast Ohio. Admission is free. (Usmani) 15605 Waterloo Rd., 216-692-9500, waterlooarts.org.
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After Effects: Or Ways of Seeing Others Recent CIA graduate Evan Fusco is quickly becoming a staple in the local art community, not just for his artwork, but for his steadfast support of other artists. This weekend, Fusco gets attention of his own with his first solo show tonight from 6 to 10. After Affects: Or Ways of Seeing Others is a pop-up exhibition in the 1400 Building, next to Zygote Press. Fusco’s first individual exhibition since graduating CIA explores the ways we empathize with others in relation to ourselves and within the context of the internet and social media. Through images, objects and a combination of the two, Fusco asks, “Are we then doomed to move through the world, tiny islands of social capital, passively acknowledging those in our digital vicinity? Or is an acknowledging of an other, and an attempt to understand the other, the way to break out of that?” The event is free, but donations will be collected to support the Refugee Response. (Usmani) 1390 East 30th St., facebook.com/ events/597133463826654/. SPORTS
CityStrong Cleveland Celebrity trainer Erin Oprea, the personal trainer to country/pop singers such as Carrie Underwood, Kelsea Ballerini and Jana Kramer, brings her popular CityStrong workout to the Wolstein Center today. Oprea, along with The Bachelorette’s Shawn Booth and Kaitlyn Bristowe, will lead attendees through a “killer workout party.” DJ Kaitlyn Bristowe will oversee the wheels of steel and provide commentary. Proceeds will benefit CreatiVets, an organization that provides disabled veterans with the opportunity to use art, music and creative writing to address servicerelated traumas. Vital Proteins will be on site to provide post-workout protein shakes. General admission tickets are $40 and VIP tickets go for $75. The event begins at 11 a.m. (Niesel) 2000 Prospect Ave., 216-687-9292, wolsteincenter.com.
and nostalgia” with The Man That Got Away, a concert designed to pay homage to the great American songwriters. The performances take place at 5 and 8 p.m. at Nighttown. Nighttown’s food and drink menu will be available for purchase with service at your table. Tickets are $40. (Niesel) 12387 Cedar Rd., Cleveland Heights, 216-795-0550, nighttowncleveland.com. FILM
Dan Savage’s Hump! Film Festival More than 10 years ago, syndicated sex columnist Dan Savage launched HUMP!, a film festival designed to challenge his Pacific Northwest readers to “get their hands dirty” and create “good, old-fashioned homemade porn.” The results ran a wide gamut and represented straight, gay and transgendered shorts made by amateurs from the area. Until recently, HUMP!’s screenings were limited to the Pacific Northwest. Now a traveling fest, HUMP! features porn that, as Savage says, takes people out of their comfort zones. Straight people watch gay porn, and gay people watch straight porn. “The whole festival is a celebration of sexual diversity,” Savage has said. Some 22 films made the cut this year, and they cover a lot of ground. In one short, a particularly athletic couple go at it on a mountain top. In another, a guy wearing a jockstrap sings a song about avoiding loneliness while playing an accordion. Screenings take place at 7:30 and 9:45 p.m. at the Capitol Theatre. Tickets are $20. (Niesel) 1390 West 65th St., 216-651-7295, clevelandcinemas.com. NIGHTLIFE
Downtown Disco Cleveland Gray’s Armory, the downtown building that looks like a castle, used to regularly host parties and special events. We still remember attending Scrooge’s Night Out parties at the venue. While the facility remains underused, tonight at 8 Disco Cleveland will transform the building into a disco. DJ Packy Malley will spin tunes while host Gabriella Kruez will give prizes for the best dressed and best dancers. Tickets are $45 (and the price includes an open bar with beer, wine and soda). VIP tickets are also available. Details are on the website. (Niesel) 1234 Bolivar Ave., 216-798-0456, downtowndiscocle.com.
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Cleveland Opera Theater Presents: The Man That Got Away Cleveland Opera Theatre weaves the music of George and Ira Gershwin into a story about “love, life, loss
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installations take place today and on April 22, inside the barn at the Frostville Museum in North Olmsted. Participants includes local farmers, artisans and speciality food vendors. Expect to find seasonal vegetables, honey, eggs, organic cheese, tea, wine, soaps, jewelry and assorted crafts. Hours are 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., in the Cleveland Metroparks Rocky River Reservation. (Niesel) 24101 Cedar Point Rd., 330-592-6518, frostvillefarmersmarket.com. SPORTS
APR 1 – 23 | OUTCALT THEATRE Ex-cop Walter “Pops” Washington is not about to compromise on the racially-charged lawsuit he filed years ago against the NYPD — even if it means risking the rent-controlled apartment he shares with his son and colorful surrogate family. An exuberant tale of truth, family, and pride. written by STEPHEN ADLY GUIRGIS | directed by ROBERT BARRY FLEMING STRONG LANGUAGE AND ADULT/SEXUAL SITUATIONS
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Gladiators vs. Tampa Bay Storm The Cleveland Gladiators, part of the struggling Arena Football League, kick off their season tonight at 7 at the Q. The league has diminished over the past couple of years and only a few teams remain, the Gladiators being one of them. The high-scoring games can be good fun, and the season opener launches with an Outdoor Fan Fest on Gateway Plaza starting at 5 p.m. There will also be a magnetic schedule giveaway, and concession specials include $1 sodas and $2 draft beers. (Niesel) 1 Center Court, 216-420-2000, theqarena.com. SPOKEN WORD
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Haiku Death Match Sponsored by Heights Arts, the Haiku Death Match features eight poets who’ll compete against each other to be crowned Haiku Death Match Master. Audience members will decide whose 17-syllable poem wins. The not-exactly annual event aims to raise funds for year-round literary activities organized by Heights Arts. The event begins at 7 p.m. at Dobama Theater. Tickets ($10 to $15) can be purchased online or at the door on the night of the match; you’ll find a list of participating poets on the website. (Niesel) 2340 Lee Rd., Cleveland Heights, 216-371-3457, heightsarts.org. FILM
Tromeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet has gone through many iterations, but none quite like the wild and shocking Troma Entertainment’s take on Shakespeare’s classic. Troma, the independent film company responsible for cult classics like The Toxic Avenger and Surf Nazis Must Die, sets the famous play in Manhattan and renames it Tromeo and Juliet. The aesthetic is similar to other Troma films; horror, sex,
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violence and low-budget special effects are all present. Motorhead’s Lemmy plays the role of the narrator. Tonight at 10, the Cedar Lee Theater screens the movie, and Lloyd Kaufman, the film’s director and the founder of Troma Entertainment, will appear in person for a Q & A after the film. Tickets are $6. (Johnny Cook) 2163 Lee Rd., Cleveland Heights, 440-717-4696, clevelandcinemas.com. MUSIC
Wizbang! Tonight’s Wizbang! performance takes place at 9 at the Beachland Ballroom as organizers Pinch and Squeal (Jason and Danielle Tilk) host a night of vaudeville, burlesque, circus and sideshow acts from Chicago, Philadelphia, Grand Rapids, Detroit and Cleveland. Tickets are $20 in advance, or $25 at the door. (Usmani) 15711 Waterloo Rd., 216-383-1124, beachlandballroom.com. SCIENCE
Yuri’s Night at Great Lakes Science Center Since 2001, an international community of scientists, researchers, and self-styled geeks has been celebrating manned spaceflight with Yuri’s Night, a festive commemoration of where we’ve been and where we yet may go. Tonight at the Great Lakes Science Center, the cosmic cocktail party launches at 7:30 p.m., with live music from Tricky Dick and the Cover-Ups, an open bar with beer and wine, appetizers and specialty bites, a scavenger hunt, a balloon drop and science demonstrations. General admission tickets are $60, or $70 at the door. VIP tickets go for $100. A special designated driver ticket is also available for $40; Science Center members get a discount. (Niesel) 601 Erieside Ave., 216-621-2400, greatscience.com/yurisnight.
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Monsters vs. Grand Rapids Griffins Canines are welcome at today’s hockey game at the Q. Dubbed Pucks & Paws, the matchup between the Monsters and the Grand Rapids Griffins features $5 dog tickets. Patrons will also receive a Players & Pups poster, and the first 1,000 kids ages 14 and under receive a free day pass to Castaway Bay. The $6 Monsters Kids Meals feature a hot dog, chips and a soda. There will also be a postgame skate. Tickets start at $10. (Niesel) 1 Center Court, 216-420-2000, theqarena.com.
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Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble Today at 2 p.m. in the Gartner Auditorium of the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble performs under the direction of Tim Weiss, the recipient of the Adventurous Programming Award from the American Symphony Orchestra League. Today’s program features a preliminary workshop performance of Vijay Iyer’s Violin Concerto (2017), written specifically for violinist Jennifer Koh. Tickets are $10, or free for CMA members and students. (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org. MUSIC
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Gospelfest Akron-based gospel recording artist Jennifer Mekel, the local Olivet Institutional Baptist Church Mass Choir, local psalmist Dexter James and the Case Western Reserve University student gospel choir, Voices of Glory, will join national gospel recording artists Kurt Carr & the Kurt Carr Singers at CWRU’s 11th annual Stephanie Tubbs Jones Gospelfest. The concert starts today at 4 p.m. at the Maltz Performing Arts Center on the CWRU campus. Tickets are sold out. However, a limited number of “standby” seats will be available before the concert at the location. (Niesel) 1855 Ansel Rd., 216-368-6062, case. edu/maltzcenter. NIGHTLIFE
Toxic Burlesque The folks at the local burlesque promotion company Toxic Burlesque have thrown a number of events at Brothers Lounge. According to promoter Frank Ian, who runs the company with his wife, there’s been a “packed house every time.” For tonight’s show, they’ve booked Carmen M’Knoxide, Rubi~Nesque, Lavender Bitters and a few other performers. Champagne Charlie and Joseph Virgo host. The show begins at 8 p.m. and tickets are $15. (Niesel) 11609 Detroit Ave., 216-226-2767, brotherslounge.com.
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Science Cafe The second Monday of each month, Music Box Supper Club hosts Science Cafe, an informal lecture series that brings scientists from throughout the region to the club so they can talk about science topics. Tonight at 7, organizers mark the event’s 1oth anniversary. Rekha Srinivasan from
Case’s chemistry department talks about phytochemical in spices and their properties. Admission is free. (Niesel) 1148 Main Ave., 216-242-1250, musicboxcle.com. FILM
Shot! The Psycho-Spiritual Mantra of Rock As part of the New York Film Critics’ Film Series, Shot! The PsychoSpiritual Mantra of Rock, a new documentary about rock photographer Mick Rock, will screen at 6:30 tonight at the Nightlight in Akron. The movie centers on the British photographer best known for his photographs of classic rock acts such as Queen, David Bowie and Blondie. A fascinating figure in ’70s rock ’n’ roll, Rock admits he considered himself an insider. His photos reflect that mentality. Film critic Shawn Levy will host the screening via a telecast. (Niesel) 30 North High St., Akron, 330-252-5782, nightlightcinema.com.
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Big Oil Whistle Blower A new documentary about the dangers of pipelines, Big Oil Whistle Blower screens twice tonight: first, at the Bop Stop from 6 to 7:30 p.m.; then, at 8 p.m., at the Millard Fillmore Presidential Library in Collinwood. The Possibilities Trio will perform jazz after the Bop Stop screening, and Bert Dennis, Tracy Marie and Erin Nicole Neal of the Chill Factors will perform at the Fillmore screening. Filmmaker and titular whistleblower John Bolenbaugh will be on hand for both screenings. Suggested donation at both venues is $10. (Niesel) 2920 Detroit Ave., 216-771-6551, themusicsettlement.org.
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Indians vs. Chicago White Sox The Cleveland Indians resumed their quest to return to the World Series last week as they opened the regular season on the road against the Texas Rangers and the Arizona Diamondbacks. Today at 4:10 p.m. at Progressive Field, the team plays its home opener against the Chicago White Sox. If anything, the Tribe has only improved with the addition of slugger Edwin Encarnacion and a healthy Michael Brantley. Tickets are sold out, but you can bet every sports bar in town will have the game on its TVs. (Niesel) 2401 Ontario St., 216-420-4487, clevelandindians.com.
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ART ‘AFFECT’ EFFECTS CIA grad Evan Fusco opens empathetic solo show for one night only By Josh Usmani SINCE GRADUATING FROM THE Cleveland Institute of Art’s Sculpture and Expanded Media program in 2016, Evan Fusco has become an active member of the local art community — not so much for showcasing his own artwork, but for his steadfast support of other artists. Whether you’re “Walking All Over Waterloo” or enjoying Third Fridays at 78th Street Studios, there’s a good chance you’ll see Fusco supporting friends and former classmates at various local galleries throughout
Over and over again, After Affects positions the viewer and subject in the same position. For example, a weaving’s title asks “How Do You Keep Yourself Warm?” The weaving includes photographs of people and things that evoke warm feelings in the artist. Through images, objects and a combination of the two, Fusco asks, “Are we then doomed to move through the world, tiny islands of social capital, passively acknowledging those in our digital
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Cleveland. This weekend, Fusco steps into the spotlight with his first solo show since graduation, a onenight-only event from 6 to 10 p.m. on Saturday, April 8. However, it may be his only solo show in Cleveland. Fusco, a native of Philadelphia who came to Cleveland for college, will be attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Fibers and Material Studies graduate program this fall. Fusco’s first individual exhibition since graduating CIA explores the ways we empathize with others in relation to ourselves and with the contemporary context of the internet and social media. “Something very interesting to me, and I believe to be important to understand in relation to empathy, is affect,” Fusco says. “I use the word affect to describe what it is that precedes processed emotion. Affect is of the body whereas emotion is processed and can be easily commodified and misconstrued; how you react to a situation emotionally can be controlled by you or an other, but not how it affects you.” This diverse yet thoughtful exhibition includes works and installations showcasing Fusco’s multidisciplinary background. Unlike traditional gallery exhibitions, After Affects presents intuitive work in a visceral way, with some work presented without conventional framing or installation.
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vicinity? Or is an acknowledging of an other, and an attempt to understand the other the way to break out of that?” After Affects: Or Ways of Seeing Others is in the 1400 Building, next to Zygote Press. Admission is free, but donations will be collected in support of the Refugee Response. Later in April, Fusco returns to the same location to curate Nobody Likes You When You’re 23, a group exhibition by a diverse collective of artists from Northeast Ohio, as well as New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Montana and Montreal. The show’s title is inspired by Blink-182 lyrics, and these artists all share one thing in common: They will all be 23 sometime during 2017. “The idea sprouted from my own disillusionment with the art world as it is established currently,” Fusco says. “As it exists currently, there are many glaring issues that I think only the younger generations will be able to address and fix. Ultimately, I think we see that the art world as it exists today is beyond repair and so we must abandon it and build up our own. For me, as one of those young artists, I look forward to challenging what we think art can or should be, and what the art world can or should be.” Participating artists include Emery Allen, Olive Ayers, Lauren Bailey, Liz Barr, Leonard Baum,
Evan Fusco’s “In Framing (Kathleen),” 2016.
Meghan Calvert, Jillian Carlock and Marco Ciofani among others. “Many artists are making works in mediums they’ve never worked in before, displaying works like they’ve never displayed them before,
these young artists who are often underappreciated, as well as show the straight, white, male art world is a fallacy that can no longer exist.” Another one-night-only pop-up show, Nobody Likes You When You’re
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and showing works they’ve never felt they could before,” says Fusco. “All of the artists in this show work in incredibly disparate mediums and reflect the kind of art world I exist in. It is a diverse group of artists of differing races, genders, sexualities and artistic and societal backgrounds. What I hope this show does is really showcase the amazing talent and intelligence of
23 takes place from 6 to 10 p.m. on Saturday, April 22. The event includes live music from local musicians. While the exhibit is free, donations will be collected to support the performing musicians as well as Preterm Cleveland Ohio and LGBT Cleveland Community Center.
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HAMLETTE? Nope, there’s nothing diminutive about the woman sharing the title role in this Hamlet By Christine Howey JUST SO WE DON’T BURY THE lead, let’s point out that in half of the productions of Hamlet, now at the Great Lakes Theater, the title role is being played by a woman. This is only fair, since back in the day (Shakespeare’s day that is) all the women’s roles were played by teenage boys. This is a meaty role for an actor of any gender, and Laura Welsh Berg (who alternates performances as Hamlet with Jonathan Dyrud) brings a feisty kind of anger to a role that can often get mired in self-reflection. Of course, the soliloquies are the juiciest parts of this play, and Berg handles them with panache. As for the rest of the production, director Charles Fee has turned the GLT stage into a courtroom of sorts, with two sections flanking the center occupied by patrons. At this matinee, there was a rather theatrical dust-up when, during his opening remarks, Fee noted that one of the on-stage seating areas was empty, since some school kids were supposed to sit there and they hadn’t arrived. When Fee inquired whether anyone else would like those seats, a number of people jumped up out of the audience and bolted for the stage as if someone had announced there were hundred dollar bills there for the taking. It was the most highly motivated theater
audience I’ve seen in years. Anyhow, the scenic design by Russell Metheny is simple and serviceable, echoing the design of the original Globe Theatre, with the thrust stage reaching out into the audience and bringing them in. And they should be that close, because this ultimate revenge drama has a lot going on. Right from the beginning, Hamlet is bummed because his father, the King of Denmark, has died. Not only that, his mother Gertrude hasn’t even let the tears on Hamlet’s tunic dry before she weds Claudius, the dead king’s brother who is now the king. And Hamlet is suspicious that Claudius did the deed on daddy. Meanwhile Ophelia, the daughter
The cast does well with this classic material, even though some of the blocking prevents them from engaging as directly as they might. Both kings are handled well, with Lynn Robert Berg taking on the ghostly duties and David Anthony Smith smugly taking over the throne and widow Gertrude, who is played with great clarity and some emotional distance by Laura Perrotta. In the role of Polonius, Dougfred Miller cadges many chuckles from the audience without turning the Lord Chamberlain into a clown. And Christopher Tocco is strong and resolute as Horatio, Hamlet’s close friend. However, as clear and precise as much of the production is, it seems
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of Polonius, is hot to trot with Hamlet, but she is warned that he is slated for king-ship himself and he must marry someone with royal plasma pulsing through his veins. Then the ghost of the dead king appears and drops a dime on Claudius, saying Claudius poisoned him in his sleep. This causes Hamlet to vow revenge and decide to pretend to be crazy so the king won’t see him coming. And then, of course, even more complications ensue.
some of the blood has been drained from the relationships. The one big exception is Erin Partin, who makes Ophelia come vividly to life, and then to death, in the second act. Chances are you know that there are a few bodies littering the stage before the carnage is over in Hamlet, what with people dying from poisoned swords, poisoned wine, and a poisoned royal court. Hey, who knew Denmark was such a hotbed of
scandal and homicide? But it all looks lovely, with Metheney’s faux-candle chandeliers moving up and down to infer different rooms in the castle, and with Kim Krumm Sorenson’s lush costumes. Most importantly, Laura Welsh Berg never makes the trans-casting feel like a gimmick. She wisely doesn’t try to purge herself of all feminine mannerisms, yet she exudes a masculine kind of bravado that works well. Not only that, she brings out the conflicts in Hamlet’s mind, the torturous introspection that has always made this conflicted man such a fascinating character study. With the onstage seating and the mini-frenzy that exploded when those seats were suddenly made available, perhaps Fee has stumbled upon a new way to energize theater audiences. Put a few audience seats onstage for all performances, and then have patrons rush up the aisles to fill them on the count of three. It would be theater in the style of a Le Mans race, and I’m already looking forward to it. Until then, we’ll have to get by with this timeless script and a remarkably solid, handsome production by Great Lakes Theater.
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MOVIES MORE THAN GORE Cannibal flick Raw transcends its gross-out reputation By Sam Allard RAW, THE FRENCH COLLEGEcannibal horror flick from debut writer-director Julia Ducournau, has accrued a notorious reputation on the Euro festival circuit. Tales of nauseous viewers abandoning theaters, and critics vomiting and fainting as they sprinted to the exits at Cannes, have co-opted reports of the film itself. They’ve created a sadistic meta appeal, one that makes conversations about the movie less about its actual content and more about viewers’ ability to withstand. While some remarks about the graphic nature of two or three gruesome scenes in particular are not without merit, they are perhaps overblown. And they obscure the fact that the movie is very, very good — bloody and at times hellaciously unpleasant, but also bold and probing and fearlessly weird. It marks Ducournau instantly as an assured and adventurous voice in a French milieu that has already been known to push boundaries in the horror genre. Raw begins as your standard tale of an innocent teenager — virginal, vegetarian, fastidious in her schoolwork — overwhelmed by a new environment. Namely: college. But in Raw, Justine (Garance Marillier) has not enrolled at your familiar leafy liberal arts university. No no. This is a brutalist industrial
veterinary school, unlike anything you’ve ever seen. The aura is of an institution prepping its cohort for the slaughterhouse, not for suburban clinics that cater to gerbils and terriers. In an early moment that helps establish the atmosphere, a team of students sedates a horse. (This is probably a perfectly routine procedure, but given the nature of the film, it’s somehow horrifying to watch). The school might be the perfect setting for a tortureporno in Eli Roth’s wheelhouse, but Ducournau’s interests are far more literate. In addition to the stark, authoritarian physical vibe, the student body has a proto-fascist bent. The upperclassmen welcome new students in a series of repellant
hazing rituals. First, the rookies’ belongings are pitched from the windows of their tenement dorm rooms; later, they are splashed with animal blood; in an initiation procedure, Justine is forced to eat a raw rabbit kidney. (With all this awful treatment, the biggest question that emerges is why on earth anyone would stay at this place. It beggars belief that Justine’s parents are both alums). As a lifelong vegetarian, Justine suffers a violent reaction to her forced consumption of the kidney. After a nasty rash, she develops an inexplicable hunger for raw meat, which leads (as you may well predict) to the hunger for human flesh. No use denying that the premise is preposterous on the
grounds of realism. But as metaphor or allegory, it’s superb. Justine’s latent cannibalism is presented as merely one on a roster of new and dangerous appetites — from typical college partying, to atypical veterinary partying, to the physical yearning she develops for her gay roommate Adrien (Rabah Nait Oufella). Justine’s sister Alexia (Ella Rumpf) is also enrolled at the school and is, we learn, uniquely qualified to help Justine integrate her new appetites into a functional life. But Justine is disgusted with herself: Ducournou’s savvy commentary on young women and their often tumultuous relationship with self is as raw as the meat Justine consumes. But in the sisters’ relationship too — in fact, perhaps most of all — Raw is unexpectedly lovely. After a bad and very messy decision, Alexia is distraught. Justine helps wash her big sister in the shower, and one recognizes the way these sisters (despite earlier brawls) know each other best, and take care of each other as no one else can. You might think for a moment that they’re merely recovering from a night of heavy drinking ...
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SPOTLIGHT: THE VOID THE VOID, A NEW HORROR FILM from directors Jeremy Gillespie and Steven Kostanski, is much more ambitious in scope than a standard horror flick; unfortunately, those high ambitions cause the film to miss a few of the targets it aims at. The film uses a familiar horror setup: After police officer Carter (Aaron Poole) finds a bloodied man on a deserted road, Carter transports him to a run-down hospital. Soon thereafter, creepy hooded figures surround the hospital, locking the strangers inside together. They have two choices: work together to survive the night, or die. Once the film moves past the
cliches it has set up, it begins to build tension and becomes engaging on its own terms. When the film moves into its last act, however, the narrative tension deflates until the film transforms into a full-blown gore-fest. Fans of the genre won’t mind, but casual viewers might be confused or turned off by the shift. The Void’s main horror plot revolves around a Cthulu-esque cult obsessed with transcending death, but the film never really explains anything about them. In a way, it’s sort of bold; the film doesn’t feel the need to rationalize the horror, which will please some viewers but frustrate those who want the film to answer its
own questions. Overall, The Void hits the mark in some places but misses it in others. For an indie film, the acting is better than expected, and the direction and cinematography are subdued enough not to distract from the movie’s main focus. The practical special effects are also a nice touch; it’s easy to see that the filmmakers have a soft spot for the visceral horror films from the ’70s and ’80s. On the flip side, the writing can feel flat at times, leaving the characters as nothing more than tropes. The film also doesn’t have as much of a narrative pull as other arthouse horror flicks that have come
out recently like Goodnight Mommy or The Witch. The film’s biggest issue is that it doesn’t do much to differentiate itself from influences like The Thing, The Fly, Hellraiser and others. While entertaining, it doesn’t seem to be interested in blazing new trails for the genre. By the time it becomes a showcase for the painstakingly crafted monsters, it’s clear that The Void isn’t more than an homage to the films that birthed it. — Johnny Cook
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EAT BUILD-YOUR-OWN BARGAIN Two new Ohio City-based fast casual eateries offer bang for the buck By Douglas Trattner WHEN FADY CHAMOUN, A Lebanese immigrant, opened the first Aladdin’s Eatery in 1994, the concept of falafel was foreign to just about every Cleveland diner save for those who frequented Tommy’s on Coventry. These days, it is as commonplace as vegans, vegetarians and fast-casual restaurants. Which brings us to Boaz Cafe. Set inside the crisp, glassy former Bonbon Cafe spot, which owner Courtney Bonning closed at the tail end of 2016, Boaz takes all the things we love about Aladdin’s and repackages it for the Millennial Generation. That means diners get precisely what they want: fresh, healthy, flavorful fare that also is speedy, customizable and affordable. In typical fast-casual protocol, orders are placed at the counter and paid for. Diners who select items
off the menu can take a seat in the dining room and wait for the goods. Those who go the BYO route slide over and communicate their wishes to another staffer, who mans a bright, appealing and meticulously maintained station. For just $6, guests can build a bowl overflowing with greens or lentils topped with beef shawarma or grilled chicken, gilded with hummus or baba, and goosed with any of a dozen different perky toppers, chief
among them radishes, pickled turnips and salata, the classic chopped salad of cukes, tomatoes, peppers and herbs. The final step is to add a sauce or dressing like
the rolled pita sandwiches ($5) are present, including those wrapped around falafel, shish tawook and seasoned lamb. And those satisfying hummus plates ($6), creamy
hummus topped with shawarma, grilled chicken or falafel, all are on the billing. Fresh-pressed fruit and vegetable juices and yogurt-enriched smoothies have always been a staple at Aladdin’s. They are here too — except they cost roughly half the price. Drinks like the kale-green Mean and Green, which matches the wall color, cost just two bucks a pop. These days, you can’t open a door without bumping into a vegan, and much of the time that door belongs to Boaz. More than half the items served here are labeled “V” or “VG,” making this breezy new spot one of the most appreciated destinations in town.
HISTORICALLY, WHEN A NEW restaurant opens in Ohio City, locals need to dodge the stampede of foodies eager to check it out. Pretty much the opposite has happened at Pizza Whirl, a modest pizza shop that opened
quietly two months ago. Much of the blame for the radio silence belongs to the location, which sits at the far north end of the action on West 25th Street. Unless you’re going to Tabletop or catching the bus, you will not
happen upon it. When it comes to exceeding a customer’s expectations, the bar can’t be set much lower than zero, which is precisely where ours were positioned when we finally crossed the threshold. But exceed it they did. With all the charm of a strip mall Subway, the physical space will never win any design awards. Guests approach a long counter and build their pizza from the bottom up by selecting a dough (proper or glutenfree), sauce and toppings. All pizzas begin with fresh dough, which is
and jalapenos; meats like bacon, meatballs and white meat chicken; and greens like spinach, basil and arugula. Pies go into the 700-degree pizza oven, which sports a spinning deck (hence the “whirl” moniker), and come out, three minutes later, looking as if they exited the wood-fired oven of a much more illustrious pizzeria. They tasted as good as they looked, sporting a thin, crisp and chewy base dusted in cornmeal. Here’s the kicker: pies start at $6.95 for a one-topper. They climb to $10.95 for predesigned
tahini yogurt, hot sauce or that magical Aladdin’s garlic sauce. The menu, while trimmer than that of the full-service Aladdin’s, won’t disappoint longtime fans. Lentil soup joins stuffed grape leaves, crispy kibbe, fattoush and tabouli in the soup, salad and starter section (all priced $3-$4.50). Most of
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hand-stretched to order, placed on a wooden peel, and designed according to the diner’s specifications. Sauces go from the white-based ricotta garlic cheese to the crimson-hued roasted red pepper cream, with the fresh, light crushed red tomato squarely in the middle. There are roughly two dozen toppings on hand, including veggies like black olives, roasted red peppers
pies like arugula bianca, a white pizza with fresh mozz, Italian prosciutto, truffle oil and arugula, which is astutely added post-bake. If you feel like a salad ($4.95$7.95), those can be built or ordered as is, just like the pies. — Trattner
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sushi stand, which offers an array of cooked or raw sushi and nigiri, was an improvement that management added to keep up with competitors. An updated 90-item salad bar; a sub shop that piles on a third of a pound of lunchmeat with all the fixings; soups and chili; and a vast curated cheese selection greet customers within their first 10 steps through the automatic doors. Keeping with the theme of catering to health conscious and diverse consumers, Maha’s Falafel, a popular Middle Eastern food stand with long roots at the West Side Market, has opened a second location inside Dave’s. They offer freshly made staples like hummus, tabbouleh and baba ganoush in addition to filling falafel and gyro sandwiches. The locations don’t seem to be competing despite their close proximity. “I think that we feed off of each other,” Stueve reports. “People come from miles away to shop at the West Side Market; it’s an event. There’s enough business for all of us. They also don’t have beer or wine.” More than 2,200 bottles of wine can be found just aisles away along with an entire wall of craft beer. New construction has made room for the State Liquor Agency. In addition to his duties as manager, Stueve has become a surrogate sommelier, assisting customers who appear overwhelmed by the selection. The store comes in first for beer and wine sales among the 13 Dave’s locations owned by fifthgeneration grocers, Dan and Steve Saltzman, in Northern Ohio. Characters as colorful as the neighborhood greet Stueve in passing. He has a story about each one of them; after all, he’s built a thriving business around their preferences and personalities for the past decade.
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Heinen’s Downtown (2017 East Ninth St.) and the 9 will serve as host to multiple wine tastings, educational seminars, and a Sunday brunch. The event runs from Friday, April 28 through Sunday, April 30. The weekend kicks off with the Napa Blue Chip Cabernet Sauvignon tasting, an intimate, small-scale occasion that will take place on the third floor of the Rotunda. The price is $125 per person and includes a commemorative Schott Zwiesel wine glass and samples of some of the finest Napa cabs going. This event is limited to 100 guests. “It’s always fun to do Napa, but with the string of great vintages that they have had since the 2012s and continued to the 2016s, it’s really an optimal time to dive in,” notes Thompkins. “There will be 20 different wineries, with a lot of winemakers or owner in attendance. Each will be pouring four wines, one of which will be either a barrel sample or an unreleased vintage so you can get a sneak peak of something.” During the day on Saturday there will be a handful of seminars that dig deeper into a nice selection of wines, wineries, regions and styles. Saturday night is the main event, which will be spread across all three levels of the Rotunda. In addition to the dozens of wineries offering samples of current, rare and unreleased wines, there will be plenty of food prepared by chefs from Heinen’s and the 9. “The food will be off the hook; in fact, I’d say that this is as much a foodie event as it is a wine tasting,” says Thompkins. “Sometimes, at large-scale wine events, the food is arbitrary and is there just to fill you up. But Heinen’s and the guys from the 9 took a lot of care in planning the menu to make sure that these are incredibly wine-friendly foods.” In addition to passed hors
d’oeuvres, a large buffet and carving stations, many wineries will be paired with food stations to offer specific food and wine pairings. For example, J Vineyards Brut will be paired with scallops and Meyer lemon foam, and Paul Hobbs Reserve Cabernet will be poured alongside grilled tri-tip. “That way you get that instantaneous moment of understanding on why certain wines pair with certain foods,” explains Thompkins. Sunday Bubbles Brunch at Adgea will pair a trio of sparklers — blanc de blanc, brut and brut rose — with heavy brunch items.
GAMEKEEPER’S TAVERNE HAS CLOSED AFTER 40 YEARS Gamekeeper’s Taverne, which recently celebrated its 40th anniversary, is closing. In an email to family, friends and longtime customers, management regretted to inform that the Chagrin Falls institution would be closing following last Friday night’s service. “It is truly humbling to hear how much Gamekeeper’s Taverne has meant to so many people over the years,” they write. “But due to circumstances beyond our control we have no choice but to close ... . It’s been a great 40 years but nothing lasts forever. Even good things.” In 2015, the Plain Dealer reported that the property had been sold to Visconsi partnership, a deal that also included the Inn of Chagrin Falls, Little Bar, West End Bistro and Juicy Lucy. At that time, Barry Fader of Visconsi stated that they were not planning any significant modifications to the property.
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MUSIC SMALL TOWN HEROES Country singersongwriters Brandy Clark and Charlie Worsham talk about their coheadlining tour By Jeff Niesel COUNTRY SINGER-SONGWRITER Brandy Clark got her start performing in school musicals. She has blossomed into a superb songwriter; last year’s Big Day in a Small Town features a terrific collection of articulate songs about this American life. Charlie Worsham, another consummate singer-songwriter, will release his new album, Beginning of Things, next month. He’s teamed up with Clark for a co-headlining tour that brings them to House of Blues. In separate interviews, they spoke how they developed their songwriting skills. How do you two know each other? Worsham: We have a lot of serendipitous connections. We have mutual friends who are wonderful people in the Nashville community. Leslie Fram at CMT, we are two of the first singer-songwriters she heard when she moved to Nashville a few years ago. We put out debut albums at about the same time. We had the same process of crazy critical acclaim and the current trend engulfed us like a tidal wave, and we’ve been through the journey of how to be true to ourselves. When I did my Ernest Tubb marathon, she was one of the first people to get back to me. I didn’t know until that night it was her record release date, and she had been going since god knows how early that morning. She was so sweet to come and sing. She just blew everyone away. When conversations started happening amongst both of our teams, it just fell into place naturally, and I couldn’t be more excited. Clark: The first time I met Charlie was at a Christmas party at Leslie Fram’s house. She is the VP of programming at CMT. Her title might even be bigger than that. For me, she was the first person who had any
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power who did something for me to helped move the needle. I think Charlie has a similar experience. I met Charlie and his former manager at the party, and he played that night. We all played that night, and I was blown away by him. I sat up there and played and he jumped in and played with me. That always impresses me because I sure can’t do that. We both love traditional country music. We both love Marty Stuart and Charlie is from Mississippi, the same state as Marty. We wrote together one time and need to do it more. We’re at the same record label now. There are a lot of connections there. The thing I love about having Charlie out is that he’s so great. I know that every night I need to bring my A-plus-plus game because he’s so good. You’re both consummate singersongwriters. What first drew you to singing and songwriting? Worsham: I was always a player, a musician. I took piano lessons in kindergarten and that went a lot better than soccer or karate. It snowballed into banjo. I played more and more and by high school it was a day job, and I started singing by necessity. We had four 45-minute sets in the night and the other guys in the band needed someone to help. At the same time, during my high school years, I acquired some recording equipment from Norbert Putnam, who happened to live in my home town of Grenada, Mississippi. He’s a famous session musician and producer. I started writing songs because I ran out of cover songs to record. By the time I was at college in Boston, I started to take the writing seriously.
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Clark: First, as a kid, I was drawn to singers and songs. I didn’t know songs were written. I thought they were always just in the world. Once I found out that they didn’t just exist, I was amazed by that. I started writing songs at an early age. For me, the movie Coal Miner’s Daughter about Loretta Lynn and seeing her in her garden writing a song was an important moment. Do you recall the first song you wrote? Worsham: Absolutely. There were three. There was one called “Breaking All the Rules” and there were two jingles. There’s something to be said for jingle writing. You only have to write 30 seconds of music, and I convinced the local feed store and the local hair salon to pay me a hundred bucks each to have the jingle and play it on the local radio station. That was the first time I heard something I’d written on the radio. Clark: I kind of remember it a little bit. It was called “Pieces of Heart.” Two movies affected me as much as anything. One was Coal Miner’s Daughter and the other was Sweet Dreams about Patsy Cline. I would try to write songs like the ones in those two movies. I was a 9-year-old trying to write these heartache songs. Talk about how growing up where you did contributed to your approach. Worsham: It was a seminal part of how I discovered and grew with music. In Mississippi, there’s a lot you can point to in our past that’s not so great. We’ve had our struggles as a
state and have done plain-out wrong things. Somehow, throughout our history, we’ve maintained this thread of musical culture, from Jimmie Rodgers, the father of country music, to BB King, the king of the blues, to Elvis Presley, the king of rock ’n’ roll. Clark: I grew up in a very small town and I think that shaped me a lot. It was a blue-collar town where most everyone’s dad is a logger. It’s a dangerous job and a hard job. It has a lot to do with the things I write about and the way I approach songwriting. I can’t imagine having grown up any other place. How did the songs for your latest album start to come together? Worsham: I put out my debut album, Rubber Band, and the second single died in the middle of an 18-month touring marathon I was on. I learned the hard lesson that I had to write a new record, and I had another nine months of touring. I was touring with Sam Hunt. Nobody knew who would blow up and who wouldn’t. My first single died and he was on a meteoric rise. I was in a frustrated place where I didn’t feel like I was connecting with the audience. When I came off the road, a handful of people did the right thing. Cris Lacy, who’s my A&R person, and John Esposito, the head of the label, sat down with me and they didn’t send me off to write with this songwriter or that hit producer. They told me to take all the time I wanted. They wanted me to make Charlie music. Thus began the quest. I picked up some notebooks, and I promised to fill the page with a truth every day. | clevescene.com | April 5 -11, 2017
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MUSIC Clark: I wrote them over a long time period. Some of the songs on Big Day were written before 12 Stories came out. It will be the same with my next record. There are songs that are floating up for me now. I try to think of a concept and build around that. When I wrote the song “Big Day in a Small Town,” it was right after 12 Stories was either finished or had come out. I thought it would be a great record. I started to build around that.
singles, I wouldn’t be successful at that. Maybe it’s because I always loved records. I want songs on the record that wouldn’t have a chance of being commercially successful. You’re still really connected to your hometown. Talk about why that’s important. Has “Broke” made its way into your sets? Worsham: It’s the most important thing. In a lot of ways, I won the lottery to do what I love for a living. And yet, I’ve started referring to my job as fundraising for the humanbeing work I do. Obviously, this can tie into where we are as a country politically speaking. We’re so divided.
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You write albums, not singles. Talk about why that’s important to you. Worsham: That’s another lesson that Frank taught me. I think Brandy picked up that too. Just when you think making albums doesn’t matter, that’s when you go and make a great album. I grew up listening to commercial music. I grew up country. My uncle cuts his hair with the dog sheers. Whatever I write will be country. The singles can grow in album dirt, but you can’t grow albums in single dirt. It doesn’t work the other way around. Clark: I have to think in a record. I don’t think I would be a good artist to just cut singles. If you asked me to show who I am in one song. I could do that. But to cut four songs that are
And I see things that frustrate me, and I do know that my job as a citizen is to speak up, but I think the most effective thing to do is to go local and go back home. Nobody knows what it’s like to be a kid in Grenada like I do. The truth is that I get more out of [my charity] that anyone else. It connects me with my inner child and keeps me sane in many ways. Clark: It’s where I come from and where I would go if the bottom fell out of everything. I feel supported by the people there, and my mom still lives there. I think that has a lot to do with it too. It’s where I think about going for Christmas and that kind of stuff.
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THE FINAL BAD BOYS OF BLUES JAM NIGHT at Parkview Nite Club went off with a bang March 29, after more than 20 years of weekly gatherings and some of the finest blues in the city. The band will host Wednesday-night jams just up West 58th Street, at Happy Dog, beginning April 12. Here, several musicians assemble into one of the evening’s ad hoc bands, sometime around 1 a.m.
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MUSIC THEIR TIME OF THE SEASON The Zombies to play Odessey and Oracle in its entirety one last time By Jeff Niesel MORE THAN 50 YEARS AFTER they became one of the first British Invasion groups to top the U.S. singles charts, the Zombies, who were recently nominated for the second time for induction into the Rock Hall (they fell short of getting the votes needed to make the final cut), have announced they’ll embark on one last version of the tour that includes a full-album performance of Odessey and Oracle. All four surviving members of the group (Colin Blunstone on lead vocals, Rod Argent on keyboards and vocals, Chris White on bass and vocals and Hugh Grundy on drums) will perform. The tour marks the album’s 50th anniversary. Argent says playing the album in its entirety has proven to be a challenge that the group relishes. “We have done it a few times over the past few years with the original members, Chris White and Huge Grundy as well as Paul Atkinson, who unfortunately has since passed away,” he says in a recent phone interview from New Jersey where the tour was about to begin. “It’s the original surviving members plus our original touring band, so we can reproduce every note and every overdub. After this tour, we’ll draw a line under it, and we don’t do it anymore. I’m proud of it, and I love doing it, but you can’t just go back 50 years and continue doing it.” When the band went into the studio in 1967 to record the album, Argent says it didn’t intend to break any new ground. Financial struggles meant that the group intended to give things one last go and continue to explore the kind of psychedelic pop music found on its previous album with the hope that the public would respond. The public didn’t, at least not upon the disc’s initial release. “At the time, we were very much based in the U.K.,” says Argent. “We found out later that we had hits around the world, but we didn’t know that at the time. Our gigs were paying less and less money. For those reasons, and those reasons only, it was in the air that the band might split up. Chris and I were desperate to produce our own songs.
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We were frustrated in the way our singles were produced. We wanted to get down our own vision on tape. We didn’t deliberately do anything differently. We were just trying to fully flower what we thought was there in the first place.” Argent and fellow songwriter White aspired to capture the zeitgeist of the late ’60s, a time when the Beatles, the Beach Boys and Jimi Hendrix pushed rock’s boundaries and ventured into uncharted musical territory. “It was a wonderful period for pop music,” says Argent. “It felt like anything was possible. The things that Brian Wilson and the Beatles were doing at the time
were incredible. It felt like you could experiment, and the public was willing to embrace what you were doing in a way that doesn’t seem to be the case now. The album died but came back to life years later when people like Paul Weller and Tom Petty started talking about it.” Recording at Abbey Road studios certainly helped. “It’s my understanding we were the first artist allowed to use Abbey Road that weren’t EMI artists,” says Argent. “As the Beatles walked out, we walked in. They just finished Sgt. Pepper’s. We reaped the advantages of what the Beatles had done.” A last-minute addition to the album, “Time of the Season,” a trippy
tune that alternates between spoken and sung vocals, created an argument between Argent, who wrote the track, and Blumstone, who sang it. “I wrote it quickly and was pleased with it. I remember playing it to Chris White,” says Argent. “I thought it could be a hit. No one else shared that feeling. I’m a stickler for detail for the things I write. Colin wanted to phrase it differently. He said, ‘If you’re so fucking good, you sing it.’ I told him I couldn’t sing it. In the end, we got there, and he did a beautiful job of it. There was all this swearing back and forth.” Because the album didn’t immediately become a hit, the band split up and members pursued solo projects. Argent had a great amount of success with Argent, a prog rock band that yielded hits such as “Hold Your Head Up” and “God Gave Rock and Roll to You.” After decades apart, the band reunited in 2008 for a three-night series of concerts at London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire Theatre that drew celebrities such as Robert Plant and Paul Weller. “Those shows were great,” says Argent. “If we were to do it, we wanted to do it as exactly as possible. About an hour before the show, people kept rushing in to say all the guests who were there. We started to get really panicked. I thought if we went out on stage and it was rubbish, it will the longest night of our lives. Within 40 seconds, we knew we would have a ball.” The group has toured ever since. The current jaunt will coincide with the release of a book Odessey and Oracle lyrics, as well as many of their other popular songs, handwritten by the authors. It will include original artwork from Terry Quirk, who created the iconic cover, and Vivienne Boucherat, who created individual works for each song. The book will also feature anecdotes about the songs and their recording. “In some way or another we seem to be able to relate to a younger generation as well as to older people,” says Argent. “That’s a real privilege.”
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MUSIC BACK TO THE BEGINNING Rosavelt’s Chris Allen revisits the local band’s debut By Jeff Niesel bass on that. We had tried to go to Suma the year before and had tracked it. That was one of those songs that Kevin Grasha played at the rehearsal space, and I thought it was a hit. It led to our future sound. Keith adds a lot to it and that led to him joining us full-time when the record came out.
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IN 1996, LOCAL SINGER-GUITARIST Chris Allen formed Rosavelt with friends from Cleveland and Cincinnati. The group drew comparisons to alt-country acts such as Son Volt, Whiskeytown and Wilco. But Allen and his bandmates didn’t benefit from the accolades. The band would eventually splinter, but it reunited a few years ago and continues to play Cleveland at least a couple of times a year. The current incarnation — Allen, singerguitarist Kevin Grasha, bassist Tom Perish, drummer Fred Perez-Stable and pedal steel player Al Moss — celebrates the 20th anniversary of its debut, 1997’s Carp & Bones, at the Music Box Supper Club on April 8 where it’ll play the album in its entirety. Originally released to rave reviews, the 10-song album garnered some high praise from No Depression, a magazine dedicated to alt-country, which proclaimed that in an ideal world, “the incredibly catchy [tune] ‘Late Great Singer’ would rule radio stations across the country.” The band recorded the disc at Suma Recording in Painesville with engineer Paul Hamman. “To us, that was the studio to go to,” says Allen of Suma. “We moved up from Cincinnati in 1996 and did our first gig as a three-piece with no bass. After playing Peabody’s, we knew we needed bass because some songs were going in a rock direction.” As a result, bassist Vance Wissinger guests on the album. Over a couple of beers at the Swinging Door in Rocky River, Allen recently talked about each track on the album. “Dexadrine Lover” [Singer-guitarist] Kevin [Grasha] wrote this one. We were talking to [engineer] Paul [Hamman], and we wanted the intro to sound like it was on an AM radio. He put us on an AM radio and then recorded it that way. It was on some station really left of the dial. He tracked that and mixed it. That’s the beginning of the record. It was a staple for opening the live shows. We would start with it and then just want to play everything loud and fast.
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“Carp & Bones” We were scheduled to do a gig in Cincinnati, and our van broke down just outside Cleveland so we cancelled the gig and came back to Cleveland. I was playing pool at the Five O’Clock in Lakewood, and this girl told this story about how her boyfriend had died, and they found him in the river. I went home that night and, bang, the song was there. It took us into hippie territory, for better or worse. At Suma, the playback speakers were amazing and when we heard it cranked on the speakers, we knew it was the album’s title. “Impossible Me” This is one of my favorite Rosavelt songs. It started as a stream-ofconsciousness dreamy pop thing. It has some great electric guitar textures. I remember tracking it as the sun was going down. We did
Rosavelt canon. I had written it when I was 21. It was written a couple of years before the album. I was at the Parkview and was going to stay in town for the holidays. Some girl was driving to Cincinnati, and I just got in the car with her and went with her. I wrote it on New Year’s Eve. Whenever I think of that song, I think of a nighttime mood. It’s set right before the dawn. “Eleanor” That’s where we got the name of the band from. There were references to presidents in many of our songs, and this song had a reference to Eleanor Roosevelt. That was a big vocal showcase for Kevin live. “Satellite Chevy” This is the only song that we kept the original format with no bass. It was recorded live with acoustic vocals and Austin Walkin’ Cane, who plays on it, had gotten
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guitars, bass and drums live and would overdub the vocals. I’m stoked about playing this song at the Music Box. Because of our rock nature, it fell off the set list, and it shouldn’t have.
his left leg removed. He shouldn’t have been out of the house. He played dobro on that for us. We wanted to bring in a ringer on a few things. Hearing the track now, it sounds like that.
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“Lonely” That’s Keith Hanna playing
“These 2 Hands” I was living in Cincinnati, and I was snowed in for three days and wrote this and “Satellite Chevy” on the same day. The Suma studio had bigger amps than we had, so we cranked the amps. It was one of our angriest moments on record and when we played it live, we’d always have to change strings on the guitar after that. Songs like this made me wonder why the alt-country tag stuck. This song describes what we thought we were. It’s our love of Replacements and R.E.M. combined. We worked with each other on the guitar parts and vocals arrangements, and it became more complicated as time went on. Kevin Grasha and I would play together and sit face to face for hours changing things until we agreed that the other person’s part was exactly right. “Everytimeitrytosleep” Kevin Grasha sings this song, which is a companion piece to “Impossible Me.” We used a lot of feedback, and we used the ambiance of the studio. “Sink Me Higher” We recorded this song ourselves and ran mics out to the backyard. We heard crickets and figured they’d be on the record whether we wanted them to be or not, so we put a mic on them. I did a live take. As I was doing that, Kevin [Grasha] was playing his slide guitar part, and Keith Hanna laid down some additional guitar, and we mixed it at Suma. It was played one time for the album. The second time it’s ever played will be at the Music Box.
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Charlie Hunter: 8 p.m., $20. Nighttown. Jam Night with the Bad Boys of Blues: 9 p.m., free. Brothers Lounge. Pasta/Psycho Plantation/Brothers at Arms: 7 p.m., $12 ADV, $15 DOS. Agora. Mark Russo Quartet: 8 p.m., $10. Bop Stop. Sassafras/Earphorik/The Cat’s Meow: 9 p.m., $8 ADV, $10 DOS. Grog Shop. Talking Heads Tribute by Start Making Sense: 8 p.m., $12 ADV, $15 DOS. Music Box Supper Club.
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shows a knack for blending strings, keys and percussion. One might be tempted to use the word “lush,” in fact. Elsewhere, “I Could Make You So Happy” takes a downtempo approach to the swirl of emotions that comes with romance. (Sandy) 8 p.m., $10. Musica. Jukebox the Ghost/The Elwins/Front Porch Lights: 9 p.m., $16 ADV, $18 DOS. Grog Shop. Kamal Abdul-Alim: 9 p.m., free. The Euclid Tavern. Appetite For Destruction: The Ultimate Tribute To Guns & Roses: 8 p.m. Akron Civic Theatre. Pete Cavano & Friends: 8:30 p.m., $10. Nighttown. Clocks In Motion: 8 p.m., $15. Bop Stop. King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard/ Orb/Stonefield: 8:30 p.m., $12 ADV, $14 DOS. Beachland Ballroom. MojoFlow: 9 p.m., $5. Brothers Lounge. Rumbling Spires/The Attitude: 9 p.m., $5. Happy Dog. Sinatra Night with Michael Sonata (in the Supper Club): 8 p.m., $10. Music Box Supper Club. Six Organs of Admittance/Istvan Medgyesi: 8:30 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Beachland Tavern. Moss Stanley: 10:30 p.m., free. Nighttown. Moss Stanley Duo (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m. Brothers Lounge. State Champs/Against the Current/ With Confidence/Don Broco: 6 p.m., $19.99 ADV, $24 DOS. The Agora Theatre. tobyMac: 7 p.m. Wolstein Center. Who’s Bad: 8 p.m., $12-$18. House of Blues.
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seven to eight tunes that it recorded at Central 8 Studios in Akron. “It’s a different sounding album,” Luminari says of the disc that’s due out this summer.
JUST THE TWO OF THEM: The Akronbased hip-hop group started as a duo. Best friends for years, Luminari and Styxx began performing together and even recorded an EP together before they recruited the group’s other members. Luminari explains that Styxx originally wanted to play a variety of instruments like Prince. “That was a fragile blueprint of what we wanted to do,” he says, “and then we went to an open mic and met the other guys and rehearsed, and it was a no-brainer.” Then, three years ago, the group expanded its lineup. “The other musicians came around through our church,” says Luminari. “Anytime we needed to do a live performance, we recruited these guys. They’re like Styxx’ little brothers. We did more and more shows and wanted to make it a five-piece.” The band’s music draws equally from the Roots, Phish, Rage Against the Machine and N.E.R.D. “I started everything because of [N.E.R.D. rapper and songwriter] Pharrell [Williams],” says Luminari. “I grew up listening to him.”
WHY YOU SHOULD HEAR THEM: A jazzy number that draws equally from funk and rock, “Hulk Hogan” features tongue-twisting lyrics and a propulsive beat. “Party Time, Excellent” includes flourishes of guitar and a spacey R&B-inspired interlude that sounds like something Herbie Hancock might’ve played with the Headhunters in the ’70s. “It’s an example of the new sound,” Luminari says of “Party Time.” “The drummer is flourishing in that tune. Throughout our sets, we try to give everyone a solo. Our bassist is really good too. We’ll feature him on a song and our keyboardist on a couple of other songs. The bassist and keyboardist work really well together. Our bass player studies Ray Charles and he can switch to new R&B. Our guitarist goes to Youngstown State and studies jazz. We’ll have a rough draft of the idea and he’ll work with us to expand the idea.”
MORE MUSIC ON THE HORIZON: In 2014, the band issued the EP One Night Standard. “We still play the songs on the EP but they sound different now that we play them as a band,” says Luminari. Last summer, it followed up the EP with the single, “Party Time, Excellent.” It’s currently wrapping up recording an album of
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