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FEBRUARY 14-20, 2018 • VOLUME 48 NO 33 Dedicated to Free Times founder Richard H. Siegel (1935-1993) and Scene founder Richard Kabat Group Publisher Chris Keating

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Associate Publisher Angela Nagal

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Editor Vince Grzegorek

Roldo Bartimole, the conscience of Cleveland, signs off; plus the Cleveland Tenants Organization shuts down

Editorial Music Editor Jeff Niesel Senior Writer Sam Allard Staff Writer Brett Zelman Web Editor Laura Morrison Dining Editor Douglas Trattner Stage Editor Christine Howey Visual Arts Writers Dott von Schneider Copy Editor Elaine Cicora

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UPFRONT ROLDO BARTIMOLE, CONSCIENCE OF CLEVELAND, TO SIGN OFF AFTER 50 YEARS Photo courtesy Cleveland Memory Project

THIS WEEK

IN A SHORT PIECE PUBLISHED Monday, independent journalist Roldo Bartimole, once called “Cleveland’s gadfl y,” announced his retirement after 50 years of fearless local coverage. There is a time, he wrote, “to sum up.” After stints at both the Plain Dealer and the Wall Street Journal, Bartimole set out on his own in 1968 (the day after Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination) to publish a newsletter called Point of View. In its pages, he raked muck and spoke truth to power, holding public leaders and the business community accountable for the poverty and misery of the region. Bartimole single-handedly published Point of View until 2000, during and after which he wrote for a number of local outlets including Cleveland Edition, Free Times, Cool Cleveland and, lately, Jeff Hess’ blog Have Coffee Will Write. He was awarded the Greater Cleveland Community Shares Award for Social Justice Communications in 2001 and was inducted into the Cleveland Press Club Hall of Fame in 2004. “Carl Stokes, George Forbes, Dennis Kucinich, Michael White, Frank Jackson, Art Modell, Mike Polensek, Nick Mileti, Dick Jacobs, Mary Boyle, Alex Machaskee, Sam Miller, Al Ratner, Mary Rose Oakar, Tom Vail, Ralph Perk, James C. Davis, Tim Hagan, CEI, United Way, Squire-Sanders, JonesDay, the Plain Dealer, the Press, Cleveland police. How many more make up this period?” Roldo wrote, listing some of the key names that dominated his coverage over the past five decades. “They and

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George Forbes tosses Roldo Bartimole out of a city council meeting in 1981.

GOLDEN OPPORTUNITIES Kent State becomes first MAC school to install a cryochamber. Armond Budish and Frank Jackson have already called dibs, vowing to run for county executive and Cleveland mayor, respectively, near the turn of the 22nd century.

FORECAST: HEAVY WINDS Fox 8’s morning show celebrates 30 years on the air. Reached for comment, Dick Goddard scoffed and remarked, “I’ve had farts that lasted longer. Get back to me in a coupla decades.”

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so many more all helped make 50 years a tough, demanding but useful way to spend a lifetime of work.” The complete Point of View is accessible online as part of Cleveland State University’s Memory Project. Roldo has penned a twopart recap of his career. The first installment, recounting his arrival in Cleveland and the logistics of Point of View, was published Monday. The second was to be posted Wednesday. Bartimole may be the recipient of fond send-offs and well wishes now, but it’s important to remember that he was despised by the local establishment for virtually all of his career. He was disparaged as a dingbat and a troublemaker, and (to this day) as an inaccurate slinger of mud with an axe to grind. Such are the perils of a reporter who devotes his life to covering local power critically. — Sam Allard

Garfield Heights Plans to Move Jail, Court and Police HQ to City View If everything goes according to plan, Garfield Heights’ court, jail and police headquarters will be moving to a new building at the City View complex, the much-maligned shopping center built on a landfill that, in its early years, was beset by methane leaks and Ohio EPA actions. That’s what mayor Vic Collova said in his state of the city speech earlier this month. “We’re going to see some interesting things happening there,” he said, referencing tentative plans to move the court and jail to the site. In a follow-up call with Scene last week, Collova confirmed the city will be meeting at the end of February with “our bond people and financial consultants” to try and put together the money to make it happen. “If we could do it, we’re probably talking 18 months down the road, not to start, but to complete it,” Collova said. “The EPA has said the site is completely fine, and our fire department is out there testing all the time, and as long as the (methane) monitoring system is maintained and controlled ... there’s been a lot of misconception about the methane. We have Giant Eagle there, selling food, and there’s no way the health department or EPA would allow that to happen if there was an issue.” City View has languished after

tenants, including Wal-Mart, closed up shop, and a series of lawsuits, which have since been settled. As for the Bridgeview site next door, control of that long-dormant site, distressed and vacant after the financial crash, was transferred last year to Craig Realty Group. The company cut a $4 million check last year to the city to help fund the roughly $6 million cost of widening Transportation Boulevard. “They didn’t do it because they want Garfield Heights to have a new bridge,” Collova said in his speech. “They have a project going with the old Bridgeview site, they have a plan,” Collova told Scene. “The plan isn’t set in stone so there’s not

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UPFRONT a lot that can be said, but ODOT knows about the project they’re talking about and, before that can be completed, the ramps and bridges would have to be widened. They have a lot of vendors, nobody for sure, but there’s a lot of activity and we’re receiving calls, the new owners are receiving calls, and I do anticipate something happening.” Plans for an outlet shopping center fell through last year. Collova said the current jail/ courts building, older and plagued by maintenance problems, would be torn down and the land sold. — Vince Grzegorek

Cleveland Tenants Organization Shuts Doors after More Than 40 Years A Cleveland non-profit that since 1975 has advocated for tenants’ rights and affordable rental housing, resolved disputes with landlords, fought housing discrimination, worked to prevent homelessness, and generally served

as a much-needed resource for low- and middle-income renters announced last week the end of its operations. From the official announcement: “While the need in our community is greater than ever, it is with deep sadness that the CTO board of directors voted to suspend CTO’s operations. Over the past decade many of our board members have watched fi nancial support for CTO slowly decline to the point where the organization became no longer sustainable, leaving us no choice but to lay off our remaining staff … CTO’s board remains committed to the organization’s mission, and over the coming months will be exploring ways to maintain different pieces of CTO’s core service provision by partnering with other agencies in our community.” The CTO site will live on as a compendium of resources, and a rental information hotline (216-8615955) maintained and staffed by the nonprofit will be taken over by the Legal Aid Society of Cleveland. That number handled volumes of

calls, at times around 10,000 a year, from landlords and tenants seeking assistance; CTO received thousands of referrals from other agencies and nonprofits such as United Way of Cleveland each year as well. (United Way ceased fi nancial support of CTO recently. On the organization’s Twitter account last week, it said, in defense of the move: “We must be good stewards of Donor dollars. We make tough decisions. Our decision to suspend funding took place 5 yrs ago due to competitive programming. We are sad to hear they closed their doors. We are glad @LegalAidCLE will continue to provide their services.” Demand for those services aren’t going away anytime soon and, as CTO board president Cheri Smith told Ideastream last week, the problems the organization sought to address might be getting worse due to a severe lack of affordable housing in Cleveland. “There are plenty of homes out there, vacant, abandoned, run down, dilapidated, pick your adjective, they’re out there,” she said. “But there is a shortage of

affordable, sustainable, healthy housing for individuals in the lowand moderate-income brackets. It’s absolutely a, dare I say, crisis for the city.” — Grzegorek

Proposed Fee on Uber /Lyft Rides to Help Fund RTA Was Great Idea, but Impossible in Ohio Last month, the local transit advocacy group Clevelanders for Public Transit (CPT) proposed, at a Cuyahoga County Council meeting, a 27-cent fee on rides taken with app-based ride-sharing services like Uber and Lyft (Transportation Network Companies, or TNCs, in the lingo). The fee, said CPT’s Akshai Singh, would preclude the necessity of an RTA fare hike in August. That’d be helpful, seeing as the region’s transit system is in fi nancial peril, diving headlong into a death spiral that looks like this: lost revenue from taxes on Medicaid managed care >>> reduced service

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If you use Uber or Lyft, a small fee would effect you less than another fee hike will effect most RTA riders .

and increased fares (an attempt to recoup some of the lost revenue) >>> fewer riders >>> less revenue >>> reduced service and increased fares, etc. This has been well publicized, and it’s not speculative. Last week, the U.S. Department of Transportation released its monthly ridership data for December. In 2017, there were only 39.5 million rides taken on RTA buses, trains, BRT and paratransit. This was the lowest annual total ever. It was also a sharp drop (10.7 percent) from 2016’s total rides, the third-largest year-to-year drop since RTA’s inception. Akshai Singh acknowledged, when he proposed the TNC fee to Cuyahoga County Council, that such a fee would hardly plug RTA’s financial hole. But the $3 to $4 million it could generate annually would take the burden off riders, who account for roughly 16 percent of RTA’s annual revenue and who already endured a fare hike in 2016. The TNC fee is an excellent idea, and is in fact modeled after a similar fee in Chicago. But in Ohio, the fee is impossible, thanks to statewide legislation that specifically preempts it. “It is the intent of the [Ohio] general assembly to preempt any local ordinance, resolution, or other law adopted to license, register, tax, or otherwise regulate [Transportation Network Companies],” the Ohio Revised Code (ORC) states in its chapter on the subject (4925). The ORC does allow for local airports to assess a fee, and in Cleveland, via the city charter, that fee is set by the Board of Control. The legislation was passed in 2015. It immediately nullified an ordinance in Columbus that officials there had worked on for nearly a year. What’s odd is that few in Cleveland seemed to be aware of it.

Uber, however, certainly was. When Channel 19 reported on the proposed fee last week, RTA itself, evidently unaware of the state preemption, said that the fee would require passage by Cuyahoga County Council. Representatives on county council were intrigued by the idea of the fee, but they too didn’t acknowledge the state preemption. They said they’d need to consult with RTA and were curious about the transit agency’s long-term financial plan. Even Lyft, a TNC that the state preemption protects, was unaware. A spokesperson told Channel 19 that the 27-cent fee would be borne by passengers, increasing the cost of rides. Only Uber directed Channel 19 to the relevant state regulations. That led CPT to suspect the language in the Ohio Revised Code had come from Uber directly. Akshai Singh said that Policy Matters Ohio had been aware of the preemption and had conducted research about the issue in 2016. He also told Scene that right now, CPT is trying to ask the state how it can consider transit a “local issue” — Ohio certainly has no interest in funding public transit from state coffers — while also believing that rideshare constitutes an issue of statewide interest. “Despite transit being a local issue,” Singh wrote to Scene, “state constitution and law both uniquely constrain local government with any ability to manage it, and pretty much attack the civil rights of anybody without access or ability to drive a car. “Ultimately,” he continued, “CPT is committed to finding dedicated revenues, locally and with partners statewide, for fare relief and restored services for riders.” Singh is right to note that the state has put cities in an impossible position. It won’t fund public transit, but it also won’t let cities creatively find revenue streams to fund it

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Disgraced Former CWRU Law Dean Lawrence Mitchell is Now a Professor in Shanghai In 2014, Case Western Reserve University Law School Dean Lawrence Mitchell resigned during a lawsuit alleging rampant sexual impropriety and retaliation against a professor who tried to blow the whistle. The salacious details of that suit — including Mitchell’s repeated attempts to enlist students and underlings in threesomes — and the complicity of CWRU administrators, including president Barbara Snyder, were chronicled in the 2014 Scene feature story, “Sex, Politics and Revenge.” The suit was settled two months after that piece’s publication. In 2016, Mitchell announced on his now-defunct personal blog that

he’d officially changed his name to Ezra Wasserman Mitchell. He is now a professor of law at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (SHUFE) in China. There, students have lately learned of his past (un)professional conduct. In a brochure created by SHUFE students and distributed to their classmates, Mitchell’s name change and his controversial tenure at Case Western is presented in detail. The full text of Scene’s 2014 report is included as well. (You can read a PDF of the brochure at clevescene. com.) One student suggested in an email to Scene that China should not be excluded from the #MeToo movement and cited two recent cases in Chinese higher education where professors had been removed due to accusations of sexual harassment. Some SHUFE students are now trying to raise awareness about Mitchell. “We believe that there should be no room for Lawrence Mitchell to secure any faculty position,” the

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NEO Native Red Gerard Wins Olympic Gold, Dad Wears Browns Hat on National TV The local star of the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics is young Red Gerard, a 17-year-old snowboarding wunderkind from Silverthorne, Colorado, who grew up in Rocky River. Gerard took home the gold in the “snowboard slopestyle” event Saturday night, defeating two Canadians to nab the first gold for Team USA. But the star of the NBC telecast was Red’s dad, Conrad Gerard, who was filmed on multiple occasions during and after Red’s runs wearing a Cleveland Browns winter hat and hoisting beers with friends and family. Yahoo Sports columnist Jeff

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Passan tweeted Sunday that Conrad was “ecstatic” that his son won a gold medal, but “the happiest I saw him was when someone showed him that Bernie Kosar had tweeted about Red. “BERNIE KOSAR!?” he said. “Holy shit!” — Allard

West Side Market Parking to Begin this Month Just a quick FYI. The city announced that paid parking will begin at the West Side Market on Feb. 27. Once in effect, the first 90 minutes will be free between the hours of 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. After that, it’ll be $1 per hour with a max of $10 per day. You’ll grab a ticket as you pull into the lot and then either pay with credit card while exiting or cash or credit at one of the pay machines located in the area. — Grzegorek

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FEATURE INCOMING! 40-plus bar, restaurant and brewery openings in 2018 that have our attention By Douglas Trattner Photo by Barney Taxel

LET’S GET THIS OUT OF THE way from the jump: We likely will not be dining anytime soon at Sherla’s Chicken and Oysters, Michael Symon’s casual neighborhood spot slowly taking shape in the former home of Lolita in Tremont, which suffered a catastrophic fire more than two years ago. When it does open — this summer, next fall, or just in time for the 2019 MLB All-Star Game in Cleveland — it will offer a casual mix of raw oysters, smoked seafood boards, fried chicken and woodroasted chicken and veggies. That said, the number of other exciting bar, restaurant and brewery projects that have our attention is nothing short of impressive. From Lakewood to Chagrin Falls to Canton and all points in between, there are heaps of new ventures presently taking shape.

Ohio City/Detroit Shoreway/ Tremont In Pittsburgh’s Strip District, the Smallman Galley is a warren of activity that bears little resemblance to the bright, bland food halls that are popping up all over the nation. Come summer, the Galley Group will attempt to duplicate the success of that venture within the four walls of the former Massimo Da Milano restaurant space at West 25th and Detroit. Equal parts food hall and restaurant incubator, Ohio City Galley will welcome a handful of aspiring restaurateurs for oneyear terms. We’ve been fans of Jeremy Umansky ever since he brought his unique bag of culinary skills — wild-edible foraging, ferments, charcuterie, koji-culturing — to town. All those weapons will be employed at Larder, a modern delicatessen currently taking shape in an old firehouse next door to Rising Star Coffee. It’s been two years since Umansky announced his plans, but the delicious finish line is just months away. How fortuitous for partners Vaughn Stewart and Luke Brevoort to secure space for their new

Jeremy Umansky of Larder

brewery not just in Ohio City, the ganglion of Cleveland brewing, but on the very site of a productive, significant old brewery. Where once Baehr Brewing crafted lagers kept cool by blocks of Lake Erie ice, Bookhouse Brewing is currently coming together. Stewart, a brewer, and Brevoort, a former bookshop operator, hope to create a low-key neighborhood pub that serves as “the calm within the storm.” Practically straddling the border of Detroit Shoreway and Ohio City is a squat brick building that long housed an art gallery. Come March, it will reopen as Tributary. While it’s being billed as a neighborhood

bar, the interior is being built out by the team behind such interiors as Spotted Owl, Greenhouse Tavern, Fat Cats and Giant in Chicago. Owner John Burens says that Tributary will be “the kind of place where you can get both a Pabst and a French 75 without having to explain to the bartender how to make it.” Courtney Bonning already has started slinging confections at her new production facility and retail outlet at Hub 55, the mixed-use facility at St. Clair and East 55th that includes Goldhorn Brewery and Sterle’s Slovenian House. In the coming weeks, she and partner

Kelly Brewer will unveil the second phase of Bigmouth Donut Co., a retail space in the Hingetown area of Ohio City. Plans call for a fun, funky, petite space that might just sell donuts 24 hours a day. You gotta feel bad for Nav Singh. He’s been spinning his wheels at the starting line for months while attempting to get his permits in place to open Ohio City BBQ. When the smoke does begin to billow, diners can expect straightforward Southern-style barbeque items like brisket, ribs, and pork shoulder slow smoked over real wood in a beefy Southern Pride smoker and dished up in a rock-and-roll themed cafe. Change comes slowly to the West Side Market, and when it does arrive, it typically is modest in scope and ambition. Tom McIntyre’s plans for a choice corner spot, which hasn’t seen a major upgrade for decades, are anything but meek. Long home to Dani’s Seafood — but a fishmonger’s space since 1912 — Stand H14 soon will have a completely new look and mission. While Kate’s Fish will continue to focus on fresh, seasonal fish and seafood, the new venture will offer “seafood shack” style items like fried whole clams, lobster rolls, peeland-eat shrimp, Hawaiian poke, and fried fish sandwiches and dinners. Come summer, Rachel Kingsbury will be bouncing like a pinball between her three-year-old green grocer/cafe The Grocery OHC and a second shop on the eastern edge of the very same neighborhood. The new grocery will enjoy a firstfloor presence in the large Quarter development currently rising at the corner of West 25th and Detroit. At three times the size, the new shop will stock more staples and prepare an expanded menu of fresh, healthy foods that can be enjoyed on the patio. If you’ve ever dropped by Cantine in Broadview Heights, then you’ve witnessed the knack that Ross Valenti has for getting the basics right. That popular wine bar, bistro and bottle shop offers guests a hip environment in which to enjoy a concise selection of approachable, well-crafted small and medium | clevescene.com | February 14 - 20, 2018

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FEATURE plates. Valenti’s goal for the Literary Tavern, which is the new name for the old Literary Café in Tremont, is to create a casual, comfortable and relevant place for neighbors to enjoy themselves: essentially, a new-old neighborhood classic.

Downtown When Cafe Sausalito opened in 1987, it was one of the original tenants of the then-vibrant Galleria mall. It has managed to survive lo these many years thanks to robust lunch crowds and a thriving catering and specialevents business. But owner Babu Chandrababu, who purchased the business from founder Gary Lucarelli, decided it was time to pull up stakes, relocate and rebrand. When it opens in the coming weeks as Sausalito on Ninth, it will do so from an impressive new corner perch in the IMG Building. The space will feature a second-level mezzanine with kitchen and dining room that overlooks the main floor and street-side patio. Southern Tier Brewing knows a good market when they see it. The Lakewood, New York-based company will open a brewery and tasting room in the heart of the Gateway District, in the home of the short-lived 811 Kitchen on Prospect. When it opens this spring, the venture will feature Clevelandbrewed beers along with the full portfolio of Southern Tier (and, perhaps, Victory) seasonal and flagship beers, including barrelaged products and sours.

Birdtown Brewery takes shape in an old church.

If the name Good Night John Boy conjures up images of a ’70s-era melodrama, then owner Michael Schwartz has done his job. When it opens this spring in the former Flip Side spot in the Flats, GNJB will be a highly conceptual dive bar dripping with nostalgic fun. By day, the cafe will serve diner-style breakfast and lunch. Come the weekend, it will be a riotous ’70s-style party atmosphere serving late-night food. Marble Room has been leaving diners speechless thanks to an interior ripped from the Beaux Arts era. The massive sushi and steak restaurant is one of the most grand and ambitious establishments downtown, but that isn’t stopping owners Frank and Malisse Sinito from pushing ahead with plans to open two new ventures. Il Venetian,

an upscale Italian restaurant, and Marble Room Sushi, a carry-out concept, will both open at Key Center.

Lakewood Out in Lakewood, Distill Table is a project that will blend a farmto-table eatery with a grain-to-glass distillery. Chef Eddie Tancredi, formerly of Adega at The 9, will offer affordable, customizable small plates, shared items, sandwiches, pizzas and a handful of features. He’s joined in the two-headed venture by Kevin and Ann Thomas of Western Reserve Distillers, which will produce a variety of house-distilled spirits that can be sampled in a tasting room. When Rood Food and Pie opens

in the West Madison neighborhood of Lakewood, it will be an all-day cafe that straddles the line between breakfast and dinner, sweet and savory, classic and contemporary. In the morning, neighbors will enjoy light breakfasts of coffee drinks, pastries, overnight oats, Scotch eggs and pie. Lunch might feature biscuits, savory chicken potpies, smashed avocado toasts and pie. Dinner will offer soups, build-yourown slider flights and more pie, naturally. The team behind Barrio is not slowing down. They recently opened the fifth location of their popular taco-and-margarita chain, this one in Willoughby. They will soon add Birdtown Brewery, a casual eatery and brewery that has been slowly taking shape in the old St. Gregory Catholic Church in Lakewood’s Birdtown neighborhood. Judd’s City Tavern sits near the border of Cleveland and Lakewood, in a sort of no-man’s land between Birdtown and Detroit Shoreway. It doesn’t really matter where it sits because what’s inside will likely lure curious imbibers from all corners of the city. Step inside the whimsical interior and you’re immersed in a remarkable collection of beer, sports, toy, automotive, postal and firstresponder memorabilia.

Cleveland Heights The well-worn Tavern Company space on Lee Road in Cleveland Heights is inching ever closer to becoming the Kensington Pub, an elevated American tavern serving upscale pub grub and steaks in an unpretentious setting. Owners Jeff King and Brad Poe have been hard at work since September renovating and improving the interior while

I REALLY WISH CLEVELAND HAD … WITH EVERYTHING CLEVELAND is already blessed with, and everything slated to open soon, there are still little nooks and crannies of the culinary world the city has yet to explore. Here are some local chefs and owners on what they would like to see next in the Forest City. SEAN WATTERSON, HAPPY DOG: “Fancy Lebanese.” MATT MYTRO, CHEF, FLOUR: “I would love to see a real Tex-Mex spot here. Obviously, growing up in Texas, I feel that Cleveland is missing this.”

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MELISSA KHOURY, OWNER OF Saucisson: “A Baja-style Mexican joint would be awesome!” DOUG KATZ, CHEF-OWNER, FIRE: “Modern Indian or modern Israeli.” FARMER LEE JONES, OWNER, Chef’s Garden: “Something that celebrates our amazing ethnic diversity, yet playful, modern interpretations while hypersensitive to seasonality.” ALAN GLAZEN, entrepreneur: “We do not have a

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single high-end Asian restaurant.” MATT SPINNER, CHEF, Ushabu: “I feel like we are severely lacking in legitimate, well thought out ethnic restaurants. It seems like there is a fear to cook one’s homeland’s cuisine.” CHRIS NGUYEN, OWNER, Superior Pho: “I really wish we had a stronger Korean BBQ scene here.” MATT STIPE, OWNER, BANTER: “If there is one place I would love to see it is a restaurant like Hot Star

Chicken. They started as a food cart at a night market in Taipei and now are all over Southeast Asia. They make the most delicious fried chicken I have ever had in my life.” RACHEL KINGSBURY, OWNER, Grocery OHC: “Asian breakfast. I lived in South Korea and would eat kim bap pretty much every morning.”

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Midtown For the past four years, the Cleveland Culinary Launch & Kitchen has been helping small food startups make the transition from dream to reality. When the owners of that enterprise launch the Cleveland Food Hub, local food-based businesses will gain another partner in production. Under one very large roof will be private kitchens that can be rented by the month, a co-packing facility that will manufacture, package and ship products like pasta sauce, salsa and energy bars, and thousands of square feet of dry, cold and freezer storage space. In just four years’ time, Cleveland Bagel has progressed from a home-based business to a thriving brick-and-mortar storefront and production kitchen in Ohio City. But owners Dan Herbst and Geoff Hardman aren’t content to coast. Next up for the bagel boys is an eastside location that will closely

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mirror the original one in terms of size and scope. The 2,800-squarefoot spot sits adjacent to Souper Market on Carnegie Avenue and will serve as both a production facility and retail shop.

Eastern Suburbs Nobody can accuse Geraci’s Restaurant of expanding too quickly. For 60 years, this has been a one-location station dishing

up hearty, soul-satisfying ItalianAmerican staples in University Heights. But come spring, Geraci’s owners Marti (Geraci) and Greg Spoth will spread their wings and open a second location on Chagrin Boulevard in Pepper Pike. While the food will be identical, it will come with a full bar, more seating, a patio, plenty of parking and a POS system that accepts credit cards. During the six years that Luna Bakery and Cafe has existed at the top of Cedar Hill in Cleveland

Heights it has grown steadily in footprint and food. By taking possession of adjacent spaces, Luna has doubled in size, tripled in seating and greatly expanded its menu. Now, building on her solid reputation, owner Bridget Thibeault will open a second location in Moreland Hills, in the small strip that is home to ML Tavern and Flour. When it opens this spring, Luna will serve the same sweet and savory options — macarons, tarts, breakfast dishes, soups, salads, crepes and panini – just more of them. Paladar Latin Kitchen served its first mojito in Woodmere a decade ago. Since then, owner Andy Himmel has added locations in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia. Next up for Himmel was Bomba Tacos & Rum, which started in Rocky River and has spread to Fairlawn. Those two Latin-themed taco and rum joints will soon be joined by a third, this one at La Place at the intersection of Richmond and Cedar roads. Once home to Cooker and Sushi Rock, that corner spot has since been demolished and rebuilt. Last spring, Gamekeeper’s Taverne in Chagrin Falls closed its doors after 40 years. While we

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don’t yet know precisely what will replace it, we do know who. Hyde Park Restaurant Group has signed a lease on the iconic property and plans to open a new concept in late spring or early summer following a major interior facelift. Of course, Hyde Park is behind Hyde Park Prime Steakhouses, ML Tavern in Moreland Hills, nearby Jekyll’s Kitchen and other concepts elsewhere. So far, the team is leaning toward a “chef-inspired steakhouse with a lot of European influences.” In a rare twist of fate, Rick’s Café in Chagrin Falls also shuttered is doors last year after four decades. Taking its place following some pretty significant interior modifications will be Bell & Flower, a new concept from the owners behind restaurants such as One Red Door, Flip Side, and Three Palms, and entertainment venues like FWD Nightclub and Magnolia. Chef Shawn Monday and partner Michael Schwartz will unveil their new American restaurant this spring. The food and drink options at Pinecrest in Orange Village are falling into place. Set to debut this May are local operators like Red the Steakhouse and Restore Cold Pressed, and national names like Pinstripes Bistro, Bowling & Bocce, City Works Eatery & Pour House, Firebirds Wood Fired Grill, Fusian and Bibibop. Oh yeah, and a littleknown burger concept called Shake Shack, Ohio’s first, will be dishing up those habit-forming burgers, dogs, fries and shakes. In Shaker, Van Aken District also has its sights set on a May

opening for many of its shops. The tenants announced thus far include Jonathon Sawyer, who has earmarked a marque space in a two-story, two-tenant property; Genuine Pizza from Miami-based chef Michael Schwartz; Mitchell’s Ice Cream; Restore Cold Pressed; Rising Star Coffee; and the widely anticipated food hall concept that will house multiple tenants.

Canton In March, Matt Cole will unveil a 10,000-square-foot Fat Head’s Brewery in Canton, at the Venue at Belden. The 225-seat restaurant and brewery features an exposed 10-barrel brewhouse and tank farm separated from the public by little more than a drink rail with seats. The food menu will be nearly identical to the one in North Olmsted.

Parts Unknown BrewDog recently stormed the United States by planting a very big flag in Columbus with the opening of its new 100,000-square-foot brewery in Canal Winchester, just outside the city, but this Scotlandbased brewery has been making a lot of noise for a decade. The company recently confirmed to Scene that its next move will involve opening a Cleveland-based BrewDog Bar in an as-yet-unannounced location.

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03/03 Come see the band

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YOGA

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Valentine’s Day Yoga You’ve done yoga with your dog, a goat, and that lady from the grocery store. Now you can do yoga with a loved one. Stretch it out tonight at Sibling Revelry for the brewery’s Valentine’s Day yoga class. Bring your mat and your taste buds: Your first beer is free. Yoga will go down in the back room from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.; register in advance on the Sibling Revelry website. (Matthew Poshedley) 29305 Clemens Rd., Westlake, 216-535-4122, siblingrevelrybrewery.com.

FOOD

Aphrodisiacs and Champagne Valentine’s Day Supper Touch Supper Club’s annual Aphrodisiacs and Champagne Valentine’s Day Supper is designed to put you in the mood for a romantic evening. All dishes will be prepared with ingredients thought to be aphrodisiacs (those ingredients will be revealed the night of the event.) Each course will also be paired with a glass of champagne. The dinner, which debuts from 5 to 11 p.m. today at Touch and continues daily through Saturday, costs $75 per couple. (Jeff Niesel) 2710 Lorain Ave., 216-631-5200, touchohiocity.com.

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FILM SPOKEN WORD

Cleveland Stories Dinner Party Cleveland Stories Dinner Party is a weekly series that pairs fine food with storytelling. Through it, the folks at Music Box Supper Club hope to raise awareness of the mission of the Western Reserve Historical Society’s new Cleveland History Center. The goal of the gathering is to “bring to life some of the fun, interesting stories about Cleveland’s past — from sports, to rock ’n’ roll, to Millionaires’ Row,” as it’s put in a press release. Admission is free, with no cover charge, although a prix fi xe dinner, designed to complement the night’s theme, is $20. Doors open at 5 p.m., dinner is served at 6, and the storytelling starts at 7. Tonight, local newscaster Ramona Robinson talks about how she took a “dirt road to Cleveland” and found her “purpose” in our fine city. In honor of Valentine’s Day, there will be some special prize drawings too. (Niesel) 1148 Main Ave., 216-242-1250, musicboxcle.com. COMEDY

Ryan Hamilton Baby-faced Idaho native Ryan Hamilton brings his laughs to Hilarities. His clean comedy act has won the hearts of many industry insiders; his long list of accomplishments includes winning Sierra Mist’s Next Great Comic Search. Hamilton has also been on Huffington Post’s Top 12 New Comedians to Watch list and has headlined at many of the top comedy clubs across the country. He performs tonight at 8 at Hilarities

Monster Jam returns to the Q. See: Saturday.

and has shows scheduled through Saturday. Tickets are $15 to $47. (Niesel) 2035 East Fourth St., 216-241-7425, pickwickandfrolic.com.

movie screens at 7 tonight. Tickets are $12, or $9 for CMA members. (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.

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Hoppin’ Frog Hoppy Hour The Hoppin’ Frog tasting room in Akron is in a nondescript strip of storage facilities and warehouses. But step inside and you’ll fi nd a cozy space with a huge array of the brewery’s wonderful libations. The place features “hoppy hour” every weekday from 3 to 7 p.m. Tonight, the brewers visit the tasting room from 5 to 7 p.m. While they don’t fill growlers, you can drink bottles on site or take ’em to go. The place also offers a Hoppin’ Frog Rare & Vintage list as well as a guest bottle list. And you can order from a limited food menu too. (Niesel) 1680-F Waterloo Rd., Akron, 234-525-3764, hoppinfrog.com/tasting-room.

Riverdance A huge hit that’s now celebrating its 20th anniversary, Riverdance is now playing at the State Theatre as part of a celebratory world tour. The dance performance draws upon Irish traditions to tell the story of an Irish emigrant. Tonight’s performance takes place at 7:30. Performances continue through Feb. 16. Tickets are $10 to $75. (Niesel) 1519 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

FILM

I Know Where I’m Going As a special Valentine’s Day event, the Cleveland Museum of Art will screen the 1945 film I Know Where I’m Going. The romance follows a British woman who travels by boat to see her wealthy fiance who lives in the Scottish Hebrides. The

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Tinder Tales: A Storytelling and Musical Variety Show The Grog Shop hosts the special Valentine’s Day event, Tinder Tales: A Storytelling and Musical Variety Show tonight. The theme is “swiping gone awry (or maybe, right, in the end).” Buy a wine and cheese plate and settle in to enjoy storytellers Bridget Callahan, Nolan Beck and Angel Cezanne, along with local musician Shawn Brewster. It starts at 8; admission is free. (Niesel) 2785 Euclid Hts. Blvd., 216-321-5588, grogshop.gs.

Big Time Danish director Kaspar Astrup Schröder helms Big Time, a documentary about Danish “starchitect” Bjarke Ingels, who heads the Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) in New York and has designed the forthcoming Two World Trade Center. Shot over a six-year period, the film shows the toll that success has taken on Ingels’ personal life. It makes its local premiere tonight at 6:45 at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque. A panel discussion will follow the screening. Tickets are $11, or $8 for Cinematheque members, students and American Institute of Architects members. (Niesel) 11610 Euclid Ave., 216-421-7450, cia.edu. COMEDY

Dean Edwards Comedian Dean Edwards likes to joke about how he found his English wife’s accent to be sexy when they first met. Now, he says, it just annoys him; and her accent coupled with her Ph.D. makes him feel dumb. He says the fact that his daughters have accents too makes him feel “colonized.” It’s just one example of how Edwards doesn’t rely on shock value. Rather, he creates his narrative-based jokes based on personal experiences. He performs tonight at 7:30 at the Improv, where he has shows scheduled through Sunday. Tickets are $15 to $17. (Niesel) 1148 Main Ave., 216-696-IMPROV, clevelandimprov.com. | clevescene.com | February 14 - 20, 2018

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No Beast No Feast: Romantic Revolution The westside indie/punk club Now That’s Class regularly hosts vegan and veggie dinners. Tonight from 8 to 11:30, it’ll feature a special dining experience dubbed No Beast No Feast: Romantic Revolution. The allvegan, gluten-free menu will feature salad, roasted carrots, golden beets and cauliflower, orange saffron rice and chocolate cherry cashew cake. DJ Chrysanthemum will spin love songs on the wheels of steel. (Niesel) 11213 Detroit Ave., 216-221-8576, nowthatsclass.net.

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78th Street Studios Third Friday Art Walk Time again for the Third Friday Art Walk, which takes place today from 5 to 9:30 p.m. More than 50 studios and galleries will participate in this popular indoor art walk; be sure to check out spots like the Derek Hess Gallery, Tregoning & Company and Hilary Gent Studio. (Niesel) 1300 West 78th St., 78thstreetstudios.com.

film, Follow Me Down: Portraits of Louisiana Prison Musicians. Director Benjamin J. Harbert will be on hand for the screening, which takes place tonight at 6:45 at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tickets are $10, or $7 for CMA members, and CWRU students and staff, with a valid ID. (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.

FILM

Follow Me Down: Portraits of Louisiana Prison Musicians A Georgetown University professor travelled to three Louisiana prisons to profile the musician-inmates featured in this documentary

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she finds out that he killed off one of her favorite characters, Misery comes to the Hanna Theatre tonight. Great Lakes Theater puts on this production of William Goldman’s adaptation of the novel. The performance begins at 7:30 tonight; performances continue through Feb. 21. Tickets are $15 to $80. (Niesel) 2067 East 14th St., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org. FILM

Black History Month Hall of Fame Series

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Let it whIp! KINSMAN DAZZ BAND & DJ ELLERY FEB 9TH • 8PM (Doors 7pm) • TIX $10

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An Evening with Warped Tour Founder Kevin Lyman The founder and operator of 4Fini, Inc., the live event production company and brand strategy firm behind Warped Tour, Kevin Lyman has appeared in and produced multiple TV series, movies and documentaries during the course of his career. Lyman is also the man behind TV shows such as Warped Roadies, No Room for Rockstars and The Other F Word, as well as the annual Alternative Press Music Awards. At 7 tonight, he’ll speak at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Library and Archives. The event is free with a reservation. The talk is presented in conjunction with the 22nd annual High School Rock Off; Lyman will serve as a judge for the Rock Off’s “final exam,” which takes place tomorrow at the Rock Hall. (Niesel) 2809 Woodland Ave., 216-515-1956, library.rockhall.com.

old school-style mac and cheese. Prosperity received national attention when the home-cooked Big Fish Fry was featured on TV chef Andrew Zimmern’s Delicious Destinations. To drink, this year’s featured beer will be POC pilsner, now brewed by Double Wing Brewing Company which recently resurrected the storied brand and recreated a version of its clean, crisp

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Rock Hall Film Series

Something from nothing: The Art of Rap FEB 21ST • 7PM • TIX $5.50 • Free for Members

CTRL|ALT|BEAT© Happy Hour & Innovator-led discussion on diversity & inclusion in music technology & business

FEB 28TH • 5:30PM UNTIL 9PM • FREE w/RSVP rockhall.com/onstage to purchase tickets or RSVP. 1100 Rock and Roll Boulevard, Cleveland, OH 44114 | rockhall.com | 216.781.ROCK FOOD

Lenten Fish Fry From now until the end of March, Prosperity Social Club hosts its Lenten Fish Fry every Friday from 11 a.m. to midnight. The special Lenten menu includes the Big Fish Fry, a seasonal staple that features a generous portion of haddock in a fluffy beer batter blanket, complemented by homemade coleslaw, house tartar sauce and

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European-style pils that should pair well with the fish. (Niesel) 1109 Starkweather Ave., 216-937-1938, prosperitysocialclub.com. THEATER

Misery Based on a Stephen King novel about a woman who rescues a famous novelist from a car crash and then proceeds to persecute him when

Porto Akron native Jim Jarmusch produced Porto, a 2017 film by former film critic Gabe Klinger. It centers on an American drifter (the late Anton Yeltsin) who falls for a French archaeology student. The movie makes its Cleveland debut tonight at 9:15 at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque, where it screens again at 8:30 tomorrow night. Tickets are $10, or $7 for Cinematheque members and students. (Niesel) 11610 Euclid Ave., 216-421-7450, cia.edu. FILM

Wet Woman in the Wind In the 1970s, Japan’s Nikkatsu Studio sustained itself by releasing soft-core pornographic films. Now, to mark its 45th anniversary, the studio pays tribute to that tradition with five newly commissioned low-budget films. Wet Woman in the Wind, the first of them, centers on a Tokyo playwright who swears off romance and goes on a solitary retreat in the country, only to encounter a young woman who aims to seduce him. The film makes its local debut tonight at 10:50 at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque. It shows again at 10:10 tomorrow night. Tickets are $10, or $8 for Cinematheque members and students. (Niesel) 11610 Euclid Ave., 216-421-7450, cia.edu.

SAT

02/17

MUSIC

22nd Annual Tri-C High School Rock Off When the annual High School Rock Off launched some 20 years ago at the Odeon, the promoters at the local Belkin Productions (now Live Nation) saw it as a way to reach out to area high schools and provide the kind of outlet that students might not have. Two decades later, the event, held this year at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, continues to thrive. Tonight is “final exam.” The concert begins at 4 p.m., and tickets are $10. (Niesel) 1100 Rock and Roll Blvd., 216-515-8444, rockhall.com.

THEATER

The Invisible Hand Tonight at 7:30 at the Outcalt Theatre, the Cleveland Play House presents The Invisible Hand, a play about an American investment banker who’s held hostage in Pakistan by Islamic revolutionaries. The play’s author, Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar, exposes the “treacherous intersection of terrorism and capitalism, where greed and deceit prevail and no one escapes without blood on their hands.” Performances continue through March 11, and tickets cost $25 to $105. (Niesel) 1407 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org. FOOD

Mac ‘n’ Cheese Throwdown This year’s installment of the annual Mac ’n’ Cheese Throwdown will feature several of Cleveland’s top restaurants competing to be crowned the makers of Cleveland’s best macaroni and cheese. Competitions for “best classic mac” and “best modern mac” will also take place. In addition, there will be a “cheesy” DJ and “cheap booze” from 10 local providers. The throwdown begins at 3:30 p.m. at the Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland and is a fundraiser for the local charity Working Animals Giving Service for Kids. Tickets start at $25 and are on sale exclusively at the website below. 500 Lakeside Ave., 216-928-1600, macncheesethrowdown.com. FAMILY FUN

2018 Monster Jam Monster Jam, the monster truck rally that descends on the Q each year, turns the arena floor into a racetrack by dumping truckloads of dirt and building a series of jumps and obstacles. At approximately 12 feet tall and 12 feet wide, Monster Jam trucks sit atop 66-inch-tall tires that allow the trucks to roll over just about anything. The trucks can even fly up to 125 to 130 feet in distance. Competition commences at 1 and 7 p.m. today and at 1 and 6:30 p.m. tomorrow, and pit parties take place on both days at 10:30 a.m. Tickets start at $15. (Niesel) 1 Center Court, 216-420-2000, theqarena.com. DANCE

Naach di Cleveland Twelve South Asian dance teams from across the country will compete today as part of the third annual Naach di Cleveland. Categories include Bollywood Fusion, an incorporation of classical Indian dance moves with modern dance

techniques, and bhangra , a folk dance style from the Punjab region. The performance begins at 6 p.m. at the Ohio Theatre. Tickets are $20 to $30. (Niesel) 1501 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org. NIGHTLIFE

Now That’s Classy Billed as Now That’s Classy: A Formal Event at Your Favorite Dive Bar, tonight’s “formal event” at Now That’s Class offers a chance for the venue’s grunge-y patrons to don gowns and suits. Erin Brennan of Future No Future vintage clothing, Allie Mattis of West of Venus, and a special guest will be on hand to judge the costume contest. The evening begins at 9 p.m., and admission is a $5 donation. (Niesel) 11213 Detroit Ave., 216-221-8576, nowthatsclass.net.

+ DRINK Stout It Out Loud Butcher and the Brewer puts on its annual Stout It Out Loud festival today. It’s a late-season celebration of dark beers and their most famous culinary partner: oysters. Participating breweries include Fat Head’s, Collision Bend, Terrestrial, Platform and MadTree; all counted, nearly 30 local breweries will be on hand. In addition to straight-up oysters, there will be oyster po’ boys and johnny-cake fried oysters. The $45 ticket includes 20 beer samples and a six pack of oysters. The fun runs from noon to 4 p.m. (Niesel) 2043 East Fourth St., 216-331-0805, butcherandthebrewer.com. FOOD

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FILM

David Hockney at the Royal Academy of Art Considered to be one of Britain’s most important living artists, 80-year-old painter, stage designer and photographer David Hockney talks about two recent exhibits of his work in the 2017 documentary David Hockney at the Royal Academy of Art. The movie screens today at 1:30 p.m. at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tickets are $14, or $10 for CMA members. (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org. MUSIC

Erotic City: All Vinyl Prince Night During the course of a career that was tragically cut short by his untimely death, singer-guitarist Prince created a robust body of work that drew from funk, rock, pop and | clevescene.com | February 14 - 20, 2018

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FRIDAY FEBRUARY 23, 2018 101 Bottles Of Beer On The Wall 115 N. Willow St. 8:30-10:30p Bethany Joy and BC Hudson

Laziza 195 E. Erie St. 6-9p Sean Benjamin

157 Lounge 157 S. Water St. 8-10p Raw Sugar

The Loft 112 W. Main St. 8p-12a Beatles Karaoke w/ DJ Man Entertainers

Belleria Pizza 135 E. Erie St. #202 8-10p Nick Wilkinson

McKay Bricker Gallery & Framing 141 E. Main St. 6:30-8p The Kathy Johnson Trio

Bricco 210 S. Depeyster St. 7-9:30p Peggy Coyle

Popped! 175 E. Erie St. #201 6-8p Strums & Drums

Buffalo Wild Wings 176 E. Main St. 6:30-9:30p The Jillettes

Ray's Place 135 Franklin Ave. 9:30p-12:30a Gaetano Letizia & The Underworld

Dave's Cosmic Subs 215 S. Water St. 5-7p Gretchen Pluess Dominick's Pub 147 Franklin Ave. 8p-12a Abbey Road Franklin Hotel Bar 176 E. Main St. 7-10p Opus 216 Kent Cheesemonger 155 E. Erie Ave. #201 5-6p & 6:30-7:30p Behind the Music of the Beatles Presentation with Rick Iacoboni Last Exit Books and Cafe 124 E. Main St. 2-4p Emily Anne and Maddie Indre 8-10p Dale Galgozy

Tree City Coffee & Pastry 135 E. Erie St. 5:30-7:30p Babies In Black 8-10p Ray Flanagan & The Cranfords Treno Ristorante 152 Franklin Ave. 6-9p Tucker & Davis Venice Cafe 163 W. Erie St. 7-9p Doug Smith 9:30p-12:30a Colin Dussault's Beatles Project Water Street Tavern 132 S. Water St. 6:30-9p Up'Til 4 9:30p-12a Ritch Underwood's Monopoly Zephyr Pub 106 W. Main St. 8-11p Revolution Pie

jazz. Erotic City: All Vinyl Prince Night will pay tribute to the man tonight at Now That’s Class. Jackie & Rachel will spin the hits and the deep tracks. There will be Prince drink specials too. It all starts at 9, and admission is free. (Niesel) 11213 Detroit Ave., 216-221-8576, nowthatsclass.net. COMEDY

Festival of Laughs Veteran comics Sommore, Bruce Bruce, Earthquake and George Wallace team up for tonight’s Festival of Laughs, an event designed to show off their respective comedic skills. The performance begins at 7 at Connor Palace, and tickets are $56 to $104.50. (Niesel) 1615 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

+ MUSIC Gospel Brunch The monthly Gospel Brunch has been a spiritual Sunday staple for years at the House of Blues. The recently reinvigorated show puts a bit more emphasis on the music. As for the food, the all-you-caneat musical extravaganza features Southern classics like chicken jambalaya, biscuits and gravy, and chicken and waffles. Seatings are offered at 11 a.m. Tickets are $40 and are available online, by phone or at the box office. (Niesel) 308 Euclid Ave., 216-523-2583, houseofblues.com. FOOD

COMEDY

Jason Lawhead Ohio-born comedian Jason Lawhead is back in town, just in time to make fun of Cleveland sports. Again. A great impressionist, some of his talents include poking fun at the family lifestyle and complaining about pop culture. Lawhead has appeared on Gotham Comedy Live and is credited with helping the underground comedy scene arise in Cleveland. He performs at Hilarities today at 8 p.m. Tickets are $15 to $20. (Niesel) 2035 East Fourth St., 216-241-7425, pickwickandfrolic.com.

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Monday Night Trivia Do you have tons of obscure music knowledge? Are you a student of fast food menus and their nuanced histories? Tonight’s your chance to

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wow your friends, make yourself instantly more desirable to someone you’re newly dating, and hang with Cleveland’s headiest hipsters and hot dog lovers. It’s the Happy Dog Monday Night Trivia. Starting at 8 p.m., expect themed rounds and general knowledge questions that seem considerably trickier than at some of the other live trivia locales in town. Obviously, have a hot dog and a craft brew while you’re at it. And arrive early: Seats fill up fast. (Sam Allard) 5801 Detroit Ave., 216-651-9474, happydogcleveland.com. MUSIC

Shit Show Karaoke Local rapper/promoter Dirty Jones and Scene’s Manny Wallace host Shit Show Karaoke, a weekly event at the B Side Liquor Lounge that allows patrons to choose from “an unlimited selection of jams from hip-hop to hard rock.” Participants are encouraged to “be as bad as you want.” Fueled by drink and shot specials, it all goes down tonight at 9 p.m. (Niesel) 2785 Euclid Hts. Blvd., Cleveland Heights, 216-932-1966, bsideliquorlounge.com.

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Django With Django, director Etienne Comar creates a compelling portrait of influential Gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt. The opening film at last year’s Berlin Film Festival, the flick dramatizes Reinhardt’s evasion of the Nazis in Paris during World War II. It makes its Cleveland debut today at 1:45 p.m. at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tickets are $10, or $7 for CMA members. (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.

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ART ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: NOLAN BECK A conversation on branding, giving back and client relationships By Dott von Schneider WE’VE LONG WANTED TO CHAT with Nolan Beck, whose progress, posts and projects have tickled and teased us. We caught up with him recently to talk about his company (HeyHey Studios), what he’s working on now, and more. SCENE: You are kind of an enigma wrapped in a shroud of mystery riddled with moxie. How do you maintain? NOLAN BECK: I have a 100-perecent openness policy with my social media presence. In a time where everyone is curating their social media to mirror a perfect life that may not exist, it’s compelling to see someone put their full self out there. I have a great life and I love sharing it and trying to make other people’s lives great too. I share all of the cool things I do and all of the good times, but I also post terrible selfies and talk about when I need support from people, like the time I got robbed by a Tinder date while we were having sex. I think people react to frankness and authenticity, and those are two things I try very hard to maintain. I don’t think that’s super common nowadays. SCENE: Talk to us about your artist/client challenges in the past year. NB: Yeah, client relationships are actually my favorite part of my job. I love meeting new people, learning about what they do, and helping them tell their stories in a beautiful way. I love that I get to become a micro-expert in their fields while I’m researching them to make sure that their branding and communications are on point. I’ve learned about making sourdough crackers, running a museum, building a building, and a whole lot of other fun stuff. Every day is different. I’ve only had three out of 90 projects end on bad terms. You have to remain steadfast in your expertise as an artist and designer. I recently had a person tell me about 75 percent of the way through their project that a busboy at their cafe had designed a website for them and they thought it’d be easier and cheaper to just use it instead of the one that I’d

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been working on. It was rude but you can’t take it personally. People are flippant and don’t take design seriously. I thought about renaming my studio Busboy Creative. SCENE: Back in May 2017 you had set up a scholarship at CIA. Tell us more. NB: Last year I was fortunate to receive a large tax refund and I decided to give a graduating CIA student $1,500 of relief. I was fortunate to graduate from art school without a dime of debt and I try to be mindful of that. I think it’s important for people with privilege to recognize it and share it and use it to elevate other people in whatever way they can. I consider myself a creative philanthropist, but in reality I’m a 24-year-old artist and I don’t have a whole lot of money to donate. My most straightforward efforts of creative philanthropy are gratis work for nonprofits. In my studio’s first year in business, we donated $51,600 in work to nonprofits in Cleveland, New York, and Virginia. I also have a proposal out with Polaroid and the Eames Office in which I’ll shoot 100 Polaroid images of the historic Eames House, selling each of the photos

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for $100 and ultimately raising $10,000 for the House’s ongoing renovation project. This was partially inspired by CIA’s annual 100 Show, which I look forward to every year. SCENE What was the inception for HeyHey Studios? NB: There’s a design theory called the “glass chalice,” which says designers should create work like a crystal glass, which holds and displays a drink and let’s you taste it, but doesn’t actually itself get noticed. It’s why the iPhone X is totally seamless and doesn’t have buttons. It’s just a portal that you use to do a thing, it’s not important in itself. On a recent trip the Glyptotek Museum in Copenhagen, I stood in front of Van Gogh’s “Pink Roses.” It was on a cobalt blue wall, which made the greens and pinks really pop and contrast each other. I don’t believe I would have noticed the depth of the colors had it not been for the blue wall, which initially felt, to me, as if the museum was overstepping its bounds by contextualizing the artist’s work in that way. Then I realized that it was basically what Van Gogh was doing by distorting the flowers, and that art is important

and designers have voices and everything was different now, and I didn’t want to do boring glass chalices anymore; I wanted to create beauty with a purpose. So on the flight back home I re-branded myself using color and expressionism. I chose to call myself HejHej since I’d had this epiphany in Denmark and that’s how you say “hello” and I like the idea of using a friendly greeting as a name. But when I focus-group tested it, people pronounced it “hedge-hedge,” so I anglicized it into “HeyHey”. SCENE: What are some of the more exciting endeavors you’ve been tackling of late? NB: I’ve had a great time working with the Levin College at CSU. I did a brand-realignment project for them, meaning I took their dozens of research centers and programs and helped them all find their unique voices while creating a look for them. It was a pretty complex and challenging project and went a lot deeper than the graphics. I’m also renovating a 1971 Airstream Sovereign for a lovely woman who wants to turn it into an Airbnb. In addition, I am providing creative direction and materiality for the second Tremont Athletic Club. Basically I’m working with an interior architect to come up with creative ways to make the space feel very cool and high-end. I love graphic design and its tenets remain at the core of everything that I do, but I think design is so interdisciplinary and interesting and cool. The future of design is in cross-disciplinary practices and I love the chance to do something super outside of my comfort zone and learn about new ways that everything is connected. I think in the future I want to be a materialist who works with architects, product designs, artists, fashion designers, and more to choose the right materials and textures for the job. I think I made that job up, though, so I guess I’ll just have to make it for myself. Check out Nolan Beck’s work at heyheystudio.com.

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STAGE COUGHING UP A HAIR-BALL The ’60s musical Hair at Beck Center ignites fewer sparks than a soggy doobie By Christine Howey Photo by Roger Mastroianni

GIVEN OUR CURRENT precarious political situation in Washington D.C., it might have been a good idea for Beck Center to resurrect the tribal love-rock musical Hair. It could have been empowering to once again see young people smoking ganja, dropping acid and giving the establishment their middle fingers. But all the “might haves” and “could haves” in the world cannot save a sinking production from itself. On the plus side, the iconic material is all here, with book and lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Rado along with the indelible music by Galt MacDermot. But due to a number of curious decisions by director Victoria Bussert and her team of designers, a play that should have lots of sharp edges, wild hairs and surprising turns comes off as slick and smooth as a hardboiled egg. Welcome to Nair. Let’s be clear that, for the most part, the cast of this production is blameless. These talented young performers who are enrolled in the Baldwin Wallace University music theatre program give their all, bouncing and whooping on stage and up and down the aisles. And many of them have the pipes to do this music proud. It all begins promisingly enough, with Veronica Otim as Dionne giving the leadoff song “Aquarius” a splendid turn. But then, like a glorious acid trip suddenly gone grody, the proceedings start spiraling downward. The first signal that something is awry is that the two lead male characters, Berger and Claude, don’t register as they should, due either to casting or directorial errors. As the de facto leader of the tribe, Berger should be mesmerizing and amiable as he moves amongst his fellow tribe members, and the audience, with his message of love for all. Instead, Jacob Slater as Berger has a hard and sinister edge, coming off like a long-haired version of the scary White House aide Stephen Miller. And as directed, most of Slater’s physical gestures involve him displaying his lean torso in various states of undress,

which does little to foster nuanced character development. On the other hand, Claude is a young man searching for identity in a time of radical turmoil, thinking maybe he could recreate himself as a dude from across the pond in “Manchester, England.” The

like “Colored Spade” and “Sodomy.” Still, Warren Franklin as Hud and Sam Columbus as Woof try their best to amp up the attitude. Eventually the women get their turn and Olivia Kaufmann as Shelia handles her solos, “I Believe in Love” and “Good Morning Starshine,” with

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challenging task for the actor, Chandler Smith, is to portray a young guy who feels invisible without disappearing on stage. Unfortunately, director Bussert doesn’t succeed in finding the sweet spot for Smith, leaving the show without its two main character pillars. Other male characters are around to provide shock value, but time has dimmed the “gasp!” factor for songs

professional polish. The same is true for Courtney Hausman as Crissy, who sweetly croons “Frank Mills,” and MacKenzie Wright who trills the anti-pollution tune “Air” as Jeanie. But these songs, as staged, don’t feel as if they’re part of the flow of the material. Perhaps some of that has to do with the production design surrounding the actors. As they were in Bussert’s staging of Hair

more than a decade ago at Cain Park, and as presented here by scenic designer Jordan Janota, the multitude of actors (about 30) are often anchored around a large, low circular platform, responding to the activity mostly by waving their arms. Trouble is, they often look kind of bored. And can you blame them? There is a medium-sized screen suspended above the stage, where images are shown intermittently, but it is inactive more than half the time. It’s almost as if the technical aspects of this production had teleported back to the 1960s, when that kind of visual support was all that was possible. Where are the huge projections that fill the space and assault the senses, as Beck Center memorably did in their production of American Idiot? Where are the multiple screens that can dazzle the brain with volleys of images? Where is some out-of-the-box thinking for a show that crushed and shredded that box decades ago? Instead, video art designer Kasumi is left to fill his isolated, floating rectangle with predictable visuals: some period film footage, psychedelic blobs of color, a few images of President Trump (?), and lots of repeated images stuttering across the screen. (Somebody please pass the shrooms, we’re crashing hard here.) And the glow sticks that are deployed by the entire cast at the end give the moment all the counter culture vibe of the nightly closing ceremony at Disney World. Victoria Bussert is a superbly talented director, having helmed a panoply of shows that have been praised to the heavens in this space and elsewhere. But this Hair goes wrong from the start and never seems able to get a grip on the essence of Hair’s message, which hasn’t changed. It’s all about taking outrageous chances, not playing it safe and letting the chips fall where they may. The chips in this show do fall — but they end up stacked as neat, bland and manufactured as Pringles.

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MOVIES ANNETTE BENING WON’T DIE IN LIVERPOOL Performances anchor Hollywood love story in unlikely place By Sam Allard WHEN JAMIE BELL AND JULIE Walters last shared a screen, in 2000’s Billy Elliot, they warmed the hearts of millions, nabbed three Oscar nominations (including one for Walters) and inspired a Broadway musical. In Paul McGuighan’s new flick, Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool, which opens Friday in limited release, they are together again, as mother and son. But the central relationship in Film Stars is not between a young man and his mother; it’s between a young man and an ailing blackand-white film star, none other than Gloria Grahame (Annette Bening). Having collapsed before a performance of The Glass Menagerie in nearby Manchester, Grahame repairs to Liverpool, to the home of her much-younger former boyfriend, Peter Turner (Bell) and his workingclass family. As the Turners struggle with how best to care for Grahame, we watch the romance unfold via flashback. Despite moments of tenderness, Film Stars is ultimately a somber-ass affair. Peter is trying to make it as an actor in London in the late 1970s when he meets a washed-up Grahame, dancing (aerobically?) in the downstairs unit of the apartment complex he shares. They dance

together in a cute scene, Peter aping Travolta from Saturday Night Fever. He’s naturally taken with the allure of this former Hollywood star, as she is with the youth and vigor of this strapping neighbor. But their initial attractions — she’s famous, he’s young — become real affection. They begin a relationship, though it’s fraught with challenges, not the least of which is others’ anxiety about their age gap (Grahame, at the time, had already dispensed with four previous husbands) and Grahame’s private medical woes. I’m not fluent enough in

Grahame’s credits or offscreen mannerisms to comment on the faithfulness of Bening’s portrayal, thought I trust the Betty-Boop vocals are on point. In any case, hers is a captivating and sometimes devastating portrait of a woman refusing to age. She seems at times almost delusional. When she tells Peter in an early scene that she wants to audition for the part of Juliet at the Royal Shakespeare Company, and Peter snickers, she’s wounded. “You think I’m just an old lady,” she accuses him. Her woundedness is a weapon, and in

Bening’s hands, it is wielded both to manipulate and seduce. It works. Shakespeare returns later, in the film’s most lovely and affecting scene, when the fire between them seems, at last, legitimate and credible. Film Stars is unique for at least two reasons. For one, it’s exceptionally rare to see a sexual relationship between a young man and a much older woman. The Graduate naturally comes to mind, but I can’t recall a recent movie in which the relationship was this serious — not a fetish or fling — and the gap this significant. Bening is a lot closer to Julie Walters’ zip code than Bell’s. It’s also rare, and frankly sweet, to see a portrayal of a celebrity interacting so lovingly with regular folks. As Bella Turner combs Grahame’s hair, or as Peter and his brother help her down the stairs in her nightgown or wheelchair, we recognize that film stars are just like us. They might not die in Liverpool, but they still make mistakes, get sick, fall in love.

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SPOTLIGHT: DOUBLE LOVER DIRECTOR FRANCOIS OZON’S followup to last year’s elegant black-and-white WWI love story, Frantz, Double Lover is an erotic psychological thriller with a bunch of plot zigzags and weird sex content that isn’t always satisfying or clear. It’s a masterwork in tension, though, loosely based on the novel Lives of the Twins by Joyce Carol Oates. It screens Wednesday and Thursday at the Capitol Theatre. Chloe (Ozon collaborator Marine Vacth) is our fragile protagonist who, in the film’s opening scene, undergoes a gynecological exam. The audience is treated to a medical close-up — literally, her pulsing vaginal canal — that recalls the intestinal opening shot of last year’s Killing of a Sacred Deer.

Chloe’s exam is only the latest in her ongoing pursuit of a remedy for persistent stomach pain. Her doctor recommends psychotherapy — the pains may be anxiety-related? — and so she is referred to one Paul Meyer (Jeremie Renier, not to be confused with Jeremy Renner), a hunky, softspoken shrink of Daniel Craig coloring who begins to fall in love with her. They begin a relationship. Chloe, having found happiness, seems to be cured. But when she learns Paul is keeping part of his life secret, her stomach pains return. The secret is a twin brother, Louis (played masterfully by Renier), another psychoanalyst. Chloe secretly schedules an appointment with him and learns that his

methods differ dramatically from Paul’s. Indeed so: His sessions consist chiefly of rape. There is a dark incident in the twin brothers’ past, and as the film races toward its violent third-act revelations, we’re never sure what’s real and what’s in Chloe’s head. This creates a sense of pervasive unease in the audience, an unease exacerbated by the film’s voyeuristic tendencies and its abundance of taxidermic cats. Regarding Double Lover’s sexual content, I’ll say only that the rapey therapy sessions are just the tip of an iceberg that includes “twincest” fantasies and a moonlit strap-on soiree. (That other critics have largely referred to this content as “campy” or even “fun” gives me pause.)

By the end, there is a medical explanation for Chloe’s tummy trouble. But it calls into question 60 or 70 percent of what preceded it, an avalanche of truly bizarre stuff that often seems at odds with Ozon’s shadowy stylings and the film’s Parisian sensibilities. According to the reporting pool at Cannes, where Double Lover premiered, the film was a “hugely derivative” mashup. I noted a few similarities with movies directed by Brian De Palma and recognized maybe two Rosemary’s Baby references in retrospect, but I finished my viewing wondering if the whole thing might have just been a big fat pun: a playful dramatization of the phrase “curiosity killed the cat,” perhaps, or an exegesis of “therapist” vs. “the rapist.” — Allard | clevescene.com | February 14 - 20, 2018

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ASCENDING TASTES Himalayan Restaurant whets Cleveland’s appetite for Nepalese cuisine By Douglas Trattner STEP INSIDE THE SOUTH ASIAN Grocery on Lorain Avenue and you’ll find ingredients like chana dal, chappati flour, gram flour, turmeric, ghee, extra-long grain rice, fresh herbs and other Nepalese food products one is not likely to unearth at the local Giant Eagle. Less than half a mile away on the same street is Himalayan Restaurant, Cleveland’s first eatery showcasing foods from the “highest point on Earth.” “We have a huge Nepalese community here,” says owner Ramesh Gurung, who happens to be cousins with the owner of South Asian Grocery. “Our community here, I would estimate, is more than 5,000.” Gurung points out that many within the Nepalese community avoid dining out at local restaurants because of the language barrier, which makes it difficult to do everything from place an order to pay for the meal. But since opening his restaurant in November, he’s begun to see more and more of his neighbors coming in to celebrate special occasions or to pick up food to cater an event. Of course, he’s also seeing a steady rise in visits from the non-immigrant community who are curious about a cuisine that’s starting to get some local attention. Momo, often called Tibetan dumplings, are perhaps the most familiar Nepalese food. These

housemade dumplings are filled with finely chopped meat and/or vegetables and steamed. We ordered the chicken ($9.99) and received a dozen half-moon shaped pieces. The wrapper was thin, soft and delicate and the filling was juicy and brightly flavored with heaps of garlic and ginger. They are served with a spicy tomato-based chutney on the side. While we waited for our entrees to arrive, we nibbled from a basket of paper-thin papadum, crispy lentil flour crackers that we dipped into zippy cilantro chutney. Those come gratis, but you can also order an

helped keep the heat at bay. The menu here is as lengthy as one would find in a conventional Indian restaurant, which is to say that it’s pretty overwhelming. But we went out of our way to locate the dishes that were unfamiliar to us. That led us to Nepali-style chicken chow mein ($9.99), a dish that resembles Chinese lo mein but has a completely different composition of spices and aromatics, including moderate heat. A Nepalese goat curry ($10.99) looks like standard issue Northern Indian fare, but its electricity somehow makes those

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appetizer version ($3.99) that arrives topped with diced tomatoes, onions and fresh herbs. Fans of traditional Indian biryani, we went all in on the Himalayan chicken biryani ($9.99) and were not at all disappointed. A heaping mound of perfectly steamed and seasoned long-grained rice concealed large pieces of moist boneless chicken thighs. As with many of the dishes we enjoyed here, there was a welcome presence of heat without the need for a fire extinguisher. A cool, creamy raita, served with the rice, also

classics taste pale by comparison. Jiggly bone-in meat is enveloped in an earthy, exotic and intense sauce, the perfect partner to a large platter of long-grained rice. All of the Indian dishes we tried, from creamy butter chicken to bright red tandoori chicken, were excellent; we just wished that there were more Nepalese foods to try. On our first visit, the server rattled off a number of items that were not available, a large percentage of which were the already-outnumbered Nepali specialties.

“On our next menu we’re bringing more Nepali recipes because our neighborhood is so excited to taste Nepali food,” Gurung tells me. “We will get rid of some of the Indian food and add Nepali food — I’d say make it 50-50.” Stop by between the hours of 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. and you can sample a number of Nepalese and Indian dishes on a wonderful all-you-caneat lunch buffet ($9.99). On the day we hit it there were a pair of soups, six vegetable or meat-based items including chicken biryani, plain basmati, and dessert: rice pudding swimming in sweetened milk. When we asked about naan, the owner gladly sent out an order straight from the tandoori oven, fluffy as a Himalayan cloud with blistered edges. Management spent more than a year renovating the former Cuisine Du Cambodge restaurant, which closed two years back, into an attractive, comfortable space. Given that Himalayan is Cleveland’s first Nepalese restaurant, I just wish servers did a better job describing and promoting the foods of their motherland. I’m hopeful that as they become more comfortable with the process of running a restaurant, that will come.

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“THE SHORT STORY IS: WE’RE helping to open a restaurant set up just like Edwins, but for the recovery community, not the reentry community,” says Brandon Chrostowski, that Shaker Squarebased nonprofit’s founder. Chrostowski says that he was approached by Medina County Common Pleas Court judges Christopher J. Collier and Joyce V. Kimbler with an idea that they believed could significantly disrupt recovery in a few very positive ways. Working in tandem with the county’s drug court, the Medina County Recovery Center offers resources, support and job training, all of which is at a high standard of excellence. “The nonprofit Medina County Recovery Center was formed with a very passionate board, many of whom have lost loved ones to drugs,” Chrostowski notes. “What they’ve been doing there already has been amazing. I’m just fine-tuning it.” The next rung in the recovery ladder will be a restaurant and training center that takes an unconventional approach to recovery. The groundbreaking tactic to tackling the opioid epidemic will be centered inside the walls of the former Medina Steak and Seafood (538 West Liberty St.), a historic

structure that was leased by the county and already has been the site of daily recovery meetings since summer. When Sérénité Restaurant: Recovery and Culinary Institute opens, it should look, feel and taste somewhat familiar to fans of Edwins. “It’s almost identical to Edwins — it’s a nonprofit restaurant and training program — with the fundamental differences being that it’s for recovery and it’s delivered through a brasserie,” says Chrostowski. Programs will run eight months, longer and more intensive than at Edwins. In addition to the restaurant part of the equation, there will be considerable support in areas such as housing, vocational education, addiction education and job placement. Serious and lengthy debate was held over the topic of alcohol, explains Chrostowski, with the board finally landing on a course of action. “This will be run like a normal restaurant, the difference is diners will be asked if they’d like to be seated in a drinking or non-drinking section,” he says. “There will be no liquor exposed or displayed as a trophy. Yes, we can open a rock-star restaurant without

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Platform Beer Co. plans to open a tasting room in the Over-theRhine district of Cincinnati this summer. It will be the Clevelandbased brewery’s third Ohio taproom. Platform launched just three and a half years ago in Ohio City before quickly expanding with a production facility and a Columbus brewery and taproom. Platform’s Cincy-based operation will be a new concept for the brewery as it will combine beer, coffee and barrel-aging. The 2,500-square-foot space (1201 Main St.) will be called “LOCOBA by Platform,” an acronym for Local Coffee Barrels. In the morning, the taproom will offer coffee, pastries and grab-and-go food. Lunch items will feature locally sourced products made fresh daily. At night, the space will function as a tasting room pouring a variety of Platform beers plus wine and craft cocktails. “When considering a Cincinnati location, we wanted to do more than just a tasting room,” co-owner Justin Carson explains in a press release. “We saw an opportunity to have a space that could do creative things

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with coffee, beer and spirits barrels.” Platform intends to brew beer on site and age it in barrels sourced from local and regional distilleries. Those barrels will then be used to soak unroasted coffee beans. Those beans would then be sent to local roasters and eventually brewed and served at LOCOBA. “It creates this really interesting proposition where a customer can taste a spirit, taste beer aged in that spirit’s barrel, and taste coffee from beans soaked in that same barrel,” Carson adds. Platform has partnered with Coffee Emporium in Cincinnati for the beans. The brewery also plans to work with other roasters around the state. Platform also has plans to launch a year-round line of canned cold-brew coffee this year that will be available throughout the state. Platform Beer Co. has been working with Cincinnati-based developer Urban Sites to get the project up and running by summer 2018.

North Main Diner in Chagrin Falls Has Closed The story was almost too good to be believed. John Krissinger, a Chagrin Falls grad, was looking for a Cleveland-area restaurant when he happened upon a listing for Dink’s, a beloved community diner for more than 50 years. “If somebody would have told me ... I would end up owning a restaurant in Chagrin Falls, I would have laughed at them,” Krissinger told me soon after opening. A couple of weeks ago, North Main Diner (16 North Main St.) closed, lasting just two years before following in the steps of Fresh Start Diner and Dink’s before it. Krissinger’s goal was to return the diner to its glory days. “I want this to be like Dink’s used to be, a place where everybody in town would gather — the townie place, and a place you could afford to come,” he said. Krissinger even restored an old soda fountain so he could offer authentic egg creams, phosphates, malted milks and milkshakes, blended on a vintage milkshake mixer. Hopefully there will be another sentimental, nostalgic operator who can’t help but step in to try and save the diner. If and when that happens, we’ll be the first in line for a refreshing New York egg cream.

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FEELING IT STILL An impromptu jam in the studio led to Portugal.The Man’s biggest hit By Jeff Niesel PORTUGAL.THE MAN BASSIST Zach Carothers admits it was “a little weird” growing up in Alaska. He and singer/multi-instrumentalist John Gourley fi rst met there while in high school and started a band. They’d eventually relocate to Portland and launch Portugal.The Man in 2004. That band has become a significant success. The guys just won a Grammy for their hit single “Feel It Still.” The group comes to Music Hall at 8 p.m. on Sunday. “Growing up in Alaska seemed totally normal to us at the time,” says Carothers in a recent phone interview. “Looking back on it, we realized it wasn’t normal at all. It’s the most beautiful place to be a child. The wilderness and the vast expanse is mind-blowing. It was isolated and cool. It did have its dark years when we were teenagers. There’s not much to do in terms of culture and entertainment. Drugs and alcohol are really bad. The stories of parties in Alaska are ridiculous. People don’t believe how many times I’ve been shot at. It’s

like the Wild West. I’ve seen some bad stuff in my day. We learned a lot from it. Creatively, our work ethic is something I owe to Alaska. If you stop working, you freeze to death.” The band really hasn’t “stopped working” since issuing its 2006 debut, Waiter: “You Vultures!” When Carothers and Gourley moved to Portland, they realized they had a shot at becoming full-time musicians.

didn’t. I didn’t know you could be a band. I thought you needed a tour bus. People have this common misperception that people get into music to make money. It was the opposite for us. We didn’t need to make money. We just made the gas money to take us to the next stop. I realized I could do this for nothing. I had nothing holding me back. We started having fun and never stopped. We were homeless

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for a long time. We were just on the verge. We always thought that by the next Christmas we could afford an apartment.” Early on, Carothers says the band took what he calls a “Beatles in Hamburg” approach and tried to play as often as it could and release an album a year. In 2010,

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a professional sports team. Then, we signed to Atlantic and jumped in the deep end with producers. That was scary. We got thrown in the deep end and almost drowned. We made it out, and since then, every time we do a record, we learn something.” The band had fi nished a followup album to Evil Friends but found that the songs seemed out of sync with the times, because, as Carothers puts it, “shit started changing really fast, politically.” “We had written it all before the election and before riots and people marching on Washington,” says Carothers. “It just didn’t seem right. It was 10 really cool songs, but it didn’t feel right even though we had spent all this time and money. We didn’t want to put it out.” While visiting Gourley’s father, the band had a revelation when it saw his ticket from the Woodstock concert he attended in 1969. “We were hanging out with John’s dad in Alaska eating chicken wings and drinking beers,” Carothers recalls. “He threw me an envelope [with the ticket stub in it]. He said, ‘You guys will get a kick out of this.’ We knew that after Woodstock, he and his friends decided to move to nowhere and live off the land. His friend recently cleared out his tool chest and found his original Woodstock ticket and mailed it back to [Gorley’s father]. We talked about it and looked up the footage. It was so humbling and inspiring and seeing all that and what it meant and wondering what it had meant to our parents was pretty cool.” As a result, the band decided to write new material and title the album Woodstock . A groovy tune that starts with a sparse bass line that then gives way to falsetto vocals and synthesizer flourishes, the fi rst single, “Feel It Still,” has become the band’s biggest hit to date. “It’s just kind of an accident,” says Carothers when asked about the song. “We were messing around in the studio. John was playing that bass line. Our buddy Asa Taccone from Electric Guest threw a mic on the bass amp and pressed ‘record.’ He started making a beat on the table. He forced us to make a song. We were working on something completely different. He made us do it. In an hour, we had the song. It was ridiculous. It was the easiest,

fastest song we’ve ever written. It’s so frustrating as well, because we spent a year banging our heads against the concrete wall trying to fi gure out a song. This one we accidentally wrote in an hour, and it’s done more for us than any other song.” The shimmering “Tidal Wave,” another album highlight, features cooing backing vocals and breezy horns as it embraces an old-school soul vibe. “I always thought that the song might be a good single, but it’s more of a summertime thing,” says Carothers. “It has a nice groove to it. It has a nice swag to it that we don’t really do. It’s offbeat and like DJ Shadow or J Dilla style. It was really fun to make. We worked on trying to do something simple. We’ve been trying to simplify things. We are famous for stacking up a million things. When you write a song, you’re never done. We think it’s necessary, but it’s not. We use so much stuff, but we stop ourselves to see if someone can someone sing it on an acoustic guitar or piano. If they can, then it’s a good song. I don’t use that for everyone. There are Kanye [West] songs that I love. I don’t know if they’d work as Kanye sitting at a piano, but I generally use that for us. We want to be able to play it by ourselves and see if John’s daughter dances to it. If she does, it’s a good song.” Carothers says the band doesn’t overthink the live show. Rather, he says the group prefers to take a carefree approach. “We never know exactly what we’re going to do,” he says, adding that he has extended family in Northeast Ohio and always looks forward to performing in the Cleveland area. “We don’t plan too much. It doesn’t work well for us. We’re like those dipshits who just go out and do things, and it works. If we practice too much, it doesn’t work. Every show is practice for the next show. It has been really fun. It’s always fun to play new material. You go on an album cycle and play the new material a lot, but we’re still not sick of it. We’ve played ‘Feel It Still’ about 5,000 times, and we’re not sick of it. We’ll switch it up and try some new jams and get a little weird. We’re excited for the tour.”

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MUSIC SERENDIPITY NOW Coin drummer talks about the Nashville indie pop band’s origins By Jeff Niesel A NORTHEAST OHIO NATIVE, Coin drummer Ryan Winnen says he played in “a ton” of metal bands before he graduated high school and then moved to Nashville in 2011 in search of a band. A woman he dated introduced him to singer Chase Lawrence, guitarist Joe Memmel and bassist Zach Dyke, all of whom were students at Belmont University at the time, and the foursome formed the indie pop band Coin. “We were all the same age,” says Winnen in a recent phone interview from Nashville, where he and his bandmates were working on the light show for the upcoming tour that comes to House of Blues at 8 p.m. on Sunday. “We had all moved to Nashville to continue playing, but we didn’t know what for exactly. Chase wanted to be a songwriter. Joe wanted to eventually be in a band, but how can you arrange for that to happen? It was serendipitous when we met at the time. We were all looking for something.” Initially, the band found a handful of other indie pop bands that could help it develop that part of the Music City’s music scene. “To this day, people ask how we survive here in Nashville,” says Winnen. “The rock and alternative scene has grown immensely. At the time, we were one of five bands that had that sort of [indie pop] sound. We congregated with the other bands that sounded like us, but we were the new kids on the block. We would be the fi rst band on the bill when there were only 30 to 50 people at the club. We did that for consecutive weekends while the guys were in college, and I was working part-time jobs. The guys did the word-of-mouth thing at school, and I was heckling people at the coffee shop where I worked to come and see us. We started playing our own shows after that.” The band self-released two EPs before signing to Columbia Records a few years ago after a successful showcase at the College Music Journal Conference. “We played on a Thursday night and we sat down with [A&R rep] Isaac [Green] the next day and we

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loved his roster,” says Winnen. “He signed bands like Passion Pit that inspired us at the time. We knew that was our guy. They were bands that wrote pop songs but served them up in a cool way.” For the band’s full-length debut, 2015’s Coin , it teamed up with producer Jay Joyce, a former Clevelander with a long track record of producing major artists. “We had never worked with a producer,” says Winnen. “It was amazing. [Joyce] grandfathered the whole thing. He has years of

or ‘happy’ or ‘sad’ and channel that emotion for the day.” Winnen says the band become more “self-aware” for its second album, last year’s How Will You Know If You Never Try. “We produced half of it ourselves,” says Winnen. “Our bassist is an incredible engineer. We sat in a room and rented a studio here in town for a few weeks. We did five or six songs that way. We did the rest with two producers we really like. One was in New York, and one was in L.A.

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wisdom and he had made every type of record in every genre — Emmylou Harris and Cage the Elephant. We wanted a sonic identity. We worked all the songs the guys had ever written. It wasn’t conceptual at all. One day Jay said, ‘Invite your friends over. I need you to wake up.’ He has this big church he uses as a studio in east Nashville. We just played like it was a big party. We kept the drum and bass parts for one of the songs. I don’t know if the album came out like we wanted, but we didn’t know what we wanted. We would write things on the wall like ‘fun’

It was a different process because we weren’t locked in a church for a month.” The snappy “Talk Too Much” features an ’80s pop feel with its retro synths that sound like they could’ve come from a Flock of Seagulls song. It became a hit on commercial radio. “Chase and Joe wrote that song in L.A. on one of the writing trips they took there,” says Winnen when asked about the track. “They were listening to INXS and that kind of music with that bright, jazzy guitar. That was what initially inspired the song, I think. They

said it was done in five or six hours. They listened to the fi nished track when they were walking around the grocery store and couldn’t believe it.” While the group hasn’t yet announced a release date for How Will You Know If You Never Try ’s followup, it will fi rst release a new single, “Growing Pains.” With its rattling percussion and trippy synths, “Growing Pains” possesses a greater degree of sonic density than previous Coin tunes. Winnen says the band began working on the track about a year ago. “We even recorded it once, and it didn’t feel right,” he says. “We just revisited it only two months ago. Now, our team is excited about it, and we’re excited about it. That will be the fi rst single of this year. We’re making a joke that it sounds like the more mature and kind of aggressive and wiser brother of ‘Talk Too Much.’ It feels like we’re growing up.” Winnen says the rest of the album will be written and recorded intermittently throughout the year. “We’ll release music as we see fit,” says Winnen. “That will create what becomes the album. It’s less focused and less locked in the studio. We like to work when we’re moving.”

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MUSIC A VERSATILE PLAYER John 5 isn’t your typical guitar hero By Jeff Niesel CUT FROM THE SAME MUSICAL cloth as six-string shredders such as Randy Rhoads, Yngwie Malmsteen and Jake E. Lee, guitarist John 5 embraces a much wider range of music than your typical guitar hero. His initial inspiration, for example, stems from watching episodes of the country music variety TV show Hee Haw when he was a kid. “We just watched what my parents wanted to watch,” says John 5 in a recent phone interview from an Orlando tour stop. The guitarist extraordinaire performs with his band the Creatures at 8 p.m. on Friday at the Beachland Ballroom as he brings his tour in support of his first live album, It’s Alive! , to town. “There were incredible musicians on there. That’s what made me realize it was what I wanted to do. It’s really what inspired me. I loved it.” A Michigan native, John 5 moved to Los Angeles when he was only 17 to pursue his dream of playing electric guitar with the stars. While the initial transition to La La Land didn’t go smoothly, John 5 would eventually find work — and then some. “It was pretty tough right in the beginning,” he says. “I didn’t know anybody. It was scary because it was a whole new thing, but it all came together well, I guess. I’m just glad I stuck to my guns and stayed out there. I just kept playing and playing all the time in clubs and anywhere I could. That’s how it came together. I had to keep plugging away at it. It didn’t happen as quickly as you think, but it did happen eventually. I just stuck with it.” Early on, he toured with hardrocking singer-guitarist Lita Ford as she toured with Kiss. Then, he auditioned to play with country singer k.d. lang. While plenty of other guitarists (reportedly a couple thousand) attempted to get the gig, John 5 stood out simply because he had worked so hard to learn the material. “I just learned every single note and all the instruments and the keyboard parts,” he says. “I just learned everything. I played every part on guitar because I didn’t know what she wanted me to play. [Lang]

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was impressed. I was ready to play the show, so it worked out well.” Having established himself as a versatile player, John 5 went on to work with Judas Priest’s Rob Halford, Van Halen’s David Lee Roth and Marilyn Manson. Guns N Roses guitarist Slash subsequently called

Pennsylvania, the album happened “by accident,” as he puts it. “We were setting up as we always do, and the sound guy asked us if we wanted to record. We were like, ‘Of course, we want to record a live album,’” John 5 says. “I have always fantasized about having a live

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him “one of the most mind-blowing guitarists around.” In 2004, he launched a solo career with Vertigo, a hard rock album that shows off his nimble fretwork on tunes such as the industrial rock-inspired “Needles, CA” and the twangy cowpunk number “Sugar Foot Rag.” He adroitly plays the banjo on the rollicking “18969 Ventura Blvd.” and delivers a whimsical rendition of “Sweet Georgia Brown.” The album clearly shows off his ability to play just about anything. Earlier this year, John 5 released his first live album, It’s Alive! Recorded at a gig in Sellersville,

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album. It’s really difficult. You have to have a big truck and recording gear and people to run that. It’s really expensive to do. This was our shot. We had one shot. I pulled the band aside and told them to really concentrate. That’s what we did. We didn’t move around much, but we were super happy with the show. It’s as live as it’s going to get.” The opening track “Guitars, Tits and Monsters” is an epic jam that John 5 says was appropriately inspired by “guitars, tits and monsters — all the things I love in my life.” The Planet of the Apes films

inspired the shimmering tune “Here’s to the Crazy Ones.” “If you look at the video for the song, it’s Planet of the Apes,” says John 5. “We all dress up. It took six hours to do the makeup. It’s all prosthetics. The title is a quote from a letter from [Apple’s] Steve Jobs that he wrote to his employees. It’s such a great quote. The song is all over the place. There’s slapping and crazy picking and arpeggios. It’s a really crazy track.” Music has changed so much over the years, does John 5 think the shredding guitarist is a dying breed? “I have to be honest with myself and you and everybody,” he says. “Of course, it’s completely different than it was in the ’80s and ’90s. It’s kind of good and kind of bad. It’s like if people weren’t buying ice cream, but I was one of the few ice cream shops still open. If you want ice cream, you would come to the shop. It’s a tough market, but I love it. I don’t do it for the money; I just do it for the love of the guitar.”

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10 X 3 Singer Songwriter Showcase hosted by Brent Kirby: 8 p.m. Brothers Lounge. Crystal Bowersox/Nick Zuber: An early bloomer, singer Crystal Bowersox started performing at age 10. She played at bars in the Toledo area, busked at train stations and hit the open mic circuit even though she only knew about 10 songs at the time. In 2010, she placed second on American Idol — not bad for someone who only auditioned at the request of friends who admired her talent. Since American Idol, she has performed alongside Harry Connick Jr., Joe Cocker and others. The songs on Bowersox’s 2013 album All That for This cover a wide gamut. Tunes such as the harmonicaand-horn-driven “Home” possess a Blues Traveler vibe, and Bowersox’s supple voice — she sounds a lot like Jewel — packs a real punch. She comes to town tonight in support of last year’s Alive. (Jeff Niesel) 7:30 p.m., $20 ADV, $25 DOS. Music Box Supper Club. Damn the Witch Siren/The Venus Flytraps/Agleam: 9 p.m., $5. Happy Dog. Diva Tribute Concert: 7 p.m., $5. Brothers Lounge. K. Michelle: 8 p.m., $35 ADV, $40 DOS. House of Blues. The Orphan. The Poet/I, the Victor/Hello, Bandit/Keys & Corridors/Seconds to Live: 7 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Mahall’s 20 Lanes. Oshun: 8:30 p.m., $12 ADV, $14 DOS. Beachland Tavern. Nicki Parrott Trio: 7 p.m., $20. Nighttown. Valentine’s Day With Luca Mundaca: 7 p.m., $15. Bop Stop.

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Above & Beyond/Luttrell: 8 p.m., $30 ADV, $35 DOS. House of Blues. Atomic: 8 p.m., $20. Bop Stop. The Ballroom Thieves (in the Supper Club): 8 p.m., $12 ADV, $15 DOS. Music Box Supper Club. Collective Soul: 7:30 p.m. Hard Rock Rocksino Northfield Park. Chris Hatton’s Musical Circus (in

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the Wine Bar): 8 p.m. Brothers Lounge. Jam Night with the Bad Boys of Blues: 9 p.m., free. Brothers Lounge. Luxotica Lounge Cabaret: 8 p.m., $12-$15. The Winchester. MacSabbath/Galactic Empire: 8 p.m., $18 ADV, $20 DOS. Beachland Ballroom. JD Souther: 7:30 p.m., $38 ADV, $42 DOS. Music Box Supper Club. Carol Welsman: 8 p.m., $20. Nighttown. The You Suck Flying Circus/Tim Moon: 8:30 p.m., $8 ADV, $10 DOS. Grog Shop.

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Sam Blakeslee Quintet, CD Release: 8 p.m., $12. Bop Stop. CrazyTown/Davey Suicide/In Service of Serpent: 6 p.m., $17$22. Odeon. Kenny Babyface Edmonds: 8 p.m. Hard Rock Rocksino Northfield Park. Headspace: Minimal/House/ Techno (in the Underdog): 9:30 p.m., $3. The Euclid Tavern. Jazz Jam Session: 11 p.m., free. Bop Stop. Billy Joel Tribute by the Stranger: 8 p.m., $25 ADV, $28 DOS. Music Box Supper Club. John 5 & the Creatures/Ego: 8 p.m., $17 ADV, $20 DOS. Beachland Ballroom. Talib Kweli/NIKO IS/DJ Spintelect/Muamin Collective/ Doc Remedy: Known in part for his engaged social commentary — particularly since the shooting

death of Michael Brown in 2014 — Talib Kweli has always held a fi nger to the pulse of the American consciousness. From the late-’90s hip-hop duo Black Star (with Mos Def) through years of a successful solo and collaborative career, Kweli has studded the rap game with thinking man’s song-craft that keep listeners’ heads bobbing and toes tapping. He pulls fans into this dark and uncertain decade with tracks like “Rare Portraits” and “The Wormhole,” tunes that blend autobiographical chops with a harrowing awareness of how twisted — and beautiful — this world can be. (Eric Sandy) 9 p.m., $25. Grog Shop. Lola Pistola: 9 p.m., $8 ADV, $10 DOS. Beachland Tavern. Machine Head: 7 p.m., $25 ADV, $30 DOS. Odeon. Mike St. Jude and the Valentines/ Public Squares/The Farther Shore: 9 p.m., $5. Happy Dog. Motown and More with Nitebridge (in the Supper Club): 8 p.m., $10. Music Box Supper Club. New Politics/DREAMERS/ The Wrecks: 7:30 p.m., $25 ADV/$29.50 DOS. House of Blues. SIMO: 9 p.m., $12. Musica. Moss Stanley: 10:30 p.m., free. Nighttown. Those ’80s Guys (in the Wine Bar): 9 p.m. Brothers Lounge. Tricky Dick and the Coverups: 9:30 p.m., $5. Brothers Lounge. Chuchito Valdes: 8:30 p.m., $30. Nighttown. Warhawks/Who Hit Me/Suitcase Runaway: 9 p.m., free. Now That’s Class.

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AWOL Nation/Nothing But Thieves/IRONTOM: Led by charismatic singer Aaron Bruno, AWOL Nation, an electronic/indie rock act, scored big a few years back with “Sail,” a soaring anthem that found its way into TV shows. commercials and films. With 2015’s Run, the band slows things down. With its cooing vocals and piano melody, “Fat Face” could pass for a Beach Boys’ tune, and “Jailbreak” comes off as soul/R&B. Of course, it’s not all mellow. The band cranks up the guitars on “Hollow Moon (Bad Wolf),” a song that finds Bruno practically screaming. Songs such as “Here Come the Runts” and “Passion,” from the group’s just-released album Here Come the Runts, emphasize the industrial rock side of its sound. Expect the band to show off its range at tonight’s show. (Niesel) 8 p.m., $31.35 ADV/$36.75 DOS. House of Blues. Bonfire: 9:30 p.m., $10. Brothers Lounge. Rachel Brown and the Beatnik Playboys: Singer-songwriter Rachel Brown grew up in Medina, listening to George Jones, Merle Haggard and Loretta Lynn. It took years for Brown to issue her studio debut, 2012’s Just Look My Way. But she’s since become more prolific. Her new offering, last year’s Look Who’s Back, represents her third album with her backing band, the Beatnik Playboys. Her supple voice sounds terrific on tunes such as the twangy “Blue Diamond” and “Texas Moon,” a song that features Cleveland Orchestra violinist Emma Shook, who Brown met through the side project Sisters in Song. Tunes such as the rollicking title track feature bar-room piano fills and bluesy vocals. It’s good stuff. (Niesel) 8 p.m., $15. Bop Stop. CLE Music City presents Mourning [A] BLKstar/Hiram-Maxim/P. Stoops/Shagg: 9 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Grog Shop. The Dreemers/Leaf Borbie & the Family Tree/Heavyheds/Mars Dog: 8 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Beachland Ballroom. Gringo Stew: 8 p.m., free. CODA. Neil Hilborn/Many Rooms: 9 p.m., $15 ADV, $20 DOS. Mahall’s 20 Lanes. | clevescene.com | February 14 - 20, 2018

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Acoustic Joyride (in the Wine Bar): 7 p.m. Brothers Lounge. Architects/Stick to Your Guns/ Counterparts: 6:30 p.m., $20 ADV, $25 DOS. Odeon. Ceramic Animal: 8:30 p.m., $4 ADV, $7 DOS. CODA. Excision/Liquid Stranger/Dion Trimmer/Monxx: When DJ Excision played House of Blues a few years back, he reportedly brought more high-power amps than the club could accommodate. Expect that to be the case this time too: Excision is known to tour with a 150,000-watt sound system that he regularly pushes to the limits. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll also have a mammoth screen projecting videos behind him. (Niesel) 8 p.m., $35 ADV, $40 DOS. House of Blues. False Negative: 7 p.m., $5 Suggested Donation. Bop Stop. Lifters/Brainwave/D503: 9 p.m., $5. Now Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Class. The Mowgliâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s/Mainland: An L.A.based indie rock act that plays a mix of West Coast pop, garage rock and Laurel Canyon folk, the Mowgliâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s have slowly gained traction since forming in 2010. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Freakinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Me Out,â&#x20AC;? the ďŹ rst single from the 2016â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Whereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d Your Weekend Go, features call-andresponse vocals and a vigorous mid-song guitar solo. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a snappy tune that sits well with the other snappy tunes in the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s evergrowing catalog. (Niesel), 8 p.m., $20. Beachland Tavern. Outlab Session: 9 p.m., free. Bop Stop.

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Warped Tour founder will discuss his career at the Rock Hall Archives & Library By Jeff Niesel KEVIN LYMAN, THE FOUNDER and operator of 4Fini, Inc., the live event production company and brand strategy firm behind Warped Tour, started producing concerts when he was still a college student. That led to a gig at Goldenvoice, the company that now promotes Coachella every year, and the Goldenvoice gig in turn enabled Lyman to launch Warped Tour more than 20 years ago. Initially, Warped Tour wasn’t a success. “It was a failure that first year, but people saw that I was trying to do something different,” says Lyman via phone. He speaks at the Rock Hall Library & Archives at 7 p.m. on Friday. Admission is free, but reservations are required. “It was a great lineup, but the country didn’t have the eclectic music tastes I was trying to show at that point. I thought everyone liked an eclectic lineup. I was the guy who loaded the trucks. I was the first non-artist that started my own tour. It was always [Jane’s Addiction singer] Perry Farrell or Blues Traveler or Sarah MacLachlan. All of a sudden, the guy who loaded people’s vans was putting on his own tour.” Earlier this year, Lyman, who has also appeared in and produced multiple TV series, movies and documentaries during the course of his career, announced that Warped Tour will hit the road this summer for the last time. “A lot of it has come to the physical side of things,” he says when asked about what made him decide this would be the last Warped Tour. “I’ve always worked in a different kind of way than other people. When I was 30 years old, it was a lot different. Also, artists used to come on Warped Tour because they were part of a community, and they wanted to support the younger bands. They thought it would help their career down the road. Times have changed. Bands have to tour all the time now. That’s their main source of income. For what I do, that sense of community isn’t as strong as it used to be.” Lyman has recently spent more

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time on the lecture circuit. He recently gave the keynote speech at the annual National Association of Music Merchants conference. “I do these different formats,” he says via phone when asked about his speaking engagements. “When I speak at universities and colleges, I’ll throw out broad topics. I will then dive into questions right away. I’m not sure what people want to walk out with. I can tell stories about Warped Tour, but I’m interested in talking about what’s got us to this point.” This Rock Hall talk is presented in conjunction with the 22nd annual High School Rock Off, and Lyman will also serve as a judge for the Rock Off’s “final exam,” which takes place at 5 p.m. on Saturday at the Rock Hall. Prior to the start of that event, Lyman will conduct a Q&A with the bands that made it to the finals and undoubtedly drop some serious knowledge on the teens. “I tell young bands to be patient,” he says. “Have as much fun as you can now. If you become bigger, it becomes a business much quicker. Your life is under a microscope with social media. You don’t get the luxury of making mistakes that artists did at one point.”

the honesty of pre-1950s recordings, has worked with bands in both Cleveland and Bristol, Virginia. Earlier this year, the local husband and wife duo Sands & Hearn recorded a new song, “Oakleigh Street,” at the Earnest Tube studios in Bristol. They also set up a camera and captured the moment to video; the group has just published the video for the somber track on YouTube. The two wrote the song while attending a talk on the history of Euclid. Along with learning the origins of city where they live, Sands and Hearn also discovered that many of the original street names had been changed to numbers as part of an urban planning and development initiative. They realized that “the original names tell more about the neighborhoods and the people who lived there than a simple number ever could.” Clevelanders Clint Holley and Dave Polster teamed up with Bristol resident Michael Peck to record the session. Sands & Hearn plan to release “Oakleigh Street” along with the other songs they recorded in Bristol, on limited-run vinyl sometime in the future.

Local rapper launches new T-shirt line Local rapper Vice Souletric possesses a real appreciation for old--school hip-hop. He has recently worked with the likes of Talib Kweli, Pete Rock, 9th Wonder, Skyzoo, Nore, Nottz, Hitekand and KRS-ONE. Now, Souletric has launched a new T-shirt line that pays tribute to the “original hip-hop stars.” Shirts feature caricatures of everyone from Run D.M.C. to Tupac Shakur and Jay-Z. Each T-shirt also comes with a signed copy of Souletric’s latest album, Vice for President 2.

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engineered locally by Michael Seifert, the band’s latest album, Wild Unknown, shows just how much the band’s song writing has evolved. “We loved having Michael at the controls — he got our best sound yet,” says Mulloy. “I hate being pigeonholed in the Celtic scene. We wanted to do a crossover record. We like outlaw country and good alternative pop-rock music.

It’s kind of a crossover. We have the requisite drinking songs that we have to have, and we have some country songs that we love too.” WHY YOU SHOULD HEAR THEM: Wild

Unknown is the band’s most accomplished album to date. “Dead Man Walking,” the rowdy opening number, features a riveting fiddle solo and gruff vocals. Mulloy wrote the song about a crisis of faith. “When you play the Irish circuit, a lot of the songs get into religion,” he says. “I’ve been on sabbatical from the church for a little bit, so it’s about that. We thought it mixed both Celtic and crossover-type stuff.” “Petronilla,” a song about a woman who was burned at the stake in Ireland, features a beautiful midsong mandolin solo that makes the moody song really resonate. Ballads such as “Last Gift” are so well crafted, they sound like standards. Mulloy says the band approaches song writing as a collaborative process. “We sit around a kitchen table and crack open a few beers and present the songs and go with what works,” he says. “We really tried to branch out this time around.” WHERE YOU CAN HEAR THEM:

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SAVAGE LOVE FIGHTING WORDS by Dan Savage I’m a 24-year-old nonbinary person living in Florida. I have two wonderful girlfriends. One I have been with for four years (we live together). The other I have been with for a year and a half. They’re both brilliant, interesting, and kind. They know each other but aren’t close. Neither is interested in people besides me right now, although my longer-term girlfriend identifies as poly. They have both said that they see a future with me, but something doesn’t feel right. I’ve been having fantasies about leaving them both. It’s not about wanting to find someone I like better. I just feel like neither relationship can progress while both exist. My other friends are getting married. Even if my girlfriends liked each other, which they don’t, I don’t want sister wives or two families. But I also can’t imagine choosing between them. Are my fantasies of escape normal? Is wanting to be with “the one” just straight nonsense? Engaged Now But Yearning “The one” is nonsense, ENBY, but it’s not straight nonsense — lots of queer people believe that “the one,” their perfect match, is out there somewhere. But despite the fact that there are no perfect matches, people are constantly ending loving relationships that could go the distance to run off in search of “the one” that doesn’t exist. As I’ve pointed out again and again, there are lots of .64s out there and, if you’re lucky, you might find a .73 lurking in the pile. When you find a serviceable .64 or (God willing) a spectacular .73, it’s your job to round that motherfucker up to “the one.” (And don’t forget that they’re doing the same for you — just as there’s no “the one” for you, you’re no one’s “the one.” Everyone is rounding up.) You say what you have now — two girlfriends who can’t stand each other — is working. Are you sure? While fantasies of escape are normal, it’s odd to hear someone with two girlfriends wish for one or both to disappear. Perhaps it’s not who you’re doing that’s the problem, ENBY, but what you’re doing. The kind of polyamory you’re practicing — concurrent and equal romantic partnerships — may not be right for you. I’m not trying to YDIW you here (“You’re doing it wrong!), but if you’re envious of your

friends who are settling down with just one partner, perhaps you’d be more comfortable in an open-not-poly relationship (sex with others okay, romance with others not okay) or a hierarchical poly relationship (your primary partner comes first, your secondary partner[s] come, well, second). Finally, ENBY, it could be the stress of having two partners who don’t like each other that has you fantasizing about escape. Each of your girlfriends might make sense independently, but if having to share you doesn’t work for them, it’s never going to work for you.

I’m 27 years old and I’ve been married to my partner for two years. I’m facing a conundrum: A relative sexually abused me when I was younger. It happened a handful of times, and I’ve never told anyone other than my partner. I’m now struggling to decide not whether I should tell my parents (I should), but when. The problem is my siblings and cousins have started having children, and seeing this relative with their kids is dredging up a lot of uncomfortable memories. I don’t have children of my own yet, but my partner and I have already decided that this relative will never touch or hold the ones we do have. So do I tell my parents now? I fear the issues that sharing this secret will inevitably create. My Family Kinda Sucks Your kids may not yet exist, MFKS, but your young nieces, nephews, and cousins do — and your abuser has access to them. So the drama you fear creating isn’t unnecessary — it’s incredibly necessary. And since you were planning to tell your parents eventually, the drama is inevitable. But let’s say you wait to tell your parents until you have children of your own. How will you feel if you learn, after the curtain goes up on this drama, that this relative had sexually abused another child in your family (or multiple children in your family, or children outside your family) in the time between your decision to tell your parents and the moment you told them?

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