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OHIO HAS BECOME GROUND ZERO FOR ICE’S WORKPLACE RAIDS AS MORE THAN 250 IMMIGRANTS ARRESTED WHILE TRUMP’S “ZEROtolerance” stance toward illegal immigration plays out with horrific results in Texas, Ohio has improbably become ground zero for workplace raids by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE). ICE is an outfit bearing ever greater resemblance to Hitler’s Gestapo, and New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon, the Ohio Student Association, and other activist groups have begun calling for the agency’s outright abolishment. “[ICE] has become an unaccountable paramilitary force whose main goal seems to be executing violent attacks upon the most vulnerable members of our society,” the Ohio Student Association said in its release condemning the recent Ohio raids. Two of ICE’s largest crackdowns at U.S. job sites in nearly a decade
occurred within a 90-minute drive of Cleveland: at Corso’s Garden Center in Sandusky earlier this month, and at the Fresh Mark meatpacking location in Salem, Ohio — between Canton and Youngstown — last week. The Salem raid, which resulted in the arrest of 146 undocumented workers, primarily from Guatemala, surpassed the roughly 120 arrests made in Sandusky. It is as of yet unknown how many of the most recent arrests will result in deportations, but the workers were bussed to a Brooklyn Heights facility for processing late last Tuesday night and will likely be held in detention facilities throughout Ohio and Michigan, including the Seneca and Geauga County jails, and the Calhoun county jail in Michigan. U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur visited the Michigan jail last week where 31 of the female detainees from the
Sandusky raid were being held. She said about 10 of them told her they ended up in Ohio after paying labor traffickers to help them find jobs. That “terrible underbelly of labor,” as Kaptur described it, exists partly because of robust demand for workers in the agricultural industry and a low supply of people willing to work the low-skill, lowpay positions. More than 100 landscape companies in Northeast Ohio depend on workers through the H-2B visa program. The Ohio Landscape Association said two thirds of those companies were denied workers this year. The Department of Homeland Security issues 66,000 such visas each year for seasonal immigrant workers, and added 15,000 additional ones for 2018 after complaints that business owners were understaffed. Kaptur estimates Ohio needs about 20,000
such workers, and the industry is attempting to lobby Congress to increase that number. “This is not good,” the Ohio Landscape Association said after the raid, “but maybe highlights the need for usable guest worker programs.” In a news release, ICE said that some of those arrested in the Salem raid had been released for “humanitarian reasons,” likely because of dependent family members or serious health conditions of their own. The number of those released has not been specified. (In Sandusky, for comparison, 13 of the 119 total arrested workers were released.) Salem’s First Christian Church, which has been raising money for the affected families, told Scene that, to their knowledge, all 50 to 60 children with arrested parents were now safe and secure. “All of the kids have been placed into safe and caring hands until | clevescene.com | June 27 - July 3, 2018
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UPFRONT they can be reunited with their families,� posted FCC’s lead pastor, Leonard Moore, to Facebook. “Please pray that this can happen as soon as possible.� But much like Fresh Mark itself, local faith groups and volunteer organizations — to say nothing of Columbiana County’s Department of Job and Family Services — had no time to make provisions for emergency childcare. The raid was executed by ICE agents with no prior notice and was reportedly the culmination of a yearlong investigation. It was a similar story in Sandusky, where even the local police were totally unaware of the ICE raid until it occurred. Fresh Mark is a family-owned company, based in Massillon, with more than 1,000 employees across multiple locations. It provides bacon, sausage, hot dogs and lunch meats — including the Sugardale brand locally — to grocery stores, delis and stadiums across the country. Fresh Mark, reportedly, was the
ďŹ rst Ohio company to participate in ICE’s voluntary IMAGE program, (ICE Mutual Agreement between Government and Employers). Under that program, Fresh Mark participates in the Department of Homeland Security’s e-verify program and submits to regular inspections of tax forms, provisions designed to ensure a “lawful workforce.â€? The undocumented workers are presumed to have been using fraudulent identiďŹ cation, including the Social Security numbers of dead people. One sinister side effect of the workplace raids, according to Christine Owens, the executive director of the National Employment Law Project, is that workers will now be too intimidated to speak up about hazardous workplace conditions. Owens said this is acutely true in dangerous industries like meatpacking, and at companies like Fresh Mark, where an employee was killed on the job and two suffered “serious amputationsâ€? in the past six months alone. “Rather than hold employers accountable for violating basic worker protections simply to inate proďŹ ts and undercut competitors,â€?
Owens said in a statement, “this administration has chosen to target and arrest the workers. This strategy can only drive other immigrant workers subjected to substandard conditions further into the shadows and further deteriorate working conditions across already low-wage industries across this country.â€? The Fresh Mark conditions aren’t terribly unlike Corso’s Garden Center, where one worker told Scene that she had worked 13-hour days six or seven days per week during peak times for three seasons. At a Norwalk trailer park, where families of those arrested in the Sandusky raid now live in constant terror and grief, another tragedy struck in the days following the raid. Nurses from a small TifďŹ n-based medical company volunteered to provide basic medical care for the families in the trailer park. They ďŹ rst examined Carmen, a woman whose 20-year-old daughter, Fabiola, was being detained in Michigan after the raid. Just one day earlier, Carmen’s son Silvano died suddenly. Carmen told Scene that her son became listless and pale after
learning his sister was detained. He stopped eating. The two siblings were extremely close; Silvano often wouldn’t start a meal until Fabiola was at the table, Carmen said. It’s not clear if Silvano, who was 24 years old, had a medical condition that contributed to his death. Carmen said she had taken him to the hospital in Norwalk months before, but doctors didn’t ďŹ nd anything wrong with him. Now Carmen faces a terrible choice: either return to Mexico with her son’s remains, or stay close to her daughter. And like all undocumented mothers in the United States in this grim era, she faces a harsh reality: It is she, not the Statue of Liberty, who is a mother of exiles, and she is no longer welcome here. — Sam Allard
New RTA Board Leadership and a Call for Joe Calabrese’s Ouster At a community roundtable about the future of public transportation in Cleveland last week, the president of the union representing transit operators called for the immediate ouster of RTA CEO and general manager Joe Calabrese.
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“Joe has got to go,” William Nix, president of the Amalgamated Transit Union, told Scene during a break in the roundtable’s activities, reiterating public remarks he’d made. “We’ve got the only rail system in Ohio, and all we’re doing is diminishing! If Joe wants to fire people, he should go. Let’s fire them from the top down and start all over.” Nix said that ATU had the support of faith-based organizations and was ready to do the sort of door-knocking, grassroots work necessary to put a transit levy on the ballot in 2018 — a proposal put forward by the advocacy group Clevelanders for Public Transit (CPT), who hosted the roundtable — but that Calabrese had steadfastly refused. Calabrese has said that he intends to retire when his contract is up in 2020, but that’s not soon enough for Nix. “If we want that levy,” Nix said, “we’ve got to get rid of Joe. We need someone who can get money now.” Newly appointed RTA board president and Westlake mayor Dennis Clough left the event shortly before Nix’s comments. But he, too, said that the transit agency’s funding crisis was the most important issue in the coming months and years. “There are some very tough challenges ahead,” Clough said. “It all comes down to funding. It really does. We’d love to continue to provide as much service as we could, if only we had as much money as we need. But we’re not in that situation. We also want to make sure we do it right. We don’t want a temporary fix. We want something that’s going to be long-lasting. All these ideas need to be explored.” He said that as board president, he would continue to listen to riders and seek public input in the hopes of coming up with “some sort of solution.” “You can raise my taxes!” exclaimed a rider in the audience as Clough departed. Cleveland city councilwoman Phyllis Cleveland, speaking later, said she supported a levy in 2018. “We’ve got to find alternative or additional sources of funding,” she said. “But [Clough] said we’ve got to find long-term solutions. Of course that’s true. Public transit is central to a vibrant, thriving city and region. But we’re facing a critical situation in the very near term, and we’ve got to find a way to deal with that. How does RTA balance its books? RTA has to balance, and the reality is, if there’s not enough
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A Know-it-all Attorney Takes on Cleveland’s Economic Development “Ego-System” The svelte and close-cropped 42-year-old lawyer Jon J. Pinney presented a hotly anticipated apocaspeech to a sold-out crowd at the City Club of Cleveland earlier this month after several nights, he said, of fitful sleep. This managing partner of Kohrman Jackson & Krantz, a self-described “somewhat fearless” and “know-it-all” attorney in the physical mold of Fox’s Bret Baier, had reason to be stressed. He was doing something revolutionary. He was standing before a roomful
of Cleveland leaders and daring to acknowledge that certain documented facts about the metropolitan statistical area were, in fact, facts. Clad not in military fatigue jacket and ripped jeans but in a pristine, lint-rolled navy suit, Pinney was careful to emphasize how obsessive and rigorous he’d been in his data analysis. He knew well that his audience was packed to the gills with executives and luminaries who have been known to rapturously trumpet lists that celebrate Cleveland (Best Cities for a Romantic Getaway, for example) but who reflexively doubt or discredit those lists that question the renaissance narrative, (e.g., Forbes’ Best Cities for Jobs, on which Cleveland was ranked 71st out of America’s 71 most populous cities). Titled “Dead Last,” Pinney’s forum was publicly hailed as a “stirring,” “compelling,” and “honest” account of the region’s woes. And despite the dire conclusions about an economic development sector in disarray — gleaned chiefly from off-record conversations in the region’s C-suites, and echoing leadershipvacuum stories in The Plain Dealer and Crain’s — the speech was less a roast and more a call to action, a plea by an emerging leader to other emerging and established leaders to change the culture of leadership. “We’re going to challenge our leaders. We’re going to inspire them,” Pinney said, referencing a “Grand Challenge” that he and the Leadership Cleveland class of 2018 plan to initiate. “We’re going to push them and push them until we figure this out. We need to identify the root cause for failure. We want off these lists. It is time for new leaders to emerge or the existing leaders to lead.” To that end, Pinney said that “alignment” was necessary among economic development organizations. He said leaders should come together to innovate, collaborate and share data in order to grow population and jobs. Pinney took Cleveland’s ranking “at or near the bottom,” of recent lists, including the Forbes ranking referenced above, personally. Hence the forum’s title. Citing the operative mantra of Philadelphia’s economic development sector, Pinney said the region should cultivate an economic development “ecosystem, not an egosystem.” Well, Pinney’s campaign has evidently been a kick in the breech for civic elites. Pinney said he’d
received far more calls and emails after a piece he wrote for Smart Business discussing this stuff than he did after Cleveland was awarded the RNC, the bid for which he cowrote with Destination Cleveland’s David Gilbert and others. (Among Pinney’s many recent calls, reportedly, were those from nervous leaders who encouraged him to “tone downâ€? his rhetoric.) Articles parsing Pinney’s message and columns from leaders enlisting in the alignment cause are ongoing. A front-page story in the most recent Crain’s discussed the extent to which metrics and data sharing — two of Pinney’s recommendations — could beneďŹ t the region. Team NEO’s Bill Koehler, whose organization compiles the relevant data primarily for the purposes of business attraction, told Crain’s that he’d like to see “some organization,â€? not his, “take a lead roleâ€? in gathering and sharing info. But what can we make of Pinney’s buzzed-about performance, a week or two removed? The hubbub in the hours following his remarks — detectable even from across the country — had little to do with his message. No, Pinney had committed what was
interpreted immediately as a serious faux pas. During his talk, he called out eight leaders of economic development organizations (broadly deďŹ ned) by name and demanded that they be more assertive in their leadership. But the named leaders were all white men: Destination Cleveland’s David Gilbert, the Metroparks’ Brian Zimmerman, the Fund for Our Economic Future’s Brad Whitehead, Team NEO’s Bill Koehler, University Circle’s Chris Ronayne, JumpStart’s Ray Leach, and Explorys founder-slash-tech dude Stephen McHale. The ďŹ rst two comments in the City Club’s Q&A addressed this oversight. How could Pinney be claiming to support inclusivity in his so-called alignment process, but only call on white guys to take charge? Pinney repeated through the Q&A that he “agreed 100-percent.â€? He said the alignment process he was advocating must be inclusive. Absolutely. No question. But Pinney should have known that the all-male list would appear thoughtless. And though he was on to something when he reminded his interlocutors that he had no involvement in the make-up of the region’s current economic development leadership — it was the
boards making those decisions — it looked like he was grasping. Brad Whitehead, one of the eight named leaders, wrote in a followup blog post for the City Club — “Guilty as Chargedâ€? — that “there was a palpable, growing expectation (horror?) in the room that the list would end where it did.â€? Whitehead suggested that the named leaders all nominate a non-white-male to lead on their behalf, and “to enable these emerging leaders by placing the full weight of our inuence behind them.â€? (Whitehead is now on vacation. But in a brief email, he told Scene that he had two people he was ready to put forward in his place.) This is certainly a nice symbolic gesture, but as yet I’m afraid I don’t understand what it means. Among my big questions: What or whom are these alternate leaders leading? Pinney argued that once a table exists, a broad spectrum of butts should be seated at its chairs; but at the moment, there is no table. Or else there are far too many tables. Or, in any case, leaders aren’t collaborating when they do meet at a table or tables. A lot of them are bickering and working duplicatively, or even at cross purposes. When asked by an audience member what
speciďŹ cally he’d propose to salve Cleveland’s economic development wounds, Pinney answered that tactics ought to be considered later. “You cannot start talking tactics until you create a different culture,â€? he said, “and that is the ego-system versus the ecosystem.â€? But so the non-white-male emerging leaders that Brad Whitehead wants to place the full weight of his inuence behind will be empowered to do what, then? Convene the economic development summit that Pinney has proposed? Take over their companies? Be more vocal about (or against?) the very leaders they’re theoretically being empowered by? It’s kind of a topsy-turvy situation. And it seems pretty remote from the issues Pinney was attempting to address ... until you smack your forehead and recognize that the egos behind the rotten “egosystemâ€? may be the very same white males, or ones like them (ahem: Joe Roman), whom Pinney invoked. This can get really 12thdimensional when you pause to consider that Whitehead’s blog may have been a preemptive strike. Surely he couldn’t be part of the ego-system if he was casting his ego aside to suggest putting forward
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UPFRONT others to lead on his behalf! This must be an example of the change in leadership culture that Pinney was talking about, not merely an effort to mask it. Right? But then again, Brad Whitehead’s in charge of the Fund for Our Economic Future, a key economic development agency, so shouldn’t he be sitting at the table instead of dispatching a proxy? I mean, is he sloughing off his alignment duties or what?!?! Later in the Q&A, MetroHealth’s CEO Akram Boutros — he of the late $400,000 performance bonus — asked what he could do to help in Pinney’s quest for strategic alignment. Pinney thanked Boutros for his leadership and told him that one thing he could do was speak up. Boutros followed through, penning a guest column for Cleveland.com that rehashed some of Pinney’s suggestions in sunnier terms. “To thrive as a region, we must make audacious plans,” he wrote. “We need the next generation of leaders to set these courageous goals.” (In Pinney’s terms, by way of contrast: There is no [economic development] ecosystem. There are no clear performance metrics. The culture is not collaborative. There is no table.) For good measure, Boutros cited a few leaders of his own that he’d like to comprise the next generation and included two women: Progressive’s Tricia Griffith and FiT Technologies’ Michelle Tomallo. Like Pinney, Boutros also mentioned David Gilbert as an all-star emerging leader. But the tone of Boutros’ column — to say nothing of Whitehead’s, the title of which, “Guilty as Charged,” didn’t refer to the charge by Pinney of poor leadership but the charge against Pinney of naming only white male leaders — got me thinking that this was all becoming a corporate exercise in anointing the next batch of civic beacons. The old guard, the Albert Ratners and Jerry Sue Thorntons and Toby Cosgroves, are dying off or aging into feebleness. And so a new class of emerging leaders — “emerging” being the classification that denotes promising executives in their 40s and 50s — must be named and knighted for the cause. But I guess I’m not convinced that curating an appropriately diverse list of emerging corporate leaders will organize the disarray and me-first attitudes of Cleveland’s insular, business-friendly economic
development community. Maybe it can help, but the disparity problem as I understood it was not Pinney’s failure to mention women or people of color in his personal list of economic development leaders (though he might have considered NOACA’s Grace Gallucci, or the city of Cleveland’s former economic development director Tracy Nichols, who’s now a private consultant, or even community development rock star Tim Tramble). The bigger disparity problem, surely, is that the leaders Pinney named really are the dominant players in the field, and their homogeneity is inconsistent, if not irreconcilable, with the ideas of collaboration and innovation. With few exceptions, it’s still literally a white boys club. But if Pinney and others are serious about changing the culture of leadership, of creating an ecosystem, not an ego-system, they’ll take into account disparities in existing leadership alongside other egregious racial and economic disparities that have bedeviled the region for generations. If they put their heads together and find ways to make economic development more efficient and collaborative, terrific. But they sure don’t need to waste their time convening a summit to identify the root cause of the region’s failures. And if Whitehead and the other seven leaders are in the mood for more symbolic gestures, they could do worse than releasing Cleveland’s unredacted Amazon HQ2 bid, corralled by Team NEO and GCP. Not only would the failing bid’s deficiencies provide a natural starting point for economic development discussions; its full release would countervail against the noncollaborative, ego-systemic secrecy that Pinney condemned. — Allard
Cleveland Boasts Least Racially and Economically Diverse Neighborhoods Among Major Metro Areas, According to New Study City Observatory last week released a study of America’s most diverse, mixed income neighborhoods identified by dissecting the inclusivity of race and ethnicity measured by the variety of household incomes in said neighborhoods. Cleveland failed. Miserably. Looking at the Racial and Ethnic Diversity Index (REDI), City Observatory divided the median neighborhood level of diversity by the metropolitan level of diversity
to calculate how close a region comes to realizing its potential neighborhood diversity, given its racial and ethnic composition. For comparison, in San Antonio the metropolitan area has a REDI of 56.4 and the average resident lives in a neighborhood with a REDI of 53.1, which means the average neighborhood is about 94 percent as diverse (53.5/56.4 = .94) as the entire metropolitan area. In contrast, Cleveland has a metropolitan REDI of 51.3, but the resident of a typical neighborhood lives in an area with a REDI of 26.0, meaning it is only 51 percent as diverse as the metropolitan area. Although both Cleveland and San Antonio have similar levels of diversity overall, San Antonio is much more racially and ethnically integrated than Cleveland. Our hyper-segregated city fared the worst of major metropolitan cities for the median diversity of income and race in neighborhoods matching the median demographics of the city as a whole. Gaps between the metrowide REDI and the REDI of a neighborhood directly reflect the degree of segregation within metropolitan areas. Coming in dead last shows that Cleveland’s segregation goes further than just racial divides. The lived experiences of Clevelanders are completely segregated, and the diversity of our neighborhoods are not similar to the region en masse. Two members of Northeast Ohio’s Fund for Our Economic Future, a 10-year-old philanthropy collaborative, wrote in the Brookings Institute about the potential to use Opportunity Zone incentives, recently announced by each state and approved by the federal government, to inject equitable capital flow into lowincome communities to catalyze business growth and wealth building. There’s growing optimism across party lines for the Opportunity Zone incentive, which features a few important factors that experts say could drive historic levels of investment in low-income areas. First: It allows investors with unrealized capital gains, normally subject to a 23,8-percent tax when cashed out, to invest that money in the zones to receive a reduction on that rate — 15 percent off after seven years and a 100-percent reduction after 10 years. Second: There’s no cap on the amount an investor
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could dump into projects. Third: There are very few limits on what those projects are. And fourth: Simplicity, in that investors would only have to fill out one form for the IRS, bypassing bureaucratic red tape that has stymied previous efforts. Whatever optimism exists must deal with some undeniable facts: • 74 percent of qualified Opportunity Zone residents in Cuyahoga County, which contains the city of Cleveland, are people of color (compared to 56 percent nationwide). • As of 2013, 36 percent of black households in Cleveland have zero net worth. • Income inequality between white and black residents in Cleveland has nearly doubled, from a difference of roughly $12,000 per year in 2000 to $22,000 in 2016. Observers have also noted that for all the intriguing aspects of the incentive program, there’s also a fear that investments will be a race to the top, not the bottom, and that already-gentrifying areas will attract the most investment. Not only would that leave large
swaths of other low-income tracts without new investments to lift residents out of poverty, but it could possibly accelerate the displacement of low-income residents from tracts that have already become hip markets for housing, restaurants and entertainment. Indeed, when Cleveland mayor Frank Jackson in April signed off on a list of census tracts submitted to the state of Ohio for the lowincome, high-poverty Opportunity Zone designation, many of the tracts submitted were really just Cleveland’s prime real estate sectors. Included were the eastern portion of Ohio City, Hingetown, the West 25th Street corridor and Tremont. On the east side, the selected tracts encompass University Circle and points north, the Opportunity Corridor and the so-called Health Tech Corridor. “The extent to which these projects actually help low-income residents will in some ways be a function of how local governments participate in directing the investment,” said Rebecca Lester, a Stanford Graduate School of Business professor who’s studying the Opportunity Zone
program. “It will be up to the local governments to step up and say, ‘This is where you can have a real impact.’” If Cleveland’s neighborhoods already embody little of the racial and economic diversity of the city as a whole, there’s every reason to be watchful of how the incentive is deployed in Cleveland, and where. As usual, our local leaders are off to a less-than inspiring start. — BJ COLANGELO
As Amazon Employees Protest Company’s Sale of Facial Recognition Software to Law Enforcement, Steve Loomis Defends Practice Amazon employees last week penned an open letter to Jeff Bezos protesting the company’s sale of facial recognition software (Rekognition) to law enforcement agencies and its sale of Amazon’s cloud services to Palantir, a firm that provides software to ICE, in both cases citing privacy and civil rights concerns. The letter referenced the possible misuse and abuse of the software against immigrants, | clevescene.com | June 27 - July 3, 2018
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UPFRONT African-American activists, and other vulnerable groups. “We are troubled by the recent report from the ACLU exposing our company’s practice of selling AWS Rekognition, a powerful facial recognition technology, to police departments and government agencies,” it read. “We don’t have to wait to find out how these technologies will be used. We already know that in the midst of historic militarization of police, renewed targeting of Black activists, and the growth of a federal deportation force currently engaged in human rights abuses — this will be another powerful tool for the surveillance state, and ultimately serve to harm the most marginalized. We are not alone in this view: over 40 civil rights organizations signed an open letter in opposition to the governmental use of facial recognition, while over 150,000 individuals signed another petition delivered by the ACLU. ... “Our company should not be in the surveillance business;
we should not be in the policing business; we should not be in the business of supporting those who monitor and oppress marginalized populations.” The sale of Rekognition to law enforcement agencies was first reported by the ACLU in May. “Marketing materials and documents obtained by ACLU affiliates in three states reveal a product that can be readily used to violate civil liberties and civil rights,” the ACLU said. “Powered by artificial intelligence, Rekognition can identify, track, and analyze people in real time and recognize up to 100 people in a single image. It can quickly scan information it collects against databases featuring tens of millions of faces, according to Amazon. “Amazon is marketing Rekognition for government surveillance. According to its marketing materials, it views deployment by law enforcement agencies as a ‘common use case’ for this technology. Among other features, the company’s materials describe ‘person tracking’ as an ‘easy and accurate’ way to investigate and monitor people. Amazon says Rekognition can be used to identify ‘people of
interest,’ raising the possibility that those labeled suspicious by governments — such as undocumented immigrants or Black activists — will be seen as fair game for Rekognition surveillance. It also says Rekognition can monitor ‘all faces in group photos, crowded events, and public places such as airports,’ at a time when Americans are joining public protests at unprecedented levels.” Former Cleveland police union president Steve Loomis popped by Fox Business earlier this week to discuss the issue, naturally coming down on the side of It’s No Big Deal. (Good to see Steve is still getting media work after being ousted as union president late last year.) “Not at a local level,” Loomis said. “It’s the same concerns you heard about fingerprinting, the same as DNA, now everyone arrested for a felony has DNA taken, it’s all the same arguments. As for targeting a specific race, absolutely not. It would target bad guys and make law-abiding citizens safer.” Asked specifically how deploying facial recognition would make citizens safer, he didn’t
have a very specific answer, but he did have some Back in My Day thoughts. “It allows you to pinpoint who a person is,” he said. “When I came on the job 25 years ago, you had to trust someone when they told you who they were. Now we have computers in cars and you can get a picture and verify who they are. This is almost real time, whether it’s as a suspect, whether it’s a runaway child, it has all kinds of applications. It’s not to target protestors. No cop in this country cares about what people are protesting; we care about their right to protest.” That’s a charming bold-faced lie, of course, and a rich claim coming from a member of the department that arrested 71 people during protests of the Michael Brelo verdict (at least 50 of whom were nonviolent protestors who were quickly released the next business day) and packed them on a bus simply as a means to end the peaceful demonstrations. — Vince Grzegorek
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United Way of Greater Cleveland’s Community Wide Event This summer, Welshly Arms is plenty busy. The local band will support Thirty Seconds To Mars on the last leg of its tour, and it will perform at festivals such as the Hangout Music Festival, BottleRock, Bunbury Music Festival, Firefly Music Festival, Summerfest, Lollapalooza and Life Is Beautiful. It will also headline the United Way of Greater Cleveland’s first community wide event to celebrate its 2017-2018 campaign. The free concert takes place from 4 to 8 p.m. today at Public Square. Organizers say the up-and-coming band represents the campaign’s “heroes unite” theme. There also will be a wide array of superhero-themed activities, a video game virtual reality simulator, games of skill and the chance to interact with real-life caped crusaders. Food and drinks will be available for purchase. (Jeff Niesel) unitedwaycleveland.org.
Oval in University Circle. It’s Wade Oval Wednesday, and there will be local food vendors, a beer and wine tent, a farmers market and free kids’ activities — all laid out on the Wade Oval lawn, adjacent to Cleveland Botanical Garden, the Cleveland Art Museum, and the Cleveland Natural History Museum. Some museums will stay open late too. Details are on the website. (Niesel) universitycircle.org. FOOD
Walnut Wednesday Walnut Wednesday is one of summer’s great traditions. Today it continues, from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Perk Plaza at Chester Commons — at East 12th and Walnut streets — as food trucks gather to serve up lunch to area residents and employees. Check out the website for weekly updates on vendors, entertainment offerings and more. The series continues through Sept. 26. Admission is free, but the food will cost you. (Niesel) downtowncleveland.com.
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Metroparks launched its extremely popular Edgewater Live series of Thursday-night happy-hour concerts. The fun returns this year, with musical performances from 4:30 to 9 p.m. every Thursday through Aug. 2. In addition to a local band, activities include yoga, standup paddleboarding and cornhole. Those ubiquitous food trucks will be on hand, of course, and the Beach House will sell drinks and food as well. It’s free. (Niesel) 6500 Cleveland Memorial Shoreway NW, clevelandmetroparks.com. COMEDY
Rocky LaPorte In 1988, Rocky LaPorte quit his day job as a truck driver to become a professional comedian. Turned out to be a good move. LaPorte hasn’t forgotten his roots, and in his standup routines, he makes simple observations about the oddities of life. In one bit, the comedian talks about listing your parents as your emergency contacts. “What are my parents going to do?” he joked. “‘Mrs. LaPorte, your son has been in a horrific car accident.’ ‘Well give him some ice cream; he likes ice cream.’” It’s that sort of simple observation that makes LaPorte’s material stand out from the pack of other truck
drivers turned comics. He performs tonight at 8 at Pickwick and Frolic. Tickets start at $23; additional shows are scheduled through Saturday. (William Hoffman) 2035 East Fourth St., 216-241-7425, pickwickandfrolic.com. THEATER
Memphis the Musical Loosely based on the real-life DJ Dewey Phillips, Memphis the Musical won four 2010 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and two 2015 Olivier Awards. It centers on a white radio DJ who wants to “change the world.” He begins to promote a black club singer who’s ready for her big break. The play features a Tonywinning book by Joe DiPietro and a Tony-winning original score with music by Bon Jovi founding member David Bryan. Tonight’s performance takes place at 7 at Cain Park, where performances continue through Sunday, July 1. Tickets start at $25. (Niesel) 14591 Superior Rd., Cleveland Heights, 216-371-3000, cainpark.com. COMEDY
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Chuck Booms Once dubbed one of six comics who could replace David Letterman, the infamous Chuck Booms was best known for being the loudmouth on Sports Radio 92.3 before he got canned. The Cleveland native has appeared on national television more than 150 times and has had spots on the Today Show and
weekly happy-hour concert series that takes place at Edgewater Park, the Euclid Beach Live concert series offers great music, delicious food and fun for the whole family. The setting couldn’t be better either, overlooking the scenic Euclid Beach State Park on Lake Erie. Once completed, the 285-foot pier should hearken back to the glory days of gone-but-notforgotten Euclid Beach amusement
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Veterans of SNL Over the years, Saturday Night Live has produced a number of great comics. Tonight at 7:30 at Hard Rock Live, four of them will perform as part of a tour dubbed Veterans of SNL . Darrell Hammond, Chris Kattan, Jon Lovitz and Tim Meadows will each do standup sets. A veteran comic and actor, Lovitz joined SNL in 1985 and has acted in film and TV ever since. Hammond, Meadows and Kattan all joined the program in the 1990s. Tonight’s show begins at 7:30, and tickets start at $43.50. (Niesel) 10705 Northfield Rd., Northfield, 330-908-7771, hrrocksinonorthfieldpark.com.
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All-City Shakespeare Festival An organization that hosts a number of local arts education programs, ESU Cleveland aims to “celebrate English as a shared language to foster global understanding and good will by providing educational and cultural opportunities for students, educators, its members and the community.” It also provides workshops that focus on teaching through performance. At 6 tonight at the Metroparks’ Acacia Reservation in Lyndhurst, it hosts its annual All-City Shakespeare Festival. The event includes an 8 p.m. production of Romeo and Juliet as part of a celebration of the 2017-2018 programs. Proceeds will support the February 2019 Shakespeare Monologue Competition presented in cooperation with the Education Department of Great Lakes Theater. Hors d’oeuvres and food stations catered by Acacia as well as a cash bar and raffles are included. Tickets are $75. (Niesel) esuus.org/cleveland.
Zooz, Jones for Revival, Flux Capacitor and 46&2 are among the acts slated to perform at this year’s Freedom Fest, which takes place tonight, tomorrow and Sunday night at Nelson Ledges Quarry Park. There will be hiking, biking, camping, swimming and volleyball. Admission, which costs $70 in advance, $85 day of show, includes camping. Other ticket options exist; check the website. (Niesel) 12001 State Route 282, Garrettsville, 440-548-2716, nlqp.com.
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Details & tickets: rockhall.com/summer Larry King Live. He brings his opinionated brand of sports talk and comedy to Hard Rock’s Club Velvet tonight at 7 and 9:30. Tickets are $20 to $25. (Niesel) 10705 Northfield Rd., Northfield, 330-908-7771, hrrocksinonorthfieldpark.com.
park. The fun takes place from 6 to 9 p.m. every Friday through Aug. 3. This evening’s musical entertainment comes from the Kinsman Dazz Band. It’s free. (Niesel) 16301 Lake Shore Blvd., 216-635-3200, clevelandmetroparks.com.
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Legacy Live One of Northeast Ohio’s most popular free concert series, Legacy Live has become a tradition that families and couples look forward to each summer. The concerts, which take place on the Legacy Village lawn at 6:30 each Friday and Saturday night throughout the summer, feature local bands that play everything from blues to jazz and rock. Tonight’s entertainment comes from the pop/rock act Run Avril Run; tomorrow, catch a performance from Wild Horses. Admission is free; the series continues through Aug. 31. (Niesel) 25333 Cedar Rd., Lyndhurst, 216-382-3871, legacy-village.com. COMEDY
Ali Siddiq “Prison is an odd place because you don’t know the rules,” jokes comedian Ali Sadiiq as he relays the story of how he found himself caught up in a riot one day. The funny bit, which Siddiq presents as a narrative, shows just how well the comic can bring a story to life, as he imitates others and recreates conversations he’s had. He performs tonight at 7:30 and 10 at the Improv, where he has shows scheduled through Sunday. Tickets are $17. (Niesel) 1148 Main Ave., 216-696-IMPROV, clevelandimprov.com.
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Fourth Street Walking Tour Ohio has a long, rich history, and you can learn more about it today at 2 p.m. when local historian Margy Vogt leads a public walking tour of Massillon’s Fourth Street. She’ll show you the highlights of the historic exterior architecture of the town’s old neighborhood — now on the National Register — which once was home to Massillon’s entrepreneurs and bankers. The $7 fee may be paid
at the start of the tour, which steps off at the corner of Fourth Street and North Avenue N.E. (in front of Five Oaks). In case of rain, the walk will be canceled. Reservations aren’t required, but you can register on the website. (Niesel) margyvogt.com. FUNDRAISER
7 p.m. on Waterloo Road between East 161st Street and Calcutta Avenue, features more of the same mix of music, food and art that has made this into the neighborhood’s signature event. More than 40 bands will perform and there will be food trucks and special art exhibits. Admission is free. (Niesel) waterlooarts.org.
June Juke Joint Northern Ohio Detention Support, an organization that aids immigrants who have been placed in detention, and AMP NEO, an anti-racist group that aims to amplify the voices of the black community, indigenous people and people of color, are teaming up for June Juke Joint, a fundraiser that takes place tonight at 7 at Mahall’s. The proceeds will go, in part, to help the immigrants who are struggling as a result of the current administration’s recent crackdown. The evening will include a slew of black musicians, including Tay + Dante, self-taught musicians from East Cleveland. The multi-ethnic Arab group, Fana — known locally for founding Disco Paradiso, a retro dance party at Now That’s Class — will also perform. Adab, MAZ, Shirtlessmidnight and Smoke Screen will round out the lineup. A raffle of local goods will be held. Tickets are $10 in advance or $13 at the door. (Halle Weber) 13200 Madison Ave., Lakewood, 216-521-3280, mahalls20lanes.com.
Liberty Fest 2018 Fourth of July falls on a Wednesday this year, but Crocker Park will celebrate a bit early with Liberty Fest, a patriotic, family friendly event that takes place today from noon to 6 p.m. Nickelodeon star Breanna Yde will be on hand and so will the Cleveland Pops Orchestra. Crocker Park has partnered with the local nonprofit Wags4Warriors, a group that unites veterans suffering from PTSD or TBI with the appropriate companion dog. Proceeds from the festivities will go toward that organization. A vendor village will host an array of exhibitors, entertainers and performances. The main stage will be south of Center Circle, near Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory, and will feature local acts. (Niesel) 189 Crocker Park Blvd., Westlake, crockerpark.com.
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Night Market Cleveland Taking place on the last Saturday of each month during the warmer weather, Night Market Cleveland is part farmers market, part art/ makers’ market, part concert series and part food festival. Occurring only four times a year, the market includes more than 200 retail and food vendors and 40 bands and performers. Located on Rockwell Avenue at East 21st, near the heart of Cleveland’s Asiatown district, Night Market Cleveland embraces a tradition that exists in several Asian cultures and that serves to connect the diverse people of Cleveland’s Asiatown, St. Clair Superior and campus districts while “energizing an often-overlooked corner of Cleveland.” It takes place from 5 to 11 p.m. Admission is free. (Niesel) nightmarketcle.com.
Sunday Beat As part of a Sunday Beat promotion at Visible Voice Books, if you purchase a New York Times at the store, you’ll receive a free cup of coffee or tea and a Jim Alesci’s Place pastry. An added bonus: A jazz, Americana, samba or bossa nova band will perform from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Anyone who shows a Sunday receipt from Music Box, Prosperity Social Club or any of the Tremont restaurants that offer brunch can enter a same-day drawing for a $30 Visible Voice gift certificate and a $25 Visible Voice Loyalty Card. They’ll also receive 10 percent off any Visible Voice book purchase. The bookstore is open today from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Niesel) 2258 Professor Ave., 216-961-0084, visiblevoicebooks.com.
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event at the B-Side Liquor Lounge that allows patrons to choose from “an unlimited selection of jams from hip-hop to hard rock.” Participants are encouraged to “be as bad as you want.” Fueled by drink and shot specials, it all goes down tonight at 10 p.m. (Niesel) 2785 Euclid Hts. Blvd., Cleveland Heights, 216-932-1966, bsideliquorlounge.com. FOOD
Wing Dang Doodle Blues icon Howlin’ Wolf famously covered “Wang Dang Doodle,” the old blues tune penned by Willie Dixon. Prosperity Social Club in Tremont has adopted that slogan, calling its wing night Wing Dang Doodle. The weekly event features specials on Buffalo wings and cold brews. Prosperity will not only serve up substantial, $1 whole wings, but it’ll also offer meatless Monday “wing” baskets for vegans. Discounted drafts and a playlist of vintage-electric blues and soulful R&B curated by local musician Clint Holley will be on tap as well. Wing Dang Doodle takes place every Monday from 6 p.m. to midnight. (Niesel) 1109 Starkweather Ave., 216-937-1938, prosperitysocialclub.com.
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Dancing Under the Stars As a part of the 13-week outdoor dance series at Playhouse Square, local dance instructors lead Dancing Under the Stars tonight, and every Tuesday night through Aug. 28, at U.S. Bank Plaza. Tonight at 6, teachers from Get Hep Swing will teach you the Jitterbug/ East Coast Swing; the Waller Creek Vipers provide the music. The dancing begins at 6:30 and continues until 9 p.m. Admission is free. Find a complete schedule of upcoming sessions on the website. (Niesel) East 14th St. and Euclid Ave., 216-771-4444, playhousesquare.org. SPOKEN WORD
Keep Talking Keep Talking is an exciting storytellers program where locals can share their real-life experiences on a theme. The monthly series offers attendees the chance to
grab a drink and a dog while listening to some of their Cleveland neighbors tell tall tales. The theme for tonight’s storytelling is “Urgent,” and the hosts are Adam Richard and Zachariah Durr. The program starts at 7:30 p.m. sharp at the Happy Dog. Admission is $5. Want to be a storyteller at a future session? See details on the website. (Niesel) 5801 Detroit Ave., 216-651-9474, happydogcleveland.com. MUSIC
Open Turntable Tuesday Tonight from 6 to 9, the Winchester hosts its weekly Open Turntable Tuesday. DJ Kris Koch offers 20-minute slots to people who want to bring their own vinyl and spin their favorite songs or deep tracks. Turntables are provided; you can play three to five songs during your time slot; and a mic is available to talk about the selections. (Niesel) 12112 Madison Ave., Lakewood, 216-600-5338, facebook.com/ TheWinchesterMusicTavern. FIREWORKS!
Salute to America A tradition in these parts, the Blossom Festival Band plays a special Salute to America concert tonight at Blossom. Savor a picnic on the lawn or at a picnic table, and then settle in to enjoy a mix of patriotic Sousa marches, Broadway favorites, an Armed Forces salute, and more. The concert begins at 8 p.m. and concludes with the rousing “1812 Overture” and fireworks. It all happens again tomorrow night. Consult the Cleveland Orchestra website for ticket prices. (Niesel) 1145 West Steels Corners Rd., Cuyahoga Falls, 216-231-1111, clevelandorchestra.com. FOOD
Truck Stop Tuesday As if to provide a westside counterpart to Walnut Wednesdays, Crocker Park in Westlake has launched Truck Stop Tuesday, a weekly food truck gathering that takes place from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Needless to say, admission is free, but the food will cost you. Truck Stop Tuesday continues through Sept. 25. (Niesel) 189 Crocker Park Blvd., Westlake, crockerpark.com.
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STAGE AN ISRAELI FAMILY IS TORMENTED BY UNCERTAINTY And gloom descends on their Independence Day cookout. Gee, I wonder how that feels? By Christine Howey WE HAVE NEVER HAD A WAR fought on our homeland. Still, every Labor Day when you hear the sonic booms in the clear blue sky, you halfway wonder if the bombing has begun. No, it turns out it’s just the Cleveland Air Show’s annual flyovers. But in other countries, such as Israel, those deafening whooshes of jets generate a much more visceral reaction in the citizens below. And so it is in On The Grill, now at Dobama Theatre. Set in a well-established kibbutz in northern Israel, the play by Israeli actor Dror Keren does a workmanlike job of capturing casual family conversation, along with the lurking unease of fear that comes from living in that part of the world. But this translation by Michael Ezrachi is less successful in exploring some of the trenchant issues it brings up, including the intergenerational conflicts among this family and the particular devastation of post-traumatic stress disorder. The play begins with the words of Gizela, the grandmother of the clan, who relates her journey to Israel in the late 1940s. As narrated by Dorothy Silver, it’s a powerful moment when Gizela saw the new homeland for Jews from the deck of the ship, glittering like diamonds in the night. She then settled into this kibbutz, living in a collective where most decisions were made by committee vote. That’s where her son Zvika was raised, and where he married his wife Rochale. On this day, they are hosting other family members for an Independence Day celebration, immediately on the heels of the Israeli Memorial Day. This is an occasion observed with a feast of grilled meat, which good-natured Zvika is preparing on his backyard hibachi. Soon we meet those other folks who have gathered. Zvika and Rochale’s son, Mordi, is visiting for the first time in four years, and has brought his German partner Johanna. Mordi is suffering from
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PTSD, triggered by his participation in a previous war, and he starts hitting the whiskey from the moment he arrives. Another son, Gilad, shows up in full battle gear, since he’s taken off some time from the current conflict. His mother Tirtza (Rocky Encalada) is both delighted to see him and worried about what might come next as she peers up into the sky when
Clearly, the title of the play has a double meaning since these people are not just grilling steaks. They’re being tested and grilled as they try to craft a safe and productive life in the face of threatening forces all around them. Setting the play at a barbecue offers one advantage, and some definite challenges. On the plus side, it’s interesting to have all
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fireworks and jets pierce the calm. And yes, there are still more people in attendance. An old rebel Avinoam (Michael Regnier), father of Tirtza, is sucking down beers while Raja, a health aide from India, is caring for frail Gizela. And to top it off, Mordi’s former lover Alona (Olivia Scicolone) shows up because, why not.
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the characters arrayed before you, as they would be at such an event. On the other hand, many of the dialogue scenes feel stagey, even though director Leighann DeLorenzo does her best to avoid that sensation. Part of the challenge involves a 100-minute one-act play that has 10 characters that must be dealt
with in some way. Even a rough mathematical calculation indicates, if their time in the script was distributed evenly, they’d each get a 10-minute slice. Allowing for the need to make dialogue sound realistic, that isn’t much time to delve deeply into serious issues. As Zvika, David Vegh conveys the sense of a man comfortable with his life in the kibbutz, but struggling with how to deal with his troubled son. In his first scene, he relates how he picked up his meat for the barbecue from an Arab butcher in village nearby. The butcher, we’re told, played a joke on Zvika that ended with the two men hugging —and Zvika getting some blood on his shirt from the butcher’s apron. That is one of many potentially intriguing moments that gets plowed under and unexamined as the play progresses. In the linchpin role of Rochale, Juliette Regnier works diligently to keep all the parts spinning in the same direction, but we learn very little about her personally. The same is true of Johanna (Emily Viancourt), who is mostly relegated to standing in and around the perimeter of the proceedings — as is Alona. Playwright Keren has the right instinct as he raises issues without providing easy answers. We don’t want pat solutions, but we do yearn for more layered and complex questions. In On The Grill, we are teased by a number of profound questions that are only touched upon in brief. As a result, when “the call” comes and Gilad is summoned back to duty, there’s a hollow feeling that so much has been left unsaid. These days, all of us are “on the grill” as the basic human rights of refugee infants, toddlers and others are being violated in our own country. So when our barbecues light up this Fourth of July, one hopes we’ll celebrate our Independence Day with steak, whiskey … and political action.
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MOVIES DAY OF THE SEQUEL Sicario followup, Day of the Soldado, loses steam By Jeff Niesel RELEASED THREE YEARS AGO, the artsy crime drama Sicario didn’t exactly cry out for a sequel (and it only generated moderate revenue at the box office). Helmed by the French-Canadian director Denis Villeneuve, who’s since gone on to direct Arrival and Blade Runner 2049, and written by Taylor Sheridan ( Hell or High Water, Wind River), the film follows an FBI agent (Emily Blunt) who aims to take down a Mexican drug cartel. She enlists the help of CIA agent Matt Graver (Josh Brolin) and his steely right-hand man Alejandro Gillick (Benicio Del Toro). The suspenseful film won critical acclaim but, again, didn’t seem like something that would demand a followup film. And yet, here we are with Sicario: Day of the Soldado, a Sicario sequel. Brolin and Del Toro reprise their roles in the film and Sheridan returns to write the screenplay. Italian writer-director Stefano Sollima ( Suburra) directs the movie, a thriller that loses its momentum
about half-way through. It seems destined to be lost in the summer blockbuster shuffle; the film opens Friday areawide. Like its predecessor, Sicario: Day of the Soldado centers on a conflict that takes place on the U.S.Mexico border. This time around, a terrorist incident forces Matt and Alejandro back into action as CIA agent Cynthia Foards (Catherine Keener) calls upon them to create an elaborate scheme to disrupt the drug cartels, whom they think are responsible for the attack. In broad daylight, Matt and Alejandro kidnap Isabela Reyes (Isabela Moner), the daughter of a drug lord, in the attempt to incite war between the rival cartels. When the Mexican government gets wind of the U.S. government’s meddling, all hell breaks loose, and Cynthia tells Matt that the plan must be abandoned, and he’s got to kill the kid. Problem is, Matt and Alejandro have secretly gone into Mexico. They can’t ask for military intervention
because no one is supposed to know they’re there. Predictably enough, a bloody shootout with the Mexican cops ensues, and Matt races to the border to try to get safely back into the U.S. Alejandro goes rogue as he attempts to keep Isabela safe and save his own life in the process while wandering through rather remote parts of the Mexican desert and trying to find a coyote willing to take him and Isabela across the border.
At this point, the film loses the thrust of its narrative and while its relevancy won’t be lost on American audiences, the movie lacks the intensity of the previous film. And yet, its forced ending even manages to leave things open for yet another sequel.
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SPOTLIGHT: MOUNTAIN THERE WAS A STORY IN Sunday’s Plain Dealer, on the front page of the Metro Section, about concerned conservationists in Geauga County and their beef with the parks district there. The conservationists were exercised about “extreme” recreation options now available at a park in Clarion Township. Why sully the precious natural acres with ziplines and a treetop adventure course, they asked, when gyms and amusement parks already provide similar amenities? Versions of that environmental controversy — recreation versus conservation — have visited the Cleveland Metroparks as well. And it’s a controversy that animates portions of Mountain, a magnificently shot documentary that opens Friday at the Cedar Lee. Directed by Aussie Jennifer Peedom and narrated by Willem
Dafoe in all his nasal majesty, the film places the history of mountaineering and extreme outdoor recreation in its proper context: as a brief, in fact almost meaningless, era in the aeonspanning history of mountains themselves. Though Mountain can lay claim to some of the most exhilarating HD footage of extreme-sport athletes that I’ve ever seen — including the jaw-dropping free-solo climbing heroics of Alex Honnold, and a stomach-churning tight-rope walk — the stars of the show, beyond doubt, are the colossal geological beasts that have seduced so many wanderers and explorers for so long. Captured by a team of athletecinematographers, including principal photography by Renan Ozturk (one of the climbers in 2015’s Meru, and the cinematographer for Peedom’s Sherpa), the high-altitude
footage never ceases to amaze. Accompanied by instrumentalists from the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the movie makes it easy to understand humans’ obsession with and reverence for mountains. Ozturk’s work is breathtaking. He and Peedom help us comprehend the larger message: that the mountains are indifferent to human efforts to conquer them. “They were here before us,” Dafoe says. “And they will be here after us.” Once or twice, the film’s apparent disdain for popular ski slopes, the commercialization of Everest, and the performance of extreme stunts “for big brands and online clicks” felt inconsonant with many of the athletes’ own histories. After all, they once started on bunny hills. And many now travel to the world’s remotest corners to experience the luxury of recreation in more
rarified air thanks to brand sponsorships. The narration, too, was at times a carbon copy of other climbing-oriented documentaries, e.g., mountainous ascents being as mental as they are physical. But the film feels much more like a visual essay than a traditional documentary, and the power rests in its images, which will leave you agog. At only 70 minutes, Mountain has the flavor of a documentary commissioned for the Great Lakes Science Center’s Omnimax Theatre. But the intro, featuring musicians tuning their instruments and Dafoe readying himself in the recording studio, feels more like a Netflix standup special. Here, though, the planet’s natural wonders take center stage. — Sam Allard
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EAT WHERE THE PAST MEETS THE FUTURE Larder is a traditional Jewish deli with a twist By Douglas Trattner SOME OF MY FONDEST memories as a child revolve around trips to Jack’s or Corky & Lenny’s, back when I was too short to see over the tops of the coolers. But that was fine with me because all the real action was right there at eye level: plump knishes, glistening smoked fish, pancake-size latkes, corpulent beef tongue, fruit-filled rugalach and snow-covered coconut bars. Few cuisines present such a tantalizing display of prepared foods as the Jewish delicatessen. The root of the word, after all, is delicacy. Step into Larder in Ohio City and that same sense of delight comes rushing forth. The coolers are chockablock with delectable prepared foods, fresh-baked breads and pastries are stacked high into the air, another fridge is crammed with grab-and-go desserts, and the wall-mounted shelving heaves beneath the weight of so much canned, bagged and jarred pantry provisions. Authentic delis offer immersive — even overwhelming — adventures, and Larder has that in spades. In the wake of news that the Jewish-American deli was facing extinction, a revival began bubbling up across the nation. Chefs like Larder’s Jeremy Umansky, who were weaned on chicken soup and offered a frozen bagel as a teething ring, set about opening new Jewish delis. Most have one foot firmly rooted in respect for the past, while the other is unapologetically lunging into the future. How else does one land at koji-cured pastrami sandwiches? The traditional method of making pastrami takes seven to 10 days, but by employing koji (a Japanese mold) to cure and tenderize the meat, the chef whittles that time down to a sabbath. Also at work are disciplines like foraging for wild edibles, cold and hot smoking, and fermentation and pickling, all pursuits at which Umansky and the team excel. Despite the weird science taking place behind the scenes, the food would look right at home in an early-20th century tenement. “If someone were to come in here and eat, most of the food would
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look, feel, and taste the same as what they’re used to seeing at a deli,” Umansky asserts. That pastrami sandwich ($12) features thick-cut but tender meat layered into soft rye with red cabbage sauerkraut and grainy mustard. It isn’t a mile-high jaw-breaker, but it’s every bit as satisfying and delicious. Still, I’d skip that pastrami in a heartbeat in favor of the fried chicken sandwich ($9). A hot, crisp and chin-
the charcuterie board ($20) include cured venison “ham,” headcheese made from lamb neck, tongue and shank, and spicy ’nduja. Larder’s menu is so small that it fits on a modest chalkboard. But it’s also deceiving given the amount of items that aren’t listed, such as the colorful salads, slaws, pickles and vegetables that fill the coolers. It’s also a moving target thanks to the hyper-seasonality of the ingredient list. On recent visits, daily specials
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drippingly juicy buttermilk-brined thigh is tucked into a soft bun with lettuce, mayo and pickled onions. The Daily Wurst ($9) might be a bologna and cheese corndog on Tuesday, hot Hungarian sausage on Wednesday, and a fried bologna sandwich on Thursday. Likewise, the Daily Catch ($12) can veer from a house-smoked whitefish salad sandwich or crispy fried smelts to gefilte fish that more closely resembles a fine seafood terrine than a clunky oblong mass. Other “variety meats” that might land on
ran the gamut from “truly wild” cherry blintzes to acorn spaetzle with foraged mushrooms and kraut. In the cooler was a kaleidoscope of sides that included pickled green beans, wild mushroom and milkweed salad, kosher dill carrots, and sauerruben, a sauerkraut-like slaw made from turnips, to name just a few. You’ll almost always find that pastrami and fried chicken, but the matzo ball soup can be elusive in summer, replaced, perhaps, by chilled asparagus soup, borscht or
no soup at all. One day’s fortuitous allotment of chicken of the woods mushrooms was transformed into a “pastrami” sandwich ($14) that my vegan pal described as, “supermeaty, but it fell off a tree!” Larder’s secret weapon is Allie LaValle-Umansky, a master baker who happens to be married to the chef. Breads like the braided challah, slightly sour rye, and spent-grain amazake buttermilk bread elevate everything they touch. Sweet and savory pastries like chocolate-swirled babka, dark and chewy chocolate chip cookies, seasonal fruit-filled rugelach, flaky potato knishes and brie-stuffed pretzels will doubtless boost home values in the neighborhood. On a warm day, when the garage door façade is rolled up and away, the boundary between shop and shtetl melt away, with diners spilling out onto the shared front patio. Visitors to the 1850s-era firehouse would be forgiven for thinking that Larder has been a staple of this near-west community for years, which is the highest praise one can heap upon a new concern.
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Liquid to Close After 24 Years; Will Reopen as New Concept “We’re taking the summer to gut, remodel, rebrand and rename the space,” says GM Eric Howe of Liquid, which closed last Saturday. “When it reopens it will be as an entirely new space and concept.” Club impresario Terry Barbu opened Liquid 24 years ago in the original Fat Fish Blue space on West Sixth Street, setting in motion a decade-long string of hits that included Spy Bar and Wish, cementing the Warehouse District as Cleveland’s premier entertainment district. Current management has operated the club for more than a decade and has made major and minor changes over the years to adapt to changing trends. Now, says Howe, it’s time to cut the cord and start anew. “Twenty-four years downtown is an insane amount of time to not do something new,” he says. With an event scheduled for Aug. 31, there is a hard, nonnegotiable date of completion, Howe states. He expects the new venture to be open to the public by the following week — as a nightlife destination, but not as a conventional nightclub. “It will not be a nightclub, but more of a transitional space that is busy during the day maybe as a casual eatery and then transforms into a party place at night,” Howe explains. “That’s more of the attitude and design we’re going for as far as our food menu, cocktail menu and layout.” Howe says that there’s still a niche for entertainment-driven destinations that aren’t the same-old cocktail bars, restaurants and breweries. “People who travel want nightlife and don’t necessarily want to hang out at a brewery or restaurant. I don’t think you have to be a straight-up nightclub anymore to succeed in the nightlife business.” Howe says that he and his partners are bullish on West Sixth Street and the Warehouse District in general.
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MUSIC EMBRACING THE ’80S Pop duo Aly & AJ reinvents itself on its new EP By Jeff Niesel LAST YEAR, THE POP DUO Aly & AJ returned after a 10-year hiatus with the EP Ten Years, an album of introspective tunes laden with ’80s-inspired synthesizers. Album opener “Take Me” features rattling drum machine beats and falsetto vocals and sounds like Like a Virgin-era Madonna. “The Distance” is a breakup tune that nicely mirrors “Potential Break-Up Song,” the band’s big hit from 2007. Currently on a North American headlining tour that will hit 15 cities, the group comes to House of Blues on Saturday. In a recent conference call, sisters Alyson “Aly” and Amanda “AJ” Michalka talk about the group’s comeback.
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is like. It’s like, “This is the song that I’m going to break your heart to.” ALY: We wrote it in one night. We had
finished 80 percent of it and had the rough demo vocal we had put down and the music that was the main hook of the song on a CD. At that point, we weren’t driving ourselves to the studio yet. We had our security drive us to Santa Monica, where we were recording. On the way home, we had him put the CD on, on the song, and we finished it in the car. It was one of those songs that flowed out organically. It started with a beat, which we had never done before. One of our producers suggested we do that and get inspired by that, and it worked.
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ALY: Growing up, we kind of listened ALY: It was a period of time when
to everything. I mean, it was primarily gospel and classic rock. We grew up with the Beach Boys and the Police and Led Zeppelin and Heart. Those would be the main influences. Our mom was on the gospel side and our dad was on the classic rock side. AT WHAT POINT DID YOU START PLAYING TOGETHER?
songs we already had started. AJ: It wasn’t stressful. It was an
ALY: We started writing when we
were 13 and 11, or something like that. We were really young. AJ: The first song we wrote together
was called “Protecting Me.” It’s on our first record, and people still remember it. It was just a sweet song about our parents who protected us and made us feel safe because we had such a great family structure.
easy time for us. We had all these songs ready to go and we had just gotten signed. We didn’t realize how hard it is to get to that level and how integral it is to your career. We thought it was this cool opportunity,
delivering music the label was excited about and that the fans loved. We really wanted to have a good single. We didn’t think about that with [our debut] Into the Rush. AJ: The record was a quiet success.
Having a single like “Potential Break-Up Song” that has maintained
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WHAT WAS IT LIKE MAKING THAT FIRST ALBUM, 2005’S INTO THE RUSH ? ALY: It was really fun to make. We
hadn’t made a record, so it was a whole new experience for us. We were excited to be in the studio and order out and get dinner there and be up until midnight. Most of the songs had already been written for that album. We did some additional co-writing with other people on
we didn’t know how to address our band as Aly & AJ. We had put out two records as well as a Christmas record. We had toured and started really young. We didn’t know what our new direction or sound would be, but we needed to release new music. We wanted to branch out and give ourselves a different band name and have that experience from a younger past and figuring out who we were as adults. I don’t think it necessarily worked. But it was so rewarding to release a song like “Hothouse.” People responded to that era even though it was short-lived. We realized after 10 years that we needed to go back to our first names and give the fans what they want. It was a no-brainer. That moment was a sweet moment for us.
but it was very fun and kind of effortless. Looking back, I think, “What an opportunity we had and at such a young age.”
its power for so long is really amazing. I look back, and I don’t regret the extra effort. That record got us to the next level.
INSOMNIATIC RECEIVED CRITICAL ACCLAIM WHEN IT CAME OUT. WHAT DID YOU DO DIFFERENTLY WITH THAT ALBUM?
DID SOMETHING SPECIFIC INSPIRE “POTENTIAL BREAK UP SONG”? AJ: It was actually not about anyone
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ALY: Yeah, at that point, we became
independent artists. We needed to rebrand ourselves. We wanted to shed the preconceptions that we were manufactured, which we really weren’t. Along with [singer] Jesse McCartney, we were one of the few artists who did what we wanted to at that time. New people were coming into the label, but music wasn’t | clevescene.com | June 27 - July 3, 2018
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their main passion. They didn’t think we were real musicians. That offended AJ and I because we were real artists. Attention was given to these other artists who weren’t even writing their own music. WHEN DID THE SONGS FOR YOUR LATEST ALBUM, TEN YEARS, START TO COME TOGETHER?
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2016 in April. We started working with two co-writers, Jamie Sierota and Ryan Straker. Those songs are born from those sessions. We met them through a mentor of ours, Mike Elizondo. He’s an incredible producer and songwriter at Warner Bros. right now. We came to him and asked him to help us and he introduced us to those two incredible writers who we’ve worked with for the past two years. YOU’VE SELF-RELEASED THE ALBUM. WHAT WAS THAT LIKE? AJ: There is an independent label we worked with called AWOL. It’s been awesome. There are so many great independent artists doing it correctly and we’ve been able to accomplish that. We want to sign a major label deal and think it’s the best fit for the music we do. Radio support is integral. Right now, we’re comfortable where we’re at. WHAT MADE YOU WANT TO ADOPT AN ’80S SYNTH POP SOUND FOR THE SONGS?
YOU WROTE “I KNOW” AFTER A FRIEND DIED OF CANCER. TALK ABOUT THAT. ALY: We wrote it very soon after an
acquaintance of ours passed away. It was someone we hadn’t seen in a while. We wanted to write a song that wasn’t an obvious song about someone passing away but could be about someone going through depression or a relapse or whatever it might be. It came out very quickly. I think we finished it in two days. “THE DISTANCE” IS REALLY INTROSPECTIVE. WHAT’S THE STORY BEHIND THAT SONG? AJ: It’s personal to me. I was in
a long-distance relationship for two years. It was important to me, and we tried to make it work. It became a battle that I didn’t want to continue doing. It’s personal to me in that it marks that chapter of my life. It’s about trying to make something work as much as I can but eventually having to sever those ties. IT’S ALSO ABOUT THE DISTANCES BETWEEN PEOPLE, WHETHER THEY’RE PHYSICAL OR EMOTIONAL. AJ: Absolutely. HAVE THERE BEEN ANY REMIXES OF THE SONGS? AJ: We had a guy remix “Take Me,”
which is really neat. I would love to get some of the other tunes remixed. It would be fun to eventually do something with Calvin Harris. ALY: We’re obsessed with him.
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had written. If I heard another artist singing these songs, I would be jealous because they’re dope songs. We got that inspiration through the music we listen to and because of our producers. The melodies of the songs we were exploring work with well with an ’80s nostalgic production.
AJ: We did some of it in our writers’ house. We did some of it at Phantom, which was amazing. It’s a beautiful studio that has a lot of history to it. We had an amazing mixer, and the producers did an amazing job. We were very detailed about what we wanted.
IS THERE A FULL-LENGTH IN THE WORKS? AJ: After this tour, we’ll head right
back to the studio. We might release another EP first and then conclude those two chapters with a third chapter. WHAT WILL THE SHOW HERE BE LIKE? AJ: It’s really fun. It’s a lot of synths.
It’s high energy. It’s a mix of old and new. We have a giant disco ball that we take on the road with us. It’s a big party, and we can connect with the fans in a great way. The live show is locked in. Last night in Toronto, it was so insane. We even played “Potential Break-Up Song” twice. It’s going to be a great show. You don’t want to miss it.
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MUSIC SIGN OF THE TIMES Ray LaMontagne addresses our ‘cultural illness’ on his new album By Jeff Niesel SINGER-SONGWRITER RAY LaMontagne spent his childhood moving from place to place. At the time, he found it disruptive. Looking back on it, he thinks otherwise. “I grew up all over the country — Nebraska and Tennessee and Utah,” he says via phone. He performs with opener Neko Case at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday at Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica. The show supports his new album, Part of the Light. “[When I moved to] Maine, that was just another stop along the way. I think I’m a child of America more than I’m a child of any one particular place. When you’re growing up, it’s kind of tough [to move around so much], but looking back on it, I’m so glad we moved around as much as we did.” LaMontagne got his start nearly 20 years ago when he recorded 10 songs for a demo album that he sent to out to music venues in an attempt to get gigs as an opening act. He succeeded and opened for John Gorka and Jonathan Edwards. That gig led to others, and LaMontagne would ink a record deal and issue his major label debut, Trouble, in 2004. Ethan Johns (Kings of Leon, Paul McCartney, Ryan Adams) produced the disc. “It’s hard to cast my mind back that far,” says LaMontagne when asked about the trials and tribulations of recording his debut album. “It was a new experience for me. I was a carpenter at the time. My wife and I were living off the grid in a small cottage I built. We had two young boys who are now grown men. Our relationship started when we were young. We’ve been together for 29 years now and have known each other since we were 8. What I remember most is that I had to leave Sarah off the grid, with two young boys to take care of, to go to L.A. to get a record made. It was a difficult time for all of us.” Things would get better in the wake of the album’s release. Several of the album’s songs appeared in popular TV programs, and the tracks “Shelter” and “How Come” found their way into major motion pictures. After making his impressive debut, LaMontagne went on to tour and record steadily. Part of the
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Light represents his first attempt at producing a record himself. He says that taking control didn’t present any major complications even if LaMontagne has always worked with a producer of some stature in the past. “It’s not a whole lot different than having a producer in the room or collaborating with someone else,” he says when asked what it was like to produce Part of the Light. “[My Morning Jacket’s] Jim [James] and I produced [2016’s] Ouroboros together, and it’s really the same thing. As a producer, the most important role I had was to make sure I had the people I wanted
out better than you think it will.” Rather abstractly, he says he sought to pay particular attention to the album’s “color.” By that, we think he means the sonic textures and tone. “For this record, it came down to mic choices,” he says. “And there was a lot of discussion about the synth choices and what other kinds of colors we wanted. I also really wanted to get a very distinct drum sound. That can sound silly, but it’s an important thing. There were specific references I was making at the time about where the drums would sit and where my vocals would sit. These are things we talked about
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in the room. Working with Jim, we collaborated on those choices. Working with [the Black Keys/the Arcs] Dan [Auerbach], he made those choices. That’s what it comes down to. Once you’re in the room, it’s the same process. You communicate what you want and ask your friends to help you get what you want. Hopefully, you have some happy accidents along the way and it turns
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in the studio.” The tender album opener, “To the Sea,” sounds like a traditional folk ballad as LaMontagne sings in a hushed voice about the “shells that we found in the sand” and “clouds in the blue.” The title track features acoustic guitars and harmony vocals. Trippy synthesizers kick in mid-song. “It just felt like [“To the Sea”]
summed up where my head has been at,” says LaMontagne. “All the other songs revolved around that. “Paper Man” has more heft to it, thanks to its distorted guitars, and the same goes for “As Black as Blood is Blue.” “It’s a lot heavier than the other songs,” LaMontagne says when asked about “As Black as Blood is Blue.” “Sometimes, you just need to turn it up.” “No Answer Arrives” features a great guitar riff and some oldschool organ; it has the kind of grit that Auerbach brought out of LaMontagne on 2014’s Supernova. LaMontagne, who opens up for the first time during our short phone call, says it speaks to our troubled times. “I think it ties into the theme of all the songs,” says LaMontagne when asked about the tune. “It’s a feeling that our culture has taken a turn, and it feels like there’s a cultural illness. The pendulum has swung so far in one direction. Everything feels strained. There’s ugliness thrown in your face every day, and you just get saturated with it. I just hope that it’s going to swing back the other way soon.” We couldn’t agree more.
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Bad Boys of Blues Jam: 9 p.m., free. Smedley’s. Bishop Briggs/L.I.F.T.: With a tough, unwaveringly soulful voice, London native Bishop Briggs raised eyebrows with her impressive debut, Church of Scars, spawning four Billboard Top 40 Alternative singles. Among them, “White Flag” is Briggs’ darkest track yet; she masters her sound while leading a full choir of backup singers in a chorus that will give you chills. “River,” however, is the clear standout of the four hits. Displaying Briggs’ voice in its rawest form, it pulls influence from both AfricanAmerican spirituals and R&B, accompanied by hard-hitting bass and percussion. Briggs will be joined at the Beachland tonight by L.I.F.T, newcomers who have found a way to blend indie rock, EDM and rap without overwhelming the listener. (Halle Weber) 8 p.m., $25. Beachland Ballroom. The Chestertons (in the Supper Club): 6 p.m., free. Music Box Supper Club. Closet Goth/Joseph Maxwell/Shy Moon/Luke Evans: 9 p.m., $5. Now That’s Class. Descartes A Kant/Cereal Banter/ Kiss Me Deadly: 8:30 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Grog Shop. Michigan Rattlers/Kate Kooser: 8:30 p.m., $8 ADV, $10 DOS. Beachland Tavern. Remember Sports/Sedna’s Not Alone/Biitchseat/Mary Kekic/ Cobbles (in the Locker Room): 7 p.m., $10. Mahall’s 20 Lanes.
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39th Annual Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland with Kirk Whalum/ Dee Dee Bridgewater/Diva Jazz Orchestra: 7:30 p.m., $35-$95. KeyBank State Theatre. Arms & Armour/FuzzQueen/The Fifth House (in the Basement): 8 p.m. Mahall’s 20 Lanes. Natalie Cressman: 8 p.m., $15. Nighttown. Duo Decibel System/Jeremy Porter & the Tucos/Dutch Babies: 8 p.m., $6. Grog Shop. FreeByrds Musician’s Night: 10 p.m., free. Smedley’s. Chris Hatton’s Musical Circus (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m., free. Brothers Lounge.
Invocation Spells/Outline/ Destructor: 7 p.m., $8 ADV, $10 DOS. Now That’s Class. Nick Lowe’s Quality Rock & Roll Revue Featuring Los Straitjackets/The Pi Power Trio: 8 p.m., $30 ADV, $35 DOS. Beachland Ballroom. Muamin Collective/Sam Supreme/ Pablo Amor/Candi Fresca: 9 p.m., $5 ADV, $7 DOS. CODA. Zephaniah OHora/Charles Hill Jr. (in the Supper Club): 8 p.m., $8 ADV, $10 DOS. Music Box Supper Club.
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Arrested Development/Jahi of PE 2.0: 9 p.m., $25 ADV, $30 DOS. House of Blues. Dead Boys/Archie and the Bunkers: Formed in Cleveland in 1976, the Dead Boys were one of the first American acts to play hardcore punk. Young, Loud and Snotty, their 1977 debut, featured the blistering underground hit “Sonic Reducer.” The band broke up in 1979 but reunited for a few shows in the 1980s. After the death of singer Stiv Bators in 1990, the band members have rarely played together. Guitarist Jason Kottwitz, bassist Ricky Rat and singer Jake Hout, who performs in the Dead Boys tribute band the Undead Boys, will join Cheetah Chrome and Johnny Blitz tonight at the Beachland, to mark a new version of their seminal punk album. (Jeff Niesel) 8:30 p.m., $18 ADV, $20 DOS. Beachland Ballroom. Dead Letter Office: 8 p.m., $8-$12. The Winchester. Fool House ’90s Dance Party: 9:30 p.m., $7. Musica. Frayle/Temple of the Fuzz Witch/ Sparrowmilk/Arms & Armour: 9 p.m., $8. Grog Shop. Funky Feat: 8 p.m., $30-$40. The Kent Stage. Iconica Sings Disney (in the Supper Club): 7 p.m. Music Box Supper Club. In Training: June Recognition with Archetype/Adab/KiernanLaveaux: 9 p.m., $8. Now That’s Class. Halie Loren: 8:30 p.m., $20. Nighttown. Mourning [A] BLKstar/times10/ Brian Straw: 8:30 p.m., $8. Mahall’s 20 Lanes. The Nathan-Paul Band/The Robin Blake Sound Experiment: 9 p.m., $5 ADV, $8 DOS. CODA.
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Rata Negra: 9 p.m., $8. Now That’s Class. Sarah Shook & the Disarmers/GS Harper & the Sinners: 10 p.m., $10. Beachland Tavern.
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39th Annual Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland with Common and Jose James: 8 p.m., $35-$90. State Theatre. 39th Annual Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland with Terence Blanchard and Grace Kelly: 3:30 p.m., $25$35. Allen Theatre. 39th Annual Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland with Vinicius Cantuaria: 1 p.m., $30. Hanna Theatre. 39th Annual Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland wth Snarky Puppy: 6 p.m., $15-$40. Ohio Theatre. All Eyes on Her with Boss Lucci/Big 40/Mz Crazy Tee/J Leshelle and more: 7 p.m., $10 ADV, $20 DOS. Grog Shop. Aly & AJ/Rainsford: 8 p.m., $20 ADV, $25 DOS. House of Blues. Black Violin: Nobody expected two performing arts students from Florida who immersed themselves in hip-hop to become successful classical musicians with crossover appeal. Then again, nobody ever pursued the pairing of classical string instruments with bass drops and dance mixes as fiercely as Kev Marcus (violin) and Will B
(viola) did. The duo’s fans are just as random: Black Violin shows are filled with millennial rap fans and Baby Boomer classical enthusiasts. The pair’s latest full-length, Stereotypes, offers a range of skilled instrumentals. “Walk on By” has the beat of a Kendrick Lamar song, a choral vocal addition and the high-tension strings of the soundtrack to a chase scene in an action film. “Stay Clear,” a collaboration with Robert Glasper and Kandace Springs, mixes oldschool jazz, classic blues/roots and perfectly placed orchestral accompaniment with the fresh beat of ’90s hip-hop. (Weber) 8 p.m., $35. Cain Park. Byrne and Kelly: 7:30 p.m., $38-$58. The Winchester. Dueling Pianos with Cleveland Keys (in the Supper Club): 7 p.m., $15. Music Box Supper Club. Inmates/No Time/Der Kommissar/ Mr. California: 8 p.m., $10. Now That’s Class. Knightlife/Suitcase Runaway/Three Legged Chairs/Funeral Proposals (in the Locker Room): 7 p.m., $10. Mahall’s 20 Lanes. Ray LaMontagne/Neko Case: 7:30 p.m., $32. Jacobs Pavilion. Camille Marie: 8:30 p.m., $10. Musica. Morticia’s Chair/Agenda 21: 9 p.m., $5 ADV, $7 DOS. CODA. Nightlife (in the Locker Room): 7 p.m., $10. Mahall’s 20 Lanes. Ariel Pocock: 8:30 p.m., $20. Nighttown. Suzanne Santo/Leah James: 9 p.m., $13 ADV, $15 DOS. Beachland Ballroom. Tropical Cleveland (in the Supper Club): 11 p.m., $10 ADV, $15 DOS. Music Box Supper Club. Steven Tyler and the Loving Mary Band/The Sisterhood Band: 8 p.m., $119.50-$179.50. Hard Rock Rocksino Northfield Park. Alex Williams/Josh Card: 9:30 p.m., $12 ADV, $15 DOS. Beachland Tavern.
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Oso Oso/Queen of Jeans/Runaway Brother/The Sonder Bombs: Oso Oso looks like a typical indie band, but dig a little deeper and you’ll ďŹ nd it’s the little things that set them apart. “Great Big Beachesâ€? is a standout that delves deeper than the bulk of The Yunahon Mixtape, the New York boys’ latest fulllength. The shiniest gems, however, are found in this year’s two-track EP. “Gb/ol h/nfâ€? is a well-written nostalgic endeavor and “subside,â€? a slowed-down experiment with a huge payoff. Queen of Jeans, who toe the line between trippy and rebellious with a cool conďŹ dence, opens the show. (Weber) 7 p.m., $12. Mahall’s 20 Lanes. Skatch Anderssen Orchestra: 8 p.m., $7. Brothers Lounge. Velvet Voyage (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m. Brothers Lounge.
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Ancient River/Brujas Del Sol/Oregon Space Trail of Doom: 9 p.m., $8 ADV, $10 DOS. Mahall’s 20 Lanes. Chicago Tribute by Beginnings: 8 p.m., $20 ADV, $25 DOS. Music Box Supper Club. Dead Fall/Mallory Run/Keepsake/ Gold Steps/Model Rockets/Fair Weather Friend (in the Locker Room): 7 p.m., $10. Mahall’s 20 Lanes. Eric Seddon’s Hot Club (in the Supper Club): 7 p.m., $8 ADV, $10 DOS. Music Box Supper Club.
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A GROUP OF HOOLIGANS: The group’s roots go back to the punk rock scene of the ’90s. Somerville used to sing in the Hooligans, a popular local punk band that broke up in 2000. At a reunion show in 2015, Somerville decided to start a new band. “At that show, the response was so positive, I decided to get back into music full-time again,” he says. “I reached out to like-minded people.” The name has a deeper meaning. It’s the pseudonym of a counter-cultural icon who would take magazines like Life and Time and alter the advertisements for companies profiting from the Vietnam War. He’d insert them back into circulation and, as Somerville puts it, “freak people out on a massive scale.” “We live up to our name in every sense of the word,” says Somerville, who has a master’s degree in political science from Case Western Reserve University. “Our main focus is not to tell people what to think or how to vote. We want to get people to think for themselves and become more aware of what’s going on in the world.”
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