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UPFRONT LEAD TO THE BALLOT: COALITION FORCING ACTION ON LEAD POISONING WITH NEW LEGISLATIVE INITIATIVE
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THE CLEVELAND LEAD ADVOCATES for Safe Housing (CLASH), a new coalition that includes SPAN-Ohio, Black Lives Matter of Cuyahoga County, the Cuyahoga County Progressive Caucus, Organize! Ohio, and Cleveland Democratic Socialists of America, last Friday announced plans for a ballot initiative to address lingering and dangerous lead problems in Cleveland. Staring down what they perceive as inexcusable inaction by the city of Cleveland and city council, the initiative, the language of which was not released, will follow closely a proposal initiated by former City Councilman Jeff Johnson. That ordinance (990-17) was crafted with the help of community activists and Legal Aid in 2017. It would have held landlords accountable for certifying that their properties were lead-safe. It never received a hearing. Johnson was running for Mayor at the time, and the likely explanation for the stalled momentum was political: Johnson’s opponents didn’t want him to get credit for an important piece of legislation. Councilman Blaine Griffith last week told Scene that he understood the community’s frustration but that new legislation was a “work in progress” and numerous efforts outside of legislation are needed to address the complex problem. “I know people are impatient,” he said. “And I know they might think there’s not a sense of urgency. I won’t duck that. But I will tell you that I do have a sense of urgency and [the Health and Human Services Committee] spent most of 2018 on this issue. We’re working on it.” CLASH has had enough waiting. “The public has waited for years through mismanagement, inaction, and inadequate measures from our city leaders. All the while, more Cleveland children have been lead poisoned,” Rebecca Maurer, a local attorney involved in the effort, said in the press release . “If City Council won’t seriously consider proposed legislation to address the lead crisis, the time is right to take the issue to the public.”
Lead poisoning is a pervasive problem in Cleveland, and one that disproportionately affects minorities and the poor. In an analysis last week, Scene found that elementary schools in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District with higher black student populations are more likely to have a higher percentage of students with elevated blood lead levels (EBLL). Scene cross-referenced data from a recent CWRU report with CMSD demographic data that we’d obtained last year via public records request to demonstrate the racial character of the lead crisis. Just as infant mortality continues to afflict black babies at dramatically higher rates than white babies, the lead crisis is affecting black children in much higher numbers than white children. The 10 K-8 CMSD schools with the highest percentage of kindergartners with a history EBLL had an average black student population of more than 90 percent. It’s actually probably much higher than that, but CMSD refers to schools with only one racial group as “95+” percent, and we tabulated those schools as “95,” not “100.” Glenville’s Iowa-Maple elementary, for example, the school with the highest incidence of EBLL in the CWRU report (46.7 percent) is “95+”
percent black. So, too, is Franklin D. Roosevelt, Patrick Henry, Mary Bethune, Michael White, and Daniel Morgan, all among the schools with the very highest EBLL percentages. The 10 K-8 CMSD schools with the lowest percentage of EBLL, on the other hand, had an average black student population of only 39.7 percent. The three schools with the lowest lead levels were Campus International downtown, (55 percent black); Douglas MacArthur in Kamm’s Corners, (37 percent black); and James Garfield in Jefferson, (30 percent black). When we subjected the data to statistical analysis — with the guidance of a local data expert — we discovered a significant correlation between race and lead poisoning. That is, if you increase the number of black students, without controlling for other variables, the percentage of students with a history of lead poisoning increases as well. The opposite is true for white students. If you increase the number of white students, the percentage of students with a history of lead poisoning decreases. Rachel Dissel and Brie Zeltner of the Plain Dealer have thrown a spotlight on the problem in recent years, but little action has been taken.
Hence the ballot initiative. If the current coalition gathers enough signatures — 5,000 according to the PD — the legislation would be introduced at council, which would then vote on it. If it were to be rejected, the coalition would then decide whether to get the issue before voters. -Sam Allard, Vince Grzegorek
Black Advocacy Groups Begin Process for Mayoral Recall Two local advocacy groups intend to pull petitions to recall Mayor Frank Jackson in response to what they call “ineffective leadership” and a “lack of concern for Cleveland neighborhoods.” Al Porter of Black on Black Crime Inc., and Jeff Mixon of Black Lives Matter in Cuyahoga County — unaffiliated with the national Black Lives Matter movement and its local chapter, Black Lives Matter Cleveland — submitted a list of demands in an affidavit last week that included implementing a jobs program for teens, lowering property taxes for low- and middleincome residents, funding initiatives to combat bullying and domestic violence, and complying with the recommendations of the Cleveland | clevescene.com | January 16 - 22, 2019
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UPFRONT Lead Safe Network. An affidavit of this sort, outlining the reasons for the recall attempt, is required by city charter. These demands were addressed not only to Jackson but to the “corporate entities” of Cuyahoga County, with whom the advocacy organizations say they have lost patience. The Jackson recall is being positioned as the first in a series
of efforts to oust local leaders who have lost touch with the community, including Congresswoman Marcia Fudge and Cuyahoga County Executive Armond Budish. (Budish may be recalled by voters, but there is no mechanism for an electoral recall of members of the U.S Congress.) Mixon, in a speech posted to Facebook, called many of Cleveland’s leaders “tried and true sellouts” from the black community who have been installed by business leaders for decades. He said that he and other activists have tried to hold elected
leaders accountable in many ways for years, but that black leaders have taken advantage of their positions of authority, recognizing that historically oppressed black communities are “just so happy to see black faces” in power that they’re less likely to demand change. He said the endorsement process in Cuyahoga County was corrupt and ineffective, and that even if the Jackson recall drive was ultimately unsuccessful, the goal was to send a message that the community is fed up. “We are tired of leadership that serves corporate Cleveland and
corporate Cuyahoga while ignoring the needs of the people who put them in office,” Mixon concluded. The initial affidavit was ruled invalid because Al Porter is not a Cleveland resident, but the groups intended to submit another one. They will have 30 days to collect 12,160 signatures from residents who voted in the 2017 mayoral election. No recall petition has been successful in Cleveland’s history, including, most recently, an effort to recall Frank Jackson in 2015. -Allard
Cuyahoga County Announces Expanded MetroHealth Care at Jail Facilities As Armond Budish and Cuyahoga County face a scathing and seemingly endless string of headlines concerning the Cuyahoga County Jail — an eighth inmate dying, corrections officers accused of using force against a man suffering from Tourette Syndrome, a guard accused of retaliating against an inmate who gave an interview to the U.S. Marshals, the resulting report from the Marshals that decried the dangerous and unconstitutional conditions inside the jails — there has been some progress. The county last week announced a further improvement as MetroHealth will expand health care in the facilities beyond what it was providing before. Notable in the U.S. Marshals’ report was a lack of proper medical staffing, training, ignorance of mental health issues and general mistreatment of prisoners. As part of the agreement 32 medical staff will be added at the facilities. Other provisions include: providing services that meet the accreditation standards of the National Commission on Correctional Health Care; adherence to suicide triage and expanded mental health services; expanded Medically Assisted Treatment programming; development of a continuous quality improvement program; unified medical operations at the Euclid and Bedford jails; correctional Officers specifically assigned to the medical unit; and development of performance-based metrics to track program outcomes. -Grzegorek
Someone Start a Slow Clap for Tri-C’s Formidable New Logo Last week, Cuyahoga Community College unveiled the logo for its new mascot, the “Triceratops.”
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It is indeed, as university communications folks have declared to us, a “stout and imposing,” “formidable, yet likable” creature. Students, faculty and alumni voted on the mascot last fall, selecting Triceratops over five other options: Jazz, Tridents, Blizzard, Coyotes and Challengers, the name Tri-C has been using for years. Tri-C hired a design firm to produce the logo and released it Thursday. We’d been cautiously optimistic — we loved the mascot’s originality from the jump — but nervous that a Triceratops logo just might not be all that intimidating. We now rest easy. Ablaze in TriC’s trademark teal, the logo is not your standard cartoonish Barney. Take a look at that snarl! Those horns! Those lunging, muscular hindquarters! Bonus points for the generous black shading and the seashell styling of the dinosaur’s trademark neck frill. The Trikes should be proud to charge into competition with this unique logo on their chests or sleeves. “Triceratops” not only meshes well with the school’s name, but also symbolizes the toughness and resolve of the Tri-C community. — Allard
Shaker Heights Cites Lack of Cultural Sensitivity, Racial Slurs in Decision to Pull Athletics From Greater Cleveland Conference The Greater Cleveland Conference for Ohio high school athletics is made up of Brunswick, Elyria, Euclid, Medina, Mentor, Solon, Strongsville, and Shaker Heights. That is set to change next year. In a public statement issued last week, Shaker Heights announced that it will leave the conference and join the Lake Erie League, to which it once belonged, starting in the 2020 school year. The reasons behind that decision were laid out in the release and included an improvement in leadership in the LEL since Shaker left in 2012, issues with travel and geography while competing in the
GCC (the schools stretch across four counties and, as such, there were plenty of extra miles and late nights), and last but not least, concerns that Shaker’s students were on the receiving end of racial slurs from students at other GCC schools. “While our student-athletes have dealt with each of these incidents in a remarkably poised way, it is something that must be given serious consideration when making a decision about conference affiliation,” the release said. “The lack of diversity and cultural sensitivity in some of the communities in the GCC is a real concern.” “I was just very concerned something bad was going to happen,” Shaker boys basketball coach Danny Young told Cleveland. com regarding the slurs directed at his players. “Thank God I have disciplined kids who don’t respond to that kind of stuff.” — Grzegorek
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HEN THE $200 MILLION development of housing, shops, cultural institutions and public spaces along Euclid Ave. first opened in 2012, it was touted as the new main street for University Circle. “Just a short walk from the institutions on Wade Oval, and within campus borders of Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Institute of Art … it’s the place where residents, students, and visiting tourists converge to enjoy a diverse social scene and an array of entertainment – from art galleries and live music, to bowling and yoga,” touts the website for University Circle Incorporated (UCI), the nonprofit development corporation serving the area. Yet six years after Phase I of Uptown was completed by MRN Ltd., which also developed East 4th Street, the Tudor Arms Hotel and West 25th St. south of Lorain, the bowling, yoga and live music venues have all closed. The Chipotle, Jimmy John’s and Panera are still there, but more than a dozen independent businesses have closed in and around Uptown, only to be replaced by a seemingly endless array of places serving rice bowls. In 2018, Coquette Patisserie, Corner Alley, the Happy Dog at the Euclid Tavern and Ninja City (which relocated to Gordon Square) have all been shuttered. The first few weeks
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of 2019 were no kinder, as Jonathan Sawyer announced the closing of Trentina. To be fair, while all these businesses were located in the area, they weren’t all part of MRN’s project. Yet critics say that with the predominance of quick-service concepts throughout the area, Uptown has become a fast-casual food court that mostly serves students and University Circle employees. That’s a far cry from the original goals of the project, hailed as “a new downtown for the University Circle neighborhood” by the New York Times and a possible “new center of gravity for the city” by the Plain Dealer. To serve the area’s cultural institutions and residents, a more vibrant mix of businesses is needed. “We would love for MOCA audience members to be able to attend the museum and then go on to have an equally interesting cultural experience in Uptown,” says Meghan Reich, deputy director of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Cleveland, which has seen its visitation expand by over 100 percent since it opened its new, $26 million building in Uptown. “We want to send our audience to locally owned businesses and to experience Cleveland entrepreneurship at its best. It’s hard when those things
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close or can’t even open and the district is mostly franchises that are not unique or special.” “I think it’s a great urban success story, but it isn’t what it was envisioned to be yet,” says Grafton Nunes, president of the Cleveland Institute of Art, whose $75 million campus reunification project at Uptown includes the Cinematheque, considered to be one of the country’s best repertory movie theaters. Ari Maron of MRN counters that several of their tenants, including Constantino’s, Cleveland Clothing Company, the Case Western Reserve University bookstore, and a few of the fast-casual concepts are locally owned. “That was the plan from the beginning – to create a place that was both uniquely Cleveland and contains national businesses so that visitors to University Circle as well as students would feel comfortable there,” he says, arguing vehemently that the fact that the project is 95-percent leased shows that it’s serving the community and can be deemed a success. (Critics would add, beyond the general corporatetinged homogeny of the tenants, that turnover has been brisk, and rents and leases are far higher than in comparable areas.) “I think what we’ve responded to is what the market is demanding in University Circle,” Maron says.
“At this point, it’s primarily quickservice fast-casual dining. That’s what the student population is looking for. That’s what the medical population is looking for. That’s not unique to Uptown; that’s a trend that’s happening nationally.” UCI President Chris Ronayne agrees that Uptown needs to add destination retail, but says it is serving Case, CIA and CIM students and University Circle employees. Recently, improvements have been made to parking systems to make them easier to navigate (and, should you need reminding, Uptown is readily accessible by RTA). “We’ve moved from a vision of a mix of residents to more of a student community,” he says. “Although the project may have changed tack a little bit and become more studentoriented, it has revealed an untapped market and become a successful main street.”
Years in the Making North of Mayfield Ave. where Uptown’s sleek, contemporary buildings now rise, there was once a sea of gray parking lots lining both sides of Euclid. Behind one parking lot was the Triangle apartment building, which boasted an atrociously ugly development with
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a McDonald’s, Mr. Hero and Federal Express. On the other side, there was an unpaved parking lot known as “Hessler Beach” where students on nearby Hessler Avenue sunned themselves and played volleyball. Although talk of building on the parking lots goes back to at least the mid-’70s, in the booming economy of the mid-2000s, talk finally turned to action. Case and UCI saw an opportunity to turn these parking lots into an economic development project that would serve students and visitors to University Circle. “It was a university project but also a community project,” says Ronayne. Over a period of years, Case spent $2 million acquiring 8.2 acres of parking lots (including a large parcel that they had once sold to a parking lot owner for $1, since they considered it to be a liability at the time). They also purchased the Triangle for $30 million, gaining a necessary site that was assessed at just $20-$23 million. When a request for proposals (RFP) seeking a developer was issued in 2005, it generated fierce competition for what was then considered to be a pretty plum project. MRN’s Ari Maron, who at the time was just in his mid-20s, having just graduated from Rice University, apparently impressed interviewers by playing a song on his violin.
“Ari won it on what people thought was heart and passion for the district,” recounts Ronayne, citing the Marons’ success in redeveloping East 4th Street and their promise to foster a similar vibe at Uptown. Then just about everything that could go wrong did go wrong. MRN’s financial backers backed out in 2006. The housing crisis hit Cleveland in 2007. MRN’s development partner also withdrew. Then some of the tenant deals went up in smoke. Condominiums were a non-starter, so Uptown was converted into an apartment project. At the time, banks were also leery of lending to risky urban projects, so Phase I required 11 layers of financing. Many of these layers came from cultural institutions, the city, and area foundations. Case masterleased 40 percent of the commercial area, guaranteeing rents on the bookstore, café and grocery store; the city of Cleveland made a $5 million low-interest loan through its vacant property redevelopment initiative; the Cleveland and Gund Foundations kicked in $4 million and $2 million, respectively; and the Cleveland Institute of Art invested $1 million and master-leased 130 beds for their students. When the project first opened in the tentative years after the
recession, the apartments leased up at some of the highest rates in the city – nearly $2 per square foot – but the commercial spaces proved more difficult. MRN was asking $30-35 per square foot, more than twice what neighborhood spaces were getting, according to several sources. (Note that commercial rents are measured annually, not monthly as apartment rents are, hence the difference.) A few independents signed on, but the area wasn’t drawing enough traffic to sustain these businesses. Accent, an Asian fusion restaurant, opened in 2012. It closed suddenly just one year later. It became Crop Kitchen, which also closed, and the space has sat vacant ever since. (It will soon be home to Falafel Cafe, which was booted from its previous home in the Commodore Building after 18 years by its landlord, UCI.) Cleveland Beer Cellars also lasted a year, eventually transitioned to Dynomite Burgers and then finally became an Orange Theory Fitness chain location. At the time, Zach Bruell of Dynomite blamed the predominance of fast-casual restaurants in the area. “I believe in the concept and the neighborhood, but we just couldn’t make it work down there,” he told Cleveland.com. “There are just so many fast-casual restaurants.”
MRN Hospitality also tried opening a second location of Corner Alley. When the 25,000 square foot space closed, Maron told Cleveland. com that “smaller is better.” He announced plans to break up the space into a taco-and-tequila place from the owners of Tres Potrillos in Beachwood, a Verizon store, and another fast-casual restaurant, Burgerim, an Israeli chain similar to White Castle.
Shifting Retail Strategy The sharp difference of opinion between Maron and some of the area’s businesses and cultural institutions boils down to this: MRN claims that Uptown is a vibrant neighborhood-based retail center, while critics say that by now it should be drawing more visitors and serving a wider audience. “What Uptown is – and I think this is incredibly important – it’s the neighborhood fabric that makes cities work,” says Maron “I’m not sure it needs to be East 4th Street to be successful. I think it needs to provide the neighborhood amenities that University Circle needs to be successful.” Business owners don’t agree. “By now, it should be fairly mature, but there’s not yet enough of a | clevescene.com | January 16 - 22, 2019
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FEATURE critical mass of people living here or walking around,” says Adrian Bota of Piccadilly Artisan Creamery. Piccadilly recently moved to the former Coquette Patisserie space across from MRN’s development and has begun selling pints of ice cream to grocery stores. They also recently formed a partnership with Vintage Coffee and Tea to sell pastries and beverages. Sean Watterson, who recently
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closed the Happy Dog at the Euclid Tavern after a four-year run, says MRN’s student-focused strategy doesn’t serve independent businesses. “During our time we went from being a city destination to a student destination,” he says. “As businesses closed, there were less reasons for people to come down the hill. We survived based on events. We were doing events like crazy. When you don’t have places like Crop, Coquette and Corner Alley, there’s less ‘there’ there, and it’s harder to get people to come down.” CIA president Grafton Nunes says that while his students are
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thrilled with the newly unified campus, he also hears complaints about the business mix. Although he believes Uptown is successful, there’s room for more diversity, he says. “Students do think there’s a predominance of Asian fusion restaurants,” he says. “I hear students say, ‘I wish there was a little more variety.’” Reich points out that even the independent places that opened (and closed) at Uptown were concepts that already existed downtown or on the west side, making Uptown seem like a failed Best Of kind of popup constellation that didn’t present
the district as offering distinctive experiences. “Crop, Dynomite, Corner Alley, Happy Dog — they exist (or existed) in a similar format somewhere else in Cleveland. What we need are businesses that are only here, that help make this a destination of its own,” she says. Compounding Uptown’s problems is a lack of coordination among property owners. Bac Nguyen jumped on an opportunity to open in Gordon Square after watching Ninja City struggle a bit at Uptown. “When we first opened, we were the only Asian place besides Chopstix,” he says. “You go down there now, and there are a ton of fast-casual Asian places. That was a challenge. There are three different landlords, and whereas normally you’d have exclusivity agreements, you don’t have that here.” Kevin Slesh, Director of Real Estate for Case Western Reserve University, also agrees that there needs to be more tenant diversity at Uptown. Case owns four retail spaces that front Uptown Alley, and they’re currently filled with independent businesses – ABC Tavern, Simply Greek and Mitchell’s Ice Cream. “We recognize that there need to be more unique type tenants that would bring people from these surrounding communities to Uptown,” he says. However, Case only controls the spaces it leases, and Slesh reinforced that the project is almost fully leased. “If you look at Uptown today, there are only a few vacant spaces. That’s not something that can be changed overnight.” Shane Culey, who operated Coquette Patisserie with his wife Britt-Marie Culey until it closed earlier this year, says that if area institutions want more independent, local businesses, they may have to put their money into helping them survive. That could come in the form of master-leasing spaces and subsidizing them, or owning properties outright and curating the tenant mix. “Right now, as far as I know, nobody is taking the lead on that,” he says. Russell Berusch, who helped get Uptown started as Case’s vice president of real estate development from 2005-2010, and who also recently developed and sold the building where Coquette Patisserie was located, says it’s premature to worry and that, in the end, the developer may be justified. “In general, there’s a fair amount of attrition with mom and pop tenants,” he says. “They tend to be localized, thin on having cash reserves, and they don’t necessarily work with the same ground rules. The nationals,
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Changes Coming? Although Maron says that Uptown’s business mix is unlikely to change anytime soon, he defends the success of the project and says it has contributed to the growth of the area, which now has about 60,000 employees and over 10,000 residents. “University Circle is an incredibly stable real estate market, because of the hospitals and because of the university,” he adds. “It’s the most stable real estate market in the region. We continue to be bullish on what the neighborhood can do from a real estate perspective.” Even if the tenant mix doesn’t change right away, many people say that MRN hasn’t fulfilled its promises with Uptown Alley. The Maron family sold the project on the notion that it would be “East 4th Street picked up and moved over to Uptown,” says Alan Glazen of ABC the Tavern, and that clearly hasn’t happened. Chipotle,
Jimmy John’s and Panera maintain their patios, but don’t do much to activate the alley, which is devoid of lighting and artwork. Ronayne says the steering committee of stakeholders working to improve the area hopes to work with MRN to improve the alley. “We want to see animation of the alley with archway lighting, sculpture and landscaping,” he says. “Right now, some of the businesses with fronts on Euclid look at the alley as their back door.” Maron defends the alley in this way: “It was designed to be a place that piggybacks on Toby’s Plaza in terms of event space. We wanted there to be outdoor dining, and there is outdoor dining there. We do have to retain right of way for safety vehicles, and that limits to some extent what we can do on the alley.” He also says comparisons to downtown are unfair. “East 4th Street is a completely different animal than Uptown,” he says. “East 4th is located right next door to Gateway, where 4.5 million people a year are dropped off at your front door. It’s very event-driven, catering to huge amounts of people in a short period. Uptown is different – people are working, studying, but there’s a more consistent flow of traffic. It’s a completely different generation of
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business.” Yet Nunes also argues that the alley is something of a missed opportunity. “Uptown Alley has yet to become the Uptown version of East 4th Street,” he says sanguinely. “There are things that could be done to turn it into the art promenade that we envisioned it to be.” To bolster traffic to the area, stakeholders have ramped up programming on Toby’s Plaza outside of MOCA, which is now graced by the fantastic sculpture Judy’s Hand Pavilion that was installed during FRONT International. Last summer Case and other partners hired a consultant to program events such as pop-up putt putt, lunchtime concerts and after work programs. The steering committee has also been working behind the scenes on a rebranding strategy, and new signs and parking machines were added this year to make parking easier to navigate. The biggest gamechanger that will be coming to the area is more housing, Ronayne says. Residents are finally moving into Centric, a new 272unit housing complex behind CIA on Mayfield Avenue, and One University Circle, a 270-unit luxury apartment building at Euclid and Stokes. Other non-student-oriented housing
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developments are in the works, too. Building critical mass will help sustain independent businesses, Ronayne says. Business changes are afoot, as well. Ronayne says a new food concept will open in the Commodore building in March in the space that was home to Falafel Cafe, but it hasn’t been announced yet. He hopes that Uptown begins to look different in a few years as successful independent businesses begin to fill in around the edges. “Uptown needs spaces to linger, unique draws and merchants and retailers that accentuate the personality of the place,” he says. For Glazen, it can’t happen fast enough. “It had better change. Right now, it’s not in a good place,” he says. “On the other hand, there are a lot of good things here. We’re surrounded by the highest density cultural community anywhere. We have to marry ourselves to arts and culture.” “The pain of being there early is assuaged by the density of the medical, cultural and arts community that’s around us,” he adds. “So, we’ll stay alive, make a little money, and wait it out. The future is looking good.”
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Cleveland Stories Dinner Parties 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 Cleveland History Center. The goal of the Cleveland Stories Dinner Party 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 fixe dinner, designed to complement the night’s theme, is $20. Tonight, local sports writer Bill Livingston will talk about the Cleveland sports heroes he’s “done battle” with. Doors open at 5 p.m., dinner is served at 6, and the storytelling starts at 7. (Jeff Niesel) 1148 Main Ave., 216-242-1250, musicboxcle.com. THEATER
An Iliad With An Iliad, the Cleveland Play House takes on Homer’s classic story, and the theatrical rendition of the epic narrative will feature “vivid storytelling” and live cello as two women transform a bare stage into a “raging battlefield where gods, heroes, and empires clash in a quest for vengeance and glory.” Tonight’s show takes place at 7:30 p.m. at the Outcalt Theatre, where performances continue through Feb. 3. Tickets start at $25. (Niesel) 1407 Euclid Ave, 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org. THEATER
Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella A Tony Award-winning Broadway musical from the creators of The King & I and The Sound of Music, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella comes to Connor Palace tonight for a week-long run. The musical offers a “fresh new take” on the tale of a young woman transformed from a chambermaid into a princess, and features such songs as “In My Own Little Corner,” “Ten Minutes Ago” and “Do I Love You Because You’re Beautiful?” Tonight’s performance takes place at 7:30, and shows continue through Jan. 20. Tickets
Alex Lifeson (left) and Geddy Lee of Rush will appear at the Rock Hall. See: Saturday.
start at $10. (Niesel) Connor Palace, 1615 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.
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Disney on Ice Presents Mickey’s Search Party In what’s become a tradition for this time of year, Disney on Ice storms into town to take over Quicken Loans Arena for a 10-day period, sending the Cavs and Lake Erie Monsters out on long road trips so parents can bring their toddlers and ‘tweens to the arena for some family entertainment. This year, a cast of over 50 will be on hand. Expect to see familiar figures such as Mickey Mouse along with scenes from Aladdin, Toy Story and The Little Mermaid. Tonight’s performance begins at 7; shows run through Jan. 20. Check the Q website for times. Tickets start at $15. (Niesel) 1 Center Court, 216-420-2200, theqarena.com. COMEDY
Greg Fitzsimmons Comedian Greg Fitzsimmons likes to joke that couples shouldn’t overdo
their marriage vows when they get married. “You spend three months working on what you’ll say to the person and you will never speak that way to them again. Save it. Don’t blow it all up front.” He advises against doing a Shakespearean reading, exaggerating with his arms held high in the air as he speaks in a British accent. A frequent guest on The Howard Stern Show on Sirius Satellite Radio, Fitzsimmons likes to ridicule romance and other aspects of everyday life). The veteran comic performs tonight at 8 at Hilarities, where he has shows scheduled through Saturday. Tickets start at $23. (Niesel) 2035 East Fourth St., 216-241-7425, pickwickandfrolic.com. FILM
Horn From the Heart: The Paul Butterfield Story Director John Anderson profiles Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Paul Butterfield in the documentary movie Horn From the Heart: The Paul Butterfield Story. The film chronicles how Butterfield learned to play the blues by studying with guys like Muddy Waters. The film makes its Cleveland debut tonight at 6:45 at the Cleveland Institute of Art. Tickets cost $10, or $7 for students, seniors
and members. (Niesel) 11610 Euclid Ave., 216-421-7450, cia.edu/cinematheque. NIGHTLIFE
Open Mic Night/Live Band Karaoke Every Thursday, Stella’s Music hosts a night of music, poetry and comedy. The club’s doors will open at 5 p.m., and performances begins at 8 p.m. Artists can sign up at stellasmusic.com/openmic to secure a 15-minute time slot. Sign-ups will be available at the club as well. The last Thursday of every month, Stella’s will welcome Almost Famous to host Live Band Karaoke. Doors will open at 5 p.m., and Almost Famous will start performing at 8 p.m. Sign-ups are available at the club when the doors open. Participants can choose from a list of various different songs to sing. Regardless of whether it’s Open Mic Night or Live Band Karaoke, happy hour will take place from 5 to 7 p.m. Admission is free. (Niesel) 2217 East Ninth St., 216-272-3377, stellasmusic.com.
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GET OUT Walk at the cavernous 78th Street Studios. 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 for a chance to shop and interact with artists. Look for food trucks out front and live music on the first floor. Hours are 5 to 9 p.m. and admission is free. (Niesel) 1300 West 78th St., 78thstreetstudios.com.
Mukwege, who won the Nobel Peace Prize, also received the Enamori Ethics Prize from CWRU in 2014. The film shows tonight at 7 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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Rush Fan Day Rush singer-bassist Geddy Lee and guitarist Alex Lifeson will both be on hand today for Rush Fan Day, which takes place at noon at the Rock Hall. Lee will show off his collection of vintage bass guitars that are featured in his new book, Geddy Lee’s Big Book of Beautiful Bass, and there will be a Hall of Fame Series interview with Lee and Lifeson, a book signing with Lee, The Rock Hall will also rebroadcast Rush’s Hall of Fame Induction from 2013. Tickets cost $100 for Rock Hall members, $125 for non-members. Each ticket includes a copy of Lee’s new book, access to the Hall of Fame interview and book signing, a commemorative credential and access to the Rock Hall’s exhibits, including the new Geddy Lee bass guitar exhibit. (Niesel) 1100 Rock and Roll Blvd., 216-515-8444, rockhall.com. MUSIC
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The Man Who Mends Women Thierry Michel directs The Man Who Mends Women, a profile of Denis Mukwege, a physician and human rights activist who’s helped thousands of sexually abused women in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Step inside the exhibits with the Rock Hall crew, grab a drink and bring out your musical fandom.
Benjamin Appl On his first U.S. recital tour, German baritone Benjamin Appl was mentored by the great singer Dietrich FischerDieskau. Now based in London, he made a name for himself as the BBC New Generation Artist and won the 2016 Gramophone Young Artist of the Year Award. Named a Rising Star of the European Concert Hall Organisation, he has performed at the most renowned concert venues in Europe. This tour comes in in the wake of his second solo album on Sony Classical. He performs works by Schubert, Schumann, Duparc, Muhly, Grieg tonight at 8 at the Cleveland Institute of Music’s Mixon Hall. Tickets are $30. (Niesel) 11021 East Blvd., 216-791-5000, cim.edu.
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the Cuyahoga Valley National Park Concert Series, tonight’s concert starts at 8 at the Happy Days Lodge. Consult the Cuyahoga Valley National Park website for ticket prices. (Niesel) 500 West Streetsboro Rd., Peninsula, 330-657-2909, ConservancyforCVNP.org. FAMILY FUN
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Flanagan’s Wake Flanagan’s Wake transports the audience to an Irish wake where villagers tell tales and sing songs for their dearly departed Flanagan. Finding the humor in life and death, the wake acts as a dark backdrop to an otherwise hilarious show in which alcohol fuels the humorous reminiscing. Sort of like a tragic Tony ‘n’ Tina’s Wedding, the interactive and improvised show engages the entire audience. Tonight’s show starts at 8 and repeats tomorrow night at 8 at Kennedy’s Theatre. Performances continue weekends through April 27. Tickets are $26. (Patrick Stoops) 1501 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.
from the late 1920s through the mid1950s and include hits such as “Let’s Do It,” “Begin the Beguine,” “I Get a Kick Out of You” and “So in Love.” The performance begins at 8 p.m. at the Hanna Theatre. Tickets are $35 to $65. (Niesel) 2067 E. 14th St., 216-771-4444 playhousesquare.org.
Cole Porter on Broadway Dubbed Cole Porter on Broadway, tonight’s special concert featuring Porter’s music will mark the fourth collaboration between the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra and the Musical Theater Project. The concert will cover Porter’s Broadway musicals
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Harpeth Rising Harpeth Rising, a group featuring three classically trained musicians uses three-part vocal harmonies reminiscent of both Appalachia and Medieval Europe. The group uses cello, violin and banjo and draws from Newgrass, rock and classical. The three musicians have degrees from respected institutions like Indiana University, Oberlin and Eastman School of Music. Part of
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 locally based 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, now held at the Rock Hall, continues to thrive. Thirty-six bands will participate in this year’s competition. A total of 147 band members, including six solo artists, will represent 64 schools Three performance rounds will take place at the Rock Hall, leading up to the Final Exam that takes place on Saturday, Feb. 16 when the 2019 Best Band in the Land will be awarded by music and entertainment industry judges. Prizes include three scholarships to study in the Creative Arts program at Cuyahoga Community College. PNC Bank will help high school seniors launch their careers in music by providing the scholarships. Tonight’s competition takes place at 6, and tickets are $10. (Niesel) 1100 Rock and Roll Blvd., 216-5158444, rockhall.com.
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Ed Caner with special guest Matt Watroba Violinist/fiddler Ed Caner often invites different guest musicians to perform with him, and tonight he’ll share the stage with Matt Watroba, a singer and songwriter who pens songs about “compassion, inner strength, humor and everyday living.” Part of the Cuyahoga Valley National Park Concert Series, the concert starts at 7 at the Hines Hill Conference Center. Check the Cuyahoga Valley National Park website for more info. (Niesel) 1403 W. Hines Hill Rd., Peninsula, 216-479-8611. CLASSICAL MUSIC
Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Concert To honor the legacy of the late, great civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., the Cleveland Orchestra will host the 39th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Concert at 7 tonight at Severance Hall. Vinay Parameswaran will conduct the program that will feature the orchestra along with the Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Chorus, a volunteer community chorus that brings together a wide range of choristers from local churches as well as members of the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus and Blossom Festival Chorus. Today’s concert is sold out, but WCLV Classical 104.9 and 90.3 WCPN ideastream will broadcast it. (Niesel) 11001 Euclid Ave., 216-231-1111, clevelandorchestra.com. FILM
On Her Shoulders On Her Shoulders, a 2018 documentary, profiles Nadia Murad, a young Iraqi Yazidi woman who survived genocide and sexual slavery to become a human rights activist. The inspirational film screens at 1:30 p.m. today at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tickets cost $10, or $7 for CMA members. (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.
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Sunday Beat As part of a Sunday Beat promotion at Visible Voice Books, if you purchase a New York Times at the store, you’ll receive a free cup of coffee or tea and a Jim Alesci’s Place pastry. An added bonus: A jazz,
Americana, samba or bossa nova band will perform from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Anyone who shows a Sunday receipt from Music Box, Prosperity Social Club or any of the Tremont restaurants that offer brunch can enter a same-day drawing for a $30 Visible Voice gift certificate and a $25 Visible Voice Loyalty Card. They’ll also receive 10 percent off any Visible Voice book purchase. The bookstore is open today from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Niesel) 2258 Professor Ave., 216-961-0084, visiblevoicebooks.com.
and the Power to Vote The museum is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and the panel discussion takes place at 3 p.m. (Niesel) 2929 Richmond Rd., Beachwood, 216-593-0575, maltzmuseum.org.
Cavaliers vs. Chicago Bulls Two of the NBA’s worst teams square off today at 1 p.m. at the Q as the Cavaliers take on the Chicago Bulls. Both teams are rebuilding but the process appears to have stalled as the Cavs and Bulls are both playing well below the .500 mark and have no hopes of making the playoffs this year. Consult the Cavs website for ticket prices for this special MLK Day game. (Niesel) 1 Center Court, 216-420-2000, theqarena.com. FAMILY FUN
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Today, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame will once again offer a free admission day in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Throughout the day, there will be live performances, an art demonstration, education programs and family activities that “highlight how people have used music to find their voice and create a sense of community.” Jason Walker will serve as the MC and DJ for the event, and the Rock Hall will also take donations of hats, scarves, gloves and other cold weather clothes to benefit Clevelanders in need. Check the Rock Hall site for hours. (Niesel) 1100 Rock and Roll Blvd., 216-5158444, rockhall.com.
MLK Day Celebration Not normally open on Mondays, the Cleveland Museum of Art will host a special MLK Day Celebration today from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. There will be educational programs about Martin Luther King’s legacy, performances by community groups and a Wikipedia-Edit-AThon. Admission is free. (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.
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Hear Our Voices: A Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage honors civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. today by offering free admission. You can tour the Maltz Museum’s core and special exhibitions while enjoying hands-on crafts and activities on this family-friendly day. On the One Band will perform as will the Evelyn Wright Quartet. There will also be a panel discussion on race, gender,
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day at the Greater Cleveland Aquarium The Greater Cleveland Aquarium and the United Black Fund of Greater Cleveland Inc. have teamed up for a special fundraising event today in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., each guest who chooses to donate $1 or more to UBF receives same-day discounted $10 aquarium admission. Last year, nearly 2000 guests giving to UBF, a grant-making organization that provides financial assistance to agencies that “both empower and address challenges facing Greater Cleveland’s African American community.” This year, the Aquarium will highlight African Americans influential in the fields of marine science and scuba diving throughout its galleries on MLK Day. (Niesel) 2000 Sycamore Street, 216-8628803, greaterclevelandaquarium. com.
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They Shall Not Grow Old Director Peter Jackson’s World War I documentary They Shall Not Grow Old showed last month in limited release, and it returns to area theaters for screenings today at 1 and 7 p.m. The documentary provides “an extraordinary look” at the soldiers and events of the Great War by using film footage that has been painstakingly restored. Jackson sifted through 600 hours of BBC archival interviews to deliver an “intensely gripping, immersive and authentic experience through the eyes and voices of the British soldiers who lived it.” Consult the Fathom Events website for more information about locations and
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Georgia O’Keeffe Perry Miller Adato directs Georgia O’Keeffe, a documentary film about the famous painter who currently has an exhibit on display at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The film represents the only time the then 88-year artist allowed a filmmaker into her New Mexico studio. The film shows at 7 tonight at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tickets are $10, or $7 for CMA members. (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org. COMEDY
Tinder Live with Lane Moore A stand-up comedy show created and hosted by comedian Lane Moore, Tinder Live with Lane Moore comes to the Grog Shop tonight. The live show finds Moore going on the dating app and interacting with Tinder matches in real time. In the past, Moore has had the casts of Girls, Orange Is the New Black and several very well known comedians participate. She writes for The Onion, Elle, GQ and Esquire. The show starts at 8:30, and tickets cost $15. (Niesel) 2785 Euclid Heights Blvd., Cleveland Heights, 216-321-5588, grogshop.gs. NIGHTLIFE
Vinyl Night Jukebox owner Alex Budin has described his 1,350-squarefoot music-focused bar in the Hingetown ‘hood as “a place where people can expect to hear and learn about music of multiple genres, all of which is concentrated in a constantly evolving jukebox.” The club hosts a vinyl night every Tuesday that serves as a listening party for new releases, partnering with Loop in Tremont, so patrons can hear a new album on vinyl. You can bring your own vinyl and spin it too. It all starts at 5 p.m. (Niesel) 1404 West 29th St., 216-206-7699, jukeboxcle.com.
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ART INSIDES OUT Bex Fuller and Maeve Billings tackle fear, insecurity and horror at Waterloo Arts By Dott von Schneider “ALL THAT ART-FOR-ART’S-SAKE stuff is BS,” states the great Toni Morrison regarding politics and art, adding that, “All good art is political! There is none that isn’t. And the ones that try hard not to be political are political by saying ‘We love the status quo.’” We enter the two-person exhibition, Collected Spaces at Waterloo Arts, and we see that Maeve Billings and Bex Fuller, second and third-year students at the Cleveland Institute of Art, are clearly questioning that status quo. Our first impression is that there is an alarming amount of red and we have a vague flashback to the scene in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining where a river of blood splashes through red elevator doors until we are immersed in darkness. It’s a short scene, maybe 20 seconds long, but it is effective in its ability to wrangle angst from the audience. “Originally the show was going to be a solo exhibition of Bex’s work,” says Maeve Billings, “but I was invited to join because our work had similar themes exploring human issues and fear and they are visually complimentary paintings.” In this exhibition, Billings bases her work on current social issues by abstracting images of an issue and then recreating them into her own depiction. In “Cast Away” we bear witness to the neglect of our nation’s homeless population. High rise apartment buildings and the dreams of New York City living are the backdrop to tent cities in the foreground. Billings’s technique is close to Impressionism with a strong dose of reality thrown in for good measure. “Crossing Borders” examines the immigrant caravan and protests that have been occurring at the southern border. The work is still abstracted, but we can see people manifesting over the wall. Their work speaks out against the horror show that is our current state of affairs. As the partial government shutdown causes over 800,000 American
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workers, many of whom live paycheck to paycheck, scrambling to stay atop bills, “Cast Away” isn’t far from reality for many. The expiration of the Violence on Women Act during the beginning of the shutdown brings funding cuts for victims of sexual assault, stalking and domestic abuse. Bex Fuller’s paintings check into the everpresent representation of violence against women in media and entertainment. “Perpetuated: Color Me Blood Red, Nicole Brown
the glorification of brutality and exploitation. According to Fuller, “The moment of realization when one can see a difference between the two paintings is what could be the most important part of the viewing process.” In “Perpetuated: Helter Skelter, Sharon Tate,” Fuller uses the same technique — the paintings are awash with brown and maroon, pinks and purple hues that carry the disturbing theme. Fuller also explores the human interior with glossy, bulbous
COLLECTED SPACES WATERLOO ARTS, 15605 WATERLOO RD. 216-692-9500, WATERLOOARTS.ORG.
Simpson” presents a portrait of the decedent with a crime scene photo alongside a film still of a women from a horror film who has met her demise in a similar fashion; the latter is stylized and eroticized. Both paintings are difficult to look at as Fuller gives a hard examination between
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intestines and what appear to be cross sections of vessels. The style is very similar to that of artist Katie Richards, but with a lot more coagulated blood. Still, Fuller is successful in tying in these paintings with her statement: “When internal organs are exposed, the viewer
has to think about what state the organs are in, which could be diseased, decaying or dead. I hope for the viewer to have a visceral reaction and start thinking about their own body in relation to these paintings as they hint at the fragility and mortality of our bodies.” Oh, we do. Arguably, Billings and Fuller are students and still honing their medium, but the balance between the subtleties of Billings’ art versus the inyour-face delivery of Fuller’s paintings somehow works to their advantage. We are interested in seeing where they go with their work as it develops and matures. The dialogue is there and lack of subject matter for these two emerging artists won’t be a problem. From Artemisia Gentileschi to Banksy, challenging the status quo is what artists do, after all.
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MOVIES THE CRY OF THE POOR Masterful Shoplifters is better than comparable critical darlings By Sam Allard SHOPLIFTERS, FROM JAPANESE auteur Hirokazu Koreeda (Our Little Sister, After the Storm), is a captivating domestic drama with salient moral themes. It’s about a ragtag family of small-time crooks making ends meet in Tokyo. The film is the best of Koreeda’s I’ve seen and took home the Palm D’or at last year’s Cannes Film Festival. It will be a likely nominee in the Oscars’ foreign language category. It opens Friday — where else — at the Cedar Lee. To convey its accomplishments, it might help to compare it to two similar films that also enjoyed widespread critical acclaim this year: Roma, from Alfonso Cuaron, and Burning, from Chang-dong Lee. All three films are the work of visually oriented foreign-language writerdirectors. They’re all beefy (or bloated) as well, with run times in excess of two hours. Roma portrayed the life of a housemaid in an upper middle-class Mexico City neighborhood. Burning, adapted from Haruki Marukami’s adaptation of the William Faulkner short story “Barn Burning,” was a slow-burn Korean thriller. Shoplifters is better than both. Like Roma, it’s a patient and observant portrait. We see poor people humanized as they cobble together meals and entertainment with what little they have. The “plot,” in other words, takes a back seat. There is pleasure and value in watching people exist, unhurried, in an unfamiliar milieu. While the black and white Roma is more striking visually, Shoplifters achieves the same emotional power across a more
complex and balanced script, with a criminal mystery that starts tugging at every scene, every interaction. Burning played with this dynamic as well. Class tension and criminal suspicion created scenes of delicious suspense as a protagonist, who became obsessed with a crime that did not exist, missed a key revelation right before his eyes. In Shoplifters, the crimes are not at all obscured. Instead, they are rationalized. The question for the audience is the degree to which we’re willing to accept the rationalizations. The film opens with a coordinated act of shoplifting in a supermarket. Osamu Shibata (Lily Franky) and his adopted son, Shota (a phenomenal Jyo Kairi) have done this many times before, it’s clear. Stealing from local convenience stores is how the family supplements their primary source of income, a grandmother’s government pension. On their way home, they encounter a young girl in the enclosed porch of her house. She seems hungry and distraught, so they take her home for a meal. But then they keep her, curiously without much objection from the other family members. They’re not asking for a ransom, Osamu’s wife Nobuyo (Sakura Ando) says. So it’s not really kidnapping. Besides, they tried to take her back, but they overheard a shouting match at her home. Little Yuri’s real parents didn’t even want her. She had scars on her arms, too, evidence of domestic abuse. Wouldn’t she be better off with the Shibatas? But when they change Yuri’s name to “Lin” and cut her hair
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short, the “rescuing” of the child becomes more complicated. A version of the same selfserving logic justifies other crimes. Shoplifting is okay, the parents tell their children, because when they steal from a store, it doesn’t go bankrupt. But as the crimes become more serious, and as the family unit reveals itself as the product of a larger criminal conspiracy, Shota intuits the essential wrongness of his life. (Stealing from a store is one thing, he recognizes in a pivotal scene, but stealing from someone’s car? That’s not okay. He sees and understands the consequences.) A courageous act sparks a final unraveling.
And yet, there are no easy villains. These crooks are extraordinarily sympathetic outcasts who have been thrown away by society and are merely trying to survive. Among other things, they are loving parents. And the question the film begs us to consider is whether family is something you’re born into or something you choose. When Osamu and Nobuyo are questioned by cops late in the film, one officer asks Osamu if he felt guilty for teaching Shota how to steal. His response is heartbreaking: “I had nothing else to teach him.”
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SPOTLIGHT: ADULT LIFE SKILLS COPING WITH THE DEATH OF a family member can be difficult. Dealing with the death of a twin can be an even more emotional ordeal. That’s the theme of Adult Life Skills, a 2016 British dramedy just making its way to U.S. theaters. The movie, which opens on Friday at Tower City Cinemas and arrives on Video on Demand the same day, possesses a quirky charm even if doesn’t feature a particularly compelling plot.
The film stars Jodie Whittaker (the first female Doctor Who) as Anna, a woman who has retreated to her mom’s garden shed in the wake of her twin brother’s death. There, she makes funny videos using her thumbs as talking puppets. Obsessed with popular culture, she calls the place Right Shed Fred and isolates herself there. She only goes into her mother’s house to quickly eat and shower. As Anna approaches age 30,
her mom begins to pressure her to do something meaningful with her life. “This can’t go on,” she tells her. “Eighteen months in a shed is too much. You need to get on with things.” Anna could easily date her co-worker (Brett Goldstein), who clearly has a thing for her, but she can’t seem to take the next step. When her neighbor puts her in charge of his young son Clint (Ozzy Myers), she’s forced into taking more responsibility and
must quickly break out of her funk. The film received rave reviews when it screened in 2016 at the Tribeca Film Fest, delivering the Nora Ephron Prize to writerdirector Rachel Tunnard, who makes a rather auspicious debut with her first feature film. — Jeff Niesel
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EAT GATHER ‘ROUND Good Company, the Plum crew’s very Plum-like take on a neighborhood tavern, opens this week in Battery Park By Douglas Trattner “THIS CONCEPT IS SOMETHING we’ve had in the back of our minds for a while, and when we saw the space, we knew it would fit that concept,” explains Brett Sawyer. This past September, Sawyer, Jonah Oryszak and Vince Thomascik, chef-owner, owner and chef de cuisine, respectively, got the keys to their new home, the former Vita Urbana space in Battery Park. When it opens on Jan. 18 (with a soft opening on Jan. 16), Good Company will be a significant departure from the Plum, the two-and-a-half-year-old Ohio City bistro from the same team. “We really love the Plum and love what we do there – that’s our baby – but we were looking to do something different and, at least we thought, simpler. But of course, we never make anything simple.” On paper, Good Company will be a neighborhood bar with straightforward food like potato skins, wings, burgers, fries and milkshakes. But if you are at all familiar with what Sawyer and his crew do at the Plum, then you likely comprehend that “straightforward” and “simple” are not interchangeable concepts. “Straightforward,” Sawyer adds, “but done very, very well.” Compared to the Plum, Good Company will be higher-volume, faster-paced and less expensive. The partners took what was already an attractive turn-key space and managed to improve it. Tables and chairs have been swapped out for sleek custom-built wood booths with gently sloping backs. Walls were erected to transform an underutilized retail section in the rear into a modestly proportioned dining room. And soon, a new parking lot will be unveiled just steps away, obviating future plaints of ambulatory anguish. Including the lengthy bar, Good Company will seat about 100 guests. From an open kitchen at the western end of that bar will flow a familiar and affordable roster of American tavern classics. While many operators like to crow about scratch-made ingredients, the proof rarely is in the pudding. A spacious prep kitchen affords the Plum Boys
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the ability to make everything from the bologna and vegan cheese to the breads, buns and ice cream in house. “We’re extremely lucky to have [pastry chef] Nolan [Tidwell] on board,” Sawyer states. “He has been a huge asset to the Plum, so it was a no-brainer to bring him here to run both programs. He’s insanely
patties are topped with white American cheese and tucked into downy-soft milk bun along with grilled onions, shredded lettuce, house pickles and a gribiche-style special sauce. Caddies on the tables will be outfitted with ketchup, mustard and red relish. The Plum makes one of the best
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talented and focused.” If Good Company has a signature item, it likely is the Good Boi, a double-decker cheeseburger affectionately modeled after the Big Boy, Sawyer’s unabashed favorite fast-food burger. Like everything on the menu, this item has undergone exhaustive R&D. Twin griddled
fried chicken sandwiches in town, but the version served here will flip that bird inside-out. White and dark meat are ground, blended, seasoned and poached. To prepare, slices are breaded and fried and served on a poppy seed bun with accoutrements. Forget what you know about fried bologna sandwiches. When these pop
onto the menu, they will be served Philly cheesesteak-style, shaved, griddled and layered into a hoagie bun with mushrooms, onions and “cheez whiz.” To make the french fries uber-crispy, the house spuds go through a multi-step cooking process that includes a brine, water blanch, oil blanch, freeze and final fry. Vegetarians and vegans keep the Plum on speed dial, and they won’t be relegated to the back booth at Good Company. The Veggie Boi swaps beef patties for a housemade mushroom burger. In addition to chicken wings dusted with dry rub or slathered in sauce, a vegan “wing” features salt-brined celery root that is beer-battered, fried and sauce-tossed. Shorties, too, are treated with respect, with kid-friendly items like a single-patty cheeseburger on crustless white bread and seasonal PB&Js made with housemade fruit jams and nut butters. To drink there’s a full bar, three draft beers (one handle immutably devoted to Miller High Life), and boozy milkshakes, but not the kind where somebody upends a shot of bourbon into a banana milkshake, Sawyer is quick to point out. These cocktail-like concoctions are built from the homemade hard ice cream up and might include a gin fizz-type shake starring orange blossom ice cream or coffee ice cream infused with with Fernet and orgeat. Sawyer understands that to succeed in Battery Park, an off-thebeaten-track address, the restaurant must appeal to those who nest just outside its door. During the week, Good Company will focus on the happy hour and dinner crowds. But come Saturday and Sunday, it’s going to be an all-day affair. “The neighborhood is our bread and butter,” Sawyer asserts. “I think there’s a market for this. We have plenty of great bars that do great bar food, but I don’t think there’s anybody doing exactly what this is.”
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EAT BITES Addy’s Diner to replace Jack Flaps Luncheonette at 5th Street Arcades By Douglas Trattner THERE IS A CHANGING OF THE guard taking place in the Colonial Arcade, also known as 5th Street Arcades. Jack Flaps Luncheonette, which opened three-and-a-half-years ago, has closed. That restaurant, as many will recall, took the spot that for 35 years was home to P.J.’s Luncheonette, a no-frills breakfast and lunch diner. As luck would have it, the new operator is the nephew of the Dahers, former owners of P.J.’s. By early February, Joe Abouhassan will open Addy’s (530 Euclid Ave.), which will be a return to roots for the space. For 15 years, Abouhassan operated Addy’s Restaurant in the Standard Building, a breakfast and lunch diner. His plans for the 5th Street Arcades are the same. The diner will serve egg combos, three-egg omelets, breakfast sandwiches, pancakes and waffles. Lunchtime ushers in soups, salads, burgers, patty melts, corned beef sandwiches and wraps. Daily specials will include hearty items like meatloaf, beef stew and baked chicken. Friday fish fries will be a regular thing. Expect prices in the $5 to $7 range, Abouhassan says. “I was just down there this week and I can’t believe how many people I ran into that I knew for all these years,” he says, eager to open the doors. Meanwhile, Jack Flaps in Ohio City (3900 Lorain Ave.,216-961-5199) is still cruising along after five years.
Two-Day Butchery and Charcuterie Workshop with Brian Polcyn and Michael Ruhlman It’s been 15 years since Michael Ruhlman teamed up with Brian Polcyn to produce the book Charcuterie, the seminal tome on curing meats at home. In the not-too-distant past, charcuterie boards did not appear on every other restaurant menu as they do today. Polcyn, who had been making and teaching charcuterie for decades, enlisted Ruhlman for help on what was then simply going to be a written lab manual for students at Schoolcraft College. Since it was published in 2005, the book has sold more than 200,000
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copies. Participants in the two-day course will have the unique opportunity to work in the kitchen alongside Polcyn and Ruhlman breaking down a heritage breed hog using European seam butchery, making pâté, terrine, and fresh sausage, as well as techniques for proper dry curing and smoking. The location will be Saucisson (5324 Fleet Ave., 216-303-9067), Melissa Khoury and Penny Barend’s Slavic Village butcher shop, and the hog will be from New Creation farm. ”Brian has been doing these whole hog butchery classes for a couple years now,” explains Ruhlman. “Last June, I happened to be in Chicago when he was doing one and sat in to become part of the show as it were, speaking and interacting with the chefs. It was a blast.” The pair decided to take the show on the road, with engagements in Miami, Denver, San Diego, Los Angeles, Culinary Institute of America at Copia and Cleveland. “Brian is an amazing teacher, funny as hell, and a blast to hang out with,” adds Ruhlman. “His seam butchery is a real master class in how to break down a whole hog with simply a boning knife, capturing all the best muscles for salumi (i.e. the whole coppa). We also do USDA butchery and then make all the different foods from the broken down hog, which we try to get locally wherever we go.” In addition to the class, attendees will enjoy a private cocktail hour with Polcyn and Ruhlman, a private dinner at or near the class location, a recipe binder, access to a proprietary seam butchery video, and a copy of either Charcuterie, Salumi: The Craft of Italian Dry Curing, or the upcoming Pâté, Confit, Rillette: Recipes from the Craft of Charcuterie, due out this spring. The two-day course runs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 27 and Monday, Jan2 28. Tickets are $800. Discounts of $50 are available for those taking the course for a second or third time and culinary school instructors.
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guitarist Keller Williams got a heavy dose of Tom Petty while growing up. But Williams, who brings his new Tom Petty-inspired project titled Keller Williams’ PettyGrass to the Kent Stage at 7 p.m. on Saturday, never actually owned a Petty album. “I personally never had any Petty records,” says Williams via phone from his Fredericksburg, VA home where he was doing some manual labor on a mild January day. “I just learned them from the radio. When it came time to get serious about it, I would look up the lyrics and put it together. I guess it was the singalong element factor that is so high with all his songs. They’re simple but deep and always very relatable. Translating that into what we’re
doing, there’s nothing like a whole room of people singing the same song at the same time. It’s really quite joyous.” Williams’ PettyGrass actually began in 2015 when he put together a set of Petty covers for his annual hometown Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals benefit. While
rehearsing, he recorded the demos as voice memos on his phone, so he’d have something to reference later. “I do a benefit the day after Christmas ever year in my hometown,” Keller explains. “I think I’ve done about 16 now. Before we were doing benefits for other people,
the day-after Christmas show was always benefiting my phone bill or my rent. But for about 17 years, we’ve been giving it to the SPCA. Each year, I try to bring something different.” In 2015, he recruited a few of musical friends from Fredericksburg to play 15 Petty songs as bluegrass numbers. “That originated from being in the studio with my engineer, Jeff Covert, and being on a piss break or a food break, and we’d just start singing these Petty songs,” says Keller. “[Covert] started harmonizing and picked up a guitar and would play it exactly like it was played on the original. That was just us messing around. It came time to do something to do for the benefit, and we put that together.” | clevescene.com m | January 16 - 22, 2019
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MUSIC After Petty died last year, Williams and Covert enhanced the recordings and posted them as a tribute to Petty. They received a positive response from musicians and fans alike. “After [Petty] died, I was in the same studio with the same engineer, and I was working on my record that came out in October,” says Williams. “We couldn’t concentrate, so we took the old voice demos and ran them through the computer and mastered them and released them on Soundcloud.” The Hillbenders, a bluegrass band out of Missouri that Williams knew from the festival circuit, heard the tracks and talked Williams into collaborating in a more formal manner. “They’re very energetic and open-minded,” Williams says of the Hillbenders. “They don’t stand still when they play, and I like that. I like roamers. This is a string band
My Heart Around,” a staple in the live set, the band adds some standup bass to the tune and turns up the twang. “It’s written by Tom Petty and made famous by Stevie Nicks,” says Williams. “It’s one of those songs like so many of them that people just start stinging along without realizing that they know it. Every song ever written, believe it or not, can be a bluegrass song. Some absolutely should not, but they could. It just depends on how you put it together.” While the band adds a vigorous jam to the end of “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around,” Williams says the group doesn’t always add a jam to the tunes. “We play ‘Wildflowers’ pretty straight, and ‘You’re So Bad’ only has a couple of solos in it,” he says. “There’s a lot of songs that lend themselves to jams. Petty jammed them out in concert too. We take a few liberties. The only other liberties we take other than extending the songs is that we add harmonies. There’s not that many harmonies on the original songs, but we enhance them with vocal
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that roams. We all have the same mentality, and we all like to have a good time.” Last year, while rehearsing at an Airbnb outside of D.C., Williams and the Hillbenders worked out a bluegrass rendition of “Woman in Love” and then assembled a full set of about a dozen tunes. Keller Williams’ PettyGrass played its first public show at the Candler Park Festival in Atlanta in June this past year. “It was great,” says Williams when asked about the gig. “It was a very loose yet super fun gig. That was our first time playing together. We had a great time. It was a great beginning, and it could only get better at that point, which it really has. We’re at about 20 song now. If we have a whole night to play, we can do two sets. If it’s a festival set or a theater that just wants one set, we can pick our favorites and get it down to 75 or 90 minutes. We always feel like we’re leaving stuff out when we can only do one set.” On its version of “Stop Draggin’
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harmonies, and that makes me happy.” Williams says he has a new album that’s in the can and essentially just needs to be mixed and edited. In 2017, he released two albums, SYNC and RAW, and last year, he released SANS, an album that features eight previously released acoustic tracks that have been enhanced with more acoustic bass and drum samples. He admits that between his successful solo career and the PettyGrass project, things have been going well. “I’m lucky to be allowed to do this,” he says. “I say this because without people buying tickets or promoters booking me, I wouldn’t be able to. I really feel like I’m getting away with something at every show.”
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MUSIC THIS TIME, IT’S PERSONAL A particularly turbulent year inspired the songs on Petal’s new album By Jeff Niesel Photo by Katie Krulock
GIVEN HER BACKGROUND, IT makes sense that singer-songwriter Kiley Lotz, who currently records and tours as Petal, would have one of indie rock’s more captivating voices. The woman can truly sing. Part of the credit belongs to her mother, the choir director at the Scranton, PA high school that Lotz attended. Her father, who worked as a fireman and often had days off, would always have music playing around the home too. “I was inundated by music,” says Lotz in a recent phone interview from her Philadelphia home. She performs with Sir Babygirl, Cave People and Biitchseat at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 16, at Mahall’s in Lakewood. “It was a natural inclination to want to sing and play instruments. I was lucky that [my parents] encouraged that.” Lotz says the DIY venues in the Scranton area provided outlets not only for her group but also for various other local bands, no matter what genre of music they played. “It was really eclectic,” she says of the Scranton scene. “There were [bands like] Title Fight and the Swims. Everyone was doing their own thing and being supportive. I was playing solo on the piano and singing. I felt like I didn’t fit in, but people were really supportive of me. I was grateful for that. If that didn’t exist when I was a teenager, I don’t know what I would’ve done.” Initially, she worked on the arrangements of the songs that would appear on her 2013 debut, Scout, by playing them live. “We recorded it for three days in my friend’s garage,” she says of the album. “It was my first experience with that kind of recording project, and it was so much fun and new and exciting. I felt really proud of what we made. That was the beginning. I posted the songs online and then I signed with [the record label] Run for Cover not too long after that.” The songs on her latest effort, Magic Gone, started to come together three years ago. It was a particularly tumultuous time in her life, and the emotional upheaval would find its way into the material. The album begins with the lurching “Better Than You.” It also includes
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sparse tunes such as “I’m Sorry,” a brittle ballad that finds Lotz crooning over an acoustic guitar riff. “I started to have some big realizations about what I needed in my life to be a better and happier person,” she says. “I was touring
says. “This record is a sort of a culmination of life experiences that have ushered me into adulthood officially. I’ll be 28 soon. It was that shift from the last stretch of adolescence that lingers into your early 20s. It’s about learning about
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yourself and that accountability to yourself and owing it to yourself to take care of your mind and health. That’s integral. This record is the moment where I decided to make some serious changes and drop the illusion that I had everything
together and try to exist just as a work-in-progress.” She says the reaction she’s received from fans has been “amazing.” “Every time I play the songs, I feel stronger in what I’m doing and what I have to say and my ability to hopefully do them justice,” she says. “It’s been amazing to see how the songs resonate with different audiences and what the message does to people. I’ve had interesting conversations with fans, and it’s been really humbling and eyeopening to how much people want to have the space to feel vulnerable.”
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10x3 Singer/Songwriter Showcase hosted by Brent Kirby (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m. Brothers Lounge. Petal/Sir Babygirl/Cave People/ Biitchseat: 8 p.m., $13 ADV, $15 DOS. Mahall’s 20 Lanes. Twisted Pine/The Morning Bird: 8 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Beachland Tavern.
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like the Avett Brothers and Yonder Mountain String Band, it’s seen a resurgence in popularity. The band’s latest album, Dance in the Street, emphasizes the jam band side of its sound. The title track features spoken word vocals and snappy percussion and the twangy “Motor” sounds like it could be a classic country tune. It might just be the band’s most fully realized album. (Niesel), 8 p.m., $22 ADV $28 DOS. Music Box Supper Club. Four Year Strong/Microwave/Elder Brother/Bearings: 7 p.m., $10$16. Mahall’s 20 Lanes. Into the Blue: Grateful Dead Revival: Regardless of your take on the Grateful Dead, the band to which Into the Blue, an ensemble of local musicians pays tribute, the group maintains a damn important stature in the rock ’n’ roll canon. Into the Blue revives that spirit and lends it the respect Jerry and Co. rightfully deserve. Anyone interested in hearing — and seeing — great music flow from the stage should check out what these guys are doing. Fellow musicians and artists will glean inspiration. (Eric Sandy), 9 p.m., $11 ADV, $13 DOS. Beachland Ballroom. Itch/Deviant/Scum Guppies/Cotton Ponys: 9 p.m., $7. Now That’s Class. Jazz Jam Session: 11 p.m., free. Bop Stop. Jivviden/Beach Stav/Racket Man: 8:30 p.m., $8. Beachland Tavern.
Panama/Dirty Deeds: 8 p.m., $12 ADV, $15 DOS. House of Blues. Punch Drunk Tagalongs/Weakened Friends/The Wakemen: 9 p.m., $7. Happy Dog. Reggae Revolution: 8 p.m., $10. Bop Stop. Uptight Sugar/Fabricated Freedom/Houses & Hotels: 8 p.m., $7. CODA. Jackie Warren: 10:30 p.m., free. Nighttown.
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SAVAGE LOVE BIG LITTLE LIES by Dan Savage I’m a middle-aged man dating a younger guy. He wanted to be a “boy” to a Dom top daddy, and I was happy to oblige. The sex is amazing, and we click as people, too. Then a couple days ago, he told me he wanted to explore small penis humiliation (SPH). I was taken aback—not by the request, but because his penis is NOT small! It’s not huge, but it’s at least average. And it’s thick! I’m not super hung, so it’s not that he seems small in comparison—I have maybe an inch on him. When I pointed this out, he claimed I was just trying to make him feel better about his small size! He said I was patronizing him. He ended the conversation by saying he would drop it, since it was obviously making me uncomfortable. Honestly, I am uncomfortable with it. I just can’t imagine bringing myself to go on about how small his dick is when I’m actually thinking how much that thing would hurt if he were to top me. But my bigger concern is that doing SPH might feed into possible body dysmorphia. The way he reacted to being told his penis wasn’t small was a red flag—it told me this isn’t just a fantasy. It’s not that he wants to be made to FEEL it’s small; he really believes it is small. How is this different from telling a skinny boyfriend what a big fat pig he is? I really like this guy, and I think this could go somewhere. I want to be GGG, but not at the cost of his mental health. Need Objectivity, Savage, Please Help! “The boy expressed a desire to play out a specific scene; he did not request a fact-check on his dick size,” said Dr. Reece Malone, a board-certified sex therapist with a doctorate in human sexuality. “The boy’s disappointment is understandable, especially if he was feeling hopeful that the request would be met with enthusiasm and mutual excitement.” Your boy was probably nervous when he brought SPH up, NOSPH, and his reaction to your reaction— his complaints about feeling patronized, his demand to drop the subject—was likely motivated by shame. Not shame about the size of his dick, but shame about this particular kink. He was open with you about other kinks right away,
but sharing those kinks probably didn’t make him feel as vulnerable as sharing this one did. He held SPH back until he felt he could really trust you. And after he worked up the nerve to tell you about his biggest turn-on, your response was to argue with him about whether his dick is small enough to qualify him for SPH play. “I think it’s important that NOSPH revisit the conversation to examine if his reaction felt shaming,” said Dr. Malone. “While I appreciate NOSPH’s concerns,” continued Dr. Malone, “SPH scenes don’t require one to have a small dick. It’s fully engaging in the role-play itself that’s hot and exciting. It really is no different if a daddy’s skinny boyfriend wanted to engage in a fantasy where the thought of being a ‘big fat pig’ was hot and exciting for him.” Now, if he had a history of bulimia, telling him he’s a “big fat pig” could be harmful; likewise, if he had a history of bigorexia, telling him he’s a “skinny little shit” could be harmful. Your boyfriend may have a distorted idea about average dick size—most likely distorted by porn—but odds are good he’s one of millions of people out there who have eroticized their anxieties and insecurities. “But NOSPH should ask more questions and engage in a dialogue on how his boy wants the scene played out, and if and how it would change their sexual dynamic overall,” said Dr. Malone. “It’s also fair for NOSPH to share his own concerns about feeding into body dysmorphia. He also has the right to set boundaries or decline the scene altogether.” Agreed! Limits and boundaries aren’t just for subs, bottoms, or slaves. Doms, tops, Masters, and Mistresses get to have limits and set boundaries, too. If you can’t go there, you aren’t obligated to go there. But it might make you feel better about going there, NOSPH, if you bear in mind that you can mock his tiny cock (during sex play) and reassure him about his cock (during aftercare).
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