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He is not even a regular Trump supporter. “I avoided both clowns in the election and stayed out of the circus,” averred Chrostowski, legs crossed in the American way. “I think some people are trying to put that on me, maybe because I’m a white guy, maybe because they see that as a vulnerability.” Chrostowski said he has voted for both Sen. Rob Portman — who he’s grown weary of being told he resembles — and for Sen. Sherrod Brown. He now considers himself a political independent, “not a party guy.” But how, then, would he to his campaign office above describe his political philosophy, Scene asked. a dialysis center near Shaker “I have some conservative Square topped with a mediumviews that are extremely liberal,” brimmed gray cowboy hat, an he said. “And I have some accessory that conjured certain liberal views that are extremely easy comparisons to frontier conservative. sheriffs or gold But for me, it’s prospectors. ROOM R One Cleveland. Brandon U ED Is it black? Is Chrostowski is it white? Is it Catholic. Brandon Democrat? Is it Chrostowski Republican? What is from does that mean? Detroit. Brandon I’m focused on Chrostowski what’s going to be has a felony on yu u S best for Cleveland his record from l pd at e o ora n t h e M ay to become more his youth — an cohesive. Am I experience now some white savior? No. But do positioned as his life’s pivot I believe that there are some point, a “brush with the law” things that can be done that that led him to a culinary will help align more closely mentorship and a successful both east side and west side? career in food. He is married If I immediately identify to Catana Chrostowski, nee with a party, then I start to Deskins (first cousin of Duane disenfranchise people. My party Deskins, lately appointed by values would be hard work.” Mayor Frank Jackson to a new Work is what Chrostowski cabinet position focused on remains most closely associated stemming youth violence. “Come over for Thanksgiving this year,” with. He has spoken of applying his principles at Edwins — Chrostowski joked. “It’s going employing formerly incarcerated to be a shit show.”) He has one child, with another on the way in people — to a number of city problems. He has said building June. Edwins-style training centers And contrary to rumor, would be “the key” to changing one which overtook the festive the city. Scene asked if his response to his candidacy experience at Edwins would be on social media, Brandon the animating force behind all Chrostowski is not a diehard Donald Trump supporter, he said. his policy ideas. Yo u r
EDWINS LEADERSHIP & Restaurant Institute founder Brandon Chrostowski announced his Cleveland mayoral candidacy on Feb. 2, 2017. It was not Mark Naymik, Leila Attassi or anyone on the Cleveland.com politics team who broke the story; nor was it a member of the vast and spritely local TV reporting corps; it wasn’t even me or Eric Sandy, your resident muckrakers here at Scene. It was Doug Trattner, our veteran food critic. One month later, Chrostowski took to Clevescene.com once again with a “We Can Do Better” editorial, a campaign speech thinly veiled as an opinion piece. “The bridge that sits between our dreams and our destiny is action,” the restaurateur declared. In a one-on-one interview with Scene earlier this month — his first such interview, one day after a press conference at City Hall on the subject of street violence — Chrostowski said it was not because of his relationship with Trattner that he selected Scene as the venue (and mouthpiece?) for his candidacy to date. It was because to him, Scene was the “people’s paper.” “People on the ground are reading [ Scene],” Chrostowski said. “It’s real. It’s in a raw context. What’s the Plain Dealer’s readership, like 20-percent Clevelanders? I’ve always believed in free speech and when you think about the papers in this town, Scene is the real one.” (Scene is also, Chrostowski said, the only paper in which he’s bought Edwins advertisements.) His opinion of the PD / Cleveland.com isn’t likely to have softened after Mark Naymik called Chrostowski “not ready for prime time” in an editorial last week. But Chrostowski’s comments in our wide-ranging conversation reinforced Naymik’s initial assessment of him. Chrostowski is tall and lean. At 37, his hair is going prematurely white. He arrived
“There are some areas, like education, where it wouldn’t pertain,” said Chrostowski, “but in a lot of them, yes. In social services, it’s partially there. Economic development — partially there.” Chrostowski is no doubt wellintentioned. He speaks — and he often rambles — with energy and earnestness. Like Ja’Ovvoni Garrison, another mayoral candidate with limited credentials, he is motivated in part by a desire for change. But also like Garrison, (in fact more so) Chrostowski’s lack of political experience means he doesn’t have the vocabulary to talk about his vision in specific or in-depth ways. That’s why his remarks read like a “quiver of banalities,” one of Naymik’s alltime finest turns of phrase. Chrostowski described the impetus for his mayoral run in the language of religious vocation. He said he is “called to do more”; he is “not going to be on this earth for long”; he “need[s] to help the greatest number of people,” etc. He said he made up his mind to run, literally, after seeing a 15-yearold “hobbling” down East 55th Street. “And I said to myself, who’s gonna help this guy? Who’s gonna lead this guy? What direction is he walking in? Who’s gonna make sure it’s a safe and healthy direction?” Not Frank Jackson, certainly. Chrostowski’s brightest moment in our interview came near the end, when Scene asked, given Jackson’s behemoth status and huge fundraising advantage, if the incumbent had any vulnerabilities. “More than anything it’s his energy,” Chrostowski said, after mentioning things like complacency and a lack of care and respect for city council (and by extension, residents). “He doesn’t have that fucking look in his eye like he’s ready to fight for something. He looks like he’s ready to lay down and retire.” — Sam Allard
UPFRONT DETROIT SHOREWAY ‘TINY HOUSE EXPERIMENT’ GOES NOWHERE Despite fanfare and early conďŹ dence, Cleveland’s “Tiny House Experimentâ€? appears to have failed. Two heavily marketed, energyefďŹ cient small homes built last year on the corner of West 58th and Pear Avenue in the Detroit Shoreway neighborhood were ultimately sold to the project’s builder, Keith Sutton, who is now thought to be renting the properties until the market sufďŹ ciently ripens for a sale. The two houses, 583 and 628 square feet respectively, were a collaborative effort between the Detroit Shoreway Community Development Organization (DSCDO), Citizens Bank and Sutton Development. The two tax-abated properties were initially listed at $129,000 and $149,000, but top realtors at both Howard-Hanna and Progressive Urban Real Estate failed to lure buyers. Mark Lastition is a realtor in Howard-Hanna’s West 25th Street ofďŹ ce. He admitted he was surprised by the lack of interest. “People liked the idea, but no one pulled the trigger,â€? he commented on a thread in the Detroit-Shoreway Community Facebook page last week. “Seems that ‘tiny houses’ are trendy to talk about — just not trendy to buy.â€? Lastition, who didn’t work directly on the project, has been an Ohio City resident since 1993. He elaborated on his comments in a phone conversation with Scene last Thursday. “I’m as eager as the next person to see affordable, alternative housing options put up that may be marketed to a different audience,â€? Lastition said. “So it’s frustrating when you see a well-respected CDC like Detroit Shoreway put together this plan and the ďŹ nancing, with a builder who’s entirely on board, and nobody salutes. Lastition said “everybody and their brotherâ€? wanted to take a look at the houses when they ďŹ rst came on the market and that there was no consistent theme from buyers, other than their ultimate ambivalence. The homes were well-built, wellexecuted, and enormously efďŹ cient. (Yearly utility payments might be as low as $500.)
“But people would say, ‘For $129,000, there’s any number of homes I could buy,’â€? Lastition recalled. “Well, that’s true. But they’re not what these houses are about.â€? Lastition said there was at least one buyer who’d wanted to buy one of the homes as an investment property, but due to ďŹ nancing restrictions from Citizens Bank, which contributed funds for the design and marketing work, that wasn’t an option. According to observers on the Facebook thread, the homes occupied a middle ground that may have made them less attractive for some buyers. “It’s a difďŹ cult balancing act where the novelty of an efďŹ cient tiny house needs to match the appeal of much larger, neighboring housing stock,â€? wrote Jonathan Sheirer. “These are a bit too big and expensive to be actual tiny houses, and I feel that the design intent to keep them ‘tiny house-esque’ ended up sacriďŹ cing some of the potential for them to just be small, energyefďŹ cient houses.â€? To those who thought the price point was a bit too steep, Lastition chimed in on the thread to say that energy-efďŹ cient new construction projects are expensive, and the homes couldn’t have been sold for much less. DSCDO’s Adam Davenport, who managed the project, conďŹ rmed. “Whether it’s 400 square feet or 4,000 square feet, energy efďŹ ciency utility hookups are just really expensive,â€? he said. Davenport also said that there had been a few offers on the houses, but that they came in too low, and DSCDO didn’t want to undersell. “The purpose of the project was to meet our EcoVillage values,â€? Davenport told Scene, “We really wanted that energy-efďŹ ciency component; we wanted an agingin-place friendly house; and we wanted some semblance of a yard on this formerly vacant city lot. These are pretty different than the 200-square-foot tiny houses that you see on TV.â€? Davenport said that DSCDO rented out one of the homes as an AirBNB for about two-and-ahalf months last year — guests included City Councilman Matt Zone and folks from Snapchat during the RNC — but ultimately the development organization decided to sell to Sutton, whom Davenport called a “good landlord.â€? Sutton works primarily in Tremont, having done construction
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on the Bergen Place and Starkweather Place projects there. Last year, he told Michelle Jarboe at the Plain Dealer that he was “totally smitten” by the tiny house concept, and was hoping to use the Detroit Shoreway experiment as a model to duplicate. When Scene reached Sutton by phone Friday, he said he had no comment on the project or his future plans. Councilman Zone, who was enthusiastic about the Tiny House Experiment at a ribbon-cutting last year and who has expressed confidence in the neighborhood’s appetite for tiny houses, wasn’t
immediately available for comment. Mark Lastition thinks there’s still hope for alternative housing options on the near-westside. “It’s just finding someone who’s willing to be innovative,” he said. “And sadly, we don’t have a great track record. If any community was going to be forward-thinking about how this all could happen, I would’ve guessed that it was going to be Detroit Shoreway.” — Allard
NORMA HERR WOMEN’S SHELTER EXPECTED TO CONTINUE WITH SAME MANAGEMENT Cuyahoga County Council will likely award the Norma Herr women’s homeless shelter operations contract to Frontline Services, the
current operator, according to a recommendation filed this month. The news was met with concern among the women who stay at the shelter. During a recent meeting of the Homeless Congress, Ruth Gillett, the county’s homeless services director, explained that a proposal review committee has recommended Frontline Services over the only other public bidder — West Side Catholic Services. Gillett said that Frontline scored higher on a quantifiable assessment, though she could not say exactly what that score was or what it meant. Frontline’s scores will be revealed to the public if and when county council awards the contract, according to Gillett. (Council is not bound to the review committee’s
recommendation.) “Why in the heck did they get the contract again?” one woman asked during the meeting March 9. “A score is a score,” Gillett said, barred by the county charter from divulging any details or allaying the women’s fears. “The process doesn’t permit that information be shared at this time with the community.” She provided a threepage handout that explained what the organizations were scored on, but no results were given. Prior to the contract recommendation, Frontline reportedly agreed to replace its shift supervisors, long the target of criticism among the women staying at the shelter, though Frontline emergency housing services director LaTonya Murray could not
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confirm that. Gillett reiterated that point, though, and intimated that the review committee was pleased with some potential changes that will take place under Frontline leadership at Norma Herr. Still, women shared story after story of dubious management practices. It’s difficult to confirm the anecdotes, but the sheer quantity — and the general chaos into which the meeting descended at various points — prompted a number of questions that Gillett did not answer. Resident Felicia Davis told Scene last month that “EMS basically lives at Norma Herr,� a claim disputed in a later phone conversation with a county spokesperson. Since then, Cleveland’s executive mayor’s assistant, Martin Flask, confirmed
“I understand that you are unhappy, and I’m sorry that you all are unhappy with the process, but it’s a defensible process.� — Ruth Gillett that EMS had responded to Norma Herr 690 times in 2016 — almost twice each day. (The fire department responded to Norma Herr 237 times in 2016; police responded 409 times in 2016.) Those numbers formed the backbone of arguments set forth by the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless, arguments that the shelter, under its current management, is not a safe place for women. The county has repeatedly claimed that Norma Herr is a “basic emergency shelter,� and, as such, offers precisely that. NEOCH and many women who’ve shared their stories with Scene contend that there are missed opportunities for things like employment advancement, education, nutrition, and comfort. As part of the potential contract, Lutheran Metropolitan
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Ministries, which operates the 2100 Lakeside Avenue men’s homeless shelter, would partner up with Frontline and share support for Norma Herr. “We would hope that it would mean access to their resources,� Murray told Scene, noting that the language of that agreement has yet to be ironed out. “They have a very good volunteer base and a lot of community partnerships that they bring to 2100. We would hope that that expands in some way to Norma Herr.� Gillett shared with the Homeless Congress a sense of confidence that Frontline will follow through on the promise of change.
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LUKE STEWART WAS UNARMED WHEN A EUCLID POLICE OFFICER SHOT AND KILLED HIM We’ve been following along as a small batch of details has trickled out of the Bureau of Criminal Investigation’s look into a Euclid police officer-involved shooting on March 13. According to the BCI, the victim, 23-year-old Luke Stewart, was unarmed. An as-yet unidentified police officer shot Stewart during some sort of altercation that may have taken place inside Stewart’s car. The play-by-play of the incident is unconfirmed, but Stewart did die at Euclid Hospital. According to publicly available police dispatch audio, the officer stated that Stewart “tried to run us both over.� It’s not yet clear if the BCI investigation will conclude whether Stewart was using his car as a weapon. According to the Euclid
police department, the officer was originally responding to a report of a suspicious vehicle parked on South Lakeshore. Something must have happened, as it appears a chase ensued and brought the officer and Stewart to East 222nd and Milton, about a block away. Once both cars had stopped, the dispatch audio has the officer saying, apparently in reference to himself, “Three-nine is in the vehicle with him! Three-nine is in the vehicle!� The police dispatcher reiterates: “Thirty-nine is inside the vehicle.� Then the officer says, “Shots fired. Shots fired.� According to departmental policy, the officer has been placed on administrative leave. He was taken to a nearby hospital for a medical evaluation and treated for minor injuries. The local chapter of the NAACP has announced that it will be monitoring the progress of the investigation. “We are disturbed by the conflicting reports given by the officers of the circumstances leading up to the shooting,� organization
leaders stated in a public message referring to the sequence of events before, during and after the brief chase. — Sandy
CUYAHOGA COUNTY JAIL OFFICER ALLEGEDLY SMUGGLED HEROIN INTO JAIL FOR INMATE ACCUSED OF RAPE Speaking of Euclid, we turn our sights now to the jail over yonder. Over the past few months, sources at the Cuyahoga County Jail have been telling Scene of an uptick in inmates caught with heroin and other drugs. It was curious to them, what with new body scanners installed last year and protocols to prevent illegal substances from entering the facility, that nearly a dozen inmates were cited for drug possession since December. One or two, sure. It happens despite best practices and protocols, especially in a facility that is understaffed. But this wasn’t a normal number, and it wasn’t just drugs. Hell, one inmate was even found with a cell phone and a solar-powered charger. Could there be an Orange is the New Black kind of operation going
on involving guards, we asked? Sources were doubtful. It was simply too risky and dangerous and preposterous for a guard to be breaking the law to carry drugs in. No one would be dumb enough. Well, one guard was. Police arrested 43-year-old county jail corrections officer Kamara Austin last week and he is now a resident in the very jail he had worked at. (He was immediately placed on unpaid leave by the county, of course.) Prosecutors say Austin smuggled 16 grams of heroin and a bevy of as-yet unidentified pills into the facility for an inmate named Anthony Lett. Who’s that? Lett is awaiting trial for allegedly raping a woman and stealing guns. For his part, Austin, who had been at the jail since 1998, was arrested in a parking lot of a grocery store on Miles Avenue. Cops found heroin and pills in the car. He appeared in court March 17, and his bond has been set at $250,000. — Vince Grzegorek
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Sometimes it starts with little forethought and cascades from there. You have one of something and then two and suddenly a couple hundred or thousand. Ok, that’s not exactly how it happens, but for these collects from around Northeast Ohio that’s sometimes how it feels. One day you’re just going about your business and then one day, for example, you’re the person someone thinks of if they have 4,000 troll dolls they’d like to unload. These things happen, and that delights us (and probably stir other emotions in friends and family who live with the hobbies), so we talked to the owners of eight of the oddest, best, and largest collections in Cleveland. ERIC EAKIN Bay Village What does he collect? Bedpans Huh? No, really, bedpans. Okay, go on: “Antique and unique bedpans. I have male and female urinals, infirmwear, but not chamber pots.” With more than 250 pieces, Eakin has the largest known (and possibly only?) collection in the world. “There’s a collector for every item — cat pins, prosthesis, glass eyes. I just happen to be the bedpan guy.” Tell us more, then, Bedpan Guy: “Some go back to the early 1800s. They’re made of porcelain, metal, stainless steel, enameled metal, recycled newspaper, plastic, aluminum. I have a urinal from
a B-29 bomber, travel urinals for kids, miniature bedpans, bedpans that were used as greeting cards, bedpans that have been turned into works of art, bedpans with Native American or outdoor motifs. I even have a Jim Traficant bedpan. They’re mostly from the United States but I’ve gotten some from overseas, traded from Great Britain, some from Germany and Israel. I’ve also got a metal urinal from the television series M.A.S.H.” How on earth did this get started? Eakin’s mother was visiting England in the 1970s, and when she was leaving the two friends she was visiting handed her a key to a locker at the airport as a parting gift. Inside the locker
were two bedpans — as a prank, the friends wanted Eakin’s mother to have to carry the two bedpans home on the airplane. She gave one to her son and the collection began. “My wife liked to go to
antique stores when we first got married. I’d see these laying around, and thought nobody in the world collects these, they’re just too strange to collect. So I started doing it. Some people get it, some | clevescene.com | March 22 - 28, 2017
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FEATURE of them don’t get it. If you have a sense of humor, you push forward; if not, you don’t say anything. They’re all clean, I don’t use them; it’s bad karma to use them. Most of these have probably never been used.” Are they valuable? “I pay a dime, 50 cents, a dollar for them.” His quirky collection has been featured on TV and written up in publications, which hasn’t increased the value in any way but has made it easier to score additions. A woman from Wooster tracked him down a few years ago and invited him to a barn that was filled with bedpans that her father had left her. “People have left them hanging on my front door knob,” he says. “A guy from an antique store once sent me a picture saying, ‘I thought of you.’ Thanks!” Eakin admits he’s going to need to get rid of them at some point. Although individual pieces aren’t worth a ton, one lady sold her 150-piece bedpan collection to Ripley’s Believe It Or Not for $150,000 20 years ago, so he’s hoping his collection might see a similar fate. Where does he keep them? “Most are on the shelf in my basement. But my wife lets me put the six best ones around the house, on display. You know the saying, ‘A guy was so poor, he doesn’t have a pot to piss in’? Well, I’ll never be that guy.”
What does he collect? Brown has one of the largest collections of Star Wars memorabilia in the world. He collects all things Star Wars but mainly focuses on action figures and play sets, along with comic books. How’d he get his start? Brown began collecting Star Wars memorabilia as a kid growing up in Macedonia. “I was 9 when the first Star Wars film came out, and went to see it with my family and it blew my mind. Not only the film itself, but all the hype and interest surrounding the film really hit home. I stayed interested in Star Wars throughout the years, and then my son was born and the movies were re-released and I got back into collecting.” He’s not alone, is he? Absolutely not. Though his collection of thousands of items might be one of the largest, plenty of others love the hobby too. He trades and swaps pieces
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and is involved in the Star Wars collector’s community, including the Ohio Star Wars Collectors Club, which he stumbled on eight years ago and is now the president of. “I began going to meetings and really enjoyed how Star Wars collectors
be heading to Orlando later this year for a Star Wars conference and celebration. Would he ever give it up? “I wouldn’t, because it doesn’t overtake my life. It’s more of a fun hobby, a home project. Life happens, my focus goes
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came from all walks of life: doctors, nurses, teachers, truck drivers. The group has events but what really sticks out to me are the friendships which are bonded by a common interest.” What does his family think? Brown has four kids who have varying degrees of interest, but his wife has alway been supportive and she’s a member of the club as well. They’ll
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up and down, and I’m not the kind of person who has a daily obsession with collecting.”
MORRIE EVERETT Kirtland What does he collect? Vintage movie posters. How many does he have? Oh, just
196,000 or so, covering 40,000 different titles. It’s the largest vintage movie poster collection in the world. When did he start? “I began collecting in college at the University of Virginia in 1961. A friend of mine took me to his house and showed me his meager collection of memorabilia.” Being a lifelong cinephile, Everett’s interest was piqued, plus he immediately thought he could outdo his friend’s collection. Sounds expensive: That’s partly why Everett turned the hobby into a business. He operates hollywoodposterauction.com and started selling posters in 1989. “I spent the farm collecting all this stuff and ran into some financial trouble,” he says. He’s had the business for 28 years now, including a store in Kirtland that used to be on Euclid Avenue downtown, and has operated shops in Chicago, L.A. and London. Any brushes with fame? “I’ve run auctions for Martin Scorsese. I had a store in Hollywood for five years. Michael Jackson would come into the store dressed like an old woman, a hood over his head and giant, I’m talking giant, sunglasses on, and whisper in his high voice, and say, ‘Do you have any Shirley Temple or Walt Disney posters?’ And I sold him whatever I had.” Everett also
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JAMIE RIEGLE Cleveland
owns the largest movie print business in the country, based in New York City, that licenses thousands of movie photos. Most unique item? A superrare poster from the 1927 ďŹ lm Metropolis, the German sci-ďŹ ďŹ lm directed by Fritz Lang. What do friends and family think? “They had some skepticism at ďŹ rst. They thought, ‘What are you gonna do with all this stuff that’s taking up a lot of room and you spent a lot of money on?’ Back then there really wasn’t a huge market for it, though. But I don’t womanize, I don’t go to the bar; I collect movie posters. There are a lot worse habits I could have.â€? Can I see the collection? Sure. Everett’s store, The Last Moving Picture Company, is at 10535 Chilicothe Rd. Give the store a call at 440-256-3660.
What does he collect? Superman memorabilia. Is this a hobby or a job at this point? Riegle deals memorabilia full time through his web site, Supercollectibles.com, where he sells DC Comics toys and collectibles. “I started with Superman and expanded from there. The store is separate from my collection; it’s been running for about 15 years now. I buy wholesale and have over 2,000 items in the store, including some one of a kind vintage pieces.� How’d he start? “I started collecting comic books when I was 4 years old; my father grew up on comics, and started buying them again when I was born. I was always into the DC stuff — Justice League and all. Then the Superman movie came out in the late ’70s. I saw it in the theater and everywhere you went there was more Superman stuff. Then superpowers came out in the ’80s and I went and bought all the play-sets. Back then everything was just these quarter boxes. My parents would take us around, we’d hit garage sales, comic book stores, and I’d go through my list to make sure I had the full collection. Every weekend there was a comic book show at a hotel, and I used to have a lot of Justice League stuff — Batman, Wonder Woman — and it got to the point where
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there was just too much stuff to collect. Before I did the store, I would set up at flea markets on the weekends to get rid of duplicates or trade for Superman stuff, and eventually I decided to focus solely on Superman stuff.” How much stuff? “In addition to the Superman collection, I still have 80s toys, Kiss action figures, Transformers, GI Joes.” Riegle estimates his full collection at 40,000 pieces. Anything really rare? “I have a few one-of-a-kind items. I have the original customs form when Superman serials came out in 1948; they had to send film reels to the U.K. to play over there, and I got my hands on the original customs documents with stamps that show all the shipping information to the U.K. I have a Canadian book cover from 1940 when the radio shows were on. A bakery sponsored this book and it might be the only one that exists. I have a poster from Nov. 20, 1943, a bill posted in a theater in Uruguay, when the cartoons started showing theaters. I also have a can of Superman machine gun oil from Vietnam, which isn’t an officially licensed item.” Would he ever give it all up? Riegle always said that if he doesn’t have a museum by the time his sons, appropriately named Kal-El and Lex, are done with school, he’d think about giving it up. But Riegle’s goal is to open a museum where he can display his full collection. He’s curious why one doesn’t exist in Cleveland, since it’s the birthplace of the Man of Steel. Are you still adding? “I get emails everyday from people, sometimes
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Jamie Riegle
it’s foreign stuff that I don’t have because it wasn’t released here, sometimes it’s worthless. I’ve met a lot of the families of the creator. His daughter sent me a comic signed by her dad. Right now I’m not buying nearly half the stuff I used to buy. I ran out of room. I helped set up the Superman display at the airport. I’m also a wish granter for Make-a-Wish; a lot of kids want a superhero party, and I have the stuff to throw the party.” Is his wife on board? “We used the Superman theme music at our wedding. She wasn’t a Superman fan when we met, 20-some years ago. I told her up front when we started dating I wanted to name the kids Kal-El and Lex. Now she’s really into it.”
SHERRY GROOM Alliance What does she collect? Troll dolls, and a lot of them: She’s got the largest collection in the world
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according to the Guinness Book of World Records. Hobby or a full-time job? A bit of both. Groom operates the Troll Museum in Alliance but still maintains a full-time job as a nurse. How’d it get started? “The collection just kind of happened over the years. I got my first toy for Christmas. Trolls were pretty rare back in the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s, so it wasn’t a big collectors item. But then in the ’90s, trolls really made a successful comeback and they became pretty easy to collect and eventually people wanted to dump their collections so I take them.” Why? “The reason I collect them is that they represent the oldest supernatural being, a troll. They started to appear in folktales from Scandinavia and I liked those. I started out collecting just a few, then I had a roomful, then they had to go into boxes where I had too many to display and we needed a hut, so I purchased a
building in downtown Alliance. I actually purchased the building to support Alzheimers, the Arch for Alzheimers non-profit. We needed a hook to get people in, so the trolls were a way to do that.” How many do you have? “My collection has grown from 2,000 to 19,000.” How’s the store and museum working out? “We opened three years ago, but we did a real soft opening, doing a couple of tours a month, then a couple a week, now a couple a day. Our best day, we did 15 tours. We have a fulltime resident artist by the name of David McDow. Our exhibits are very unique. We’re part of Discover Ohio, the Canton Business Bureau and the Akron Business Bureau.” What does her family think? “My family all disowned me [laughs]. My kids are pretty ashamed of me and want nothing to do with it [laughs again]. My husband was always very supportive though; he’s done all the renovations on the buildings and owns the business with me.” What else? “Now with trolls back in the limelight, it’s really brought in a new guest list to come see the museum; kids and people of all ages come in. We had a Dreamworks exhibit as soon as the movie came out. Looking for a home for your troll dolls? “We believe that no troll should be abandoned and made to suffer through the humiliation of thrift stores and yard sales. Send us your troll and we will take very good care of it and give it the love it deserves.” Biggest acquisition? “My largest donation was over 4,000 trolls.
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It was from a young man who wanted to have something in common with his girlfriend, so he started this collection and it became pretty large. Then his girlfriend left him, so we got the trolls.� How to visit? Go to 222 East Main St. in Alliance, Tuesday through
Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; or call 330-596-1157.
TIM HARNETT Cleveland What does he collect? Lots of shit. Everything, really: Comic books, tiki mugs, anything related to the
United Kingdom, records. When did he start? “I started collecting comic books when I was 12 years old. I was building my own environment in which I felt comfortable, but it’s also part of an addictive personality. After collecting comic books, music took a hold of me toward the end of
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a special Christie’s auction. There were only six known books, but they suspected they might have the seventh, so Jerry contacted Christie’s reps who said it was unlikely they had an original. The couple decided to send it to Christie’s to be appraised. “[The Christie’s rep] was appalled that we sent it via regular post without insurance,” says Darla, noting that they had been convinced at the time it was likely a reproduction. But the experts agreed it was the seventh. Because it wasn’t part of the Potter auction, they knew they wouldn’t get six figures, but it still sold for a whopping $29,000. “That’s what keeps collectors going — I mean, talk about the hunt,” says Darla.
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thinking we’re insane.” What’s unique about his collections? “We have preProhibition memorabilia from breweries. We have tiki mugs where the artist has only produced 50 of them, and then literally breaks the mold, we have a few of those. Also, some rare punk 7-inchs, albums where the band members don’t even own the record.” Would he ever give it up? “I tell myself every day I’m gonna stop and it just gets worse; the stuff ends up owning you.”
JERRY AND DARLA ARNOLD Beachwood What they collect: Antique holiday items How they got their start: The oldest of six children, Jerry collected things as a child. “I always wanted something that was my own,” he says one afternoon from his Beachwood home where he and his wife Darla have put vintage Valentine’s Day cards on display throughout the house. “Having my shoebox of treasures, those were my things. I had rocks and fossils. I would be outside and find sea glass and stones.” The two Cleveland Institute of Art
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students married 50 years ago, and at that point, they started scouring area garage sales to buy old items they could refinish and up-cycle for sale. Since Darla had an interest in vintage Christmas decorations, they began assembling a collection of antique holiday decor ranging from cards and candy containers to handmade ornaments. They now possess an exhaustive collection of hardto-find antique holiday items from Easter, Halloween, Fourth of July, Valentine’s Day and Christmas. The two have a cottage industry designing antiqueinspired ornaments and collectors regularly send damaged toys and ornaments to Jerry, one of the few people capable of restoring the delicate decorations. Each year, they put 23 decorated Christmas trees in their home. Weirdest inclusion or addition: Once they went to an antique book sale and found a very small book with a pink silk cord and a picture of a rabbit under an umbrella. They bought it to go with their Easter collection for about $10. Six months later, they read about a series of early, self-published Beatrice Potter books that sold at
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What friends and family think: Darla and Jerry say they don’t entirely come clean to relatives when asked about their collecting tendencies. “We never tell them what we pay,” says Darla. “That’s rule No. 1. They don’t understand it. They can’t relate because they’re not collectors. Some of our sons’ friends would come over and see how much we had on display, but they weren’t impressed. Our youngest son is a minimalist; he doesn’t want any of this. What would make them stop: Darla and Jerry say they have no intention of stopping anytime soon, but they admit “old age will have an impact on us really soon.” “I can’t see having it, if you can’t put it out and share it,” says Darla, who says they put their antique decorations on display for every holiday. “We know collectors who have the stuff and don’t ever put it out, but that’s not us,” says Jerry. “We put out all the Valentine’s Day items this year.” Ultimately, collecting functions as a form of
therapy. “I’ve had a few bad things happen in my life and collecting served as a diversion, so I wouldn’t dwell on those things for some amount of time. A passion like this gives you something else to occupy yourself.”
MARKY RAY Summit County What he collects: Rock ’n’ roll memorabilia with a Northeast Ohio bent How did he get his start: As a kid, Ray collected beer cans and coins. While at boarding school in southern Ohio, he started doing flyers for a band called the Unexplained. That led to a desire to start collecting and making flyers and “punk ephemera.” “That was the thing about punk rock,” he says one morning from one of several rooms in his home devoted to keeping various flyers and rock ’n’ roll artifacts. “It gave you a license to create. I could do it myself. My dad was an artist, so I had access to all sorts of things, and I had free rein.” Now he has a collection of guitars, ’zines, cassette tapes, vinyl albums and concert T-shirts that takes up the better part of his modest single-story home. “My focus now is on scaling down to Northeast Ohio stuff that I want to preserve,” he says as he leafs through an album of old flyers. “I’ve got concert listings from the old Scene magazines and Cleveland After Dark. I have lots of punk era fl iers from the [shuttered record store] the Drome and the classic punk era flyer stuff is my main focus.” Weirdest get: Ray owns a couple of Nine Inch Nails guitars that frontman Trent Reznor smashed during live performances. At the time, he worked on the NIN crew, and he simply picked up the pieces of the broken instruments, painted a psychedelic pattern on them and brought them back to Cleveland where he had them repaired. “I’ve got a couple of [Cramps singer] Lux Interior microphone stands from jumping off PA systems and breaking them in half. One was from a show in 1997 at Gray’s Armory. That was a great show.” He also has self-published books of poems by the late Cleveland poet d.a. levy, which he inherited from punk rocker Bobby H, who helped fi nance and facilitate the release of the two Cleveland
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Confidential releases put out by the Cleveland punk band the Pagans. “I was [the late Bobby H’s] friend, and his widow willed me the paper ephemera,” he says of the levy collection. “I’ve been documenting it and gave a lot of it to the Rock Hall Archives and the Cleveland Memory project. This stuff needs to be seen. It’s rarer than hens’ teeth. Levy was brilliant. He was like Cleveland’s answer to Lenny Bruce.” Ray also owns a vintage acoustic guitar that once belonged to Dick Lurie, an infamous Cleveland guitarist who studied with Segovia. He bought the item for $6.95 at a local thrift store. What friends and family think: Ray says his wife is “a little dismayed sometimes” and his daughter thinks “it’s a little nutty.” But his wife possesses a deep appreciation for rock history. “She’s a collector too, and she saw Elvis in 1974 and even ‘touched’ him [but not in a pervy way],” says Ray. “I can’t top that.”
What would make him stop: Because of limited space, Ray says he can’t expand his collection much more. “My daughter just wants the vinyl and the guitars,” he says. “I’m selling off collectible toys and antiques and everything that my daughter doesn’t want. I’ll probably pass on the guitars and the rare vinyl and stuff that is worth money but has sentimental value. I don’t have anything worth a shit ton of money. You have to know the context for something like the Nine Inch Nails guitar, or you’d just think someone fucked up a really cool guitar.” Ray hopes that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Archives can put together a Cleveland-centric museum/ display affiliated with Northeast Ohio. “If there were a space, I would donate some of this to it.”
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THU On tour in support of her new book, comedian Kathy Griffin comes to the State Theatre. See: Saturday.
a monthly screening of a classic film that includes a happy hour cocktail party in the lobby before the feature. Tonight’s featured film is Hello, Dolly!, the 1969 movie starring Barbra Streisand, based on the musical by the same name. Admission is $10, which includes a mini-cocktail (or soft drink if you don’t fancy the hard stuff), appetizers and live music. (Niesel) 1390 West 65th St., 216-651-7295, clevelandcinemas.com. SPORTS
Monsters vs. Chicago Wolves For Wednesday games at the Q, the Cleveland Monsters offer a special deal for college students. Students with a proper ID can buy tickets for just six bucks, and they’re eligible for a $6 College Meal Deal that includes a hot dog, chips and a soda. Tonight’s opponent: the Chicago Wolves. The game begins at 7 p.m. and general admission tickets start at $10. (Niesel) 1 Center Court, 216-420-2000, theqarena.com.
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The Punk Singer Before she formed the riot grrrl band Bikini Kill in 1990, singer Kathleen Hanna was just another private-school student trying to find herself. Contrary to popular opinion, the teachers at trendy Evergreen College in Olympia, Washington, didn’t take kindly to her literary experiments, so she refrained from letting her emotions go. But then she met underground writer Kathy Acker and realized she didn’t need to hold back. Acker helped her channel her more extreme impulses, and it wasn’t long before Hanna was fronting the abrasive and openly feminist Bikini Kill. Hanna’s history is well documented in the The Punk Singer, a terrific documentary that shows just how rockin’ the band’s music (and politics) could be. The movie screens at 7 tonight at the Rock Hall. Tickets are $5.50, free for Rock Hall members and free with Rock Hall admission. (Niesel) 1100 Rock and Roll Blvd., 216-515-8444, rockhall.com.
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Capone Comedian Derrick “Capone” Lee served nine months in jail in the early ’90s, He successfully left that life behind when he turned to comedy. He performed for the first time ever at Columbia University and hasn’t looked back. His material often centers on subjects such as racism and social inequality. Capone has shared the stage with big-name comics such as Mike Epps and Tracey Morgan. He performs tonight at 7:30 at the Improv and has shows scheduled at the club through Sunday. Tickets are $20. (Niesel) 1148 Main Ave., 216-696-IMPROV, clevelandimprov.com. FESTIVAL
Cleveland Humanities Festival The second annual Cleveland Humanities Festival — exploring the theme of immigration — kicks into high gear today. At noon, Cleveland Museum of Art curator of photography Barbara Tannenbaum gives a lunchtime talk on selected works by photographers Leonard Freed, | clevescene.com | March 22 - 28, 2017
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GET OUT Céline van Balen and others who have depicted immigrants and immigration. At 6 p.m., renowned Harvard historian and host of PBS’ Finding Your Roots, Henry Louis Gates Jr., gives the festival’s keynote address on the topic of ancestry. The Gates Jr. talk is sold out, but it will be live-streamed to Case’s Tinkham Veale Auditorium. The Cleveland Humanities Festival runs through April 24, with core events running from today to April 2. Most events are free but require registration. Visit the website for more info. (Lawrence Neil) chf.case.edu.
start at $23 to $28. (Liz Trenholme) 2035 East Fourth St., 216-241-7425, pickwickandfrolic.com.
Eventbrite or by calling the AAWR offices. (Usmani) 1375 East Ninth St., 216-721-9020, artistsarchives.org.
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Women of the Western Reserve In honor of Women’s History Month, but extending beyond it, the Artists Archives of the Western Reserve (AAWR) present the Women of the Western Reserve, a special art
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A Discussion About Art Before the first exhibitions at Spaces’ new home end later this week, resident artist Anthony Warnick will offer insight into the inspiration for his exhibition, Except as Punishment for a Crime, from 6:30 to 7:30 tonight. Warnick’s exhibition explores the exploitation of the ever-growing inmate population for cheap labor by America’s for-profit, private prison corporations. Many of the objects in Warnick’s exhibition were commissioned by the artist to be produced by inmates, allowing him to explore the production process by playing an indirect role in it. These inmate-produced items include three stacks of off-set prints on the floor, as well as disassembled American flags hanging from the wall. During tonight’s discussion, Warnick will explain the complex system and the role the 13th Amendment plays in compulsory labor for prisoners. Warnick’s exhibition remains on view through March 25. Admission is free. (Josh Usmani) 2900 Detroit Ave., 216-621-2314, spacesgallery.org.
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The Punk Singer A film about Kathleen Hanna
Tupac Live at the House of Blues & see the new 2017 Inductee exhibit
Sir Doug and the Genuine Texas Cosmic Groove Celebrating the Summer of Love 50th anniversary
A Hard Day’s Night Beatles. Classic.
CASH BAR available at each film
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Jay Oakerson Comedian Jay Oakerson likes to observe people, and he’s crass. His observations are so spot-on that he says the things you’re too embarrassed to say. Favorite topics include making fun of white people who are rich and wear plaid shorts, hooking up audience members, becoming a king in Ireland and “sugar daddies.” No really, this guy is actually pretty funny. He used to work as a bouncer for a strip club and as a children’s party entertainer; how could he not be a hoot? The show starts at 8 tonight at Hilarities, where he has shows scheduled through Sunday. Tickets
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exhibition celebrating local women artists; it’s on view through June 1 in downtown’s Aecom building. The exhibition includes AAWR archived artists Ruth Bercaw, Lee Heinen, Phyllis Seltzer and member artist Marti Higgins. AAWR hosts an opening reception at Aecom from 6 to 7:30 tonight. The event is free, but guests are asked to RSVP through
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Tasting Adventure, tonight’s whiskey and bourbon tasting event at the Greater Cleveland Aquarium will feature samples from all the whiskey and bourbon makers that we love. Light hors d’oeuvres will be served, and Melt Bar & Grilled will pass out a “cookie with bacon.” The event takes place from 7 to 10. Tickets are $40, or $30 for pass holders. Designated
drivers pay $20. Admission includes 20 sample tickets and a souvenir glass. (Niesel) 2000 Sycamore St., 216-862-8803, greaterclevelandaquarium.com. COMEDY
Mike Armstrong A former law officer, Mike Armstrong has decided instead to make a living making people laugh. Besides telling tales about his time on the force, he talks about his family; those stories are mostly about his wife and how she has to put up with him in public as he messes with total strangers. You can hear more about his life and times tonight at 7:30 and 10 at the Hard Rock Rocksino’s Club Velvet. Tickets are $10 and $15; performances take place tomorrow too. (Martin Harp) 10705 Northfield Rd., Northfield, 330-908-7793, hrrocksinonorthfieldpark.com. ART
Basquiat Julian Schnabel directs Basquiat, a 1996 biopic that stars Jeffrey Wright, David Bowie, Dennis Hopper and Gary Oldman. The film, which screens in conjunction with the Cleveland Museum of Art’s current Basquiat exhibition, shows how the New York artist drew from graffiti art to create collage-style paintings. It shows at 7 tonight and at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday at the museum. Tickets are $11, or $8 for CMA members, students and seniors. (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org. ART
Existential Pearls: A Photographic Record from 2009-2017 Local photographer Adam Jaenke has spent the past eight years documenting both the intimate and the spectacular moments of everyday life in his hometown, along with travel and assorted human interactions. Whether the subjects are familiar shots of Cleveland or exotic locales, Jaenke’s dynamic photos present the world from an inquisitive and exciting perspective. Jaenke’s Existential Pearls: A Photographic Record from 2009-2017 opens at Canopy with a reception from 6 to 10 tonight. The exhibition includes more than 300 photos taken since 2009. Jaenke received his undergrad degree in English and studio art in 2009, and studied digital photography and creative writing at the Umbra Institute in Perugia, Italy. The exhibition includes photos captured in several formats, including 35-mm film, DSLR, micro 4/3 mirrorless digital and even on an iPhone 4. Existential Pearls
remains on view through April 15. Admission is free. (Usmani) 3910 Lorain Ave., 216-309-1090, canopy-collective.com.
start at $10. (Niesel) 1 Center Court, 216-420-2000, theqarena.com.
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Fish Fry-Days Through the month of March and for the first few weeks of April, Prosperity Social Club hosts its fish fry, dubbed Fish Fry-Days, every Friday from 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. The special Lenten menu includes the Big Fish Fry, a seasonal staple that features a generous portion of haddock covered in a fluffy blanket of beer batter and complemented by homemade coleslaw, house tartar sauce and old-school-style mac and cheese. Last year, the event received national attention when the homecooked Big Fish Fry was featured on TV chef Andrew Zimmern’s Delicious Destinations. New this year: Chef Ed Kubitz has added a lemony shrimp piccata pasta to the list of Fish Fry-Day offerings. (Niesel) 1109 Starkweather Ave., 216-937-1938, prosperitysocialclub.com. THEATER
Flanagan’s Wake No one knows grief and mourning like a Catholic, let alone an Irish Catholic. In its fifth year running in Cleveland, Flanagan’s Wake transports the audience to a wake in Ireland 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. A sort of 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. The show starts at 8 tonight and plays again tomorrow night at 8 at Kennedy’s Theatre. Tickets are $26. (Patrick Stoops) 1501 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org. SPORTS
Monsters vs. Iowa Wild Friday night hockey games at the Q are always fun. Tonight, the team takes on the Iowa Wild at 7. As part of the team’s 1-2-3 Fridays promotion, fans can purchase $1 Pepsi products, $2 Sugardale hot dogs and $3 beers. It’s also Go Pink Night, and there will be a pink warmup jersey auction. The two teams face off again at 3 p.m. on Sunday at the Q. The first 3,500 kids through the door will receive a mini Fathead decal, and the first 1,000 kids will receive a free pass to Castaway Bay. Special $6 Monsters Meals include a hot dog, chips and a soda. Tickets
The Wiz, the 18th Annual CMSD All-City Musical This year, Cleveland Metropolitan School District students take on the 1970s musical The Wiz as they present the 18th annual CMSD All-City Musical. The play features characters from The Wizard of Oz but updates the story with a soundtrack of gospel and funk music. Catch it tonight at 7:30 at the Ohio Theatre, where performances continue through Sunday. Tickets are $15. (Niesel) 1501 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.
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Cavaliers vs. Washington Wizards While the Cleveland Cavaliers still stand to return to the NBA Finals, they will have some serious competition in the much-improved Eastern Conference. Tonight at 7:30 at the Q, they face the Washington Wizards, one of the teams nipping at their heels for the conference’s top seed. Crafty point guard John Wall leads the Wizards as they will try to gain some ground on the Cavs. Tickets start at $54. (Niesel) 1 Center Court, 216-420-2000, theqarena.com.
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Opening Fri, March 24 And Running Thurs-Sat At 8 Pm Through April 15 This darkly humorous fable of an angry man on a rampage through a fantastical wilderness, chronicles the exploits of very angry Santouche as he tries to make sense of his understanding of law and order in a nation of other very angry people. Filled with Wild West and circus sideshow imagery, the action doesn’t unfold in any specific time or place. But all the characters drink from the same poisoned well, which is definitely recognizably American. It might be anytime in the last 70 years, or even – not impossibly – in the next.
At convergence-continuum’s Liminis Theater 2438 Scranton Rd, Cleveland 44113 | in the historic Tremont neighborhood
Tickets $20 general admission, $15 seniors, $10 students at convergence-continuum.org and 216-687-0074
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Cleveland Pops Presents I Love a Piano With Tony DeSare Tony DeSare is an up-and-coming singer, composer and piano wiz. Press outlets have compared him to Harry Connick Jr, Michael Bublé and Jamie Cullum. The New York-based musician performs classic American standards but also writes his own music and plays with a swinging piano style. In addition to being a talented player and singer, DeSare has looks and charisma. Tonight at 8 at Severance Hall, he will accompany the Cleveland Pops Orchestra as it runs through tunes from piano legends Elton John, Ray Charles, Billy Joel and more. This will be DeSare’s first live performance in Cleveland. Tickets range from $21 to $95. (Johnny Cook) 11001 Euclid Ave., 216-231-1111, clevelandpops.com.
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GET OUT viewers of all ages, from witty dialog to the occasional adult situation. Wes Anderson’s 2009 cult classic Fantastic Mr. Fox caters more to adults than kids. Featuring the voices of George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray and a slew of other A-list actors, it screens today and tomorrow at 11 a.m. at the Cedar Lee Theatre as part of Cleveland Cinemas’ family film series. Tickets are only $1. (Niesel) 2163 Lee Rd., Cleveland Heights, 216-321-5411, clevelandcinemas.com. MARKET
MAR 4 – 26 | ALLEN THEATRE Li’l Bit takes us on a no-holds-barred trip back in time to her adolescence in 1960s Maryland and her complicated relationship with an older man. This Pulitzer Prize winner masterfully veers in and out of personal memory and deftly traverses comedy, drama, and farce. written by PAULA VOGEL | directed by LAURA KEPLEY
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Frostville Winter Farmers Market Winter is over, but the Frostville Indoor Winter Market continues a few weeks longer, with its three remaining seasonal appearances set for today, April 8 and April 22. Held at the Frostville Museum in North Olmsted, in the Cleveland Metroparks’ Rocky River Reservation, the market includes local farmers, artisans and speciality food vendors. Expect to find seasonal vegetables, honey, eggs, organic cheese tea, wine, soaps, jewelry and assorted crafts. Today’s edition runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the museum’s barn. (Niesel) 24101 Cedar Point Rd., 330-592-6518, frostvillefarmersmarket.com. COMEDY
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Kathy Griffin Last year, comedian Kathy Griffin released her second book, Kathy Griffin’s Celebrity Run-Ins: My A-Z Index, offering a hilarious look at how the Hollywood half lives. The book provides an A to Z compendium of the celebrities she’s met and offers “outrageous, charming and sometimes-bizarre anecdotes.” Now on a 50-city standup tour in support of the book, the fast-talking Griffin performs tonight at 8 at the State Theatre. She promises a two-plus hour show that will feature all new-material revealing her in-person encounters with the likes of Donald Trump, Cher and Woody Allen. Tickets start at $10. (Niesel) 1519 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org. COMEDY
Mike Polk Jr. If you’ve caught a live performance by local comic Mike Polk Jr., the man behind the Hastily Made Cleveland Tourism Video, the Factory of Sadness video (parts one and two), Last Call Cleveland comedy troupe and his very own show on Fox 8 (aptly called the Mike Polk Jr. Show), you know he
really thrives on having an audience at his disposal. Polk will tape tonight’s show at the Kent Stage for a one-hour special. It begins at 7:30 p.m., and tickets are $15. (Niesel) 175 East Main St., Kent, 330-677-5005, kentstage.org.
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Cleveland Improv Jam The Angry Ladies of Improv has hosted the Cleveland Improv Jam for four years now. A few years back, Scene described the show as “fierce, formidable and very funny.” The women have some serious experience too. Katie White-Sonby is an actress who’s performed at Clague Playhouse, Karamu and Kennedy’s Cabaret. Marjorie Preston is an alumna of Something Dada and Rockwell 9 improvisational comedy troupes. The event begins with a short-form set of improv games, followed by a longform improv set. It begins at 5 p.m. at Coffee Phix. Arrive early if you want to sign up and perform. Admission is free. (Niesel) 4485 Mayfield Rd., South Euclid, 216-381-5706, coffeephixcafe.com. SPOKEN WORD
The Gentleman from Ohio Book Signing and Talk A panel that includes Lori Stokes, co-anchor of New York City’s Eyewitness News This Morning; WEWS TV-5 news anchor Leon Bibb; Maltz Museum founder and board chair emeritus Milton Maltz; theologian, speaker, author and activist Rev. Dr. Otis Moss Jr.; cochairman emeritus of Forest City Enterprises, Albert B. Ratner; and Plain Dealer columnists Phillip Morris and Brent Larkin discusses the legacy of local leader Louis Stokes as Lori Stokes reads excerpts from his biography, The Gentleman from Ohio. Part of the year-long #Stokes50CLE celebration, the event takes place today at 3 p.m. at the Temple-Tifereth Israel (next door to the Maltz Museum). Tickets are $12 general admission and $6 for Maltz Museum members. Secure your seat online or by calling the number below. (Niesel) 2929 Richmond Rd., Beachwood, 216-593-0575, maltzmuseum.org. COMEDY
Ben Moore In one particular skit, comedian Ben Moore makes fun of his white friends who like to preface their racist statements by saying things
like, “I’m not racist, but ... .” He wonders if, in contrast, blatant racists, like KKK members, do the opposite and preface non-racist comments with, “I’m a racist, but ... .” The Cincinnati-based comic has won regional competitions, and WTF podcast host/comedian/actor Marc Maron calls him “very funny.” He performs tonight at 8 at Hilarities. Tickets are $13 to $18. (Niesel) 2035 East Fourth St., 216-241-7425, pickwickandfrolic.com. FAMILY FUN
The Q Community Fun Run Running season won’t really kick into gear until next month. But anyone looking to get a leg up on training will have a good opportunity to do so at the Q Community Fun Run. A benefit for the Cavaliers Youth Foundation and the Monsters and Gladiators Community Fund, the event features a 5-K run and a 1-mile walk. Registration begins at 7:30 a.m. and the events start at 9. Registration costs $25 for kids, $25 for adults. Team mascots and cheerleaders will be on hand as well. (Niesel) 1 Center Court, 216-420-2000, theqarena.com.
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Monday Night Trivia 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 — it’s a crapshot — 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. The tables fill up quickly. (Sam Allard) 5801 Detroit Ave., 216-651-9474, happydogcleveland.com. FILM
Salt and Fire As part of the New York Film Critics Series, a regular film series of ongoing preview screenings that takes place in about 50 selected major markets, the Nightlight in Akron will present a special advance screening of Salt and
Fire, a new thriller from director Werner Herzog that centers on an ecological disaster in South America. It will screen at 6:30 tonight. Each New York Film Critics Series event aims to “bring the energy and VIP nature of prestigious, New York screenings for nationwide audiences,” and film critic Shawn Levy will host the screening via a telecast that will feature a conversation with star Michael Shannon. Tickets are $10. (Niesel) 30 North High St., Akron, 330-252-5782, nightlightcinema.com. FOOD
Wing Ding Doodle Blues icon Howlin’ Wolf famously covered “Wang Dang Doodle,” the old blues tune penned by Willie Dixon. Prosperity Social Club in Tremont has adopted that slogan, calling its wing night Wing Ding Doodle. The weekly event features specials on Buffalo wings and cold brews. Prosperity will not only serve up substantial, $1 whole wings, but it’ll also offering meatless Monday “wing” baskets for vegans. Discounted drafts and
a playlist of vintage-electric blues and soulful R&B curated by local musician Clint Holley will be on tap as well. Wing Ding Doodle takes place every Monday from 6 p.m. to midnight. (Niesel) 1109 Starkweather Ave., 216-937-1938, prosperitysocialclub.com.
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Monsters vs. Charlotte Checkers For Tuesday games at the Q, the Cleveland Monsters offer a special deal for college students. Students with a proper ID can buy tickets for just six bucks, and they’re eligible for a $6 College Meal Deal that includes a hot dog, chips and a soda. Tonight’s opponent: the Charlotte Checkers. The game begins at 7 p.m. and general admission tickets start at $10. (Niesel). 1 Center Court, 216-420-2000, theqarena.com.
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ART GRRL POWER Lakeland’s annual women-only exhibition shows off the region’s creativity By Josh Usmani EVERY YEAR FOR THE PAST 10 years, in honor of Women’s History Month, the Gallery at Lakeland Community College has presented an exhibition featuring only female artists. Given the current political climate surrounding women’s rights, education, and funding for the arts, there might not be a more appropriate time for the arrival of From Woman X. The historic struggles of women artists are well documented. But as evidenced by the exhibition, our region is outpacing much of the country: Many if not most of the arts organizations in Cleveland are led by women, including Artists Archives of the Western Reserve, Heights Arts, MOCA Cleveland, Spaces, the Transformer Station and more. That doesn’t mean we’re where we need to be, but it’s encouraging. Lakeland’s exhibition was originally inspired by the Guerrilla Girls and their sarcastic “Advantages of Being a Woman Artist” advertisement. Formed in 1985, the Guerrilla Girls are a group of anonymous, masked female artists and art professionals whose collective work is aimed at raising awareness of women artists and their disadvantages throughout history in comparison to their mostly white, mostly male counterparts. A copy of the Guerrilla Girls’ poster still hangs in Lakeland gallery director Mary Urbas’ office. Urbas is the powerhouse behind the annual women-centric exhibitions, having created the event and worked tirelessly year-round to expand the exhibition at Lakeland and throughout the region. This year’s exhibition includes work from more than 40 artists from northeast and central Ohio, as well as Arizona and Indiana, in a diverse variety of media. This year’s show includes oil, acrylic, watercolor and encaustic painting, as well as drawing, collage, glass, ceramic, sculpture, mixed media and more. The exhibition is divided into three sections by the building’s architecture. Instead of separating the works by media or subject matter, Urbas has arranged the artwork in a way that may seem
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somewhat random at first, but ultimately creates a dialogue between the artists and their work. While several common themes become apparent, the diversity of styles, techniques and subject matter is predominant. From Woman X features some of the region’s most accomplished artists. Rather than asking the participants to create themed works, Urbas invited the artists to show their favorite new work. Thus, the exhibition offers an accurate representation of current local and
theme, these artists deftly portray their subjects and concepts with the use of vastly different media and techniques. The common themes that do emerge — portraiture (especially female subjects), animals, hands, geometric abstraction — help create a sense of unity in a very wideranging exhibition. Due to the layout of the gallery and Urbas’ thoughtful curating, visitors travel a full loop through the space, twisting and turning, but ultimately arriving back at the point where they started: in the
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regional contemporary art. Rather than pigeonholing these artists as “women artists making women art,” it instead celebrates humanity’s unique creative spirit. Despite the exhibition’s unifying feminist
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same place, but hopefully feeling a little better about the state of the world, or at least our little corner of it. The Gallery at Lakeland Community College hosts a free,
public artist reception from 3:30 to 5 p.m. this Sunday, March 26. At 2 p.m. in the Performing Art Center, next to the gallery, Lakeland hosts the annual Women of Achievement awards ceremony. Woman X remains on view through the end of March. In addition to the exhibition at Lakeland, Urbas has compiled a directory of local galleries hosting women-only exhibitions throughout Northeast Ohio. What started as 18 galleries and studios in 2014 has grown to 86 galleries and studios at more than 50 venues throughout Northeast Ohio. In total, more than 100 local and regional women artists are showcased through the directory. Again, we might not be there yet, but thanks to Urbas, we’re getting there.
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CELEBRATING A HOMETOWN PLAYWRIGHT The Mac Wellman Homecoming Festival begins tomorrow By Christine Howey OKAY, SO WHO IS MAC WELLMAN and why is there a festival dedicated to him? Well, he’s a fellow who grew up in Mayfield Village and went on to become a much-lauded experimental playwright, making a name for himself in the off-off-Broadway world for his dozens of challenging and
surprising plays, and one opera. If you are wondering what “experimental” means, here’s how Clyde Simon, co-founder of convergence-continuum theater, describes a Mac Wellman piece: “Mac’s plays don’t tell us what they mean and what we should think and feel. There
are enough people and institutions doing that already. His plays don’t enforce meaning; they allow it. When anyone asks me, ‘What did his play mean?’ my answer is always, ‘yes.’ Or sometimes, ‘tongs’.” Many years ago in New York City, Simon acted in what Wellman
FE AT URED MAC WELLMAN HOMECOMING FESTIVAL E VENTS For a full listing of all Festival events, go to playwrightslocal4181.org. March 23-25 Damnable Artifacts: Production Memorabilia from the Plays of Mac Wellman. T-shirts, vintage reviews, and original artifacts from several collections including that of Wellman’s primary designer, Kyle Chepulis. At the Michael Schwartz Library, Cleveland State University. Thursday, March 23 Cleveland. Staged reasing directed by Allan Byrne. At Drinko Hall & Lobby, CSU, 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 24 Bitter Bierce, directed by Christopher Johnston. At Drinko Hall, CSU, 8:15 p.m. “The Good, The Bad and Mac: Local Playwrights Do Mac Wellman’s Writing Prompt.” Presented by The
Manhattan Project, Cleveland Lab. At Drinko Hall, CSU, 9:30 p.m. Saturday, March 25 “Mac Wellman’s Breakthroughs as a Playwright, Teacher and Mentor.” Panel discussion moderated by Mike Geither, associate professor of playwriting. At Music Building, Room 311, CSU, 11:30 a.m. Harm’s Way, directed by Clyde Simon. Presented by convergence-continuum at The Liminis, 8 p.m. Festival Wrap Party, Tremont Tap House, 9:30 p.m. The Festival has been organized and curated by Playwrights Local and that group’s two movers and shakers: artistic director David Todd and managing director Tom Hayes. It is their mission to support the dramatists of Northeast Ohio as a development and production center, fostering diverse talents and presenting locally written works.
considers his best play, The Lesser Magoo. And since Simon has been in Tremont, his theater has produced six Wellman scripts, with the seventh, Harm’s Way, set to open this Friday at The Liminis. Wellman will be in town for the entire three-day festival, and will be available to talk with attendees at various events, including a special Q&A session at 5 p.m. on Saturday, March 25. And he’s looking forward to the experience. “I’ve never stayed in a Cleveland hotel,” he noted, “so that will be something!” For many years, Wellman has taught playwriting and mentored playwrights around the country and all over the world. But he has a warm spot in his heart for Cleveland, noting that Cleveland has always been a leader in the arts. “The Cleveland Play House did the first production of an Ibsen play, even before New York. And the first really important black theater, Karamu House, is in Cleveland. Along with, of course, the Cleveland Orchestra.”
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Zakir Hussain & Rahul Sharma Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble Master musicians of IndiaDruckman, Read Thomas Includes works by Hartke, Wednesday, 12,Sunday, 7:30 p.m Saturday, Nov.April 5, and Dec. 4, 2:00 p.m.
Jeffrey ZeiglerMonnot Jean-Baptiste New celloCleveland and electronics Solo music organ for recital, debut Wednesday, April 26, Sunday, November 13,7:30 2:00p.m. p.m.
Frode Haltli & Emilia Amper Folk-inspired music from Scandinavia Wednesday, March 29, 7:30 p.m.
Brandee Younger & Courtney Bryan Jazz harpist and pianist play Alice Coltrane Wednesday, May 10, 7:30 p.m.
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MOVIES DEVIL METAL Nice gloss on taut satanic possession flick The Devil’s Candy By Sam Allard A YOUNG FAMILY IS TORMENTED by what may be a satanically possessed serial killer in Sean Byrne’s taut, sometimes lovely-tolook-at horror/thriller The Devil’s Candy. The film debuted in Toronto in 2015 and is now being distributed by IFC’s Midnight division. It opens Friday at the Capitol Theatre. The serial killer, a track-suitwearing gentle-giant type named Ray Smiley (Pruitt Taylor Vince, who played the vessel for the multiple personalities in 2003’s Identity) may also just be severely mentally ill. That’s never quite clear. The man spent two decades in psychiatric care after killing a young girl at 12. And now that he’s out, his eyes skitter — they almost vibrate — when he hears the droning voice of what is presumed to be Satan himself, to whom he believes he still must sacrifice children, the “candy” of the film’s title. Smiley has returned home to his rural Texan farmhouse, and in a dark opening scene he strums absently on an electric guitar before his bedroom’s cross. He then kills his parents. Boy, can an incident like that really tank a home’s asking price! Enter the Hellmans, a happy, if anti-mainstream, family of three. Ethan Embry plays Jesse Hellman, and he’s never looked more like a mashup of Matthew McConaughey
and Josh Lucas. He’s a painter and a disciple of heavy-metal music and its attendant lifestyle. As such, he sports elaborate floral-skeletal tattoos. We need not specify that he is often shirtless. Jesse is attracted to the new house because it’s got a giant barn which will double as his studio. Lately, though, Jesse has been painting butterflies on commission for local banks to help pay the mortgage. “So not metal,” decrees his purplehaired daughter, Zoe (Kiara Glaso), who has inherited her father’s proclivities. She plasters her new room with posters of Metallica and the like. Astrid Hellman (Shiri Appleby), who has one charming early scene with her husband, is woefully underwritten. She works at a salon? While Jesse, Astrid and Zoe acclimate to their new digs, Smiley continues his twisted ritual rampage, dismembering children with a hacksaw in a seedy motel and burying them in suitcases — the grisliest portions of which, mercifully, happen offscreen. Meantime, Jesse begins hearing a voice in his head, too. He channels its perverse influence into disturbing paintings, paintings which nonetheless secure him representation from the area’s top art gallery. I guess? The vaguely
Faustian artist subplot was pretty weak, to be honest, as was the arbitrary tension created around Jesse’s inability to pick Zoe up from school on time. The narrative key through all this is that Smiley has reluctantly pegged Zoe for sacrifice. There are some elegantly shot and conceived sequences, no doubt, including an intercut murder and painting reverie in which the blood splatter is anything but gratuitous. Likewise the righteously metal finale. Props to sophomore writer/ director Sean Byrne for not relying on gore or cheap thrills. He takes his time to build a pervasively creepy mood and is judicious and inventive (and often arty) in his use of violence.
My biggest hangup is that the script fails to explore what I thought was the most interesting friction inherent in the premise: the idea that metal, as a genre, is associated with Satan. So is satanic possession an affirmation of metal-hood or what? Can you be pro-metal and anti-devil even if you rock out to bands like Nunslaughter and Electric Hellfire Club? Even if your top two albums from this decade are Blood and Vomit and To Hell with God? Though The Devil’s Candy doesn’t seem to be interested in that question, the answer would seem to be yes.
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SPOTLIGHT: THE LAST WORD THE LAST WORD, THE NEW dramedy from director Mark Pellington (Henry Poole is Here), utilizes a rather flimsy premise. It centers on Harriet (Shirley MacLaine), a wealthy retired businesswoman with major control problems. She’s such a control freak that she even feels the need to tell her groundskeeper how to trim the bushes. “It’s top to bottom!” When she winds up in the hospital after an accidental overdose, she decides she wants to make sure she’ll receive a proper obituary upon her eventual death. So she enlists young Anne Sherman (Amanda Seyfried) from the local
paper to write the thing before she dies, dangling the carrot of a huge donation to the paper upon her death to entice the paper’s editor to let Anne devote a significant amount of time to interviewing her various acquaintances and penning a proper tribute. What Anne finds is that not too many people like Harriet. In fact, no one likes her. She’s bossy. She’s stubborn. She’s can’t ever acknowledge she’s wrong. Even the local priest admits to hating her after she reprimanded him for not holding the wafer properly and serving crappy wine during Mass. Anne doesn’t care for Harriet
much either, so she tells Harriet that, after doing her research, she would rather not pen lies about how she lived life to the fullest and gained the respect of her peers. Predictably enough, Harriet doesn’t take Anne’s “no” for an answer and strives to give Anne a reason to write an obit that praises her various achievements. What follows is a predicable female bonding movie better suited to cable channels such as Hallmark and Lifetime. While we don’t want to spoil the ending of the movie, which opens area-wide on Friday, suffice it to say that after Harriet begins to mentor a young poor girl from
a broken home (Annjewel Lee Dixon) and rather inexplicably starts working as a DJ at a college radio station and playing deep tracks from her vinyl collection, Anne begins to rethink her initial reaction to Harriet (early in the film, she even declares that Harriet “puts the ‘bitch’ in obituary”). But since Pellington telegraphs the movie’s ending and then clutters the plot with various detours (a road trip to reunite Harriet with her daughter, for example), the journey to selfdiscovery takes a particularly tedious and tiresome route. — Jeff Niesel | clevescene.com | March 22 - 28, 2017
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times, with numerous items bubbling away in separate broths. Hot slices of meat are plucked from the brew, dipped in sauce and eaten. Shrimp are peeled and popped into one’s mouth. Broccoli florets are rescued from the roiling caldron before they go too squishy. Breaks are made to order more fatty lamb or mussels or enoki mushrooms. Near the end, noodles like udon, rice or instant-style ramen are
added to enjoy with some broth. Scrupulous diners will want to reserve certain utensils for raw foods and others for cooked. Also, make sure that the broth returns to the boil between additions. For the price of $25.99, a diner instead can order unlimited sushi. The options include not only an expansive selection of sashimi, nigari, maki and hand rolls, but also classic sushi items like miso soup, edamame, gyoza and tempura. But wait, there’s more. These meals also include chicken teriyaki and hibachi-style foods like salmon and steak with fried rice. Owing to the onsite sushi bar, the quality far exceeds that found at a buffet-style sushi setup but naturally falls short of a high-end Japanese restaurant. At lunch, the AYCE sushi drops to $14.99 and the hot pot to $10.99, but swaps the time limit for a 10-item limit. Our server said that weekends are much busier than our mid-week visit. Diners are not permitted to take surplus food home and in fact will be charged a fee for excessive leftovers. The large restaurant began life nearly a decade ago as Hong Kong King Buffet, but owner Zhixin Lu decided that its course had run and closed, rebranded and reopened this past fall as Kintaro. Judging by the crowds, the gambit paid off.
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run their businesses. Michael Symon might be on the receiving end of more advice than any other owner out there. But no tactic of his was met with more fury than his decision to serve only one barbecue sauce at Mabel’s BBQ — and to divert from the locally accepted sweet goo that enrobes most meats around town. “For the money there should be a variety of BBQ sauces that pairs with each expensive meat!” one Yelper exclaimed. “Their claim to fame is using a local mustard in their BBQ sauce,” added another. “Meh.” “Their sauce is made with a mustard/vinegar base! Blah! Cleveland is known for a ketchup/tomato based sauce!” Well, who would want to tarnish that reputation? Porco Lounge’s recent decision to add meatballs did not sit well with Jocelyn from Eastlake, who penned the following screed. “I do not care if or how cool meatballs are right now or trendy. ‘You know what I would like with my italian meatballs and sauce? — a fruity rum drink’ — said no one ever. ‘You know what I would like with my fruity rum drink?? — meatballs’ — said no one ever.” What irks me when reading many of these reviews is the lack of context. Calling something “authentic” or “not at all authentic” without supporting details doesn’t really help a reader. Mexican food always seems to be characterized this way, often with hilarious results. “Went here randomly with my boyfriend one night and was incredibly happy with how authentic it was,” Danielle from Chagrin Falls wrote about a popular Cleveland spot. “Chicken chimichanga was amazing!” Norman from San Diego enjoyed one of our local Mexican spots and awarded it with Yelp’s highest honors, a five-star review, for its authenticity. “I grew up spoiled on good authentic Mexican food. I have been looking for years for a good authentic Mexican restaurant. I finally found one. The food here is REALLY good. I had the Fajita Bowl and it took me back home.”
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recording process for the album and according to Gales, things moved quickly. They started preproduction in May of last year and had wrapped things up by August. “[Working with] Fabrizio turned out to be a great collaboration,â€? he says. “[He has the] ability to help pull the ideas from the artist and create them through the speakers to come out with the exact [things] I wanted to hear. It turned out great.â€? Similarly, Grossi is a big fan; he ďŹ rst came in contact with the guitarist when he was working on a George Clinton project and enlisted him to play on a track. “His tone and his playing was wicked,â€? Grossi says in a separate interview, recalling the work that Gales did on the Clinton album. “Personally and musically Eric grew into a ‘monster,’ a really good one, and he’s set on a path of huge success with a ‘taking no prisoners’ type of attitude! I know a very few musicians with such a musicality and Eric is right there ahead of the bunch. I hope fans will dig [this]. There’s lots of love, tears, sweat and ‘truth’ in this record, which is what classics are made of.â€?
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For Gales, Middle of the Road is something he views as a highpowered ticket which will carry him across many miles in the near future. “This record’s going to take me everywhere that I’ve never been and everywhere I’ve ever wanted to go,â€? he says. “I truly believe that. It’s a strong statement in my life right now, and I think when everybody hears it, they’ll ďŹ nd out.â€?
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MUSIC A ‘FULLER’ SOUND Singer-songwriter Chuck Prophet explores ‘California noir’ on his new album By Jeff Niesel THE ’80S BEGAT NEW WAVE and hip-hop. But the era also produced the Paisley Underground, a predecessor of sorts to Americana in that its jangle pop practitioners borrowed from ’60s groups such as Love and the Byrds to produce a garage rock offshoot with a country bent. Singer-songwriter Chuck Prophet, who brings his current group, the Mission Express, to town to play the Beachland, fondly recalls those halcyon days. At the time, he played with Green on Red, a grunge-y garage rock act that moved from Tucson to California in the ’80s with the hopes of landing a major label deal. “Well, when I joined Green on Red, they had a rental van, and I think they had a gas card from the label,” Prophet says in a recent phone interview. “Maybe I’m imagining that. Either way, for the time, that was pretty bourgeois. I guess people call that the college rock days. There was a community of people out there playing. My current British manager loves to tell the story of how he booked [singer-guitarist] Alex Chilton in Eugene, Oregon, for $150. We were booked by the same agent, and there was a kind of a circuit. It was a small world. We recorded several records under the radar. It was a great American joyride.” Prophet admits he’s not sure if the term alt-country had yet been coined but says that the comparisons between Green on Red and Neil Young and Creedence Clearwater Revival were fair. “We were pretty limited musically,” he says. “We knew a handful of cowboy chords and had a lot of attitude. By the time hardcore punk came around, it was hard for me to embrace Bad Brains; I had already heard Ray Charles and Johnny Cash and Bowie’s Hunky Dory. It was hard for me to throw away my Jimi
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Hendrix albums.” Shortly before Green on Red called it quits in 1992, Prophet embarked on a solo career. He also built his resume by working with artists such as Kelley Stoltz, Bob Neuwirth, Kelly Willis, Aimee Mann, Warren Zevon, Jonathan Richman, Lucinda Williams and Cake. All the while, he continued to release solo albums and collaborative efforts. When we ask Prophet what it’s been like to sustain a successful solo career for the past 25 or so years, he simply laughs. “Well, gosh, I don’t even know if I have a career,” he says. “I’m still trying to break into the music business. The thing that’s made me the most happy is writing songs and wrestling them to the ground and
that goes into making a record, going on tour is like a vacation.” For his latest effort, Bobby Fuller Died for Your Sins, Prophet says he tried to create what he calls “California noir.” The title track features Kinks-like vocals and twangy guitars as Prophet references the late rock musician’s life and mysterious death in 1966. “[The title track] just kind of wrote itself,” says Prophet. “I was with a friend of mine and we were in my man cave, and we were listening to a Bobby Fuller record, and the record was filling up the room. I think I was the one who shouted out the lyrics. We connected the dots and threw the song in a pile. When we came back to it later, [Fuller] unlocked the record. In many ways, I relate to Bobby Fuller.
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trying to get them to behave and making records. That’s what I’ve done from record to record. I can’t say there’s been any great plan. If I wake up and still like what I do, I consider that a blessing. I don’t want to come off as jaded. I still get excited about it. When we go on the road and go from town to town, people are generally happy to see me. After all the energy
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He’s a guy who was totally out of time. I feel like I’ve always been out of time with what’s happening.” Another album highlight, “Bad Year for Rock and Roll,” relies upon a Tom Petty-like chord progression as Prophet makes reference to the recent death of David Bowie, remarking that there’s now “one more star in the heavens now.”
“A lot of people take away that part about David Bowie and think the song is about the heroes we lost in 2016,” he says. “I just tend to go along with that. Of course, we lost a lot of heroes with Merle Haggard, Muhammad Ali and Leonard Cohen. We lost a lot of heroes in 2016, but the song is also written in a year with the DNA of the presidential campaign or Brexit. The song grew out of all of those threads and became an anthem for anyone who’s had a bad year.” The bluesy “Coming Out in Code” has a hard rock edge that allows Prophet to show off his skills on the six-string. “Well, the arrangement has a little bit of a nod to Charlie Musslewhite and those great ’60s white blues records,” he says of the track. “I think it represents the Mission Express. It sounds like our band. Everyone is doing their own thing, and it all fits together like a good clock.” Prophet says a “good chunk” of the new album will find its way into the current tour’s sets, which will also include a few surprises. “We’ll mix the setlist up with old favorites,” he says. “I like to tell people that you also never know what songs we might pick up at the dry cleaners on the way to the airport.”
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MUSIC POWER POP UNPLUGGED Singer-songwriter Dwight Twilley adapts to an acoustic format By Jeff Niesel AT 65, SINGER-SONGWRITER Dwight Twilley can remember the days when commercial radio welcomed up-and-coming artists into the studio for intimate acoustic performances. As much as that might sound like a singer-songwriter’s dream come true, he says he never cared much for the format. “I’m used to going out with a full rock ’n’ roll band with all the singers,” he says in a recent phone interview from his Tulsa home. Twilley comes to Cleveland this week for the first time in a long while (the local promoter maintains it’s been 30 years since he played in town). A couple of years ago, Twilley’s aversion to performing unplugged changed. At a show in California, the concert’s organizers asked him to play a couple of acoustic songs in his set. Twilley, a guy who comes off as very affable and accommodating, obliged. “I said, ‘Why not?’” he recalls. “They were paying good money. I was surprised by the reaction from the audience. I realized I kind of liked it. The next person wanted five songs. Now, it’s been 60 minutes and an hourand-a-half sets. One of the things that’s really rewarding after all these years is that there are songs I never did live that didn’t fit into the rock show. I can do things I haven’t done and things people haven’t heard me do before. It’s kind of cool. We really enjoy it. We’ve played all over the country.” Exposed to the Beatles when he was still a teenager, Twilley picked up the acoustic guitar that his brother had stored in the closet. “[My brother] was thinking about playing guitar, but I yanked it out of there, and my dad showed me a few chords,” Twilley says. “I discovered the Beatles songs were too hard to play, and I thought I should make up my own songs.” In what Twilley describes as a “fairytale story,” Phil Seymour, another Beatles-obsessed kid from his neighborhood, shared his passion for singing and songwriting, and the two began to collaborate. “I was writing these pretty little songs,” says Twilley. “We sounded pretty too. I would play the acoustic. At one point, we wanted to have a record company hear it. We didn’t
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have enough money to drive to L.A. or go to New York. We had heard they had record companies and studios in Memphis, and that wasn’t that far. We got in my ’58 station wagon and started driving down the streets in Memphis.” Eventually, Seymour pointed out one place looked like a recording studio. “We were too naïve to know that you didn’t just walk in and expect someone to listen to your tape,” Twilley says. “So that’s what we did. The guy
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was probably so shocked that he got a kick out of it. He listened to it on a whim and liked it. It meant nothing to me that his name was Phillips, and I had never heard of Sun Records. We thought the Beatles invented rock ’n’ roll, and Elvis was just a guy in movies.” The Phillips to which Twilley refers was Jerry Phillips, son of Sun Records owner Sam Phillips. He sent Twilley and Seymour to Tupelo to work with Ray Harris, a rockabilly musician and songwriter.
“We really got a serious education into the roots of rock ’n’ roll, and that changed everything,” says Twilley. “He gave us a life-changing lesson. The first thing he said was, ‘You all sing like pussies.’ The truth is that we did sing like pussies. He listened to my songs and said, ‘Dwight is a talented boy, but he’s too spacey. He needs to put some meat and taters behind his songs.’ The truth is, I was too spacey. It made the difference for us to get that education.” About a year after working with him, Twilley and Seymour built their own studio in Tulsa, so they could record their own damn songs. In fact, after they recorded their Dwight Twilley Band debut album, 1976’s Sincerely, in England, label owner Denny Cordell told the guys he liked the way they recorded themselves better. He had them retool the tracks in Tulsa. The album includes “I’m on Fire,” which the band had released as a single a year before the disc’s release. With its cooing vocals and catchy guitar riff, the song sounds every bit as infectious as anything by Big Star; it established Twilley as a power-pop icon. After Dwight Twilley Band dissolved in 1978, Twilley continued to tour and record as a solo artist. In 2014, he released his latest studio album, Always, which suggests his power-pop sensibilities remain as sharp as ever. He’s currently touring in support of a two-CD compilation that includes 40 songs (from 1999 to 2016) and a 20-page booklet that provides an overview of his career. Twilley says he’s enjoyed his “Look Ma No Band” solo acoustic tours so much that he wants to continue to perform live and keep his studio commitments to a minimum. Following the shows, he hangs out to meet and greet the fans and sign autographs. “It has been hard to get us out of the studio,” he says. “We promised ourselves that after the last release we would go out and play these songs. We’ve played Chicago and New York and down into Texas. We’re hoping to keep that up for the entire year.”
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Billy Currington/Calynn Green: Country singer Billy Currington had a huge hit with his 2003 self-titled debut, which yielded the singles “Walk a Little Straighter” and “I Got a Feelin’.” His association with Shania Twain, who collaborated with him on her hit “Party for Two,” also played an instrumental role in shaping his career. Currington, who issued his latest studio effort, Summer Forever, in 2015, has churned out a slew of hits over the past 20 years. His six studio albums have resulted in close to 20 Top 40 hits. Summer Forever opens with the rousing “Don’t It,” a song that features a driving guitar riff as Currington references singing karaoke and drinking
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shots. As much as the album makes allusions to partying, songs like the tender ballad “It Don’t Hurt Like It Used To,” with its “hey-yeah” refrain, give the album some balance. Expect to hear that song and more at tonight’s show. (Niesel) 7:30 p.m., $39.50-$49.50. Hard Rock Rocksino Northfield Park. Boris, Live! CD Release (in the Wine Bar): 7 p.m. Brothers Lounge. Elvis Tribute by Johnny Elvis & the Crown Electrics (in the Supper Club): 7:30 p.m., $7. Music Box Supper Club. Diego Figueiredo: 8 p.m., $20. Nighttown. Eric Gales/Thirteen Cadillacs: 8 p.m., $25. Beachland Ballroom. Stephan Haluska and Patchwork: 8 p.m., $10. Bop Stop. Chris Hatton’s Musical Circus (in the Wine Bar): 9 p.m. Brothers Lounge. Roger Hoover: 9 p.m., free. Happy Dog. Jam Night with the Bad Boys of Blues: 9 p.m., free. Brothers Lounge. Maui Ski Club/J Fitch/E.D.E.N./ G.V.O./Lenny: 9 p.m., free. Beachland Tavern. Ratt’s Stephen Pearcy: 8 p.m., $20. The Kent Stage. Matt Pryor/Dan Adriano/House of Wills/Dolfish: 8:30 p.m., $14 ADV, $17 DOS. Grog Shop. Remwar/Cell/Cold Feet/Lacerate/ Bulsch: 9 p.m., $8. Now That’s Class.
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in 1960, first got together, they weren’t particularly good. And yet, the band’s unique approach meant that its music sounded drastically different from everything else that existed. The vocals were harsher, the drums louder, the electric guitars e more distorted. Even without the ability to play their instruments as well as they would have liked, the guys still wanted to put forth their best effort. So when it came time to record 1967’s Introducing the Sonics, they knew they should have an arsenal of songs ready to go. But they didn’t. The group would dissolve in 1969. Since reuniting a few years ago, the band has continued to tour and record. Some 50 years since the release of their debut, they have issued This Is the Sonics, their first proper studio album in decades. Recorded in mono by Jim Diamond (White Stripes), the album retains that raw power for which the band is known. (Niesel) 8 p.m., $25. Beachland Ballroom. Tropidelic/Broccoli Samurai/ Carlos Jones & the PLUS Band/ Drunken Sunday: Regional funk pros Tropidelic return to Cleveland tonight for a hometown bash. Recently, Tropidelic dropped The Hard North, featuring a diverse lineup of slick funk and remixed reggae, dripping with that Cleveland atmosphere. Check out the new take on “Ideal,” which slots an ambient backdrop into the twofour beat. The new stuff here is pretty emblematic of how the band performs their live shows: highenergy multi-instrumentation, with one massive party unfolding in the pit. Trop’s legacy is one of a wordof-mouth fan base in Cleveland and elsewhere, thanks to having “put
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Dear Dan, My very Christian friend is about to get married. Though she is socially very liberal, she is pretty sexually repressed. I want to do something to encourage her to explore her sexuality. How weird would it be to buy her a vibrator as a shower present? Don’t give your friend a vibrator at her shower — gifts are opened in front of guests at showers — but go ahead and send her one. Tell her it’s a prebachelorette-party gift.
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