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UPFRONT IMMIGRANT’S FAMILY TARGETED BY ICE AFTER SEEKING SHELTER IN CHURCH FOLLOWING THE ANNOUNCEMENT last week that an undocumented immigrant had taken refuge in a Cleveland Heights church, federal ICE officials moved in on her Akron home, scaring her children and crystallizing neatly the tense relationship between federal law enforcement and the county’s immigrants. An office administrator at Forest Hill Presbyterian tells Scene that Leonor Garcia now fears for her family’s safety.
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“The actions by the federal government are tearing families apart and we can no longer be silent.” — Rev. John Lentz
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“ICE is at Leonor’s house in Akron, banging on the door and terrorizing two innocent children who are in the house,” a church official wrote to local media outlets on Sept. 8. “There is no reason for this action since ICE knows full well that Leonor is in Sanctuary in Cleveland Heights. This is harassment.” Forest Hill Presbyterian announced its status as a “sanctuary church” earlier in the week. The idea is that the church will shelter undocumented immigrants in need of safe haven and protection as tensions between their families and the federal government grow more strained. “The actions by the federal government are tearing families apart and we can no longer be
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silent,” the Rev. John Lentz said in a public statement. “As people of faith we stand with the immigrant community and offer sanctuary to those in need. We follow the traditions expressed in the sacred scriptures of all religions.” With an increased emphasis on Latino immigrants, the federal government had doubled down on
enforcement and deportation in a tactical sense. Undocumented immigrants have been arrested outside courthouses, moments after paying off a traffic fine or the like. Minor violations have resulted in almost instantaneous deportation, and families across the U.S. have been broken up by the government. “It was a gross overstep of
ICE’s techniques to for all practice purposes terrorize the children in that house when they knew that Leonor was in Cleveland Heights,” Lentz told Scene on Monday, adding that Garcia remains safe at the church and that her children are safe at home. Garcia came to the U.S. about 20 years ago as a teenager. ICE
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there’s no stopping an enforcement agent from obtaining a warrant and arresting an undocumented immigrant inside a church or synagogue or mosque. During the church’s press conference, Lentz noted that the announcement may trigger heavier scrutiny from local and federal law enforcement. — Eric Sandy
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RAPIST REHAB? STEUBENVILLE’S MA’LIK RICHMOND SUITS UP FOR YSU Defensive end Ma’lik Richmond, 21, entered the Youngstown State University football game Saturday late in the third quarter. YSU had built up a comfortable 52-6 lead against the Central Connecticut State Blue Devils by that point, and the imposing Richmond played the remainder of the game, recording two tackles. Richmond’s eligibility was the subject of a legal battle last week. Late Thursday, a federal judge granted him a temporary restraining order against YSU, saying that the university couldn’t forbid the sophomore from suiting up for games — at least for the next two weeks.
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calling for Richmond’s removal from the team. Richmond was found delinquent (the juvenile equivalent of guilty) of sexual assault in 2013, when he was a member of the Steubenville High School football team. Though Richmond served about 10 months in juvenile detention for his crimes, the campus opposition held that Richmond
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had homed in on her recently, and she was scheduled to be deported on Sept. 14. After the Trump administration announced the impending wind-down of the federal DACA program, Garcia sought safety at the church. “I want to stay here with my family. I want to ďŹ ght it because I love my family. I don’t [have anything] in Mexico, only here,â€? she said at a press conference on Sept. 5, outside the church. She said she planned on visiting her children in Akron on weekends. The national press has followed Garcia’s case since the Obama administration was taking a more critical stance on undocumented parents of U.S. citizen children. ICE offered Scene a comment on the question of “sanctuary churches,â€? which are known as “sensitive locationsâ€? in the agency’s deďŹ nitions. A spokesperson said, “The ICE sensitive locations policy, which remains in effect, provides that enforcement actions at sensitive locations should generally be avoided, and requires either prior approval from an appropriate supervisory ofďŹ cial or exigent circumstances necessitating immediate action.â€? In theory and practice, though,
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hadn’t been sufficiently punished. “For many years, athletes have constantly been given additional chances because they are athletes,” read the Change.org petition. “What does this say about rape culture? That athletes can do no wrong; that they can get away with anything because of how they perform on the field or in the gym? “Does he deserve a second chance? Yes, he does, and he is receiving that second chance by furthering his education on YSU’s campus. Does he deserve the privilege of playing on a football team and representing a university? Absolutely not. Education is a right, whereas playing on a sports team is not.” In its statement, YSU said Richmond could remain a member of the football program, but just couldn’t participate in
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games this season. Richmond’s lawyers argued that YSU had unduly penalized Richmond, for no sanctionable offense, “to shield themselves from accusations that they had failed to adequately respond to victims of sexual assault,” though no sexual assault had occurred. Richmond has been a student in good standing at YSU and has not violated the student code of conduct in any way. The lawyers said that with fewer games of eligibility, Richmond would have fewer opportunities to impress NFL scouts; his ultimate goal is playing in the NFL. Lawyers for YSU argued that two years of eligibility would still be plenty, and that few players advance to the NFL anyway. After Judge Benita Pearson, in Youngstown, granted Richmond the restraining order, YSU appealed the decision, but the appeals court sides with Richmond, ruling that allowing him back on the team would not have “serious or irreparable consequences.” Judge Pearson has scheduled a hearing for Sept. 28 to determine if Richmond should be allowed to return to the team permanently. — Sam Allard
CASE STUDENTS SEEK FEDERAL INVESTIGATION INTO HUDSON OFFICER-INVOLVED SHOOTING After a Summit County grand jury declined to bring charges against Hudson officer Ryan Doran in the 2016 shooting of Saif Nasser Mubarak Al Ameri, a group of students and faculty members at Case Western Reserve University is requesting a federal investigation. Al Ameri was a Case law student; he traveled to the U.S. specifically for his studies. On Dec. 4 of last year, Al Ameri was allegedly driving at high speeds — and quite erratically — before crashing his car on I-80 in Hudson, according to witness reports to police. At some point, Al Ameri ran into a wooded area just north of the turnpike, where a police officer caught up with him near Hudson Aurora Road. Dash cam video shows Doran pursue him into the woods and shoot him off-camera. (Subsequent records show that Al Ameri was unarmed during the altercation.) The state’s criminal investigation into the matter is closed. “We are writing to request a federal investigation into the Hudson police shooting and killing of our colleague and member of the Case Western Reserve School
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FELONY CHARGES DROPPED AGAINST TWO RNC FLAGBURNING PROTESTERS Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Mike O’Malley dropped the felony charges against two RNC protesters originally accused of assaulting a police ofďŹ cer, obstruction and resisting arrest. Their attorneys called the move a “tremendous victory for free speech.â€? Still, there are 12 defendants facing aggravated disorderly conduct and obstruction charges in Cleveland Municipal Court. The prosecution stems from a July 20, 2016, incident right outside Quicken Loans Arena, which quickly turned into a media spectacle; Scene was there, watching the kerfufe on Prospect Avenue. Cameras and police badges outnumbered the protesters by about a bajillion to one, and it was the crush of video cameras that prompted the police to intervene and pull the rug out from under the protesters (and then arrest them immediately). “For over a year now we have been living every day with these charges hanging over our heads,â€? Noche Diaz, one of the 12, said in a public statement. “Our actions were righteous, just, and constitutionally protected. We call on Cleveland Prosecutor Kimberly Barnett-Mills to dismiss these politically-motivated charges pending against us.â€? Attorney Sarah Gelsomino added: “Prosecuting these people is nothing more than an attempt to sweep the unconstitutional actions of police under the rug.â€? — Sandy
LAKE ERIE WIND FARM PROJECT WILL GET PUBLIC HEARING IN NOVEMBER With a fresh environmental assessment from the U.S. Department of Energy, the LEEDCo wind turbine project once again inches closer to reality. A public
hearing on the matter, set by the Ohio Power Siting Board, will take place at 6 p.m., Nov. 8, in Cleveland City Council chambers. We ďŹ rst reported on the LEEDCo project in 2011, when it was pitched as the nation’s ďŹ rst offshore wind farm. We’ve since lost that speciďŹ c title, thanks to an outďŹ t off the coast of Rhode Island. But many in Northeast Ohio are still vying for a set of turbines in Lake Erie that would funnel a renewable energy source into Cleveland Public Power’s infrastructure. All told, the power generated from the turbines should support 7,000 homes in the area. The proposal: six 3.45-megawatt wind turbines rising out of the water, about eight miles offshore. The $126-million project is dubbed “Icebreaker.â€? The U.S. Department of Energy offers a mostly glowing review of Icebreaker’s environmental impact. The document describes how Icebreaker will affect water and air quality, noise, lake use (including recreation), wildlife and other matters. One of the most frequently cited criticisms of wind turbine infrastructure is the propensity for bird and bat deaths. The north-south corridor across Lake Erie is a major migratory path for millions of birds each year. The Icebreaker turbines will swivel to a different pitch during active migration periods and will feature ashing red lights at night (which correspond typically with a decrease in bird and bat collisions). An ornithologist declared Icebreaker to be one of the lowest-risk projects he’d worked on. If all goes well in future Department of Energy reviews, up to the ďŹ nal environmental assessment, Icebreaker will be able to unlock additional federal funding. The Ohio Power Siting Board must also approve the project, and the November hearing will suss out the public’s support or opposition to the same. — Sandy
PRIMARY ELECTION RESULTS Last Tuesday was Cleveland’s municipal primary elections. Here are the candidates who will advance to the Nov. 7 general elections, when the mayor and all 17 council seats will be decided. (Incumbents are in bold.) MAYOR OF CLEVELAND: Frank Jackson: (12,699 votes, 38.7 percent) Zack Reed (7,195, 21.9 percent)
WARD 1: 1) Joe Jones (1,397 votes, 44.3 percent) 2) Terrell Pruitt (1,139, 36.1 percent)
WARD 10: (JEFF JOHNSON’S WARD) 1) Anthony Hairston (891, 45.9 percent) 2) Eugene Miller (454, 23.4 percent)
WARD 2: (ZACK REED’S WARD) 1) Kevin L. Bishop (550, 24.5 percent) 2) Geoff A. Fitch (374, 16.7 percent)
WARD 13: 1) Kevin Kelley (1,480, 70.9 percent) 2) Michele Burk (307, 14.7 percent)
WARD 4: 1) Ken Johnson (1,149, 48.1 percent) 2) Gail Sparks (543, 22.7 percent)
WARD 14: 1) Jasmin Santana (383, 34.9 percent) 2) Brian Cummins (362, 33.0 percent)
WARD 5: 1) Phyllis Cleveland (604, 53.0 percent) 2) Richard Starr (469, 41.2 percent) WARD 6: 1) Blaine Griffin (1,167, 61.0 percent) 2) Joshua Perkins McHamm (268, 14.0 percent) WARD 7: 1) T.J. Dow (755, 40.9 percent) 2) Basheer Jones (699, 37.9 percent) WARD 9: 1) Kevin Conwell (1,615, 80.3 percent) 2) Anthony Body (189, 9.4 percent)
WARD 17: 1) Martin Keane (2,480, 74.9 percent) 2) John F. Kelly (593, 17.9 percent) A few notes on the upcoming races: Incumbents Kerry McCormack (W3); Mike Polensek (W8); Dona Brady (W11); Anthony Brancatelli (W12); Matt Zone (W15); and Brian Kazy (W16) face only one challenger. They’ll go up against them in the November generals. Cleveland has notoriously poor female representation on City Council. After the departure of Mamie Mitchell earlier this year, only two women remain: Phyllis
Cleveland and Dona Brady. Cleveland faces stiff competition in Richard Starr, the director of the Boys and Girls Club. Four other women will appear on the November ballot: Gail Sparks in Ward 4; Michele Burk in Ward 13; Jasmin Santana in Ward 14; and Ellen Anne Cleary in Ward 16. Only Santana stands much of a chance. A 17-member council with only one woman remains a grim possibility. The most vulnerable candidates are Terrell Pruitt, T.J. Dow and Brian Cummins. Jeff Johnson, Zack Reed and Brian Cummins have traditionally been the most vocal, dissident voices on council. Notwithstanding Cummins’ flip-flop on the Q Deal, he has long been a crusader for transparency and caution, and he is among the few councilpeople who prepare thorough, thoughtful questions for council presenters — what a novelty! If he goes down, and Jackson defeats Reed, one shudders to think of council’s futility. Former Marty Sweeney squire Eugene Miller has re-materialized. He’ll square off against County Councilman Anthony Hairston to claim Jeff Johnson’s seat. (Hairston has been pre-ordained for months.) — Allard
QUICKEN LOANS ARENA EXPANSION CONSTRUCTION BEGINS One day before the NBA’s Sept. 15 deadline for All-Star Game consideration, the Cavaliers announced that they had officially begun construction on the massive expansion to the Quicken Loans Arena. Downtown passersby will now see “fencing that has been erected to establish a perimeter for a staging area for cranes and for initial exterior foundation work that will transform the north side of the arena, along Huron Road and Ontario Street,” the Cavs said last week. The announcement came shortly after the Greater Cleveland Congregations withdrew their petitions seeking referendum on the Q Deal. That decision rankled the activist allies who had helped gather signatures for the referendum. Presumably, the Cavs are once again in contention for an NBA AllStar Game in either 2020 or 2021, but that hasn’t been confirmed by the league. — Allard
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From left, record company “insider” Carl Maduri, Mike Belkin and Epic Records head Ron Alexenburg celebrating a partnership in 1976. Photo courtesy Ron Hill
Legendary concert promoter Mike Belkin on his memorable life around music’s biggest names and making Cleveland rock By Jeff Niesel BY THE EARLY 1970s, BELKIN PRODUCTIONS, THE CONCERT PROMOTION COMPANY THAT JULES AND Mike Belkin launched from their father’s clothing store on West 25th Street, had become synonymous with rock ’n’ roll in Cleveland. The company that booked the World Series of Rock concerts at the old Municipal Stadium brought all the biggest rock tours to town. It also managed local acts such as the James Gang and the Michael Stanley Band, enabling them to secure record deals and national tours. The Rolling Stones concert that the brothers promoted at Municipal Stadium in 1978 is reportedly the first concert to gross more than a million dollars. Mike Belkin: Socks, Sports, Rock and Art, a new biography by Belkin and local writer Carlo Wolff, chronicles the company’s glory days and documents its history up until 2001 when it sold to SFX for nearly $11 million. Belkin and his son Michael Belkin now work for the concert conglomerate Live Nation. At 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 4, Music Box Supper Club hosts a launch party for the book, which comes out on Oct. 1. Wolff and Belkin, who recently discussed the process of assembling the book in separate interviews, will be on hand to discuss it.
What brought about the idea of doing a book in the first place and how did the collaboration work? Wolff: It was an evolutionary process, for sure. It began on a much smaller scale and turned into hours and hours and hours of
reminiscence. Working together, we got to know each other pretty well. It took place over not-quite two years. It started in spring of 2015. The writing was done this May. It was immersive. It was a way to personalize a timeline that I knew
before as an accumulation of facts. This is not only a book about rock ’n’ roll, even though that’s its focus. Mike’s life has other dimensions. To my mind, it’s the first book I’ve written that’s well-rounded and not single-topic.
Belkin: We had some long sessions, and we got along very well. It wasn’t an easy situation, but he was good. I have saved all of my information relating to every concert we did. I also had the information when it came to the bands that I managed; and also when I was younger and was in high school and college, I had every press clipping from when I played baseball and basketball. I played professional baseball for two and a half years in the Milwaukee Braves chain. I threw away nothing, so I had all this information and I remembered what quite a bit of it was. I would relate to Carlo from my memory what was going on, and in certain instances Carlo would ask me questions and I would give him information with details. The only thing I didn’t get along with him on was his one | clevescene.com | September 20 - 26, 2017
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question. He would always ask me, “What was that date?” I would say, “Carlo, how the fuck I am supposed to remember going back 40 or 50 years?” I said that to him about a dozen times. He was good and put up with me. We communicated with no problems. We saw each other on a Saturday and Sunday and would talk for anywhere from two to four hours at a time. He was working harder than I was. I don’t think, “Oh, my God. Why did I do this?” What was it about Cleveland in the late ’60s that made it a prime place for rock ’n’ roll? Wolff: I wasn’t here. I moved here in 1986. From what I can tell, there was a confluence of radio and record industry and Belkin Productions. They all worked together synergistically to make for a juggernaut that culminated, at least in terms of numbers, with the World Series of Rock. It was in the ’70s when rock reached its commercial zenith, I would say. It started to go corporate after that. Cleveland was the template for that. Belkin: In those years, the only thing that was happening here music-wise was classical music by another company that was doing the Bolshoi Ballet and that type of thing.
That was something I didn’t want to do. I didn’t want to step on their toes. They were doing a good job. At that point, I was working at a clothing store in Ashtabula. The owner of that store was Leroy Anderson, who was a wonderful guy. He became a partner in Belkin Productions. It was short-lived. He was doing big bands and put them in a restaurant. He did Count Basie and Jimmy Dorsey, and I was never interested in that music. I didn’t get involved, but he wanted to do something in Cleveland. I didn’t know about the big bands. He asked me who I thought would be good. My favorite band at that time was the Four Freshman. We did that and decided to do the Four Freshman. I called the agency and spoke to someone, and we picked a date. He told me it was $1,500. I said, “Okay.” He asked me who would open the show. I was stumped. I thought he meant the curtains. He said the New Christy Minstrels were available. I said it was good. I didn’t know my ass from second base. We signed the contract and decided to do that. I think we did that at Music Hall. And it did quite well. The dates went off really well. I thought I was the world’s best producer. I was in dreamland, even though we lost about $65. The James Gang became huge stars. What catapulted them out of Northeast Ohio?
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When Elvis Presley played Cleveland’s Public Auditorium on June 21, 1974, Mike Belkin was a guest of Presley’s California promoter. That evening, when Belkin was offered the opportunity to meet the legendary performer before the show, he eagerly accepted. “The King,” now in the late years of his reign, was camped out with his entourage in the now-defunct Swingos Hotel in downtown Cleveland, near today’s growing Cleveland State University campus district. Security at Swingos was tight, but the promoter and Belkin were whisked into Presley’s suite. Introductions were made but Belkin found it difficult to have a real conversation with Presley as he was being prepared to be costumed in his signature white “peacock” suit. “I was at a loss for words,” says Belkin. The reason? Presley’s crew was in the midst of “wrapping him in Saran Wrap to hide how overweight he had become,” says Belkin. “He put on a good show that night. But I think he was messed up; I don’t know. “When he was onstage performing, women would throw flowers on the stage. And he’d pick up a rose — and start to eat it. I always thought it was unusual to be eating flowers in the middle of the show.” — from Mike Belkin: Socks, Sports, Rock and Art by Mike Belkin and Carlo Wolf
valuable in the office booking the dates and making sure the record companies were spending money on promotion and getting them to come up with the cash for transportation. I didn’t spend a lot of time traveling with them. I went over with them to England when they opened for the Who, and that was great. That was the first time outside of the country for the guys. In the 1970s, Scene magazine and WMMS emerged as players. How did they help to transform Cleveland into a vibrant market for music? Wolff: They created a fan base. They created a community feeling. Rock ’n’ roll now is very mature and to some degree largely nostalgic. It’s about people looking back on when they belonged to a greater community. That’s what classic rock is about. Belkin and Daffy Dan and Scene and WMMS and the Agora, the whole community put that together. It doesn’t exist so much anymore but it certainly lingers in memory, especially in Cleveland. Belkin: WMMS was incredible. What was done was that WMMS wanted visibility. That’s how they make money. They worked
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Wolff: Talent. They were good. They were really good. As it states in the book, they kind of lost that when Joe Walsh started to go solo. I don’t think anyone would blame him, but it didn’t help the band. There’s always that tension between the star and the band. The James Gang soldiered on and made some good records without him, but they never had the identity that they had with him. Belkin: Jimmy Fox came to my office, and they were being managed already. He wanted to talk to me. He said the manager they had was a nice guy but not as good as they needed or wanted. We initially just talked. My whole thing about management is that I have to like the person. I have very strong personal relationships with anyone and everyone that I manage going back to the Gang. They have to be responsible people. They were great. [Jimmy] Fox and [Dale] Peters and [Joe] Walsh were dependable. I fell in love with those guys. They were super creative guys. They were brilliant composers. When they went on the road, they weren’t making lots of money, but they never complained. They were hard-working guys. I felt I was more
Cleveland-based singer-songwriter Michael Stanley (left) and Mike Belkin, seen here at the 2015 Cleveland Arts Prize awards, have worked together for decades.
a deal where it would be “Belkin Productions and WMMS Presents.” It was never just Belkin Productions. It was “and WMMS.” For them, it was great. They were getting the visibility they wanted and needed. For Belkin Productions, we were
able to save money because we didn’t pay them for spots. That was the agreement with the sponsorship. That was very good. They were very, very important. I should probably add another “very.” It was a great partnership.
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FEATURE If Michael Stanley had signed that deal with EMI Records and continued to receive a big push from the label, would he have become as big as Bob Seger? Wolff: It knocked him off his feet as far as I can tell. I could never find out why EMI [withdrew its offer after Stanley refused to sign a short-term extension]. According to the story I published and what Michael suggested, Mike called EMI’s bluff, and they didn’t go for it. Maybe a different approach would have yielded different results. I think it hurt [Stanley]. Mike and Michael wanted it more permanent, longer term. They considered it bad form that EMI didn’t think enough of them to offer them more than a six-month extension, especially considering their albums were doing well. It was hard to figure out. The only speculation is that they didn’t like them calling their bluff. I think he could have [become as big as Seger]. The records he’s releasing now are pretty damn good. The writing is very good. He ages well. I don’t know if he could have developed then at that time when he was in his 30s, I don’t know. I think he might have. He was on that track. He was in a Seger and Springsteen mold. At his best, he’s as good as they are, I think. I respect Michael and I respect what
he’s made of his career. Belkin: He’s a great person and wonderful writer and singer and player. I couldn’t do enough with him. He was just a pleasure. We had a deal with EMI, but then it terminated and it was a case of Michael resigning. They wanted to cut back on the budget for recording. We had a long conversation about what we would be comfortable with and was the right thing. I never made decisions for the musicians in the band. This is their career and their life, and they have to be comfortable with what the future might bring. I told that to Michael. I told him it was his ball game, and he had to be comfortable with it and happy. I wanted him to make that decision. He decided it wasn’t the right thing to cut back and get a smaller budget for the recording because it would have an effect on the end result. I told him, “I’m with you.” That hurt. At that point, we were doing really well and selling lots of records. Michael didn’t get up as high as the James Gang, but he was doing good sales. He was on so many tours as a support act. He really worked hard. Why did Cleveland embrace Bruce Springsteen early on? Wolff: That’s not really in the book. From what I remember, he was championed by Kid Leo, and WMMS played the hell out of him. He played here a lot. You have to give him credit. He’s a workhorse, still is. Only this time, he’ll be on Broadway.
CAT STEVENS Another Saturday Night … Belkin Productions had partners on all seven dates of a 1974 Cat Stevens tour except for one at Public Hall in Cleveland on April 23. The tour ran from April 22 to July 10. Mike Belkin toed a very fine, potentially dangerous line — make that lines — at one of those dates. Stevens’ manager and attorney were friends, “which is how we got the tour,” Belkin says. Stevens was one of the first rock stars to bring his own chef and cook on tour, and he used to make dinner before the show. “He was very quiet,” says Belkin. “It was nice. It was easy.” Belkin, who was single at the time, brought a date to one of the gigs, either in Chicago or Detroit, and he behaved himself. “The keyboard player for Cat Stevens invited us to his hotel room and he brings out the coke and lines it up and said, come on, let’s do it,” he recalls. “She did it,” the keyboard player said of Belkin’s date. “He said to me, come on, do it. I didn’t snort it — I faked it. He didn’t know, but she did. And she did whatever was left. There was a lot left.” — from Mike Belkin: Socks, Sports, Rock and Art by Mike Belkin and Carlo Wolf
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Belkin: He played at the Agora the first time in Cleveland. With the talent he had and has, they tore the place down. It was fantastic. The word of mouth and radio and print was a gigantic help. I knew the agents very well and was able to get him to play some of the first dates he played down south. It was a club that I can’t recall the name of. He played two days there and was fantastic. He’s just a natural. He’s such a great singer and great player and writer. Talk about the significance and legacy of the World Series of Rock. Wolff: It was a monster festival presenting the biggest groups of the time. They took place before there were really good controls of gatherings of that kind. There’s a Michael Norman anecdote that’s scary. I’ve been to a couple of big festivals, but nothing as big as the World Series of Rock. They institutionalized the artists they presented and made them bigger than they are, even some artists who
might be second-tier commercially. Todd Rundgren isn’t as big in sales as he is in representation. He’s a monster here, probably because of the World Series. There were some incredible bills. There really were. And people still talk about them. Belkin: That was one of the best things we were known for. We made sure the bills were strong and that everyone sold a lot of albums and had lots of press prior to being booked. They were great shows. Fortunately, we never had any major problems. One time, there was a fight outside the stadium, but it was minor. People still talk about those shows today. Would I do it again? Absolutely. Unfortunately, it’s not so easy to do anymore from a financial point of view. Those shows were expensive and these days promoters will pay a million or two million dollars to get these bands. It pays off. People are paying for these expensive tickets and not complaining. Belkin Productions opened the Odeon in the 1980s. What were
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Those Troublesome Doors In spite of the Doors’ controversial nature — or perhaps because of that — the group was also very popular. Their Cleveland-area debut was on Sept. 14, 1967, at Musicarnival, a show that drew only 700 to a tent that could hold 2,500. That show was not produced by the Belkins. When the Doors returned to play Cleveland’s Public Auditorium on August 3, 1968, the Belkins were involved and the place sold out. According to Doorshistory.com, lead singer Jim Morrison jumped into the audience during “Light My Fire,” driving the fans crazy. Following a canceled show at Public Auditorium set for March 29, 1969, the band was booked for consecutive nights at the Allen Theatre February 13-14, 1970. Mike Belkin was hoping the first night would go smoothly, as he had plans to camp out with his son, Michael, after the show. “I was nervous the whole show; police lined the side of the stage and I couldn’t wait until the show was over,” Belkin recalls. “There were people standing up and they wanted people to sit down and finally they ended the show, and I went, ‘Oh, my god, it’s over with no problems,’ because no one knew what was going to happen.” The band left the stage but Morrison came back out by himself. “People were already starting to leave and they all rushed back into the auditorium,” said Belkin, who badly wanted the show to be over. But it wasn’t. “They did a couple more songs, then they went off, then the police came out, and lined up (along) the entire front of the stage. It’s not like people were rushing the stage and causing problems; I’m thinking, ‘Oh god, now what? Is this going to cause a problem?’ But it didn’t, and Belkin went backstage to thank the Doors, telling them, “I’m sorry I can’t spend time with you because I have to go to my son’s sleepover.” — from Mike Belkin: Socks, Sports, Rock and Art by Mike Belkin and Carlo Wolf | clevescene.com | September 20 - 26, 2017
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some of the best shows you ever saw there? Wolff: I saw Cheap Trick there, and they were fabulous. It was the perfect place for them. I remember seeing Chris Whitley there. Not that many people know about him, but he was one of my favorites. He died about 10 years ago. He made interesting records. I liked the Odeon. It was a good club. Belkin: The Odeon was a place that Michael [Belkin] was involved with. Michael Stanley has played there. That was a great venue. We enjoyed it, and it was a nice size. The sound was excellent, and we put in additional lighting. Michael did a great job of promoting it. Critics might say that now that Belkin Productions is part of the Live Nation empire, Cleveland is no longer a priority. How would you respond to that criticism? Wolff: I think that may be right. I’m not sure. It seems like Columbus is drawing shows more than we are. It’s hard to say. I don’t go to that many shows anymore. The whole rock scene with the spread of conglomerates like Live Nation has become much less personal than it
used to be when Belkin Productions was the promoter. People knew who they were. Even though Michael Belkin is an executive at Live Nation, the company is identiďŹ ed more as Live Nation than the people who work there. It speaks to the general evolution of rock ’n’ roll. Belkin: I’d say it’s bullshit. I always looked for the best when it came to entertainment in more ways than just the music. You can’t just stand there and play music. You have to know how to perform. That’s something I always looked for and still look for today. Any of the bands that I managed or manage are doing more than just standing there playing. They’re talented and know what they’re doing and they’re all good musicians and put on a good show. Everyone who’s involved now with Cleveland through Live Nation [feels the same way about music]. They’re professional and know their job, and they’re creative. That’s my thing. You gotta be creative. You can’t just keep repeating things. You have to come up with new ideas and keep things fresh. Live Nation does something like 28,000 concerts internationally a year. They know what the hell they’re doing.
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FEATURE The story of how Belkin Productions began in the back of a clothing store is a remarkable one. Could something like that still happen today? Wolff: It’s hard for me to visualize. I think the way to command a ďŹ eld like that now is to know someone who’s already in it. Remember, the Belkins were in on the ground oor of something new. They capitalized on it. It’s a credit to their vision that they sensed that. It really was improbable. They parlayed a genius for commerce into a new ďŹ eld. You gotta give them credit for it. They ran with it. Could it happen again today? I don’t know. Maybe. It would be just as improbable if it did. Belkin: It’s pretty tough for someone to get to do what Live Nation does just because so many of the artists are locked into deals with the very big companies. The artists are looking for situations like that.
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In the 1970s, Belkin Productions booked an Aretha Franklin date in a co-promotion with Franklin’s agency. The contact there was a man we’ll call Booker, who was exclusively responsible for Franklin’s wants. Booker offered Mike Belkin the use of his Detroit apartment one night. The two were friends; in fact, Belkin invited Booker and his wife to a Johnny Carson show he produced. But when he got to Booker’s place, he discovered another side to the guy. When Belkin opened a door to a closet and found two ries, he closed that door fast. The night before, when Booker picked up Belkin and his brother at the airport, the Detroit man asked whether he could make a quick stop on the way into town. “We said sure, that’s ďŹ ne,â€? Belkin recalls. “Someone had told us that Booker was involved with the numbers; that’s what we knew. Anyway, he stopped at a bar, we waited in the car and he came back out, got in the car and dropped us off at the apartment,â€? Belkin says. “He was the sharpest dresser you’d ever want to see. Whatever suit he had on, it was always a beautiful suit. And he’d match it up with alligator shoes. We got along with him. “Ultimately, we found out that he wasn’t just in the numbers. One of our friends in Detroit called and said, a couple of years later, that he’d send a copy of the front page. The newspaper reported that Booker had been murdered in a drug deal. “All I can say about Booker, as far as I was concerned, was he was a gentleman’s gentleman,â€? says Belkin. — from Mike Belkin: Socks, Sports, Rock and Art by Mike Belkin and Carlo Wolf
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Dance of Oppression Hosted by the Shaker Community Gallery, Art of Dissent remains on view through Oct. 7. This group exhibition showcases the work of Cleveland-based artists known for expressing their dissatisfaction with the status quo and issues such as economic inequalities, polarizing politics and an abusive culture. Participating artists include Laura and Gary Dumm, Liz Maugans and Michelangelo Lovelace. Tonight at 7, the gallery hosts a discussion titled Dance of Oppression. The panel includes Verb Ballets’ producing artistic director Margaret Carlson, City Ballet of Cleveland artistic and executive director Courtney LavesMearini, Dancing Wheels Company president and founding artistic director Mary Verdi-Fletcher, and Inlet Dance Theatre executive/ artistic director Bill Wade. The exhibition and all related events are free. (Josh Usmani) 3445 Warrensville Center Rd., 216-926-8842, shakercommunitygallery. wordpress.com.
place features “hoppy hour” every weekday from 3 to 7 p.m. Tonight, the brewers visit the tasting room from 5 to 7 p.m. While they don’t fill growlers, you can drink bottles on site or take ’em to go. The place also offers a Hoppin’ Frog Rare & Vintage list as well as a guest bottle list. And you can order from a limited food menu too. (Jeff Niesel) 1680-F Waterloo Rd., Akron, 234-525-3764, hoppinfrog.com/tasting-room.
Ingenuity Fest After a successful relaunch last year in its new home at the former Osborn Manufacturing Company, Ingenuity Cleveland returns to the Saint Clair-Superior neighborhood this weekend. This year’s theme is “Metamorphosis,” which the organizers say is emblematic of both the organization’s evolution, and the transformation of the neighborhood. As in previous years, the threeday festival promises innovative and engaging performances, art, installations, live music and random acts of creativity, as well as a full lineup of live music throughout the weekend. This year’s festival takes place from 5 p.m. to 1 a.m. today, from noon to 1 a.m. tomorrow and from noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday. Admission is $5 per day or $10 for a weekend pass; kids 12 and under are free. (Usmani) 5401 Hamilton Ave., 216-589-9444, ingenuitycleveland.com.
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Drawing Power Once a month, Great Lakes Brewing Company hosts Cleveland’s Drink & Draw Social Club. The event is organized by the Rust Belt Monster Collective and sponsored by Carol and John’s Comic Book Shop. Drink & Draws are an opportunity for artists of all skill levels to drink, draw, socialize/ network and collaborate in a relaxed and welcoming environment. Events take place at 7 p.m. on the third Wednesday of each month, including tonight. At the end of each Drink & Draw, prizes are awarded for various superlatives. Admission is free. (Usmani) 2516 Market Ave., 216-771-4404, greatlakesbrewing.com.
Kevin McPeek Standup comedian Kevin “Naked” McPeek likes saying “naked.” That’s how he received his nickname. One time when he was telling a joke onstage about seat belts, he added that he was “naked” and everyone started laughing. The name stuck. The portly McPeek likes to joke about everyday experiences. In one bit, he says his girlfriend broke up with him because he “wasn’t sexually spontaneous enough.” So he bought a ski mask and broke into her house in order to get back together. He performs at 8 tonight and at 7 on Sunday night at Hilarities. Tickets are $18. (Niesel) 2035 East Fourth St., 216-241-7425, pickwickandfrolic.com.
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Walnut Wednesday Walnut Wednesday is about to wrap up its 2017 season. But today from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Perk Plaza at Chester Commons — at East 12th and Walnut streets — food trucks gather once again to serve up lunch to area residents and employees. Follow the Downtown
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Cleveland Alliance on Facebook for weekly updates on vendors, entertainment offerings and more. The series continues through Sept. 27. Admission is free, but the food will cost you. (Niesel) downtowncleveland.com.
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Luenell Fearless when it comes to making jokes and making the audience erupt in laughter, Luenell regularly jokes about being a full-figured woman and getting married later in life. She can find humor in any topic and situation. She performs tonight at 7:30 at the Improv, where she has shows scheduled through Sunday. Tickets are $20. (Hannah Borison) 1148 Main Ave., 216-696-IMPROV, clevelandimprov.com. NIGHTLIFE
Playhouse Square Wine Walk Playhouse Square district bars, restaurants and retailers will offer a wide variety of wine options and specially priced foods for tonight’s Playhouse Square Wine Walk. The event begins in front of the Connor Palace, where guests can register and receive a special tote bag filled with goodies. Attendees will also be automatically entered to win two season tickets to the 20172018 KeyBank Broadway Series. Registration begins at 5 p.m. and the wining and dining goes on until 9. Tickets are not required. Find more info online. (Niesel) 1615 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.
Clockwork Futures reading and afterparty Local author Brandy Schillace’s day job keeps her busy as the senior research associate at the Dittrick Medical History Center at Case Western Reserve University. There, she illuminates the lesser-known niches of our often bizarre medical history in hospital-rich Northeast Ohio. But it’s the writerly angle that brings her to the Dittrick tonight, for a reading from her new book, Clockwork Futures. During her reading, which begins at 5:30 p.m., Schillace will take us on a steampunk adventure. Then, at 7 p.m., the afterparty kicks off at Happy Dog at Euclid Tavern. JP and Friends will perform, and Schillace will be in costume to continue presenting material from her book. Who knows? There might even be some historical guests on hand. (Eric Sandy) 11000 Euclid Ave. #3, 216-368-3648, artsci.case.edu/dittrick. FILM
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Music on the Porches A village-wide happening that celebrates music, arts and culture,
Peninsula’s ninth annual Music on the Porches kicks off at 8 tonight with a performance at the G.A.R. Hall by the Railsplitters, a contemporary bluegrass band that has emerged as a leader in the Colorado music scene. The main event takes place at 11 a.m. tomorrow as Peninsula merchants and residents alike will welcome musicians to their porches, shops and galleries. Performances will also take place on three main stage areas where artists will “make a joyful noise and fill the valley with music of all genres.” This year, in addition to the 20-plus musical
acts performing throughout the village, program organizers will offer a series of free workshops and demonstrations along with master classes/workshops. Old-time Virginian fiddler Erynn Marshall and husband Carl Jones will lead an open jam on the G.A.R. Hall patio, and Marshall and Jones will perform at an evening event at the G.A.R. Hall with headliner Tim O’Brien and special guest Sean Watkins. Times and ticket prices vary. Find a complete schedule online. (Niesel) explorepeninsula.com/ music-on-the-porches.
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Spectrum One of the more active hip-hop acts on the local circuit, the group Smoke Screen just announced it’ll play a special event dubbed Spectrum. Promoters hope the concert, which they’ve billed as “an evening of underground art and music,” will “bring together the young art crowd, hip-hop crowd, dance/club kid crowd, and folks who don’t know about either/or and are curious to hopefully work toward building a scene.” Pablo Amor, Nic Nacc and DJ Eso will also perform. Artists such as Dan Bortz, Lynnea Holland-Weiss, Zay Williams, Chad Fedorovich and Murphy Welch will have their work on display as well. Local vendors Hollow Eyes Imprint and Stache clothing will also be on hand. The event starts this evening at 9 p.m. at the Lake Affect Studios. Tickets are $8 in advance, $10 at the door. (Niesel) 1615 East 25th St., 216-298-9018, facebook.com/lakeaffectstudios. ART
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This is Euclid Art Walk For the second year, Euclid hosts the This is Euclid Art Walk in Triangle Park at Shore Cultural Centre and on Lakeshore Boulevard from East 218th Street to East 228th Street. The event includes a beer garden, art-themed happy hour specials at local restaurants, free ice cream from Maria’s Family Restaurant, artist and maker vendors lining the sidewalks, storefronts decorated with student artwork, performances by hiphop artists 10k and Atlas of AYYEDEESMM, New Orleans-style Phatbone Productions, and jazz band Blu Monsoon in Triangle Park, as well as art-making activities from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s StudioGo, Upcycle Parts Shop and Euclid Art Association members. Event hours are 6 to 11 p.m. Come early (3 to 6:30 p.m.) for the Euclid Farmer’s Market, featuring live music by Denny Carleton and performances by some of Shore Cultural Centre’s artistic programs. At 6:30 p.m., Mayor Holzheimer Gail will give a speech encouraging everyone to utilize downtown Euclid and congratulating the winners of the This is Euclid photography contest, whose work has been enlarged and incorporated into a printed mural at the Beach Club Bistro. More than 750 photos were submitted to last year’s contest. Admission is free. (Usmani) 291 East 222nd St., Euclid, 216-289-8578.
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Yasmina Reza’s Life x 3 A theatrical triptych, Yasmina Reza’s Life x 3 offers three variations on a dinner party gone awry. According to a press release, “the repetition and changes in each episode reflect on individual personality with consequential choices inevitable in life decisionmaking.” Known for its satiric wit, Life x 3 provides “a degree of sophistication within an amusing party game-like replay structure.” Presented by Cesear’s Forum, a local nonprofit professional theater company, tonight’s performance takes place at 8 at Kennedy’s Theatre, where weekend performances continue through Oct. 28. Tickets are $18. (Niesel) 1501 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.com.
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Wizard U. Many of the kids who read the Harry Potter books have become adults, and Wizard U., a company that bills itself as “the world’s premier institution for late-blooming witches, wizards and magical creatures,” plans to exploit that as its fall tour comes to House of Blues today. A day of drinking, magic and mischief, the event aims to bring together adult fans of the magical world to “get that school of magic experience they never had as kids.” Patrons compete in games like Wizards’ Pong, learn how to cast curses and drink specialty cocktails while watching a stage show that celebrates magic. It all begins at 2 p.m., and tickets are $15. (Niesel) 308 Euclid Ave., 216-523-2583, houseofblues.com.
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Beyond Function: The ARTneo Annual Benefit Brunch and Silent Auction Beyond Function: The ARTneo Annual Benefit Brunch and Silent Auction takes place just outside the organization’s gallery on the ramp level of 78th Street Studios from 1 to 4 p.m. today. This year’s benefit honors local artist Judith Salomon, whose work currently is on display in ARTneo’s gallery. Beyond Function: The Ceramics of Judith Salomon features the artist’s work from the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s, from both museum and private collections. Salomon
won the Cleveland Arts Prize for Visual Arts in 1990, as well as a National Endowment for the Arts grant, Cleveland Institute of Art’s Victor Schreckengost Teaching Award and two Ohio Arts Council artist fellowships. A native of Rhode Island, Salomon earned her bachelor’s of fine arts degree from the School of the American Craftsman at Rochester Institute of Technology in 1975 and her master’s of fine arts from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 1977. Shortly after receiving her MFA, Salomon became an associate professor at the Cleveland Institute of Art, where she taught for more than 35 years. Salomon has exhibited in galleries and museums around the world, and her work resides in the permanent collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Los Angeles Museum of Art, Manchester City Art Galleries in England, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the National Museum of History in Taiwan. Tickets are $75 ($50 for students) and are available online. (Usmani) 1305 West 78th St., # 016, 216-227-9507, 78thstreetstudios.com.
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SEPTEMBER 25, 2017 Starting at 7pm Unwritten History: A Grays Lecture Series is FREE and brought to you by Cleveland Grays Armory Museum and Cuyahoga Arts and Culture Please RSVP to reserve a seat by September 21st by calling (216) 621-5938 TRACKING THE DRAGON. Gregory Moore, Ph.D. will present “Intelligence Assessments of the Military Threat of the People’s Republic of China, 1949-1964”
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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 long-form 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. FESTIVAL
Ohio City Street Festival A portion of West 25th Street will be shut down from noon to 8 p.m. today for the Ohio City Street Festival. The fest features live music, performances, games, activities, crafts, inflatables and fun for all ages. A fenced-in Kid Zone includes a maker space with Polis Woodworking, activities from Spaces and the Cleveland Public | clevescene.com | September 20 - 26, 2017
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GET OUT Library, crafts with the Cleveland Museum of Art’s StudioGo truck, music discovery with the Bop Stop at the Music Settlement, and more. The street will be filled with parade puppets and interactive art from the Cleveland Museum of Art, performance art courtesy of Cleveland Public Theatre, the aerial acrobats of Jasmine Dragons and interactive works by local artists Erin Guido and JohnPaul Costello of So Fun Studio. Admission is free. (Usmani) 2525 Market Ave., 216-781-3222, ohiocity.org/ohiocityincorporated.
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Center for the Humanities lecture series, the talk is free but registration is recommended at the website below. (Niesel) 11130 Bellflower Rd., 216-368-1508, humanities.case.edu. FILM
The Day He Arrives As a complement to a special exhibition of South Korean painted screens, the Cleveland Museum of Art will show several South Korean movies this month. The Day He Arrives, tonight’s film, centers on a film professor who can’t escape a loop of repetitive events. The movie screens at 6:45 tonight at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Admission is $11, or $8 for CMA members. (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org. ART
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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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The Air War in the Museum: The Bombing of Dresden as History and Spectacle The 1945 bombing of Dresden, a German baroque city, represents one of World War II’s most notorious incidents. Today at 4:30 p.m., in Clark Hall’s Room 206 on the Case Western Reserve University’s campus, associate professor of German, Susanne Vees-Gulani, will discuss how the bombing is represented in two new exhibition spaces in the Military History Museum of the German Armed Forces, and the implications for a new, possibly troubling, German nationalism. Part of the Baker-Nord
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The Imagery of Rock After Woodstock producer Michael Lang gave Helen Hersh her big break, she became the house artist for the Village Theater. She also designed ads for the Village Voice and worked as the art director for Rock Magazine: A Music Review. The Helen Hersh Collection in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s Library & Archives, on the Tri-C Metro campus, contains nearly 100 items donated by Hersh. The collection includes advertisements, flyers, album art, sheet music and concert posters. Tonight at 7, Hersh will speak about her work at the Gil and Tommy Lipuma Center’s Black Box Theatre, next door to the Rock Hall’s Library and Archives. Admission is free, but guests must register for tickets via the Rock Hall website. (Niesel) 2900 Woodland Ave., 216-515-1956, rockhall.com. NIGHTLIFE
Open Turntable Tuesday Tonight from 6 to 9, the Winchester hosts its weekly Open Turntable Tuesday. DJ Kris Koch will offer 20-minute time slots to people who want to bring their own vinyl and spin their favorite songs or deep tracks. The Northeast Ohio Vinyl Club and the locally based Gotta Groove Records serve as the sponsors, and turntables will be provided. Each person will be able to play three to five songs during their allotted time, and there will be a mic available to talk about the selections. (Niesel) 12112 Madison Ave., Lakewood, 216-600-5338, facebook.com/ thewinchestermusictavern.
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ART CONFLICT IN THE LOOKING GLASS Nikki Woods explores high style and false impressions in No Regrets By Dott von Schneider JUICY COLORS AND HIGH LUXURY are the first impressions gathered from Nikki Woods’ latest two- and three-dimensional work in No Regrets. A gold-trimmed chandelier welcomes us into the gallery, and like Rosalind Russell’s Auntie Mame, its sparkling personality looms large. The light fixture hangs directly over a mid-century modern table peppered with porcelain slipcast Jell-O molds. These swirling and stacked beauties in sage, salmon, periwinkle and mauve are so succulent they might even compel this writer to change her tune regarding the gelatinous confection — despite a well documented revulsion toward the same. Woods, who collects the home and garden cookbooks that were so programmed into the white, suburban female persona, has us falling through the looking glass of high style, desire and false impressions. It is this conflict that Woods aptly focuses on throughout these latest artworks. As we stride past more gelatin molds mounted atop flat mirrors on pedestals, ribbons cascade down from the gallery ceiling behind each in such a way we feel like we’re about to snort lines of piped cake icing with Betty Crocker. The artist explains, “The mirrors have to do with how we view ourselves, but all the mirrors in my show in a way deny the viewer the ability to view themselves. The mirrors in the paintings are representations of mirrors and deny the reflection of anything; the mirrors under the Jell-O molds are not placed to reflect the viewer. These are all illusions, or mirages of desire — I guess smoke and mirrors. A deception.” Using spray and oil paints, Woods creates atmospheric and fragmented dreamscapes that break down the hubris of her subject matter, as well as how we reflect upon them and ourselves. In “Manhattan Triplex,” Woods portrays Donald Trump’s opulent dining room table as translated from Jaime ArdilesArce’s 1985 photo from Architectural Digest. Painter Francis Bacon’s cramped and chaotic studio space holds part of the source material for
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“Study for a Portrait of the Artist.” Both oeuvres take on Trump’s and Bacon’s extravagance-based lifestyles with the mirrors and shiny objects as well as the gamut of hues, tones and sharp lines of their largerthan-life personalities. Smoke and mirrors, indeed. “The Trump apartment painting reminded me so much of something out of the
the invisible, but is symbolic in its own right. She confesses that she is obsessed with ghosts. The artist hadn’t originally intend them to be presented together, but it fit with the symbolism of Bacon’s studio. “He’s a dead painter whose history we all contend with as painters,” she states, “Who am I to conjure in the studio? What am I attempting to conjure
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for the viewer?” It is probably the most somber of the paintings in No Regrets, with its heavy gray and black skyline landscaped above a secondary color sea, but it fits. While we were taking in probably our favorite artwork in the show, we noticed Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds whispering through
the background. The painting, titled “Pineapple Face,” holds a mannequin head form sporting a pageboy-cut wig. Hearkening back to Woods’ Jell-O molds, sliced pineapple eyes with sickly sweet maraschino cherry pupils return us to those ever-popular additions that were held prisoner in congealed salads. With a quick pink wide grin from one non-existent ear to the other, “Pineapple Face” is a subtle mirror for feminism. Is it strength or sadness that boils and caramelizes underneath its sugary veneer? In a show that could be overwhelming with color and subject matter, Woods, an established Cleveland artist, manages to put together a tight collection in this first solo exhibition at Hedge Gallery.
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Mission + Vision:
Ingenuity ignites the spark of creativity among artists, entrepreneurs & innovators of all types, through joy and collaboration, in service to civic progress. With our annual IngenuityFest, year-roung programming and servicebased outreach, we inspire audiences, push boundaries, empower communities, and generate economic impact, all while changing attitudes about our region. Metamorphosis refers to our city and our neighborhood, as well as the emergence of a year’s worth of work in bringing IngenuityLabs @ the Hamilton Collaborative to life! Enjoy transformation in all its forms!
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Ingenuity’s Board of Directors BUTTERFLY EXPERIENCE
2017 Key Information: Bikes: Free bike self-parking racks provided by Ohio City Bicycle Co-Op (remember to bring your own lock and park at your own risk!) A Slow Roll will leave from the Marquette gate on Saturday at 2 pm and return to the 53rd Street gate at 4 pm. Sustainability: Recycling and composting in partnership with Rust Belt Riders are provided throughout the site. Styrofoam is prohibited. In an effort to reduce plastic waste, Ingenuity & Cleveland Water are providing free water to site and sales of reusable water bottles - or bring your own! Parking, Rideshare: Street parking is available on many side streets, or in a dedicated lot at 5000 Lakeside ($5). Pickup/Dropoff at 53rd Street gate.
Dave Tabor, President Lisa Camp, Vice President Holly Little, Secretary Bryan Jaketic, Treasurer Dan Boich Kathy Cook Cathryn Greenwald Geoff Hardman Kristen Hoover Michael Lehto Todd Mesek John Paximadis Trevor Renner Bob Rose
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Large scale works, plus a sneak peak at our year-round programming and incubator cohort.
WELCOME TO THE HAMILTON COLLABORATIVE! We are redefining growth and innovation as an open, intentional community, managed cooperatively, providing tools, space and knowlege to a broad community. IngenuityLabs @ the Hamilton Collaborative is our new home! Ingenuity is a proud founding partner alongside these key organizations:
Rust Belt Riders: Graduates of the 2016 IngenuityLabs cohort, RBR is a worker-owned organic waste removal service available to Northeast Ohio businesses, schools and institutions, creating wealth from waste through conversion into value-added products. Soulcraft Woodshop: An artisan woodshop offering classes at a range of skill levels, incubation space for emerging woodworkers, high-end custom furniture, and featuring a new space for clean-tech innovation. Skidmark Garage: A community access motorcycle garage that encourages you to work on your own motorcycle: you provide the bike, they provide the tools, the space, and the expertise. Architecture Office: A boutique contemporary architecture firm with a focus on restoring Cleveland’s urban fabric. Rebuilders Xchange: An different kind of architectural salvage retailer, curating goods from soapstone counters to old bank vaults, and offering rehab, consignment and demolition services. MorrisonDance: Integrating the art of movement with cross-disciplinary collaborations, continuously challenging the traditional of understanding dance. Performances on the Main Stage Friday and Saturday. 3 Barn Doors: A custom design/build furniture company working with clients on unique designs and furniture to give their space a completely new vibe.
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IngenuityLABS Supporting and encouraging collaboration among artisans and innovators working in Cleveland. Our growing incubator program provides resources and networking opportunities with an eye toward broader efforts to attract and retain talent, promote a culture of arts and creativity; build spaces for technological innovation; foster entrepreneurship, especially among traditionally excluded populations; and connect local entrepreneurs with area youth and young adults.
Tesla Orchestra Doing great things with sound and light. Performances on The Dock stage Friday and Saturday. Andrew Kaletta Statuary Concrete casting for sculptural elements and custom lighting fixtures. Biro Wood Company Laminated wood and carbon fiber engineering. Trademark Stylehouse Connecting Cleveland artists through design and manufacturing of print and cut-sew apparel. AstroCelt Multimedia production company combining costume, music, dance, and original video. Art is our Refuge by Negative Space A home for refugee artists working in various media. New Works by Megan Young and Kix Nicole Digital interactive works exhibited in Illumination Island. Tiny Home by Tom Morledge Moto Loco experience created in partnership with Ingenuity and Hector Castellanos. “Imprints” and Initiate Studios by Michele Crawford Creative programming and design education outreach.
IngenuityLABS, continued . . . Leaping Off the Wall MAINSTAGE | FRIDAY AND SATURDAY | 8:30 AND 10:30 PM
A collaboration of Ingenuity Cleveland & MorrisonDance, with projection by Kevin Jackson
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Rigging expertise and training provided by Salina BartunekAndrews and Lee Zickel | Music: Free Association, Feist, Roger Eno , and Jocelyn Pook | Performers and Creative Contributors:
MaryPat Dorr, Amanda Clark, and Jenni Hankey Dana Wasielewski, Sarah Morrison, and Leah Smith
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COCOON LAGOON STEP INTO OUR SPACE AND EXPERIENCE YOUR OWN TRANSFORMATION AS YOU CRAWL, CLIMB AND CUDDLE UP ON AN ART LANDSCAPE CREATED JUST FOR YOU! FEATURING:
Transformation, by John Kasunich with Emily Appelbaum An artful creature emerges from its mechanical cocoon & spreads its wings. Vestibule Papillon, by Steve Simmons and Jerry Schmidt Butterfly-themed pieces greet entrants to the festival from above and at ground level. TransmogriForts Built by the Ingeneers just for you, these cozy cocoons invite you to crawl in and experience a change in perspective. Waterfall, by the Ingeneers Spiders Nests, by the Ingeneers Night Lily, by Alex Waldman | Chicago An ethereal kinetic sculpture, with ever-changing images in a perpetual state of metamorphosis.
This project has been supported by a grant from Ohio Arts Council’s ArtsNEXT program, with special thanks to Jeanne Merchant, Dan Tyson, Dan Merriman, and the Ingeneers!
Corpus Pianeta/Planeta Corpo and other works by Nathan Wasserbauer Built from wood and linoleum and completed with silverpoint and shellac, the works of CIA graduate and SUNY professor of fine art come home. One Team, Many Dreams Shoot for your goals! Each patterned ball is created by a 9th or 10th grade art student at the Lincoln-West School of Global Studies to represent his or her dreams for the future. Emoh, by Loren Naji Stellated Luminaries, by Steve Manka Tower Trusses, by the Ingeneers Handcrafted for play and relaxation! Exquisite Scramble Inspired by the Surrealist drawing game exquisite corpse, viewers create metamorphosis by playfully mixing pieces of different characters designed by Honors Art students at Lincoln-West School of Global Studies. Special thanks to Midwest Box Co.
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MOTOmagination Station presented by Skidmark Garage Be sure to visit the Octopod Cart on display from Cleveland Fabrication!
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Our Festival’s Main Drag! Starting from the 53rd Street gate, park your bike, grab a bite, and take the load off in the Dock, or Buskers’ Byway - home to the Ingenuity Cabaret!
Step inside, and sneak through passageways that will take you on a journey in light and sound!
THE DOCK STAGE
1000 Faces Project, by Nelson Morris Two years after beginning casts and exhibition at IngenuityFest 2015, a thousand concrete faces of different ages & backgrounds will be unveiled.
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Breakwall and New Works by Megan Young & Kix Nicole New media artists create intriguing, participatory sonic landscapes in which the body is instrument and actions are amplified. Breakwall performs Friday 7:30 & 9:30 pm | Saturday 3, 5 & 7:30 pm | Sunday 1 & 2 pm. New Works performs as posted. Roller Disco by Rollin Buckeyze Foundation Kids can try their foot(?!) at a new skill and learn about this nonprofit’s positive work in the neighborhood! (Skates available in children’s sized, or BYO!)
The Artwork of Tim Willis Bike PARKing A cool hangout for cyclists of all sorts, with bike parking, pop-up bike kitchen, activities and exhibits from local bike organizations, sponsored by Slow Roll Cleveland and Ohio City Bicycle Co-Op. Join us for a slow roll Saturday at 2 pm, leaving from IngenuityFest’s Marquette gate and arriving at the 53rd Street at 4 pm. Discount tickets available in advance to participants at Saint Clair Bikeworks. Live Painters Labyrinth, curated by Bex Moss Check out prints for sale and watch works unfold as nearly a dozen live painters from Cleveland and beyond create a colorful splash. Plasmosis and the Tesla Orchestra Four plasma speakers create rhythm and trance on The Dock stage. Friday and Saturday at 8 pm and 10 pm. Praxis Loom Truck Fiber arts brought to your front door! 1-3 pm Sunday ONLY! Fire Boxes, by Steve Manka
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Shooting Without Bullets Cleveland’s revolutionary youth voice program using photography and hip-hop performance to Fight The Power by highlighting the experiences of black teens that are not heard in public decisionmaking processes. Featured works include photography, objects and ready-to-wear fashion. Boiler Room by Ed Raffel
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Forest Foundry Step inside, and sneak through passageways that will take you on a journey in light and sound!
Mechanique Biotique DEMONSTRATIONS & WORKSHOPS IN HOT & COLD METAL WORKING, HAMMERING, SOLDERING, BRAZING & MORE THROUGHOUT THE WEEKEND!
Growing a Metal Vine (A Community Collaboration) Curating & instruction by Elizabeth Meadows, Full Metal Florist, with Noah Bowers, Joshua Fairplay, Jordan Fairplay, Angel Barber and Cara Romano.
MUSIC MEADOW
Tim Cunningham, The Urban Forge + Forge by Dave Biro
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Reclaimed Materials Obtained from vacant homes. Geometric Chorus, by Brad Civic and Ryan Oddo .KXG YGNFKPI ETGCVGU C ICTFGP QH CORNKƓGF IGQOGVTKE Making Our Own Space, Cleveland Urban Design aluminum chimes. Accompanied by the art of Ryan Oddo. Collaborative and Students Unique Mobile Playscapes
Rubens Tube, by Jim + CHannin McNaughten Perfectly Imperfect Produce Reducing food waste, improving access to affordable fresh fruits & vegetables. Lettuce Tree Aquaponics Closed loop agriculture. IOBY Bringing great ideas to life, block by block.
Robotic Claw Game, by Tesla Orchestra Grab the )NCUU CPF QVJGT YQTMU D[ OȬTVKɩʂ MTȼDU joystick and send a robotic claw soaring through the Drift Lab Textile Co., Dye your own silk and natural fabrics, using hand-crafted plant-based dyes. Saturday Only.
RedHouse Architecture from mushrooms. RSEVLES Social innovation and spatial iteration. Composting Workshops Soil impacts everything from food waste to clilmate change. Saturday 5 pm, Sunday 1 & 3 pm.
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Firebirds, by Charlie Smith | Atlanta Propane Dance Floor & Laser Harp, by John Mitchell Fire Spinning by Fire + Light Performing Arts & Friends!
Avian Factory, by Dana Depew Reclaimed woods obtained from vacant and foreclosed homes become site specific permanent birdhouse installations through the duration of the festival. A rebirth of resurrected materials into installations of viable avian housing. Butterfly Dome Experience | Louisville Visit hundreds of live butterflies and learn about lifecycles, pollinator plants and more; experience a metamorphosis of our on-site teaching garden - a former scrapyard - where new life is taking root. At the end of the Fest, butterflies are released and we’ll plant a bevy of new, native blooms for them to return in the spring! With music, art, and educational activities.
Vendor Village More than two dozen craft artisans exhibiting apparel, crafts, accessories, health + beauty items and more!
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Artwork of Damient Venditti CAN Journal Northern Ohio Freethought Society Keep It Local, Cleveland Midwest R2 Builders Club. Sunday Only. Vision of Hope, Ring the Bell of Hope, by Meng-Hsuan Wu and Rainey Institute Light & soundinteractive sculptures created by twenty-five students.
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Help your young ones (or young at heart!) find their own creative transformation by working with our team of kidfriendly craftaholics to build all sorts of metamorphosisthemed crafts, from butterfly wings to caterpiller antennae. TechCentral MakerSpace, by Cleveland Public Library Leave your mark on Cleveland by laser-cutting, embellishing, and adding your own piece to our Giant Cleveland Puzzle Mural, or try your hand at traversing our maze with a remote control. The Electro-Writer 1932 & MORE! by SteamHat An active, hands-on journey through a wild fusion of art, illustration, fiction, and gaming.
Different Things Gallery Art is more than paper: hands-on, art-inspired Creative Journeys for educational settings. Sankofa Fine Arts Plus Get hands-on with a colorful live paint experience. Premiere Screenprinting Get hands on with the Art Factory on 76th, a collective specializing in hand-printed works of art on garments and fine papers. Cleveland Game Developers Play dozens of games and learn a little bit about the people that made them.
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Memory Boxes - A Collection of Time and Light, by Mike Bruckman Emergence #3, by Robin Latkovich Patterns arise and vanish from animated biomorphic forms in motion. The Guardian, by Andrew Schaeffer Icon of the Hope Memorial Bridge comes alive. Street Drum Magic, by John Wetzel Everyday objects turn into a sympony of sound and light Feedback, Nicolae Sadovnic Dichroic Laminated Art, by John Blazy Designs Compression Expression by the Ingeneers Work your way through a bubble sanctuary and uncover a secret at the center of our latex lounge Soften Every Edge, by Synapse Arts | Chicago Textile dance - an immersive, touchable environment that surrounds the performers and audience – welcomes you inside the open spaces between fibers. Help alter the textiles during these modern dance performances, and even learn the basics of body knitting in our workshops following each performance! Friday 6 & 8 pm | Saturday 2, 4 & 8 pm | Sunday 1 & 3 pm. Testing 1,2,3, by ED Taylor Fibonacci spirals and mushroom clouds capture humanity’s best and worst.
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Held/Hold, by Elaine Hullihen A reflection on borders & space, step into this swinging cocoon for a chance to notice your thoughts.
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STAGE SHAKESPEARE LITE It’s the Bard without all those funny words in Shakespeare in Love at the Cleveland Play House DO YOU WANT A COOKIE FOR being a good theater-going person and attending various Shakespeare plays over the years? Well, here’s a chocolate chip confection the size of your head. Shakespeare in Love is a Shakespeare-like play for those who sit in the audience of real Shakespeare plays and often wonder: What the fuck are they talking about? Yes, the Bard’s offerings can sometimes be linguistically vexing to the modern ear. And this play, adapted by Lee Hall from the Oscarwinning movie by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard, sets out to make every single patron feel real smart by feeding us little doggie treats of Shakespearean cliches wrapped around a love story between young Will and Viola. Viola is a woman of means who yearns to take the stage, which was forbidden to females in Elizabethan London. Speaking of Queen Elizabeth and dogs, each makes multiple appearances in this play since the sovereign insists on having pooches in the plays she attends, whether or not a canine is called for in the script. This is a play that, like certain over-eager terriers, humps your leg until you pat it on its head and give it compliments. So here goes: Shakespeare in Love as directed by the talented and witty Laura Kepley is many giggles wide and an inch deep. Thus, a deep dive is not recommended. But if you feel like wiggling your tootsies in some Shakespeare-esque language and a few really bad jokes, this production is a dandy little excursion. The central conceit is that Will is blocked as a writer, unable to finish the sentence, “Shall I compare thee to ... .” Of course, everyone in the audience is aching to finish the line for him, and so it goes for the ensuing two-and-a-half hours as various surefire lines and scenes are repurposed for comedic effect. For instance, Shakespeare’s proposed title for his play, a supposed comedy, is Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate’s Daughter. Silly playwright! Indeed, Shakespeare is portrayed as a sort of lovable, hunky dolt and Charlie Thurston qualifies for both those adjectives as he swoons over
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Foreground left to right: Charlie Thurston (Will Shakespeare), Nigel the Dog (Spot), Peter Hargrave (Lord Wessex). Background: Grant Goodman (Ned Alleyn).
Viola — whom he first encounters dressed as a young man auditioning for his play. Later, when he tries to entreat Viola from beneath her balcony (get it?), he is fed lines by his pal Christopher Marlowe (Andhy Mendez) in a sly send-up of the supposed collaboration between the two writers. As Act 1 ends, Will and Viola have worked out the gender confusion and, in a beautifully staged scene, they embrace in silhouette on a shrouded canopy bed. One can easily imagine
to pitch their scripts while dealing with the fiscal demands of various producers, prominent actors and other hangers-on. One of those actors, Ned Alleyn, is played with egotistical ferocity by Grant Goodman. In the end, Shakespeare turns his re-titled Romeo and Juliet into a tragedy where the lovers die. So everyone leaves happy, apart from the producer Henslowe who laments: “Well, that’s going to get a lot of laughs!”
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Cupid’s fiery shaft piercing the lady’s, um, heart. Of course, eager to not leave anyone behind, Viola gasps in wonderment, “Oh, there is something better than a play!” As Viola, Marina Shay is delightful as a love-struck woman but less than convincing as the man she pretends to be. The sub-plot, such as it is, involves the business of theater in that era, with playwrights desperately trying
There are some other excellent supporting performances. Brian Owen as the pompous actor Richard Burbage is amusing, ad-libbing with the audience and strutting like a very needy peacock. Donald Carrier as Henslowe nails a number of punch lines, while Tina Stafford is doubly entertaining as the icy Queen and as Viola’s protective, no-nonsense nurse. And adding the wisdom of children is
Tommy Bilczo as Webster, a youngster who also hungers for the stage. Once you get past some of the tooobvious jokes — the aforementioned pup is called Spot and I won’t trouble you with the lame joke based on that moniker — the show has a palpable love for theater and its folk. And for those who adore stage fights, there are plenty on stage with skillful swordplay, and off-stage as actors slam into each other in the aisles and against walls. The handsome set and costumes designed by Lex Liang, the seamless choreography by David Shimotakahara and the lush sound by designer and composer Jane Shaw serve to make the entire production feel far more substantive than the script allows it to be. But that’s the essence of theater, isn’t it? We love to immerse ourselves in lovely illusions, and Shakespeare in Love provides just such an opportunity.
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MOVIES WHAT DOESN’T KILL YOU Stronger could be Jake Gyllenhaal’s Oscar ticket By Sam Allard WHAT HAS LINGERED, IN THE days following my viewing of Stronger, the Boston Marathon bombing drama from director David Gordon Green that comes out Friday, are images of Jake Gyllenhaal and Tatiana Maslany in emotional crisis. Here is Gyllenhaal, as bombing survivor Jeff Bauman, crawling through a parking lot, howling into the night. Here is Bauman, falling off a toilet seat, biting a towel and screaming in agony and rage. Here is Maslany (from TV’s Orphan Black), as Bauman’s on-again, off-again girlfriend Erin Hurley, arriving at the hospital in her running gear, sweaty and blearyeyed. The film chronicles the abruptly legless life of Bauman in the aftermath of the explosions. Bauman is a Costco cook by day, and he attends the marathon to win back the affection of Hurley, who’s running in the race and with whom he’s on hiatus. Their relationship is marked by a strained ebb and flow. Their first encounter in the film, at a sports bar, has the icy guardedness of recent divorce. We sense that Hurley is nearly through giving him additional chances, but also that she loves him. Bauman is near the epicenter of the explosions and loses both his legs, but the film doesn’t dwell on
the event itself, as last year’s Patriots Day did. That story focused on the manhunt. This one’s concerned with the physical and emotional toll on a survivor. Though I was expecting them, naturally, the bombings almost came as a surprise. Where the film succeeds is portraying the friction between Bauman’s sudden celebrity and the drudgery and pain of his new predicament. On one hand, Bauman becomes a symbol of hope for the people of Boston. He helped police identify one of the bombers and partly inspired the hashtag #BostonStrong. But he resents this fame. When he’s asked to wave the flag for the national anthem at a Bruins game, he is stricken with images of the bombing. He hates
feeling like he’s on display, being paraded around in a constant reminder of the worst day of his life. Nevertheless, his mom Patty (Miranda Richardson), with whom he lives, relishes the stardom. Meantime, Bauman can barely get up the stairs to his apartment. Every movement hurts. There are several scenes in the bathroom — a reminder of how painstaking regular bodily functions can be for people with severe disabilities — and Bauman is routinely discouraged, ignoring his physical therapy and getting drunk with his boys. It is only with and through Erin that Bauman finds the strength and the will to keep trying. The emotional core of the film is their relationship. Maslany electrifies
the screen as Erin, both in her turmoil and in her tenderness. It’s a testament to her skills that her internal conflicts feel as rich and urgent as Bauman’s external ones. It’s clear that the real battle for Bauman is not just conquering his legs, but proving to Erin that he can be a grown-up. “Why do you even want me?” Bauman screams at Erin in the car one night, in what will likely be Gyllenhaal’s Oscar clip. “I’m such a fuckup!” Among other things, Stronger heralds, for me, a welcome return to form for David Gordon Green. Green was a breathtaking indie filmmaker in the early aughts (George Washington, All the Real Girls) who braided intimacy and sorrow in stories of what felt like actual relationships in his native North Carolina. But after Pineapple Express, he’s been somewhat tough to pin down. Your Highness? Our Brand is Crisis? What? Stronger is his most successful picture at least since Pineapple Express, and it’s in large part because it places a fleshand-blood romantic relationship, with love and life on the line, front and center.
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SPOTLIGHT: THE LEGO NINJAGO MOVIE LIKE ITS PREDECESSORS, 2014’S The Lego Movie and this year’s The Lego Batman Movie, The Lego Ninjago Movie makes inventive use of the famous plastic toys and remarkably constructs an entire world (in this case the city of Ninjago) and cast of characters out of the things. But while The Lego Movie and The Lego Batman Movie feature witty dialogue and compelling storylines, The Lego Ninjago Movie presents a rote coming-of-age theme, and the flat storyline diminishes the end result. The film opens area-wide on Friday. The movie begins with a forgettable live action sequence
featuring a pawnshop owner (Jackie Chan), a cat and a young boy. The young boy complains that his friends bully him. In order to assuage the kid, the pawnshop owner tells the story of Lloyd (Dave Franco), a young boy that had a similar experience because his father Garmadon (Justin Theroux) routinely attacked the boy’s hometown, making Lloyd the least popular kid at school. Because of that, the other kids at Lloyd’s high school hate him. Lloyd, however, has assembled a gang of close friends. The group — Kia (Michael Peña), Nya (Abbi Jacobson), Jay (Kumail Nanjiani), Zane (Zach Woods) and Cole (Fred Armisen)
— regularly thwarts Garmadon’s attacks while working undercover as ninjas. Predictably enough, Garmadon one day returns with a weapon so powerful and destructive, Lloyd must employ the “ultimate weapon” to try to contain him. When that fails, he and the crew must then find the “ultimate ultimate weapon.” Their mentor Master Wu (Chan) leads them on the dangerous journey that takes them outside of the city. The film has its strengths. Theroux makes for a particularly good bad guy, and his sarcastic putdowns of Lloyd are often hilarious. He always pronounces both of the “Ls” at the beginning of Lloyd’s
name and regularly dismisses his generals with witty remarks about their incompetence. Nanjiani also delivers some good quips, especially when he and his ninja pals appear to face their demise at the hands of Garmadon’s disgruntled former generals who have formed a rogue battalion on the outskirts of town. But the storyline here has such a predictable arc that it fails to be engaging, and the middle of the movie really drags along slowly as Lloyd and Garmadon try to work out their various issues. — Jeff Niesel
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ethic of farm to table. He knew that he could craft clean, flavorful broths from well-raised chickens and pigs; what he didn’t realize was that ramen wasn’t as widely understood as he believed. “When I opened I assumed that people took their Ramen 101 already,” Liu said on a followup call. “A lot of them don’t know anything about ramen other than the package of instant noodle with broth. That’s why we started really slow and even taking a couple steps back.” Liu’s plans initially included branching out from straightforward pork, chicken and vegetarian broths and into more intensely flavored brews like heady pork tonkotsu and even broths made with beef and lamb. Japanese ramen would be supplemented by Southeast Asian and Northern Chinese-style noodles. For now, those plans are just that: plans.
but swimming loose in the broth. In the mouth, they are sprightly and springy. If you want to give Liu a conniption — or merely diminish your own experience — take a few moments before diving in to Instagram your bowl, Yelp about the hostess, chat with your tablemates, or drink sake. “You have to know that ramen is meant to eat fast; you have about five minutes,” he explains. After that the noodles go soft, the broth cools and separates, and the experience sours quicker than a threeyear-old’s birthday party. Bowls of spicy miso ($12) are heaped with noodles, a fat slab of buttery pork belly, corn, scallions, mushrooms and, for an extra buck, a soft-cooked egg. If you think $12 is too much to pay for a bowl of good ramen, you’re obviously not seeking it out when you travel. I’m addicted to spicy food, but I
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I don’t recall all that much about my first meal at Xinji — not because I was drunk, but because I was too busy eating ramen to scribble down my usual notes. As kids, we’re instructed to eat our food slowly, but ramen is best consumed with haste. The noodles, sourced from the same Sun Noodle that supplies most great ramen shops in the States, arrive not in a sad clump
actually prefer the lighter miso ($12) version, where a lack of overpowering heat and spice lets the rich, clean flavors of the chicken/pork broth come through. Other noodle bowls are prepared with chicken broth, contain sliced chicken, and are seasoned either with sea salt (shio) or soy sauce (shoyu). Rice bowls swap the ramen noodles for gluten-free grains that
are topped with grilled eel ($15) or crispy fried pork tonkatsu ($12) and appropriate sauces and garnishes. A meal can be made of the Korean fried chicken ($9) — the other KFC — which reworks Granny’s humble, well-intentioned staple into a sticky, spicy, shatteringly crunchy two-piece combo, sans biscuit. The dark meat pieces (bone-in leg and thigh) stay ridiculously juicy despite the high-fry temps. Xinji’s fried chicken bao ($7) is textbook in its delivery. A thin, crispy, boneless fried chicken filet is tucked into a pillow-soft steamed bun, along with pickles and slaw, to create the ideal textural contrast. Unlike the delicious but unwieldy KFC, these tidy little bundles are a breeze to pick up and enjoy. Twice now I’ve hampered my typically boundless appetite by tacking on orders of slippery little pork dumplings ($8) that languish in an assertively spiced broth. The double-storefront space is attractive but spare, neither excessively cutesy nor unpleasantly drab. A long bar fronts an open kitchen, and on busy nights the rooms buzz with sound. Just as diners still are acquainting themselves with the idiosyncrasies of ramen, so too are the servers, who with each passing week seem to become better guides.
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By Billy Hallal SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE IS playing to rave reviews at the Allen Theater. In mid-October, Waitress will kick off Playhouse Square’s annual Broadway series. And there’s that new Lin-Manuel Miranda musical you may have heard about. While you might have to pledge your firstborn child to get tickets to Hamilton, at least it will be a breeze to enjoy preshow dining. Theater district dining used to be a bland affair, with dishes served hurriedly to watch-tapping customers. The current crop of restaurants in the neighborhood, however, proves that is no longer the case. It’s impossible to discuss theater dining without mentioning Cowell & Hubbard, the Playhouse Square representative of the Zack Bruell empire. Cowell & Hubbard is famously situated in a former jewelry store of the same name, and it’s an elegantly lit place with a menu designed for efficiency and quality. Items like the Moroccan Lamb Shoulder and Pork Porterhouse should arrive with ample time; staff are methodically trained to get patrons through the meal and to the shows by curtain. And for those who want to avoid the crowds, there’s an Actors’ Menu, starting at 7:15 p.m., that offers appetizers for half off; as bartender Kate Michalko says, that’s “Applebee’s prices” for escargot. Bin 216 also has made a name for itself as a theater district staple. It’s a comfy, posh wine bar with some substantial small plates, like the seafood risotto or braised beef and mushroom flatbread. They do not take reservations, so arriving early is a good idea. It would be remiss not to mention Otto Moser’s. Founded in 1893, Moser’s was part of Cleveland’s
original theater district on East Fourth Street. The restaurant operated continuously in that spot for 100 years. A mid-’90s move to rejoin the theater district proved commercially successful, and to this day Moser’s operates as an essential spot for old-timers and Cleveland history buffs. There are plenty of less obvious options that will get diners to their plays in a tasty, timely fashion. Hofbrauhaus’ sausage-and-potatoes fare will fortify diners for the longest of shows, and though it’s not on Euclid, it’s a short walk to all the major theaters. The same is true of Puente Viejo, a Playhouse Square newbie serving Mexican cuisine in an “industrial chic” interior. Open since February, Puente Viejo has proved a standout in a crowded Cleveland taco market. Dishes like the cazuelada and quesadilla chipotle are powerfully flavorful, balanced and filling, and the cucumber margaritas are refreshing year-round. Or check out the jaw-dropping Marble Room on Euclid, where the steaks and seafood promise to be as breathtaking as the converted bank lobby they’re presented in. Marble Room promises special accommodations for theatergoers, so the slightly longer walk to the theater should present no issues. There are two rules for dinner before a show: Make reservations whenever possible (an hour and a half before the show, more if you’re a slow eater or walker) and arrive on time. Patrons who follow these golden rules will escape the fate of the poor souls being flashlight-escorted to their seats seven minutes into the first act.
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ASK ANY WOULD-BE OPERATOR what his or her least favorite question is and you’re bound to be hit with: “So, when are you opening?” Poor Shelley and John Pippin have had to field that question for more than two years, ever since they got the keys to the prime corner space in the Detroit Shoreway neighborhood that would become Brewnuts. Well, beer-flavored doughnut fans, the wait is finally, truthfully over. “It’s peak doughnut season,” says John. One cannot say that the Pippins didn’t do their due diligence. The couple simultaneously worked their way through programs at Bad Girl Ventures and Cleveland Culinary Launch & Kitchen. They operated a pop-up shop for about a year in Tremont, where, notes Shelley, “we got to take our bumps and bruises; go through some trials and tribulations that hopefully will make the next transition a little bit smoother.” Along the way, they went “all in,” quitting their day jobs, invested the nest egg, and committing fully to the concept of a neighborhood doughnut bar, even if it took a year and a half longer than they had anticipated. The sun-soaked 1,200-squarefoot corner space at the bustling
intersection of West 65th and Detroit can accommodate approximately 50 guests. Tuesday through Friday mornings the shop will open at 6:30 a.m. (Saturdays and Sundays at 8 a.m.) for coffee and doughnuts like the popular maple bacon bourbon ale, coffee porter with toffee, and the classic glazed made with Great Lakes Dortmunder. During a few recent test runs, where friends, family and Kickstarter supporters were invited inside, the Pippins flew through 700 doughnuts in a handful of hours. They hope to have inventory until they take their midday break at noon, but as with barbecue, when it’s out, it’s out. “There isn’t a machine back there,” Shelley explains. “Every single doughnut is hand rolled, hand cut, cooked and glazed by a real person.” Also, the doughs need to rise slowly overnight. Brewnuts will open again at happy hour, with savory snacks like doughnut-breaded chicken wings and, perhaps, specials like maple bacon doughnuts stuffed with Proper Pig pulled pork. There are nine beers on tap, mostly originating in Ohio. On weekends, those beers will be joined by Bloody Marys and mimosas. “It’s always been part of the plan to be so much more than that momand-pop corner bakery,” Shelley
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WEST SIDE MARKET WELCOMES 8 NEW TENANTS, BRINGING OCCUPANCY TO 94 PERCENT Thanks to the addition of eight new tenants, the West Side Market is up to 94-percent occupancy, leaving just 10 of the 178 indoor and outdoor spaces available. All of the new tenants are local companies, some just starting out and others looking for a little pied-a-terre in the city. Cleveland’s popular candy warehouse, B.A. Sweetie, the largest candy store in America, will be opening its first offsite location in Northeast Ohio in more than 25 years. Sweeties Candies, as the spinoff is called, opened last week. Piccadilly Artisan Creamery, which has locations on Coventry and in University Circle, will open a small liquid nitrogen-fueled frozen yogurt stand. It also signals a return of that brand to Ohio City. Ora Bells, who according to city staffers is the market’s first African American-owned business (note: the market is 104 years old), will offer home-style Southern cuisine. Prince Produce will offer conventional and organic produce out in the produce annex. Avant Gardens, a local mushroom farm specializing in fresh-picked oyster and gourmet cultivated mushrooms, will join them, as will Matthew Produce, offering a variety of Asian and conventional fruits and vegetables. Lakewood Plant will sell a variety of house and office plants. And English Treats will sell desserts and snacks imported from Britain. “The West Side Market has been
a thriving part of the Cleveland shopping experience for 104 years,” mayor Frank Jackson said in a release. “I want to welcome the eight newest entrepreneurs to join the Market this year; you are now a part of our city’s living history.” The market has undergone other recent changes. Long-running Johnny Hot Dog has new ownership, with a Ukrainian family picking up where the longtime Lebanese owners left off. OOOH Fudge and Jacob Oasis both are under new ownership as well. “Each retailer is authentically Cleveland and fits well into our mission to continuously diversify vendors and products,” said West Side Market manager Felicia Hall. “The West Side Market is one of the few food-focused historic markets in America, and as a 104-year-old institution we’re always seeking new ways to contribute to our city’s food scene.”
PORTSIDE DISTILLERY CLOSES Portside, which earned the distinction as Ohio’s first modern distillery, has closed. The smallbatch producer of beer and spirits had been in production since 2011, but only recently (2015) opened up its East Bank of the Flats-based production facility and tasting room to the public. Earlier this year, the distillery changed its tasting room hours to weekends only, deciding instead to focus on increasing production. Those efforts, apparently, were not enough to stave off the closure. “It’s a big bummer to all of us,” said Erica Riley, director of marketing and events.
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Counting Crows and Matchbox Twenty perform at 6:45 tonight, Sept. 20, at Blossom. Originally, Duritz kicked around in a few different bands in the San Francisco Bay Area before Counting Crows came together and issued its impressive 1993 debut, August and Everything After. He had been in the rock act Himalayans, and that group would eventually evolve into the Crows and turn the Himalayans’ song “Around Here,” a single on August and Everything After, into a huge hit. “I was intensely proud of [August and Everything After],” Duritz says. “I didn’t know if people would like it or listen to it or ever really hear it. Those are two different things. It’s
impossible to tell. I thought we were making a fantastic record, but I’ve thought that about every record. I’ve loved them all really. The truth is that there’s no way to tell if people will hear it. I always thought our records were great, but it hasn’t been that experience where everyone likes what you do. Before that first record, I had spent 10 years in the clubs, and no one had heard my music. It was beyond my imagination at that point.” In the early ’90s, bands in San Francisco benefited from the fact that they could use empty warehouses to rehearse and record. Members of the Crows even lived in a warehouse for a time. “There was this two-month period
where we went out every single night, and we either played a gig or rehearsed or saw our friends play a gig every single night,” Duritz recalls. “There were so many people playing in so many great bands. We were all in those bands. [Keyboardist] Charlie [Gillingham], who I didn’t know that well then, was in like 12 bands. There were always warehouses where bands rehearsed or where recording studios were. They all got turned into condos, and after a while, there was no place to rehearse. The music scene died out, and the clubs became other things as well. Some friends I know who still live there say it’s hard to find a place to rehearse.” Duritz famously struggled to cope | clevescene.com | September 20 - 26, 2017
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love with ‘Palisades Park.’ I probably say that about every record. It was a very satisfying record to make. I liked everything about that record, including the touring, I was happy about. I wanted to make a huge cultural splash, and that didn’t happen, but it’s hard to do that.” For the live shows, Duritz will often rearrange the tunes to the point that they hardly resemble their studio counterparts. He says he does it to capture a moment. “I don’t feel like the songs have to be played the same way every time, or they have to be set in stone,” he says when asked about his approach. “If you listen carefully, you’ll hear your band mates playing differently, and it’s okay to be inspired by that and do something different yourself. I think it’s important to see the songs as living things and to allow the events of the day to influence the songs. People get worried about playing things right, and that turns into playing things the same. I don’t feel any pressure to do that.” He explains that “Mr. Jones,” for example, is a song about “dreaming about being famous” and how difficult it can be to attain fame. When he wrote the tune, he had yet
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difficult and challenging and wonderful.” Extensive rehearsals helped the recording process. “It’s probably one of the fastest albums we’ve made,” he says. “It went really well, but part of that had to do with the fact that I was woodshedding for a week every month in my house. We were there together. When we demoed the songs, we just held up an iPhone to record ourselves. When we got to the studio, it wasn’t just me teaching six other guys to play a song. They had the demos, and we had four guys pretty versed in the songs. That made it easier on everyone else.” The album opens with the cinematic “Palisades Park,” a song that has a Randy Newman-like feel with its rolling piano melody and soft vocals. Mid-tempo rock tunes such as the plodding “Scarecrow” and the punchy “Dislocation” retain the band’s Van Morrison-like impulses while embracing a freewheeling and spirited approach. “To me, it’s my favorite record we’ve ever made and has my best songs on it,” he says. “I’m really in
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to achieve any sort of recognition. Now, 20-plus years on, he doesn’t identify as much with the track’s original concept. “The way I felt about that song when none of that had happened to me is different now that all of this shit has happened,” he says. “I’m experiencing it differently. It makes the song better, and it makes it into something I’m experiencing right now.” Duritz, who had yet to embark on the summer tour with Matchbox Twenty at the time of this interview, says he’s particularly excited to hit the road once more with the altrockers who came on the scene at about the same time as Counting Crows. “I really am excited about the tour even if just because [singer] Rob [Thomas] is one of my favorite people in the world, and we were dying to spend more time together after last year’s tour,” he says. “It just feels kind of great.”
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REELING IN THE YEARS The Grog Shop celebrates its 25th anniversary with special shows and giveaways By Jeff Niesel
THE GROG SHOP OPENED IN 1992 when Kathy Blackman and two other business partners took over a Cleveland Heights bar on the corner of Coventry and Mayfield roads. They all lived near the space and thought it would make for a good rock club. They were right. The first show featured local garage-rockers Quasi Modo, and the place was packed. It served as a complement to the Euclid Tavern, which featured indie and underground concerts too. Within a year, Blackman booked her first national band, the Portland, Oregon-based pop-punk act Crackerbash. In 1994, a thenunknown British group called Oasis played the place. Six bucks got you into that gig. Occasionally, bands like the Deftones and the Brian Jonestown Massacre insisted on playing secret shows at the Grog when they were in town to play bigger concerts at other venues. When that club lost its lease in 2003, Blackman found a place just up the street. The club has resided at that spot on Euclid Heights Boulevard ever since. Starting next week, the club will host a handful of special shows to mark its 25th anniversary. Ticket holders will have access to pre-parties that take place at 6
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p.m. at the B-Side Liquor Lounge (underneath the Grog Shop) prior to each of the concerts. The first 100 attendees to each pre-party will receive a “bag o’ swag” from sponsors such as Gotta Groove Records, Jakprints, EarthQuaker Devices, Jameson, Absolut, PBR, Melt, Coventry Village, WRUW, WJCU, Market Garden Brewery and Alternative Press. “The music is diverse, and each night represents a different crowd and different era,” Blackman says. We spoke with Blackman to get her take on each of the concerts featuring acts that have regularly played the club over the past 25 years.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 21 The Get Up Kids/Pet Symmetry/ Dead Leaves (9 p.m.) “I have a lot of history with them. [Singer-keyboardist] James [Dewees] and [singer-guitarist] Matt [Pryor], who are the two lead guys, have played here in many inceptions both as the Get Up Kids and with Reggie and the Full Effect. Matt has done solo tours here. They are like family. I’ve seen them become extremely popular and still play here. At some point, they outgrew us and then came back. That’s a great feeling. They set up their tour around this show.”
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FRIDAY, SEPT. 22 Murder by Death/Miss Macy & the Low Pay Daddys (9 p.m.) “They started playing here in the early 2000s. For one of their first shows, they showed up late and only got to play for 15 minutes and the next day their equipment got stolen. It was one of the worst things to happen on a tour. They made up a shirt about them losing their stuff here. It’s a poignant memory to them. They’ve been coming back once a year for many years. They’re such good people. They do short, small tours because they have lives and families. They’ll only go out for five or six days, and Cleveland is one of their stops. I reached out to them way long ago when I started thinking about having anniversary shows.”
SATURDAY, SEPT. 23 Ted Leo & the Pharmacists/ Obnox/Falling Stars (9 p.m.) “He’s been playing here for years. Sometimes, he plays solo, and one year he did a show at the B-Side, which was kind of fun. We go back a long way, and we actually share a wedding anniversary. He’s changed over the years. At the show at the old Grog Shop, he would have been much different. He had a Matador sound to him initially and has gone through an upbeat phase.
His solo stuff is very thoughtful and poignant and political. It’s not frivolous music by any means. He’s had so many different inceptions of Ted Leo. He never sounds exactly the same. Obnox is also on this bill and [singer-guitarist] Chris Allen’s new band, Falling Stars, is playing too. [Guitarist] Tim Parnin is in the band too. They’ve been playing at my club as long as anyone. They’ve been there since Day 1. Sometimes, national acts want to pick the local support, but I want it to be about Cleveland. Those bands are equally important to me.”
SUNDAY, SEPT. 24 Cloud Nothings/Chromesthetic/ Street Gurgler (9 p.m.) “They’re new blood even though they appeal to the older demographic. They recorded a live album here, which is really cool. I think they even filmed it. It’s important to do something with the local bands. It can’t be the Grog Shop’s 25th anniversary and be all national acts. It should be about Cleveland bands as well. It’s nice to see a Cleveland band break out and be well-received and well-respected.”
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THE STORYTELLER Gogol Bordello’s singer talks about his evolution from playing ‘full-on’ punk rock By Jeff Niesel WHEN UKRAINIAN-BORN SINGER Eugene Hütz came to New York in the late ’90s, he had a batch of songs that encapsulated the “traumas” of his experience as an immigrant. He would eventually form the gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello and record some of those tunes. Early on, he simply wanted to hone his songwriting skills. “At that point, I was basically reinventing my whole approach to music,” he says in a recent phone interview. Gogol Bordello performs at 7 p.m. on Monday at the Agora Theatre. “I was completely disinterested in any kind of massive arrangements, and I was coming out of recording a series of albums with my previous bands that were pretty much full-on experimental punk rock. So my focus became, rather, storytelling and crafting the storytelling of the musical chronicles. I was completely sick and tired of making loud records.” Hütz says it took several years for him to assemble Gogol Bordello. After issuing a self-released album and one on the tiny Rubric Records, the band would sign with the punk imprint SideOneDummy, which would introduce the group to a wider audience with 2005’s Gypsy Punks:
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Underdog World Strike. Now, after several more records on SideOneDummy, the band has become a festival favorite known for its supercharged live shows. For the act’s latest album, Seekers and Finders, Hütz resumes production duties after entrusting them to outside producers such as Rick Rubin (Transcontinental Hustle) and Andrew Scheps (Pura Vida Conspiracy). The album kicks off with a gypsy punk free-for-all (“Did It All”) and includes collaborations with Manu Chao trumpet man Roy Paci (“Walking on the Burning Coal”) and Russian-born singer-songwriter and
one that I wrote for my solo record, which was a record of duets. I kept thinking of who can get behind a song like that. It needs some knowledge of perseverance and carving out a place in a new world and Eastern European street cred. I asked Regina and was very happy she loved the song. In fact, I think she really escalated that song a lot.” The social significance of a Ukrainian and Russian performing together isn’t lost on Hütz either. “It was important to address the whole conflict that unfortunately Russian and Ukrainian people have been pushed into in recent years,”
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longtime friend Regina Spektor, who accompanies Hütz on the rousing title track, an epic number that finds Hütz and Spektor enthusiastically trading verses to a rich blend of rock and folk music that includes orchestral flourishes. “That was a special one for sure,” Hütz says of the song with Spektor. “Ironically, that song was
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says Hütz. “In a way, it was our contribution to healing that situation and maybe be a kind of effort to warm up people’s hearts. It’s a very important thing for us to do.” With its tender vocals and gentle, acoustic harmonies, “Clearvoyance,” which finds Hütz whispering his vocals, might be one of the band’s most beautiful tunes.
“I find myself playing that song to myself long after it was recorded,” says Hütz. “A lot of times when the song was recorded, you put it behind you and still dig into the song in a new way live. But it leaves your cooker. This one is still in the cooker, and I still keep writing new verses. It’s a central theme on the album, which is a kind of love telepathy.” The musically diverse album strays from the usual madcap approach that Hütz & Co. tend to take. As a result, it represents such a perfect distillation of the band’s sound that Hütz says he’d even be satisfied if it were the last Gogol Bordello album. “The album has this feeling of completeness,” he says. “It might be our testament to the art of an album making from our point of view. We might move forward making other forms of recordings, maybe much shorter or much longer or maybe another album. This is our idea of a best album we could do. I could put it into Voyager as Gogol Bordello’s complete record, and I would be at peace with that.”
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Big Thief/Dear Nora: We’ve been hooked on Big Thief’s first album, Masterpiece, since it came out. Adrianne Lenker’s voice was an undeniable revelation, especially when placed against the wide-open freeway chords on the title track. On Capacity, the second album, the band explores the dualities and complexities of life. Any worries of a sophomore slump are put to rest within the first tune, which breaks open the fragilities of young love. Elsewhere, on “Great White Shark” (the second song on the album with “shark” in the title), Lenker sings, “For in the dark there is release,” while the band swims gently through an underwater melody. It’s a good album, even though it may be a little too emotional and haunting at times. (Eric Sandy) 8 p.m., $12 ADV, $14 DOS. Mahall’s 20 Lanes. 10 X 3 Singer Songwriter Showcase hosted by Brent Kirby: 8 p.m. Brothers Lounge. Bad Boys of Blues: 9 p.m., free. Happy Dog. Coast Modern/Salt Cathedral: 8:30 p.m., $15. Beachland Tavern. El Ten Eleven/Sego/p. Stoops: 8:30 p.m., $12 ADV, $14 DOS. Grog Shop. An Intimate Evening with Parachute/Johnny Balik: 7:30 p.m., $20 ADV, $25 DOS. Music Box Supper Club. Matchbox Twenty/Counting Crows: 6:45 p.m. Blossom. Naughty Professor: 8:30 p.m., $10. Brothers Lounge. Post Malone: 7 p.m., $34.50 ADV, $40 DOS. The Agora Theatre. Eric Seddon’s Hot Club Series Presents “Sidney Bechet: The Birth Of The Jazz Solo”: 7 p.m., $12. Bop Stop. Sylvan Esso/Helado Negro: 7:30 p.m., $22-$32. House of Blues. Tsu Shi Ma Mi Re/The Many Colored Death/The Snakes (in the Locker Room): 8:30 p.m., $5 ADV, $7 DOS. Mahall’s 20 Lanes.
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ZZ Ward: In a world where artists produce a new album every two years or so to remain relevant, blues singer-songwriter ZZ Ward waited a cool five years to release her newest project, The Storm. Between her first release in 2012 and this one, Ward did keep busy.
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She offered up a handful of EPs and toured relentlessly. But taking her time paid off. The fresh record, packed with a torrent of soulful and heartbroken tunes, landed at No. 1 on the Billboard Blues Album chart this summer. Now the 31-year-old, who can’t seem to stay away from hipster hats, comes to Cleveland tonight to show off her ridiculously effortless vocals. She’s certainly an artist on the rise. (Laura Morrison) 7 p.m., $20-$33. House of Blues. Roger Waters: Though the Rock Hall has only reluctantly inducted progressive rock acts over the years, the U.K. act Pink Floyd bucked the trend when it made into the Hall in 1996. The early induction was certainly merited. During its heyday in the ’70s and ’80s, the band essentially defined the art of the concept album. Expect to hear some of the band’s classic tracks tonight as Floyd co-frontman Roger Waters, who has just released the new solo album, Is This the Life We Really Want?, plays the Q. Is This the Life We Really Want features a high
quotient of somber ballads. Songs such as the orchestral “Deja Vu” and the piano-driven “The Last Refugee” suggest Waters has become more contemplative in his old age. Expect tonight’s visuals, per usual, to impress. A press release for the tour promises a “high class, state-of-theart audio visual production” that will include “breathtaking quad sound.” (Niesel) $55-$199.50. Quicken Loans Arena. The Dan Bruce Trio: 7 p.m., $12. Bop Stop. Cheetah Chrome’s Dead Boys 40th Anniversary Set/Kill the Hippies/ Black Static Eye: 9 p.m., $13 ADV, $15 DOS. Now That’s Class. Dollar Drafts/Absolutely Not/Miss Macy & the Low Pay Daddys: 9 p.m., $5. The Euclid Tavern. Fringe Candidate/Falling Stars/ Night: 8 p.m., $5. Musica. The Get Up Kids/Pet Symmetry/Dead Leaves: 9 p.m., $23 ADV, $25 DOS. Grog Shop. Chris Hatton’s Musical Circus (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m. Brothers Lounge.
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Fabian Almazan Trio: 8 p.m., $20. Bop Stop. Battalion of Saints/FYPM/The Nobodys/The Cryptics: 8:30 p.m., $12 ADV, $15 DOS. Beachland Tavern. Blessid Union of Souls: 8 p.m., $18 ADV, $22 DOS. Music Box Supper Club. A.J. Croce: 8:30 p.m., $20. Nighttown. The Doobie Brothers/JD & the Straight Shot: 8 p.m., $85. Hard Rock Rocksino Northfield Park. Firefall: 8 p.m., $30 ADV, $40 DOS. The Kent Stage. Golden Pelicans/Obnox/Manswerk/ Espejos: 9 p.m., $8. Now That’s Class. The Huntress and Holder of Hands (in the Locker Room): 8:30 p.m., $8 ADV, $10 DOS. Mahall’s 20 Lanes. Tony Lucca & Derik Hultquist: 9 p.m., $15. Musica. Ben Lukens & Jen Sands (in the apartment): 7 p.m., $10. Mahall’s 20 Lanes. Tracy Marie Featuring Michelle Gaw (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m. Brothers Lounge. Motown & More with Nitebridge (in the Supper Club): 8 p.m., $10. Music Box Supper Club. Murder by Death/Miss Macy & the Low Pay Daddys: 9 p.m., $25. Grog Shop. Brad Paisley/Dustin Lynch/Chase Bryant/Lindsay Ell: 7 p.m. Blossom. Purple, A Tribute to Stone Temple Pilots/Grunge DNA: 7 p.m., $12. House of Blues. Queen Cobra/Surf Deer/The Midnight Slander: 9 p.m., $5. Happy Dog. The RailShakers: 8:30 p.m., $5. Brothers Lounge. | clevescene.com | September 20 - 26, 2017
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Ted Leo and the Pharmacists/Obnox/ Falling Stars: With his latest album on shelves this month (his first solo album, to boot), Ted Leo is back, after having stepped away from the spotlight for a while. He’s been writing the material for The Hanged Man for almost a decade, and the final steps and recording process happened to coincide with one of the weirdest moments in American political history. Leo has never shied away from politics, and this album is no different: He weaves catchy punkfueled chord progressions against expressive lyrics on tunes like “Moon Out of Phase” and “You’re Like Me.” Tonight’s show is part of the Grog Shop’s 25th anniversary celebrations, and Leo promises an energetic show — with saxophone! (Sandy) 9 p.m., $16 ADV, $18 DOS. Grog Shop. Build II/Abby/DJ NJ Drone/v1984/ Shirtless/Noelsferatu: 9 p.m., $5. Now That’s Class. Crywolf/Bando: 9 p.m., $15-$65. Beachland Ballroom. Jason Eady/Dan McCoy: 8:30 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Beachland Tavern. Ex-Astronaut/Pet Clinic/Beach Stav: 9 p.m., $5. Happy Dog. Sam Hooper Group: 8:30 p.m., $10. Nighttown. Jurassic Punk: 9:30 p.m., $5. Brothers Lounge. A Carole King Tribute: Home Again (in the Supper Club): 8 p.m., $25 ADV, $30 DOS. Music Box Supper Club. Richard Marx: 8 p.m., $27.50-$35. Hard Rock Rocksino Northfield Park. Al Mazur (in the Wine Bar): 8:30 p.m., $5. Brothers Lounge. Lindi Ortega & Andrew Combs: 8 p.m., $20. The Kent Stage. School of Rock: 8:30 p.m., free. Brothers Lounge. Top Hat Black/The Chestertons/M. Moody: 9 p.m., $5. The Euclid Tavern. Twin Atomic/Elipsus/AJ & the Woods: 9 p.m., $5. Musica. Vanity Crash Album Release Party: 7 p.m., $10. Bop Stop. Vulgar Display of Pantera: 7 p.m., $10 ADV, $13 DOS. Agora Ballroom. Jackie Warren: 10:30 p.m., free. Nighttown.
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Cloud Nothings/Chromesthetic/ Street Gurgler: With 2014’s Here and Nowhere Else, which local indie rockers Cloud Nothings recorded in Hoboken at Water Music over an 8-day period, the band opted for a poppier, cheerier effort than 2012’s Attack on Memory. That trend continues with Life Without Sound, the band’s latest effort. Singerguitarist Dylan Baldi worked on the songs for a good year before putting the finishing touches on them with his bandmates, drummer Jayson Gerycz, keyboardist Chris Brown and bassist TJ Duke. The band wrote some songs during sessions in Northampton, Massachusetts, and then finished them at a writing session in Cleveland at Duke’s practice space on the near westside. “Modern Act,” the infectious first single, shows the band’s ability to create a memorable hook. Nice to see this local act evolve. (Niesel) 9 p.m., $15 ADV, $18 DOS. Grog Shop. The Answer Generation/Tommy Wiggins: 7 p.m., $18 ADV, $22 DOS. Music Box Supper Club. The Early November/The Movielife/ Heart Attack Man: 7:30 p.m., $25. Beachland Ballroom. Foster Care: 9 p.m., $5. Now That’s Class. Marie Jacobs: 7 p.m., $10. Nighttown. Mike Petrone (in the Wine Bar): 5:30 p.m. Brothers Lounge. Soil/Saving Abel: 6 p.m., $17 ADV, $20 DOS. Agora Ballroom. Suga Shack Sunday: A Jazzy Burlesque Experience: 7 p.m. Bop Stop.
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The John Kadlecik Band: As a founding member of Dark Star Orchestra, John Kadlecik is a well known entity in the Dead universe. In 2009, he left the band to tour with Furthur, which included Bob Weir and Phil Lesh. “While Kadlecik is well-known for his love for playing music of the Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia, his shows offer an extensive repertoire of songs,” his tour manager says. “John has been writing music and playing in bands for over three decades and has gained an appreciation for music of all kinds.” His musical DNA speaks for itself, and this fall tour should provide plenty of excellent shows to get us from summer to New Year’s. (Sandy) 8:30 p.m., $20 ADV, $23 DOS. Beachland Ballroom.
LIVEWIRE Charley Bliss/Strange Relations/ Toby Goodshank: 8:30 p.m., $10. Beachland Tavern. Ghost Bath/Ancient Wisdom/Soniq Armada: 8 p.m., $12 ADV, $14 DOS. Now That’s Class. Gogol Bordello/Lucky Chops: 7 p.m., $29 DOS, $30 DOS. The Agora Theatre. Shit Show Karaoke: 10 p.m. B-Side Liquor Lounge & Arcade. Velvet Voyage (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m. Brothers Lounge.
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Hanson 25th Anniversary Middle of Everywhere Tour: 7 p.m., $40-$55. House of Blues. Limbs Bin/Andrew Kirchner/Gov Naim/Hivelike: 9 p.m., $5. Now That’s Class. Musicianer & Rent Romus/ Deciduous: 8 p.m., $15. Bop Stop. Our Great Country Night with Mary Taylor Brooks (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m. Brothers Lounge. Poptone/Geneva Jacuzzi: 8:30 p.m., $25 ADV, $30 DOS. Grog Shop. That 1 Guy: 8:30 p.m., $15. Beachland Tavern. The Wonder Years/Laura Stevenson/ The Obsessives/Jetty Bones: 6 p.m., $22 ADV, $25 DOS. Agora Ballroom. X 40th Anniversary Tour/Skating Polly: The Doors’ Ray Manzarek produced the first four albums by the Los Angeles punk band X. But when he first saw them play at L.A.’s Whiskey a Go Go, he didn’t even realize the group was covering a Doors’ song. His wife Dorothy had to tell him the band was playing “Soul Kitchen.” Manzarek inspired X to revisit those first four albums on a 2014 tour. Now the group, with its original members, has embarked on a 40th anniversary tour. Its debut, Los Angeles, commences with the boisterous title track, a song that chronicles vocalist Exene Cervenka’s initial experiences in the city and features Cervenka trading vocals with singer John Doe as they scream, “She had to get out of Los Angeles.” It remains one of punk’s seminal tunes, and the band still plays it like it really means it. Expect to hear it alongside the band’s other hits at tonight’s show. (Niesel) 8 p.m., $30-$115. The Kent Stage.
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DAN MCCOY By Jeff Niesel MEET THE BAND: Dan McCoy (vocals, guitar) HIS PUNK ROCK PAST: Local singer-songwriter Dan McCoy embraces an alt-country sound but that wasn’t always the case. “With the ďŹ rst few bands I was in when I was a teenager, we did covers but we did originals too,â€? says McCoy, who grew up in Willoughby. “We were a punk band, so some of the songs were only 18 seconds long. It was a garage punk band thing we had going. We played song by the MisďŹ ts and Sex Pistols and Sweet.â€? McCoy went to college in Pittsburgh and started a band there called Block. “I started taking my songwriting more seriously at that point,â€? he says, adding he moved back to the Cleveland area in May 1995 and kept Block going for ďŹ ve years. About 15 years ago, he formed the local alt-country act Rambler 454, a band that still performs on occasion. And he began working on solo albums as well. LIVE FROM THE PICKLE PLACE: While McCoy says he’s written a batch of new songs, he simply can’t afford to take his backing band into the studio to cut them. So he decided to release the live album, Live & Alone. “I thought I could do a live album and put out some new songs that way,â€? he says. “I also did some Rambler 454 and Block songs. It was just a way for me to put new music out there. My thought is that I’ve gotten better at performing live, and it’s a nice snapshot of what you might hear if
you walk into a neighborhood bar and I’m playing. I wanted to do it in my hometown because I have so much support at Beal’s Pickles & Pints. The owners are good friends of mine. The shows can get wild. I don’t get done until 1:30 a.m. sometimes.�
WHY YOU SHOULD HEAR HIM: Live & Alone commences with “Elevator Ave.,â€? a rootsy track with husky vocals and twangy electric guitar. “Looking Forward to Youâ€? features a bluesy vibe as McCoy stretches his vocal range. The ballad “Second Hand Manâ€? shows off McCoy’s softer side, and “Rattlin’ Dogâ€? beneďŹ ts from some audience participation. You can hear patrons exuberantly encourage McCoy to sing the song “faster.â€? The audience makes itself heard in “Aliceâ€? as well, chanting, “Alice! Who the fuck is Alice?â€? McCoy says he’ll record a stripped-down album at his own home studio this winter. He aims to get his band into the studio again next summer. WHERE YOU CAN HEAR HIM: mccoymusic.com. WHERE YOU CAN SEE HIM: Dan McCoy performs at 8 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 22, at Beal’s Pickles & Pints in Willoughby and with Jason Eady at 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 23, at the Beachland Tavern.
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C-NOTES STILL SNOTTY The Dead Boys reunite for their 40th anniversary By Jeff Niesel TO MARK THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY of their seminal punk album, Young, Loud & Snotty, guitarist Cheetah Chrome and drummer Johnny Blitz have revived the Dead Boys for a tour in support of a new version of the album. They’ll perform at 8 p.m. on Thursday at Now That’s Class. Formed in Cleveland in 1976, the Dead Boys were one of the ďŹ rst American acts to play what would come to be known as hardcore punk. Young, Loud and Snotty, their 1977 debut, featured the blistering underground hit, “Sonic Reducer.â€? The band broke up in 1979 but reunited for a few shows in the 1980s. Since the 1990 death of singer Stiv Bators, the band members have rarely played together. “I’ve had my solo band for the last 10 years, and Dead Boys songs have always been included in my shows and over time the right mix of people came together to pull off and at times enhance the Dead Boys sound,â€? says Chrome in a press release announcing the tour. “With the 40th anniversary of the Dead Boys on the horizon and a solid band that could interpret and deliver the performance and sound needed to maintain the authenticity of the Dead Boys, I reached out to Johnny Blitz about an anniversary tour and he said yes and we began the journey of what would become Still Snotty.â€? Guitarist Jason Kottwitz, bassist Ricky Rat and singer Jake Hout, who performs in the Dead Boys tribute band the Undead Boys, will join Chrome and Blitz.
VANITY CRASH TO PLAY RELEASE PARTY AT THE BOP STOP Some 15 years ago, singer-guitarist Dennis Van Crash, who was in the local industrial Goth band Queue Up, became music director for Cleveland Public Theatre’s production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, even though he didn’t know much about the play. A hit off-Broadway, the play centers on a glam rock band fronted by an East German singer who underwent a botched sex change operation. The musical’s songs, however, really spoke to Van Crash, and he formed Vanity Crash to perform the songs in
play productions in 2001 and 2002. The group’s been going strong ever since. It’ll hold a release party for its ďŹ fth album, Phantasmagoria, at 7 p.m. on Saturday at the Bop Stop. (Tickets are $10.) The party will include a performance of the EP’s ďŹ ve songs along with favorites from previous releases. As usual, video will complement Vanity Crash’s show, with a special Skype interview with Mike Garson, David Bowie’s longtime pianist, who’ll talk about his collaboration with the band on the new song, “Angel and Me.â€? The concert will also feature an art exhibit that will showcase the album’s original cover art plus related works by the artists who contributed to the album’s cover. Van Crash worked with notable local artists such as Gary Dumm, best known for his decades-long relationship with Harvey Pekar, Jim “The Revâ€? Giar, Ashley Ribblett, Clare Kolat and Tim Switalski. “The word ‘phantasmagoria’ conjures up thoughts of a dream-like state, altered realities and strong visual imagery,â€? says Van Crash in a press release announcing the show. “In a backwards sense, this theme is throughout the record. The title song is a trippy visual adventure, ‘So It Seems’ is a questioning look at our modern life, ‘Life On A Cool Curve’ reminds us that it’s empowering to be different and ‘Emily Dickenson’ is about a one-night stand with a reclusive poet. ‘Angel and Me’ tells the story of two somewhat lost young souls, struggling to understand how they ďŹ t in today’s world. But I always thought the song needed something to take it to another level. So I contacted Mike Garson ... and he quickly agreed to work on it. I gave him some modest instruction, but also a lot of freedom. He came back with this brilliant interpretation.â€? A vinyl version of Phantasmagoria is slated for release in early 2018. Cleveland’s Gotta Groove Records will press the vinyl, and Well Made Music’s Clint Holley will master the recording.
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