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CLEVELAND WOMEN AND MEN JOIN MILLIONS IN PROTEST AGAINST NEW PRESIDENT FROM GRANDMOTHERS HOLDING “I can’t believe I still have to protest this shit” signs to toddlers waving rainbow banners, this past Saturday’s Women’s March on Cleveland — part of an international outpouring of female-based political consciousness — was a noisy, rowdy but wellbehaved expression of concern from
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15,000 Northeast Ohioans (men included) about the direction of the nation under Donald Trump. The sun was shining, the sky was blue, and pussy hats bobbed through the crowd on Public Square like cheery pink balloons. Judging by the signs, placards and chants, demonstrators’ concerns included
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reproductive rights, sexism, climate change, freedom of the press, and LGBTQIA freedoms, among many others. “Love Trumps Hate,” was a popular sentiment; “Fuck Trump” placards were also in ample supply. For those standing at the edges of the pre-march crowd overflowing the square by 10 a.m., the music and speakers were essentially inaudible. But the march itself, which stepped off not long after the scheduled 11 a.m. start time, was an ebullient intergenerational occasion, especially as throngs of observers, gathered along Lakeside Avenue and on the Superior Avenue steps to the Cleveland Public Library, greeted the marchers with cheers, waves and thumbs-up signs. During the entire event, we saw no vitriol, no counter protesters, and virtually no security other than a circling helicopter and a few small teams of extremely polite policemen and -women on foot. By 1 p.m., in typical Cleveland fashion, the protesters were wandering off and taking up positions at nearby eateries on Euclid and East Fourth Street. Hey, even political activists have to eat.
CLEVELAND LOOKS TOWARD MASSIVE MOTOCROSS TRACK PROJECT (AS OPPOSITION FLOODS FATIGUED CITY COUNCIL) Monday night, Cleveland City Council was poised to pass legislation authorizing $2.3 million in spending for a motocross track on the city’s east side. (This story was filed prior to the evening meeting.) It’s a costly project promoted by Mayor Frank Jackson that many residents nevertheless look upon with skepticism, if not outrage. Some councilmen, who’ve expressed reservations about safety and a lack of funding in other areas related to parks and recreation, consider the dirtbike track yet another example of council “carrying water” for Mayor Jackson’s administration, especially given the nature of its (likely) passage. At a council meeting two weeks ago, after some very fishy maneuvering in committee hearings earlier in the day, it became clear that Council President Kevin Kelly wouldn’t be able to secure the twothirds “super-majority” necessary to pass the dirtbike track measure
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as an emergency ordinance. At the meeting, Kelley called up the city’s law director, Barb Langhenry, and they whispered for several minutes — presumably about procedural matters. Mayor Jackson watched quietly, fingers steepled over his mouth. It was determined that the measure would be postponed and voted for passage on a third reading (Monday night). There has been no official meetings or further discussion about the dirtbike track since the Jan. 9 meeting, a council spokesperson confirmed — council did not meet last Monday due to Martin Luther King Jr. Day — so the only effect of the postponement is that fewer votes would be required for its passage, a regular majority.
If council does vote to pass the legislation, it will strike a discordant note with comments made at a Monday afternoon committee meeting. There, council members spoke about their priorities for the 2017 budget. Many spoke strongly about passing a budget “for the people.” Councilman Mike Polensek said it was council’s responsibility to draw a line in the sand with the administration. “We just passed a tax increase. Residents’ paychecks are less than they were last year,” Polensek said. “They are not happy with city services. They’re disgusted and I’m embarrassed. This budget is going to be a test for a council. People are paying more than ever before, but quality of life issues ... my parks
have never looked so bad.” Polensek said that the previous council leadership ceded authority to the mayor, but it’s the council members who have to deal with residents on a daily basis, and their needs must be prioritized. “I didn’t get elected to be a gofer, to be a complaint-taker,” he said. “I got elected to effect change. We’ve got to pass a budget that’s reflective of the community, of quality of life issues. If not, I’m not going to vote for the friggin’ thing.” Polensek appended that Jackson was a “good man” in his view, but that a disconnect had developed between the mayor and neighborhood services. Councilman Kevin Conwell suggested that when council distributes funds this year, it
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should require progress updates to determine whether the funding has been effective. Councilman Brian Cummins piggybacked on that point and stressed that communication between the administration and council, and among city departments, must be improved in order to effectively communicate with residents. “You feel powerless,” Cummins said. “People say, ‘Brian, you asked for funding six months ago. Whatever happened to that?’ And I just don’t have any answers.” Councilwoman Dona Brady reminded council that committee chairs have a great deal of untapped authority. She has been sitting in for councilman Terrell Pruitt as the chair of the utilities committee, and she said that when she doesn’t
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get information she requests, she refuses to pass legislation out of committee. It was Councilman Zack Reed who brought up the dirtbike track and argued that the method by which it had advanced was improper. Both Polensek and Councilman TJ Dow mentioned specifically a lack of funding for parks and recreation in their wards — a recurring sore spot on council — yet $2.3 million will be spent on a hugely unpopular project. “You pass a tax increase,� Zack Reed told Scene after the meeting, “and right out of the gate, you spend it on this?� He shook his head. The administration’s recklessness with taxpayer money would be on further display at city council’s meeting Monday evening. Transit advocates planned to attend the meeting in opposition to Mayor Jackson’s ongoing insistence on keeping Public Square closed, despite a looming $12 million FTA debt and compelling arguments that his primary concern — the threat of terrorism on Public Square — is unfounded. RTA CEO Joe Calabrese and a coterie (of legal personnel?) were seen entering City Hall before city council’s noon meeting Monday.
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doors as one of the most persistent and dangerous. Video provided to Fox 8 last month, for instance, showed that some doors could be popped open by inmates with plastic spoons. Now the county has said that the maintenance team inspected the doors and fixed the single one they found to be faulty. Officers have said repeatedly in recent weeks that there’s more than just one problem door. In fact, one inmate unlocked his cell just last week, which would be direct evidence of that fact. During an interview with Fox 8 last week, regional director of corrections Ken Mills said a couple of things on the topic. First, he said that officers need to do a better job of inspecting cell locks to make sure there’s no obstruction. Second, he said that many of the ongoing complaints can be traced to the fact that the officers’ union is in negotiations with the county for a new contract. It’s worth pointing out that the doors are hardly a new issue, and while negotiations continue for a new contract, complaints about faulty doors date back to at least 2013, according to a grievance filed that summer. Check clevescene.com for the contents of that grievance. “This is becoming an everyday occurrence,� according to the document. As we’ve reported many times now, the door situation is not unique among concerns at the jail. Two inmates were treated for suspected drug overdoses at the Cuyahoga County jail this month, according to a county spokesperson, and investigations
— Steven Oluic, Dean of Arts & Sciences, Lakeland Community College, former counterterrorism consultant for the FBI. Quoted in the Plain Dealer (Jan 22, 2017) regarding the threat of terrorism on Public Square. general public — school tours, grand jury visits, social workers — should not be allowed in the facility given recent safety issues. We’d relish the opportunity to ask Warden Ivey about that and other things happening in his jail but a county spokesperson declined, after repeated requests by Scene, to make Ivey or Associate Warden Victor McArthur available for an interview. For his part, Mills recently did an interview with Fox 8’s Ed Gallek. We also have a request in to speak with him. Someone, after all, should answer questions at this point, and that should probably be someone in charge
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Lead exposure is associated with cognitive impairments (diminishing IQ, difficulty concentrating, fatigue and more), especially in children, and a number of birth complication or fetal death for pregnant women. The Plain Dealer has reported extensively on those connections and the lead-based infrastructure in question here in Cleveland. With that journalistic endeavor still unfolding and with the new state law, the Cleveland water department has laid out a helpful and interactive map for residents who are curious about their water lines. Type in your address, and you’ll learn whether your residence is connected to a “lead cityside connection.� If you land in that category, you can surf around the website for steps to be taken to mitigate the health risks. Visit clevelandwater.com for more information on that mapping system. And, to paint the picture as clearly as possible, Cleveland Water data points show that 79 percent of Cleveland residents are tapped into a lead pipe. Information for other cities, like our inner-ring suburbs, shows a similar 70- to 80-percent
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DAN GILBERT DOESN’T ATTACK HIS CRITICS, SAYS DAN GILBERT SPOKESPERSON IN ARTICLE THAT INCLUDED DAN GILBERT ATTACKING A CRITIC The New York Times took a look at Quicken Loans last weekend in a semi-lengthy article. The hook
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here is that the Department of Justice’s suit against the mortgage company will be heard this year (in Detroit) and in the wake of the recession, Quicken has emerged as the nation’s “second-largest retail mortgage lender, originating $96 billion in mortgages last year — an eightfold increase from 2008.� It wasn’t an entirely rosy outlook. As a reader, you might be able to guess, based on Gilbert’s social media presence and previous record of letter writing, his reaction to criticism. Reporters, whether they cover the Cavs or any other part of Gilbert’s empire, are more acutely aware of the brand of pushback that comes with unflattering portrayals of his work. In this particular instance, the Times reporter had a unique but still typical interaction. “On a more trifling scale, after sending text messages about this article to a reporter at The New York Times but not receiving a response — Mr. Gilbert was texting her landline number by accident — he followed up with an email accusing the reporter of disconnecting her mobile phone to avoid him. The phone ‘likely is one of your temporary numbers that you deploy for the surreptitious work that you do,’ he wrote. “When alerted to the misunderstanding, Mr. Gilbert apologized ‘for any of it that was caused on my end.’ “When Mr. Gilbert was asked in an email if he “often strikes a ‘combative stance’ or ‘frequently attacks his critics,’� a Quicken Loans spokesman responded in an email, ‘It’s interesting that when someone with as long and successful career as Mr. Gilbert is forced to defend his integrity and honor from old and/or insignificant already rehashed incidents and accusations from a media source as credible as The NY Times, you would imply that doing such is “frequently attacking� his critics.’� For all the nasty missives fired off by Gilbert over the years that landed in the email inboxes and voicemails of reporters, this begs the question: How many more were blasted into the ether, directed to defunct fax lines? Of course, if we, the media, stopped using burner phones and temporary numbers to do surreptitious work, it wouldn’t be a problem.
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THE NEXT GIANT LEAP The U.S. wants to send humans to Mars by the 2030s. Here in Cleveland, NASA engineers are figuring out how to get there By Eric Sandy
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DIANE LINNE WAS ROTOTILLING HER GARDEN IN A LEAFY suburb of Northeast Ohio when she figured out how to generate rocket fuel on Mars. She had done this many times before — the gardening, that is — but as she watched the machine bring darker soil to the surface, supplanting dry dirt and distributing nutrients across a small patch of land, she found an answer to a question. It was so simple: Whether nurturing geraniums or propelling rockets, everything we need is all around us. “I took that for a run and said, ‘Oh, if this is a way of turning up moist soil, then it may work on Mars if I want to capture the water,’” she says in a quiet basement laboratory at NASA Glenn Research Center, that quiet campus on Brookpark Road that backdrops the morning commute for thousands in Northeast Ohio. “Why can’t we rototill the Mars soil?” It’s a good question, one that reminds both advanced NASA scientists and casual telescope
hobbyists that Mars isn’t so different from Earth. The gap between the two planets is shrinking, thanks to people like Linne: She’s a senior research engineer at Glenn, and her revelation is one of many that are thrusting the U.S. toward its next great space endeavor. “We have set a clear goal vital to the next chapter of America’s story in space: sending humans to Mars by the 2030s and returning them safely to Earth, with the ultimate ambition to one day remain there for an extended time,”
former President Barack Obama wrote in an essay last fall. This is NASA’s most enterprising step into the final frontier since the Apollo program of the 1960s. It’s a three-tier process that begins with research here on Earth and at the International Space Station, expands into the cosmos by utilizing lunar and Martian orbit and, eventually, delivers us to the fourth planet from the sun. The journey is no one-tank trip. We’re talking about a six-month ride in the revolutionary Orion spacecraft — named, of course, for the constellation that’s guided voyagers for millennia — and that’s just to arrive at the red planet. The crew of four to six astronauts would then stay on Mars for about 18 months or so, tilling the soil and waiting for the planet’s orbit to line up again with Earth, before another six-month cruise across a 50-million-mile
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stretch of solar system freeway. It’s a 30-month moonshot of moonshots daring not just in distance but time: The longest continual stretch any human has spent in space so far was 438 days, achieved by Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov in the mid-90s. The plan is for NASA’s first run to lay the groundwork for many more. Science is an incremental thing. Likewise, the answer to one big question (getting to Mars) is really the answer to a million smaller questions. How much stuff should they bring? How much stuff could they bring? What sort of zero-gravity exercise is needed? What if a fire breaks out in the crew capsule? How will the vibrations of space travel affect the equipment onboard, and what can we do to mitigate that? What if the astronauts get really, really bored over those two and a half years? | clevescene.com | January 25 - 31, 2017
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“Certainly we are always looking for new areas of inspiration, and that inspiration can come from a lot of different places,” Linne says, describing the small steps that occur in places like NASA Glenn. Inspiration can come from a garden. Or thinking about your car’s solid oxide fuel cell technology and how it might harness oxygen on Mars. At NASA’s sprawling Brookpark Road facility (first opened in 1942), and at many other research facilities around the U.S., like the Plum Brook Station near Sandusky, engineers are tackling the nitty-gritty questions posed by mankind’s greatest road trip. After decades of experience on the edge of human innovation, NASA knows a thing or two about risk management. You send a few humans to a strange new world millions of miles away, you’re going to have to deal with a little human error. That’s why Linne’s on the job, along with thousands of other engineers and scientists across the NASA matrix. (Glenn alone employs more than 3,000 people, through direct staffing or contracts.) There’s a lot riding on this one, not least of which is the astronaut’s lives, but also billions of dollars and decades of planning. “You don’t want to send people there and say, ‘If you don’t do all these things right in the first three days, your mission’s scrubbed,’” Linne says. “That
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Earthlings have long been fascinated by the red planet. In the 1870s, Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli published detailed Martian maps featuring expansive seas and an intricate network of canals, setting the stage for 150 years of obsession over the presence of water on the surface of Mars. Wernher von Braun published Das Marsprojekt in 1952 (“The Mars Project”) and argued that landing humans on Mars was logistically feasible; we could haul our equipment to the planet piecemeal, over the course of thousands of trips, and erect habitats. First, humans needed to launch themselves into Earth’s orbit (Yuri Gagarin on April 12, 1961), then
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land on the moon (Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin and Michael Collins via Apollo 11 on July 20, 1969), bringing the future into the present one mission at a time. What’s been known all along is that a lengthy project like the trip to Mars was going to require lots of water. If we could find some at our destination, then suddenly this whole thing becomes much more doable. By all accounts, we’re in luck. In 2003, NASA sent two exploratory rovers to the red planet: Opportunity remains active; Spirit got stuck in some dirt in 2009. (Both projects, it should be noted with awe and wonder at NASA’s abilities, were only meant to collect data for 90 days.) Then, in 2012, NASA landed the plucky Curiosity on the surface, exponentially expanding our understanding of the planet. In
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the meantime, NASA also sent two probes into Martian orbit to gather a wealth of atmospheric data and images. Data from Curiosity and the probes gave hope in fits and streaks: There was evidence of water on Mars in glaciers and in hydrated minerals. The fall of 2015 was a bigger watershed moment, if you’ll pardon the wordplay: The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter confirmed a pattern of ebbing and flowing “dark streaks” carved into the slopes of the planet’s surface. “This is a significant development,” John Grunsfeld, associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington, said at the time, “as it appears to confirm that water — albeit briny — is flowing today on the surface of Mars.” (That same week, The Martian opened at the box office to nearly universal acclaim.) “Back in the ’70s and ’80s and even ’90s, Mars was very dry,” Linne says. “Or so we thought.” Prior to the marquee manned mission, the next, most visible and important leg of the journey begins with the launch of the Mars 2020 Rover in three years — an even more sophisticated surface vehicle that will more comprehensively analyze and characterize the Martian surface and dramatic climate on which humans will have to survive for 18 months. Temperatures hover around 80 degrees below zero F in a carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere, with days (“sols”) that last an extra 40 minutes compared to our good ol’ 24-hour
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Scene writer Eric Sandy watches Diane Linne show off NASA’s simulated extraterrestrial soil.
rotations. The gravity is low-key, compared to ours, and astronauts will have but a slight spring in their step as they walk across the windswept red soil. On this December afternoon on Earth, NASA Glenn is a comparatively cozy 36 degrees beneath gray skies split now and then by a descending airplane. The complex seems shopworn, a patchwork of unremarkable suburban federal ofďŹ ce buildings belying the cutting-edge advancements inside. Take the ofďŹ ce of Joe Roche, with its three SLS rocket models standing at attention and insinuating the grand ambitions of science. Roche is working on the Universal Stage Adapter, which will connect this new breed of heavylift rocket, more powerful than any other rocket ever built, to the Orion spacecraft. “We’re all really excited to be doing this,â€? he says, much in the way one might describe restoring a eet of ’63 Corvettes. The Orion spacecraft is the next generation of NASA innovation, the $1.3-billion souped-up coupe, if you like, that will get humans to Mars and quite literally change the trajectory of history. (NASA’s 2017 budget as a whole clocks in at a cool $19.3 billion, with a notable and
unanticipated $1-billion increase for the agency’s exploration programs, which include the Orion and the SLS rocket.) But the spacecraft is just one thing, itself made of thousands of other things, incremental trial-anderror homework. “You don’t just say you’re going to Mars, light a rocket and you’re there,� Roche says.
In a gray laboratory in the basement of one of the 150 buildings at Glenn spread across 350 acres, Linne and her team are hard at work on their rototilling project. This is a major key to keeping humans alive on Mars and getting them back home: In the Martian soil, astronauts will cultivate the oxygen they need to breathe, the water they need to drink and the fuel compounds they need to power up the vehicle. It wasn’t long after NASA’s announcement about the briny, owing water on Mars that Linne struck gold. Surface glaciers abound on the red planet, but they’re farther below the surface than what’s ideal for our future crew to mine. It’s much easier to bring, for instance, a rototiller than an onshore drilling rig on your ďŹ rst journey to Mars.
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NASA’s rototiller is an ingenious but straightforward piece of machinery. In the basement lab, tanks of carbon dioxide, argon and nitrogen rest against the wall, ready to pipe a manufactured Martian atmosphere into a box that Linne will place over the tilling apparatus. The tiller brings up simulated Martian soil, which is blown gently by a tiny muffin fan onto a copper incline. (Even through the Martian atmosphere is dramatically thinner than Earth’s, you can still catch a nice breeze most days.) The soil then slides downward toward a mechanism where hydrated minerals can be separated and condensed — or maintained for drinking water and growing potatoes. Generally speaking, 75 to 80 percent of rocket propellant is oxygen; the rest is methane. You split your H2O into its fundamental elements, and you’ve got most of your fuel and your breathing oxygen right there. The leftover covalent hydrogen atoms can then be mixed with CO2 in the Martian air, which is 95-percent carbon dioxide. Four hydrogen atoms bind to one carbon atom to form methane — the other primary ingredient in rocket propellant. This is called the Sabatiet Reaction, named for French chemist Paul Sabatiet. He discovered the process in the 1910s, blissfully unaware that a century later, it would be among the most critical tools in mankind’s future extraplanetary settlement. This whole idea is known as “in-situ resource utilization,” which means trying to use the stuff in
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your surroundings to help your exploration. It’s not unlike early American pioneers’ Westward journey. They weren’t loading up their wagons with hay for their mules; they were relying on the presence of nutritious grasslands along the route. “If they had to load up their wagon with all the hay that the mules needed to eat, all the water they needed to drink and tanks of oxygen for air for them to breathe, everyone would have died before they got to the Appalachian Mountains,” Linne says. “But they didn’t do that, right? They used in-situ resource utilization. The mules ate the grass on the side of the road, everybody drank the water and we have the air to breathe. So the pioneers did this a long, long time ago. They just didn’t give it a fancy name.” Down the line, astronauts can also extract metals from the Martian soil and use them to create concrete or more complex equipment through 3-D manufacturing. The background in all these conversations is the possibility of one day building something on Mars, a permanent facility for experiments where astronauts might live and work. But for now, the primary concern is being able to build rocket fuel, not houses, because we want our astronauts to come home.
“Scene Magazine! That gives us instant cool points,” Gail Perusek says. “We could use all of that.” Perusek works in the ZeroGravity Research Facility at NASA Glenn which, by any account, is
eminently cooler than your humble alt-weekly. Perusek is the project manager at the Human Research Program here, which, among other things, means she’s studying how astronauts will stay healthy for their long, arduous and wholly unique 30-month trip to Mars. In the middle of the room, a vertical treadmill commands attention. (Perusek has named the T2 treadmill “Colbert,” as in Stephen.) A fairly involved network of bungees and harnesses hangs around machine; once safely strapped in, men and women run upwards, with the harnesses simulating zero gravity. Perusek calls it “exploration exercise,” and it’s already in use up at the International Space Station. NASA has long studied the physical effects of living and working in space for varying durations. American astronaut Scott Kelly spent 340 days in space between 2015 and 2016, getting close to Polyakov’s record. (Kelly, it should be noted, is a twin. NASA will compare his body to his brother Mark’s, the control variable, to further pinpoint the effects of space on humans.) Astronauts on the Mars mission will eclipse the 340-day mark by about three times, and that’s if everything goes well. Leg muscles start atrophying first, without the grounding of gravity to keep them in working condition once you leave Earth’s atmosphere. Exercise is an absolute necessity in that environment, not a New Year resolution to half-heartedly adopt and scrap by Groundhog Day. If you don’t stay on top of it,
your body will expire; so you must and you do, but even then, your life won’t be the same once you get back home. (“I have the feeling that there is some kind of evil giant trying to press me into the ground,â€? astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti told a Telegraph reporter in 2015 after being in space for 200 days. “Every time I take a step and have to lift the full weight of my leg, it feels like lifting a tree trunk.â€?) As prep, astronauts climb aboard planes to simulate the sensation of being in zero gravity. The plane pitches upward, then drops sharply into a 25-second freefall. Video footage of these experiments is trippy; the strapped-in subject uses resistance weights during the freefall, while other people sort of oat around him or her and then crash to the oor abruptly. Perusek’s work doesn’t stop in low Earth orbit or pre-mission; NASA teams continue to collect physical and psychological data on astronauts long after their return from space. The effects of zero gravity sojourns — and of living on Mars, half the mass of Earth and exerting onethird of its gravity — especially at increasingly longer intervals, are imposing. The christening voyage to Mars includes the same concerns about astronaut health but with slightly more dramatic questions. More miles and more time mean more stuff. While Linne’s in-situ team puts a dent in those needs (by cutting back on the oxygen tanks), Orion’s limited crew space will still need to hold more equipment than previous trips and in a smaller space. For comparison sake, the International Space Station boasts more than 4,000 pounds and about 850 cubic feet of gear. Orion, on the other hand, will only provide 316 cubic feet of space to work with. That question led to the creation of a device called ROCKY, “an ultra-compact, lightweight exercise deviceâ€? that Perusek demonstrates in video footage. It looks sort of like your standard rowing machine but it accomplishes a wide variety of resistance exercises, running the gamut of muscle groups for the arduous physical toll looming ahead of the astronauts. Even then, storing the device is just one part of the puzzle. Designing it and the enclosed interior to allow astronauts to actually use it is another. “It seems simple, ďŹ tting so much into a speciďŹ c space,â€? Perusek says. “But when you get into different crew member statures, different exercise styles, different modes of
exercise, it’s an interesting problem.�
Elsewhere in the 51-year-old zero-gravity building, Dave Urban is working on SafďŹ re, NASA’s spacecraft ďŹ re experiment. As Perusek’s team works on how to keep humans healthy, Urban’s team works to ensure that equipment will function properly and not, you know, fall apart in transit. But as with Colbert and the airplane freefalls, Urban and the rest of NASA need to get creative if they want to simulate extraterrestrial conditions. This comes up a lot with the International Space Station, which is sort of a scientiďŹ c rest area on the highway to Mars. There, astronauts deal with complete zero-gravity as the station tumbles around Earth at 17,000 miles per hour. The ISS ďŹ rst launched into orbit in 1998, and it’s been a key link between the leaps of Apollo 11 and upcoming missions. There, researchers can simulate conditions that astronauts will encounter en route to the moon or to Mars. In trying to understand how ďŹ res might break out and be suppressed in space, Urban and his team will work in coordination with trips up to the ISS. (SafďŹ re-I will travel to the ISS on March 17 aboard the Cygnus spacecraft. SafďŹ re-II will embark in June. Six total experiments are planned.) A sample card of cotton and ďŹ berglass fabric — 0.5 meters by 1 meter — will be loaded into a spacecraft traveling up to the station. There, the crew will take out all the supplies, ďŹ ll it up with trash and the experiment materials and then thrust it back into Earth’s atmosphere. At that point, NASA ignites a ďŹ re. “This is to learn about how a real thing would burn in a spacecraft environment on the way to Mars,â€? Urban says. Aside from the in-depth ISS excursions as part of SafďŹ re, the team runs other zero-gravity projects in their own vacuum chamber, an intimidating-looking 432-foot drop tower ensconced in metal. Here’s how it works: A 2,500-pound experiment carrier holds the SafďŹ re project equipment; the vacuum chamber allows enough room to get a dose of zero-g conditions. (“It’s kind of like dropping a mini Cooper automobile and letting it free fall 432 feet,â€? says Gary Ruff, SafďŹ re project manager.) The carrier drops down the chamber and lands in a padded surface, like dropping a bowling ball into a box full of packing peanuts. Experiments in the drop tower
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investigate how various things might interact in space — liquids and gases, pieces of equipment and flames. “A spacecraft fire is one of the greatest crew safety concerns for NASA and the international space exploration community,” Ruff says. “Saffire seeks to answer two questions,” says David Urban, principal investigator. “Will an upward spreading flame continue to grow or will microgravity limit the size? Secondly, what fabrics and materials will catch fire and how will they burn?” It’s a multifaceted and complex effort; the team looks at fire prevention, detection, suppression and cleanup, all couched in the parameters of an enclosed 316-cubicsquare-foot thimble floating in space with limited storage and unlimited potential for disaster. And zero escape. The world should rest assured that Cleveland’s best are on the beat.
More than 100 years ago, there was what historians now call “canal furor” after the Mars map first designed by Giovanni Schiaparelli prompted a brief flurry of excitement in the astronomical scene. Humans have been amazed and intrigued ever since. John Noble Wilford was a reporter for The New York Times when he covered the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969. Like the scientists, engineers and astronauts he wrote about, Wilford never stopped thinking about our shared interest in the next giant leap. “Mars tugs at the human imagination like no other planet,” he wrote later. “With a force mightier than gravity, it attracts the eye to the shimmering red presence in the clear night sky.” The Martian, directed by Ridley
Scott and starring Matt Damon, sort of crystallized that collective thrill when it hit theaters last year. Engineers at NASA Glenn mentioned the movie during nearly every interview conducted with Scene, and by and large they enjoyed the pop culture sensation that came with it and nodded with a degree of approval as to how the film depicted most of the scientific aspects of the project, particularly the crew’s trip there and the whole potato farming thing. It wasn’t as antithetical as 2000’s Mission to Mars, for instance. It won’t be too much longer before we don’t have to rely on Hollywood’s portrayal of a visit to Mars, though. The next exploratory SLS mission (called EM-1 in shorthand), sort of an “all-but-manned Orion,” will fly out in 2018 and spin through lunar orbit for a bit. Then, among an array of other checkpoints, comes the 2020 Mars Rover, in rather quick succession. As long as the federal government maintains or increases its funding and interest in space exploration and science, as Obama noted in his essay last fall, we’ll soon watch the fruits of their labor on television (or virtualreality headsets). The last time that happened, we watched a man walk on the moon. And the last man to do so, Gene Cernan, who passed away this month, said upon the last trip there in 1972, “As I take these last steps from the surface for some time into the future to come, I’d just like to record that America’s challenge of today has forged man’s destiny of tomorrow.” Tomorrow is coming. “Mars was always 40 years away, or 30 years away,” former NASA administrator Maj. Gen. Charles Bolden said recently. “But today, it’s closer than ever before.”
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some remarkable movies over the course of a career that stretches back decades. He defined a satirical style that critics have subsequently dubbed “camp.” The last Wednesday of the month at Now That’s Class is Waters Wednesday. The club will play a Waters movie and have a competition to go alongside it. For tonight’s event, the club will screen his “notorious trash art film,” Desperate Living. Admission is free, but the drinks will cost ya. (Niesel) 11213 Detroit Ave., 216-221-8576, nowthatsclass.net.
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Cavs vs. Sacramento Kings The NBA’s Western Conference features a slew of terrific teams. The Sacramento Kings ain’t one of them. While power forward DeMarcus Cousins might be one of the top players in the league, the mediocre talent that surrounds him has all but ensured the Kings won’t finish the season with a winning record. Expect the Cavs to come away with a victory tonight when the two teams face each other at 7 at the Q. Tickets start at $14. (Jeff Niesel) 1 Center Court, 216-420-2000, theqarena.com.
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Cleveland Stories Dinner Parties Earlier this year, Music Box Supper Club launched Cleveland Stories Dinner Party, a weekly series that pairs fine food with storytelling. The series aims to help raise awareness of the mission of the Western Reserve Historical Society’s new Cleveland History Center. The club’s owners consider the Cleveland History Center to be “one of the most interesting museums in Cleveland” and “an unknown gem that Clevelanders should know more about and support.” 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.” Each week features a guest speaker and a custom prix fixe menu — a full three-course meal for only $20. The popular series resumes tonight at 7:30 with John Gorman, Flash Ferenc and Mike Olszewski, who’ll talk about the glory days of WMMS. The menu includes cream of shroomie, pot roast and a brownie sundae. Admission is free. (Niesel) 1148 Main Ave., 216-242-1250, musicboxcle.com. THEATRE
Dancing with the Stars Live! An all-new production that showcases “every type of ballroom and modern dance seen” on the hit show Dancing with the Stars, Dancing with the Stars Live! promises to include “sizzling
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group performances, romantic duets, contemporary numbers and original pieces created specifically for the nationwide tour.” The tour’s cast includes Lindsay Arnold, Alan Bersten, Sharna Burgess, Artem Chigvintsev, Valentin Chmerkovskiy, Hayley Erbert, Jenna Johnson, Keo Motsepe, Gleb Savchenko and Emma Slater. The show starts at 7 p.m. at the State Theatre in Playhouse Square, and tickets range from $47.50 to $75. (Niesel) 1519 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org. FILM
Happy Hour Classic Part of the Gordon Square Arts District, the locally owned and operated Capitol Theatre regularly presents special screenings of cult classics and oddball flicks that don’t receive wide distribution. Tonight at 6, the venue presents another installation in its Happy Hour Classic film series, a monthly screening of a classic film that includes a happy hour cocktail party in the lobby before the feature. Tonight’s featured film, On the Town, stars Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Jules Munshin as sailors who have a 24-hour shore
leave to see the sights of New York City. Ann Miller, Betty Garrett and Vera-Ellen also star in the 1949 musical, which snagged that year’s Academy Award for Best Original Musical. Admission is $8 in advance, or $10 at the door. The price of admission includes a minicocktail (or soft drink if you don’t fancy the hard stuff), appetizers and live music. Luxe will provide the appetizers. (Niesel) 1390 West 65th St., 216-651-7295, clevelandcinemas.com. FILM
Harry & Snowman Released last year, this documentary film focuses on Snowman, a horse purchased off a truck headed to the slaughterhouse. Director Ron Davis chronicles how a Dutch trainer transforms the animal into a champion show jumper. The movie screens at 7 tonight at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tickets are $9, or $7 for CMA members, students and seniors. (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org. FILM
Waters Wednesday Director John Waters has made
CMA Conversation with Author, Producer & Music Critic John Corbett Chicago-based writer, curator and music producer John Corbett coowns the indie art gallery Corbett vs. Dempsey and writes about contemporary jazz and improvised music as a journalist, scholar and presenter. He’ll be in town this week to speak about both of his interests. At 7 tonight at the Happy Dog, he’ll talk jazz; at 2 p.m. on Saturday, he’ll stop by the Cleveland Museum of Art, where he’ll talk art. Corbett’s resume includes a few impressive gigs. In 2002, he served as artistic director of JazzFest Berlin, in Germany, where he worked to “bridge European and American musical spheres,” helping expose saxophonist Peter Brötzmann’s Chicago Tentet and coordinating a 16-piece Stockholm-Chicago project called Pipeline with saxophonist Mats Gustafsson. Corbett collects essays, articles and interviews in his recent book, Microgroove: Forays into Other Music. It includes pieces on Ornette Coleman, John Zorn, Sun Ra to Liz Phair, PJ Harvey, R.L. Burnside and Helmut Lachenmann. At the Happy Dog, he’ll read from Microgroove as well as his recent A Listener’s Guide to Free Improvisation and the forthcoming Vinyl Freak: Love Letters to a Dying Medium. He’ll even read from a work-in-progress about the music of the 1970s. For his talk at the Cleveland Museum of Art, he’ll talk about the Albert Oehlen exhibit currently on display and discuss Oehlen’s work and lasting impact on contemporary art. Those interested in attending the talk | clevescene.com | January 25 - 31, 2017
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Michael Colyar Comedian Michael Colyar is a comedy veteran. He’s mostly known for his performances in Venice Beach, California, where he would make the crowd laugh every weekend when he performed five one-hour shows. His jokes aren’t designed to appeal solely to fans of a certain ethnicity, age or background: Colyar aims at making everyone laugh. He performs tonight at 7:30 at the Improv. Tickets are $20 with performances scheduled through Sunday. (Martin Harp) 1148 Main Ave., 216-696-IMPROV, clevelandimprov.com.
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Tango and a Tenor at the Hanna After a successful launch of its second season last year, Cleveland Ballet returns to the Hanna Theatre tonight with a special show featuring one of the greatest tenors of our time, Mikhail Urusov. During Urusov’s performance, the resident
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Le Bonheur As part of the series, The Female Gaze: Landmark Films by Women, the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque will screen the 1965 film Le Bonheur, a movie by Agnes Varda that centers on a happily married husband who begins having an affair with his postal carrier but believes he can love both her and his wife. The film, part of the French New Wave movement, shows at 6:45 p.m. today and at 5 p.m. on Saturday. Admission is $10, or $7 for Cinematheque members, those with CIA or CSU I.D. cards, or those age 25 and under. (Niesel) 11610 Euclid Ave., 216-421-7450, cia.edu.
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Cleveland Winter Beerfest The fourth annual Cleveland Winter Beerfest returns to the Cleveland Convention Center, offering craft beer fans the opportunity to pick and choose from more than 400 beers from more than 120 breweries. The event begins at 8 tonight and tomorrow night. Tickets are $45 in advance, $55 at the door. VIP ticket holders can enter the event an hour early. Those tickets are $55 in advance, $65 at the door. You can find the details on the website. (Niesel) 300 Lakeside Ave., 216-928-1600, clevelandbeerfest.com. COMEDY
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Monsters vs. Chicago Wolves The Monsters, our beloved minor league hockey team, got off to a rough start in 2017. The team lost three of four; its one win came in a shootout. Tonight at 7, the team aims to get back on track against the Chicago Wolves. The two teams face off again at 7 p.m. on Saturday. Tonight is College ID Night and students with a valid college ID can buy $6 tickets at the Q box office. Saturday’s game will include a tribute to the Cleveland Indians, and there will be a specialty jersey auction and special guest appearances. (Niesel) 1 Center Court, 216-420-2000, theqarena.com.
and tickets are $45. Audiences will be captivated by this breathtaking blend of talents and will be brought to their feet for a standing ovation by the end of the night, organizers promise. (Niesel) 2067 East 14th St., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.
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of center Brook Lopez, forward Bojan Bogdanovich, guard Sean Kilpatrick and guard Jeremy Lin, the team doesn’t have much talent. Former No. 1 draft pick Anthony Bennett plays for the Nets but mostly rides the bench. The game begins at 7:30 p.m. at the Q.
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dance troupe will “perform the Argentinean tango as you’ve never seen before — in pointe shoes.” Ralitsa Georgieva Smith, a member of the Cleveland Institute of Music, will lead a group of musicians as it shares the stage with the ballet. The performance begins at 7 p.m.,
Tom Green Funnyman Tom Green used to be the king of comedy. Green, who got his big break while hosting a show on MTV, has had roles in movies such as Road Trip and Freddy Got Fingered and was once a guest host for late night icon David Letterman. All that fame and fortune came about in the early 2000s. Since then, Green has been under the radar, hosting an internet talk show in his living room and returning to standup. His standup act usually involves a series of rants about things like social media and health care; he’s been known to smash a guitar on occasion too. Expect lots of yelling and cursing as Green likes to exaggerate his anger. He’s at Hilarities at 7:30 and 10 tonight and tomorrow night. Tickets are $33. (Niesel) 2035 East Fourth St., 216-241-7425, pickwickandfrolic.com. ART
Exhibitions at Spaces After a grand opening weekend attended by hundreds of eager visitors, Spaces debuts its first exhibitions in its new Hingetown location. Opening with a free public reception from 6 to 9 tonight, the exhibitions feature works by Philadelphia’s Imani Roach, Cleveland’s Anthony Warnick and Australian collective Soda_Jerk. Although its location may have changed, Spaces’
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programming remains steadfastly poignant and provocative. Imani Roach’s Havens explores the history of “The Green Book,” a resource indexing restaurants, boarding houses, service stations and more safe havens for black motorists to patronize on their travels during the Jim Crow era. Anthony Warwick’s Except as Punishment for Crime explores the exploitation of the ever-growing inmate population for cheap labor by America’s private prison corporations. Soda_Jerk’s Astro Black is an ongoing video series that considers the origins and politics of Sun Ra’s mythology through sampled material. Be the first to see these initial exhibitions in Spaces’ new home on Detroit Avenue tonight. Roach and Warwick’s exhibitions remain on view through March 25, and Soda_ Jerk’s videos close one day earlier, on March 24. Admission is free. (Josh Usmani) 2900 Detroit Ave., 216-621-2314, spacesgallery.org. SPOKEN WORD
Lunch on Fridays Jimmy Kuehnle’s inflatable sculptures have been dazzling spectators throughout the U.S. and around the world for years. Kuehnle, who teaches at the Cleveland Institute of Art, has made his presence known locally with his recent installations at MOCA Cleveland and the Akron Art Museum. Additionally, he’s a recent recipient of the Creative Workforce Fellowship through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture. Kuehnle will discuss his work during a presentation as part of CIA’s Lunch on Fridays lecture series at 12:15 p.m. today. Lunch on Fridays is a free public program and, as always, free pizza and beverages are available on a first come, first served basis. (Usmani) 11141 East Blvd., 216-421-7000, cia.edu. FILM
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The Qatsi Trilogy To celebrate composer Philip Glass’ 80th birthday, the Cleveland Museum of Art and Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque have teamed up to present the Qatsi Trilogy, a showing of three films for which Glass composed the soundtracks. The two institutions will screen filmmaker Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi and Naqoyqatsi. Koyaanisqatsi shows tonight at 7:30 and tomorrow at 11 a.m. at
the Cinematheque. Powaqqatsi screens at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow and Sunday at the Museum of Art, and Naqoyqatsi screens at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow and Sunday at the museum as well. Tickets to each film are $12, or $9 for CMA and Cinematheque members, seniors 65 and over, and students. A trilogy package costs $30, $21 for CMA and Cinematheque members. (Niesel) 11610 Euclid Ave., 216-421-7450, cia.edu. ART
A Spotlight Exhibit While Heights Arts’ main gallery typically features group exhibitions, its Spotlight Gallery space showcases new work by individual artist-members. Opening with a reception from 6 to 9 tonight, the latest Spotlight exhibition features Jeanne Regan’s colorful and patterned prints. Using the traditional Japanese surface design technique of katazome, Regan explores celestial, meteorological and botanical themes. An award-winning artist, Regan’s work has been recognized with an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Ohio Arts Council, and is included in the permanent collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Regan’s exhibition remains on view through March 12. Additionally, Likeness, a group exhibition of local portrait artists, remains on view in the main gallery through February 26. Admission is free. (Usmani). 2175 Lee Rd., Cleveland Hts., 216-371-3457, heightsarts.org. ART
Two Opening Exhibits Sharing a roof, the Artists Archives of the Western Reserve (AAWR) and the Sculpture Center host simultaneous opening receptions for their new exhibitions tonight from 5:30 to 8. AAWR hosts The Electrostatic Man: The Art of Miller Horns (19482012), Horns’ first show as an Archived Artist. The show’s title refers to the late Akron artist and community activist’s innovative prints created with a combination of electrostatic technology (Xerox), thermal heat color transfers and lamination. Separating himself from other artists working with copy machines, Horns worked at a large scale, often tiling smaller copies together to create life-size images of people, animals and everyday objects. The Electrostatic
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Standing Rock International Shorts The 14th annual Standing Rock International Short Film Festival returns to the Kent Stage at 8 tonight. Producer Jeff Ingram has put together a truly international program featuring films from as far away as South Africa and from as close as Kent, Ohio. The program will include animation, music videos, short comedy, experimental films, documentaries and more. Last year’s People’s Choice winner, Speed Dating, will screen as part of a Local Spotlights segment. Tickets are $10. Find more info on the website. (Niesel) 175 East Main St., Kent, 330-673-4970, standingrock.net. FAMILY FUN
Cirque Ziva featuring the Golden Dragon Acrobats Generally considered to be the preeminent Chinese acrobatic company that you can see in the States, the Golden Dragon Acrobats, who hail from Cangzhou, Hebei province, in the People’s Republic of China, have toured the States continuously since 1978. Comprised of athletes, actors and artists who have studied and trained for their craft since early childhood, the group averages 200 performances each year and has toured all 50 states and more than 65 countries across the world. They perform using their bodies and simple props including everyday objects like plates, jugs, bicycles, umbrellas and more. The performance takes place tonight at 8 at the Akron Civic Theatre. Tickets start at $17.50. (Niesel) 182 South Main St., Akron, 330-253-2488, akroncivic.com.
The Cy Coleman Songbook presented by Cleveland Jazz Orchestra and the Musical Theater Project Broadway meets jazz in the music of the late composer Cy Coleman, a guy who began his career as a nightclub pianist in Manhattan clubs. Eventually his swinging tunes found a home on the Broadway stage. Coleman had a long and successful career. Tonight at 8 and tomorrow at 2 p.m. at the Hanna Theatre, the Musical Theater Project and and Cleveland Jazz Orchestra pay tribute to the man. Bill Rudman and Paul Ferguson co-host the show, which features the Joe Hunter Trio, Vince Mastro and Treva Offutt. Tickets are $35 to $55. (Niesel) 2067 East 14th St., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org. FILM
The Rocky Horror Picture Show The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the 1975 film that still draws an exuberant, costumed crowd that likes to throw rice and dry toast and sing along to the songs in the movie, screens tonight at the Kent Stage. Expect a throng to show up for the midnight showing. Tickets are $8, or $5 if you come in costume. A live shadow cast (the School of Rocky) will act out the movie and involve the audience. (Niesel). 175 East Main St., Kent, 330-677-5005, kentstage.org.
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Cavs vs. Oklahoma City Thunder With the departure of star forward Kevin Durant, Oklahoma City Thunder guard Russell Westbrook has taken the team on his back. The guy is practically averaging a triple double as he scores, rebounds and dishes the rock with the agility of the great Oscar Robertson. Expect the Thunder to give the Cavs all they can handle when the two teams play each other today at 3:30 p.m. at the Q. Tickets start at $63. (Niesel) 1 Center Court, 216-420-2000, theqarena.com. MUSIC
Northeast Ohio Band Invitational Northeast Ohio Band Invitational XIV takes place today at 2 p.m. at Severance Hall. The daylong program features a slew of Northeast Ohio high-school
symphonies in competition with one another. Featured local bands include the Copley High School Band, Kenston High School Band, Kent High School Band and Edgewood High School Band. Tickets are $10 to $20. (Niesel) 11001 Euclid Ave., 216-231-1111, clevelandorchestra.com. COMEDY
Kristen Toomey Chicago-based comic Kristen Toomey likes to joke that after being married for 11 years, she becomes suspicious if her husband writes something like “I love my wife” on the back of his car. “Gross!,” she proclaims. Much like Amy Schumer, Toomey jokes about gender issues with a distinctive kind of candor. She performs tonight at 7 at Hilarities. Tickets are $13 to $18. (Niesel) 2035 East Fourth St., 216-241-7425, pickwickandfrolic.com. MUSIC
The University of Akron Steel Drum Band The University of Akron Steel Drum Band was formed in 1980, an era when only a handful of colleges had such ensembles. The group, which features both undergraduate and graduate students, plays on drums that local craftsman Cliff Alexis builds and maintains. For today’s performance at the Akron Civic Theatre, the group will play Caribbean music designed to help you “leave the winter blues behind.” The show starts at 2:30 p.m. and tickets are $5. (Niesel) 182 South Main St., Akron, 330-253-2488, akroncivic.com.
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Industry Brunch Brunch isn’t just a Saturday/ Sunday thing. Over at Mahall’s, you can grab a great brunch on Mondays as the club caters to industry folks who have the day off. Not that you have to work in the restaurant industry to indulge. The menu features items such as Chicken and Donuts, a dish that features three pieces of fried chicken along with two Old Hushers doughnuts. Other staples include the Everything Pretzel and the Creamy Egg Sandwich. It runs from noon to 4. (Niesel) 13200 Madison Ave., Lakewood, 216-521-3280, mahalls20lanes.com.
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Movie Mondays Every Monday, Cleveland Cinemas hosts $6 Movie Mondays, where film fans can catch up on the latest Hollywood flicks for significantly reduced prices. Bring your friends and family and make Movie Mondays a weekly tradition — many theaters even offer discounted concession stand items. Participating theaters include Apollo Theatre, Capitol Theatre, Cedar Lee Theatre, Chagrin Cinemas, Shaker Square Cinemas and Tower City Cinemas. Unfortunately, additional charges apply for 3-D movies. (Alaina Nutile) clevelandcinemas.com.
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Reverie: Painting Women Through the Decades If you’ve ever had a caricature drawn in Cleveland, the artist was probably someone from Kaman’s Art Shoppes. This local staple has been owned and operated by its president Tricia Kaman for 35 years. Today, Kaman’s Art Shoppes are in more than 30 major theme and amusement parks throughout the U.S. and Canada. It is estimated that Kaman has trained more than a thousand portrait artists, who have sold more than half a million portraits, caricatures and silhouette cutouts. In addition to running this creative company, Kaman is an internationally renowned artist, with a studio on Murray Hill Road in Little Italy. Wasmer Gallery at Ursuline College celebrates the life and work of Tricia Kaman with Women in Reverie: Painting Women Through the Decades, on view through Feb. 17. The exhibition features a collection of Kaman’s portraiture and figurative paintings from direct observation. Today, Wasmer Gallery hosts a gallery talk from 11 a.m. to noon and a portrait painting workshop with Kaman from 1 to 4 p.m. Admission is $60 per person and includes all materials. Advance tickets are available at ursuline. edu/portrait_workshop. (Usmani) 2550 Lander Rd., Pepper Pike, 440-449-4200, ursuline.edu.
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ART SKY HIGH MOCA goes big with major shows to anchor these cold months in Cleveland By Josh Usmani OPENING THIS WEEK, MOCA Cleveland’s winter/spring exhibitions include Adam Pendleton’s largest solo museum show to date, Lisa Oppenheim’s first solo show in the United States, and a site-specific sound installation, Transport Empty, in MOCA’s Stair A by artists Zarouhie Abdalian and Joseph Rosenzweig. In the Mueller Family Gallery and Rosalie + Morton Cohen Family Gallery, Adam Pendleton’s Becoming Imperceptible includes wall-based graphic vinyl installations, a multichannel film installation, ceramic floor sculptures and framed silkscreens printed on mirror. The exhibition’s title is derived from the writings of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari who claim that “to go unnoticed, is by no means easy.” For his MOCA exhibition, Pendleton explores and re-contextualizes African, American and European aesthetic and cultural movements, including historic art movements such as Dada and Minimalism, as well as contemporary social concerns such as Black Lives Matter. “Adam Pendleton is a brilliant contemporary artist who raises questions about authorship and history,” says Jill Snyder, MOCA’s executive director. “The result is both provocative and thoughtful, showing how language and abstraction can interrogate both history and politics. With programming that mirrors social and political realities, MOCA sees Becoming Imperceptible as a timely exhibition.” Curated by Andria Andersson, from the Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, Adam Pendleton: Becoming Imperceptible originated in New Orleans and traveled to Denver before coming to Cleveland. Cleveland’s presentation is organized by MOCA Cleveland senior curator Andria Hickey. “Adam Pendleton’s work reimagines the history of 20th century art movements using a prolific process of research and the
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From Lisa Openheim: Spine, opening this week at MOCA Cleveland. Courtesy of the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery.
manipulation of archival materials,” says Hickey. “Through cutting, editing, collage and reproduction, he reframes the way we see the images and ideologies of both our past and our yet-to-be-imagined future. His work explores the function of abstraction and offers a powerful perspective on how our systems of language and identity are constructed, distributed and processed anew.” Meanwhile, the Toby Devan Lewis Gallery presents Lisa Oppenheim: Spine. The exhibition’s title refers to Oppenheim’s exploration of the spine and its relationship to the body, the natural world and labor. “Lisa Oppenheim’s use of appropriated historical imagery alongside modern photographic technologies, in addition to her employment of unusual materials such as wood, fabric and lace, elicit senses of both wonder and inquiry,” says Snyder. Curated by Hickey, the exhibition includes three bodies of work: Lewis Hine photographs, jacquard weavings and landscape portraits. In Spines, Oppenheim draws inspiration from 20th century documentary photographer and sociologist Lewis Hine and his most well-known photographs documenting immigrant and child labor conditions in American mills and factories. These photographs, accessible today through the Library
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of Congress’ photographic archive, depict primarily young, female adolescent textile workers with physically misshapen backs as they wok at looms. Reproduced at lifesize, Oppenheim bisects each image with a superimposed vertical line through the subject’s spine. These images are juxtaposed with a series of new jacquard loom woven textiles based on Oppenheim’s research into a series of preColumbian textile fragments in the permanent collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Still used today, the punch-card operated jacquard loom is a humble technological precursor to the modern computer. Together with the Lewis Hine photographs, these works create a dialogue between labor and production in the textile industry over time. Lastly, Spine includes a new series of photograms from Oppenheim’s Landscape Portraits series, using the intricate wood grain of fallen trees to suggest a place and time. Oppenheim connects labor and industry to the evolution of photography as a means for production and documentation. “Lisa Oppenheim’s researchbased practice brings a network of references together in these new works,” says Hickey. “Her interventions into the photographs of Lewis Hine function as keystone in the exhibition, addressing a poetic relationship to her woven works and her photograms of fallen trees.
As her first museum solo show in the U.S., the exhibition exemplifies Oppenheim’s practice in form, subject and process.” MOCA Cleveland celebrates its new exhibitions with an opening night celebration this Friday, Jan. 27. The evening begins at 7 p.m. with an artist talk by Pendleton, Oppenheim and Hickey. Music and a cash bar follow from 8 to 10 p.m., and throughout the evening guests can create their own artwork inspired by the new exhibitions. The following day at 3 p.m., the museum hosts a more intimate reception and artist talk with Oppenheim and Hickey, who will take questions from the audience. Admission to Saturday’s reception is free with museum admission. The exhibitions remain on view through May 14. While the opening night celebration is free, admission to the galleries is $9.50, and less for children, seniors and students. MOCA Cleveland admission is complimentary on the first Saturday of each month during MOCA Free First Saturdays, made possible by PNC. MOCA Cleveland is at 11400 Euclid Ave. To learn more, call 216421-8671, or visit mocacleveland.org.
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LIVES IN SEARCH OF THE RIGHT STORY Five characters confront good and evil in a richly satisfying production of The Night Alive By Christine Howey THE INTRIGUING PLAYS BY THE esteemed Irish playwright Conor McPherson often inspire one to contemplate life from a different perspective. And the current production of his The Night Alive, now at Dobama Theatre, is no exception. For instance: It occurs that everyone has the opportunity to live in either heaven or hell, depending on which facts in their life they focus on, and how they construct the narrative of their lives. Concentrate on these facts over here, and your life seems absolutely wonderful. But if you decide to be preoccupied with the other facts over there, it would seem you’re living a waking nightmare. So where do you choose live? Those kinds of philosophical musings are generated in a play that has no intellectual trappings whatsoever. By the look of the interior of the house where Tommy lives, it would seem he’s given in to despondency, as it is littered with clothes, dog biscuits posing as snack crackers, and other random detritus. He is mooching this downstairs flat in Dublin from his uncle Maurice, an older man who years before raised Tommy with Maurice’s now-deceased wife. But right from the start, we see another aspect of Tommy as he brings a battered young prostitute, Aimee, into his home. She was just beaten by her boyfriend Kenneth and she
needs a place to recover. Soon she and Tommy begin to hit it off, as Tommy chats with his slow-witted pal Doc, who always seems to show up, usually after tumbling ass over teakettle on his way to the front door. This 110-minute one act meanders in a deceptively simple manner for quite a while, as Tommy and Doc chat about the banal details of their lives. Although he’s processing things “five to seven seconds behind everyone else,” Doc doesn’t totally trust Tommy, insisting he get paid in cash for helping Tommy with the odd jobs they do.
And what ensues after that point serves to bring McPherson’s thoughts about the choices we make into sharp relief. Under the intelligent and specific direction of Leighann DeLorenzo, the immensely talented five-person cast does this material proud. Joel Hammer strikes a deft balance between a loser at the end of his tether and a man who still has honorable and even noble impulses. His gentle joshing with Doc and his tender care of the abused Aimee counter his baser instincts, making the audience pay attention as his character evolves.
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In one of the funniest moments in the darkly amusing play, Doc reads aloud from a cheap book he bought titled, “How to Survive LifeThreatening Situations.” The advice for surviving a gun attack: “Move away.” That helpful tip embodies much of the faint hope that exists for the characters. But the critical truth is that there is hope, dim though it may be, if only they can find it. That road to something better is more problematical when the abstract fight between good and evil becomes real — embodied in the fearsome appearance of Kenneth, who has followed Aimee back to Tommy’s place.
In two roles that carry more weight than might be apparent, Anjanette Hall as Aimee and Robert Hawkes as Maurice add the grace notes that flesh out McPherson’s story of interconnected lives. Hall’s Aimee seems almost entirely hollowed out by her existence, and yet she finds moments of transcendence. And Hawkes, while not on stage long, uses Maurice’s plainspoken language to highlight the decisions that Tommy has made, and is making. As Doc, the quietly amusing David Peacock is simply a marvel, settling into Tommy’s couch like a bag of old laundry and using small gestures and
facial expressions to convey this man’s slightly tweaked view of the world. He is a naïf with a will of iron, and he knows how to allow himself to be transported. Indeed, when he, Tommy and Aimee all dance to the sounds of Marvin Gaye’s ‘What’s Going On?’ it’s his dance that feels most freeing. In the role that turns the entire play in a new direction, Val Kozlenko is thoroughly terrifying as Kenneth, creating exactly the right presence for the devil that appears unbidden from the dark. This Dobama production offers ensemble acting at the highest level, which is a huge tribute since the director and actors must do battle with the theater’s huge stage. The playing space is (as it has always been) simply too big and clumsy, and it makes one weep for the non-existent options that scenic designer Cameron Caley Michalak is offered. If only they could go back and design an open theater space with moveable seating units, so designers could shape the space to fit the show, and not the opposite. That aside, The Night Alive is most certainly ablaze with fine performances and an ending that will test your imagination. A fitting end to a play that teases your mind throughout.
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MOVIES THE PHILOSOPHIES OF DIVORCE Isabelle Huppert stars in domestic drama Things to Come By Sam Allard ISABELLE HUPPERT SHOULD BE increasingly familiar to American film buffs. Most recently, she starred in Elle as a rape victim with a wholly new interpretation of victimhood. Earlier in 2016, she co-starred in the Joachim Trier drama Louder than Bombs. She played a renowned photographer whose suicide forces her husband and two sons to question everything they knew about her. In Things to Come, Mia Hansen-Love’s dissertation on midlife tumult, Huppert plays Nathalie, a philosophy teacher in Paris whose world is rocked by the death of her mother, the loss of her job, and abandonment by her husband. It opens Friday at the Cedar Lee. Nathalie lives a comfortable bourgeois lifestyle. Her husband Heinz (Andre Marcon) teaches philosophy as well. Their apartment is wall-papered in books. Their
leisure-time rituals consist chiefly of reading newspapers and political tracts, or else translating and/or annotating new editions of textbooks. But Nathalie’s mother is ill — crazy, in fact — and caring for her is a constant struggle. So when she dies suddenly, shortly after Heinz admits to an affair and moves out, Nathalie experiences what should feel like liberation. But it’s more complicated than that. Her scene with Heinz when he confesses his infidelity is a marvel. “You couldn’t keep it a secret?” she asks, annoyed, and then presses for details: Who is she? How long? Finally, she stands. “I thought you’d love me forever.” This is classic Huppert — understated, elegant, a calm surface that belies an ocean of feeling beneath. There is no tantrum to be thrown or shouting match to pursue. When Heinz leaves her
flowers later, she promptly takes them to the dumpster. “The nerve,” she mutters under her breath. She retreats to the mountains, expecting to find solace — or something — from Fabien (Roman Kolinka), whom she tags as her “favorite student ever.” He has become a philosopher himself, though he’s drifted quite a bit further afield than Nathalie. He is now a bona fide radical, embracing
an alternative commune lifestyle and advocating for such anarchic ideals as the Death of Authorship. A lovely, intellectual, low-speed film, Things to Come does for divorcees what Elle did for rape victims: It gives Huppert the keys and lets her drive.
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SPOTLIGHT: CATCH 22, BASED ON THE UNWRITTEN STORY BY SEANIE SUGRUE WHEN HE WAS JUST 6, JOSH FOLAN’S grandfather took him to the Apollo Theatre in Oberlin to see Dances with Wolves. While he admits he probably didn’t fully comprehend the film, Folan says it was a formative experience. Folan, who graduated from Oberlin High School back in 1999, has spent the past 11 years working as a filmmaker in New York. While he’s made a handful of low-budget flicks during that time (and even wrote a book about his experiences), he hasn’t hosted a local screening of one of the movies. Now, he’s just announced that he’ll return to Northeast Ohio for a screening of his latest endeavor, Catch 22: based on the unwritten story by seanie sugrue. Folan will host a midnight screening at the Apollo Theatre on Jan. 27 as part of Cleveland Cinemas’ Late Shift series. There will also be a “Corpse Reviver” cocktail soiree beforehand at the Feve from 9:30 to 11:30 p.m. You can purchase tickets to the screening on the Cleveland Cinemas’ website. Folan took a circuitous path to filmmaking.
He attended Ohio State University and then worked for a financial advisor after graduating. One of his friends from college was an agent in New York, so Folan started doing modeling on the side. One day, he realized he wanted to make modeling/acting into a full-time career. “I figured to hell with it, and I literally walked into my boss’s office on a Saturday and left the keys to the office on top of my stuff and drove to New York,” he says. He was there for a month or two before he booked something for Comedy Central that got him an agent and landed him a role on All My Children. He worked on the show for three years as a bit player and started a theater company for off-Broadway shows featuring soap stars. All God’s Creatures, his first feature, “a dark love story about a serial killer and a prostitute,” came out in 2012. It’s available on Amazon Prime. “It was never a plan,” he admits. “Making movies as a career while I was growing up in Oberlin wasn’t on the radar of options. It slowly presented itself as an option.”
His co-producer and co-writer on Catch 22 is a friend he’s known for years. He was “in a fucked-up place with alcohol and drugs” that led him to becoming sober. Six months into that, in 2013, he called Folan and revealed a concept for a screenplay. Folan worked with him to develop the idea into Catch 22. “What he told me was the foundation for what the film is,” Folan says. “It’s dark and fucked up and fueled by his experience in that part of his life.” Two Kickstarters and some “random-ass shit” later, they scraped the money together to shoot it. “The movie [about five blue-collar guys] starts in this horrible place, but that’s the best part of their night,” says Folan. “[The 1998 film] Very Bad Things was a huge influence on the narrative structure. The final part of the film is the worst part of the film. It starts in a bad place and gets worse. The idea that we could take the worst part of his life and turn it into the best part of my friend’s life is a really cool thing.” — Jeff Niesel | clevescene.com | January 25 - 31, 2017
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SECOND COMING Brim Kitchen + Brewery prepped for launch in Willoughby By Douglas Trattner IF YOU HAPPEN TO BE ONE OF the 30,000 or so daily commuters who make their way through the intersection of Erie and Vine in downtown Willoughby, you couldn’t help but watch as a substantial brick building rose from the ground over the past year. At night the view becomes even more dramatic: a shimmering white-brick-and-glass structure with a battlement of gas torches visible from an upper-level terrace. “The building is literally a beacon, especially when it’s lit up at night,” says GM Michael Bertolone. “You’ll be able to see right inside and see people having fun upstairs and down.” Talk to owners TJ Reagan and Chris Frate for any length of time and the word “transparency” is bound to pop up. There’s the literal meaning, exemplified by the glassy walls of both the building and the half-million dollar brewhouse. And then there’s the more allegorical intent. “When you walk in, you’re greeted by the sounds, the sights, and the smells of the open kitchen,” Reagan says. “We believe that the old days of preparing food behind a wall are over. We think people want to see what’s going on.” For the past two years, Reagan has been planning his splashy reentry into the Willoughby community. Nearly 20 years ago, he opened the awardwinning Willoughby Brewing Co.,
which he operated until 2011, when he sold the business. “I don’t know if in the entire country there’s a guy that did two separately owned breweries less than 500 yards from each other,” Reagan says while pointing to the backside of his former baby. “It’s in my blood. I really missed the action.” Reagan knows that there’s more than enough room for two breweries in this suburban town, especially given Brim’s perch between I-90 and Route 2. The 8,000-square-foot, two-level building might be new, but it feels like a century-old warehouse, thanks to expansive multi-pane windows, tall ceilings and exposed rafters. A regularly passing freight train helps sell the illusion. Behind the bar, journeyman brewer Larry Hazen works in a glassy twolevel, 10-barrel brewhouse. The former Willoughby Brewing, Crooked River and Stone Brewing alum is preparing an opening lineup of four proprietary beers that will join a roster of local,
after that I’m just going to be a kid in Candyland. I’m doing a Belgian-style peach and a dry-hopped Belgian wheat with lemongrass and New Zealand hops.” There’s room for 100 guests on the main floor and another 100 guests on an airy second floor, accessible by an open stairwell or elevator. In place of the trusty front or back patio, Brim sports an elevated terrace with 270-degree views of the landscape. Downstairs features a large bar, that open kitchen and plenty of seating. Chef Nick Frate, who will split his time between Brim and his family’s other business, Pub Frato in Concord, will preside over an expansive, eclectic menu that veers from Montreal-style poutine to Korean bulgogi. In between there’s avocado toast, Frito pie, tuna
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poke nachos, grilled ribeye, bangers and mash, grilled cheese and a burger. Starters are in the $8 to $14 range, salads and grain bowls in the $9 to
$11 range, and mains largely in the $12 to $19 range. “The space definitely paints a certain picture, but at the same time it’s a brewery; you’re here to have fun,” Bertolone, a former Zack Bruell staffer, says. One can sense that Reagan is absolutely giddy for the chance to have another bite at the brewery apple, and he’s spent his down time pouring over ways to improve on his previous successes. The results are evident in the layout, design and function of the property, which manages to be simultaneously timeless and contemporary. “We really thought about how do we best weave ourselves into the community,” he says. “We believe that we can provide the same culinary experience, beverage experience and service experience that you get in a downtown market but in the suburbs. “We’re itching to get the beer in the pints and the food on the plates.” The fun starts flowing Feb. 2.
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EAT MELTING POT Olive Tree Middle East Food & Meat has served Cleveland’s westside international community for nearly a decade By Rachel Hunt TUCKED AWAY IN THE CORNER of a small brick plaza in North Olmstead, Olive Tree Middle East Food & Meat (27189 Brookpark Rd., 440-734-4790) may be a best-kept secret among Greater Cleveland ethnic groceries. Nearby are other halal stores and an Asian-Indian spice outlet, but Olive Tree stands out for its bewildering assortment of fresh ingredients. The grocery has been serving the international community in the westside suburb for nine years. Owner Amin Abu Hamda stocks shelves as he waits for customers to order from the walk-up food counter, Jerusalem Kabab- Falafel, in the rear of the store. Hamda makes all of the shwarma, kabab and falafel sandwiches himself. “I made you a big one,� he says, locking eyes and handing over a white carryout bag heavy with pita, spit-roasted lamb, pickled onions, fresh garlic, cucumbers, tomato, lettuce, white sauce, and a delicious
red pepper hot sauce. Everything on the menu comes in under $7. “We serve customers from all over,â€? Hamda says. “Turkish, Greek, Romanian; that’s why I named it Olive Tree and not something from the old country, so everyone would feel welcome.â€? It’s an accessible market with a friendly and helpful staff. Today, a woman in a bright purple hijab with matching eye shadow wraps spinach pies in cellophane and rings people out from behind a large, open counter. Two men work behind the meat counter, breaking down cuts of lamb, veal, goat, beef oxtail, chicken and tenderloin. All meat brought into the shop is halal certiďŹ ed. The butchers will sell as much of the animal as possible,
from whole lamb heads (just $3.99) to packages of spleen, liver, kidneys and even testicles, all priced by the pound. Hamda says the store receives three to four shipments every day. A large piece of that is due to the pita, which is delivered fresh from local bakeries like Asaad, Jasmine and Aladdin. They also receive Al Shams Pita Bread, from Dearborn, Michigan, twice a week. Baklawa, ballourie, bassma and ghouribeh pastries, made fresh weekly, are sold in assorted boxes or by the piece. The shop carries a large selection of bulk-sized olive oils, tahini, rice, and grape leaves. Herbs and spices are packaged in store and range from traditional Middle Eastern blends of cardamom, cumin, nutmeg
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COMING SOON Tremont’s Tremont’s Literary Literary Cafe Cafe readies readies itself itself for for the the next next chapter chapter By By Douglas Douglas Trattner Trattner FOR 30 YEARS, THE PROPERTY at 1031 Literary Rd. in the heart of Tremont was known as the Literary Cafe, or just “the Lit” for short. This past fall, Ross Valenti purchased the building from longtime owners Andy Timithy and Linda Baldizzi, who have operated the business since 1990. Escaping easy description, the eclectic space over the years has featured local artwork, hosted drawing clubs and poetry readings, and was even the site for a local public access talk show. Valenti, a Tremont resident who also operates the Broadview Heights businesses D’Agnese’s and Cantine, appreciates the building’s history, both architecturally and operationally, and intends to honor it. “I want to keep the integrity of what it was, because I’m old enough to remember the old Hi and Dry and the Starkweather — the transitional years,” he says, noting two neighborhood classics that were drastically changed.
In advance of the spring reopening, Valenti is knee-deep in construction and renovation. The bulk of the improvements are cosmetic, he says, with a storefront renovation chief among them. His goal for the 50-seat cafe, which will go by the new moniker the Literary Tavern, is to create a casual, comfortable and relevant place for neighbors to enjoy themselves — not very different from the previous 30 years. “I’m working with a designer to make something that’s contemporary enough, but still kind of classic,” Valenti reports. “Like a modern take on a shot-and-a-beer bar. I live in Tremont, the idea is to have the kind of place I would like to go to. Not a concept-heavy place; it’s not a gastro-tavern, it’s not a wine bar, it’s not a cocktail lounge. It’s just a neighborhood tavern.” The most significant improvement will come in the form of comestibles. The previous owners began the
process of building out a small kitchen but never got around to completing it. Valenti will, and from that tidy kitchen will come unpretentious but good food like small plates, panini, sandwiches and a few entrees. “It’s not going to be high end,” he adds. “More of an everyday neighborhood tavern, which it always was.” If the enjoyable Cantine offers any clues, guests can look forward to straightforward items like meat and cheese boards, olives, warm focaccia with olive oil, steamed mussels, fried calamari and steak frites. The operation will be open every day from 11 a.m. to close. Valenti says that the Literary Tavern is on pace to open in March or April — assuming there are no more surprises. “I’m taking my time to get things right,” he says. “As it turned out, I’m doing more work than originally intended. It’s a 150-year-old building
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— the more time I spend working on it, the more I like it. You can see layers and layers of flooring. Once you start peeling back the years and layers of the place, it’s kind of interesting.”
2ND & HIGH SOCIAL HOUSE TO REPLACE 21 LOUNGE IN GATEWAY DISTRICT Matt Wyrick, current owner of 21 Lounge & Kitchen (2123 East 2nd St.), will close and renovate that Gateway District space to accommodate a new venture. He is partnering with Shawn Ford, a longtime bartender and bar consultant who made a name for himself as a regular on Spike TV’s Bar Rescue. Following extensive renovations, the space will reopen in midFebruary as 2nd & High Social House. “A defining feature of the bar will be craft cocktails and [an] eclectic beer and shot menu,” Ford explained. “2nd & High will be crafty and casual, upscale yet approachable, fun and still fantastic while always a great value. I
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couldn’t be more excited to establish a bar program downtown with a culture that takes itself seriously without taking itself seriously.” A full kitchen will prepare seasonal “modern fare.” A late-night build-your-own pancake menu will be available every night of the week. “There are more than enough great dining destinations
Even the pickiest beer snobs should find something to like at the Fourth Annual Cleveland Beerfest. The two-night event returns to the Cleveland Convention Center on Jan. 27 and 28. More than 120 local and national breweries will sample more than 400 craft beers. Fat Head’s Brewery and Sierra Nevada Brewing serve as the presenting sponsors. “Cleveland has a long history of brewing beer, dating back to the 1840s when the German and Bohemian immigrants started the city’s brewing industry — and over
the past 30 years, it has become nationally recognized for its great craft breweries and beers,” says festival director Craig Johnson in a press release. Proceeds will support the Music Education Society, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting music programs in underfunded elementary and junior high schools in Cleveland and Northeast Ohio. “The Cleveland Beerfest is not only the biggest winter beer festival in Cleveland and the best party of the winter, but it’s also a great way to support local and national craft brewers as well as the music programs the Music Education Society provides,” adds Johnson. The rock band the Lava Game will provide the tunes, and Cleveland-area restaurants and food trucks will provide the grub. There will also be a Silent Disco and “unique” commercial vendors. The doors open at 8 p.m. each night, and early admission tickets allow entry at 7 p.m. The event ends at 11:30 p.m. each evening. Learn more at clevelandbeerfest.com.
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Massachusetts, and then finished them in Cleveland at Duke’s practice space on the near-westside. Members then joined producer John Goodmanson (Sleater Kinney, Death Cab for Cutie) at Sonic Ranch in El Paso for three weeks in March of 2016 to lay down the final tracks. We recently met with Baldi, Gerycz, Brown and Duke at Hanabi Japanese Restaurant, a sushi joint in the Warehouse District, to talk about the tracks on the new album. “Generally, it seems like my work has been about fi nding my place in the world,” Baldi says about the album. “But there was a point in which I realized that you can be missing something important in your life, a part you didn’t realize you were missing
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sure a speciďŹ c scenario inspired it. It’s a good thing to realize. It’s something I say a lot. It’s an oldie. Jayson called it the Yo La Tengo song for a long time. I forget why. Gerycz: It was slower so it sounded like Yo La Tengo. Baldi: We have a version with acoustic guitars. Gerycz: I have all the different versions on the hard drive. Baldi: It’s about how it’s good to look inward and think about things. “DARKENED RINGSâ€? Baldi: I was trying to rip off a Wipers song. I like that band and every once in a while I just try to rip them off. It’s crazy. It doesn’t make a lot of sense. Gerycz: There are mean riffs. Duke: It’s crazy as hell. Gerycz: That was the last song that got fully structured. All the other ones we had were completely ďŹ gured out. It was a minute and a half longer. We made some adjustments at the last minute in the studio. “ENTER ENTIRELYâ€? Baldi: We don’t have another song that sounds like that. It’s kind of slow, and I wanted to make a song that’s like something you can play on acoustic guitar and sing. It’s how I wrote it. I wrote it sitting on Jayson’s couch. Duke: It’s my favorite song. I like
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that it’s the same thing throughout. The melodies and chords don’t really change but it still evolves. Gerycz: It’s a mean closed high hat and guitar solo thing. I love that. I’m a sucker for that. I’m stoked about that. I like the song as well. It has two solos on it. “MODERN ACTâ€? Baldi: It’s a last minute one. Gerycz: We had the song but the whole intro thing that happens twice in the song wasn’t there for the longest time. That was not part of the song at all. I thought that part was a throwback to the older vibe of our music. Baldi: I don’t know what that song is about yet. It sometimes takes me a while to ďŹ gure out what the song is about.
as far as you could see. Gerycz: It was extra spooky when we were recording that song. “REALIZE MY FATEâ€? Baldi: I wanted it to be the ďŹ rst song for a while but it didn’t make sense. It only made sense as the last song after that. It was the ďŹ rst song I wrote for this record. I came home from France two years ago, almost three years ago, and made that song. I had all the words, and we didn’t make a record until last year, but the song was still around. It seemed like a good closing statement and the noisy part is fun to play. It’s just two really big dumb
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MUSIC DOWN, NOT OUT Singer Tom Chaplin hit rock bottom before writing the songs for his solo debut, The Wave By Jeff Niesel SHORTLY AFTER THE U.K. ALTrock band Keane went on hiatus in 2013, frontman Tom Chaplin started writing songs for a solo album. A drug habit would get in the way of any real progress, but after hitting rock bottom, Chaplin would kick his habit, and the songs would just pour out. Now Chaplin, who released his debut solo album, The Wave, earlier this year, has embarked on his first solo tour of the States. He plays House of Blues Cambridge Room on Wednesday. So far, he says the solo tour has been a great success. “[The tour has] basically been absolutely wonderful,” he says via phone from a New York stop. “I’ve had a very, I suppose, quite emotional time, actually. I think first and foremost, it’s been a while since I was last out singing in America, and then I was obviously with Keane. There’s been a sense of expectation and excitement, and the fans have been just so warm and so generous each night so far. I couldn’t fault a moment of it so far. It’s been brilliant.” The songs for The Wave started to come together around the end of 2013. At that point, Chaplin says the tunes were “quite outward looking.” During 2014, the creativity dried up, and his problems with drug addiction returned. By the end of that year, he says those problems became “crippling.” “I stopped doing nearly anything creative, and my only real motivation in life was to run away and get high,” he says. “So everything sort of ground to a halt. But it is a story with a happy ending, and in the beginning of 2015, I kind of hit my rock bottom, and started to turn my life around. After a couple of months of just trying to get back on an even keel emotionally and physically, this incredible ball of energy that I guess had been storing up inside me was just released, and I wrote 30 or 40 songs in the space of
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“I stopped doing nearly anything creative, and my only real motivation in life was to run away and get high. So everything sort of ground to a halt.” four or five months. Obviously, I had a lot to write about. It was all suddenly very personal and about my journey into the depths and out of them.” He met with producer by Matt Hales (Aqualung, Lianne La Havas) and recorded some of the songs at Hales’ home studio in Pasadena. “We made the album at his family home,” Chaplin says. “And that felt like a very appropriate vibe and environment for making the record, with it being so personal. Obviously, in Keane, I was singing someone else’s songs, and I’ve had a huge amount
of musical diversity. Opener “Still Waiting” features orchestral flourishes and falsetto vocals, and the piano ballad “Worthless Words” makes use of fluttering electronics that give it a Radiohead feel. “With ‘Worthless Words,’ I wanted to write a kind of timeline of the very last destructive drug binge that I went on,” he says. “I was trying to channel Bends-era Radiohead — you know, that ‘Bulletproof’ song — which has a kind of atmospheric quality to it, without ever being overly epic. I think it summed up the emotional part of
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of pleasure over the years doing that. Inevitably, they are someone else’s thoughts and feelings. When you write your own stuff, and it’s your own internal voice, I think it’s always going to fit your voice even better, and I definitely felt that way when it came to recording the vocals.” The album boasts a fair amount
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where I was at the time.” The iTunes version of the disc includes five bonus tracks, many of which sound as solid as the album’s 11 tunes. “There’s something about doing that where you don’t feel as under pressure as you do with the main record. You can just have fun doing
it and not feel too precious about it. You can also introduce some elements or stylistic flourishes you might not have used on the record. In fact, the song ‘Better Way’ is definitely a big fan favorite from playing shows so far. That might be the only song I regret not putting on the full record, but, you know, at least it’s there in the end.” Chaplin admits the process of making his solo debut has taught him some valuable lessons. “I certainly learned how much effort and elbow grease is required for writing a full record, so hats off to Tim for doing it all these years,” he says. “The other thing is that I’m reluctant to make big firm plans for the future because I’ve sort of learned that where I’m being pushed by the tides of life is usually more interesting. My attitude is that if ideas come up, and people get in touch, and it seems like something fun to do, then I’ll just go with it. The truth is, I’m not really very sure what the next step will be.”
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MUSIC A WRITER AT HEART Local R&B singer MAZ preps for her first official release By Emanuel Wallace LOCAL R&B SINGER MAZ SAYS that she’s been creating since birth. Her mother was a portrait artist and her father a producer, so it would seem almost predestined that she would always follow a creative path in her life. She was always auditioning — mimicking her favorite artists at the time, Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey. “It wasn’t until high school when I started to try and carve my own aural footprint,” she says. “I didn’t release anything as MAZ until my 21st birthday.” MAZ credits her father for constantly exposing her to music at such a young age. “Yeah, he was a producer and actually rapping back then, but we got robbed,” she says. “After that he just bought equipment to DJ. So music has always been in my life. He still deejays now. Growing up, I never really had a curfew because he would be up all night playing loud music. So that kind of got me into being up late and creating. My brothers and sisters are creatives too so we would just be up and making music videos and stuff. We would put on performances for our parents and grandparents. I was writing songs at a really young age, probably as soon as I learned how to write. I remember seeing an AA/BB line pattern and as soon as I figured out how to do that I was making Halloween jingles. I also remember remixing ‘Misty Blue’ over a Monica beat with my older brother.” Although MAZ comes from humble beginnings, she’s determined to not let that throw her off course as she pursues her dreams. “I’m not wealthy, and I’m not from a well-off family,” she says. “I started working at a really young age and hustling even. I used to get big boxes of candy from GFS and sell them saying that they were for school when they were really just for me. I was selling mixtapes at school in the fifth grade. I had jobs that would pay me under the table. Another obstacle is trying to find out balance, but I can make enough money to support myself and also fund my dream. The
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hardest part is finding that balance. That’s the main stressor when I’m traveling and making these leaps and trying to pursue these opportunities and then you can’t pay your bills. You wonder if you should just become a normal person and get a job. What’s more important, stability or nourishing my dreams and my soul?” MAZ’s sound has a spaced-out, devil-may-care quality to it that at times feels like a musical acid trip. “I call it ethereal, psychedelic R&B,” she says. “I don’t really want to lock myself into a box, but I can’t really help it. It’s kind of hard for me to escape the fantasy element because I’m always living in my head. The music is always been a form of escape for me, and I’m living a more dreamy version of the reality that I’m in.” Some describe MAZ as a combination of Erykah Badu and the Weeknd, but there are other influences that have shaped her sound as well. “I do love Erykah, and I do listen to the Weeknd, but since my dad was a DJ, I heard it all,” MAZ says. “I have some rock influences, I have some R&B influences. R&B is probably where the bulk of it will be. When I got into high school, I started to get into more alternative stuff like Massive Attack. That’s the hardest question because it really does range. The way music is for me, it also depends on my mood. Ron Isley is another influence. I remember riding with my dad, and he would always play some player type music.” Slated for a Jan. 27 release, MAZ’s forthcoming album, Pale Moon EP, was recorded in Cleveland, Atlanta and Detroit. “This is my first official project,” MAZ says. “I had always done singles so far. It took me probably about a year and a half. I worked with Ethereal from Awful Records, Caleb Stone in Detroit and also Cleveland natives GFMW & Believe. The way it started was crazy. I just had one beat from Ethereal from when I was in Atlanta. I wrote to it
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and asked if he wanted me to record up here and send it back and he told me to come back down and do a project together. So I went to Atlanta for two weeks and slept on his couch. We didn’t even have any hot water. We were struggling, recording, getting fucked up at night — it was lit. The thing with creativity is that it comes in waves and you got to be ready when the wave hits.” While MAZ enjoys singing, her greater joy comes from writing, and she hasn’t ruled out the possibility of writing songs for others in the future. “Yeah, that’s my favorite part,” she says about songwriting. “I feel like my release was made to tell my story and my perspective. Even though I’ve always been a singer and I like to sing, the writing was the part that felt the best. It feels like I’m communicating directly to the listener, like they can relate to me and not just the song I’m singing. It makes it a better connection for me.” In anticipation of the EP, MAZ filmed a video for the song “Hideaway” that was directed by Jean Coneja and shot by Jesse Heath. “We filmed it in California,” MAZ says. “I was actually going out there for a performance and I needed a makeup artist. My girl put me in
touch with this girl on Instagram. I sent her an email just to get a quote, and she wrote back saying how she had listened to my music and just had to shoot a video for it. We emailed back and forth for a couple months to get the overall vibe. I went out there with a very small budget, but she made it work. We took four days and we made the video. We both had amazing teams. It was a positive experience — I got to be the protagonist in my own movie that is soundtracked by my own music. It was so surreal.” At 9 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 27, MAZ hosts a listening party at Red Space. DJs Corey Grand and Jams Davis will spin, and there will be a photo booth on site. “I might perform one song, but I don’t know for sure,” MAZ says. “I think I may just play the album through. I have a show coming up in February. It’s a funny thing, I’m pretty confident when I’m on stage and performing, but when just playing my music for people, that’s when I feel most vulnerable — almost naked. I may just give my thanks to everyone and then duck off in a corner and vibe.”
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all the live music you should see this week Indie rockers Cherry Glazerr come to the Grog Shop. See: Friday.
John McCutcheon: 8 p.m., $30. Nighttown. Neogiant/Vanishing Apollo/C-Level: 9 p.m., $6. Grog Shop.
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Cherry Glazerr/Slow Hollows: On its 2014 debut, Haxel Princess, Cherry Glazerr sang about teenage tomfoolery. Now the band’s taken a treacherous trek towards maturity on 2017’s Apocalipstick. Although band members still clown around (check out the clever adult humor in “Nuclear Bomb” video), they’ve begun to use their musical platform to promote feminism, racial equality and LGBT rights, especially as the new presidency threatens progress in these areas. “Nurse Ratched,” for example, riffs on one of cinematography’s most infamous villains, a woman whose abuse of power is a metaphor for government corruption. Cherry Glazerr’s raucous performance cannot possibly be translated by recording alone, and this show will easily top what is already a convincing new
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album. (Bethany Kaufman) 9 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Grog Shop. BoomBox: The BoomBox story begins in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, where Zion Rock Godchaux paired his love of acoustic songcraft and his family’s rock ’n’ roll lineage with Russ Randolph’s top-notch electronica skills. Godchaux (Keith and Donna’s son) had found himself swept up in the musical threads of rave culture, where the seeds of his band were planted. BoomBox released its latest album, Bits & Pieces, one year ago. It’s a fine continuation of the full-bodied songwriting on their previous album, Filling in the Color. Here, Randolph’s inventive beats keep the groovy mood glowing, and Godchaux leans into some excellent lyrical dance moves. Lean into the melody tonight beneath disco ball lights. (Eric Sandy) 9 p.m., $20 ADV/$25 DOS. Beachland Ballroom. TV Girl/Poppet/Fake Species: The use of extensive sampling and vocal effects in L.A.-based band TV Girl’s music conjures pop music from another time. However, lyrics about empty sex and modern relationships
contrast with their indie pop and electronica approach. The band has described its music as something “you can sing along to, but wouldn’t sing around your parents.” This is catchy, danceable pop music pushed up against sarcasm and self-deprecation. There’s something alluring about the juxtaposition, even if it does feel eerie at times. (Johnny Cook) 9 p.m., $8 ADV, $10 DOS. Mahall’s 20 Lanes. Billy Likes Soda: 9:30 p.m., $5. Brothers Lounge. Blues Deville (in the Supper Club): 8 p.m., $8 ADV, $10 DOS. Music Box Supper Club. DJ Paul Weaver: 6 p.m., free. Happy Dog. Genocide Pact/Cringe/Pillars (in Club Atlantis): 9 p.m., $6. Now That’s Class. In Training: January Coalescence with 1AUXY/CS1729/Davis Galvin/ Hivelike: 9 p.m., $8. Now That’s Class. Jim and Eroc (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m., free. Brothers Lounge. Carlos Jones and The Plus Band: 9 p.m., $5. Vosh Club. Over the Rhine/Kali StoddardImari: 8 p.m., $30 ADV, $35 DOS. Music Box Supper Club. Part Time Lover/Shitbox Jimmy/ Sega Genocide/Fan Fiction: 9 p.m., $5. Happy Dog. The Ragbirds/Maura Rogers & the Bellows: 8:30 p.m., $12 ADV, $14 DOS. Beachland Tavern. Moss Stanley: 10:30 p.m., free. Nighttown. Super Diamond — A Tribute to Neil Diamond: 9 p.m., $19-$30. House of Blues. Webster, Carr, Custy and Abersold: 8:30 p.m., $15. Nighttown.
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Dap Kings, Binky Graphite, will join the band via video. (Cook) 9 p.m., $12. Mahall’s 20 Lanes. Paulo Costa Trio — A Forro Night: 9 p.m., $10. The Euclid Tavern. Great Good Fine OK/Flor: 8:30 p.m., $12 ADV, $14 DOS. Beachland Tavern. Greg Banaszak Quintet (in the Wine Bar): 9:30 p.m., $10. Brothers Lounge. High School Rock Off Round 1: When the annual High School Rock Off launched some 20 years ago at the Odeon, the promoters at Belkin Productions (now Live Nation) saw it as a way to reach out to area high schools and provide students with a unique musical outlet. Two decades later, the event continues to thrive. This year’s incarnation will feature 41 acts, a total of 156 band members and seven solo artists from four states. In all, the performers will represent 62 schools. Expect the competition to be fierce. (Niesel) 6 p.m., $10. Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Roy King Quartet: 8:30 p.m., $10. Nighttown. Mo Mojo/Prime Directive: 8:30 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Grog Shop. The Neal Morse Band: 8:30 p.m., $30 ADV, $35 DOS. Beachland Ballroom. Abby Normal & The Detroit Lean: 9 p.m., $5. Vosh Club. The O’Jays and Stephanie Mills: 8 p.m., $62-$102. State Theatre. Kaos Presents Pajama Dance Party: 9 p.m. Bop Stop. Mike Uva/Goodmorning Valentine/ Jim McKeivier: 9 p.m., $5. Happy Dog. Jackie Warren: 10:30 p.m., free. Nighttown.
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EarthCry: When an album beings with a song called “Transdimensional Camel Ride,” you listen. That’s how things kick off on EarthCry’s 2016 Sun Path. The tribal beat pairs woodwinds with synth and head-nodding snare snaps. One minute in, and you’ll feel like you are drifting through an acid trip on the back of a dromedary. The rest of the album unfurls in similar analogelectronic. Take “Source Codes”; composer Anthony Thogmartin recreates the burbling sensations of our ancestors’ ascent out of the primordial ooze. It’ll no doubt make for a chilled out night in Cleveland.
(Sandy) 9 p.m., $12 ADV/$15 DOS, Beachland Tavern. Another Mother’s Milk/Cotton Ponys/Cigarette Playdate: 9 p.m., $5. Happy Dog. Everyone Leaves/Fossil Youth/ Nervous Laughter/Far From Lonely (in the Locker Room): 6 p.m., $8 ADV, $10 DOS. Mahall’s 20 Lanes. Sierra Hull: 7 p.m., $20 ADV, $25 DOS. Music Box Supper Club. LoLifeLane/Fly Tye/Ray Cash/BFA Bleed/30 Glitzy/Freshie/Big Holly/ Ju$ter/FAME: 9 p.m., $10 ADV, $15 DOS. Grog Shop. Mike Petrone (in the Wine Bar): 5:30 p.m. Brothers Lounge. Red Light Roxy: 7 p.m., $15. Nighttown. School of Rock: 12 p.m., free. Brothers Lounge. Time Canvas: 3 p.m., $10. Bop Stop.
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Colorful Cleveland (in the Supper Club): 8 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Music Box Supper Club. Datsik — Ninja Nation Tour/Crizzly/ Virtual Riot: 8 p.m., $23 ADV, $28 DOS. House of Blues. Nicole Dollanganger/Small Wood House/Curtail/Homecoming Queen (in the Locker Room): 7 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Mahall’s 20 Lanes. J. EmmetT/Recess/The Dead Sedonas: 8 p.m., $10. Beachland Tavern. Two-Set Tuesday featuring: Joe ‘Rollin’ Porter (in the Wine Bar): 7 p.m. Brothers Lounge. Primetime Big Band: 7:30 p.m., $10. Vosh Club. San’s Rebellion/Notonthedaily/ Fresh Bucket: 8:30 p.m., $5 ADV, $6 DOS. Grog Shop. Why Don’t We with Special Guest Round2Crew: 7:30 p.m., $15-$79. Mahall’s 20 Lanes.
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keyboardist will make his debut with the guys and join the group for a few songs. “There’s always someone leaving and joining the group,” says Doran, “but that keeps it fun.”
WHY YOU SHOULD HEAR THEM: The band took some time off in the early 2000s and didn’t play for four years. “There wasn’t a falling out; it just happened,” says Doran. “We started to have kids and had a lot going on at that time. Before that hiatus started, Kevin’s younger brother passed away and then when my younger brother passed away, we reconnected and bonded over that. [Last year’s As the Years Go By] brings that experience into it.” The disc’s baseball cover art is a tribute to their brothers, who both liked the sport, and the album is dedicated to them. While tragedy informs the content, the songs comes off as mid-tempo rock and blues numbers that have an uplifting feel to them. Album opener “Years Go” features a twangy guitar riff and gruff vocals as Doran sings, “We’ll be taking it slow/as we watch the years go.” “I wrote songs that were angrier when I was young,” he explains. “As I get older, I try to draw from the positive side of things.” WHERE YOU CAN HEAR THEM: facebook.com/yaftheband WHERE YOU CAN SEE THEM: You’re Among Friends performs at 7 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 27, at Wilbert’s.
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