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UPFRONT OHIO SUPREME COURT WILL DECIDE WHETHER CLEVELAND OWES WRONGFULLY CONVICTED MAN $13 MILLION JUDGMENT THE ISSUE HAS FAR-REACHING implications for how victims can collect monetary judgments against police officers in civil trials, and the origins of the case at hand stretch back some two decades. David Ayers spent 11 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of killing a 76-yearold woman in 1999 in a CMHA high-rise where he worked as a security guard. He was sentenced to life without parole but won his exoneration after pubic hairs found on the victim’s body failed to match his DNA. His lawyers also proved that the two detectives who worked the case — Denise Kovach and Michael Cipo — made false statements in search warrants, forced a friend of his to sign a false affidavit and generally “conspired to violate [Ayers’] civil rights,” as an appellate judge would note in 2013 when Ayers brought a federal lawsuit against them. In that trial, which ended with the jury awarding a $13.2 million judgment, the detectives were represented by lawyers from the City of Cleveland law department. In a typical case where a city employee has been slapped with a civil lawsuit, the Ohio Revised Code dictates the municipality has the “duty to defend” the employee as long as they were “acting both in good faith and not manifestly outside the scope of employment or official responsibilities.” So too with indemnification: If the employee meets those two requirements and is found liable for a civil judgment, the law says the city indemnifies — or picks up the tab. But rather than indemnify per state law in that case, the city paid for the officers to enter bankruptcy — paying not only for their legal representation, but for their fi ling fee. Cipo died in 2013, but Kovach’s bankruptcy sailed through the courts, listing the $13.2 million judgment as a debt but not indicating that she had the right
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to indemnification for the amount. And with that, Ayers’ hard-fought slice of justice was wiped away. “This provides a road map for any municipality that wants to evade their obligations,” Ruth Brown, a Chicago attorney who represents Ayers told us in 2016 for a Scene feature on the bit of dubious legal jiu jitsu by the city. “We fully expect that if Cleveland is allowed to get away with this, they will try this again.” Another respected civil rights lawyer was more direct in describing Cleveland’s actions, calling it “wrong, immoral, disingenuous and unethical.” David Leneghan, the bankruptcy attorney secured by the city on behalf of Cipo and Kovach, told Scene in 2016 that, “David Ayers’ right to seek payment from my client’s employer existed both before and after bankruptcy — there was no interference with that. Bankruptcy just means that my
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client will not have to be personally liable, nor have to personally pay, the Ayers judgment. I have repeatedly stated on the record that it appears that David Ayers waited too long, more than two years, before fi ling his lawsuit for indemnification, which, in my opinion, is beyond the statute of limitation period for a claim for statutory indemnification in Ohio.” Ayers took the issue to court that same year. Cuyahoga County Common Pleas judge Robert McClelland ruled that Cleveland had to pony up the payment, saying that plaintiffs, as well as defendants, have a right to ask a municipality to indemnify. But that was appealed by the city, and the 8th Ohio District Court of Appeals reversed McClelland’s order in a 2-1 ruling that said it was on the employee to seek indemnification from their employer, not the right of the plaintiff.
Ayers’ legal team appealed that decision to the Ohio Supreme Court, which ruled 4-3 this week that it would hear the case. The effects are far-reaching, not only for Ayers and other victims seeking justice from cops and cities in civil trials (or any state actor, for that matter), but also for employees. “Requiring an employee to ask for indemnification is a disservice to the employee, as it can make their work environment worse,” Brown told Cleveland.com. Ayers is now 61 years old and destitute. — Vince Grzegorek
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State said that Bennett had failed to obtain sponsorship from a registered student organization or faculty department, as mandated by the university. A counterprotest was likewise ordered to cease and desist. “Kent State upholds the right to free speech and values respectful dialogue from all points of view,” the statement read. “Consistent with our core values, we encourage open dialogue, freedom of expression and respectful discourse in an inclusive environment.” Bennett herself, who has become a minor celebrity among Second Amendment enthusiasts (and now has nearly 100,000 Twitter followers), didn’t take kindly to Kent’s decision. She tweeted that she will show up regardless and that Kent will not suppress the legal expression of her Second Amendment rights. She has stated that Kent’s efforts to make her follow protocol are “so they can make us pay thousands for security and control who speaks.” In a video posted to Twitter last week, Bennett confronted some university officials in the hopes of setting up a meeting. She accuses an office administrator of being rude, unprofessional and biased after she said she “think[s] it’s strange” that Bennett is “hanging around so much” after her graduation in the spring. — Sam Allard
Rate of Attempted Teen Suicide Across Cuyahoga County Isn’t as High as CMSD’s, but Still Shocking New data from the Prevention Research Center (PRS) for Healthy Neighborhoods at Case Western Reserve University confirm and add to shocking statistics about suicidality among the region’s youth. PRS surveyed more than 14,000 students at 45 county high schools in 2017. One in six teens reported that they had seriously considered suicide. Nearly 12 percent had actually attempted suicide. More than 30 percent of students reported sustained feelings of sadness or hopelessness. Slightly more students (31.6 percent) said they personally knew someone who’d committed suicide. The prevalence of depression and suicidal thoughts increased significantly for “sexual minority” students, those who identified as
lesbian, gay or bisexual. (The number of transgender students was too small for accurate analysis.) Among sexual minorities, 59 percent reported depressive symptoms, 40 percent had seriously considered suicide and slightly less than 25 percent had attempted suicide. The PRS survey found that students who reported a greater number of “protective factors� — participating in extracurricular activities, engaging in volunteer activities, getting good grades — mitigated personal risktaking. Those students reported significantly fewer behaviors associated with health risk. “Young people feeling like they matter in their communities, that they can impact what happens in their school, and who talk with their parents about school, are also protective factors,� wrote the Center for Community Solutions in its summary of the report. In 2015, a Centers for Disease Control (CDC) report found that 20 percent of high school students enrolled in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District had tried to kill themselves. That was the highest rate of attempted suicide among the 19 urban school districts the CDC surveyed. — Allard
American Indian Activist Robert Roche Sentenced to Four Months for Embezzlement The story of Robert Roche is fascinating, and one that Scene has been documenting for several years. Most recognize him as the American Indian staring down a man wearing Chief Wahoo face paint outside of Progressive Field on opening day in 2014, but Roche is also a man who embezzled $77,000 in grants made by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to the American Indian Education Center, in Parma, where Roche served as executive director. Roche pleaded guilty last May to the charges, and was sentenced last week to four months in prison followed by four months of home confinement, a lesser sentence than predicted. A judge also ordered him to pay $77,000 in restitution, the amount he was accused of stealing. Philip Yenyo, the executive director of the American Indian Movement of Ohio, told the court that Roche’s actions deeply hurt the
public’s view of Native American activists. Yenyo is also a prominent anti-Wahoo activist whom Roche tried to sue in a separate lawsuit in 2016 (it was later dropped). He told the judge that the American Indian community is just as much a victim as the federal government. “We’re all seen as the same now. That we’re money grubbing,� Yenyo said. Still, Roche’s statement to the court on Wednesday focused more on the good he has done for American Indians in Ohio than on his criminal activity. — BJ Colangelo
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UPFRONT While DeWine places the blame squarely on the shoulders of Cordray, Politifact notes that he is not the sole responsible party for the backlog. Local police departments played a role, and the site also notes that the ad fails to recognize that Cordray began to address the backlog as it drew more attention in the summer of 2010, when he had little time left in office. “[The rape kits] were not sitting around his office,� Politifact author Amy Sherman writes. “That number reflects those that were sent in by police departments across the state once DeWine took over.� The backlog of untested rape kits was an overwhelming issue in a multitude of states when Cordray first took office as attorney general in 2009, because the value of rape kit testing had not yet been fully understood, and adequate resources and funding had not been allocated. An unfortunate reality is that attempts to clear the national backlog are still behind schedule. During the summer of Cordray’s last term as attorney general, Cleveland police said they had found in their possession more than 6,000 rape kits going back to 1993, some of which had already been tested. By mid 2011, Cleveland began submitting untested kits in small batches to the state for testing. According to Sherman, “While Cordray was attorney general, Ohio — like much of the country — had no consistent testing policy. Each law enforcement agency decided whether and how to test rape kits, which could be done at local labs or sent to the state. Cleveland police decided whether to test kits on a case by case basis.� Later that year, Cordray called for lawmakers, law enforcement officials and victim advocates to study best practices for testing and develop a statewide protocol. This led to the formation of the Ohio Sexual Assault Kit Testing Commission and Cordray announced that the
state would receive six new DNA-testing robots to speed up testing. Cordray then lost to DeWine and was no longer serving as attorney general. After DeWine took office in January 2011, he restarted the rape kit test commission after the Cleveland Heights police department misplaced evidence tied to Anthony Sowell, a serial killer and rapist. DeWine deserves credit for tackling the backlog, but he didn’t do so alone. Cuyahoga County prosecutor Timothy McGinty’s office worked with Cleveland police to inventory rape kits, which resulted in identifying thousands of untested ones that were submitted to the state’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation in 2014. Just as Cordray wasn’t the exclusive cause of the backlog, DeWine was not the sole reason the backlog was addressed. In a counter ad from Cordray’s campaign, Shelby County sheriff and Republican John Lenhart is shown declaring that Cordray put the technology in place and “fixed� the backlog that had stretched for decades. While Cordray did begin the process of addressing the problem, he was not in office to truly “fix� it. Locally, the backlog is still an issue. Cleveland police failed to send hundreds of rape kits for testing over the course of three years, directly violating a 2015 Ohio law requiring kits to be sent in within 30 days for testing. “The ad is on firmer ground when it gives credit to DeWine for his efforts to clear out the backlog,� Politifact concludes. “But it omits that it took him several years to do it. The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important context.� Politifact’s Amy Sherman said she was indebted to the work of Plain Dealer reporter Rachel Dissell, whose reporting on untested rape kits Sherman consulted extensively in her fact-checking. — Colangelo
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THE LONG-AWAITED THIRD season of the hit podcast Serial will take place in Cleveland, Ohio, and will focus on a series of court cases as they progress through the criminal justice system. After nearly two full years of reporting and editing, the season will debut on Sept. 20. As in past seasons, new episodes will be released weekly. Sarah Koenig, the show’s host and lead reporter, said that after the hugely popular first season, which became the top-ranked podcast on iTunes before it even debuted in October of 2014, she would get recurring questions from listeners about how the criminal justice system “really worked.” And she understood that it would be impossible to tell the story of the system through a single case, especially an extraordinary case like Adnan Syed’s, the subject of Season 1. Rather, she would have to follow many ordinary cases from beginning to end. That was the only way to fully understand and convey the systemic issues at the root of America’s criminal justice crisis. “The mission,” Koenig told Scene last week, “was to find out how the system works in a day-today, ground-floor way. You always hear, ‘It’s broken,’ and ‘It’s so out of whack.’ So we were just like, where can we see it? Where can we see how this works?” The answer was Cleveland. There was no particular case, no egregious miscarriage of justice, that drew the Serial team to the shores of Lake Erie. Koenig lives in State College, Pennsylvania, and among other things, she said Cleveland was an attractive subject because it was manageable to get to. She could make the four-hour commute regularly and without too much hassle on short notice. The other chief consideration was access. Koenig reported alongside 25-year-old producer Emmanuel Dzotsi, a Toledo native and This American Life alum who moved to Cleveland for eight
Emmanuel Dzotsi and Sarah Koenig
months to report on the stories that will comprise Season 3. Their strategy was to observe criminal justice in action — “to just sit there and watch” — and to record as much as possible. “We were able to wander
elevator, rolling in the bathroom. I was a kid in a candy store because most of my experiences have been the opposite. Not only can you not record; you can’t even have [your equipment] in the building. It’s like, leave it in your
“Whenever I see information in Cleveland now, I realize how hard reporters had to work to get it. The city is not forthcoming. And not to get too highfalutin, but it’s a problem for democracy.” around the courthouse rolling tape,” Koenig said, aghast. “It was amazing. I’ve been a reporter a long time, I’ve been to a lot of courthouses, but I could not believe it. I was rolling in the
car.” Moreover, the size of Cleveland, and the corresponding size of the docket at the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas, provided some helpful parameters.
“Cleveland is seeing all the same kinds of cases and experiencing the same kinds of problems that you’re seeing all over the country,” Koenig said, “but it’s small enough that you can see it all in that one series of towers. It’s small enough that you get to know people.” Getting to know people, deeply and over time, is one of the podcast’s defining characteristics. The first two seasons followed single stories for the duration of their respective seasons. The first was a murder case, the true-crime tale of the death of Baltimore teenager Hae Min Lee in 1999, and the boyfriend, Adnan, who’d been convicted of the crime. The second season, which aired from December 2015 to March 2016, was about Army Sgt. Bowe | clevescene.com | September 5 - 11, 2018
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FEATURE Bergdahl, who famously walked off his base in Afghanistan and was held for five years in Taliban captivity. Unlike its predecessors, Serial Season 3 will focus on multiple stories. “At least a half dozen in depth,” Koenig estimated, “with a lot of others that got drawn in, in a less intense way.” “What’s cool about it — what I hope is cool about it — is that some of the cases are tiny,” she said. “The one we start with is really tiny. It’s a bar fight. But to me, it was like, oh, this is how it happens. This is what it looks like for a case to move through the system from beginning to end. These are all the decisions that get made. This is the drama that happens. “And then some of them are huge cases, you know, aggravated murder cases. And the ones we ended up focusing on, the ones we found the most interesting, occurred at different stages of the process. Some from the moment of arrest. Others, the case had gone
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FEATURE Koenig said she looked at all three of those tragic cases, but ultimately focused centrally on Wakefield’s. Her story will take up about an episode-and-a-half of the upcoming season. “Some of the episodes are connected,” Koenig said, “and sometimes characters appear and re-appear in later episodes. But basically, we followed a bunch of cases over time. I know that doesn’t sound sexy, but to me it was fascinating.” Emmanuel Dzotsi, who grew up in Toledo and went to college at Ohio State, drove to Cleveland from New York City the day after the Super Bowl in 2017. He moved into an apartment in the CedarFairmount area of Cleveland Heights and was Serial’s man on the ground. “My job was to be there all the time,” Dzotsi said. “Our access meant that often I was told, ‘Look for something you find interesting
reporting on that case,” Dzotsi said, “it had more or less finished. The big headline was that both of the officers were indicted. One of them went to prison. The story I covered was what happened after that. What happened to Jesse Nickerson and what was his relationship with the city of East Cleveland? A couple of our cases are that way. What we found is that people kept having interactions with the system.” Reporting on systems is difficult anywhere, but especially in a city like Cleveland, where local public officials are uncooperative with the media, particularly those they regard as hostile outside forces. When asked if they ran into any trouble, any stiff-arming, from the City of Cleveland, Koenig exhaled. “Oh my god, yes. I mean, as they say in the South, ‘Bless their hearts.’” She hesitated to speak too bluntly about that aspect of the experience because she said she’s still hopeful she may get additional material. But as it stands, Serial Season 3 will include no on-
“I’m not that interested in crime. I am very interested in punishment. And judgement. All the stories I’ve done for Serial, I feel like in my head, that’s what I’m trying to understand every time: how we mete out judgement and punishment as a society.”
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and just see where it goes.’ There were so many stories we covered where I just felt that we could cover them in perpetuity. The things that were happening to one person rippled out across the broader community. As Sarah put it, these cases never felt like they were over.” For example, Dzotsi said, he covered the case of Jesse Nickerson, a man who was arrested by two East Cleveland police officers in July of 2016 and taken to Forest Hills Park, where he was beaten. In the police report, the officers said they’d taken Nickerson directly to the police station. The incident was only one in a long line of violations by the East Cleveland police, and both officers were fired from the force. A grand jury charged them with conspiracy, felonious assault, kidnapping, obstructing official business, interference with civil rights and dereliction of duty. “But by the time I started
record interviews with members of the Mayor’s Office or the police department. “We tried and tried,” Koenig said. “It was very difficult because they just did not want to talk to us. You end up doing what you do as a reporter — you know, off the record, off the record, off the record — and I feel we got an understanding at least. But yeah, nothing on-record. I really felt for you guys [local reporters]. It would make me insane. Whenever I see information in Cleveland now, I realize how hard reporters had to work to get it. The city is not forthcoming. And not to get too highfalutin, but it’s a problem for democracy.” Koenig said that, on the contrary, the officials they communicated with at the county level “were great, really open.” Most of the cases they covered were coming out of the Court of Common Pleas and they ran into few roadblocks accessing information and securing
interviews. “It wasn’t perfect, but I was grateful for the amount of cooperation and transparency,” Koenig said. “Frankly shocked.” Judges and attorneys, too, Koenig said, were “pretty gracious.” “There was like one or two judges who’d be like, “Get that microphone out of here!” and were just not having it,” Koenig said. “But there are 34 judges. We just went somewhere else. There was no story that I had to have where I was kicked out.” When the season begins, the reporting and the editing of the episodes themselves will all be basically complete. In both Seasons 1 and 2, the narrative trajectory of the season was repeatedly subject to change as Koenig and the Serial team got more information. This made for dramatic revelations in Season 1, as the popularity of the show led to tips and new key sources. Adnan’s story was being actively reported as it aired. That’s less the case with this season. “They’re mostly done,” Koenig said. “I hesitate, because it’s ‘never say never,’ right? The Avielle Wakefield case is not done at all and could change at any minute. If we’re still airing, and something happened, we would definitely do an update. We’d have to respond. But we started reporting long enough ago that most of the cases have been resolved — resolved with a lowercase ‘r’. So the big plot points are decided.” Asked if there was a central narrative question other than “How does the criminal justice system work?” Koenig said it was the question that she struggled with the most. “Here’s what I’ll say,” she said. “I’m not that interested in crime. I am very interested in punishment. And judgement. All the stories I’ve done for Serial , I feel like in my head, that’s what I’m trying to understand every time: how we mete out judgement and punishment as a society. With this [season], some version of what’s playing out in Cuyahoga County is playing out everywhere. This is our system. It may be a lot worse in other jurisdictions, it may be a lot better, but it’s kind of basically like this.” Dzotsi is now back in New York City, and Koenig in State College. About a year removed
from their extended time in Cleveland, they said they had different experiences with the city, different impressions. “It’s very adoptable,” Dzotsi said, for his part. “Having grown up in Toledo and going to school in Columbus, I thought I knew Cleveland. But Cleveland is so different. I used to ride the Red Line into the Justice Center every day and I remember thinking that if Chicago hadn’t become Chicago, Cleveland would’ve been Chicago. Cleveland has always been on the cusp of becoming something, and is always billing itself as something new, and I actually admire that about the city. There’s definitely a unique tribalism to Cleveland, but I like it a lot.” Koenig was less laudatory, but admitted that Dzotsi’s experience was that of someone living there. Hers was that of someone working there. “Also I’m a tired, older lady worrying about my kids at home,” she said. “But I was more just struck by — the things I’ll say might be depressing — but I found it very segregated. I found the lack of outrage very surprising. Things would happen in the courthouse and I’d be expecting a rally or some sort of response, and it was just like ... nothing. I can’t tell you how many people, mostly black people, told me that their goal was just to leave. They would say they just couldn’t be here anymore. This was so sad. Their whole families and networks were here, but there was just a sense — I had a guy say to me — that this is a bad city for you if you’re black. That’s a big statement, but I heard it echoed so many times. I don’t know that that’s any different than Baltimore, you know? But you see people partying on [East Fourth Street] and then you go to a different neighborhood and you’re just like, man alive.” Asked, then, how she expected the season to be received locally, she said her goals were modest. “From, like, the booster-y perspective, this is not something they’re going to put on their websites,” she said. “But I hope that people will find it accurate. It’s hard, as an outsider, to come in and accurately portray a place that is not your own. So I hope at least people will recognize that we worked really hard to get it right, and to be fair. They may not like it, but I hope they recognize that it’s fair.”
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Indians vs. Kansas City Royals The Royals got off to a rough start this season and never fully recovered: The team currently possesses one of the worst records in the league. That’s a good thing since the Indians will need all the wins they can get as they enter the regular season’s final month. The two teams wrap up a threegame series today at 1:10 p.m. at Progressive Field. Tickets start at $15. (Jeff Niesel) 2401 Ontario St., 216-420-4487, clevelandindians.com. SPOKEN WORD
Keep Talking Keep Talking is an exciting storytellers program where locals can share their real-life experiences on a theme. The monthly series at Happy Dog offers attendees the chance to grab a drink and a dog while listening to some of their Cleveland neighbors tell tall tales. The theme for tonight’s storytelling is “Music.” The hosts are Adam Richard and Zachariah Durr. The program starts at 8 p.m. sharp. Admission is $5. Want to be a storyteller at a future session? See details on the website. (Niesel) 5801 Detroit Ave., 216-651-9474, happydogcleveland.com. ART
Love Story Love Story, a video installation by artist Candice Breitz, aims to explore the “mechanics of identification and the conditions under which empathy is produced.” Based on the personal narratives of six individuals who have fled their countries in response to a range of oppressive conditions, this piece of performance art examines the global scale of the socalled “refugee crisis” by presenting interviews with the six participants in the countries where they are seeking or have been granted asylum. Exhibit hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. today through Sunday at the Helen Rosenfeld Lewis Bialosky Lab Theatre. Admission is free. (Niesel) 1407 Euclid Ave, 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org. FOOD
Walnut Wednesday Labor Day has come and gone , but Walnut Wednesday continues, today
The jam band Tukuaz plays the Summer Send Off festival at Pinecrest. See: Saturday.
from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Perk Plaza at Chester Commons, at East 12th and Walnut streets. Once again, those food trucks will gather to serve up lunch to area residents and employees. Check out the Downtown Cleveland Alliance website for weekly updates on vendors, entertainment offerings and more. But don’t delay: The series comes to a close on Sept. 26. Admission is free, but the food will cost you. (Niesel) downtowncleveland.com. COMEDY
Andy Woodhull Clean-cut comic Andy Woodhull jokes that after 10 years of marriage, he only has had one fight with his wife. The argument centered on his attempt to bring another woman’s dishes into her home when he moved in. “I’d like to remind you that my wife has two daughters — I don’t think I’m being unreasonable. My dishes don’t kind of look like my exgirlfriend or go to my ex-girlfriend’s house every other weekend and talk about how much more fun it is to be in her cabinets.” The clever comic performs at 8 tonight at Hilarities. Tickets start at $13. (Niesel) 2035 East Fourth St., 216-241-7425, pickwickandfrolic.com.
Dr. Robert Cialdini Regarded as an authority on influence and persuasion, master mind manipulator Dr. Robert Cialdini will explain today how to “create the ideal conditions for exercising influence before you ever make a request.” The Harvard Business Review describes this guy’s concepts as “breakthrough ideas for today’s business agenda.” His books are on Fortune Magazine’s “75 Smartest Business Books” list. He speaks today at 8:30 a.m. at the Ohio Theatre as the inaugural seminar for Cleveland State’s Bernie Moreno Center for Sales Excellence. Tickets are $25. (Niesel) 1501 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.
in Beachwood and Westlake. The center provides free programs and services for individuals and families coping with a cancer diagnosis. During the festival, there will be a nightly raffle with over 30 prizes, and performances will take place at Wilberts, Grog Shop and Mahall’s 20 Lanes. The lineup includes David Smeltz, the Last Friend, City Limits and Carlos Jones at Wilberts; Brave Bones, Melodramatics, the Whiskey Hollow and James Emmett Band will play on tomorrow night at the Grog Shop; and Michael McFarland, XLT 1000, Flowers in Flames and Sweepyheads will perform on Saturday night at Mahall’s. Big Fun owner Steve Presser will emcee the Grog Shop show, and T. Nick from WRUW’s Live from Cleveland will emcee the Mahall’s show. Check the website for details. (Niesel) lovemuffinrecords.com.
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Love MuffinPalooza For the past 10 years, local musician and label owner Adam Rich has hosted Love MuffinPalooza, a festival that showcases local bands. As usual, this year’s fest serves as a fundraiser for the Gathering Place, a cancer support center with locations
John Morgan Also known as the Ragin’ Cajun, comedian John Morgan adopts a redneck persona for his standup routines. The fast-talking comedian uses plenty of jargon and slang as he talks about things like the trials and tribulations of getting older. “I
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ain’t one of those men who like to brag about things they ain’t doin’ no more,” he jokes, explaining why he no longer brags about his sexual prowess. While not quite as big a redneck as, say, Jeff Foxworthy, the Ragin’ Cajun comes close. He’s also able to do a number of vocal impersonations that make for a lively standup show. He performs tonight at 7:30 at the Improv, and performances continue through Sunday. Tickets are $17 to $20. (Niesel) 1148 Main Ave., 216-696-IMPROV, clevelandimprov.com.
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construction work wasn’t his calling. It’s one of many narrative jokes in McCullough’s repertoire. You can catch him tonight at 7:30 and 10 at Hilarities, where he has shows scheduled through Sunday. Tickets start at $18 and are available on the website. (Niesel) 2035 East Fourth St., 216-241-7425, pickwickandfrolic.com.
Admission is free. (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.
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Dance Showcase A few of Northeast Ohio’s finest dancers will be on hand for tonight’s Dance Showcase, which features a special guest appearance by the stars of Chicago. Expect to see a bit of everything, including ballet, swing, tango and hip-hop. C-Town Stompers, Elevated, GroundWorks DanceTheater, Inlet Dance Theatre, Kent Dance Ensemble, the Dancing Wheels Company, Travesty Dance Group, Verb Ballets and Viva Dance will all be on hand for the showcase. It starts at 7 at the State Theatre. Tickets are free but must be obtained in advance through the Playhouse Square website. (Niesel) 1519 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.
Summer Send Off To celebrate the end of another all-too-short summer, the folks at Pinecrest — that $230 million mixed-use lifestyle district near the I-271 and Harvard Road exchange in Orange Village that’s home to a Shake Shack, Pinstripes Bowling and the Silverspot Cinemas — will host a Summer Send-Off party in the Central Park lawn at the property’s north end from 4 to 9 p.m. today. The fest will focus heavily on music and includes a lineup that will play an assortment of original and cover tunes. Notably, the Brooklyn-based funk rock collective Turkuaz will perform with special guest Denny Laine. An original member of the Moody Blues, Laine also played in Wings with Paul McCartney. He was inducted into the Rock Hall earlier this year when the Moody Blues finally made it in. Turkuaz and Laine will pay tribute to Paul McCartney & Wings with their set, and the night will end with a fireworks show. Admission is free. Details are on the website. (Niesel) discoverpinecrest.com.
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Browns vs. Pittsburgh Steelers The Cleveland Browns simply can’t be worse than they were last year, when they went 0-16. Even a single win will be an improvement. The 2018-19 season commences today as the Browns take on the Pittsburgh Steelers at First Energy Stadium at 1 p.m. Behind Big Ben Roethlisberger, the Steelers are 22-2 against the Browns. But the Browns had a good preseason and should be better suited to compete this year. Check the Browns website for ticket prices. (Niesel) 100 Alfred Lerner Way, 440-891-5000, clevelandbrowns.com.
The Gospel According to Andre Kate Novak directs The Gospel According to Andre, a 2017 documentary film about Andre Leon Talley. Raised in the segregated South, Talley overcame his origins to become a famous tastemaker and fashion journalist associated with Women’s Wear Daily, W and Vogue. The movie screens tonight at 7 at the Cleveland Museum of Art, where it shows again at 1:45 p.m. on Tuesday. Tickets are $10, or $7 for CMA members. (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.
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Julian McCullough Julian McCullough likes to joke about the three days he worked on a construction crew when he was 15. “They would hire a highschooler every summer to clean up their messes,” he says in the bit. But when he tried to take down a storm window and almost got his face cut off — and got a piece of glass stuck in his arm — he realized
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Gili Yalo Tonight at City Stages, the Cleveland Museum of Art’s summer concert series, you can hear Tel Aviv-based musician Gili Yalo, who will be performing on the Nord Family Greenway in front of the museum. Expect to hear Ethiopian roots music mixed with jazz and soul. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m.
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local shoppers to Tyler Village, the Cleveland Flea features a range of unique items you won’t find at the typical retail store. As much a social gathering as a shopping experience, the Flea also serves as an excellent hang, a place to meet and make friends while supporting your local creatives. Today’s second-to-the-last edition runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; the final Flea for 2018 is set for Oct.
Concerts at Lake View Cemetery Now in its fifth year, the Concerts at Lake View Cemetery series offers locals another great opportunity to catch a free outdoor concert while the weather is still good. The concerts take place on the Garfield Monument lawn, giving them one of the most unique settings in the city; each concert showcases some of the city’s best jazz acts. Today, the local soul/R&B act Hubb’s Groove will perform. The organizers encourage
fans to bring a lawn chair, blanket or a picnic. Hours are 4 to 6 p.m. Admission is free. And if it rains, the fun will be delayed until Sunday, Sept. 16. (Niesel) 12316 Euclid Ave., 216-421-2665, lakeviewcemetery.com. FILM
The Final Goodbye A sequel to the 2005 war movie The Black Valise, The Final Goodbye picks up 17 years after The Black Valise and tells the story of an aging private detective drawn into “a web of kidnappings, murder and Nazi treasure in 1961 Cleveland.” Shot locally, the movie screens tonight at 7 at the Capitol Theatre. Tickets are $10. (Niesel) 1390 West 65th St., 216-651-7295, clevelandcinemas.com. LOCAL HISTORY
Fourth Street Walking Tour Ohio has a long, rich history, and you can learn more about it today at 2 p.m. when local historian Margy Vogt leads a public walking tour of Massillon’s Fourth Street. She’ll show you the highlights of the historic exterior architecture of the town’s old neighborhood — now on the National Register — which once was home to Massillon’s entrepreneurs and bankers. The $7 fee may be paid at the start of the tour, which steps off at the corner of Fourth Street and North Avenue N.E. (in front of Five Oaks). In case of rain, the walk will be canceled. Reservations aren’t required, but you can register on the website. (Niesel) margyvogt.com.
every month, Music Box Supper Club hosts Science Cafe, an informal lecture series that brings scientists from throughout the region to the club to talk about science topics. Got an interest in the formation of our planet? You are in luck! Tonight at 7, James A. Van Orman, a professor and chair of geochemistry and mineral physics in the Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences Department at Case Western Reserve University, will discuss how the earth’s inner core formed. Joining him will be Steven A. Hauck, II, a professor of planetary geodynamics in the same department. The talk is free, but bring some money for the bar and the restaurant. (Niesel) 1148 Main Ave., 216-242-1250, musicboxcle.com.
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Open Turntable Tuesday Tonight from 6 to 9, the Winchester hosts its weekly Open Turntable Tuesday. DJ Kris Koch offers 20-minute slots to people who want to bring their own vinyl and spin their favorite songs or deep tracks. Turntables are provided; you can play three to five songs during your time slot; and a mic is available to talk about the selections. (Niesel) 12112 Madison Ave., Lakewood, 216-600-5338, facebook.com/ TheWinchesterMusicTavern. MUSIC
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The Quest of Alain Ducasse Director Gilles de Maistre profiles famous chef Alain Ducesse in his documentary film, The Quest of Alain Ducasse. The film chronicles how Ducesse, who hails from the south of France, has become an internationally renowned chef who has 23 restaurants around the world. The movie makes its Cleveland theatrical premiere today at 1:30 p.m. at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tickets are $10, or $7 for CMA members. (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.
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Vinyl Night Jukebox owner Alex Budin has described his 1,350-square-foot music-focused bar in the Hingetown ’hood as “a place where people can expect to hear and learn about music of multiple genres, all of which is concentrated in a constantly evolving jukebox.” The club hosts a vinyl night every Tuesday that serves as a listening party for new releases, partnering with Loop in Tremont, so patrons can hear a new album on vinyl. You can bring your own vinyl and spin it too. It all starts at 5 p.m. (Niesel) 1404 West 29th St., 216-206-7699, jukeboxcle.com.
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STAGE CLAP IF YOU BELIEVE IN THE POWER OF TREES Concepts of belief, imagination and the importance of an ash tree are explored in The Casual Tree Ward By Christine Howey IF YOU HAVE A TREE IN YOUR yard and you water it now and then, you may also talk to it. Because trees are good listeners. And after you talk to your tree for a while, you may make up a story about that tree. For example, I have a “chamaecyparis snow,” a dwarf cypress that has a huge ego because she is so gorgeous. And she knows it. It’s a much longer story, but I’ll spare you the details. As human beings, we are called upon to create stories — about trees, about ourselves, about gods and goddesses, about everything that surrounds us — and those stories can save our lives. In The Casual Tree Ward by Cleveland playwright and actor Robert Hawkes, we encounter three Norse gods who are batting around the kind of subjects gods talk about because they don’t have the NFL or Minecraft. Produced by ConvergenceContinuum Theater, this 80-minute one-act is a rich and heady goulash of ideas, philosophical concepts and deep musings. But thanks to Hawkes’ impish sense of humor and droll wordplay, the going never gets as sticky as it might. And the talented cast under the agile direction of Susan Soltis fi nds a way to keep the material from feeling like a deep dive into a brainiac’s cerebellum. On the surface, it’s a very simple story. The pivotal character is the goddess Freyja who is associated in legend with love, sex, beauty, fertility, war and death. In other words, she has a bigger job description than Jared Kushner, and that’s almost impossible. But she is mostly concerned with the huge tree that is currently growing up through her house and is dying of thirst. You see, it hasn’t rained where she is for a long time. But good news! A dude named Nero (no, not that one, another Nero, accent on the second syllable, whose name means “water”) is on hand with a bucket of that stuff that keeps all living things alive,
including us. He tries to convince Freyja to leave this droughtstricken area and go with him to the hills where the rains are falling. But Freyja is in no mood to leave her ash tree, which we learn later has the name Yggdrasil (that’s pronounced “Adrasil”). As she says, “You take me away from here and what happens? The Tree dies. Because I will die and my idea of the Tree will die, because when I give up the story and my faith in the story, it will all die. Everything will die. You, too.” But that’s not all we learn as Freyja and Nero fence with words, exploring concepts such as truth, belief, the power of myths, and other weighty topics. Freyja is an advocate of belief, and she believes that her tree is sustaining the world even as it groans and creaks. Nero is comforted by facts but Freyja is having none of it, at times echoing the recent pseudophilosophical belch by Rudy Giuliani that “truth isn’t truth.” At times, Nero admits he’s totally lost and requests readmission to this particular conversation, which gives the audience a welcome breather. Another bit of relief from the torrent of Hawkes’ intricate word mosaic arrives in the form of the god Odin, who apparently hanged himself from this same tree as an act of sacrifice. Odin is written funny, and David
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caresses the big old tree to which she’s become mortally attached. And hats off to scenic designer Jim Smith, who has crafted a tree that is both enormous and remarkably adorable, a tree you’d love to take home and live with for an eon or two. James Alexander Rankin provides a perfect counterpoint to Belser as his Nero tries to battle belief with logic and ties himself up in knots in the process. Along the way, Freyja admits to doubt herself, Odin admits he’s just the corporeal manifestation of Freyja’s
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L. Munnell makes the most of this character’s off-handed erudition and his cut-to-the-chase candor. He’s on hand to help the other two negotiate a resolution to the heady quagmire they’ve found themselves in, and by all accounts he succeeds. As Freyja, Andrea Belser exudes a preternatural calm as she
strong belief, and Nero just wants to take his bucket and get the hell out of there. But he’s developed an affection for Freyja that is either fact or belief, or something else entirely. It’s not necessary to follow each and every pathway that Hawkes forges to fi nd pleasure in the
fulsome flow of his language and the thoughts that twinkle on and off like Christmas lights. At times, you just want to bask in the glow. Of course, potential metaphors abound in such a work, with the dying tree possibly symbolizing, well, pretty much anything you can imagine. And that’s the key, isn’t it? We humans are the only mammals (as far as we know) that are capable of using our minds to create universes all around us. And who’s to say they don’t exist just because other people can’t see them? And while we’re busy turning our stories into beliefs and beliefs into rituals and rituals into rules — the world goes on. This remarkable play is a window into that part of our humanity. And while playwright Hawkes may come off as a bit too smug at times, he earns most of that smugness with his energetic and fearless attack on what makes us, each one of us, godlike.
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grind the blades on big, expensive machinery, not little tabletop things.” We’ve all seen chefs “sharpen” knives in dramatic fashion by swiping them back and forth against a steel. But that action is more accurately described as honing, a process that merely stands the edge back up. To truly sharpen a dull blade, you need to remove steel to create a thin bevel. And the more times you sharpen a knife, the farther you move into the thicker part of the blade and the more difficult it becomes. Sure, some chefs do it themselves on a collection of whetstones, but they are an anomaly in a typical commercial kitchen. “It’s getting harder and harder to fi nd cooks, even serious careerminded cooks, that show up with their own knives,” Selick explains. “It’s hard for me to expect applicants off the street to have them, let alone keep them sharp. I like to sharpen my own knives, but there’s a lot of skill to that. And it’s a 10-minute process per knife, time that nobody has.” Customers select from a
catalogue of dozens and dozens of various boning, slicing, carving, paring and chef’s knives, which are swapped on a consistent basis depending on the need of the client. A small pizza shop might opt for monthly service while a busy meat or fi sh wholesaler will exchange knives twice a week. Typical quantities range between eight and 30 knives per account. In addition to knives, Service Wet Grinding also keeps your meat slicer, food processor, mandolin, meat grinder and can opener blades and plates in good nick. When Ambrose’s relatives set up shop in Cleveland more than 110 years ago, they operated out of a horse-drawn wagon that pulled up to places like the Central Market and later the West Side Market, where they would sharpen knives on the spot. In 1952, the company initiated the knife rental business that grew popular with hotels, supermarkets and the limited number of restaurants that existed at the time. As the number of food service providers ballooned over the past few decades, so too did the client roster. These
days, those accounts include nursing homes, large arenas and stadiums, breweries and, oddly enough, gas stations. Service Wet Grinding is also where home cooks and top chefs drop off their pricey (or not) knives to be professionally sharpened. For roughly $3 to $5 per blade, you can enjoy cutlery that is as sharp as it was on the day it arrived. Orders are almost always completed by the next day. But the bulk of the business will always be busy commercial kitchens like the one at Ahuja Medical Center, where bosses like John Selick need to provide their team with the right equipment to get the job done safely and efficiently. “A sharp inexpensive knife is better and safer than a dull expensive one,” he says. “And these guys offer that old-school personal service that you don’t fi nd anymore. Kind of like the milkman who used to come to your door.”
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beer, which is available in flights, glasses, crowlers and growlers, the restaurant will serve vodka, gin, rum and bourbon from 3-yearold Southern Tier Distillery. House-brewed beers, overseen by brewmaster Jason Comeaux, will begin appearing over the next couple months. The lunch/dinner menu, described by executive chef Richard Sinwald as “upper-scale pub grub,” is designed to complement the beer. “We make big, strong, hoppy IPAs and sours; there’s nothing mild about it,” he says. “Our job with the food is to accentuate all those big, punchy flavors.” There is seating for approximately 130 on each floor, with the lower level largely reserved for private events and overflow dining. Southern Tier has no patio, but it does boast a facade of folding windows that open up the lounge to the sidewalk beyond. On the menu are snacks like pretzels with beer cheese, fried pickles with horseradish cream sauce, and house-smoked chicken wings with barbecue sauce. A trio of salads and four pizzas join beef burgers topped with prosciutto, shrimp and crab burgers, housesmoked pulled pork, and shaved ribeye, onion and pepper hoagies. A handful of entrees include chickenstuffed pierogis, fried chicken and waffles, pan-seared mahi and peppercorn-crusted sirloin. A retail section offers chilled Southern Tier beers to go.
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MUSIC A LONG DISTANCE RUNAROUND Yes singer Jon Anderson reflects on the prog-rock band’s 50-year legacy
By Matt Wardlaw YES FRONTMAN JON Anderson is always thinking about — and working on — new music. But as you’ll discover when speaking with the legendary musician, he’s still got his ear to the ground and is constantly consuming new music as well. We’re talking about his desire to go to the “top of the mountain” with another Yes album, and he takes a detour to discuss Childish Gambino. “Is that a video? Or is that a video!” he exclaims excitedly, during a recent phone call in advance of a forthcoming 50th anniversary concert by Yes featuring Anderson, Trevor Rabin and Rick Wakeman. The tour lands at Hard Rock Live on Saturday. “That’s one of the greatest things since Lemonade,” he says. “I loved Lemonade. [Beyoncé] bared it all out, and she said what it is, and she smashed windows and cars. A woman! A true Earth Mother, you know? This guy — it’s so real. It’s just so ... I’ve watched it about 10 times in the last three days.” Whether it is Beyoncé or Childish Gambino, Anderson is still plugged in and paying attention when it comes to the current music that’s being made a half century after he made his first moves in the late ’60s with Yes. “You know, I watch America’s Got Talent . Me and my wife love So You Think You Can Dance,” he laughs. “Because, you know, young artists are the soul of the world. They’re the young people coming through, the talented people still going, you know, even when they’ve been in the business 10 or 20 years. I remember seeing Beyoncé when she was in her trio band [Destiny’s Child], playing in a record store to nobody in Santa Monica. That was like 20 years ago, and there was a half a dozen people watching them perform. I was walking past thinking, ‘Hey, go for it, girl! Go!’ And you think,
there she is now, the Queen Bee! It’s not an easy road. My god, it’s not.” As someone who’s navigated the many twists and turns of the music business for decades, Anderson speaks from experience. “It’s like a juggling act, you know? It’s another one of those things,” he says. “It’s interesting that … you know, you make a record and you go through that experience, and you’re charged to let people know it, hear it and be with it because you spent three months working on it and stuff. And then, you find out six months later that the record company really weren’t that interested! It was a tax write-off.” If Anderson’s not on the road touring, it’s likely he’ll be at home working on a number of new music projects. During our conversation, he rattles off a flurry of things that are percolating, including a new solo album, 1,000 Hands , that he’s working to finish. The history of the record goes back nearly three decades, but this is hardly Anderson’s Chinese Democracy in terms of the actual amount of time he’s spent working on it. “I’m working on a piece that’s so bizarre. I started a piece of music 28 years ago in Big Bear, which is southeast of L.A. I was just getting
to finish mixing next week. It’s amazing how music is timeless. ” He hints that he’s “planning something for 2020,” telling us that he keeps dreaming about “that perfect Yes album.” So we’re curious: What does the idea of the perfect Yes album represent to Anderson at this point? “The top of the mountain. The view from the top of the mountain,” he says, with a confident tone. “Because we’re always climbing mountains and I always felt that Close to the Edge was that first moment when I thought, ‘Oh my god, we’re doing something very,
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away from the world for three months, and I decided to do an album,” he explains. “But it never got finished because life is like that. Now, 28 years later, I’m just finishing five of the songs, plus five new songs and an album called 1,000 Hands . That’s coming out [soon], and I’m going to Orlando
very unique and very different.’ It’s all based on performance, because Yes was always a performing band. It was never, ‘Let’s write a hit!’ Because that’s not what Yes was all about and still isn’t. You know, in my mind, the last thing that I think about is trying to get a hit. Even though I want to
get my music played on the radio somehow. On this 1,000 Hands [album] that I’m doing, there’s one or two obvious good radio songs. Whether they’ll go viral or whatever, who cares? You know, it’s what it is. But all you want is for people to hear what you do. I even do some dance EDM music on one track on the album. One track on it is very EDM. Because I’ve been doing some of that [over the] last year.” In the past few years, he’s also been playing Yes music with his longtime cohorts Wakeman and Rabin. When they began touring in 2016, it was the first time the trio had shared the stage in 25 years, going back to the massive Union tour at the beginning of the ’90s. At the time they began touring again, it was revealed that they also had new music in the works. We ask Anderson if he’s planning to go to the top of that mountain with Wakeman and Rabin, and if they factor into his vision for that “perfect” Yes album. “I don’t know! It’s something that’s just percolating in my mind,” he admits. “I have no idea what it sounds or looks like, but I just know that the music that we’re | clevescene.com | September 5 - 11, 2018
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doing, to me, is pretty fantastic. When it will get recorded properly, who knows? Because we have great demos already, but the music, it’s a question of timing. You realize when you get older, everybody has a life! [Anderson chuckles.] One minute, we’re going to do it in this period of time and, you know, somebody can’t do it at that period of time. Everybody’s got work to do and stuff, and their own dreams, I suppose. So we do have some great music and it’s a question of finding the right time. [This current tour is] a short tour, and maybe after that, it will get done. I thought it was going to get done earlier this year, but it never did. Because, you know, everybody has a life! You get to that point. The most important thing is performance. We just got back from Europe and we were performing like there’s no tomorrow and that’s all we need. In some ways, the key to success is you get on stage and the people are there, and you perform your best. That’s success. People have got no idea what we were doing in Europe, over here in America — they’re busy living in America!” While Anderson was unsure when the new music they’ve been working on might finally be released, fans can get a recording of Anderson, Rabin and Wakeman playing classic Yes music, with the pending release of Live at the Apollo, which was recorded at the Manchester Apollo in March of 2017. The new release will be available Sept. 7 on Blu-ray, DVD, CD, vinyl and digital download. The Apollo gig finds Anderson, Rabin and Wakeman in top form, playing with a lineup rounded out by bassist Lee Pomeroy and drummer Lou Molino. They move through a set list that mixes classic Yes epics like “Heart of the Sunrise” and “Awaken,” with a selection of later material from Rabin’s era with the band, featuring songs like “Hold On” and “Changes” from the band’s blockbuster 1983 album 90125. There’s even an airing of “Lift Me Up,” the group’s initial single from 1990’s ill-fated Union release. While the Union tour was an amazing opportunity for fans to see the 90125 lineup melded with the classic-era lineup, the album, which evolved out of separate recording sessions between the two camps, was a less pleasant experience. During
the Apollo show, Anderson quips that Wakeman calls it, “the onion album, because every time he listens to it, he cries.” Even if Wakeman maintains a distaste for the album, the inclusion of “Lift Me Up” in the set list was a thrilling moment, one of many that fans experienced each night of the tour. With the arrival of this new live release, there is finally an official, high quality documentation of Trevor Rabin on stage playing Yes music. While there have been a handful of scattered releases in the past, it has also been a long time since Rabin, who spent the bulk of the past couple of decades scoring blockbuster movies like Armageddon and National Treasure, has been seen playing this material. Because of that and the advances in technology, this new Apollo set feels like a crucial capture of an important moment in Yes history. As Anderson himself has discussed, the idea of him playing music with Rabin and Wakeman again was one which had been in the works for a long time. It took quite a while for the plans to actually come to fruition, and that makes the shows they’ve done together in the past few years especially sweet. “I feel like I’m singing better than ever. I just feel great. I think I’ve had a second boost of life over the past 10 years. I got really sick 10 years ago and then all of the sudden, I have so much energy and to work with Rick and Trevor, it’s something very powerful,” he says. “Rick is quite a genius performer, as is well known. And Trevor coming out of spending years in the cave doing film scores, it’s a new lease of life for him, you know. He’s one of these guitarists, that he’s very mesmerizing and pretty powerful at times. Because he doesn’t glide through the music, he jumps up and down through it and there’s not many guitar players that I know who can be as adventurous and still hit the mark every time. Because it’s a balancing act, really, for a guitarist to go out and perform, especially Trevor performing the ’70s music, with Steve Howe’s guitar playing styles, but making it his own and, of course, doing the ’90s and ’80s music has been kind of a revelation for us as well. It’s a very exciting time.”
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MUSIC ISSUE ORIENTED Birds of Chicago’s new album addresses our troubled times By Jeff Niesel BIRDS OF CHICAGO, A FOLK/ pop/rock duo that features singersongwriters Allison Russell and JT Nero, began assembling the songs for its most recent album, Love in Wartime, while on tour a couple of years ago. Since the band had just teamed up with producer Joe Henry for 2106’s somber Real Midnight, it wanted to go in a different musical direction. “We knew that after Real Midnight was done, we had a gut feeling that we wanted to make more of a rock ’n’ roll record to capture the scope of what we do live,” says Nero via phone from a Grand Forks, North Dakota, tour stop. The group performs with Anthony da Costa at 8 p.m. on Thursday at the Music Box Supper Club. “It was in that space that the songs started to come together.” The band recruited good friend Luther Dickinson (North Mississippi Allstars) to help with production duties. “Luther and I are good buds, and I’ve been getting into more production work,” says Nero. “For me, it’s always important to have an outside presence. It’s great to have a set of ears and someone who brings musical wisdom you trust, but isn’t embroiled too deeply.” The resulting album, Love in Wartime, fi nds the band adopting more of a roots-rock vibe in songs such as “Never Go Back,” a track that features husky harmony vocals and a perky organ riff. “I use the phrase rock ’n’ roll [to describe our music] but in the broadest sense of the word,” says Nero. “For me, it just means that it’s that ongoing pressure cooker of all these roots musics from all over the world. We try not to intellectualize that process too much before doing it. One of the reasons that this tribe of musicians has gravitated to each other is because we’re mongrel music makers and mongrel music lovers. You want someone who is fluid in the different languages instead of stuck in these iron-clad brackets. You can draw on all those influences, but the test is that when you’re done, it needs to sound like you.”
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On the title track, another highlight from the album, Nero adopts a nasally Dylan-like drawl while Russell’s plaintive vocals keep the song from sounding too dark and menacing. “I don’t think that we literally mean ‘war’ in the sense of declared war,” says Nero when asked about the tune. “It’s just the anti-matter of love. There’s a sense of foreboding and perilousness, and so for us, digging in on the notion of love as kind of a sense of high relief, is important. It’s like ‘the darker the shadow, the more intense the light.’ We wanted to dig in on the idea of love and how the smallest everyday acts of love are acts of bravery — ever more so right now.”
Louisiana city. “[The song is] very much about the news with the unrest in the police community, and that’s something close to my heart being a Chicagoan,” says Nero. “[After all the unrest], they then got hit with that 100-year flood. [The song is] about the complicated humanity of that town and seeing the parallels between my town of Chicago and Baton Rouge and dealing with the way Northerners like to keep an arm’s length when certain ugly things happen down South.” The album concludes with the funky “Derecho,” an atmospheric tune that recalls Kiko-era Los Lobos with its Latin-tinged guitar tones. “It’s about the fairly newfangled
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Weather Channel kind of name,” says Nero. “[Derecho is] what you call a flash summer storm. It’s a violent but quickly ending summer storm. It’s calm and serene
one minute, and then, you have Armageddon, and it’s gone. Chicago got hit with a couple of those a couple of years back. We watched that happen and then the sun would come back, and it was complete serenity even though there were uprooted trees all over the place. I like to close albums on a loose note.” While Nero says the band loves to make records, the live show is where it’s at. Expect the band to cut loose a bit more than it does in the studio. “I don’t know if there were that many forums where people who think differently can come together,” he says. “Live music has always been that, but I feel the goodness of that and appreciate it even more the last couple of years. Every live show is a communion of folks, and we want to be able to walk through some shadowed emotional places and then get light really quickly and be in it together and come out the other side feeling altered and a little bit better. That’s what we chase every single night.”
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All Over The Place/R-Dent/Call Your Shot/As Time Fades/Mostly Ghosts: 7 p.m., $8 ADV, $12 DOS. Grog Shop. Bad Boys of Blues Jam: 9 p.m., free. Smedley’s. NeedTobreathe/Johnnyswim: Singer-guitarist Bear Rinehart and singer-guitarist Bo Rinehart were initially a coffeehouse folk act, but they expanded to a fourpiece after adding singer-bassist Seth Bolt and singer-keyboardist Josh Lovelace to the fold about 15 years ago. They’ve steadily toured and recorded as NeedToBreathe ever since. The tour that brings the group to Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica tonight supports a new EP, Forever on Your Side. The group retreated to a mountain cabin in Cashiers, North Carolina, to write the songs that appear on the release. The somber “Bridges Burn,” a tune that features particularly soulful vocals, starts the album off. The equally somber “Darling” sounds like it could be a hymn as the intro features nothing more than vocals and a bit of organ and acoustic guitar. Expect to hear these tracks and more at tonight’s show. (Jeff Niesel) 7 p.m. Jacobs Pavilion. Shinyribs/Cordovas: 8 p.m., $15 ADV, $20 DOS. Beachland Tavern.
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That’s Class. The Cropdusters (in the Supper Club): 6 p.m., $5. Music Box Supper Club. LoveMuffin Palooza 2018 with Sweepyheads/Michael McFarland/XLT1000/Flowers in Flames (in the Locker Room): 8:30 p.m., $10. Mahall’s 20 Lanes. Mollo Rilla/The Rosies: 8 p.m., $10. CODA. Nothing/Culture Abuse/Smut: 8 p.m., $16 ADV, $18 DOS. Grog Shop. Ken Peplowski/Jackie Warren Trio: 8:30 p.m., $30. Nighttown. Tropical Cleveland (in the Supper Club): 11 p.m., $10 ADV, $15 DOS. Music Box Supper Club. Jackie Warren: 10:30 p.m., free. Nighttown. Helen Welch: A Little Brit Different: 8 p.m., $20. Bop Stop. Yes featuring Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, Rick Wakeman: 8 p.m. Hard Rock Rocksino Northfield Park.
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Birds of Chicago/Anthony da Costa: 8 p.m., $18 ADV, $22 DOS. Music Box Supper Club. FreeByrds Musician’s Night: 10 p.m., free. Smedley’s. Chris Hatton’s Musical Circus (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m., free. Brothers Lounge. Jam Night with the Bad Boys of Blues: 9 p.m., free. Brothers Lounge. Kitchen Dwellers/The Elephants: 9 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Beachland Tavern. Harold López-Nussa: 8 p.m., $20. Nighttown. The Magpie Salute: 8 p.m., $30 ADV, $33 DOS. The Kent Stage. Parkway Drive/August Burns Red/ The Devil Wears Prada/Polaris: 7 p.m. Agora Theatre. Red Rose Panic/Wrecking Crew Red Panda Bears/MELLOWXZACKT: 8:30 p.m., $8 ADV, $10
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DOS. Grog Shop. Sandcatchers: 8 p.m., $15. Bop Stop. Therapy Thursday Featuring Leaf Borbie: 8 p.m., free. CODA. Koe Wetzel/Chris Colston: 8 p.m., $13 ADV, $15 DOS. Beachland Ballroom. Zvada/Town Meeting/Thieves of Joy/Johnny Thomas: 7:30 p.m., $10. Musica.
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Adult/Aaron Dilloway/Pleasure Leftists/MX Silkman: 8 p.m., $12 ADV, $14 DOS. Now That’s Class. Rodney Carrington: 8 p.m., $39$59. Hard Rock Rocksino. Distracted/The Permanents/ Tallulah Patience (in the Locker Room): 7 p.m., $10. Mahall’s 20 Lanes. FunkyardX: 8 p.m., $20. Bop Stop. Jazz Jam Session: 11 p.m., free. Bop Stop. LoveMuffinPalooza 2018 with James Emmett Band/ The Whiskey Hollow/
Melladramatics/Brave Bones: 9 p.m., $8 ADV, $10 DOS. Grog Shop. National Food Bank Day with Cholly/C-Level/Chimps: 8 p.m., $8/$5 with non-perishable food donation. CODA. Ken Peplowski/Jackie Warren Trio: 8:30 p.m., $30. Nighttown. Strangelove: 9 p.m., $13 ADV, $16 DOS. House of Blues. Van Morrison Tribute by Nitebridge with Colin Dussault: 8 p.m., $12 ADV, $15 DOS. Music Box Supper Club. Jackie Warren: 10:30 p.m., free. Nighttown.
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Acrylic Groove/Vanishing Apollo/ Treespeak: 9 p.m., $5. Beachland Tavern. The Brown Liquor Band/Chrome Moses/Joe Risdon and the 815: 9 p.m., $8. Musica. Channel 3/Kill the Hippies/ Rational Dads: 9 p.m., $10. Now
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Breaking Benjamin/Five Finger Death Punch/Bad Wolves/ Nothing More: 6 p.m. Blossom. Fantastic Negrito/Peachcurls/Time Cat: 8:30 p.m., $12 ADV, $14 DOS. Grog Shop. Felix Cavaliere’s Rascals/Gene Cornish/Ronnie Spector: 7:30 p.m., $48.50-$60.50. Hard Rock Rocksino Northfield Park. Wayne Hancock: 8:30 p.m., $15. Beachland Tavern. Jennifer Hartswick & Nick Cassarino Duo: 7 p.m., $20. Nighttown. Mason Jennings/Jenn Grinels: 7 p.m., $20 ADV, $25 DOS. Music Box Supper Club. Ernie Krivda: CD Release Celebration: Locally based jazz saxophonist Ernie Krivda has had international success as a recording artist and released over a dozen albums in a career that stretches back decades. Earlier this summer, Krivda released his latest album, A Bright and Shining Moment. It features solos from members of Krivda’s septet, including pianist Joe Hunter, trombonist Chris Anderson, bassist Marion Hayden and trumpeter Steve Enos. The late Marshall Baxter Beckley is the featured vocalist on a rendition of “Summertime.” A 2009 recipient | clevescene.com | September 5 - 11, 2018
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of the Cleveland Arts Prize for lifetime achievement in music, Krivda has performed with acts such as Ella Fitzgerald, Buddy DeFranco and David Sanborn, He also won the Jazz Legends award from the Tri-C Jazz Festival and a Community Partnership of Arts and Culture Fellowship. (Niesel) 7 p.m., $15. Bop Stop. Jonathan McReynolds: 8 p.m., $15 ADV, $20 DOS. House of Blues Cambridge Room. Coco Montoya/The Alan Greene Band: 7:30 p.m., $18 ADV, $20 DOS. Beachland Ballroom. Sissy Spacek/Grin and Bear It/ Skin Graft: 9 p.m., $7. Now That’s Class
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The Speedbumps 10th Anniversary Concert Sat. Sept. 22
The High Kings Wed. Sept 19
Five For Fighting with String Quartet Thu. Sept 20
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for mastering. “That was a bit of a process,” Joe admits. “When you keep the recording process in-house, you have full control over everything. But when you’ve labored over the mixes and you send them off to someone who wasn’t there the entire time, you hope the mastering brings them together. We went through seven or eight revisions until we got something we were happy with.” With its melancholy vocals, gentle xylophones and plodding acoustic guitar riff, “Upper Half” recalls the psychedelic side of Mercury Rev, and “Bible Girl” features snotty vocals and noisy guitars. “There’s definitely a wide spread of influences,” says Pat. “I sometimes sing quickly and that’s something I wanted to entertain. Right now, it seems like the general public is on a hip-hop train. That’s what’s selling. I want to take people away from that. It’s more Grateful Dead or Avett Brothers. The Bahamas were a big influence too. They’re iconic to me personally.” Since wrapping production on the record, the band has continued to pump out new songs, so you can expect to hear some unreleased tunes when the group plays its upcoming release party at the Winchester Tavern.
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SAVAGE LOVE SHOOTING STARS by Dan Savage I’m a cis woman in my mid-40s, and my significant other has a cuckolding fetish. My first response was “Oh, hell no!” But if I’m willing to have a threesome, how much further of a stretch is it, really? He does have some experience with this varsity-level kink, so he knows what to expect. My questions for you: (1) I don’t get cuckolding. I’ve read all about it, but nothing about it resonates with me. My SO really wants me to be into his fetish if I am going to act on it, but what if I’m just into being GGG? Can’t that be enough? (2) How should I go about finding appropriate candidates who would be into sharing this experience with us? I’m not really sure that I’d want someone with experience as a bull, because I don’t feel good about this playing out the way I’ve seen it in porn. (3) We enjoy cross-dressing and chastity play. How do I find someone who will be cool about my SO sitting in the room in a cock lock and lingerie? (4) I kind of have a “type” (don’t we all), and I’m not certain my type plays into this kink. I prefer someone who is very dominant in public but submissive to me in the bedroom. Do you think this matters? — Can’t Understand Cuckold Kink
1. Cuckolding isn’t that hard to understand: A cuckold gets off on their partner fucking other people and being humiliated or degraded by their partner and/or their partner’s playmates. Seeing as you already enjoy dominating guys and threesomes, CUCK, what’s not to enjoy about a cuckolding scenario? 2. Vanilla PIV intercourse rarely plays out in real life the way it does in porn. So whether you go with an experienced bull or find someone who’s unfamiliar with cuckold play but game, you don’t have to reenact whatever cuckold porn you’ve watched or read. 3. By using your words, CUCK. Tell any guy who’s interested in being your very special guest star (VSGS) that your SO is a cuckold and he’ll be there in lingerie with his cock locked up. If that turns a VSGS candidate off, then he’s not the right VSGS for you. 4. In most cuckold porn, the bull — the man who fucks the cuck’s wife or girlfriend (or boyfriend or husband) in front of him — is the dominant
partner. But, again, you get to write your own script, and if you want your bull to be submissive, make that clear to your potential bulls.
My wife has a fantasy where she’s blindfolded and restrained on our bed. She hears the front door open, followed by footsteps coming up the stairs, and then she’s ravished by … who? She won’t know, presumably, until it’s over. My question: In fulfilling this fantasy for her, where anonymity and surprise are part of the appeal, what do I tell her in advance? Do I discuss the entire scenario with her, so she knows exactly what’s going to happen, minus the identity of the very special guest star? Is it enough to tell her, without mentioning the specific scenario, that I’d like to make one of her fantasies come true, and ask her to trust me? — Ethical Thinking In Quite Unusual, Elaborate Tied Tight Enactment
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Presumably? There’s no room for “presumablies”whenyou’rearranging to fulfill a varsity-level fantasy. I’m guessing she’d rather not know who’s ravishing her before or during the big event, ETIQUETTE, and she may not want to know after. But you need to ask her what she wants — no presumptions — before you start making arrangements. She might want to know everything in advance — including the identity of that stranger — or she might want you to decide everything. But you need to check in with her first: “Honey, I want to help you realize that fantasy — you’re tied to the bed, a stranger arrives, you’re ravished by said stranger — but I need to know how involved you want to be in the planning. Clear everything with you —where, when, who, how — or just make it happen?” You may find that she wants to be surprised by who but not by when, ETIQUETTE, or by when but not by who — or by who but not by when, how, or where. Or she may want the whole thing to be a surprise. But you have to find out exactly what she wants before you make any plans.
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