THE ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF THE CLEVELAND ACCENT (Yes, Cleveland, you have an accent)
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The origins and evolution of the Cleveland accent (yes, you have an accent, Cleveland)
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UPFRONT CHARGES DISMISSED IN LONG-RUNNING EAST CLEVELAND 3 MURDER TRIAL Photo by Eric Sandy
THIS WEEK, THE STATE OF OHIO formally dismissed the murder charges against Eugene Johnson, Derrick Wheatt and Laurese Glover, aka the “East Cleveland 3.” Their new trial began and ended Monday, after a long and circuitous process stemming from their original 1996 murder convictions. “You’re free to go,” Judge Nancy Russo told the men as the formalities were dealt with and the path toward freedom lit up with camera flashes and applause. “I wish all three of you the best.” The men were freed from prison one year ago, but spent the interim fighting for a new trial to clear their names. Finally, this week’s business took care of that officially. Russo also made sure to note the work of both the prosecution and the defense in bringing this resolution to fruition. “I think you did the right thing,” she told the prosecutor. “Too infrequently do people give credit for people doing the right thing.” Immediately after the brief hearing, the men took a few questions from reporters and then embraced nearby family and friends. “It was a journey,” Johnson said, adding that this past year has been the longest time he’s spent as a free man since he was 15. “I’m taking it one day at a time.”
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Good day, campers, and happy first week of school to all ye CMSD argonauts and argonaut-parentals. The good news these days is that the Indians are still in first place, the late-summer monsoons have arrived in force and the deepSaharan Great Lakes drought is, at
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Eugene Johnson, Derrick Wheatt and Laurese Glover, the ‘East Cleveland 3,’ left the Justice Center this week completely free from their odyssey in the courts.
last, in the blessed rear view. The bad news is that, as promised, the Cleveland Teachers Union (CTU) called for a strike at its meeting Monday night. Though classes across the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) resumed Monday, the most recent teachers’ contract expired June 30, and sides failed to come together over the summer on a few key issues. Despite three days of in-depth negotiations last week, as reported by the Plain Dealer, the contract remains unresolved. In a statement Tuesday morning, CTU president David Quolke said
the strike would begin on Thursday, September 1. “Issuing a notice to strike is not an easy thing to do,” he said. “It is our hope that the CMSD and the mayor will commit to using the next two weeks to resolve the contract… We seek a contract that addresses the many concerns our educators have voiced over the broken promises of the last three years. All throughout this process, CTU has fought for a contract that is good for kids and fair for educators and we will not take a contract back to the membership
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Tribe starting pitcher Carlos Carrasco formally becomes U.S. citizen. When asked how he plans to celebrate, Carrasco simply threw a two-seamer at a Trump Fathead in the bullpen.
Local news media debate whether woman was punched or slapped by Cleveland law enforcement official. In other words, this is “The Dress” playing out under a consent decree.
State Auditor David Yost calls CMSD technology rebate scandal “stupid...not criminal.” When pressed, Yost adds that he just flips a coin to describe anything CMSD does as one or the other.
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that does not meet that standard.” Predictably, chief among the sticking points is teacher compensation. Right now, teachers are given raises based exclusively on ratings in annual evaluations. Those evaluations are determined, in large part, by student test scores. Though Cleveland teachers make comparatively good money, (median salary: $76,652), they’d prefer that additional factors -outside coursework, teaching in low-performing schools, for example -- be factored into the compensation calculus.
QUALITY OF LIFE With the right eyes, you can almost see the dumpster fire looming o’er FirstEnergy Stadium.
RTA FARE INCREASES NOW LIVE! More sad news on the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (RTA) front this week, as well, though RTA has proven to be nothing if not a font of melancholia in 2016: The fare increases and service cuts, about which abundant public meetings were mounrfully convened, are now in effect. On Sunday, standard one-way fares were bumped from $2.25 to $2.50, all-day passes went from $5.00 to $5.50 and the monthly passes shot up considerably, from $85.00 to $95.00. Park-n-Ride and Paratransit fares were likewise elevated. The fare increases are the first such increases in seven years, and represent but one invasive prong in a multi-pronged effort by RTA to dry the tears of its weeping budgetary ducts. The increases, in fact, are only the first in a two-tier implementation strategy. In the current vision, fares will be raised again in 2018, but do be forewarned: Given the potentially calamitous financial outlook, thanks to the restructuring of Ohio tax law, RTA may yet tinker with that vision. Gird your loins and listen to this hot bit of perspective: In 2018, after the second round of increases, the monthly RTA pass will cost $105.00 for a regular rider. That’s only $11.50 less than an unlimited 30-day MetroCard in New York City, and $5 more than a monthly pass on Chicago’s expansive CTA system. RTA CEO Joe Calabrese has said that as much as 10 percent of current routes and hundreds of jobs could be cut to balance the books when the authority loses $4.5 million in 2017 and $18 million in 2018. For now,
SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT SUPERVISOR FIRED AFTER REPEATED USE OF EXCESSIVE FORCE Brendan Johnson had spent the last 16 years working for the Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Department in the county jail. The first ten of those came as a corrections officer. The last six, since a promotion in September of 2010, as a supervisor — corrections officer corporal. That all ended on June 23, 2016, when he was fired after repeated use of excessive force against inmates in his protection. Two of those incidents occurred in the same week of March earlier this year. The details, as spelled out in a dismissal letter from the county’s HR department and obtained by Scene through a public records request, are disturbing, to say the least. They include using “pepper foam” on two female inmates without provocation and aggressive, egregious physical violence despite the lack of any threatening behavior from the victims. “On or about May 11, 2016, an inmate alleged [sic] was being physically assaulted while in your custody,” the letter reads. “Upon review of the surveillance footage dated May 8, 2016, you were observed deploying oleoresin capsicum ‘pepper foam’ on said inmate in the face and head area without provocation and without giving any verbal instructions or direction prior to deployment. Immediately preceding the incident the inmate simply stated that she did not want to speak with you and
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about three percent of underused routes have been axed or modified to save money on fuel and shave precious minutes off loops, thereby maximizing efficiency. But the fare increases and service cuts arrive at shall we say a suboptimal time: The city purports to be soul-searching while it amasses “baseline data” about traffic patterns on Public Square where RTA buses are, bewilderingly, no longer welcome. Mayor Frank Jackson has decided that he’d prefer if the $50 million Public Square that was designed specifically for bus traffic didn’t allow buses on Superior after all. Anyway, the city’s gathering intel about how severe the pain in the ass will be. And every day they do, RTA’s losing more money. What a year to be a sentient creature in Northeast Ohio! Paddle onward we must!
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CMSD spokeswoman Roseann Canfora lamented, on behalf of the district, that parties had spent “hundreds of hours” at the bargaining table and only had a few items left to resolve: “It is unfortunate, therefore, that the CTU has chosen to put its efforts toward a strike rather than working to resolve the few remaining items.” Quolke said that he’s hopeful negotiations can continue, strike notwithstanding, but no new sessions have been scheduled. On the horizon, of course, is the renewal of the Cleveland school levy, originally passed in 2012, that will appear on the ballot in 2016. David Quolke and the CTU gang want nothing more than to help campaign for the levy, he said, and it is therefore “essential” to settle these contractual disputes post-haste.
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was looking down at the floor, posing no threat to you. Your actions were abusive and unnecessary. After you pepper foamed the inmate you stated ‘I told you I’d get you.’” A second similar incident is noted in the letter. “Upon review of surveillance dated May 10, 2016 for another inmate who was placed in lockup, you responded to a backup call in which you gave instruction and directions to this inmate who appeared to comply. However in the midst of this inmate undressing you swept her legs from beneath her and abruptly and forcefully dropped her to the floor. You then deployed pepper foam to her facial area. Again, the inmate posed no threat to you prior to your actions.” The county’s Director of Human Resources, Egdilio Morales, sums up the actions thusly in the certified letter: “Your behavior was egregious and completely unacceptable. For the reasons stated herein, you are terminated from employment with Cuyahoga County.” The dismissal came after Johnson was placed on paid administrative leave on May 18 as the allegations surfaced and an investigation began. But it wasn’t the first time Johnson was cited for using excessive force
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on the job. Just a year prior, he was placed on a three-day unpaid suspension from August 10 through August 12, 2015. The reason for that suspension is noted in another certified letter from the county. “On or about April 14, 2015, a public records request was submitted to the Sheriff’s Department on behalf of a previous inmate who claimed he was injured while in custody on March 9, 2015. Upon review of surveillance footage in the Medical dispensary area, you were observed taking hold of an inmate by his shirt, pulling him from his chair, and dragging him across the floor out of view of camera. This use of force could have been avoided had you given the inmate an opportunity to comply with your verbal orders, which, was established, were not given and afforded to the inmate.” Johnson’s HR file includes years of exemplary and above average reviews from his Superiors. In recent years, Sergeants tasked with reviewing his work gave him excellent ratings across the board and recommended he take the Sergeants exam for further promotion opportunities. His 2015 mid-year review notes: “Cpl. Johnson is a excellent supervisors [sic] and manager his ability [sic] to handle
multiple situations, along with his communication skills have aloud him [sic] to standout [sic] among his fellow Corporals. I would like to see you take the Sergeant exam. Take more of a role in working with the junior Corporals.”
CROP ROCKS, CROP STICKS CLOSING Following on the heels of the recent shuttering of Crop Kitchen at Uptown in University Circle, Scene just learned that Crop Rocks and Crop Sticks in Flats East Bank will close on September 11. This is according to an employee that works there and wishes to remain anonymous. Staffers were informed of the decision earlier this week. Chef Steve Schimoler is on a sixmonth sabbatical in Italy. We’ll be working this story as details unfold, including plans for the soon-to-be vacant spaces. According to Denny Young, President of The Elevation Group, the event company that books shows, On Air Studio will continue to present shows in the adjacent space.
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THAT CLEVELAND SOUND The origins and evolution of the Cleveland accent (yes, you have an accent, Cleveland) By Jack Buehrer UNTIL BRIDGET VANDENHAUTE started college, no one had ever told her she sounded funny when she talked. Growing up near Medina in Hinckley Township, she’d rarely been around anyone who spoke any differently than she did. But in 2011, she moved to Athens to attend Ohio University and noticed the accents immediately. She heard the subtle Southern lilt of Cincinnati, the brusqueness of southeastern Ohio Appalachia, and the head-scratching yinz from OU’s Pittsburgh contingent. Only she was the one who got teased. “It started right away, and at least at first, it was constant,” VanDenHaute, now 24, says today. “Before college, I guess I was a bit of a homebody and never really went that far away. No one had ever
brought up how I sounded before.” It was the worst in the dorms. For the first couple of years, a week would rarely pass when someone didn’t point out her hard, nasally a’s or her short o’s, which sounded as though they were coming from all the way in the back of her throat and, somehow, sounded more like an a. “I heard it all the time,” she remembers. “‘Say mom!’ or, ‘Say lasagna !’ and I’d do it and they’d laugh. “A lot of the time it was from my friends who were from Columbus or Cincinnati — who I thought sounded funny. But I’d get it from people who weren’t from Ohio too. Those were the ones who really pissed me off. You want to say, ‘You’re the ones who sound different, not me!’” Then, one day, she did.
One night while out at the bars, after being asked about her accent for what felt like the millionth time, she took to Twitter and fired off what may as well be a rallying cry for Northeast Ohioans who feel just like her: “Im sick of being told i have an accent,” she wrote. “Bitch, im from cleveland, you have the accent.” Talk to people from all over the Greater Cleveland area and you’ll hear two things: A distinct Cleveland accent (sorry, folks), and a chorus of denials that such an accent exists. So let’s first dispense with the fiction that Clevelanders don’t speak in a way that is noticeable to anyone who grew up elsewhere, including other regions of Ohio. We do. And it is. How it got here, how it developed, and how it has spread over time has
fascinated linguists for years. And as it turns out, Cleveland is one of a dozen or so cities along the Great Lakes that have, over the past half century, been part of the largest transformation of spoken English in more than a thousand years. In the late 1960s, a linguist at the University of Pennsylvania named William Labov began noticing a series of changes in vowel pronunciations among speakers in the Midwest. He would eventually call these changes the Northern City Vowel Shift, later abbreviated to the Northern Cities Shift, known in linguistic circles as simply NCS. The pocket of the country that is home to this shift — called the Inland North Region — stretches from Syracuse, New York, in the east to Milwaukee in | clevescene.com | August 17 - 23, 2016
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FEATURE the west, and includes some areas from Green Bay in the north to St. Louis in the south. Other major cities in the NCS region include Chicago, Madison, Toledo, Detroit, and, you guessed it, Cleveland. In all, it’s a territory of more than 88,000 square miles containing more than 34 million English speakers who, today, likely sound drastically different than their great-grandparents did. The Northern Cities Vowel Shift is an example of what linguists call a “chain shift,” and in this case, it all starts with the short ‘a’ sound. As Labov wrote in The Politics of Language Change: Dialect Divergence in America, “The initiating event appears to be the shift of short-a in bat to … sound very much like the vowel of yeah. It is not just this one word, bat … but all words spelled with short-a: cad, bad, that, cat, attitude, cap, happen, happening, etc.” What this means is that speakers in Cleveland, and elsewhere in the NCS region, are almost adding an extra syllable when we say those words and others like them. To use Labov’s example, if you insert the word “yeah” into the middle of the word “cat,” you come up with something that sounds like “c-yeah-t” (or keeyat). While this dialect shift wasn’t detected until the 1960s, linguists believe it has roots that go back as far as the construction of the Erie Canal, which, in the mid-19th century, brought tens of thousands of immigrants from the East — especially the Northeast — to various points along what we now know as the Rust Belt. By the beginning of the 20th century, cities like Cleveland, largely populated by Yankees who had moved from New York and New England to settle the Western Reserve, had become home to tens of thousands of Irish, Italian, German, and Eastern European immigrants. Each brought their own language and a modest understanding of English to a region already populated by settlers who spoke a Northeastern version of American English. Something had to give. “Language is going to change pretty quickly when you get all these non-native speakers together,” says Dennis Preston, who teaches sociolinguistics and perceptual
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linguistics at Oklahoma State University. These new, non-native speakers from the East especially struggled with what is called the “low front vowel,” or the short ‘a’ sound heard in words like bag, cat and hat. “That vowel didn’t exist in any of their native languages, so they did what any of us would do — they went for what sounded closest,” Preston says. So among the growing immigrant population, hat became something closer to hot, cat became cot, and so on. Not surprisingly, the native speakers who were already there mocked them. “They’d open their mouths and get laughed at and called dagos and polacks,” Preston says. “So that first generation wanted to rid themselves of this accent, but then the second generation came along and started to overcorrect. Instead of replacing ‘hat’ with ‘hot,’ they started saying ‘h-yeah-t.’ This triggered the whole rotation.” Once the short a sound began to change, the other vowels fell like dominoes. The shift in the ‘a’ sound created something of a phonetic vacancy in our mouths. So to fill that void, the vowel sound in the word “cot,” for instance, slid forward, and eventually we were saying cat to mean that extra bed a hotel offers when you have three or more people in your room. Pretty soon, our c-yeah-ts were sleeping on our cats. Welcome to Cleveland. You’ll rarely find a native of New York, or Boston, or Texas who is unaware of how the rest of the country hears his speech. Clevelanders, on the other hand, tend to be more like VanDenHaute. Most people in Northeast Ohio seem either oblivious to their native and natural dialect, vigorously defensive of what they believe is their “normal speech,” or some combination of both. I was talking recently with an acquaintance of mine at the eastside pub where he works as a bartender. He conceded that there is certainly a Cleveland accent, but is adamant that he doesn’t have one (he does). This bartender, who asked that I not use his name, grew up in Mayfield, but went to college in the South and lived there for several years after. His accent is subtler than most Clevelanders’,
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FEATURE and, perhaps not surprisingly, it now works in concert with the slight drawl he picked up in his years below the Mason-Dixon line, but it’s there. Because of course it is. As we conversed over drinks, a couple of men at the other end of the bar started listening. “We don’t have an accent,” one interjected eventually. He said he used to live out West and when people would tell him that he “talked funny” he’d tell them they were crazy. “The Midwest is where there is no accent.” His friend jumped in: “No, I think there’s a Midwest accent, but we don’t have it here in Cleveland. There’s no such thing as a ‘Cleveland accent.’ People say that all the time, but it’s a Midwest accent. Go to Chicago or Detroit. It’s there.” “You don’t hear it here too?” I asked. “I hear how we talk,” the first man said. “And we talk how we talk. But it’s not an accent.” Very well, then. Those late-night barflies aren’t
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alone. I recently mentioned to my mother, who was born in southern Indiana but raised mostly in northwest Ohio, that I was working on an article about the “Cleveland accent.” She replied: “But people
There’s this myth that the Midwest is where there is no discernable accent, but that’s just not true.” McGee, who also teaches acting and works as a dialect coach, grew up in Minnesota but has
“There’s this myth that the Midwest is where there is no discernable accent, but that’s just not true.” — Shannah McGee voice production specialist, CWRU from Ohio don’t have an accent.” Linguists and voice scholars who have studied Midwest speech have all come across this phenomenon, which they say is more or less unique to Clevelanders and our Rust Belt brethren. “People here honestly don’t hear it,” says Shannah McGee, a voice production specialist at Case Western Reserve University. “Everyone says, ‘Well, I don’t have an accent.’ I say, ‘Of course you do!’
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lived in Cleveland for more than 30 years. She immediately pointed out my accent when we met at a coffee shop in Cleveland Heights one recent afternoon (I apparently give myself away when saying my own first name). In the early 2000s she worked with actors on the fi lm Welcome to Collinwood, which starred George Clooney and Sam Rockwell and was set in the Cleveland neighborhood. She was tapped by directors Joe and
Anthony Russo — Cleveland natives and former Case students — to help the cast the perfect “Cleveland sound.” Not being a native Clevelander, she sought out friends who she knew had the accent and recorded their conversations. She also went to the West Side Market in Ohio City, recorded what she heard, and took notes. “I’d hear them say, ‘I want to buy some candy’ and, of course, it would come out ‘kee-yandee,’” she says. “Then I’d figure out what they were doing to make that sound, which is, they’re lifting the tongue in the back of the mouth and pulling it back. That nasalizes the sound.” McGee says actors still learn what is known as “standard American” English — which features crisply pronounced consonants and includes vowel pronunciations that are usually only heard on the East Coast (think Frasier Crane). But she and most linguists agree that there is no such thing as a “standard” version of English. “You learn it in acting school so
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FEATURE you don’t sound like you’re from anywhere,” she says. “But no one on the real planet actually speaks it.” Or, as Preston puts it: “People always want to associate dialect with non-standard speech. If there’s a place that doesn’t have a dialect, that’s a place where people don’t have a human language.” So why, in our minds, are we the special ones? “It was something my parents always told me,” says Gabby Hollowell, a student at Ohio University and native of Chardon. I tracked her down after noticing several instances in which she had tweeted about people’s reaction to her accent. “My stepdad says, ‘We don’t have an accent. People from England have an accent.’ Everyone speaks the same [in Northeast Ohio] but a lot of people just don’t realize it’s just as much of an accent as anyplace else.” Hollowell has a point: The idea of Midwestern exceptionalism when it comes to speech is something that is often stressed by parents — and even teachers — from the time we’re small. I recall being told by a middle school English teacher how “lucky” I and my classmates were to come from a part of the country that spoke “standard English.” “When we talk about ‘accents,’ that means we’re assuming that there’s a ‘normal’ way of speaking and then there’s all these other ways of speaking that are different from that,” says Kathryn CampbellKibler, a linguistics professor at the Ohio State University. “But from a linguistic point of view, this doesn’t make any sense. There’s no place on earth where we can say, ‘You get to be normal.’” Edward McClelland, who has written extensively about language and the Midwest, recently completed a book called How to Speak Midwestern. He believes the notion that this part of the country speaks some unicorn version of English that is devoid of any distinct sound goes back to a time when the Cleveland area was, in fact, considered the broadcast industry standard. “For a period of time in the middle part of the 20th century, what was considered a neutral accent was based in the Cleveland area,” McClelland says. “This is ironic because now the [vowel] shift has made Cleveland speech
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more distinct from the rest of the nation.” Indeed, in a 2005 PBS documentary called Do You Speak American, Labov, the linguist who first reported the Northern Cities Shift, pointed out that the region from Rochester to Chicago was the closest thing to television news network standard pronunciation that existed in the U.S. “It was what the NBC standard was based on,” he said. And it was a standard that, perhaps not surprisingly, had strong ties to the Cleveland area. The man who is credited with creating it, a linguist named John Kenyon, was a professor at Hiram University, just southeast of here. In 1924, Kenyon published the first version of a guide called American Pronunciation, later was a consulting pronunciation editor of the second edition of Webster’s New International Dictionary and, in 1944, co-authored A Pronouncing Dictionary of American English. One constant across all of Kenyon’s works was that he was an unabashed proponent of the version of English spoken in the CLE. “[T]he author has based his observations on the cultivated pronunciation of his own locality — the Western Reserve of Ohio,” he wrote in American Pronunciation, referring to himself. “It is his belief, however, that this is fairly representative of what will here be called the speech of the North.” He would later simply call this, “General American.” But, as McClelland says, it seems the idea of “General American” has somehow managed to outlast its phonetic reality. Campbell-Kibler has studied a concept known as enregisterment, or how and why distinct speech varieties come to be recognized and accepted both within and outside of the community in which they’re spoken. She has looked at this idea among Ohio residents and concluded in a 2012 paper that Clevelanders may have slowly begun to accept that we have a way of speaking that is unique to us, even if not everyone is able to articulate just what it sounds like. In fact, Campbell-Kibler says people in Columbus — who speak in what is known as the “Midland” dialect — are even more in denial about how their speech is perceived. “If you Google the words
‘Chicago accent,’ you’ll ďŹ nd several sites talking about ‘da Bears’ and how to make yourself sound like you’re from there,â€? she says. “If you Google ‘Cleveland accent,’ you ďŹ nd a number of people debating whether one actually exists or what it sounds like. If you Google ‘Columbus accent,’ there’s nothing language-related at all on the ďŹ rst page.â€? For many, conceding to having an accent is like admitting that you’re an uneducated member of the lower class. And since accents are typically the strongest among blue-collar, working-class communities, there’s become a greater fear of stigmatization, which linguists believe accounts for much of the denial in former industrial strongholds like Cleveland. “Nothing has been linked to this ‘northern cities accent’ other than that it seems to sound ugly to people,â€? says Barbara Johnstone, a linguist at the University of Pittsburgh who has studied the social stigmatization of accents. “An accent can get linked with your identity in a positive way, but it can also have negative links, too.â€? For much of the 20th century, it was common, even expected, for
high school seniors to graduate, get a job at the local steel mill or manufacturing plant, stay there for 30 years, then retire. In these cases, there was little occasion to speak to anyone who didn’t sound exactly like they did. But as those jobs started disappearing, people started going to college and working in more white-collar
reject it. ‘I don’t have an accent. You have the accent.’� Which brings us back to Bridget VanDenHaute. Now getting a master’s degree in speech pathology at Cleveland State, she’s a self-proclaimed “reformed denier.� Not long after announcing to the world that bitch, she was from Cleveland, VanDenHaute enrolled
or customer-facing environments, and, for the ďŹ rst time, they’d start to hear from strangers that they sounded “different.â€? “All of a sudden there was a choice,â€? Oklahoma State’s Preston says. “‘Do I try to sound like I’m not where I’m from?’ And I don’t see why anyone in the working class would try to do that. So when they’re presented with a linguistic signal that doesn’t match with what they think they sound like, they
in a linguistics class. One day, while her professor was presiding over another installment of the years-old “remote� vs. “clicker� debate, VanDenHaute was called on to speak. The professor asked her where she was from. “I thought, ‘God dammit, here we go again — and from a professor this time!� she says. “He asked if I was from Cleveland and I said yes, then the whole class started having me say words like
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‘mom’ and ‘lasagna.’ That’s when I ďŹ nally started to hear it in myself.â€? As for the tweet, VanDenHaute’s “you have the accentâ€? comment didn’t spark much of a conversation at the time. But not long after, Ohio State’s Campbell-Kibler spotted it while doing research on Twitter and decided the sentiment perfectly summarized the entire accent denial debate in Northeast Ohio. It’s now the basis of a new paper she’s writing called Bitch, I’m from Cleveland, You Have the Accent: Constructing and resisting placebased accents on Twitter. The new study compares the attitudes of Twitter users across the state about whether their city is, or should be, associated with a speciďŹ c way of speaking. VanDenHaute now says she’s “100-percent awareâ€? that she has an accent, and adds that she does remember the night she ďŹ red off the Twitter missive. “I just snapped,â€? she says before pausing to laugh and adding, “I must’ve been drunk. I probably wouldn’t say that today.â€?
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Blue October Led by volatile singer-guitarist Justin Furstenfeld, the alt-rock act Blue October has experienced extreme ups and downs since forming just over 20 years ago. Furstenfeld chronicles that rollercoaster ride in Crazy Making — The Words and Lyrics of Justin Furstenfeld, a collection of annotated lyrics for the songs in the band’s discography. A couple years ago, he toured in support of the book and played acoustic shows. Recently, he’s turned his attention back to Blue October, which just issued its eighth studio album, Home. The band will perform a special acoustic set tonight at 6:30 p.m. at Aloft Cleveland Downtown on the Flats East Bank. Admission is free. (Jeff Niesel) 1111 West 10th Street, 212-343-3920, facebook.com/AloftCle. COMEDY
Matt Fulchiron Sarcastic — but hilarious — comedian Matt Fulchiron makes the most of a melancholy tone as he jokes about the hazards of legalizing marijuana and tells stories about the difficulty of living in New York for a year. He performs at 8 tonight and at 7 on Sunday night at Hilarities. Tickets are $18. (Hannah Borison) 2035 East Fourth St., 216-241-7425, pickwickandfrolic.com. BASEBALL
Indians vs. Chicago White Sox While the White Sox have officially written off this season, the team has practically played .500 ball all season. It’s a solid squad, even if management no longer thinks a playoff berth is possible. So don’t expect the team to roll over tonight when it takes on the Indians in the second of a three-game series. The game begins at 7:10 p.m. and tickets start at $13. (Niesel) 2401 Ontario St., 216-420-4487, clevelandindians.com. FILM
Requiem for a Heavyweight Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney, Julie Harris and Cassius Clay star in Requiem for a Heavyweight, a 1962 adaptation of Rod Serling’s television drama. The movie centers on a prizefighter who
A new digital restoration of the John Waters cult classic Multiple Maniacs shows at the Cinematheque. See: Saturday.
struggles to accept retirement. The film shows at 7 tonight and Friday at the Cleveland Museum of Art as part of the museum’s series Lords of the Rings: Boxing Films Before Rocky and Raging Bull. Tickets are $10, $8 for CMA members, seniors and students. (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org. MUSIC
Summer in the City Each summer, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame hosts a variety of indie and alternative rock acts on its outdoor plaza where some of the city’s “most buzzed about” local acts perform. Tonight, locals Honeybucket (new grass) and the Gage Brothers (Americana) perform. The concert runs from 6 to 9 p.m.; prior to the music, the Rock Hall will host a Q&A with the acts slated to play. Food trucks and beer are also on the schedule. The concerts are free; as a bonus, local residents and college students can purchase admission to the Rock Hall for a mere $5. (Niesel) 1100 Rock and Roll Blvd., 216-515-8444, rockhall.com.
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Wade Oval Wednesdays A summer tradition, Wade Oval Wednesday takes place every Wednesday from 6 to 9 p.m. at Wade Oval in University Circle. It provides the opportunity to catch a free concert — jazz, swing, world music, and more. Between sets, check out the local food vendors, the beer and wine tent, the farmers’ market and free kid activities — all laid out on the Wade Oval lawn, adjacent to Cleveland Botanical Garden, the Cleveland Art Museum and the Cleveland Natural History Museum. Tonight, local roots rockers SpYder Stompers, along with Sugar Pie and Hot Djang, perform. (Niesel) universitycircle.org. FOOD
Walnut Wednesday You know it’s summer when Walnut Wednesdays are happening. Today from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Perk Plaza at Chester Commons — at East 12th and Walnut Streets — food trucks gather to serve up lunch to area residents and employees. Follow the Downtown Cleveland Alliance
on Facebook for weekly updates on vendors, entertainment offerings and more. Admission is free, but the food will cost you. (Niesel) downtowncleveland.com. MUSIC
Wednesdays on the Square The free weekly music events in our fair town just keep sprouting up. The latest endeavor, Wednesdays on the Square, features local acts performing in Market Square Park in Ohio City. The family friendly concert, which takes place tonight from 6 to 9 p.m., also features a variety of local merchants and activities for kids and adults. The mission: “We hope to carry on the good vibes from the Ohio City Stages and keep the community coming together on Wednesdays in August,” says organizer Mark Raymond. (Niesel) facebook.com/ events/262172957485480/. SPOKEN WORD
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GET OUT Archives of the Western Reserve’s current exhibition, Paul-Henri Bourguignon: Citizen of the World, the organization hosts an evening dedicated to the life of Bourguignon’s wife, Erika Bourguignon. Author and world traveler Irene Shaland will discuss Bourguignon’s life in two parts: her childhood in Vienna leading up to World War II, and her studies of “possession of trance” as a cultural anthropologist. The Woman Behind the Artist: The Many Lives of Erika Bourguignon takes place from 6:30 to 8 tonight. Admission is free, but AAWR requests advance registration. Visit the website for details. (Josh Usmani) 1834 East 123rd St., 216-721-9020, artistsarchives.org.
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Comics Unleashed. Tonight’s live performance at the Improv is at 7:30, and he has shows scheduled there through Sunday. Tickets start at $17. (Brittany Rees) 1148 Main Ave., 216-696-IMPROV, clevelandimprov.com.
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Godfrey Remember that 7UP guy? Good. Because he’s in town tonight. Godfrey, who got his start during a 1980s viral soda campaign, is showing off at the Improv. Cast as the token black friend in every
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Chris D’Elia Chris D’Elia has become one of the best comedians in the business because he’s extremely quick-witted; he’s at ease on stage and can easily relate to an audience. He jokes about starting out as a standup comedian and having to perform in run-down bars and laundromats. Whether he is joking about the pros and cons of living in the San Fernando Valley outside Los Angeles, or talking about his experiences bumping into ex-girlfriends, D’Elia has terrific comic timing. He performs tonight at 8 at Hilarities where he has shows scheduled through Saturday. Tickets are $55 to $60. (Borison) 2035 East Fourth St., 216-241-7425, pickwickandfrolic.com.
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and the “joys and hardships of everyday life.” For this special exhibition at Canopy, Martin will be exhibiting more than 100 framed photographs. Additionally, unframed prints of some of the works will be available as well. The show opens with a reception from 6 to 10 tonight. Admission is free. (Usmani) 3910 Lorain Ave., 216-309-1090, canopy-collective.com. FITNESS
Cardio Hoop Dance It’s like Zumba, but better. That’s the tagline advertising Cardio Hoop Dance, a hula hoop workout that takes place at 11 a.m. on Fridays at U.S. Bank Plaza. If you don’t own a hoop, it’s no big deal. The event’s organizers will have a few you can use free of charge. New hoopers should arrive early to receive lessons. The event is free. (Niesel) East 14th St. and Euclid Ave., 216-771-4444, playhousesquare.org. FESTIVAL
Flats Festival of the Arts In an attempt to add culture to the reinvigorated Flats, organizers present the inaugural Flats Festival of the Arts this weekend. The event includes more than 100 artists and craftspeople from Northeast Ohio and across the country, as well as live music, dancing and food vendors. The festival takes place from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. today and tomorrow, and from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday. Weekend passes are $10 online (plus a small processing fee) or $12 at the door. Proceeds benefit Cleveland School of the Arts and H.E.L.P, a nonprofit assisting children living in rural parts of Africa. Find details on the website. (Usmani) ffota.org.
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Dressed to Kill and Body Double Brian De Palma, the legendary director behind a whole hit parade of films including Carrie, Scarface, and Mission: Impossible, isn’t without a few underappreciated works in his back catalog. Tonight and tomorrow night, the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque will screen two of those works, cult classics Dressed to Kill and Body Double. The former is about a prostitute who witnesses a murder and plans to investigate the crime for herself. The latter follows a house-sitting man who becomes a suspect for murder after the woman he voyeuristically spies on across the street is killed. Dressed to Kill screens tonight at 6:45 and Body Double follows at 8:50. Tomorrow
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Indians vs. Toronto Blue Jays Earlier in the season, when the Indians put together a record win streak, the Toronto Blue Jays were the team that brought the Tribe’s winning ways to an end. In the wake of losing two of three to the Jays, the Tribe has struggled a bit, though as of the beginning of August the team still held onto first place. Tonight at 7:10 at Progressive Field, they face the Blue Jays once again. Tickets start at $13. It’s also Dollar Dog Night and the first 10,000 fans receive a free fedora, so expect a big crowd. Fireworks follow the game. (Niesel) 2401 Ontario St., 216-420-4487, clevelandindians.com.
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Outdoor Screening at Impett Park Looking for a final opportunity to see a free movie beneath the stars? Venture to Impett Park for one last evening of family fun before the back-to-school grind begins. Games and prizes for the kiddies have been promised, and hot dogs, beverages and popcorn will be available for purchase. Though the party starts at 6:30 p.m. with a Safety Fair, the movie portion of the evening will begin at dusk (about 9 p.m.). Bring a blanket and a lawn chair! Tonight’s feature: the kid flick Zootopia. (Sam Allard) West 153rd St., 216-252-6559, kammscorners.com. ART
Third Friday August’s Third Friday at 78th Street Studios offers a last chance to see many of its galleries’ summer exhibitions. From 5 to 9 tonight, drop in to peruse dozens of open artist studios and gallery exhibitions. For example, ARTneo continues Locus of Transition: Works by Jason Milburn and Laila Voss through Sept. 2. Forum Artspace closes its annual Bazaarbeque with a potluck outside its separate entrance in the parking lot. E11even 2 hosts a closing reception for Lucky Charms, a group show featuring the work of accomplished local artists Andy Dreamingwolf, Randy Maxin and E11even 2 co-founder R!ch Cihlar. Zaina Gallery presents a closing reception for Ryan Rennie’s Arti(fice) fact. On the second floor, Hedge Gallery’s Face Value remains on view through Sept. 23, and includes the work of more acclaimed local artists: John W. Carlson, Sarah Curry, Brian Mouhlas and Douglas Max Utter. On the third floor, PopEye presents Turn Up, a one-night-only exhibition of recent CIA grads: Abigail Jo Clark, Celena Grossman, and Suzanne Head. Admission is free. (Usmani) 1300 West 78th St., 78thstreetstudios.com.
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The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years The follow up to Penelope Spheeris’ iconic rockumentary The Decline of Western Civilization, Part II follows some major players in the L.A. heavy metal scene from 1986-1988 — Kiss, Ozzy Osbourne and Alice Cooper, among others. While the music may be a far cry from the hardcore punk that fueled the first installment, the
unparalleled depth and passion for the subject material is certainly still intact. The movie screens at 10:10 tonight and at 6:30 tomorrow night at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque. Tickets are $10, $8 for Cinematheque members, students and seniors. (Shively) 11610 Euclid Ave., 216-421-7450, cia.edu. FILM
Fort Buchanan A 2014 film made by an American who was working in France at the time, Fort Buchanan follows a gay man raising his teenage daughter by his lonesome while his partner is serving in the military overseas. Things get interesting when he meets a group of army wives who experiment with their own sexuality while their husbands are gone. While odd, Fort Buchanan is heavy on charm and humor — the dialogue is actually directly lifted from a variety of non-cited American TV shows. A truly original film not afraid to show off its quirks, it screens tonight at 6:55 at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque. Tickets are $10, $8 for Cinematheque members, students and seniors. (Shively) 11610 Euclid Ave., 216-421-7450, cia.edu. ART
Magical Myopia Bus Tour In celebration of Mark Mothersbaugh’s Myopia, currently on view at MOCA Cleveland and the Akron Art Museum, the partnering organizations are hosting a Magical Myopia Bus Tour. Beginning at 11 a.m. today, guests will explore MOCA’s exhibition with a guided tour of the Cleveland portion of the exhibition. Afterward, guests will be transported via bus to the Akron half of the show for another guided tour at the Akron Art Museum. Although Mothersbaugh himself won’t be onboard, organizers promise a few surprises. Tickets are very limited. Admission is $20 for members, $30 for non-members, and include museum admission, lunch and round-trip transportation. To reserve your seats on the Magical Myopia Bus Tour, call MOCA Cleveland. Myopia remains on view at both venues through Aug. 28. (Usmani) 11400 Euclid Ave., 216-421-8671, mocacleveland.org. FILM
Multiple Maniacs Celebrated filmmaker John Waters had a taste for the offensive and downright obscene, but his most
GET OUT outrageous film may be one that hasn’t seen the light of day until now. Made in 1970 and starring Waters’ perpetual heroine Lady Divine, Multiple Maniacs just saw its first official theatrical release in New York and L.A. this month, and is now coming to Cleveland to dirty some minds and warp some moral compasses. The film follows Divine’s “Cavalcade of Perversions,” a traveling carnival-style sideshow with a whole host of issues beyond just what the title may suggest. It screens tonight at 8:20 p.m. and tomorrow at 8:25 at the Cleveland institute of Art Cinematheque. Tickets are $10, $7 for members. (Shively) 11610 Euclid Ave., 216-421-7450, cia.edu. MUSIC
The Music of Led Zeppelin: A Rock Symphony It’s been a long time since the Blossom Festival Orchestra rock ’n’ rolled. Well, not really, but it seemed appropriate to make that statement given that the orchestra will play the music of Led Zeppelin
tonight at 8 at Blossom. Brent Havens conducts and guest singer Randy Jackson will wail during tonight’s performance of Windborne’s Music of Led Zeppelin. First performed in 1995, the production has toured the world, featuring a rock band with backup from an orchestra. “The concept,” explains the Windborn website, “was to keep the band as close to the original recordings as possible and to wrap the orchestra around the band as one big entity.” Tickets start at $30. (Niesel) 1145 West Steels Corners Rd., Cuyahoga Falls, 216-231-1111, clevelandorchestra.com. FESTIVAL
Pork & Cork Held in the courtyard of the historic Hildebrandt Building on Walton Avenue, the inaugural Pork & Cork promises to be “the hottest wine tasting summer event.” The neighborhood is home to the highest density of Hispanic/Latinos in the state of Ohio, making it the perfect place to enjoy Latin-inspired foods with a wide selection of “worldly wines.” There will be live Spanish guitar, improvised drums and dancing; and you can enjoy
traditional dishes such as pernil, elotes (Mexican corn), arroz con gandules (rice and beans), crackle and more cooked al carbon (over a fire pit). The event runs from 6 to 11 p.m. Tickets are $50, $75 for VIPs, which includes early entry at 5 p.m. (Niesel) 3619 Walton Ave., porkandcorkcle.com. FILM
Princess Some indie films aim to tackle touchy subject material, but Tali Shalom-Ezer’s Princess is in a class all its own. Rife with ambiguous sexual references that blend seamlessly together with coming-of-age charm, the film is centered around a 12-year-old girl whose experiences with a mysterious boy and her mother’s abusive boyfriend come to define her early adolescent years. It also received Best Israeli Feature honors at the 2014 Israeli Film Festival. It screens tonight at 5 and tomorrow at 4:15 p.m. at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque. Tickets are $10, $8 for Cinematheque members, students and seniors. (Shively) 11610 Euclid Ave., 216-421-7450, cia.edu.
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Julie Scoggins Comedian Julie Scoggins has a natural sense of humor and an innocent persona, yet she does not shy away from poking fun at her fans. You can count on her to take shots at each state she visits, whether it’s joking about the drivers in Georgia or the extremes of Wisconsin winters. In addition, she’s always willing to make fun of her accent, her height and the pain of receiving Valentine’s Day presents from her husband. She performs tonight and tomorrow night at 7:30 and 10 at Club Velvet at the Hard Rock Rocksino Northfield Park. Tickets are $13 and $18. (Borison) 10705 Northfield Rd., Northfield, 330-908-7771, hrrocksinonorthfieldpark.com.
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GET OUT Stampers when they realized their lead singer could sing just like Paul McCartney. As a result, the guys dedicated themselves to learning the parts as faithfully as possible. They’ll play Beatles tunes today at noon at a Beatles brunch at Music Box Supper Club. Tickets are $10. (Niesel) 1148 Main Ave., 216-242-1250, musicboxcle.com.
which teams compete for prizes by answering trivia questions, Last Call Trivia takes place every Monday at U.S. Bank Plaza throughout the summer. Designed to be “a spirited competition,” the event lasts an hour. The games also include a point wagering system that gives teams the ability to choose their own strategy. The event takes place at noon. Admission is free. (Niesel) East 14th St. and Euclid Ave., 216-771-4444, playhousesquare.org. FOOD
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Jodhaa Akbar Ashutosh Gowariker directs Jodhaa Akbar, a 2008 film about a Rajput princess who resents the political nature of her marriage to an emperor. Set in 16th-century India, the film also features music from A.R. Rahman, who composed the music for Oscar winner Slumdog Millionaire. The movie screens today at 1 p.m. at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tickets are $10, $8 for CMA members, seniors and students. (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org. PATIO
Tropical Sundays A weekly summer celebration, Now That’s Class’s Tropical Sundays features cornhole and basketball in the club’s back parking lot and exclusive Tropical Sunday cocktails including Pimms, Paulito’s Puerto Rican Punch, Mi’Monsters, Cucumber Bloody Marys and Bloody Tooth. The club promises “many more surprises and activities” too. The event starts at 3 today. Admission is free. (Niesel) 11213 Detroit Ave., 216-221-8576, nowthatsclass.net.
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Food Trucks at Legacy Village Food Truck Monday at Legacy Village is a fun experience that features a wide variety of food and music. Today and every other Monday throughout the summer, it is a perfect opportunity to take a break from work and forget about the Monday blues. Today’s food trucks include Slyman’s, Wholly Frijoles, Betty’s Bomb Ass Burgers and more. Lunch is served from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Check the website for details. (Borison) 25333 Cedar Rd., Lyndhurst, 216-382-3871, legacy-village.com. LUNCHTIME
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Vegan Mondays If you’re vegan, vegetarian, gluten free, or just plain interested in trying something new, head over to Townhall in Ohio City this evening from 5 to 10 p.m. for Vegan Night. Work your way through the delicious and healthy vegan menu, featuring hits like Veggie Vegan Flatbread (think fresh tomatoes, chiles, mushrooms and vegan cheese), Tofu Etouffee (blackened tofu, onions, tomatoes and brown rice) or many of the regular menu items made vegan. If you’re still feeling skeptical, know this: Monday night is also Craft Beer Night and all 36 crafts are only $3 from 6 p.m. to close. Cheers! (Alaina Nutile) 1909 West 25th St., 216-344-9400, townhallohiocity.com.
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LIGHTS, CAMERAS, ACTION Ballot Box Project develops young photographers in Collinwood By Josh Usmani LAST MARCH, WE TOLD YOU about Collinwood’s Ballot Box Project, a $120,000 grant initiative designed to allow residents of the North Shore Collinwood neighborhood to directly decide which projects would be implemented and assisted through public funding. Several projects were selected from the categories of Collinwood History, Vacancy, Healthy Eating and Youth Engagement. One project in particular received more than twice as many votes than any other proposal: Bridget Caswell’s Collinwood Camera Club. “The Collinwood Camera Club uses photography to help young adults look more deeply at life and develop the skills they need to express their experience in a meaningful way,” Caswell, the club’s founder, explains. “Each week, we meet with professional photographers from around Northeast Ohio at Waterloo Arts where the photographers discuss their work and training. Each of these professionals present a new photographic skill set and expose the students to a new career path. One of the students in the club has decided to go on to study photojournalism in college because of
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her experience with the club.” The group of teenage photographers has met every Wednesday since June 8. Guest speakers have included professional photographers Stephen Bivens, Rami Daud, Gary Harwood, Tim Harrison, Lori Kella, Karin Clark McKenna, Roger Mastroianni, Anna Norris, Yvonne Marie Palkowitsh and Dan and Suzanne Price. “We covered every type of photography from photojournalism, sports, food, portrait, weddings, fine art, street photography, studio,
studio portraits to visitors. “Students get hands-on experience with studio lighting and practice the techniques they have learned by offering free portrait sessions to the community,” says Caswell. This first gallery exhibition showcases work completed by student members during these initial three months. The exhibition is a two-night event at the Maria Neil Art Project. Presented in a gallery in the heart of the neighborhood in which these photographs were captured, the work gains context from the neighborhood
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available light and even ‘shooting through’ things like prisms,” Caswell says. “I can’t tell you how proud I am of the dedication of these kids. I had one student who came to the club meeting on her 16th birthday and one that came the day his dad had open heart surgery.” During June’s Waterloo Arts Fest, as well as July and August’s Walk All Over Waterloo, the club offered free
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it represents. Students walked these same streets, attempting to simultaneously capture, understand and communicate the ever-changing stories of their neighborhood. The exhibition will be open this Wednesday and Thursday from 6 to 8 p.m. “We’re very excited to host the inaugural exhibition of the Collingwood Camera Club,” says John
Farina, co-founder of the Maria Neil Art Project. “Offering a professional gallery environment is exactly what these hardworking and talented neighborhood young people deserve.” Residing in Collinwood for nearly a decade, Caswell has taught several photography classes for the community in the past, and regularly photographs around her community. Previously, she served as board president of Arts Collinwood before its rebranding into Waterloo Arts. The Collinwood Camera Club was made possible by the Ballot Box grant program through Northeast Shores Development Corporation and ArtPlace America. Ohio’s first “participatory budgeting experience,” the projects’ proposals were voted on by members of the neighborhood in March. For more information on the Collinwood Camera Club, visit their Facebook page. For more information on the Ballot Box Project, visit ballotboxproject.org.
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REVERENCE Sans Merci is unsettling and haunting at None Too Fragile Theater By Roy Berko WHEN THE LIGHTS WENT OFF to signal the ending of None Too Fragile’s production of Johnna Adams’ unsettling, haunting, thought-provoking Sans Merci, my immediate reaction was, “Oh, please fellow audience members, don’t clap! “Please don’t! This experience needs a respectful silence.” Applauding at the end of this play was like cheering at the end of a eulogy. It was a feeling that I’ve only had a handful of times in the theater: Broadway’s Disgraced, The Bad Seed and The Father come to mind. This is a play that deserves quiet thought, not raucous applause. But, sure enough, thanks perhaps to our sense of duty, the cheers rung out and the assemblage leaped to its feet. Me? I sat there in deep thought. The 50-minute ride home was done in total silence. My mind was gone, stuck on the theater’s stage, reliving what I had just seen and heard. Now, 12 hours later, I am still in a state of suspended shock. What brought about my reaction? At the start of Sans Merci (which can be translated as “without mercy”), Kelly (Cassandra West) is tossing and turning on the aged couch of an unkempt apartment. There is a knock on the door. After several more raps, Kelly, walking with a crutch, hobbles to the door, opens it and reveals a mature woman whom she does not know. When the
woman asks if she is Kelly, with some obvious concern, Kelly lets her in. Within a short period we find out that the guest is Elizabeth (Harriet DeVeto), the mother of Tracy, Kelly’s college friend. Through a series of flashbacks it is revealed that Tracy (Miranda Scholl) was a college lit major with little confidence, and communication anxiety, which resulted in panic attacks when she was required to speak in class. When Tracy has an attack in class, and runs out, she is followed by Kelly, who gives her sympathy and positive feedback. Tracy goes back to class, finishes the presentation, gets an “A.” Tracy and Kelly become acquaintances, and eventually lovers. Kelly is an idealist who dedicates herself to good deeds to “save the world.” She overlooks possible
make a documentary illustrating the “rape” of the land by the petroleum firm. The area is also a political hotbed where a civil war is being waged. That notwithstanding, she talks Tracy into going with her, with disastrous results. Both young women are raped, Kelly shot, Tracy killed (“sans merci”). Three years after the incident, Elizabeth has come to Kelly to get any possessions of Tracy’s that her former lover has, and to find out about how Tracy died. Elizabeth and Kelly have never met. It readily becomes apparent that the extremely conservative Republican Elizabeth and the overly liberal, often unrealistic Kelly have only one thing in common: They both loved Tracy. When Kelly reveals that she and Tracy were lovers, Elizabeth insists
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dangers, and is unrealistic about whether or not she is actually solving problems. She is going to South America to make a documentary about a native tribe whose historic lands include a mountain range which it considers to be sacred. That land is desired by an oil company, to remove the “blood” from the land. She wants to
over and over that her daughter was “only going through a phase” and that if she had never become involved with Kelly, Tracy would not have gone on the mission and would still be alive. Even though it is overlong and too talky, the script is dramatic, gripping and often riveting. It nicely balances love and heartbreak.
The writer’s tale includes many references to poetry, and the script is often poetic in form. The None Too Fragile production, adeptly directed by Sean Derry and Brian Kenneth Armour, is well focused, if a little bit languid in pace. The performances are strong, but on opening night it was obvious that all of the performers, especially Harriet DeVeto, fell into the trap of assuming that since the NTF performance area is small, projection was not necessary. DeVeto, who displayed a stoic attitude as the angry mother of the dead girl, often fell into whispering, underplaying the role so much that fully half of her speeches could not be heard. Too bad. The words of the play are vital and deserve to be revealed. Hopefully, as she becomes used to the space, her projection will increase. Cassandra West nicely develops the idealistic Kelly, caught between causes and guilt for leading Tracy toward her death. Miranda Scholl does a nice turn with anxiety and is generally sweet. Her death scene is vivid and scary! Be aware that there is female nudity, simulated sex, vivid language, and a gunshot during the play.
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MOVIES A LITTLE WOMEN OF THE ORIENT Lovely Our Little Sister has more endings than Return of the King IT TURNS OUT DULLNESS CAN ransack even the loveliest and gentlest of stories. Take, for instance, Our Little Sister, which opens Friday at the Cedar Lee. It’s a small-scale domestic drama from director Hirokazu Koreeda that captures, in its quotidian way, the beauties and pleasures and hurdles and horrors of life for three sisters and their adopted half-sister in Japan. It is elegant and oh-so-serene, rather akin to the lapping waves on the beach where the Koda sisters are wont to stroll and reminisce. That’s it! To watch Our Little Sister is to experience the recurring delight of little lapping waves, waves that might not have the gale-force velocity or awesome altitude of the foam-crested suckers of tsunami season (a metaphor for the bigbudget franchise onslaught during summer’s Dog Days), but which are pleasing and meditative in their cumulative effect. At least for the first 85 minutes or so. After that, to extend the analogy, the little burps and splats of all these lapping waves become maddening. Your feet in the sand become pruny
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and cold. It begins to rain, and the waves’ interminable advance — the lapping does not end! — is now a literal water torture from which there appears to be no escape. Like Return of the King before it, Our Little Sister is distinguished, among other things, for the quantity of its endings. With a running time of two hours and eight minutes (but which feels more like eight hours and two minutes), the film conspires to tie a bow on the storylines of every character and minor conflict lately introduced. Egalitarian to a fault, the movie roves among the freighted
relationships of each of the three Koda sisters: Sachi (Haruka Ayase), Yoshino (Masami Nagasawa) and Chika (Kaho), and their warm individual sisterly/motherly stewardships of young Suzo (Suzo Hirose), whom they invite to live with them after the funeral that opens the film. Within all of these relationships are moments of absolute serenity, total gentleness and everyday beauty: the family’s yearly ritual of making plum wine; the late-night coming-together for sparklers after a city-wide celebration; Suzo’s delight as she tries a new dish at the local
diner; Suzo’s ecstasy as she bicycles through the cherry blossoms, etc. It’s all very sweet — you’ll no doubt aww and mumble more than once, as you suck the popcorn butter from your thumb, “That is so sweet” — but it’s also all, to an almost unendurable degree, low-key. If Little Women was suffused with melodrama, Our Little Sister is pretty much sucked dry of it. There is sadness to be sure, somberness aplenty, but little of it arrives with the narrative benefit of dramatic tension. That’s part of the reason why everything feels like an ending in the movie’s second half. It’s all been so serenely humdrum that you’re not aware of the story’s natural arc. Our Little Sister’s ultimate dullness, then, emerges not in spite of its loveliness; it was generated by its loveliness. But make no mistake. Before the dullness and fury set in (and maybe even after), you’ll find sweetness and serenity beyond words.
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SPOTLIGHT: HELL OR HIGH WATER FOR THE PAST DECADE OR SO, FILM exec Franklin Leonard has published something he calls the Black List, a list of 10 of the best scripts that have yet to see the light of day. Back in 2012, Taylor Sheridan’s script, then called Comancheria, topped his list. Shot last year in eastern New Mexico, the resulting movie, rechristened Hell or High Water, opens area-wide on Friday. It might not fit with the rest of the summer’s big blockbusters, but it’s a compelling character study that delivers plenty of suspense. The film centers on two brothers (Ben Foster and Chris Pine) who start robbing banks so they can prevent the foreclosure of their family’s Texas farm. Actor Gil Birmingham who, along with veteran actor Jeff Bridges, plays one of the two Texas Rangers who aims to stop the brothers, says the movie immediately appealed to him once he read the script. “The writing — it’s so brilliantly written,”
Birmingham says via phone when asked about what made him want take the role. “And who wouldn’t want to work with an icon like Jeff Bridges?” Like his character in the fi lm, Birmingham is Native American. In the film, he takes some ribbing from his partner Marcus (Bridges), a veteran law enforcement official who operates on instinct, but while making the movie, Birmingham and Bridges really bonded. “He was great,” he says of Bridges, who plays Marcus as a cranky son of a bitch who struggles to accept his forced retirement. “We got together in preproduction for a week. The first thing we had in common was our music. “He has his band, and I play music, so we did a lot of jamming. We have similar philosophical views. We had chemistry naturally before we started fi lming.” Not your stereotypical heist movie, the fi lm fully develops the characters of both Toby
(Pine) and Tanner (Foster), two brothers with different temperaments. The more rational of the two, Toby, carries himself more cautiously; the hot-headed Tanner shows little restraint as the two hold up banks in small Texas towns while wearing masks and wielding shotguns. The ambiguous ending works simply because it seems so realistic. Bad guys don’t always lose, and good guys don’t always win. “I hope that it stimulates some kind of discussion about the moral issues and the choices we make in life,” Birmingham says when asked about what he hopes viewers take away from the movie. “These two brothers find themselves up against the wall and feel like their destinies have been altered by powers beyond their control, and they’re desperate to provide for their families. You can also see the consequences that come out of that if you make bad choices and choose violence as the option.” — Jeff Niesel | clevescene.com | August 17 - 23, 2016
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KEEP CALM AND CHILL Coastal Taco improves its game, slowly but surely By Douglas Trattner NOTHING HARSHES ONE’S VIBE faster than crappy service, but that’s precisely what awaited early visitors to Coastal Taco. The flashy Flats East Bank eatery prides itself on being the perfect host — “Our vibe is chill. We’re always ready to throw a party,” the brand literature promises — but initial experiences demonstrated otherwise. Our first visit could not have gone much worse, with exasperating delays, bewildering ordering and delivery processes, and weeded staffers who appeared shell-shocked throughout the entire evening. When the food finally did arrive, it was cold, wrong and unimpressive. Of course, I wasn’t telling Rick Doody anything he didn’t already know. For 25 years, Doody, along with his brother Chris, have been opening restaurants at an unprecedented pace. They launched the Bravo Brio Restaurant Group with one spot, eventually growing it to more than 115 stores employing 11,000 staffers serving 17 million guests per year. “We take full responsibility,” Doody, now a Northeast Ohio resident, says during a followup call. “It was our fault for not being prepared, not being ready.” Doody says a perfect storm of factors coalesced to produce imperfect results, not the least of which was rushing to get the doors open in advance of Memorial Day. Doody also credits — or blames — an
unanticipated crush of customers all eager to soak up the sun at Cleveland’s newest hotspot. “We underestimated the success of the Flats turnaround and what that would do to us,” Doody says. “That translated into doing double the business we had anticipated, which caused problems. We didn’t have the staff, we didn’t have the training, we didn’t have the team.” Our second visit weeks later was markedly improved, if still not perfect. Our server was knowledgeable about the menu, patient with our questions, and genuinely eager to serve, as novel as that might sound. The experience confirmed that the ship was being righted, was on the right course, and eventually would arrive at its proper destination. “This is a business of 10,000 details,” Doody adds. “Every day and every way, we try to get better.”
atmosphere is genuinely appealing, attractive and easy to get used to. The views — of kayaks and freighters, bridges and trestles, sailors and sunsets — are matchless, with a sprawling river-side patio from which to enjoy them. Depending on the day and time of your visit, you can expect to wait for a table. But after giving our name and cell number to the hostess, we received a prompt to download an app that kept us informed in real time right down to the number of parties ahead of us. While waiting, guests can walk up to the outdoor bar, grab a crisp vinho verde from Portugal ($6), Kona Golden Ale ($4) from Hawaii, or a pricy but good margarita ($9) made with fresh lime juice and agave nectar. Start with a salsa flight ($6), a trio that includes verde, roasted tomato and pineapple blends served on a sheet pan with fried whole corn tortillas and
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It’s not difficult to see why Coastal Taco has been slammed since opening in late May. Despite the influx of new Flats-based restaurants, only two — Alley Cat and Coastal Taco — enjoy blissful waterside perches. Though likely contrived by committee, the laid-back “lake hair, don’t care”
root veggies. The queso fundido ($6), served with the same chips, is mild and could use more chorizo to kick it up. Despite being in peak corn season, the street corn on a stick ($4) was gummy, but the cheese, herb and spice topping is tasty. The bulk of the menu is built
around tacos and tamales. All tacos are $3 and come on one (not the customary pair) of warm soft corn tortillas. The crispy cod is a winner, as is the crispy fried shrimp, and the halibut, a special. Tacos are not buildyour-own, but instead come topped with an appropriate slaw, sauce and garnish. Dense and corny tamales ($5) are topped (not stuffed) with pork carnitas, chicken or veggies. Coastal’s order and delivery process can be confusing in the hands of an indifferent server but fine in the care of a capable one. Guests can check off items on a paper chit or simply state them aloud. All tacos in the group are served en masse on a tray, making distribution tricky without assistance from your waiter. The practice was fine on one trip, not so fine on another. The Flats-based space is built to be multi-seasonal, with a beachy, weathered and whitewashed interior with open kitchen and stone fireplace that will be cozy long after the garage doors come down and the outdoor bars shutter for the season. Coastal Taco’s unabridged moniker is Coastal Taco Bar + Chill, which might also serve as a nugget of advice to impatient diners.
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EAT WINE AND DINE FOR A GOOD CAUSE By Rachel Hunt THE HILDEBRANDT BUILDING, at 3619 Walton Ave. in the ClarkFulton neighborhood, has always been about the meats. Originally established as a meat-processing plant in the late 1800s, the complex has experienced a renaissance over the past six years. After a period of heavy industrial use, the compound returned to its food-based roots focusing on startups like Wolf Boy Provisions, Five Star Brand Meats and Rising Star Coffee Roasters, while using its professional kitchen as a hub for renters, events and the surrounding community. Pork & Cork, organized by the Hispanic Business Center, is the latest food-filled event to take place in the Hildebrandt courtyard. The benefit will take place this Saturday evening, a time normally occupied by food trucks pulling into the garage after a long day on the town. The Hildebrandt once again will embrace fresh meat and budding business for an evening filled with live Spanish guitar, wine, food and dancing. “We loved the old brick and wanted to create a feel to Pork & Cork like you were on the streets of old San Juan,” Jenice Contreras, executive director of HBC, says. “It’s a phenomenal space because there is so much going on around business development. Our collaboration with the Hildebrandt has been going on for a long time, so they were a natural partner when we wanted to do something outdoors in a contained space.” The location also happens to be in the heart of the most densely populated Latino community in Ohio. “In the Latino community, roasting a pig would be a thing that many people would do on a Saturday afternoon,” Contreras explains. “The idea behind Pork & Cork was to move away from a lot of the traditional fundraising that you see in nonprofits. We wanted to do something that was fun and less formal that would attract a broader market.” As the name suggests, pernil (pig) will be roasted on site and served with sides of chicharrones, arroz con gandules (rice and pigeon peas), and elote al carbon, corn grilled over fire topped with salt, pepper, chili powder,
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butter, mayonnaise or soft cheese. “It’s a collective of volunteers who are sharing their culinary talents with us,” Contreras says. “We want everything to be able to be cooked right on the flame outdoors.” Participating businesses include La Bamba Tortilleria, which will be helping make the traditionally Mexican roasted corn, and Latin Touch Salon. “It’s really a labor of love from a multitude of different businesses and partners that we support, but at the same time they are getting together to make something they are good at and give back.” Elvis Serrano, of Jibaro World Eats food truck, will be working with Wine Trends to prepare a winepairing menu that features wines with Spanish origins. “Every ethnic group has a heart in their tummies,” Contreras laughs, but despite her joking demeanor, it couldn’t be more true. Tickets for the fundraising event are open to the public and can be purchased ($40-$75) through the Pork & Cork website (porkandcorkcle.com). There you can also learn more about the services and support offered by the Hispanic Business Center (hbcenter.org).
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EAT ZOMA ETHIOPIAN TO OPEN IN CLEVELAND HEIGHTS By Douglas Trattner DESPITE A SIZEABLE ETHIOPIAN contingent here in Northeast Ohio, there has been one, and only one, restaurant built specifically to cater to them and others eager to sample their cuisine. For 25 years, Empress Taytu (6125 St. Clair Ave., 216391-9400) has had the Ethiopian restaurant game locked up tight. That monopoly will end next month when Zoma Ethiopian Restaurant opens on Lee Road in Cleveland Heights. The business is being opened by Zeleke Belete, a resident of Shaker Heights who was born in that African country. “In other big cities, Ethiopian food is as popular as Chipotle,” Belete explains. “I want to bring that kind of thing to Cleveland. I am originally from Ethiopia and I know a lot of other people who are looking to eat Ethiopian food. People these days are tired of eating pizza and burgers.” After searching for the better part of a year to nail down a location, Belete settled on Cleveland Heights because of the eastside neighborhood’s proximity to diners, especially adventurous ones. Ethiopian cuisine is characterized both by its unique flavors and its communal presentation, a familystyle approach with multiple items arriving on a large platter. Vegetable, grain, meat and fish-based stews, some of which are spicy, are scooped up and eaten with small pieces of injera, a spongy flatbread made from fermented teff batter. “I’m eager to share the food and how to eat it with people,” Belete says. Doro wat, perhaps the most familiar dish, is a spicy chickenbased stew made with berbere, a fiery spice blend. Derek tibs, which Belete will serve in a crock over an open flame, is a flavorful beef stirfry with garlic, onion, tomato and rosemary. Many Ethiopian dishes are built around lentils, split peas, chick peas and greens, making them popular with vegetarians. “When people think of African food, they think of fufu and food from West Africa and Nigeria,”
Belete says. “Our food is colorful. A lot of people, when they see the food for the first time, it opens their eyes.” The restaurant will seat about 50 guests in a setting that features grass huts and other traditional design elements. It will be open seven days a week and will be an affordable option for those eager to sample Ethiopian food, the owner stresses. “It will be family friendly,” he notes. “There are a lot of Ethiopians here, but they don’t all go out to eat.” Of course, Ethiopia has a storied coffee history and culture. Zoma will offer a traditional Ethiopian coffee ceremony, a process that makes Third Wave seem rudimentary. Green coffee beans are roasted to order in a hot pan, ground, brewed and served from a clay vessel while incense smolders away in the background. “Enjoying the aroma is part of the whole process,” he adds. Zoma, which is named after a small village in the northern part of the country, will open in mid to late September.
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The next pop-up dinner slated for the Katz Club Diner will celebrate the height of summer produce while benefiting the Countryside Conservancy in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, which seeks to connect people, food and the land through family farms, farmers’ markets, and educational programs. “As a supporter of local food and our farmer community, we wanted to do a pop-up to promote our great summer products,” says chef Doug Katz, who also owns Fire Food and Drink and serves as chef-partner of Provenance and Provenance Cafe at the Cleveland Museum of Art. “We have a great classic diner space that works perfectly for these fun events.” On tap for the Aug. 25 event is a casual summer barbecue, with a salad of farmers’ market greens with local corn, tomatoes and buttermilk ranch, pulled barbecue short rib on housemade buns with vegetable slaw and potato salad, and peach pie bar
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MUSIC TRUE GRIT A move back to Cleveland triggered the concept for Dolfish’s new album, Foreclosure American Dreams By Jeff Niesel SEVERAL YEARS AGO, LOCAL indie singer-songwriter Max Sollisch, who tours and records under the moniker Dolfish, toured with Southeast Engine, the indie folk band out of Athens, Ohio. The two acts played living rooms, and, as the bands bonded, Southeast Engine singer-guitarist Adam Remnant talked about the inspiration for Canary, the band’s 2011 album about a family living in Appalachia in the 1930s during the Great Depression. “He’s a bit of a historian, and [Canary] was based around the house he lived in that had been built during the Great Depression out of cinder blocks by the family,” explains Sollisch one recent evening. We’re sitting on the back porch of the Collinwood home he shares with his wife and two rambunctious dogs who prowl the yard like a couple of wound-up kids. “The father and his two boys built the house during the winter. He imagined what the family was like. It’s an incredible record. It has the best line on any record. It’s on the culminating track. It goes, ‘What’s so goddamn great about the Great Depression?’” Using that album as an inspiration, Sollisch wrote his own concept album, Foreclosure American Dreams. “The album is about my experience purchasing a foreclosure in the neighborhood and falling in love with all of its gritty, unassuming charm,” he says in the press release he sent out about its release. “The characters on the record all live within the community and are tied together by the dreams on which they’ve each defaulted.” Currently available at New Noise Magazine and Stereogum, which will host a full album stream of the record, the album’s melancholy first single, “A Girl Named Ted,” features intricate guitar work and Sollisch’s
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high-pitched vocals. “I was reading a lot about transgender individuals and how their suicide rates and homicide rates are higher than any other group,” he says when asked about the song. “I knew a couple of people who identify as transgender, and I was listening to the song ‘Boy Named Sue’ by Johnny Cash. I thought it would be interesting to write a reinterpretation. The Cash song was about how him having that name made him harder and tougher. It’s becoming a more prevalent thing in our culture now. It’s about a person who feels trapped in the wrong body.” A native of Cleveland Heights (he played his first show at the Barking Spider when he was 15 years old), Sollisch formed his first band, Our Cat Philip, while he lived in Columbus.
“That band started when I was 18 and had just got to college,” he says. “It was an orchestral folk band.” When the guys in the indie band Someone Still Loves You, Boris Yeltsin found Our Cat Philip’s cover of their track “House Fire” in 2007, they posted it on their website and sought the group out for a nationwide tour. While that tour didn’t materialize, Our Cat Philip did play a few dates with the group. “They mentored us and gave us a taste of touring,” Sollisch says. “Plus, they were making 50 to 60 grand a year, and that made me realize that it could be a career. That’s when it dawned on me that there was something between starving artists and mainstream artists. They were on a Mastercard commercial and had a song on the OC soundtrack but couldn’t sell out the Grog Shop. And yet they had enough money to buy
houses in their hometown. That was an eye opener.” After Sollisch’s next band, Arlo & the Otter, dissolved, he started Dolfish in 2010. He took a batch of songs he had written for that group and turned them into songs for a solo project. “I didn’t want to record under my name because they try to make you play coffeeshops,” he says. “I wanted to fit in with rock clubs.” He sent his first Dolfish album, Your Love is Bumming Me Out, to Indiecater Records in Ireland. “They loved it,” he says. “They put it out digitally and on cassette. That wound up getting lots of press because they sent it to various media outlets.” Afternoon Records, a Warner Bros. subsidiary, then signed him to a deal for a full-length. They also reissued Your Love is Bumming | clevescene.com | August 17 - 23, 2016
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MUSIC Me Out as a 7-inch. The full-length debut, 2012’s I’d Rather Disappear than Stay the Same, brought acclaim from Spin, Timeout London, KEXP, and other national outlets. He recorded the album in Des Moines with a team of musicians he’d never met. “I showed up there and knew the one guy who was producing the record but just recorded it with whatever friends he had in the studio,” he says. “It was really wild. I had the songs demoed. I didn’t know it at the time, but he had sent the songs to some of his friends and asked them to play on the recording sessions. I was happy with the end results, however. It only worked because the guys were so talented. I showed up on and on Day 1, I ran them through the songs and then we did a rehearsal and we recorded everything live after that.” He played close to 100 dates a year in 2012 and 2013. “I went all over the U.S. and would circle around and hit the same cities after four months,” he explains. While still living in Columbus but contemplating a move back home to Cleveland, he started writing the songs for Foreclosure American Dreams.
recalls the great indie troubadour Daniel Johnston, takes some getting used to. “I’ve always sung like that,” he says when asked about his vocals. “My pitch isn’t very good when I sing low. It’s more natural for me to sing in a higher register. It’s not a falsetto. Every once in a while, I go into a falsetto, but I have better control in a high register and being in bands, it cuts through the mix really well.” But the songs on Foreclosure American Dreams, which often resemble short stories with their narrative structure, instantly endear themselves. And the references to specific places in Collinwood make it come off as something like the equivalent of Illinois, indie rocker Sufjan Stevens’ terrific tribute to the state. The album’s already received its fair share of national attention, even if it’s a true DIY affair. Each vinyl copy of the album, which is currently for sale online and will be available at the release party that Dolfish plays this week, will be hand-pressed and the first run will be limited to 100 copies. “There are several national press pieces in the works,” he says when asked about the publicity campaign behind the album. “I’ve come to the point where I don’t want to tour the way I did. That’s why I self-released this record. I can do this on my own terms and I can do it based on what
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“They followed a theme of moving back to Cleveland or featured characters that were outliers in Columbus but they would fit right in in Collinwood,” he says, “so I decided to write the rest of the record about people in Collinwood or businesses in Collinwood. I also imagine characters based on a palm reader on 185th and there are references to the bar, the Boardwalk.” He recorded the disc at a home studio in Toledo run by Little Elephant, a collective of sorts that films videos and records out of a refurbished home. They’ve done video session with indie acts such as Pedro the Lion’s David Bazan and Cursive. “They do amazing live sessions,” says Sollisch. “They bought a foreclosure but for the sake of starting their own studio. It’s a legit studio but in their basement.” Sollisch’s distinctive voice, which
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is justified. If you’re on a label, you have to tour a certain number of dates just to sell records. When it doesn’t do well, you’re playing to 10 to 50 people and breaking even.” While he says he’s ultimately ambivalent about hitting the road like he has in the past, he’s just as passionate as ever about connecting with fans. “My aspirations are just that I hope it gets heard more than the last record,” he says. “I want to pick and choose the shows I play. Instead of taking an offer to play a bar for $250 where 30 people will be listening and 70 will be talking, I can be like, ‘No. I appreciate the offer, but I think I’ll play an art space down the street where everyone will be sitting in a circle listening.’”
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MUSIC RIFFS, GLORIOUS RIFFS Avant metal act Baroness benefits from a lineup change By Jeff Niesel MOST MAJOR TOURING ACTS skip Savannah, Georgia, and opt instead to go to nearby Atlanta, a bigger market with a larger number of clubs. For Baroness singer-guitarist John Baizley, who formed the band in Savannah in 2003, the isolation proved to be an advantage. “We cut our teeth [in Savannah],” he says via phone from his 19th-century home in Philadelphia where he has both a recording studio and art studio. “We learned all the major lessons that we were to learn as a band. There is a very small and very potent music scene there. By small, I mean that you can count the number of bands in the ‘scene’ on one hand and you may not need your thumb.” He also gives credit to the loyal fans the band attracted in the town. “The amazing thing is that the audience there is the kind of audience you get in a small city,” he says. “They’re incredibly loyal and personable. They were as instrumental for our growth as anybody in the band was. There was one guy in town booking shows and one guy in town who was printing T-shirts. We wrote an album in the punk club there. It’s weird because major tours don’t go to Savannah. They skip it entirely. I credit that for being a large factor in how we were able to develop our sound without too much outside influence.” The band initially issued a series of EPs before 2007’s Red Album, a heavy album that commences with clashing cymbals and echoing guitar riffs that suggest the band’s artsier (even proglike) impulses. “The first EPs were written as a whole,” Baizley explains. “They weren’t written as an album because we were so far from thinking that we could afford to do an album. We did a demo and toured really, really hard with the demo CDR thing with Xeroxed covers that we hawked at shows. We made some money off T-shirts. We would do 250 days in a year and not a single show was outside of a house or a basement. There was a DIY network we were proud to be a part of. It meant that Monday night you made what you needed to spend on Tuesday and so forth. When promoters said ‘guarantee,’ they meant it was what they would optimally pay you.”
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While touring in support of 2011’s Yellow & Green, tragedy struck. Nine passengers were injured (two seriously) when the band’s tour bus slipped off the road. “Mentally, it was and continues to be difficult [to recover],” says Bailey when asked about the accident. “It’s not a particularly easy thing to contend with. That was the moment me and nine people I care deeply about almost lost their lives. We didn’t, but we all share that memory and have that communal experience. I don’t think any of us have categorized it the same way. We do care about one another and keep in touch as best as we can given that we tour on different tours and occupy different spaces professionally. Talking about it with our fellow crash mates has been helpful and good. Addressing some of the issues through my music and art has been helpful and therapeutic. It would be presumptuous to say I’m done with it or fully at peace with it. You couldn’t be.” When Baizley and guitarist Peter Adams sat down to the write the songs for last year’s Purple, they took
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a different approach. The two hadn’t written together but Baizley has plenty of “stage time” with Adams, who joined the band back in 2008. “We decided to take parts from songs we had started to write in the past and bring them back,” says Baizley. “We had written one riff from the recording session for Red and some stuff for Blue and vignettes we couldn’t figure out what to do with. We started with those. When you write something and you have an idea that you know is good and the band doesn’t gel, you don’t forget that idea. We got to see these ideas that we knew were good. Maybe someone else wasn’t quite feeling it. When we showed them to the new guys, they ran with it, and it was kind of effortless.” The demos became “hugely orchestrated things” that showcased every idea the band had for every song. “We could send them to the producer, and he would hear the scope of what we were thinking about,” says Baizley. “We just wanted to make our album bigger and better and bolder and more fantastic than the ideas we
had labored over for the past year.” On the resulting album, the band delivers more of the “glorious riffs” for which it’s known. The title also reflects “a dark moment” and references that aforementioned bus crash. Produced by Dave Fridmann (the Flaming Lips, Sleater-Kinney), the album starts with the noisy “Morningstar” and doesn’t let up until the mid-song breather, “Fugue,” an instrumental featuring an undulating guitar riff that makes the tune sound like a ’60s lounge song. “Near the end of the writing process, it was apparent to me that we were not in danger of having a record that didn’t have any excitement,” says Baizley. “It was so frenetic in terms of songs that didn’t need that but sounded cool because of that, I thought we needed an ear break. We knew it would be short and sweet. For me, I need that moment to catch your breath. It came out of a mistake when we were recording the final. If you listen to the solo at the end of ‘If I Have to Wake Up (Would You Stop the Rain),’ the chord progression is the basis for ‘Fugue.’ We do that on a lot of records. We’ll reference another part of the album. It’s a cool nod to the end of the album.” Songs such as “Kerosene,” a tune with a clearly articulated chorus and a catchy guitar riff, might seem more melodic and accessible. But Baizley says the band didn’t intend to make a more approachable album. “I think the melodies are focused in a different way,” he says. “They come out in a way that, for me, sounds more natural and accessible and fluid but not necessarily more mature, but I can hear a level of excitement. That’s something you cannot manufacture no matter how hard you try. You cannot draft a situation where you sound excited. You cannot just think it. Certainly that’s a big difference that separates it from being a lackluster album that has all the familiar Baroness-isms. We wanted to improve on something and, because we were amped to be in the studio writing with each other, that comes across in the songs.”
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MUSIC FOND OF FUZZ Ohio-based hard rocker act Dune plays ‘extreme head-banging rock ’n’ roll’ By Eli Shively THE BIO ON THE BANDCAMP page for Ohio fuzz-rockers Dune treats curious listeners to a brief origin story. “Four friends from Athens, Ohio,” it reads, “who threatened to start a stoner rock band together each time they met at local bars, finally came together to form Dune in 2011.” As far as seemingly empty promises and wouldn’t-that-be-cool brainstorms go, the band’s been doing pretty well since then. It released a debut full-length, Roja, in 2012 and garnered a respectably sized fan base around its gigging grounds in southern Ohio. “The truth is, we’re rock ’n’ rollers who have stupid jobs that get in the way,” says singer-guitarist Louis Knight when asked how Dune operates. The fact that certain members can’t afford to make the band top priority can be tough, and dealing with living in different cities (Knight and guitarist Matt Toledo moved away from Athens in 2012) certainly doesn’t make things any easier. However, the fact that Dune has managed to keep going is a testament to just how much the guys enjoy playing with one another. “I personally have stayed with it because the other three guys are so talented,” says Knight. “It’s worth the drive once or twice a month.” A particularly important drive was made earlier this year, when Knight took some time off work and spent three days with Toledo working out material for what would become Dune’s self-titled EP, released last month. “We spent three days together writing a bunch of material, drinking beers and trying to figure out what to do with it,” Knight explains. “We decided to go with a short EP to give us time to work on a second fulllength.” Indeed, Dune may not boast an extensive tracklist, but each song has more than plenty of meat to it. The record’s centerpiece, “Hell Betty,” clocks in at over six minutes, cycling through phrase after phrase of driving, riff-heavy desert rock. This comes courtesy of Toledo, who serves as the lead guitarist and mastermind behind Dune’s explosive sense of melody. “Matt is really the
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mad genius in Dune,” Knight says. “He usually brings a great idea to practice and we all add parts and structure.” His sharp, creative playing can be heard all over the EP; despite their heaviness, the musical inner workings of the songs on Dune are usually pretty complex. Take “Aries” for example, the record’s second and shortest track. Even though it’s a little more straightforward than the others, the intro still manages to pack a groovy punch by repeating a 4/4 riff after just three bars, catching the listener off guard and giving the song a bit of a math-y edge. The creative vocal leads
when compared to other heavy rock bands. The aforementioned Bandcamp bio even boasts undertones of “everything from soul to thrash” in their music. At the core, however, is the hook heavy alt-rock spirit of the 1990s. Knight cites everyone from Kyuss to Soundgarden to the more progressive desert sound of Truckfighters as influences, stressing the quartet’s original goal of being a true stoner rock band as the main thing they continue to strive for musically. The band’s love of genre runs deep within its connections to one another — according to Knight, he first met the other three members of Dune while
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in “Inside” and Toledo’s relentless shredding on closer “Elizabeth,” which at one point even challenges the vocals for the spotlight, provide even more playfulness to keep things interesting and attention-grabbing. It’s no wonder Dune takes pride in the diversity and inventiveness of its sound, especially
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doing acoustic Queens of the Stone Age cover sets at open stage events in Athens. Their initial reaction was to invite him to join the band they were starting, but he says that it wasn’t smooth sailing from the get-go. “Not a lot of people know that I was almost kicked out after the first
practice,” Knight explains. “I played mostly acoustic and as much as I loved the ideas these guys had, I was totally out of my element.” Thankfully, things picked up from there and the group hit a confident stride with the release of Roja. Still, according to Knight, there were a lot of things they could have done better. “I really loved Roja. But, like with most bands, there was a lot of room for Dune to grow, and I think we’ve done that,” he says. “The EP is more representative of where we are now as musicians and the direction I’d like to see us go.” For the upcoming show at Mahall’s in Lakewood, Dune will play songs from the new EP, of course, along with a few old favorites. But above all, the band aims to bring the house down with what Knight lovingly calls “extreme head-banging rock ’n’ roll.” He says the band’s highest possible hope is to make a lasting impression: “People [will] hear that fuzzy guitar tone and drums that hit you over the head and say, ‘That’s Dune!’”
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Soul Low/Sweepyheads/Pack Wolf: “Jank pop” is the tagline that comes with Milwaukee-based Soul Low tonight, and we’re as enticed as you are. So what that mean, exactly? On the band’s latest album, Nosebleeds, the musicians blend tight, poppy songwriting chops with a slightly more open-ended jam mindset. There’s a bit of straightforward garage rock in there, with a touch of avant-garde, almost Wilco-sourced instrumentation. Take “Tied in
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Knots,” for instance; this tune plays loose with the confines of pop structures and delivers an off-kilter summertime throwback to being young and confused. This is good mid-August music for the car or for the patio or, hell, for the stage. (Eric Sandy), 8:30 p.m., $8 ADV, $10 DOS. Beachland Tavern. Kaya Stewart/The Outer Waves/ Dave Smith: Sixteen-year-old singersongwriter Kaya Stewart started performing when she was 13. She sounds surprisingly mature on her eponymous full-length release, which features 12 high-energy pop songs, including the single “Sleep Over,” a tune reminiscent of early Pink, Katy Perry and Lady Gaga. In fact, she worked closely with the latter’s producer, RedOne, to co-write the album. Her father and Eurythmics front-man, Dave Stewart (he’s the one typing on the computer with a keyboard larger than the monitor in the “Sweet Dreams” music video), also handles writing and producing duties on the album. This stop on her summer tour will undoubtedly be kinetic, loud and have infectious hooks that fans will be singing long after the curtains are drawn. (Kelly), 7 p.m., $13. House of Blues. Dr. Scott’s Electric Hairbrush: 9 p.m. The Euclid Tavern. The Grievance Club Release Show/ CityCop/Mace Ballard/Bare Walls/ The Spectator (In the Locker Room): 7 p.m., $8 ADV, $10 DOS. Mahall’s 20 Lanes. Chris Hatton’s Musical Circus (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m. Brothers Lounge. The High Kings: 8 p.m., $28. The
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DEVOtional 2016 with Fantastic Plastics/DEVOmatix/Eric Nassau/ Lieutenant Dance/We Are Not Men: DEVO fans have delighted in a “summer of Mark Mothersbaugh” thanks to Myopia, a tribute to the singer’s extensive visual art catalog at MOCA Cleveland and the Akron Art Museum (continues through Aug. 28.) Now, DEVO worshippers from across the country and abroad will descend on Cleveland once again for the 16th DEVOtional weekend at the Beachland Ballroom. The annual cultic meeting is two days of fan communion: cover bands evoke the
spirit of the iconic Akron band in many forms, while DEVO members and affiliates make appearances in the flesh. We Are Not Men, the aptlynamed female DEVO cover band from Austin, Texas, will perform on the opening evening. Lieutenant Dance revs the motor with its own breed of noise rock flecked with funk and polka while the Fantastic Plastics offers new wave-riding electronica. Folk singer-songwriter Eric Nassau brings the gang back down to earth with rootsy DEVO covers, and Atlanta’s DEVOmatix will induce a “deep sleep” to close out night one. (Bethany Kaufman), 7 p.m. Beachland Ballroom. Guitar Legend: Dick Dale/Texas Plant: From rock, to punk rock, to heavy metal, all roads lead back to Dick Dale. Known for his lightningquick picking, the undisputed “King of the Surf Guitar” has remained an active musician, touring and recording since Eisenhower was president. Dale is a living legend for more than his genre pioneering music. He has maintained a grueling non-stop touring schedule; Cleveland is a frequent destination. For Dale, touring is a necessity— the costs of a series of medical issues from diabetes to cancer have forced the living legend to continue working long after others pass the torch and hang up their robes. (Kelly), 8:30 p.m., $30. Grog Shop. Alan Madej/99 Spirits/Vivora: 9 p.m., $5. The Euclid Tavern. Marcus Anderson: “Purple in Blu”: 8 p.m., $20 ADV, $25 DOS. BLU Jazz+. Baroness/Pallbearer: 7 p.m., $25. House of Blues. Bossa Nova Night with Luca Mundaca (in the Supper Club): 8 p.m., $7. Music Box Supper Club. Elm St. Blues Band/Wallace Coleman Blues Band/George Foley & Friends: 5:30 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern. Fifty Amp Fuse: 9:30 p.m., $10. Brothers Lounge. Heaven Is In You Presents Tae Miles/Doja Powerplay/Broken Keys/Meg Paulsen: 9:30 p.m., $7. Now That’s Class. Late Night Lounge: Stella Brickhouse (in the Supper Club): 10:30 p.m., Free. Music Box Supper Club. Tracy Marie Featuring Paul Fresty (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m. Brothers Lounge. The Mega ‘80s Including a Tribute to Prince: 9:30 p.m., $16 ADV, $19 DOS. Beachland Ballroom.
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recording artist Raheem DeVaughn and singer, songwritier and emcee Wes Felton, will play their new album Footprints on the Moon at tonight’s show. Critics consider their 2004 debut, The Invitation, to be one of the most inuential records in underground hip-hop and R&B; it features “vivid storytelling and intrinsically soulful vocals about socio-political issues while praising the gospel of love absent self-pity.â€? (Niesel), 10 p.m., $15. Musica. DEVOtional 2016 with Ultrabunny/ DEVOmatix/Spudboys/Xposed 4Heads/Ken the Magic Corner God/Hep Z: Day two of DEVOtional weekend brings visits from original DEVO member Jerry Casale and Delaney Jae of FUTURISMO Inc., the label responsible for releasing DEVO rarities through the vinyl medium. Bandmate Mark Mothersbaugh will join Casale to unveil DEVO-inspired guitars by Eastwood. Connecticut’s Ultrabunny will manufacture noise rock on the spot with buzzsaw guitars and searing synths, followed by a performance by Ken the Magic Corner God. Mark’s brother Al Mothersbaugh slides the trombone for Massive Hotdog Recall, the self-proclaimed “nu wave marching band boogie rockâ€? group from Kent. DEVOtional’s long-reigning house band Spudboys are back after a ďŹ veyear hiatus. Xposed 4Heads bring their social sarcasm to the table before DEVOmatix brings it home. (Kaufman), 3 p.m., $15. Beachland Ballroom. Ahi-Nama: 8 p.m., $12. BLU Jazz+. Album/When Particles Collide: 9 p.m., $5. Happy Dog. Joey Amato and Friend (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m. Brothers Lounge. Cleveland Jazz Orchestra (in the Supper Club): 8 p.m., $22 ADV, $25 DOS. Music Box Supper Club. Elvis Hitler/Cult of the Psychic Fetus/CJ Gunn: 9 p.m., $10. Now That’s Class. Gangstagrass/JP & The ChatďŹ eld Boys: 8:30 p.m., $13 ADV, $15 DOS. Beachland Tavern. Steve Grand/Karen Williams: 8 p.m. Akron Civic Theatre. Joanne Shaw Taylor: 7 p.m., $10. The Foundry. Late Night Karaoke: DJ Terkalerk (in the Supper Club): 10:30 p.m., Free. Music Box Supper Club. Mary Martin and the Tuna Band/ Prime Directive: 8 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern. Orquestra La Sonora: 8 p.m., $15. Bop Stop. Outdoor Music: Stormy Monday: 3 p.m., Free. Music Box Supper Club. See Creatures/The Breakers/Holy
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A CAN-DO ATTITUDE: The band formed in 2010 in Baltimore, about six years ago this summer. It started as a trio with guitarist Owen Gardner who was asked to play a concert and put the band together to play the concert. He had been playing with bassist Max Eilbacher and drummer Sam Haberman. The band essentially covered a Can song and played one riff for 15 to 20 minutes. The group then established itself with its selftitled debut, which featured custom electric guitars and basses refretted by Gardner. “Owen refretted both the guitar and bass to a microtonal just intonation scale,” says Bernstein. “He and I became interested in microtonality and just intonation a while ago, back in college. I was inspired by different music. Owen cited Rhys Chatham as an early influence who showed that you could play microtonal music with a guitar. Owen is also a cellist and had explored those interests on the cello and put down the guitar for a time. That inspired him to take the plunge and tear off the frets and put new ones on.” While the earliest Horse Lords releases concentrate on “linear performance,” a trio of mixtape cassettes suggested a new direction, one that the band further explores on its new album Interventions. WHY YOU SHOULD HEAR THEM: On Interventions, the group uses a variety of off-kilter rhythms as it explores “experimental musique concrète territory.” “We focused on playing the parts well but more of the focus was using the studio as a tool,”
says Bernstein. “That’s the process behind the record. We have a series of three mixtapes — we’re working on a fourth — and that stuff has been lower pressure. We don’t spend as much time making them and the production quality varies. We have half ideas that we record and then cut to tape and make a couple of hundred and then sell on the road. We used those experiences to make this into a higher quality mix tape.” The album’s opening tune, “Truthers,” features a hypnotic guitar riff that builds in intensity as it mixes with fluttering electronic bleeps and blips. “Owen came up with the pattern, and he writes his guitar part around it,” says Bernstein. “I write my saxophone part around that, and Max comes up with his bass line. We worked out some variations. It is slow going, composing this music. We don’t have a set formula.” Bernstein describes the live show as “ecstatic.” “We do want to challenge listeners, but we want it to be engaging and in that way we try to play music that’s fun to play and satisfying to listen to,” he says. “We don’t think about accessibility in a mainstream way, but we want the music to be a satisfying listening experience, even if it’s challenging, which I think makes it a more satisfying listening experience. We don’t want to be so difficult as to be unlistenable.”
WHERE YOU CAN HEAR THEM: horselords.info WHERE YOU CAN SEE THEM: Horse Lords perform with ONO and Spacebeach at 8 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 19, at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
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Cleveland, Ohio Come Celebrate With Us 25 years ago we rolled the first Fat Tire out of our garage in Fort Collins and embarked on an epic ride.
Fat Tire®, New Belgium® and the bicycle logo are trademarks of New Belgium Brewing Co.
Not only are we celebrating at our new Asheville Brewery, but we are bringing the party to Cleveland! Join us for great beers, good vibes, awesome people, live music and tasty eats.
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NEW BELGIUM’S 25TH BIRTHDAY BASH 2215-2219 W 11TH ST, CLEVELAND, OH 44113
ENJOY great BEERS, good VIBES, awesome PEOPLE, live MUSIC, and TASTY EATS! SATURDAY, AUGUST 27 from 3:00-7:00PM. Special PERFORMANCES by WIZBANG! THEATRE. MORE FUN EVENTS and CHANCES to WIN A DETROIT BIKE at NEWBELGIUM.COM/OHIO ENJOY NEW BELGIUM RESPONSIBLY
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