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

Ohio targets incentives for “low-income” neighborhoods like Ohio City, Tremont and University Circle, plus RTA gets some state cash

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The Cleveland Metroparks Zoo and others trace what’s been killing gorillas in captivity

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UPFRONT OHIO DESIGNATES ‘OPPORTUNITY ZONES’ TO ENTICE DEVELOPMENT IN ‘HIGHPOVERTY AREAS’ LIKE DOWNTOWN, OHIO CITY, TREMONT AND UNIVERSITY CIRCLE THE CITY OF CLEVELAND WAS among the local entities that submitted a list of census tracts to the state of Ohio for a new economic development incentive that aims to stimulate private investment in “lowincome, high-poverty” areas. Local tracts selected for the new “Opportunity Zone” designation, fi rst reported by Crain’s Cleveland Business, were also submitted by Cuyahoga County and the Greater Cleveland Partnership, in conjunction with the Fund for our Economic Future and Team NEO, the same regional business organizations keeping an airtight seal on the failed Amazon HQ2 bid, and the “trade secrets” therein. In a press release last month, GCP (Cleveland’s chamber of commerce) announced that it had submitted a “joint prioritization list” of its selections to the state, having “worked closely with” the city of Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, and other partners to identify potential census tracts. But the tracts selected by the state for the Opportunity Zone designation — which, again, is meant to target distressed areas for new investment — scan like a map of Cleveland’s hottest neighborhoods. The map includes all of downtown, the eastern portion of Ohio City, including Hingetown and 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 along Euclid Avenue. In a March 2 letter to Gov. John Kasich, obtained via public records request, Mayor Jackson said that his staff had focused on “edge neighborhoods,” as identified in a study that he commissioned from the CSU Center for Population Dynamics, “to help target investments in areas that are strategically positioned for growth.” “At my direction, City of Cleveland staff has identified areas of opportunity where there will be significant returns both to investors

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Cleveland ”Opportunity Zones”

and the community,” Jackson wrote Kasich. Accompanying maps identiﬁed “primary” and “secondary” census tracts in keeping with Jackson’s Neighborhood Transformation Initiative (NTI), the public-private partnership “aimed at revitalizing neighborhoods where traditional development models have not worked.” Jackson announced the ﬁ rst phase of that initiative two weeks ago, a mixed-use development project on East 105th Street and Ashbury Avenue. The development team on the project will consist of the Finch Group, Ozanne Construction and City Architecture. Wesley Finch and Dominic Ozanne are both major campaign contributors. Finch has been among the most lavish and consistent donors to the Council Leadership Fund, and Dominic Ozanne was one of three business leaders to organize a controversial fundraiser for Frank Jackson in Gates Mills last year. In addition to the census tracts

ultimately selected by the state, the city’s nominations included three tracts on the westside “Lorain Corridor,” three additional tracts in North Collinwood, and three tracts in the Industrial Valley. Tracts in Hough, East Glenville, Slavic Village, Old Brooklyn and DetroitShoreway were given secondary prioritization. “There needs to be an intentional approach that ensures community benefit and increases the market confidence by the investor that a return is likely,” the maps stated. “The Mayor’s Neighborhood Transformation Initiative is predicated on the premise of improving market confidence in inherently disadvantaged neighborhoods.” Cleveland city council had no idea tracts were being nominated and shipped to the state. Some councilpeople were miffed by Kasich’s selections — both because the tracts weren’t representative of the region’s actual economic distress and because they weren’t consulted

on the nominations. Ward 15 councilman Matt Zone, a presumed mayoral candidate in 2021, took to Twitter to bash Kasich: “Hey Gov. @JohnKasich you whiffed on your selections of opportunity zones for the @ CityofCleveland Can you tell me who you worked with on these selections? I’d like to take you on a tour of some of our most impoverished neighborhoods.” When Scene spoke with Zone by phone, he said he thought the “concept and intent” of the Opportunity Zone program were both good, and reflective of sentiment in Washington that the Community Development Block Grant program had to be more targeted. Zone said that he feared with presumed future reductions to CDBG dollars, Cleveland would lose the ability to invest in its poorest communities. But he said the OZ program could be a complementary investment tool. He described it in laymen’s terms. “For every $100 invested in an Opportunity Zone, $7.50 would be tax exempt,” he said. “That’s the margin a developer needs to make a profit. So that’s the encouragement to the private sector. That’s a good program in theory, but the application is key.” The Plain Dealer’s Michelle Jarboe explained the incentive this way: “First, an investor with capital gains — such as profits from selling stock or real estate — can delay paying tax on those gains by putting the money into a fund focused on opportunity zones. Second, investors who maintain their opportunityfund investments for five to seven years will be able to avoid paying taxes on a portion of those original gains. Unless Congress modifies the law, though, the bulk of the gains still will become taxable at the end of 2026. Third, investors who stick around for at least a decade won’t have to pay taxes on any new gains from their opportunity-zone investments. Zone said he felt that the | clevescene.com | April 11 - 17, 2018

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nomination process was rushed and that important conversations that could have happened in city council committee hearings never happened. He said conversations only “began in earnest” at the tail end of February, less than a month before the nominations were due on March 21. Jackson’s letter to Kasich was dated March 2, so there would have been ample time for council suggestions and amendments. “There was not one hearing, not one presentation by the administration,” Zone said. “As far as I know, there was no hearing at county council either.” Zone said it was clear GCP lead the regional effort, both at the county and city level, and that as a result, theregion’shealthiestneighborhoods, “neighborhoods that are rapidly gentrifying,” are the ones being targeted for investment. “I believe that by targeting these areas, with the business community driving the train, that this is all about private sector development,” Zone said. “It’s not about building equitableandinclusivecommunities.” Anthony Brancatelli, who chairs city council’s Development, Planning and Sustainability committee, conﬁrmed that council had had no input. “GCP has been in front of my committee before for a number of legislative actions,” Brancatelli told Scene. “They never reached out to us for our input on this. I agree, the maps produced do not reﬂect economically distressed areas.” The city of Cleveland’s economic development director of nine years, Tracey Nichols, told Scene that while she did not consult for the city of Cleveland, she did submit information to the state on behalf of other clients. She did not seem to share Councilman Zone’s concern that the Opportunity Zone program was more about private-sector development than “low-income, high-poverty neighborhoods.” “I think [the program] was designed to give developers a big enough incentive to invest in these neighborhoods,” she said in a voice message. “And I think that Cleveland is well-positioned to receive a lot of investment. First of all, we have a lot of developers already investing in some of these neighborhoods, and second of all, compared to other cities across the country, we had our downtown included, which is really great in some ways. In other ways,

it was based on a census that was almost 10 years ago, when we had lower incomes there, but we’re lucky they used that census.” Nichols said she agreed there were neighborhoods left out in the state’s selections — she cited Lakewood by name — but was otherwise optimistic. “Cleveland is in a unique position to have developers really want to make investments, and I think all our neighborhoods will beneﬁt as long as there’s potential in the market, with an additional boost, to make a project work. I think it’s exciting.” — Sam Allard

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facilities. The U.S. Department of Transportation Grant provides funds for operators of bus routes to “replace, rehabilitate and purchase buses, vans, and related equipment, and construct bus-related facilities, including technological changes or innovations to modify low or no emission vehicles or facilities.” A spokesperson for RTA said the grant will assist in the conversion from diesel to compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling at the RTA Triskett District facility. “We’d like to thank our elected federal ofﬁcials for their advocacy on our behalf. RTA now can save more than $200,000 over the life of each vehicle because we can fuel our buses with CNG, rather than diesel,” RTA general manager Joe Calabrese said, in a press release. Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur announced the grant in a press release of her own. “As we continue to ﬁght for bold and innovative investments in our infrastructure and manufacturing base, we must remain committed to providing much-needed resources to our public transportation systems,” said Kaptur. “The funds provided in this federal transportation grant will help the Cleveland Regional Transit Authority better serve

residents throughout Northeast Ohio.” RTA also announced that it had received a $400,000 grant from the Ohio EPA to help cover the $25,000 differential between the cost of a diesel bus and a CNG bus, which signiﬁcantly reduces greenhouse gas emissions. While these grants are good news, they are also small potatoes and shouldn’t be confused with long-term funding solutions at the ﬁnancially imperiled RTA. Crain’s Cleveland, in a strongly worded editorial this weekend, called for better regional leadership. “Solving the local transit crisis requires leadership on all fronts,” the editorial said, “and sadly, we’re not seeing much of it from any of the responsible parties.” — Allard

Unsealed Court Docs: Goodyear Knew About Fatal RV Tire Failures for 20 Years; Feds Seeking Additional Records From Company Court documents unsealed last week by a judge in Arizona and obtained by Jalopnik contain an assortment of important revelations

about what and when Goodyear knew about the G159, an RV tire manufactured by the company linked to at least 9 deaths, dozens of injuries and hundreds of crashes, and the subject of numerous lawsuits, since 1996. Those documents had been sealed as part of settlements and court hearings, and thus largely hidden from public view. They also confirm information from Jalopnik ’s investigation into the tire, republished by Scene a couple of weeks ago, that found when installed on motorhomes, which are regularly driven at more than 65 mph, the G159 commonly suffered from heat-induced failure. Among the revelations: 1) Goodyear received claims on failures of the G159 as early as 1996, the year it was first made. 2) Goodyear, in reports to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in 2006, drastically understated how many incidents the tire, dubbed “the worst tire ever made,” was involved in, citing only 7 injuries to the NHTSA even though it had received reports of more than 74, and citing 58 failures when it knew of at least 458. 3) Goodyear continued to receive reports of failures and injuries from

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FOR DECADES, SOMETHING STRANGE WAS STOPPING THE HEARTS OF GORILLAS IN CAPTIVITY The Cleveland Metroparks Zoo and others are beginning to trace the culprit By Krista Langlois JUST BEFORE 8 O’CLOCK ON A snowy Wednesday morning, deep in a maze of doors and steel fencing in the basement of the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, a 30-year-old gorilla named Mokolo is getting a heart exam. He’s voluntarily shambled up to a stainless-steel fence, squatted on his stout legs, and pressed his belly to the mesh. Now he looks at the ceiling with thinly veiled exasperation, like a kid who wants to play outside but knows he has to stand still long enough to get slathered with sunscreen ﬁrst. His expression is so recognizably human that it’s disconcerting. An animal keeper, Brian Price, crouches on the other side of the mesh. “There you go, Moki,” he murmurs, passing a green bean into Mokolo’s mouth as a treat. The 400-pound animal gently accepts it

with his lips. Through a small opening in the fence, Price rubs ultrasound gel on Mokolo’s thrust-out belly. Mokolo bats at Price’s hand. He wipes off some of the goo and examines it with a suspicious expression, frowning as he rubs it between thumb and forefinger. Then, as though satisfied it’s the same substance Price used last week, he raises his arm above his head and looks back at the ceiling. His fingers, with black nails and creased knuckles, curl around the steel fencing. “Hold,” says Price softly, rolling an ultrasound probe over Mokolo’s ribs. Mokolo holds still. A few feet away, a pulsating gray-and-white image of Mokolo’s heart appears on a portable ultrasound machine. Mike Selig, a staff veterinarian, watches the

right ventricle flutter open to let in blood, and the left ventricle pump it out. Rhythmic and regular: Good. Selig records Mokolo’s heart rate, then pushes a button to capture a photo. Later, he’ll measure the fluid that’s collected around Mokolo’s heart cavity to make sure it hasn’t increased, and add the information to a national database. Like many captive male gorillas, Mokolo suffers from heart disease —specifically, fibrosing cardiomyopathy, a condition that turns red, healthy heart muscle into bands of white scar tissue too rigid to pump blood. Although heart disease is nearly absent in wild populations, it’s the leading killer of captive male gorillas around the world. Roughly 70 percent of adult male gorillas in North America have heart disease, and many die prematurely as a

result. Other great apes, such as orangutans and chimpanzees, suffer at similar rates. For more than a decade, zookeepers, veterinarians, epidemiologists and others have struggled to ﬁgure out why heart disease is so prevalent among captive apes, and how to prevent the animals from developing it. Now they may be closing in on an answer — one that lies not in the 20-ounce time bombs housed in gorillas’ chests, but in the microscopic bacteria that ﬂourish in their guts.

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FEATURE much as modern gorillas. As the climate got cooler and drier, Miocene forests gave way to grasslands, and most ape species went extinct. Gorillas, bonobos, orangutans, and chimpanzees were among the survivors. But the animals we now call the great apes weren’t alone. Another type of hominid held on too, and its brain eventually grew complex enough to use tools, cultivate fire, and invent the bulldozers and chain saws that are today tearing down great apes’ last ecological strongholds. Largely because of logging, agriculture, and poaching by humans, the International Union for Conservation of Nature considers all six species of great apes endangered, with four of the six — the eastern gorilla, western gorilla, Bornean orangutan, and Sumatran orangutan — critically endangered. While humans have pushed wild apes to the edge of a second mass extinction, we have an abiding zeal for keeping our closest evolutionary kin in captivity. Some of the earliest captive apes were held in menageries owned by European royals in the 17th and 18th centuries, an era when intellectuals debated whether apes were exotic beasts or some distant, savage race of humans. Without a clear answer, the creatures were treated as both — shackled with iron chains but given linens for their bed and meals of bread, strawberries, and fine Spanish wine. By the early 20th century, scientists had managed to classify great apes into distinct species, but still had little idea how to care for them. The first gorilla to cross the Atlantic ocean into North America, a female western lowland gorilla named Madame Ningo, arrived at New York’s Bronx Zoo from the French Congo in 1911. Perhaps because she so closely resembled a human — or because her oversized canines suggested the mandible of a vicious carnivore — zookeepers tried feeding her cooked meat and other hot dinners from the nearby Rocking Stone restaurant. They were perplexed when she refused to eat. Within two weeks, Madame Ningo died. The zoo director, William Temple Hornaday, wrote bitterly that the animal “deserved to be [dead], for its obstinacy.” Perhaps he didn’t realize that gorillas are herbivores — their sharp canines are for stripping bark off fibrous African plants or baring at opponents in mating

displays, not tearing through steaks. Madame Ningo’s successor, Dinah, suffered a similar fate, dying after 11 months from a lack of appetite despite no apparent pathological symptoms. Yet zoos continued their quest to bring gorillas to North American audiences. “Undoubtedly, the highest desire of every zoological garden and park ... is to own and exhibit a real, live gorilla of a size sufficiently large to compel both admiration and awe,” Hornaday wrote in 1915. As the 20th century progressed, care of gorillas improved — especially after the passage of the 1973 Endangered Species Act, which banned the import of endangered wild apes and gave zoos even greater impetus to maintain self-sustaining captive populations. By the early 1990s, the roughly 230 zoos accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums had begun to shift their purpose from purveyors of “admiration and awe” to serious partners in conservation and education. They adopted mandates to contribute money and manpower to field conservation, and to educate visitors on the threats faced by endangered species. Zoos created “species survival plans” to ensure that captive populations of gorillas and other endangered species were robust enough to act as insurance in case wild populations edged too close to extinction. But early misconceptions about gorillas proved hard to shake. Well into the ’90s, some zoos still fed the animals milk, yogurt, boiled eggs, meat, bread, popcorn, and apples baked with cinnamon. The invention of processed, calorically dense “biscuits” packed with vitamins and nutrients and supplemented with a few fruits and vegetables eventually helped standardize gorilla diets. Animals on the biscuit diet began living longer, seemingly healthier lives, sometimes surviving into their 50s. Infant mortality rates dropped. One female gorilla, Jo Ray K, gave birth to five fuzz-headed infants, including a rambunctious baby boy born on July 10, 1987. Zookeepers named him Mokolo.

WHEN MOKOLO ARRIVED AT THE Cleveland Metroparks Zoo in 1994, he helped establish a bachelor group with three other young males. Wild gorillas often live in bachelor groups when they’re young, and Mokolo settled easily into his new social role. From the start, says the zoo’s executive director and animal behaviorist Chris Kuhar, Mokolo stood out for his big

personality. â€œHe was the punky kid who caused trouble,â€? Kuhar recalls. â€œBut he was also the peacemaker. He was the one who wanted to play, or who wanted to ďŹ ght, or cuddle.â€? Like the 350 or so other gorillas living in AZA zoos, Mokolo appeared relatively content and healthy. Nearly a century after Madame Ningo arrived in the New World, it seemed zoos had ďŹ nally ďŹ gured out great-ape husbandry. Then the silverbacks started dying. In 2006 alone, three beloved male gorillas from 21 to 34 years of age died in quick succession. The culprit turned out to be heart disease. Largely unbeknownst to zookeepers and veterinarians, the disease had been creeping into the hearts of great apes much as it had crept into human hearts in the 20th century. But unlike humans, gorillas with heart problems didnâ€™t show evidence of coronaryartery blockage or high cholesterol. And unlike human hearts, gorilla hearts were almost unknown territory to scientists. â€œWe didnâ€™t even have a deďŹ nition of heart disease in gorillas,â€? says Pam Dennis, a veterinary epidemiologist with Cleveland Metroparks Zoo and assistant professor at the Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine. Once an animal was dead, it was easy enough to identify heart

failure through a necropsy, but since there were no parameters for healthy gorilla hearts, diagnosis and treatment in living animals was tricky. And because heart disease increases the risk of death during anesthesia, veterinarians were reluctant to anesthetize gorillas to perform ultrasounds, install pacemakers, or draw blood to study the disease. Even after the Great Ape Heart Project was created in 2010 to synthesize heart-health information from apes around the country, data arrived in a trickle rather than a ďŹ‚ood. â€œNo vet would anesthetize an adult male gorilla unless they absolutely needed to,â€? Dennis recalls. â€œRoutine health exams just sort of stopped.â€? The ďŹ rst breakthrough came as veterinarians and zookeepers realized they could use apples and green beans as treats to train apes to voluntarily give blood and stand still for cardiac ultrasounds. More institutions began contributing to the Great Ape Heart Project, and Mokolo and other gorillas around the country began shambling up to their keepers and presenting their chests or arms through barriers so the keepers could poke them with a needle or run an ultrasound probe over their abdomens. Before long, veterinarians established what a healthy heart in

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an awake gorilla looks like, making it possible to diagnose animals without anesthetizing them. But with new information came new fears. Both Mokolo and Bebac â€” the only other remaining member of the Cleveland zooâ€™s bachelor group, as well as Mokoloâ€™s closest friend â€” were found to have ďŹ brosing cardiomyopathy. Veterinarians did their best to halt the diseaseâ€™s progress by prescribing human heart medications snuck into the gorillasâ€™ food. But in January 2017, Bebac passed away. He was 32 years old. After Bebac died, two female gorillas named Fredrika and Kebi were brought to Cleveland so Mokolo could fulďŹ ll his next role in the arc of a gorillaâ€™s life, that of a dominant silverback with a harem. Although they each weigh some 200 pounds, the females look diminutive next to him. He frequently watches them out of the corner of his eye, keeping them safe. Zoo staff, meanwhile, are scrambling to keep Mokolo and the other males of his generation alive. Among those staff members is Elena Less, an associate animal curator at the Cleveland zoo who began studying gorilla diets when she was a Ph.D. student at Case Western Reserve University. Given the connection between human diet and heart health, she says, gorillasâ€™ diets seemed like

â€œan obvious place to lookâ€? in the quest to understand heart disease. Less found that the biscuit diet left plenty to be desired. While gorillas are genetically similar to humans, they have very different digestive systems â€” more akin to those in horses. Like horses, gorillas are â€œhind-gut digestersâ€? who process food primarily in their extra-long large intestines rather than their stomachs. That means theyâ€™re great at breaking down ďŹ ber, but not so good with sugars or grains. â€œIf you feed them a sweet potato or commercially grown fruit, theyâ€™ll eat it,â€? explains Less. â€œBut itâ€™s not really giving them a lot of energy.â€? Plus, wild gorillas spend up to 70 percent of their time foraging for high-ďŹ ber plants, while gorillas on the biscuit diet can scarf down their food in just 30 minutes. Kristen Lukas, director of conservation and science at the Cleveland zoo and chair of the Gorilla Species Survival Plan, thinks this might contribute to a behavior called regurgitation and re-ingestion, in which animals intentionally bring up their food and eat it a second time. The behavior has never been recorded in wild gorillas, but itâ€™s well documented in humans with developmental disorders â€” and in some two-thirds of captive gorillas.

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FEATURE Lukas has found that gorillas that regurgitate are actually better adjusted than other captive gorillas in terms of behavior and stress; the behavior may be an adaptation that gives them a sense of control, or allows them to better mimic the amount of time they’d spend eating in the wild. When Less switched the Cleveland gorillas to a new diet — one that cuts out biscuits and simple starches and replaces them with leafy greens, alfalfa, and branches from willow and other trees — she realized gorillas needed to eat about four times as much by weight as they had previously been fed. Not only did gorillas on the “Cleveland diet” get a huge increase in ﬁber, they spent nearly as much time eating as they would in the wild. Almost immediately, the Cleveland gorillas stopped regurgitating their food. “We thought the diet change might have an impact on regurgitation and re-ingestion,” Less says. “But to see it eliminated completely was shocking.” The new diet measurably decreases body fat and lowers cholesterol. But perhaps more importantly, it seems to affect the bacteria living in gorillas’ stomachs and intestines. And those microbes may be the key difference between gorillas with heart disease and those without it.

“I STARTED STUDYING THE brain because I thought it was in control,” says Mary Ann Raghanti, a biological anthropologist at Kent State University who studies both brain evolution and great-ape heart health. “But really it’s the gut. The gut dictates everything. ” In the last decade or so, scientists have begun to explore how the trillions of bacteria, fungi and other microorganisms living in people’s stomachs and intestinal tracts influence our health. What we eat determines which of these microbes thrive, and the composition of our gut flora has wide-ranging implications for other parts of our bodies. Certain gut bacteria, for example, trigger inflammations in our immune systems, while other bacteria secrete substances that infi ltrate our blood or clog arteries, which may help explain why humans with heart disease host very different microbial communities than those with healthy hearts. Katherine Krynak, an assistant

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professor of biology at Ohio Northern University, wanted to understand if bacteria played a similar role in gorilla guts: Do gorillas with heart disease host different bacteria than healthy gorillas? And if so, is it possible to manipulate the bacteria in gorillas’ guts to impact their hearts? Although the work to answer these questions is still in its early stages, the answers appear to be yes. Krynak’s work starts with gorilla poop, which contains hundreds of thousands of strands of DNA from the bacteria in gorillas’ guts. I expected gorilla poop to look something like bear poop — an ominous, steaming pile that clearly belongs to a very large, very wild animal. But gorilla poop is more like the feces of a miniature horse — compact and dryish, with a smell redolent of hay. Zookeepers and graduate students collect samples, freeze-dry them, and put them in vials, then send the vials to Krynak’s lab. Krynak, in turn, extracts the DNA and sequences it to ﬁ gure out which bacteria are present in gorillas’ guts. By analyzing the poop of eight captive gorillas, Krynak, Dennis, and other researchers found that animals with cardiac disease do indeed have different microbiomes than those without it. Krynak compares the bacteria

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to guests at a party. “If you’re at a holiday party, you might behave a certain way. But if close friends come or maybe the host changes the environment by bringing out alcohol, it might change your behavior,” she explains. In her team’s study of gorilla guts, “the fi rst step is to know who’s at the party. Then our next steps are to see, okay, well if you change the environment — if the gorilla eats something different — do you change who’s at the party? Who there are more of and who there are less of? And if you change that proportion, do the functions of those bacteria change?” Researchers are just beginning to understand the mechanics of how, exactly, changing the gutmicrobe party affects other organs. In mice, a diet that’s lacking in fiber seems to wipe out fiber-digesting bacteria and throw off fi nely tuned proportions of gut microbes, which in turn triggers an immune response. The mice develop chronic inflammation and gain weight, conditions that can increase the risk of heart disease. In gorillas, such detailed understanding is still years away. But the connections between animals’ microbiomes and their success in captivity is too promising to ignore. Krynak is now analyzing posthumous fecal samples from Bebac, as well as samples from Mokolo, Kebi and Fredrika to

determine whether the biscuit-free diet creates a microbial “party” similar to that in healthy gorillas. Researchers studying doucs — another endangered primate that struggles to survive in captivity — have found that zoo doucs’ gut bacteria differ significantly from those of their wild cousins but bear an uncanny resemblance to human microbiomes, perhaps because humans and zoo doucs both tend to eat low-fiber diets. Of course, as in any real-world scientific application, there are hiccups. For one thing, you can’t reverse heart disease, so even if Mokolo’s condition doesn’t worsen, it’s hard to know whether it’s attributable to his medications, his diet, or both. Determining whether the Cleveland diet can actually prevent heart disease from taking hold requires an entire generation of young male gorillas to be raised on it, but so far only three zoos besides Cleveland have adopted it — mostly because it’s about four times as expensive as a biscuit-based diet. Of the four zoos, only the North Carolina Zoo has males who have been biscuit-free since they were weaned. Even if those two males grow up without heart disease, they comprise such a small sample that it’ll be difficult to determine whether their health is due to their diet and microbiomes or simply good genes. But in time, the work of Less, Krynak, Kristen Lukas, Pam Dennis, and others may take captive gorillas one step closer to living like their wild cousins — one step in a century-long series of steps and missteps. It’s fitting, Dennis thinks, that our understanding of human medicine and physiology is fi nally contributing to the health and wellbeing of primates, instead of the other way around. “My feeling,” she says, “is that we learned so much about human health by doing research on primates that now it’s sort of like giving back.”

AT 6:30 IN THE MORNING, when the streetlights are still on and the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is closed to the public, Brian Price, the gorilla keeper, shows up for work in faded Carhartts and a hooded sweatshirt. A ring of keys, a handheld radio and a canister of heavy-duty pepper spray hang from his belt. Outside, snow sifts from the sky and the city stirs to life. Inside a ﬂorescent-lit back room at the zoo’s Primate, Cat, and Aquatics

building, Price measures out syringes of vitamins and medicine â€” birth control for the female gorillas, a diuretic and a bloodpressure med for Mokolo. Then he mixes up a substance that smells like oatmeal and has the consistency of wet cement. â€œWant to try it?â€? he asks. It tastes like cardboard, and I say as much. Elena Less, whoâ€™s standing nearby, laughs. â€œItâ€™s called resistance starch. It mimics ďŹ ber in gorillasâ€™ hind gut. Gorillas normally eat bark, so theyâ€™re cool with it.â€? It takes me a very long time to make enough saliva to swallow. Price adds the medicine to the resistance starch and brings it to the gorillas in the basement holding area â€” the same behind-the-scenes enclosure where Mokolo gets his heart exams and blood draws. Then he heads upstairs to the main gorilla exhibit that visitors can see through a large glass wall. He stuffs endive and romaine lettuce into cardboard containers designed to increase the time gorillas spend â€œforagingâ€? for food, scatters the containers around the enclosure, and raises the door that lets the gorillas move freely from the basement holding area into the main exhibit. On the other side of the glass, I wait. The two females knuckle-walk into the enclosure ďŹ rst, snatching the ďŹ rst greens they see and stashing them under their arms. Then Mokolo bursts in: 5-foot7, 400 pounds, loose jointed and long limbed, the shaggy fur on his forearms swinging as he walks. He surveys the enclosure with all the conďŹ dence of a dominant male, then leisurely picks up a piece of romaine. A bit of hay is stuck to it, and Mokolo ďŹ‚icks it off with a foreďŹ nger â€” a startlingly human movement. In that moment, I understand why humans have been enthralled with gorillas for so long; why weâ€™ve put them in zoos and menageries to study and observe them and perhaps learn something about ourselves along the way. And why, today, weâ€™re driven to save them. For the rest of the morning, I watch the gorillas eat, urinate, scratch themselves and rest. A few gibbons chatter from another enclosure, but otherwise the Primate, Cat, and Aquatics building is silent. Gray winter light ďŹ lters through the windows. My only other memory of seeing a gorilla is in nature documentaries, but this is different. Thereâ€™s no cameraman to

control what I see, no producer to edit my experience. Zoos remain controversial among animal-rights advocates, but proponents believe ďŹ rmly in their purpose. Occasionally, captive animals have been released to bolster nearly extinct wild populations, and zoo animals can act as â€œambassadorsâ€? to get people to care about wild animals. Millions of people who may never travel to Africa visit AZA zoos each year, and a percentage of their ticket sales, along with donations from zoo patrons, is funneled directly to ďŹ eld conservation. Between 2012 and 2016, AZA zoos contributed $6.6 million to such projects, including a collaboration with the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund that trains Rwandan university students in scientiďŹ c research and outreach. Yet when I asked researchers and zoo staff in Cleveland why they cared about solving heart disease in great apes, they didnâ€™t talk about species-level conservation, or whether captive gorillas will ever need to replenish wild populations. Instead, they talked about improving the lives of individual animals like Mokolo. A hundred years ago, humans took gorillas out of Africa and across the Atlantic Ocean. And like so many choices made generations ago, weâ€™re the ones forced to grapple with the consequences. â€œWe brought these animals into zoos,â€? says Pam Dennis. â€œWe build their habitats, we give them their food, and if how we manage them is the cause of heart disease, then I think weâ€™re responsible to ďŹ gure it out and ďŹ x it.â€? After Mokolo eats his ďŹ ll of greens, he sits on a tree root with an elbow resting on one knee. He picks up a piece of cardboard, takes an experimental bite, and lets the uneaten pieces ďŹ‚utter back to the ďŹ‚oor. He glances at me through the glass. Then, without warning, he leaps up and gallops around the enclosure, making a ruckus that echoes through the quiet building. The gibbons are brieďŹ‚y silenced. Smiling slightly as though satisďŹ ed with himself, he turns his back and disappears down the stairs, back into the place of cement ďŹ‚oors and bright lights and steel fences.

This article originally appeared in The Atlantic. It is republished here with permission.

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Author Series: Gayle Wald Part of the Rock Hall’s Author Series, tonight’s lecture at the Rock Hall will feature Gayle Wald, who’ll discuss her book Shout, Sister, Shout!: The Untold Story of Rockand-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe. It’s a particularly timely event since Tharpe will be inducted into the Rock Hall this year. Wald’s presentation will include video, audio and images. Senior director of library and archives Andy Leach will lead a discussion after the talk. The event will conclude with an audience Q&A and book signing. It starts at 7, and admission is free. (Jeff Niesel) 1100 Rock and Roll Blvd., 216-515-8444, rockhall.com. SPORTS

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NBA’s oldest and most respected franchises has fallen into disarray in recent years. Star Carmelo Anthony was the latest marquee player to jump ship, leaving the Knicks with a motley cast of players who yet again failed to put together a playoff run. The team visits the Q to take on the Cavs tonight at 8. Expect a Cleveland win. Tickets start at $32. (Niesel) 1 Center Court, 216-420-2000, theqarena.com. SPOKEN WORD

Cleveland Stories Dinner Party Cleveland Stories Dinner Party is a weekly series that pairs ﬁ ne food with storytelling. Through it, the folks at Music Box Supper Club hope to raise awareness of the mission of the Western Reserve Historical Society’s new Cleveland History Center. The goal of the Cleveland Stories Dinner Party is to “bring to life some of the fun, interesting stories about Cleveland’s past — from sports, to rock ’n’ roll,

to Millionaires’ Row,” as it’s put in a press release. Admission is free, with no cover charge, although a prix ﬁ xe dinner, designed to complement the night’s theme, is $20. Doors open at 5 p.m., dinner is served at 6, and the storytelling starts at 7. Tonight, David Gilbert, the well-compensated president and CEO of the Greater Cleveland Sports Commission, talks about how Cleveland is no longer a city but has become a brand. The beerthemed menu includes Dortmunder cheese soup, POC-braised pork, and Christmas Ale ice cream. (Niesel) 1148 Main Ave., 216-242-1250, musicboxcle.com. COMEDY

Dan Grueter Cleveland native Dan Grueter likes to poke fun at himself in his standup routines, and jokes about the day in the ’80s when he was teased for wearing his brother’s hand-me-down bell-bottom jeans. As a result, he regularly got his

ass kicked. Now, he loves to pick on audience members for questionable wardrobe choices, so don’t wear that sweater vest because you’re just asking to be called out. The fasttalking and quick-witted comedian performs tonight at 8 at Hilarities, where he has shows scheduled through Saturday. Tickets start at $18. (Niesel) 2035 East Fourth St., 216-241-7425, pickwickandfrolic.com. THEATER

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Beethoven’s Fifth Franz Welser-Möst conducts the Cleveland Orchestra tonight at Severance Hall as it takes on Beethoven’s Overture: Coriolan and Symphony No. 5. The orchestra will also play Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8, a light-hearted piece that doesn’t suggest how complicated the composer’s life was at the time he wrote it. The concert takes place at 7:30. An hour before the concert, Cleveland Orchestra Music Study Groups’ administrator and lecturer Rose Breckenridge gives the preconcert talk, “Beethoven: Buttoned and Unbuttoned!” Consult the orchestra website for ticket prices. The concert repeats tomorrow morning at 11 at Severance Hall. (Niesel) 11001 Euclid Ave., 216-231-1111, clevelandorchestra.com.

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Monsters vs. Manitoba Moose For the last home hockey games of the year, the Cleveland Monsters take on the Manitoba Moose. Tonight’s game is College ID Night, and students with a valid college ID can buy $6 tickets and receive $6 College Meal Deals that include a hot dog, chips and a soda. Tomorrow night’s game is Fan Salute Night, and jerseys will be auctioned at the game’s end. Tickets start at $10. (Niesel) 1 Center Court, 216-420-2000, theqarena.com. COMEDY

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such Barcelona landmarks as Familia Sagrada and Parc Guell. It screens tonight at 7:30. Also part of the series, Deep Red, Dario Argento’s ﬁlm about a jazz pianist and reporter who try to solve a series of murders, screens tonight at 9:05. Antonio Gaudi screens again at 7 tomorrow night, and Deep Red screens again tomorrow night at 8:35. Consult the website for ticket prices. (Niesel) 11610 Euclid Ave., 216-421-7450, cia.edu. THEATER

Flanagan’s Wake No one knows grief and mourning like a Catholic, let alone an Irish Catholic. Now in its eighth year in Cleveland, Flanagan’s Wake transports the audience to an Irish wake where villagers tell tales and sing songs for their dearly departed Flanagan. Finding the humor in life and death, the wake acts as a dark backdrop to an otherwise hilarious show in which alcohol fuels the humorous reminiscing. Sort of like a tragic Tony ’n’ Tina’s Wedding, the interactive and improvised show engages the entire audience as the guests are treated as the friends and family of the deceased. Tonight’s show starts at 8 and repeats tomorrow night at 8 at Kennedy’s Theatre. Performances continue weekends through April 28. Tickets are $26. (Patrick Stoops) 1501 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org. SPORTS

Indians vs. Toronto Blue Jays The Toronto Blue Jays had the unenviable task of opening the 2018 season with a four-game stand against the mighty New York Yankees. The Blue Jays came away with two wins, which isn’t bad given that the Yankees picked up some great players in the off season. The Blue Jays take on the Indians tonight at 7:10 at Progressive Field. The two teams play again at 4:10 p.m. on Saturday and at 1:10 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets start at $15. (Niesel) 2401 Ontario St., 216-420-4487, clevelandindians.com. MUSIC

Tallis Scholars Founded in 1973 by director Peter Phillips, Tallis Scholars perform tonight at 7:30 at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Through their recordings and concert performances, they’ve become the leading exponents of Renaissance sacred music throughout the world. They’ll play “War and Peace,” a program commemorating those who

lost their lives in World War I; the concert features works by Josquin, Guerrero, Pärt, Mouton, Lobo, Victoria, Tavener and Palestrina. Tickets start at $38. (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org. ART

Walkabout Tremont During this month’s Walkabout Tremont, you can stop by any of the Tremont art galleries to see their current and/or new exhibits. Of course, there are plenty of bars, restaurants and specialty shops in the neighborhood that participate in Walkabout Tremont too. The stroll takes place from 6 to 9 tonight. Check out the website for a schedule, maps and food and drink specials. (Niesel) walkabouttremont.com.

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The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee All hell breaks loose when six middle school students (played by adults) compete in a spelling bee, all in the hopes of getting their shot at the “nationals,” in the Tony Awardwinning musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. The Cleveland Play House production opens tonight at 7:30 at the Allen Theatre, where it runs through May 6. Tickets start at $25. (Niesel) 1407 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, clevelandplayhouse.com. MUSIC

Induction Ceremony Red Carpet Live Stream Both tonight’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony at Public Hall and the watch party at the Rock Hall have been sold out for weeks. If you don’t have a ticket, you can still watch the guests arrive for the event (assuming they take the walk down the red carpet). From 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. today, tune into rockhall.com, the Rock Hall’s Facebook page or YouTube (youtube. com/user/rockhall) to get a free look at the induction ceremony’s ofﬁcial red carpet via lifestream. (Niesel) FUNDRAISER

Moonlight Masquerade: BRRD Art Auction Tonight from 6 to 10 at the Good Goat Gallery, Burning River Roller Derby (BRRD) holds its ﬁfth annual art auction fundraiser. Local artists have created works speciﬁcally for the event’s silent auction; the theme is “totally masquerade.” DJ | clevescene.com | April 11 - 17, 2018

GET OUT Bonk will man the wheels of steel, and there will be light refreshments. Skater Marshmallow Scream will perform tarot card readings too. Admission is free. (Niesel) 17012 Madison Ave., Lakewood, 440-799-0675, thegoodgoatgallery.com. FUNDRAISER

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Spring Out of Hibernation A Cleveland nonproﬁt organization dedicated to funding innovative solutions in the public education space, the Warren A. Sill Fund has donated nearly $15,000 to underprivileged students throughout Northeast Ohio since its founding in 2013. Two years ago, the organization launched a partnership with the Cleveland Metropolitan School District and the Children’s Museum of Cleveland to create a program that brings STEM-based programming to the pre-K students at Euclid Park Elementary. To help sustain the program, the group will host its annual Spring Out of Hibernation fundraiser tonight at 6:30 at the 78th Street Studios. The event features heavy appetizers, an open bar with craft beer, pinball machines from Superelectric, a live DJ, a photobooth from RGI Creative and more than 150 prizes for a rafﬂe and silent auction. Tickets are $40. (Niesel) 1300 West 78th St., 202-445-0394, warrenasillfund.org.

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Sunday Beat As part of a Sunday Beat promotion at Visible Voice Books, if you purchase a New York Times at the store, you’ll receive a free cup of coffee or tea and a Jim Alesci’s Place pastry. An added bonus: A jazz, Americana, samba or bossa nova band will perform from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Anyone who shows a Sunday receipt from Music Box, Prosperity Social Club or any of the Tremont restaurants that offer brunch can enter a same-day drawing for a chance to win 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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Monday Night Trivia Do you have tons of obscure music knowledge? Are you a student of fast food menus and their nuanced histories? What say you about the geographic evolution of Scotch whisky? Tonight’s your chance to wow your friends, make yourself instantly more desirable to someone you’re newly dating, and hang with Cleveland’s headiest hipsters and hot dog lovers. It’s the Happy Dog Monday Night Trivia. Starting at 8 p.m., expect themed rounds and general knowledge questions that seem considerably trickier than some of the other live trivia locales in town. Obviously, have a hot dog and a craft brew while you’re at it. And arrive early: Tables ﬁll up fast. (Sam Allard) 5801 Detroit Ave., 216-651-9474, happydogcleveland.com.

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MUSIC

Classical Revolution Cleveland Tonight, and the third Tuesday of every month, Classical Revolution Cleveland brings its wide array of chamber music to the Happy Dog at the Euclid Tavern. Performers like the Trepanning Trio, Anime Duo and even Cleveland Orchestra members grace the stage in these exciting concerts. Tonight’s free, all-ages performance starts at 8. (Stoops) 5801 Detroit Ave., 216-651-9474, happydogcleveland.com. FILM

The Pruitt-Igoe Myth A documentary ﬁlm about the Pruitt–Igoe public housing complex in St. Louis, which was razed some 40 years ago, The Pruitt-Igoe Myth screens tonight at 6:30 at the Capitol Theatre as part of the theater’s Racial Equity and Inclusion ﬁlm series. Immediately following each showing, the upstairs meeting room at XYZ the Tavern will host a reception, and food will be provided, so community members can gather and continue the dialogue. Admission is a $5 donation. (Niesel) 1390 West 65th St., 216-651-7295, clevelandcinemas.com.

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ART IN PROGRESS Watch It Wednesdays at 78th Street Studios gives you a unique chance to watch artists while they work By Dott von Schneider Photo by Kelli Finnegan Photography

EVER WISH YOU COULD BE A fl y on the wall of your favorite artist’s studio so you could watch them create their work? The 78th Street Studios is providing that opportunity with their new lineup of Watch It Wednesdays, a monthly program that brings residents and invited creatives together on the fi rst floor of the complex. There, the public can gather and witness sculptors, painters and performance artists do their thing. This whole deal is different from the Third Fridays event we’ve come to know and love, where one walks through the artists’ studios and galleries when work is already up for view. On a recent visit to Watch It, the entire fi rst floor smelled like a studio and it was as if we were transported back to art school. Interior designer Susie Frazier was busy in her studio working on a wall piece for a client commission. Frazier is renowned for her use of natural found objects that, once honed and assembled, exude a beautiful calmness. The particular piece she was working on was being created using salvaged driftwood, which she was composing into what will be its fi nal form before taking it to her craft people who would create joints and articulations to bring the wall piece to fi nal fruition. Frazier was joined by Pittsburghbased artist Brenda Stumpf, who was steadily working on two assemblages using sandpaper, weights and found wood. The hallmark of Stumpf’s work is her choice of unorthodox materials to create monumental sculptures, as well as small artworks that evoke mystery and tell stories. Although we’ve been familiar with Stumpf’s work going back to the early 2000s, and had the opportunity to work with her during the Rooms to Let installation, this was a great opportunity to watch these pieces evolve in person. Speaking of work evolving before our eyes, what a wonderful thing to witness the stellar sculptor Charmaine Spencer create her ever mysterious and brilliant work out of what seemed to be thin air, using

curled, varnished wood strips. Stepping into Bruce Buchanan’s studio, we listened to the artist as he demonstrated his technique for creating stained glass structures. Back in the open area, Hilary Gent was pouring paint on two large canvases that she had laid ﬂat on the ground. Gent offered up some intel to a visitor about her trials in creating a thick surface to translate what she was experiencing and

eleven2 Gallery, Tessa LeBaron, was in the process of creating one of her high-impact and vibrantly colored paintings, as Rich Cihlar worked on the Artifact dispenser that will be headed to the Sandusky Cultural Center for a show opening on April 15. The refurbished cigarette machine will hold 20 cigarette packsized artworks by 22 artists priced at a ﬂ at rate of $10 each. Finally, we were able to check

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seeing in the water and landscapes she paints. Eventually she decided to move from oils to house paint after a visit with fellow artist Justin Brennan, which gives the pow! factor to her work. It’s both proof that one can utilize any material to create fantastic artworks, and information that one wouldn’t normally receive when visiting an exhibition of the completed work. Another visiting artist to the

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out what’s happening at Cleveland West Art League, ﬁnding the Six in Studio artists hard at work on their installations. Interactivity seems to be the underlying theme with this round of creatives, curated by artist Nico Pico Train. Oil painter Gibby “uses the concept of Jungian Shadow Surrealism” by overlapping cast shadows on canvas and developing portraits from that point forward. Transdimensional artist,

designer and multimedia producer Ross Bochnek has created a highly promising installation that will certainly blow your mind. Christina Ripley has invited the public to contribute lyrics in order to create a song that she will perform in her space of the gallery. Performance artist Charmaine Renee invites folks to choose actions from a list she has created that they can take part in with her at her kitchen table. Surfer and sculptor extraordinaire Steve Simmons was found among his translucent ﬁberglass artworks that play on light, including “Wave,” a piece that visitors were having a blast taking their photos with. While Third Fridays is an amazing experience, there’s a certain element of understanding and education available when watching, and interacting with, artists mid-process that isn’t afforded by simply viewing a ﬁ nished work. And it’s an experience you shouldn’t miss.

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STAGE RAGE GOES SOFT IN BR’ER COTTON A flaccid script dooms this wannabe folktale about race at Cleveland Public Theatre By Christine Howey RAGE IS A USEFUL EMOTION TO display on stage, particularly when that rage is in the service of a genuine and demonstrable injustice. Based on that reasoning, Br’er Cotton by Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm, now at Cleveland Public Theatre, should be a vigorous exploration of the emotions fueling the Black Lives Matter movement. God knows there’s enough injustice there to fuel an army of enraged plays. Trouble is Chisholm’s script, which reaches for some comparison to the Uncle Remus stories about Br’er Rabbit, is obvious and banal when it should be inventive. And it wears its anger in ways that fail to ignite any new perspectives or energize the audience. The perfunctory direction by Jennifer L. Nelson doesn’t help the situation. This production, part of a National New Play Network rolling world premiere, doesn’t come close to reaching the heights of two other local production on the topic of race: Neighbors by Branden JacobsJenkins at Convergence-Continuum Theater, and Adventures of a Black Girl in Her Search for God adapted by Lisa Codrington at Karamu House. Chisholm’s story is set predominantly in the modern-day home of an African-American family where three generations share their modest digs. Old man Matthew (Peter Lawson Jones) pads around the kitchen in his robe, making sly, occasionally amusing asides to his daughter Nadine and grandson Ruffrino. Nadine (Samantha V. Richards) works as a cleaning lady in white people’s homes, to get by. And Ruffrino (Joshua McElroy) is a 14-year-old simmering with contempt for the white police and racists that keep killing black men without being held accountable. Those are three fi ne outlines, as long as they’re fi lled in with characters that come alive on stage. Instead, they are each trotted out as two-dimensional avatars of certain positions on the racial-political spectrum, and there they stay. Not only that, many of the words put in the mouths of these characters feel like they’ve been

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xeroxed from activist sites on the i”nternet. When Ruffrino says he’s rebelling against “the oppressive majority opinion that ‘other’ means ‘less than,’” he’s not talking like an angry young teen but a grad student at Columbia. In addition, the script borrows some old chestnuts and piles them onto this lukewarm heap of grievance. More than once, Ruffrino references the fact that “this revolution will be televised,” coming in a neat 48 years after Gil Scott-Heron’s lyric ﬁrst was sung. And Matthew even trots out the line “old men are like a box of chocolates” without even bothering to put a new spin on that very tired Forrest Gump cliche. (It’s not a good sign when audience members call out the punch line before the

guns. It would be hard to create a more unbelievable character unless you dressed him in a marshmallow suit carrying a peace daisy. Sure, folktales often have simple characters and didactic plots. But they also have charm and engaging characters, which this play lacks. When Ruffrino isn’t going off on obvious and repetitious rants (“They kill kids like us and get away with it!”), he’s playing a video game called Diaspora , which sets players against redneck villains who celebrate their victories by throwing n-word f-bombs all over the place. This is where the playwright’s rage really shows, but it’s a cop-out since all that fury is conﬁ ned to a game scenario. Want your rage to land with power? Try having it affect fully developed characters that have

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character does.) Two other characters are pulled in to attempt to give the story more dimension, but each fails in different ways. Nadine is cleaning the house of a white cop (Beau Reinker) and they start to talk. But it turns out the cop is Mr. Rogers in a blue uniform. He doesn’t even like to speak loudly and dislikes

something more than a game score at stake. Ruffrino bonds with another player called Caged Bird99 (Sara Bogomolny). They hit it off until Ruffrino learns that the girl on the other end of their imaginary AR-15s is white. And he can’t see it, but she’s also crippled by cerebral palsy. A possible interesting subtext about

how those with handicaps can live fully actualized lives through online games is never explored. Instead, the playwright falls back again on the obvious, settling for a comment about judging people by sight alone. And speaking of settling, while all this is going on, the family house on old plantation acreage is sinking into the ground, and being overtaken by cotton plants that crawl up the walls, thanks to T. Paul Lowry’s projections. These cotton intruders even push through the ﬂoorboards. This stage effect is in serious running for the Most Overdone Stage Metaphor of 2018, so place your bets now. Instead of relying on other’s words — Chisholm often regales us with familiar quotes by Maya Angelou, Gandhi, etc. — he should work on developing his own voice. And learn how to vent his justiﬁable rage through characters who are more than hand puppets spouting received wisdom. In an online interview, Chisholm has said he wants to “write plays that will become irrelevant.” We know what he means, but in Br’er Cotton he has unwittingly achieved irrelevancy in another way entirely.

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MOVIES MAD MAN New tier for Jon Hamm in gripping Mideast hostage flick, Beirut By Sam Allard THE OPENING SCENES OF Beirut, a Mideast hostage thriller opening Friday, follows a decadently mutton-chopped U.S. diplomat named Mason Skiles (Jon Hamm) as he works the room at a house party in the Lebanese capitol in 1972. Skiles manages to convey the social and political climate in scraps of conversations with U.S. officials, foreign dignitaries and businessmen in the deftly scripted and edited credit sequence. But the party, we sense right away, is tense. Skiles’ colleague, Cal (Mark Pellegrino), arrives late and uneasy. He tells Skiles that the boy he and his wife had been planning to adopt, a Palestinian named Karim, must be taken immediately for interrogation by U.S. military personnel. Karim’s brother is a known terrorist, thought to be connected to the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Skiles, incensed, goes outside to reason with the men who want to take Karim. It’s the fi rst time we see Skiles operate, and we intuit immediately his skill as a negotiator. But soon, gunshots ring out. The house is under attack. People die. Karim is taken.

It’s a breathtaking, edge-of-yourseat opening that sets the stage for the ﬁ lm’s central plot, which takes place 10 years later. Skiles is now an alcoholic lawyer, living alone and negotiating union settlements in dingy hotel conference rooms. It’s 1982, so much of his hair has been shorn. He gets a mysterious invitation one afternoon — an invitation that he understands is gravely important — to give a talk at the American University in Lebanon. He is told to board a plane that very night. He arrives to a dangerous hostage situation. A CIA operative ( Breaking Bad’s Dean Norris), a White House emissary ( Kong: Skull Island’s Shea Wigham) and a regional expert at the embassy ( Gone Girl’s Rosamund Pike) tell Skiles that the terrorists who have captured a U.S. diplomat will only negotiate with him. A frenzied 48 hours follows. Skiles must negotiate for the

release of an old friend while also navigating a web of U.S. officials, few of whom he suspects he can trust. Hamm, as the maverick negotiator, is a force onscreen, repeatedly cutting through the B.S. of both the kidnappers and the U.S. team. “This comes directly from the President,” Wigham’s Gary Ruzak tells Skiles in an early briefi ng. “Unless he’s the next person to walk through that door, I suggest you tell me what the fuck is going on,” Skiles retorts. While a few of the major story developments are unsurprising — can you guess who might be among the kidnappers? (Cough: Karim) — the script nevertheless gives Hamm a rich trove of material to work with. The character is sharply written and perfectly cast. Given the builtin ticking clock of the negotiations, Beirut’s pace is brisk, with tension ratcheted up for much of the film’s

second half. Beirut also illustrates the utter devastation of Lebanon in the midst of that country’s civil war, which began in 1975. In one of the ﬁlm’s more striking images, Skiles arrives at his hotel in Beirut and looks out over the rubble that the city has become. Beirut is directed by Brad Anderson, who helmed the 2008 Woody Harrelson thriller Transsiberian, and also directed perhaps the single best episode of the AMC drama The Killing, the season one ﬁ nale “Orpheus Descending.” The script was penned by Bourne franchise screenwriter Tony Gilroy, who most recently concocted the (bumpy) script for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.

investigation into their actions ensues, and a gruff superior office arrives via helicopter to assess the situation, making Jonathan wonder if he’ll be punished for his actions. Meanwhile, a couple of soldiers show up at Jonathan’s house to inform his father (Lior Ashkenazi) and mother (Sarah Adler) that he’s been killed. The parents don’t handle the news well. His mother faints, and his father flies into a rage that one officer describes as a “psychotic state.” The soldiers give the mother a tranquilizer and then try to reason with the father, who insists on seeing the body and thinks his son hasn’t really died.

Both Ashkenazi and Adler give remarkable performances as the grieving parents. With its two storylines — one that focuses on Jonathan and one that focuses on his parents — Foxtrot is a bit disjointed. It could almost be divided into two separate movies. But a theme emerges in both stories, and the foxtrot becomes a metaphor for just how difﬁcult it can be to move forward in life and not keep coming back to the same place.

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SPOTLIGHT: FOXTROT EVEN WITHOUT ONE legitimate battle scene, Foxtrot, a drama about an Israeli soldier and the grief his parents experience when he’s reported dead, successfully shows the horror of war. Israeli’s submission to this year’s Academy Awards, the movie makes up for what it lacks in terms of plot development with compelling performances by its lead actors and a simmering intensity. The movie opens on Friday, April 27, at the Cedar Lee Theatre. Jonathan (Yonaton Shiray), the Israeli solider that the ﬁlm centers on, and three other soldiers oversee a particularly isolated border crossing. More often than not, they raise

the gate to let camels pass their checkpoint. On the occasion when a car comes along, Jonathan shines a spotlight on the vehicle, and his fellow soldiers check the passports of everyone in the vehicle. During his spare time, Jonathan works on a graphic novel. To kill boredom one day, he shows his friends how to do the foxtrot, which he describes as a “simple dance.” The soldiers make a few stops without incident, but it’s still a nerve-wracking environment, especially at night. So one night when an empty beer can rolls out of a car of Arabs, the guys overreact because they think the can is a grenade. An

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THE MEAL BEGINS NOT UNLIKE others that I’ve enjoyed recently, with a complimentary tasting prepared by the kitchen to get things rolling. Presented on a faux slate slab are four bite-size versions of the menu’s top sellers. As I work my way down the line, I become increasingly mindful of the absurdity of the situation. I am, after all, standing in the rear of a convenience store in Brookpark. “This is a tasting tour to introduce you to some of the flavors we incorporate into our food,” says Micho Aboukhaled, who along with his parents runs the Express Deli. “I don’t want you getting a sandwich that you may not like. If you like it, beautiful. If not, that’s okay.” Aboukhaled assures me that the gesture is not reserved for food critics, bloggers or other “influencers,” but rather it is one that’s offered to every fi rst-timer who visits the shop and has a few spare moments to be indoctrinated in the unconventional customs of the shop. Yes, Express Deli is a convenience store in the fi nal approach path of planes landing at Cleveland Hopkins Airport, but it is also a 20-year-old family business that strives to make the lives of its customers just a little bit better. “We are a literal mom-and-pop shop cranking out our unique take on deli food,” says Aboukhaled. “Some of our customers have been coming daily for a decade or longer.” Some of those regular customers come via train from Pittsburgh aboard the Cleveland Line of the Norfolk Southern railway, which overnights a short walk from the deli’s front door. Others come from much farther afield, making a point to visit the shop soon after deboarding their planes at the nearby airport. Pierre Aboukhaled, an electrical engineer in a previous life, purchased the deli two decades ago. It’s been chugging along nicely, he’ll tell you — “We have been so blessed” — but over the past couple years the business has begun to pick up steam. That’s thanks in

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($8.50). Nearly a half-pound of warm, thinly sliced corned beef is layered into a pita with sauerkraut, garlicky mayo and Thousand Islands dressing. It’s twisted up burrito style, wrapped in paper and foil, and sliced in two. In this tidy conﬁguration, all of the ingredients end up in one’s mouth as opposed to a plate or lap. That herby house

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dressing helps boost the ﬂavor of a turkey wrap ($6.50), a meaty and satisfying lunch bundle. Wide wheels of zesty pepperoni and provolone boost that turkey even more in the case of the turkeypepperoni wrap ($8.95), another top seller. Though most sandwiches come on pita bread, all can be prepared on rye, white, wheat or hoagie buns. Tack on an order of the Reuben mac and cheese, a swiss and cheddar based concoction augmented with corned beef, kraut and Thousand Islands. Mom also makes hummus from scratch, soaking and boiling

the chickpeas before blending them to creamy, nutty perfection. More than anything, the Aboukhaleds understand the deli’s place in the community. As much as they might like to drastically change things, the store still sells cigarettes and lottery tickets, while at the same time introducing more local food products like Guardian Cold Brew coffee. The owners get that they aren’t serving gourmet food (multiple microwaves often ding in unison), but it is quick, affordable and delicious, as witnessed by the long lunch lines and folks sitting down come dinner time. But it doesn’t take a new visitor long to see what really keeps people coming back. It is plainly the relationships, forged over months, years and, in many cases, decades. The food is just an added beneﬁt. “At any establishment, I don’t think food is ever the sole reason people visit the place,” says Micho. “You have to have good food and good service, and then there’s the rest.”

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“One of my all-time favorite experiences as a writer took place last summer, when I spent a few days with the food stylists and photographer as they worked alongside Michael Symon to document nearly every recipe in Playing with Fire,” says Scene dining editor Douglas Trattner.

The new BBQ cookbook by Michael Symon and Scene’s own Doug Trattner.

“From whole chickens cooked in a fireplace to Mabel’s beef brisket, every recipe in the book came to delicious life right before my very eyes.” Michael Symon’s Playing with Fire: BBQ and More from the Grill, Smoker, and Fireplace is the fourth cookbook that Trattner has co-authored with the James Beard Award-winning chef and co-host of The Chew. Their first two, Carnivore: 120 Recipes for Meat Lovers and 5 in 5: 5 Fresh Ingredients + 5 Minutes = 120 Fantastic Dinners, both published by Clarkson Potter, landed on The New York Times’ best-seller list. Released last week, Playing with Fire speaks to Symon’s long love affair with live-fire cooking. The 240page hardcover book offers 70 recipes for the grill, smoker and indoor fireplace. A handy guide explains the pros and cons of the various devices, while recipes for sauces, sides and rubs cover various barbecue styles and regions. Symon is the chef and owner of more than 18 restaurants, including Lola and Mabel’s BBQ in downtown Cleveland, B-Spot Burgers throughout the Midwest, Roast in Detroit, and Angeline at Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City. Come fall, he’ll open a second Mabel’s BBQ in Las Vegas. — Vince Grzegorek

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MUSIC THE WEEPIES REVISIT THEIR 2008 ALBUM, HIDEAWAY By Jeff Niesel FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, SINGERsongwriters Deb Talan and Steve Tannen formed the indie folk-pop group the Weepies in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In the beginning, they did everything themselves and managed to sell 10,000 copies of their self-recorded debut, Happiness, without the support of a record label. They’d eventually marry and have kids, but that hasn’t stopped them from continuing to tour and record. On tour to celebrate the 10th anniversary of their 2008 album, Hideaway, they perform with Gia Margaret at 8 p.m. on Monday at the Beachland Ballroom. They recently spoke to us via phone from the “chaos” of their Iowa City home where they were prepping to hit the road with their three kids. YOU INITIALLY MET IN CAMBRIDGE. HOW DID YOU DECIDE TO FORM A BAND TOGETHER? TANNEN: I was a big fan of

someone named Deb Talan, who was a songwriter from Boston who had an album out at the time. She came to my very ﬁrst show in Boston. TALAN: I had been listening to his album incessantly for about three weeks. I was super nervous about meeting him. TANNEN: It was pretty crowded, but you could ask anyone what the worst show they’ve ever seen me perform was and that would be it. Deb came back down to New York about three weeks later and played one of the best shows I’ve ever seen. It’s been imbalanced since the beginning. Early on, I never considered we would be partners or in a band. I was a fan. It’s exciting when you meet other people coming up and they’re really good. That was the nature of our relationship for a long time. Eventually, I tricked her into kissing me, and here we are. WHAT MADE YOU THINK “THE WEEPIES” WAS A GOOD NAME FOR A BAND? TANNEN: Because Deb and Steve as

a name sucked. TALAN: We were doing a combined show at the club where we met. We

wanted to call it Deb and Steve. The club owner said, “No. I can’t do that.” TANNEN: He said, “I’m going to do you a favor and never put ‘Deb and Steve’ on anything. He said, “Come up with a name.” We did and it was the Weaves. He told us there was another Boston band called the Weaves and that we couldn’t be that, either. Pinocchio had just come out in the theaters and we had friends who would cry during the ﬁlm and not mind if we cried. So we called them the Weepies. We thought it was funny and a good name for a band. The show sold out and then we made a record and only then did we realize we were truly the Weepies. YOUR FIRST ALBUM, HAPPINESS , SOLD 10,000 COPIES WITHOUT ANY DISTRIBUTION. HOW WERE YOU ABLE TO SELL SO MANY COPIES OF IT? TANNEN: How indeed. I don’t know. TALAN: We toured all over the

place and sold them out of our car. TANNEN: A lot of those were online sales through CD Baby. We toured relentlessly in a Nissan Altima and then a Toyota Corolla and then a Matrix. We toured everywhere in the U.S. At some point, we were doing 200 dates a year. THE RECORDING QUALITY IS QUITE HIGH. WHERE DO YOU GO TO RECORD? TANNEN: You’re very kind. It wasn’t

like a band going to the studio for three months with their producer. We had some extra songs and we were working on it together. We went to a friend’s place in Boston. The guys there were super. We used some Boston musicians, and they helped us out. We did most of it in

on to win Grammys. At the time, he was just our friend, Richard. It’s not false modesty. We were really excited about it, but we didn’t have grand visions of what the Weepies record would be. We just thought it sounded great. WHY DID YOU MOVE TO THE WEST COAST? TANNEN: We had a breakdown on

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an attic. Most of it is one or two takes. It was very basic equipment. We took it to another friend of ours who was a mixing guy who went

the East Coast. It was a winter like this winter, and we couldn’t take it. We just got in our car and drove to California. It was three weeks from

the time we were crying in the living room to the time we got to the West Coast. Our friend had a bungalow in Pasadena and they took us in. Everything got easier. TALAN: We got in some kind of ﬂow. TANNEN: We stepped into a river. YOU FOLLOWED IT UP WITH SAY I AM , WHICH YOU RECORDED IN YOUR BEDROOM IN PASADENA. WHAT WAS IT LIKE TO MAKE THAT ALBUM? TANNEN: We started it there but

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MUSIC had already quit. We had a bunch of shows on the calendar, so we kept touring to make rent. The shows were selling out and that’s when someone from a record label showed up and asked to listen to the bedroom tapes. We didn’t have them because they were in California. They ﬂew out there to our bungalow and listened on the spot that night. A week later, we had a record deal. HOW DIFFERENT WAS THE RECORDING PROCESS FOR HIDEAWAY ? TANNEN: It was the same

equipment and the same cast of characters. We did 180 shows that year. We were so exhausted that now when I hear about people getting “exhaustion” — and I used to think they were on drugs — I realize they probably were exhausted. Deb got pregnant, and the idea of doing 200 more shows with Deb pregnant was more than we could handle. TALAN: Walking down the stairs was more than I could handle. TANNEN: We rented a shack and wrote and recorded and didn’t talk to anybody. Deb went for hikes. We just stared at nature and wrote. At the end of it, we had what we thought was a strong record. We didn’t tour and that record did better than the previous one. I think it was because we had pushed for two or three years before that and the go kart was already going. WHAT’S IT BEEN LIKE TO REVISIT THE ALBUMS AS YOU PREP FOR ITS 10-YEAR ANNIVERSARY TOUR? TALAN: It’s really interesting. Some

of these songs we never played live. Some we haven’t played in 10 years. We have life experience. It’s almost like approaching songs by someone else in that the emotional landscape that we wrote from is so different from where we are now. There’s some revisiting, but also ﬁnding what they mean to us now. TANNEN: For me, it’s been great. I haven’t listened to a Weepies record in a long time. I haven’t heard these songs. I don’t put my earbuds in and go for a jog while listening to the Weepies. I’m really impressed. We did a great job. I’m excited. THE OPENING TRACK, “CAN’T GO BACK NOW,” IS A BEAUTIFUL BALLAD. WHAT INSPIRED IT? TANNEN: We had been on tour

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for so long, my brother had had a daughter. We had little time to spend with her as an infant. After we moved to L.A., we got more time to

spend with her. We happened to be there the day she ﬁgured out how to walk. It was insanely profound. At the time, it was the ﬁrst time we had that experience. That song is about that experience. DEB WAS DIAGNOSED WITH BREAST CANCER IN 2013. WHAT’S IT BEEN LIKE TO CARRY ON IN THE WAKE OF THAT? TALAN: We kept playing music

and ﬁnished Sirens while I was in treatment. It felt like there was this thread of making music and it felt vital to do that during the time that was dark and difﬁcult. TANNEN: It’s no different than anyone else who comes up against a serious illness. We feel super lucky to have support around us. We didn’t have a moment that we felt we should be doing something different with our lives. It was the opposite. TALAN: We knew it was exactly what we should be doing. While I was in treatment, I didn’t want us to stop recording. TALK ABOUT WHAT THE UPCOMING SHOW WILL BE LIKE? TANNEN: We have members of the

original Hideway band with us. The original drummer took a fantastic gig with Disney. He’s coming out of retirement just to be on tour with us. We want to create a community of magic with the environment of the show. WILL YOU PLAY THE WHOLE ALBUM? TANNEN: No, but we’ll play songs

we have never played before. We’re also music fans so we will not neglect old favorites. It’s a formidable set, and I think we’ll have to change it up night to night. It will evolve as it goes on. We have a great band and set list. DO YOU HAVE A NEW ALBUM IN THE WORKS? TANNEN: We do, but we have many

things in the works. We had to put it off. We’ll probably do what we did for Hideaway, which is go somewhere and stay in the wilderness. IT’S GREAT YOU’VE STUCK IT OUT FOR THIS LONG. TANNEN: Thanks. It’s terrifying.

We’re friends with some of the guys from Elvis Costello’s band. They all turned 60. I wrote a note to the drummer to congratulate him. He wrote back a single word that was “nightmare.” There’s an element to that — Jesus, 10 years. But it feels good and we want to make the show into a day of celebration.

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MUSIC SHE CAME BACK ‘TO BITCH’ L7’s Donita Sparks talks about the hard rock band’s rebirth By Jeff Niesel WHEN SINGER-GUITARIST Donita Sparks and singerguitarist Suzi Gardner formed L7 in Los Angeles in 1985, they took inspiration from the city’s art-punk scene. “We worked in the production department at the L.A. Weekly,” says Sparks in a recent phone interview. L7 plays a sold-out show with Death Valley Girls at 8:30 p.m. on Sunday at the Beachland Ballroom. “We were young and we had cool mentors to look up to. We were in that scene. Suzi wanted to play hard rock, which wasn’t coming out of the art-punk scene at all. It was a fresh perspective. I think we mostly listened to punk, but there were hard rock bands like Hawkwind and AC/DC and Black Sabbath that Suzi liked. I brought in more of the Ramones and the surf rock element.” Taking the name L7 because it sounded “androgynous,” the band inked a deal with Epitaph, the punk imprint run by Bad Religion’s Brett Gurewitz and issued its self-titled debut in 1988, recording the album in Gurewitz’s small office studio that Sparks describes as “an old house in Hollywood.” L7 would find a new home after Sup Pop reps caught the band play a particularly impactful show in Seattle, the city where the label was based. “[The Sub Pop guys] liked us even though we sent them running from the room because we put so much smoke onto the stage that you couldn’t even see us,” says Sparks. “You could just hear us. Our smoke guys were high and just loved the way the smoke looked.” Sup Pop asked the band to record a single and the resulting song, “Shove,” a Mudhoney-like track propelled by heavy guitars and parched vocals, became the very first single that the influential label released in the ’90s, setting the tone for a decade that saw Seattle-based alternative acts such as Nirvana, Alice in Chains and Pearl Jam become massively successful. “We did feel an affinity with those [grunge] bands,” says Sparks. “We didn’t know them all personally. We liked the Sup Pop promotional materials because they

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had a sense of humor. I saw Nirvana on their ﬁrst time down to Southern California. We drove from Los Angeles to Long Beach to see them at [the now-shuttered] Bogart’s. You can see me in the audience in some of those old photos. We got to know them quickly.” For its third album, 1992’s Bricks Are Heavy, the band teamed up with super-producer Butch Vig (Nirvana, Garbage) and inked a deal with Slash, a label that had international distribution. “Pretend

“We didn’t have a label, and we didn’t have money,” she says. “[Turning] 40 was around the corner, and we didn’t have anything to show for our success. Our friends were buying houses. Suzi, my partner, quit and that was unexpected. That sent the band into separate camps.” After Sparks launched a Facebook page a couple of years ago for archival purposes, she noticed that the band received a good number of “likes.” That

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We’re Dead,” a catchy number with softer guitars and vocals, became a hit on commercial radio. “Slash got us everywhere,” says Sparks, adding that a new documentary ﬁlm available on Hulu and iTunes chronicles the band’s rise in popularity. “Sub Pop got us to Europe, but Slash got us to Japan and many other places.” And then, as quickly as the band’s popularity rose, it declined. In 2001, Sparks says the “wheels fell off.”

prompted her to relaunch the group. “We thought we had been swept under the carpet,” she says. “We wanted to give it another go. We had a window to do that. If it had been earlier, we wouldn’t have been able to do it, and any later and I think we would have been too old.” Since reuniting, the band has cut a couple of new songs too. With its distorted guitars and

double-time drums, “Dispatch from Mar-A-Lago” has a real intensity to it that suggests the band hasn’t lost a step. “It’s inspired by [President Trump’s] Mar-A-Lago [retreat] and the Secret Service responding to the boy who calls wolf,” says Sparks. “It’s about the craziness of the times. These trained professionals are dealing with someone who’s off the rails. It’s our take on that whole thing.” Much like “Pretend We’re Dead,” “I Came Back to Bitch” features a catchy riff and sardonic vocals as Sparks sounds a bit like former Dead Kennedys singer Jello Biafra as she squeals, “I came back to bitch.” “A lot of journalists ask us why we’re back,” says Sparks. “I came back to bitch about everything. What do you got? It’s all bad news. I love it when there’s some wonderful news, but the bad news outweighs the good. We are here to serve. I also like the twist. It’s like, ‘I haven’t begun to bitch yet, so get ready fuckers.’”

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MUSIC THEY BELIEVE IN A THING CALLED LOVE The Darkness’ Dan Hawkins looks back at the hard rock band’s big hit By Laura Morrison YOU DON’T INTERVIEW A member of the Darkness and not ask: “Do you believe in a thing called love?” And for guitarist/backup singer Dan Hawkins, the answer is simple: “Yes, of course. Doesn’t everybody?” Hawkins tries to elaborate for a second, mumbling something about erections but drops that convoluted analogy and sticks with: “a person might not know what that feeling is … but yes, love. That’s the thing.” After all, “I Believe in a Thing Called Love” was the monster hit that catapulted the British band into the limelight in 2003. Those wild guitars and death-defying vocals — so powerful in a musical time period heavy on 50 Cent and Christina Aguilera — roared into the hearts of young folks seeking something they didn’t know they wanted: rock ’n’ roll. On the phone from a stop in Seattle last week, the 42-year-old rocker and father of three explains why the music his band makes, no matter how kitschy, can transcend generational appeal. “The thing about rock music, and so many people over the years have taken the piss out of it, is it’s not necessarily a cool thing to listen to,” Hawkins says. “But in a way it is the cool thing, in that it’s not trying to be cool or follow the trends. It is just rock. Fashions come and go, but people are always going to love rock.” He says he’s still grateful he gets to do this for a living nearly 20 years after the band ﬁrst formed. If that means playing night after night, including a stop at the Agora Theatre on Saturday, then that’s okay. The band began at the turn of the century with Hawkins and his brother Justin, the man behind the magniﬁcent vocals; bassist Frankie Poullain; and drummer Ed Graham (later replaced by Rufus Tiger Taylor). Inspired by the glam rock acts of the 1970s, in music and clothing (hello, bell-bottoms), the group played as many gigs as possible. Its outrageous antics and tight, electric tunes landed them a record deal, leading to 2003’s epic Permission to Land.

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At that point, it was as if the sun would never set. But then, Poullain left; their sophomore record, well, slumped; and soon Justin left for rehab, never to return. These were the dark years when Hawkins formed his own band, Stone Gods. But the Darkness members couldn’t stay away from one another — it helps when two of the members are siblings. Fans heard rumblings of a reunion tour with the original

generation.” These days, members still live in Europe; they never gave into the L.A. rock fantasy that so many other bands do. Not to say Hawkins doesn’t enjoy coming to America. He says British audiences are often too stuffy, and that Americans let loose at shows. But a tour is a long haul, and some venues are shitholes. (He does state for the record, however, that Cleveland is not a shithole.)

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members in 2011, and the act hasn’t slowed since. “It’s a long time we’ve worked together,” Hawkins says. “You look at the bands that inﬂuenced us, and they’re still playing arenas, or they are actually dead. I think now we could be one of the last ones standing. We might have another hit album, appeal to a new wave of rock music, who knows? As long as we’re happy, I don’t see why we can’t be the ZZ Tops and Kiss-es of this

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Hawkins says that while the band does party, they’re smarter and calmer now. “We realize there’s more to the trip.” They’re writing a lot more too. This is what that process looks like: “It’s simple really,” says Hawkins. “I come up with a shitload of riffs and bring them into the rehearsal room, and then Rufus and I are working together. Justin gets involved in the end with the lyrics, and then we drag through to the

finish line. Music first, lyrics later.” Other times, like in the instance of their song “Mudslide,” the title is selected first. “I thought, ‘That’s a good name. It’s a drink. It’s a weather thing. Alcohol plus death: It must be a good song title,’” Hawkins says. Last year’s Pinewood Smile sees the act clutching to much of the same musical formulas from whence they came. But dammit if the tunes aren’t infectious and categorically made to make you believe in love all over again. Hawkins isn’t sure the world deserves his band’s music — “Maybe the world is happy in its pop factory bullshit and all the music that follows those rules” — but as many minutes, hours and days as fans are willing to come out, the Darkness is going to play. “Being on stage is like the only time that I’m doing something that I’m actually good at,” Hawkins says. “When I’ve got a guitar, it’s the only time I feel cool. It’s like a relief.”

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Cleveland State University Jazz Showcase: 8 p.m., $10. Bop Stop. Daughtry/Sinclair: 7:30 p.m. House of Blues. Deterge/MDB/Shadows/ Lysergikon137 (in the Locker Room): 9:15 p.m., $5. Mahall’s 20 Lanes. Druids/Yawn/Pillars: 9 p.m., $5. Now That’s Class. Faith Healer/Elle Barbara’s Black Space/Sarah Arafat: 8 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Mahall’s 20 Lanes. Willie Nile/Wildcard Leader: In the late ’70s and early ’80s, critics hailed the Buffalo-born singersongwriter Willie Nile as the new Dylan. Those predictions didn’t entirely come to fruition, but Nile has continued to put out great records. His new album, Positively Bob: Willie Nile Sings Bob Dylan, ﬁ nds him covering Dylan tracks such as “The Times They Are A-Changin’” and “Blowin’ in the Wind.” Nile speeds up the tempo of the tunes and puts his own roots rock spin on them. Expect to hear plenty of Dylan as well as Nile’s original tunes at tonight’s show. (Jeff Niesel) $20-$35. The Winchester. Uptight Sugar/Reginleif/Sophie Brown/Pomade: 8:30 p.m., $8. Grog Shop.

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04/12

Marco Benevento/Caroline Rose: If you’re unfamiliar with New York pianist Marco Benevento and his spot in the family tree of 1990s/2000s jam and experimental music scenes, you should ﬁ x that. Benevento and his dynamite band regularly play the Beachland, his “home away from home” as he calls it, to throw down sets that show off old and new songs. Benevento is an outlaw among pianists and a reputable member of multiple experimental branches of the jam band world. The current tour supports last year’s live/ studio hybrid album, Woodstock Sessions, recorded in front of a studio audience. Benevento is also currently working on his next studio record with producer Leon Michels (Chicano Batman, Lee Fields). (Eric Sandy) 8:30 p.m., $15. Beachland Tavern.

Veteran singer-songwriter Willie Nile comes to the Winchester. See: Wednesday.

Boston Manor/Free Throw/ Homesafe/Hot Mulligan/Save Face: 6:30 p.m., $15 ADV, $17 DOS. Mahall’s 20 Lanes. Current Swell/Holden Laurence/ M.Moody: 8:30 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Grog Shop. A Deer A Horse/Hiram-Maxim/ Wooly Bear: 9 p.m., $5. Now That’s Class. Dominick Farinacci: Modern Warrior LIVE - Unplugged: 8 p.m., $30. Nighttown. Buddy Guy: 7:30 p.m. Hard Rock Rocksino Northﬁeld Park. Francois Moutin and Kavita Shah Interplay: 7 p.m., $15. Bop Stop. The Vindys (in the Supper Club): 8 p.m., $8. Music Box Supper Club.

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04/13

Balik Alistane/The You Suck Flying Circus/Mild Animals: 9 p.m., $5 ADV, $8 DOS. The Winchester. The Fab Four: 8 p.m. Hard Rock Rocksino Northﬁeld Park. Failed Astronauts Record Release Show: 8 p.m., $8. Musica. Dominick Farinacci Quintet: 8:30 p.m., $30. Nighttown. Hello, Bandit/Soleo/Shadow Year/ FloorVVeed: 8 p.m., $4 ADV, $7 DOS. CODA. Konyafest 3 with Escalation Anger/ESTUARY/Kurnugia/

Shed the Skin/Crossface: The late Jim Konya (Nunslaughter, Schnauzer, Gravewurm) played drums in many local bands over the years and was an iconic ﬁ gure in the underground Cleveland heavy metal scene. Konya passed away in 21014, at the age of 44, after suffering two strokes. In the wake of his passing, local metal acts launched Konyafest as a way to pay tribute to the man. The third incarnation of the event features local acts such as Escalation Anger, ESTUARY, Kurnugia, Shed the Skin and Crossface. (Niesel) 7 p.m., $10. Agora Ballroom. The Mountain Goats/Dead Rider: 8 p.m. Beachland Ballroom. Moving In Stereo, A Tribute to The Cars (in Club Velvet): 8 p.m. Hard Rock Rocksino. RLYR/Fotocrime/Actual Form/ Brain Cave: 9 p.m., $7. Now That’s Class. The Scuzzballs/The Sonder Bombs/Dark Spring/Seth Hasan/ Slug Fest: 7 p.m., $8. Mahall’s 20 Lanes. The Slackers / CRAIC / Opus: 8:30 p.m., $13 ADV, $15 DOS. Grog Shop. A Tribute to Rock ’n’ Roll Hall of Fame Inductees Past & Present! with Chris Allen and Friends (in the Supper Club): When the Rock Hall inductions were in

Cleveland three years ago, Chris Allen put together a group of local musicians to pay tribute to some of the many acts that have been inducted. This year, local musicians such as Don Dixon, Doug McKean, Tom Prebish, Fred Perez-Stable, Kelly Wright, Matt Sobol, Al Moss, Bobby Latina, Tim Parnin, Dave Padrutt, Ray Flanagan, Alexis Antes, Aﬁ Scruggs, Diana Chittester and more will perform tunes by Johnny Cash, Buddy Holly, Bruce Springsteen, the Clash, Billie Holiday, the Cars, Bob Dylan, Chuck Berry and more. The concert will also feature a special tribute to the late Tom Petty. (Niesel) 8 p.m., $12 ADV, $15 DOS. Music Box Supper Club. Van Morrison Tribute by Nitebridge with Colin Dussault: 8 p.m., $12 ADV, $15 DOS. Music Box Supper Club. Gruca White Ensemble: 8 p.m., free. Bop Stop.

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Moises Borges Quartet: 7:30 p.m., $8 ADV, $10 DOS. CODA. Phoebe Bridgers/Harrison Whitford: 8:30 p.m. Beachland Tavern. Rodney Crowell/Jedd Hughes: 8 p.m., $28 ADV, $32 DOS. Music Box Supper Club. The Darkness/Diarrhea Planet: 7 p.m., $25 ADV, $30 DOS. The Agora Theatre. DJ Questlove: 11 p.m., $30 ADV, $35 DOS. House of Blues. Anderson East/Devon Gilﬁllian: 8 p.m. Beachland Ballroom. Key to the Mint/Blinds/Mister Fabulous & the Bad Boiz/ FlooVVeed (in the Locker Room): 8 p.m., $10. Mahall’s 20 Lanes. My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult: 8 p.m., $20. Musica. Nina Nesbit: 6 p.m., $12 ADV, $15 DOS. House of Blues Cambridge Room. Partner/Deche: 9 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Now That’s Class. Screaming Females/Thou/HIRS: 9 p.m., $15 ADV, $18 DOS. Grog Shop. Stevie Wonder Tribute with the Reid Project (in the Music Box): 7:30 p.m., $8 ADV, $10 DOS. Music Box Supper Club. Tom Tallitsch Trio: 8 p.m., $15. Bop Stop. Tropical Cleveland (in the Supper | clevescene.com | April 11 - 17, 2018

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native, singer-songwriter Tim Easton moved out of Northeast Ohio years ago and now lives in Nashville, but he still has strong ties to the musical community here. The youngest of seven kids, he had a lot of vinyl records to comb through as a child. â€œGrowing up in Akron with a large family provided lots of music to check out as a kid,â€? he says. â€œMy two older brothers play guitar and they would teach me blues licks and what not. They made sure that I wasnâ€™t just listening to WMMS. They made sure I discovered Elmore James.â€? His ďŹ rst breakthrough gig came when he opened for Willie Nelson in Cleveland after Billie Joe Shaver canceled. He also fondly recalls seeing the Kinks at the Coliseum. â€œGreat spot.â€? AN EARNEST EFFORT: Easton has

just ďŹ nished recording his ninth solo album, Paco & the Melodic Polaroids. The â€œPacoâ€? in the albumâ€™s title refers to a Gibson J-45 guitar he bought in Columbus, Ohio, in 1987. Recorded by locally based Earnest Tube, the album represents a return to the way popular American music was originally recorded. Over the course of two days last September, Easton worked in the Earnest Tubeâ€™s Bristol, Virginia, studio and recorded 10 solo acoustic tracks direct to lacquer with Clinton Holley III, coowner of the Earnest Tube. JUST A SINGLE TAKE: Each song on

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Paco & the Melodic Polaroids is captured in a single take via a vintage portable lathe that cuts the signal directly to a lacquer acetate disc. â€œI wanted to make a record as quickly and inexpensively as I could and have it mean something more than just home recording,â€? says Easton. â€œI had 10 songs that were perfect for the directto-lacquer format. I wanted to make a record that sounds like it does when I play a show. You canâ€™t stop and start and thereâ€™s no cutting and pasting. If the

buttons from your shirt hit the guitar and are in the take, thatâ€™s the way it is.â€? Easton ďŹ nanced the project through the crowdfunding platform PledgeMusic, and the Cleveland-based Gotta Groove Records will press the vinyl version of the album. WHY YOU SHOULD HEAR HIM: â€œOld New Straitsville Blues,â€? the opening tune on Paco & the Melodic Polaroids, features just vocals and acoustic guitars. Easton adds harmonica to the mix for â€œElmore James,â€? a tribute to the blues musician known for playing a mean slide guitar. â€œAnother Good Manâ€? serves as an ode to cocaine, and Easton adopts a Dylan-like drawl as he sings about how â€œthe company boss is tight with the law man.â€? â€œIâ€™ve traveled on and off and had that guitar for 30 years and was a street musician for years in Europe with that guitar,â€? says Easton as he explains how the songs were written over the course of the past couple of decades. â€œThere have been bus rides and hitchhiking. The music on the album just feels natural and un-fussed over.â€? Easton will have vinyl copies of the album for his sale at the upcoming show at Survival Kit. WHERE YOU CAN HEAR HIM: timeaston.

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worst thing in the world — if you can remind yourself that you aren’t alone. Demisexuals, other victims of trauma, people with body-image issues, people whose sexual interests are so stigmatized they don’t feel comfortable disclosing them to people they’ve just met — lots of people face the same challenge you do. It’s not unheard of for someone reentering the dating scene to have some difficulty making new connections. The trick is to keep going on dates until you finally click with someone. In other words, SCARED, give yourself a break and take your time. Also, don’t hesitate to tell the men you date that you need to get to know a person before jumping into bed with him. That will scare some guys off, but only those guys who weren’t willing to get to know you — and those aren’t guys you would have felt safe fucking anyway, right? So be open and honest, keep going on those first dates, and eventually you’ll find yourself on a fifth date with a guy you can think about taking home without feeling panicked. Good luck.

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