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August 5 - August 18, 2009 Vol. 10 • Issue 1

Adams Street Publishing Co. Finding that perfect glass of wine isn’t always easy. When tcp staffers are in need of a smooth, chilled glass, here’s where they go:

Publisher/Editor in Chief

Collette Jacobs (cjacobs@toledocitypaper.com)

ANYTHING JIM SAUTTER RECOMMENDS

Co-publisher/Chief Financial Officer Mark I. Jacobs (mjacobs@toledocitypaper.com)

ITALIAN AMARONE AT ROSIE’S ITALIAN GRILLE

Editorial

Assignment Editor: Gina Sares (gsares@toledocitypaper.com)

ANY PLACE THAT HAS KEO ST. PANTELEIMON

Playing house Jim Moody is very experienced and knowledgeable in the workings of real estate. This is really a simple transaction designed to protect the buyer / owner. Is it really that difficult to believe that a real estate entrepreneur and teacher of real estate classes would take title of a property in a different way that would “slightly confuse” someone who does not do this for a living? Feel free to call any local title co. and ask them what it is to take title of a property in trust.

Editor’s Note: Titling a property in the name of a Trustee is a tactic to accomplish one of several goals. However, unless Jim Moody is preparing an estate plan for use in the short term ( which should be of some interest to the T-town voters) then the trust issue is curious - it keeps the name of an individual owner from being publically listed. The most important thing, in these times when transparency of the personal agendas of public office holders is prized, it is a matter of trust.

Greg Cassidy

Arts & Entertainment Editor: Emily Rippe (erippe@toledocitypaper.com)

Realtor Toledo

WHITE SANGRIA AT THE ATTIC

Calendar: Nathan Mattimoe (calendar@toledocitypaper.com)

BEER AND WINE CAVE

Editorial Assistants: Beth Wayton

CORK’S WINE AND LIQUOR MY DESK DRAWER Contributing Writers: Johnny Hildo, Sue Lovett, Karen Zickes, Matt Cummings, Chevonne Harris, Matt Desmond, Jason Webber, Laura Kruse

HITS

Dylan Wise

Editorial Intern: Abby Liebenthal

Art/Production

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GREEK-AMERICAN FESTIVAL

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The Food Fight continues

CALVINO’S

Micah Lindenberger (micah@toledocitypaper.com)

I DON’T BELIEVE IN ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES Amanda Holman (amanda@toledocitypaper.com)

WINE GIVES ME A HEADACHE

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ANY WINE IN A BOX

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ANY LOCALLY OWNED WINE STORE

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THE MELTING POT

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BEER AND WINE CAVE

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AFICIONADO WINE AND CIGARS

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[“FOOD FIGHT” 7/8/09]

High fructose corn syrup, sugar, and several fruit juices are all nutritionally the same.

High fructose corn syrup is simply a kind of corn sugar. It has the same number of calories as sugar and is handled similarly by the body.

In 1983, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration formally listed high fructose corn syrup as safe for use in food and reaffirmed that decision in 1996.

Consumers can see the latest research and learn more about high fructose corn syrup at www.SweetSurprise.com.

Audrae Erickson

President Corn Refiners Association

How delusional can you get Audrae?

Your high fructose corn syrup not only tastes like s***, it’s awful for you too.

I’d rather have sugar in my soda any day. Too bad we grow too much corn for our own good and subsidize it to be used in virtually everything. In the meantime, I’ll just sip on some ethanol and be environmentally friendly.

Hahaha.

Carl Bauer

Corrections: In a popper in our last issue (“Different dogs and curious suds”), Tony Bilancini of Perrysburg’s Swig was credited as the owner of Stella’s Restaurant. However, Tony’s Swig partner, Jim Hodulik, is the man behind Stella’s.

In our August Summer in the City calendar [TCP July 22-August 4] we mentioned that

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Foul play

[“JIMMY JACKSON FOULS OUT” 4/15/09] Thank you for this information. I’m wondering why the property taxes on the Steam Plant are about $200K in arrears. At the current tax rate, that makes the taxes unpaid for 4 years.

That matches the time that Jackson’s development group has had the property. What is the Auditor doing about that?

GuestZero

From the burbs

[“RANT – TOLEDOANS LET LOOSE AND TELL IT HOW IT IS” 7/8/09] In his rant about moving downtown and saving the environment, most of it I agree with. I noticed one strange and puzzling fact. Alex Jacobs for all of his huffing and puffing about the positive benefits of living in downtown Toledo, where does he live you may ask? Sylvania. He lives in the burbs and doesn’t practice what he preaches.

This is called hypocrisy.

Chris Palmer

Editor’s Note: Hey Chris, it’s not hypocrisy, it’s economy. Alex, 19 years old, is the son of Publishers Collette and Mark Jacobs. In September he begins school at the University of Washington in Seattle. Until then rent at the ‘rents is the right price! the annual Pollyball Tournament would be accompanied by the Pollypalooza concert.

The concert will not be taking place this year. However, the sporting event promoting breast cancer awareness and benefiting the YWCA will take place at International Park on Saturday, August 22. For more information, 419-241-3235.

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Hope for the next generation

El Camino Real: Best Mexican Restaurant

Pakistan-born Toledoan helps less fortunate in his home country by Kevin Moore

Three-Peat Times Two! through September, then they enclose part of the patio through December, when the bar can still hold up to 100 people ready for a good time.

Inside, the décor is authentic, and patrons enjoy a Mariachi band every other weekend, along with strolling guitar players three times a week. Customers will often notice improvements to El Camino. “The owners put money in the place all the time”, said Rocha. Owners Jesus Angel and Javier Cobian believe in doing all they can to keep the customers coming back.

According to Salvador, favorites on the menu continue to be the Armandos’ brothers pizza listed under appetizers, and the fajitas.

Warning: Come Hungry.

“We always serve really big portions,” said Rocha. You will get your fill and your money’s worth.

Be sure to check out their other locations as well, at 2072 Woodville Rd. and at 625 Hilton Blvd. in Ann Arbor. ¡Buen provecho, Toledo!

—KZ Guests enjoy El Camino’s spacious patio.

We’ve heard you Toledo, for six resounding years in a row. El Camino Real is yet again, at the top of the list as City Paper readers’ favorite Mexican restaurant.

Though the menu is extensive, the food is delish, the bartenders are wonderful, and the service is attentive, the other big draw is the awesome outdoor patio. Along with food and drinks, it serves up DJs three to four nights a week and a live band on Thursdays. “I tell you it’s the place to be now,” said manager Salvador Rocha.

Don’t fret about cooler weather, Toledo.

According to Rocha, the full patio is open

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Toledo’s Dr. Munir Ahmad (right) helps educate children in Peshawar through his Dosti Foundation.

The region along the Northern Afghan-Pakistani border was once the frontline of media attention after the September 11th terrorist attacks. But as the war effort shifted West, so did the television spotlight. While most scantly remember the reports from on-theground Middle East correspondents, the operators of one Toledo-based organization have placed that distant land center stage in their humanitarian efforts.

Dr. Munir Ahmad was born and raised in the area around Peshawar, a city located less than 50 miles from the border with Afghanistan, before coming to the United States as a physician and practicing in Toledo in 1976. Dr. Ahmad recalls the oppressive conditions quite well. “There was no education. You would often see children in adult labor positions that were unsafe. There is indentured labor there where families become indebted servants given very little pay so they can never repay their debt.

The parents’ debt is often transferred to the children, and they become the indentured servants. It’s multigenerational.”

Wanting others to have the same opportunities, and ultimately the same blessings that he enjoyed, Dr. Ahmad created the Dosti Foundation (“Dosti” is a Farci/Urdu word meaning friendship) in 1994 to provide high quality education to Pakistani youth near Peshawar.

Dosti established its first school in 1994 and has since opened 17 more permanent schools in the area, plus 12 temporary schools that service youth displaced by armed military conflict.

Dosti’s schools provide students kindergarten through 10th grade with a universal curriculum of mathematics, science, history, literature, world philosophy, moral philosophy, and language (both English and the local Urdu) geared for placement in college and, possibly even, study abroad. Thus far, the schools have graduated 10,000 students with 2,700 currently enrolled. $150 is the cumulative

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cost for one student to receive 11 years of this education.

“This area is a hotbed for extremism and terrorist recruitment,” says Ahmad regretfully, “but only 2 percent are committed Taliban. The rest want peace.

They want stable jobs, good healthcare, and a better life for their children. You’ll notice professionals with careers and people with families are not the ones joining the extremists; it’s the people with nothing. We have to empower these people. You cannot beat the extremists militarily, but you can defeat them ideologically, and you do that by focusing on the next generation.”

While Dosti’s primary focus has always been education, it has also assisted in relief work for refugees, distributed supplies to refugee camps, and helped those affected by the October 2008 earthquake. Dosti’s organizers have also partnered with organizations such as Global Goods and No Sweat Clothing — producers of fairly traded apparel and accessories — as well as other humanitarian organizations in Pakistan such as FATA (Federally Administered Tribal Access) and the Pan-Pacific and South-East Asia Women’s Association. “We try to be a linking organization between those who need help and those who want to help.”

Dosti would like to see improvement in their current schools, the construction of new schools, and the transformation of rural district hospitals into functioning women’s centers equipped to deliver prenatal, postnatal, and gynecological care.

To achieve these goals, Dosti will need the support of the Toledo community.

They invite all to visit their office to become more informed about the situation.

Donations are always welcomed, and it is Dosti’s hope that some of the charitable giving common during the upcoming Ramadan observance might find its way to helping the citizens of Pakistan.

Dosti Foundation, 2450 N. Reynolds Road. 3214. For info, visit www.dosti.org or email jessicaw@dosti.org.

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Lily’s at Levis

Like the fragrant, hardy perennial which is its namesake, Lily’s successfully takes root in every setting.

Operating as Lily’s on Main from 2001 to 2007 in Sylvania, owner Judy Church moved her eclectic home and garden shop to The Shops at Fallen Timbers in Maumee nearly two years ago.

She did business there as Lily’s on the Lake for 18 months before relocating last May to Levis Commons in Perrysburg.

“And now it’s just called Lily’s,” she said. Despite the location changes, Church’s eye for things different remains the same.

“People want to see something different, something unique,” she said. “People don‘t like the same old same old.

“And I think they appreciate the design of the store. It’s kind of candy for the eye.

Sometimes people just like to browse, and there is a lot to see here.”

How much, exactly?

“A lady was dying,” Church said. “She was in hospice, and the place she wanted to come last was here. We have always promoted a feel good atmosphere when people come here.”

Lily’s abounds with artfully designed home accessories including decorative and functional iron art objects, jewelry, candles and exquisite gifts and conversation pieces. All are sensibly priced.

“It just comes naturally to me,” Church said of her flair for the extraordinairy. “My mom was good at home decorating; she always had the house looking good and was in retail all her life.

And my dad was a great, talented, selftaught artist.”

With 10 employees, Church is also assisted in the business by her husband Gary, son Caleb and daughter Michelle Glanville.

Tecumseh, MI designer Jill Knittel, is on hand once a week to assist with design and service for Church’s customers. “She is amazing,” Church said. “She restages a house and can take a lot of the old and make it look new.”

Lily’s derives its name from Church’s father’s favorite flower – Lilies of the Valley. When she went into business back in 2001, she decided on the name before almost anything else.

“I had no idea what I was going to do,” she said. “I had no idea what I was going to sell. It was all very meant to be.”

Lily’s is open 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays, and noon to 5 p.m.

Sundays. For more information, call 419-931-5611 or visit www.lilysatlevis.com.

—DO

Owner Judy Church’s flair for the extraordinary inspires Lily’s customers.

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Frogtown helps community go “green”

Want to live a “greener” lifestyle, but don’t know where to start? The Frogtown Fair, Tips for Living Green at the Erie Street Market, Sunday, August 8 explores ideas for greener living presented by various local organizations and businesses. Sponsored by the City of Toledo Division of Environmental Services. Rain barrels, digital thermometers and other eco-friendly methods will be available to purchase. Admission is free. 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. 419-936-3015/ env.information@toledo.oh.gov.

Sign here Picking the creative minds behind the 2009 mayoral candidate yard signs Every four years, they sprout up like crab grass—mayoral candidate yard signs. With six candidates vying for the mayor’s office this election season, it can be dizzying driving past all those different signs. But a lot of work and thought goes into those political lawn decorations. TCP spoke to the minds behind this year’s crop of political yard signs

Jim Moody

Local gardens conserve and flourish

In 2002, the Monroe Street United Methodist Church began a community garden for their congregation. By May 2007, the church combined aesthetics with functionality to create a rain garden to reuse rain water from the church’s roof.

Rain water flows into the garden from a roof downspout directed under the grass. Instead of flooding streets and sewers, the water is collected in the large roots of native plants.

“Native plants have thick root systems; they’re much more effective and can live in drastic weather conditions,” explained Marilyn DuFour, a member of the congregation and the City of Toledo Division of Environmental Services. Once they are established, the plants live on their own, absorbing downfall water for long periods of time.

Since these plants are harder to find, the church used cultivars of native plants, as well as other thick rooted plants like day lilies and purple coneflowers.

The City of Toledo Division of Environmental Services is also home to a rain garden, absorbing water from five downspout roofs. The 1700 square foot garden is man-made, with sand, mulch and organic mix in place of gravel and clay.

The impact of these gardens are illustrated in the plants. “We can tell its effective by the size. Most of them are three to four feet tall and spreading throughout the garden,” DuFour said.

Preserving water with rain gardens is possible at homes too, as long as the plants have thick roots. DuFour explains, “The city helps groups and individuals in the area establish gardens... we have a long way to go with this, but we want to show that we can conserve water.”

Designer: Jim Moody Inspiration: This may be Moody’s first political campaign, but he knows what works and what doesn’t. Long before announcing his candidacy, he knew he wanted to use vertical yard signs instead of the standard horizontal. “Horizontal is completely overdone. We are conditioned to see things vertically, and I always knew we would stand out if we used this approach.”

Keith Wilkowski Designer: Mike Bell of Hart Associates Inspiration: First of all, let’s get the obvious laugh out of the way—a guy named Mike Bell designing Keith Wilkowski’s yard sign? “Yeah, I get that all the time,” says Bell, who actually has received several Facebook friend requests from people thinking he’s the OTHER Mike Bell. A lot of creative blood and sweat went into designing Wilkowski’s sign, which Bell says is inspired by Keith himself—“straightforward, classy, professional.”

“We wanted to keep the design clear and uncluttered. Get it down to the main elements so that people driving past will see the main points of the campaign: Wilkowski. Democrat.

Jobs.”

Mike Bell Designer: Jen Sorgenfrei of Funk Luetke Skunda Inspiration: According to graphic designer Jen Sorgenfrei, candidate Mike Bell knew he wanted to capitalize on his surname, hence the use of the Liberty Bell on his yard signs. Sorgenfrei took that concept and ran with it, producing one of the more memorable images of the 2009 political season. “We went with a two-color motif of red and black, because everyone is using red, white, and blue. This way, the sign stands out from the crowd.”

D. Michael Collins Designer: Sarah Lammers of Clear Images Inspiration: Candidate D. Michael Collins and his wife Sandy Drabik told graphic designer Sarah Lammers that they wanted emerald green as a color ... and Lammers took it from there.

Lammers abides fiercely by the “55 mph rule”—“You don’t want a lot of a sign. People who are driving by at 55 mph have to get the point loud and clear. So we made sure that ‘Collins’ and ‘Mayor’ really stand out.”

Visit www.raingardeninitiative.org or the City of Toledo Division of Environmental Services at 419-936-3015 for more information. —AL

Ben Konop Designer: Hugh Collins, creative director/owner of HWC Communications Designs Inspiration: According to graphic designer Collins, the use of Toledo’s Veteran’s Skyway Bridge was an obvious choice for Konop’s 2009 campaign logo. “The Skyway Bridge is Toledo’s signature bridge. It symbolizes progress and rebuilding, and we combined the image of the bridge with the ‘09’ to create the progressive feeling we wanted.”

Opal Covey Designer: Opal Covey and Nabil Shaheen (Nabil Same Day Signs) Inspiration: Toledo’s favorite prophetess received her slogan “A Pot of Gold” from the ultimate political advisor—“The Lord.” Covey took that slogan and the idea of using dollar symbols to Nabil Shaheen, owner of Nabil Same Day Signs...and the result is the only yard sign this year to feature gold metallic paint. “I gave (Shaheen) the slogan and the ideas for the dollars signs, and he suggested the gold paint. We wanted to use plenty of gold to represent the gold mine that Toledo is sitting on.”

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Heckle and Jekyll

No news is good news for T-Town by Johnny Hildo Unfortunately, we are again in national news.

Back in the 1990s our beloved burg made the wildly popular board game Trivial Pursuit. Unfortunately, it was because of the verbal gaffe of one Carleton S. Finkbeiner, who ruminated that it might be prudent to support property values near the cargo hub at Toledo Express Airport by moving folks who couldn’t hear the deafening roar of the planes, namely, the deaf, into the homes nearby.

Folks all over the world could earn a Trivial Pursuit pie piece if they knew what an insensitive buffoon folks in Toledo had voted into the Mayor’s office.

Carty also brought us national and international awards, none of which won us attention from the average Joe on average Joe streets across the globe. Heck, Joe the Plumber wasn’t even a Toledoan. He also wasn’t a plumber, and his name was Sam, but whatever.

Recognition has come thick and fast in the last few months, though, and we’re back on the political map for average Joes around the world. First came the “Mayor cuts grass” hysteria. National news outlets found Carty astride a lawn tractor compelling. Folks from sea to shining sea were blessed with the news that Toledo was broke, and might consider releasing animals with cloven hoofs to chew offensive flora to the ground.

Next, the parking on the front lawn story hit. The world’s masses were apprised of the scourge afflicting Toledo, namely, autos parked in front of houses.

Whether said parking could relieve the city of uncontrolled grasseous growth went unexplored.

Passage to India

to connect with us, and for us to connect with them.” Thanks to the site’s userfriendly features, visitors can register for the Race for the Cure, share photos from past events, and interact through social media tools like MySpace, Facebook and Twitter. The site makes online giving and volunteer signup easier for those looking for a way to help. Check out the new site and sign up for their newsletter, “The Promise” for news and events. 3100 W. Central Ave., Suite 235. 419-724-2873.

—GS

BOO, BEN KONOP! LIAR!

Get to know the vibrant traditions, delicious food, lively music and energetic dances of India at the 20th Annual Festival of India, “Jhalak, A Glimpse of India.” Hosted by the Hindu Temple and Heritage Hall of Toledo, Friday, August 7 through Sunday, August 9, the celebration will include religious ceremonies, catered meals, cultural programs, and a carnival on Saturday. Friday 6 p.m.

- 10:30 p.m., Saturday 8:30 a.m. - 8 p.m., and Sunday 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. For more information, visit www.hindutempleoftoledo.org. 4336 King Rd., Sylvania.

A site to see

The Northwest Ohio Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure recently unveiled its new website, w w w. k o m e n n w o h i o . o r g .

According to executive director Mary Westphal, the new site “improves the ability for people

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Maxwell’s silver hammer The latest and greatest hit came when the video of a local stoner heckling a Ben Konop for Mayor press conference blew up all over the Internet.

This was initially nothing more than a source of mild amusement for Toledo locals. Konop called a press conference in the Old West End to call attention to the water mains inadequate for fire suppression. He chose a corner directly in front of an apartment where a playa hata named Maxwell inhales fibrous materials.

Seems Maxwell is no friend of the Konop mayoral candidacy. The resultant 3 plus minutes of continuous heckling was captured by a local news cameraman

and posted to his private blog. Soon, “Boo, Ben Konop” became a cult phrase of choice for web savvy Frogtown political junkies. The world was still blissfully unaware of Maxwell’s antipathy to the Konop candidacy.

All that changed when the video was posted to YouTube by someone who apparently understands search engine maximization, and subsequently to numerous sites across cyberspace. As of this writing Konop’s ineffective attempt to deal with a single detractor has been accessed by hundreds of thousands across the globe and has been posted on websites of major international news outlets.

“Are you done?” Ben asked. “No, I’m gonna keep going,” responded Maxwell.

Our sentiments exactly.

Nowhere to Hyde The Boo Ben incident begs the question: In the age of video phones, digital cameras, Facebook, YouTube and their ilk, what do we expect of our public figures? Every act can be digitally recorded, edited, removed from context and posted for the world to see. Our 70-year old Mayor had the huevos to break up a fight in a public park and the video posted on

Talk a walk on the wild side

Get hired!

Ladies, get in touch with your adventurous side with Women in the Outdoors, Saturday, August 29 from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. The Maumee Valley Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation is hosting workshops at the Progressive Fishing Association, 7675 Schadel Rd., Whitehouse. NWTF is a nonprofit organization supporting scientific wildlife management on public, private and corporate lands, along with wild turkey hunting as a traditional North American sport.

Participants can choose four of twenty workshops to attend, from tie dying to basic fishing, handgun safety to survival skills. Experience the pleasure and excitement of the great outdoors with women from all walks of life. Registration is $45 for program material, breakfast, lunch and membership. For more information and registration forms, visit www.womenintheoutdoors.org/419-474-1103.

—AL

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YouTube emphasized him calling a punk kid “Fatso.” The alternative interpretation, that of his courage in making a park safe for folks who simply want to walk in peace, went unrecorded.

Do we want only caricature Dr. Jekylls in public office? Should we judge and condemn the Mr. Hyde personas projected through out-of-context public postings of our public officials when they get secretly recorded and disseminated?

Who is the villain in the Boo Ben scenario? Konop, for his inability to quiet a detractor? Maxwell, for exploiting the moment to make some apolitical silliness, which inexplicably became a major news story? Or the Average Joe who craves any chance to ridicule, belittle and feel holier than thou?

Who is Dr. Jekyll, who Mr. Hyde?

Finding a job is tough. Thinking you’re all alone makes it even tougher. That’s exactly why the Toledo Flourishing Job Club (TFJC) was started. The club focuses on bringing together those who are job searching and creates a support system where members are able to speak freely about their job hunt. Headed by local business and career coach Heather Bradley, the club encourages developing smart, savvy solutions to overcome job search obstacles in a collective and encouraging way. Participants are encouraged to make the commitment to attend a 2-hour weekly meeting for 6 weeks. Membership is free. Also, on August 5, TFJC hosts their second Reverse Job Fair from 4-6 p.m. at the Toledo Edison Building. This fair takes the traditional format and flips it, giving job seekers the opportunity to interview employers. For more information or to sign up for their next information session Wednesday, August 12, 12 p.m. – 1 p.m., visit www.theflourishingcompany.com.

—DW

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Toledo types its heart out!

Writing, especially for an audience, is no easy task.

Putting your thoughts, stories, ideas and dreams out on the line for God knows who to critique — almost impossible. Yet, each year Toledo City Paper readers accept this challenge by participating in our annual Poetry and Fiction Contest, and each year our staff and dedicated panel of judges become more humbled by the courage and creativity that flows through the veins of literary geniuses living in Lucas County and beyond.

Many thanks to the 90+ individuals who put their hearts and souls on the line. This contest is a community project, and a Toledo tradition that wouldn’t be possible without you.

Now that the writing is complete and the results are in (the hard part finally surpassed), it’s time to honor this year’s outstanding poets and fiction writers.

Go online to continue reading select fiction winners, as well as the eight honorable mentions at www.toledocitypaper.com.

Immeasurable thanks and gratitude to the four word-

Sincerely,

Emily Rippe

Arts and Entertainment Editor

inspired judges who volun-

meet the

teered their time and expertise to produce these fine Poetry

& Fiction results!

JUDGES JESSE LIPMAN

KYLE MINOR Kyle Minor is the author of In the Devil’s Territory, a collection of short fiction. His recent work appears in Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers (Random House), Surreal South (Press 53), and Best American Mystery Stories 2008 (Houghton Mifflin). He is a visiting professor at the University of Toledo, and is at work on a novel and a nonfiction narrative, both set in Haiti.

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Jesse Lipman grew up in a cradle of poetry. The son of Lucas County Poet Laureate Joel Lipman, he emerged as a spoken word artist in Chicago in the early 1990s where he was first published in the Columbia Review. In 1998 he moved to Hawaii, and his work as a performer, emcee, teacher and promoter of poetry earned him the nickname of “The Godfather” for his role building Honolulu’s vibrant slam scene. He returned home to Toledo last year and continues his community-oriented poetry efforts as co-owner and operator of The Ground Level Coffee House on Central Ave. in West Toledo.

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TIMOTHY GEIGER Timothy Geiger is the author of the poetry collections The Curse of Pheromones (Main Street Rag Press, 2008) & Blue Light Factory, (Spoon River Poetry Press, 1999) and six chapbooks, most recently Four Windows (Brandenburg Press, 2006). He is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize XVIII and a Holt, Rinehart and Winston Award in Literature as well as many state and local grants in Alabama, Minnesota, and Ohio. He lives in Ottawa Hills with his wife Jennifer and son Jacob, and is an Associate Professor at The University of Toledo where he teaches creative writing, poetry and letterpress printing.

JANE BRADLEY Jane Bradley is the author of a story collection, Power Lines, which was listed by The New York Times Book Review, as an editor’s choice for a “Notable Book, ” and a novel, Living Doll. Her new story collection Are We Lucky Yet? is forthcoming this fall. She is also the author of a screenwriting textbook, Screenwriting 101: Small Steps While Thinking Big. She has received NEA and Ohio Arts Council Fellowships for her fiction, and awards for her plays and screenplays. Originally from the hills of Tennessee, she is currently an associate professor of creative writing at the University of Toledo where she is still trying to make sense of all the pavement and parking lots around her.

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The More Citrus-like Qualities of Louie

What I really want to do is tell Louie how beautiful he and his tractor look silhouetted against the creamy pink and orange of the sunrise in the morning.

But if I did, he’d probably kick my ass, or at least spit tobacco juice in my face.

So, I keep working and pretend like I’m too manly for beauty.

Louie’s like a big, ripe orange – the kind with that thick, tough skin that doesn’t peel easy.

If you dropped him down a flight of stairs, he’d bounce a little, then just roll to some cozy corner of the room and put his feet up, like he’d never rolled down any stairs at all.

RYAN A. BUNCH Ryan A. Bunch is a writer born in the hill-less gray stretch of land between Toledo, OH and Detroit, MI; presently, he resides in Toledo’s Old West End. Bunch’s poems have appeared in a number of online literary journals across the U.S.A., as well as online and in print in faroff places such as Istanbul, Turkey, and Liverpool, U.K. He was the A&E Editor at Adams St. Publishing for a handful of years. Currently, he maintains the weekly feature ‘Bunch’s Blog’ at Toledo.com, where readers can tune into various musings on music, arts, culture, and life in the Glass City. Bunch is an avid fan of the game of tennis, but is not very good and rarely plays.

I work in the hot sun with all the Louies that get out of bed at 6 a.m. to grab rakes and shovels, wipe sweat from leathered brows; we talk about women we’d like to have or men we’d like to be.

They wonder why my car is not a truck.

I want badly to explain to them how in Of Mice and Men George seemed like Steinbeck to me.

How, like any good politician, a good writer should know his work from the ground up.

That is why I mow grass.

But, partly because I feel guilty for playing in the world they live, and partly because I’m afraid of what they’ll do if they catch me, I grin and make a joke.

Louie shakes his head, chuckles and slaps me on the back – it stings a little.

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my knee hurts like hell, but it’s October 21st, 84 degrees, and the half-green red yellow leaves are crowing madly in the windtrees. all in all, in Ohio, that’s not a bad day, but my knee still hurts like hell. so I look through the singindancin trees where they break, and the sky is the most delectable blue, dolloped with meringue. the sun is bright and tender, and the wind-as I’ve alluded--is singin in the leaves, crisper than any bird, and the kids down the block are just voices (without bikes or footballs) not yet weighted by tomorrow and school, or the times after, when some day, their knee(s) will hurt like hell, too. but all in all, as the porch screens flex to the wind’s careless hand, I savor the autumnal music and feel the absolute 100 % divinity of the day and even though my knee pulses like a chorus from hell whose hot cries will not die, today is not a bad day all in all

SAM WRIGHT Sam Wright, whose given name is Lee, is a full-time English teacher at Springfield High School, where he also serves as Asst. Athletic Director and co-advisor of the Writers’ Club. A graduate of BGSU, Sam earned a Doctorate in American Literature from The University of Toledo in ‘92. Sam grew up in a large family in West Toledo, is the father of three daughters, and his wife is a teacher at Libbey High. Several of his siblings also have knee problems. He had total knee replacement surgery in May and can now enjoy his front porch nearly pain free.

And I get a bit sadder, because we stand sweating in the morning sun, surrounded by a scene almost biblical, and we both pretend like we are looking at the tractor.

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all in all

Curls From the very moment that life emerged from life One hour short of 9/9/99, an easy answer for an oft asked question Dangling like corkscrewed winter icicles Forming half moons, coil springs, hair slinkys if such a thing can exist It reached her ivory shoulders in a few short years But one hair pulled tight was longer Than the last decade, perhaps even century Holding remnants of generations long forgotten Now on blistering summer days We stroll the Maumee River front to get ice cream Blue haired ladies watch with lustful eyes Seizing it occasionally between their wrinkled fingers She’ll play along for awhile, smiling Laughing at the Shirley Temple comparisons Until overpowered by dreams of sugar She’ll say pleadingly “daddy I want chocolate”

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DAVID LEE GRAHAM Born and currently residing in BG though by an act of sheer fate itself as the road pulled David Graham west after high school to the mountains and rivers of Idaho. Educated on that endless rolling blacktop and in the seedy honky tonk taverns of this land before actually getting a degree from BGSU. Graham is the father of the curly haired wonder child, Alison Rose. Currently working as...well, hell, nobody works in this America anymore even if they want to...

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POETRY

the winners

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I Paint My Room In Memory Of My Mother Jackie black hair by Sassoon, Silver ’68 T-Bird, Shiny black cigarette holder with rhinestones.

Loved Donovan Sang “Mellow Yellow” with Saffron and “Sunshine Superman” Danced to Santana’s Woodstock tribal music Didn’t like Country Joe 1st born in ‘Nam at the time.

Housewife in the suburban tribe Born twenty years too soon Detested girdles, bras, shoes Wore caftans in her avocado and blueberry kitchen.

Secretly vegetarian In her world, animals would be saved first.

E OUT THTIONS K C E H N C ME ABLE HONOR

We roamed the Emerald Necklace in search of rocks and serene settings.

Found obsidian and arrowheads from tribes before us.

We once saw a red living room.

She mentioned it through the years but never took that trail.

I paint my room red in memory of my mother.

KATHLEEN KELLER Kathleen Keller lives in south Toledo with her family: her husband, two teenagers, and Sophie, the queen of dogs. Kathy is an alumna of Ohio University (Go Bobcats!) and is originally from the Cleveland area. She is the chairperson of Toledo Children’s Hospital Family Advisory Council.

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the winners

Mrs. Cristoff

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Tap Into Some Fun!

“Tommy, you come down to eat now!” the cry came from below my second story apartment, jarring me from immersion in a novel; the solitude of two or three or more days, I wasn’t sure, broken. I sat up and looked down through the window screen. “Thank you Mrs. Cristoff, but I’m....”. “You come, we ready to sit down”.

I unlocked the door, walked down the dark hall and stairway and outside around the corner to the Cristoff ’s front door. There were actually two front doors. One to the part of the house she and her husband lived in now and had for the last 56 years. The other to a shop, closed long ago, where he had once given haircuts. This section of Toledo’s east side was once a neighborhood of mostly eastern European families, The Cristoffs and a handful of widows and widowers in their 80s or 90s, scattered in a three or four block area, were the last of the Bulgarian community there.

I rang the doorbell and Mrs. Cristoff opened the door, wiping her hands on a full apron. I followed the solidly built woman into the kitchen where her remarkably short and frail husband sat at the table, confused but ready to eat. Across from him, tall and very properly dressed in a black suit, pressed white shirt and a thin black tie was another man. He looked to be a few years younger than the 90-year-old Mr. Cristoff.

Mrs. Cristoff had told me, one time when I asked, that this man was “a bachelor.”a He rented a room from another Bulgarian woman in the neighborhood and took supper each eve-

potatoes wrapped in dough with sides of steaming cabbage or carrots from the backyard garden. And when it seemed like you really would have to shout to convince her, “Mrs. Cristoff, I really can’t eat anything else”, she brought dessert, which was usually some kind of sweet fruit wrapped in the same dough that had earlier housed the main course.

Mrs. Cristoff was my bridge into the small Bulgarian community. She introduced me to an elderly widow who lived in a building two streets over from my apartment who needed a handyman from time to time. Over several months of occasional jobs like unclogging a sink or replacing broken windows, the notion of my planting a garden in her back yard started to take shape.

The widow’s husband had planted a garden every of the 40 or so years that they had lived there together. The back yard had not seen a cabbage plant since his death five years ago.

I remember now where the notion of the widow’s garden originated. It was, of course, Mrs. Cristoff ’s idea. That winter she had me reluctantly planting seeds in egg cartons, storing them under the plate glass window of the shop strewn with crates and an old barber chair, getting the baby plants ready for spring soil.

And so my daily routine began to change that summer. Previously, I had ventured out into the light of day only to perform a few odd jobs in the neighborhood or seek work at the day labor agency downtown. Now every evening I had to tend to the garden. Every so often, the widow

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ning with the Cristoffs. She said that his life was once almost “finished with too much drink”. That’s all that I knew about him. Over the course of the year that I occasionally shared meals with him, while not unfriendly, he never uttered a word. When he was done with his meal, he carefully folded the cloth napkin, placed it under his empty plate and got up to let himself out.

The meals were the heaviest imaginable: thick soups followed by meat and

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TOM FISCHER Tom Fischer grew up in Toledo. Over the years he has worked as a youth counselor in group homes and runaway houses, a community organizer in central city and public housing neighborhoods, a carpenter and a house painter. He now lives in a rural area outside of Tallahassee, Florida with his wife Elaine.

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MRS. CRISTOFF continued would walk out on the back balcony and gaze down at me working in the small backyard plot.

Several times I noticed tears on her cheek.

The basement of the widow’s three-story brick house led directly into the garden. For some reason I will always remember a moment, not much more that that, in the basement. I had just finished watering and pulling a few weeds.

It was early evening, the last of the day’s light filtered into the brick basement through the open door, the rays falling on ancient garden tools and dusty, empty mason jars lined on wooden shelves. I thought that if I was a photographer

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that a picture might somehow capture what was there. The picture could have a caption like “Tool shed, evening, Bulgarian village, 1937”.

But it was not the Bulgarian countryside. It was 1973 and in the middle of a moderately sized industrial city. “What the fuck is that down there, right down there, that bunch of vines stringing along there?” I told him it was cantaloupe plants.

“You crazy mother-fucker, you can’t grow melons in that soil”, he laughed, spilling some of his wine from the plastic cup over the side of the roof and almost spilling himself with it. Another man grabbed his arm and pulled him back from the side.

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The Other Side of Midnight ST RUNNER UP

If I didn’t know better, I’d say I had a bad case of writer’s block. It began when I tapped out on my typewriter We pluck cadences from thin air. We come from a thousand places with names short as XO carved on a tattooed tree and long as a drunken night. That’s as far as I got. So when Notus dives out for a polish sausage, it hits me: I’m short.

More than two years here and I honestly wonder about this place. From twenty feet up, the barracks is a hapless octopus tossed onto a hockey rink; ten feet below ground, and one imagines peering into a gurney ridden by a third grade class from Queens. From my vantage point, our barracks is a veritable beehive, a fleet of Cadillac orders: “Hurry up.” “Wait.” “Blouse your boots.” “Kiwi! Kiwi!” “Light ‘em up.” “Put ‘em out.”

A place where streetwise hustlers trying to make something out of nothing meet kids from farms the size of clouds. Where hard ankles fish P38s from starched fatigues to open cans of Spam or love letters in the dark. I tell you so.

Constant push-hands. Constant slurry and slosh of individuals simply moving on, or being pushed to believe they could cut a man from the gut up—and see only the eyes of a cod laid bare on plain, white butcher paper.

Soldiering is one big paradox, like listening to jazz at dawn. I tell you so.

And Mayes and Notus and Seldon know it too.

“How long you got left, Riordan?” Seldon prods. Seldon carries two hundred and fifty pounds, arms twin melons as comfortable swinging blocks of concrete as a pool stick or a deck of cards. He always asks a straight arrow question. How he ended up in the army is anybody’s guess.

I keep mum. He gives me one of his patent looks, lips squeezed into two Galilean moons, eyes tapping on flypaper. He cocoons teeth inside a wary sidelong glance, brows raised into stiff paintbrushes. He packs grouchy into pissed off.

Every soldier knows how long he’s got left, especially when short. Some needle buddies by situating the anointed time and place in cadence call lyrics: Twenty more days and I’ll be through, kissing your girl, instead of you. But I prefer to stay zip lipped. Besides, the only person I talk to much around here is Jude.

“Aw, Seldon, don’t pay Riordan no mind.

He’s got plaque on the brain now that he’s short,” Mayes interrupts, adjusting the plate in the front of his mouth. He thumps a card down hard on Notus’ footlocker. It makes a sound like how the Chinese pronounce the word Tao. He takes three tricks in succession. Dow, Dou . . . Dao! Mayes and Notus sit like peacocks on Notus’ bunk. Mayes’ eyes are floating thimbles of guacamole. Right now they study Seldon. Mayes moves cool, collected. Between long, slow sips of beer he sucks where his two front teeth were last summer, last July when after an all-night drinking spree in Louisville both teeth went missing in the steering wheel.

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RENOIR GAITHER What really matters is that a day after his fifty-second birthday Renoir left a shiny quarter on legendary screen icon James Dean’s gravestone. A week later he ate his first and only gooseberry.

Two and half days after that, he baked a blueberry pie with no sugar. Storytelling is simply hiding behind a set of facts that start with a keyboard and a blank page. Given the above, Renoir says it’s impossible to set the story straight.

Even on sunny days.

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The Circle

My mind races over everything I’ve done, like a runner going circles around the track again, and again, and again. I can’t breathe, I’m beaten and exhausted, but I can’t stop.

I take my yogurt cup, tear off the foil lid and continue the circular pattern with my spoon, swirling, swirling, swirling, and it’s not until after I have been stirring for a few minuets that I realize it’s vanilla flavored and there aren’t any berries in the bottom. I raise the plastic spoon to my mouth to take a bite, but when I bring it close it smells sweet and sticky and I change my mind. I don’t even know why I tried eating breakfast in the first place; it has been forever since I could keep it down. I set the cup down as far away from me as possible on the bench, right in front of an advertisement for a realtor with a suntan and smiling white teeth that look strangely huge from so close.

I pull up the hood of my gray sweatshirt and cross my arms tightly in front of me, I really wish I had brought a pair of gloves, technically it’s spring, but there are still a few patches of dirty snow on the dead grass, and a wet fog covers the waking city.

I lean back on the bench, I didn’t at first because it’s covered in little drops of water but I don’t care anymore, I have been awake all night and I can’t keep on sitting up straight.

I slouch but I’m still uncomfortable, so I look around to make sure no one is watching me and undo the first button on my jeans, they were already tight when I first bought them,

but now they are digging into my skin and have left a red mark around my hips and stomach.

The bus won’t come for another hour and I am afraid, afraid to be quiet, still, and alone with the thoughts I hate but can’t get rid of. I try and distract myself, there aren’t very many people out at this time in the morning, but I focus all of my attention on the few that are. I look across the street, a balding man in a hunter green coat steps out of a gas station mini mart, he is holding a paper cup with a lid in one hand and with the other he presses the remote starter for his car. Next a woman with a grumpy expression on her face stops her S.U.V at a red light nearby, and after that I see two men, probably in their early thirties, taking slow, tired steps down the sidewalk in front of me. The night shift is over, and they are going home where they really are Andrew and Brian and not just two pairs of hands and two names on two shirts.

I am successful for a little while, I don’t think of anything except this handful of strangers, but then a smaller car pulls into the left turning lane beside the S.U.V. The driver is a woman, maybe twenty five years old, with red, curly hair. The light changes and S.U.V goes on but she still has to wait for a green arrow, she takes advantage of the pause and turns her head to look at something over her shoulder. I don’t have to guess what the something is; it’s not hard to see the white handle of the baby seat through the back window.

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EMILY GARROW

E OUT THTIONS K C E CH LE MEN AB N O H OR

Emily Garrow was born in Toledo Ohio, is now nineteen years old and a home school graduate of 2008. She has had an interest in writing since the age of twelve, and is an avid reader. She loves nature and being outside, and is a black belt in Tae-kwon-do.

The Wind

I met Susan on Cupid.com six months after my marriage had ground itself into a fine, powdered dust. I’d spent the first couple of months of online dating without much luck, turns out “athletic” on Cupid really means “Giant Fat Ass”, but apparently those women don’t have mirrors at home or cater to the idea of reality. Either that or they’re so damn boring you want to stick toothpicks in your eyes to keep them propped open and attentive. I just couldn’t get into most of their lame stories of why their relationships failed either, “Yes” I’d say, “I sort of do understand why your husband left.” I’d just about given up until Susan came along and she was a revelation for me and a large dose of hope after the sad demise of my short marriage.

I’m not saying we went together like peas and carrots, but we got along pretty well and enjoyed each others company and twisted sense of humor. I knew right away there was something horribly wrong with her when on our second date she asked me if I’d ever read the poet and writer Charles Bukowski over a couple of cold Amber Bocks and peanuts at Dale’s in Maumee. I almost cracked a nut smiling and pinched her on her fine ass just like Charles would have, except of course, he may have done a little more than that. Yeah, it was nice to find a girl who didn’t want to live in the suburbs with two and half kids and nicely manicured lawn and talk about what to do with the 401 K money.

We ended up spending most of that spring doing short road trips to free our minds from worry and thought, thought can make a head feel pretty damn heavy, drinking a few beers and laughing on every back road we could find. I’m not certain if we stopped to piss in every McDonalds in lower Michigan and northwest Ohio, but it had to be close, one thing you’ve got to love about Mac’s is they always keep a clean shitter. Day after day I was growing more comfortable being around her and I think Susan felt pretty much the same way.

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DAVID LEE GRAHAM See bio on page 10

One night in early summer, after fishing for smallmouth all day at Mary Jane Thurston State Park in Grand Rapids, standing in the breeze blowing down the Maumee, I had an idea. We stopped at the Marathon station and I picked up a twelve pack of Killian’s red and two slices of spicy beef jerky. It was a warm, sultry evening, the fire-flies glowing above the freshly mowed green grass on the Maumee riverbank. Susan was running down the hill trying to catch a lightening bug with her mouth. That’s one of the things I love about her, she’s not afraid to act like a kid. When she got back to the car, I kissed her flush on the lips hoping she wouldn’t spit a fire-fly in my mouth.

“Hop in,” I said, “I’ve got something I want to show you.”

We drove out of town taking Wapakoneta Road and then headed east down Route 6 until we came upon the four huge wind turbines outside of Bowling Green city limits. I swung a left turn down Green Road, pulling my 1989 Honda Accord down a dirt road blocked on both sides by head high field corn. I shut the motor off and reached into the cooler for a couple of beers.

“What do you think”, I said. Susan looked up at the turbines which spun like a giant ceiling fan hung from the stars. “It’s perfect”, she replied.

We sat there between corn fields, drinking beer and talking, watching the giant blades of the turbines whipping around, chewing on our beef jerky. I could feel a strange buzz start to build in my body, like the electricity being generated by the turbines was being routed through me. I felt like a goddamn giant fire-fly. Susan and I crawled into the crimped back seat and made love. I swear sparks flew. Her back arched like being struck by lightning. It was all I could do to hang on. I lay there trembling in the back seat noticing an odd glow had attached itself to Susan’s skin. I could see stars floating around her body.

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culinary [ friday, august 7 ]

Tea in the Solarium

12-3pm. Enjoy an elegant summer afternoon complete with delicious sandwiches, desserts and enjoyable music. Set tea, $7. Additional items, 60 cents each. The Manor House at Wildwood Metropark, 5100 W. Central Ave., www.metroparkstoledo.com.

[ thursday, august 13 ]

Blues, Brews and Local Roots

6:30-9pm. Barbeque and other summer favorites from local growers and purveyors are the theme of this tasty event. Admission includes a Bell’s Beer tasting and music and dancing to the sounds of The Front Street Blues Band. $65. Call or see website for ticket info. 313-982-6001. The Henry Ford Museum, 20900 Oakwood Blvd., Dearborn, MI. www.thehenryford.org.

[ august 15 - august 16]

International Food Festival

Volunteers from 23 nationalities will prepare homemade recipes. Countries represented are Lebanon, Pakistan, Southeast Asia (Indonesia and Malaysia), Egypt, Afghanistan, Turkey, Bangladesh, Brazil, Palestine, and the United States. The festival will have cultural exhibits with arts and crafts, and jewelry. Free tours of the Islamic Center will be held.

Food demonstrations, including bread making, will be featured. $3 per car. August 15 11am- 9pm and August 16 from 12pm to 6pm.

The Islamic Center of Greater Toledo, 25877 Scheider Rd., Perrysburg. www.toledomuslims.com.

high spirits [ thursdays ]

Thirsty Thursdays

5-8:30pm. Enjoy classic rock and roll music while you taste 8 great beers. $10. www.aficionadowineandcigars.com. 419-873-4444.

Aficionado Wine and Cigars, 26567 N. Dixie Hwy., Perrysburg. www.aficionadowineandcigars.com.

[ friday, august 7]

Vino 100 Welcomes Juan Palomar

6-8:30pm. Owner and winemaker Juan Palomar, of Veleta Winery in Andalusia, Spain, showcases a variety of delicious wines. $5 ($2 with purchase).

Vino 100, 3355 Briarfield Blvd., Suite D, Maumee. www.vino100maumee.com.

[august 7 - august 8]

Montes Wines Tasting

5-8:30pm. Enjoy a selection of wines from Montes, Aficionado's winery of the month. $10. Aficionado Wine & Cigars, 26567 N. Dixie Hwy., Perrysburg. www.aficionadowineandcigars.com

The raw deal

Natural, organic eating for dramatic results

by Abby Liebenthal Calories, sodium, saturated fats. These words fill our minds at mealtime, haunting us with the fear of unhealthy eating. Diet and exercise concerns change constantly when results are slow to develop or become a struggle. Making a complete lifestyle change may seem out of the question, but one woman found that it was the only way to get her life back.

Susan Milliron began her journey several years ago when she was diagnosed with candida, an infection that begins in the digestive system and spreads to other parts of the body.

Milliron’s changed her eating pattern to a 100 percent raw food diet, but she reverted back to her normal routine once she recovered. However in February 2008, Milliron was again diagSusan Milliron made a lifestyle change to eat (nearly) only raw foods -nosed, now with an autoimmune disease, gout a decision that gave her back her health and her happiness. and diabetes, each malady having no cure, just medication treatment.

After researching various methods of dietcise again. I feel better and no longer need naps to get through ing and eating patterns, Milliron chose to return to her vegan, the day,” Milliron said. raw food lifestyle. “It is a lifestyle, not a diet,” Milliron said, “I “When you eat foods in their natural state, your body funcreally felt that by changing how I eat, I could maybe change how tions better and it can do its job digesting without a lot of work.

I felt.”

You have more energy and feel better.”

How does one maintain a strict raw and vegan lifestyle? MilMilliron offers a Simple Steps handout and seminar focused liron makes most of her meals at home, avoiding anything with on eating raw foods, which will begin in September. Learn how preservatives in it “My motto is, ‘If you can’t pronounce it, you to make Milliron’s raw food recipes, taste test and learn about shouldn’t eat it.’” If she does eat pre-packaged food, the ingre- organic products at these Sunday seminars: dients must be limited to five or six, with recognizable names.

September 13, Green Smoothies, 2-5 p.m. Clara J's Tea Room (219 Toledo has a number of stores carrying organic products includW. Wayne St., Maumee), $20 ing Claudia’s Natural Food Market, Monnette’s, Fresh Market, and even Meijer and Kroger.

September 27, What is your skin eating?, 2-5 p.m., Clara J's Tea Room, $15 When eating out, Milliron tends to order a salad or will try a vegetarian entrée if she knows it is vegan. Currently ninety October 11, Rawalicious Seminar - Intro to Raw Foods, Part 1, 2-5 percent vegan, Milliron occasionally eats fish. “Eating out can p.m., Location TBA, $25 be difficult or easy, depending on my mood.” This may seem like October 25, Rawalicious Seminar - Intro to Raw Foods, Part 2, 2-5 a lot of work, but the results are amazing. p.m., Location TBA, $25 Losing sixty pounds, overcoming diabetes, and with her autoimmune and gout diseases in remission, Milliron continues For more info about raw foods or to register for Susan Milliron’s semher raw and vegan practices. “I can walk up and down stairs inars, call 419-575-0908 or email susanmilliron@yahoo.com. www. again. I can sleep through the night. I am finally able to exer- susanmilliron.miorganicfuture.com.

[ wednesday, august 12 ]

susan's rawalicious recipes

Wine Tasting with Uptown Vineyard

6:30-8pm. Bring your friends and come enjoy a wine tasting at Manhattan’s restaurant. Uptown Vineyard invites you to taste five restaurant quality wines plus appetizers. $15. Email to RSVP. ty@uptownvineyard. com. Manhattans Restaurant, 1516 Adams Street

[ august 14 - august 15]

Sparkling Sake Tasting

5-8:30pm. Sip on a selection of sparkling sake by Sake2me. Flavors include green tea, ginger mango and Asian pear. $10. Aficionado Wine & Cigars, 26567 N. Dixie Hwy., Perrysburg. www.aficionadowineandcigars.com.

Tastings at the Beer and Wine Cave Wednesdays 6-8pm, Thursdays 5-7pm. $10 beer, $15 wine. Beer and Wine Cave, 4400 Heatherdowns. www.toledomeatsandmore.com.

August 5-6

Great wines for under $25 and best selling beers.

August 12-13

Wines For BBQ season and hopped-up beers

granola 1⁄4 cup soaked raw almonds 1⁄4 cup soaked raw sunflower seeds 1⁄4 cup raw soaked walnuts 1⁄2 cup organic raisins 4 pitted medjool dates, chopped, un-soaked 1⁄4 tsp. Ground cinnamon Dash salt

Soak all the nuts overnight in filtered water. Place the almonds in a food processor fitted with the S blade and pulse briefly. Add the walnuts and sunflower seeds in the food processor with the almonds. Pulse briefly until coarsely chopped. Add the dates, raisins, cinnamon and salt and process briefly to mix. Store in a sealed container in the refrigerator; will keep for a few days.

Mix the granola, with nut yogurt and fresh berries for a yogurt parfait. Looks beautiful and tastes great!

green smoothie [susan's favorite] 2-handfuls of organic baby spinach leaves 1–2- ripe banana(s) a bag of frozen organic mangoes a squirt of agave nectar (natural low glycemic sweetner) 2 cups of water (or make sure water covers all ingredients in blender)

Makes 2 quarts

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Liquor license to chill

Sylvania’s place to “Eat, sip, chat” now has another reason for visitors to stop and stay awhile. With a recently acquired liquor license, Chandler Cafe has a selection of beer and wine, as well as an extended appetizer menu, for the perfect evening drink and bite. The appetizer menu includes such delectables as spinach artichoke dip, puff rounds with ham and cheese, and flat bread with various toppings, like fresh mozzarella and parmesan. Open until 9 p.m. on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, the Cafe will also host events such as open mic, karaoke, and wine tastings. 5648 N. Main St., Sylvania. 419-517-5088/ www.chandlercafe.com.

Something new for foodies

The Center for Innovative Food Technology (CIFT) has numerous programs to help the local agricultural community, from their farm to chef program to their Northwest Ohio Cooperative Kitchen (a commercially licensed kitchen for food entrepreneurs). Now, CIFT is inviting the community to the Agricultural Incubator Foundation on the third Thursday of each month for a breakfast forum from 7:30 a.m. – 9 a.m. to develop networking opportunities and discuss agricultural issues. The next forum, August 20, focuses on the Northwest Ohio Green Products Program, and its offerings and services. September features the Ohio Market Maker program, with websites that help connect farmers to food professionals. Cost is $10 per person. For more info visit www.eisc.org/419-535-6000.

When food concerns arise, it’s often hard to get the information you need at the moment you need it. Thanks to a partnership between the CIFT, Kroger, Columbus Division and The

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Ohio State University, consumers throughout the state have the opportunity to call a Food Safety Hotline whenever they have a question about food safety and preparation.

Sponsored since 1985

by Ohio State’s Food Industries Center, the improved hotline now has the ability to answer consumer questions quickly. The hotline will be staffed to answer food concerns Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. After hours, callers can leave a message for a response. 800-752-2751.

Flying Bean’s contest takes off

Something new is brewing at Levis Commons.

After 2.5 years of serving fresh coffee and hosting live music, The Flying Bean Coffee House is continuing its services under a new name (due to trademark issues). And owners John and Becky Ohm want your help! “Only the name will be different, but we want to involve the community that has supported our local coffee house so strongly since we opened,” said Becky. Turn in your entry for a new name by Saturday, August 15 and receive $1 off coupon for the drink of your choice. The winning entry will receive a $100 gift card. The Flying Bean is looking for entries that fit the original logo and keep the aviation theme (both John and Becky are military pilots).

Send entries to theflyingbean@mac.com. 2130 Preston Parkway, Levis Commons, Perrysburg.

419-931-0273/www.theflyingbean.net.

New take on a classic

The milk and cookie combo isn’t what it used to be. Lovers of this tasty duo are trying out varieties that are more in line with their dietary needs and choices. Baker Kristen Palmer, formerly of Claudia’s Natural Food Market and Pure Bake Shoppe is now supplying Caffeini’s Coffee with her tempting gluten-free classics, including coconutty macaroons, homemade breads, and, of course, soft, chocolate chip cookies. And, if you’re looking for a unique way to wash it down, Caffeini’s offers Living Harvest Hempmilk, a creamy and rich tasting source of nutrients, without dairy, soy, cholesterol or allergens. Bon appetit! Caffeini’s Coffee, 1471 Secor Rd. 419-536-9724.

Nights in Sylvania

Looking for something fun to break up your work week? Sylvania’s SouthBriar Restaurant’s weekly events and specials are sure to get you moving. Mondays are Mexican night, with high end tacos for $1.50 and half price margaritas. On Wednesdays, take in the thrill of the grill on SouthBriar’s front porch with varied favorites like German Onion Burgers and steaks.

Thursdays are “MEET and GREET hors d’oeuvres hour.” Grab a stack of business cards and brochures (enough to leave for the week) and come out for this free, open networking event from 5:30 - 7:00 p.m. For more information on events, live music, and menu items, visit www.southbriar.biz.

5147 Main St., Sylvania. 419-517-1111.

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BY DYLAN WISE Fred Kodeih

Calvino’s

Sometimes, there’s nothing more embarrassing than having the deer-in-the-headlights look while strolling down the wine aisle. Luckily, if you’re a wine novice who doesn’t know the difference between a Chardonnay and a Cabernet, Toledo’s wine gurus are at the ready. We asked a couple of them to give their expert guidance in finding a great summer wine.

Fred Kodeih, wine connoisseur from Calvino's (3143 W. Central Ave, 419-531-5100), knows how to simplify the process. He said that people typically look for a good valued and tasty wine in the summer time. "What people tell you is a good wine is irrelevant. If you get a glass, smell it n is one of the top te o and like it, then that's a good wine for you," he hi O at th ow kn u 120 Did yo er ov ve ha e W said, laughing. ? on ti uc states for wine prod development right now.

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Sweet, fruity and easy to drink.

Being very low in alcohol makes it less like a wine and more like a fizzy grape juice.

GOOD PAIRED WITH: A bowl of fruit PRICE: Around $15 WHERE TO BUY: Calvino's

Malbec

Even though it is a red wine, this has less acidity than a typical Merlot and still contains soft fruit textures.

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Although not overly sweet it complements a salad and a light meal perfectly. This relatively new brand has been gaining in popularity over the past several summers.

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A blend wine perfect for a late night patio party, or even lounging by the pool.

GOOD PAIRED WITH: Spring Rolls PRICE: $11 WHERE TO BUY: The Vineyard

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Syrah

Great for mixing with a steak or beef entree, upfront flavor with a little bit of a pepper kick finish.

GOOD PAIRED WITH: Bacon Cured Skirt Steak PRICE: Around $20 WHERE TO BUY: The Vineyard

Since its opening, Walt Churchill's Market has prided itself on having some of the best wines the area has to offer.

This summer the Maumee location (3320 Briarfield Blvd.) added a brand new state run liquor section to their store that has increased the size of the wine section, added an outdoor Patio Bistro and even their own on-hand wine expert, Austin Beeman. Stop by for a tasting Saturdays at noon-5pm and enjoy the fresh air, fresh food and, of course, wine.

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Kodeih also tells us that people are looking for good pairings of wine and food. An interesting combination could consist of a sweet Riesling, white German grape wine, and a spicy Thai meal. These two contrasting flavors tend to balance each other.

Beer and Wine Cave (Key and Heatherdowns) guru Matt Snyder says, "Summer wine should strike a cord at the first sip." And what's striking his customers cords this summer is an Argentinean wine called New Age. Snyder suggests serving it over ice with a squeeze of lemon. If you're looking for a more unique wine, Snyder has just the thing. Chateau Lamothe Blanc is a French wine that he says is "tart in a good way," a perfect pairing with a nice goat cheese.

Jerry Johnson from The Vineyard (5305 Monroe St, 419-535-7301, www.thevineyardwineshop.com) reminded us that the perfect summer wine should go well with grilling. Most flavors of a Syrah (or Shiraz according to the Australians) are excellent "kick back and grill" wines. Johnson lets us know that above all else, summer wine should be enjoyed. Don’t worry about the temperature of the wine, or the shape of the glass. His simple advice: "just enjoy the wine."

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Eye-rolling wine snobs might cringe at the thought of drinking a wine like White Zinfandel, or even a crisp Rose. But today they may have to bite their tongues.

For years, light wines have been looked at as wines for people who can't handle "real wine." But these fruity, fragrant wines are perfect on a starry summer night.

Aside from being just plain tasty, these pink drinks can easily complement a light dinner. Mike Gregg from Cork's Wine and Liquor (27250 Crossroads Pkwy, Rossford) says these "gateway wines" are exactly what your chicken or pork dish needs to catapult the flavor into summertime.

Gregg also reminisces about when the White Zinfandel phenomenon broke out; Americans didn't exactly know what to look for so they gravitated towards the ones with the most recognizable flavor. At the time, these "Bee Gees Disco Wines" (according to Gregg) were the easy drinking standard. They were the perfect patio wine; easy to drink, sweet in flavor and they pleased almost anyone.

Since those days, Americans have been introduced to more complex flavors from Italian and French wines that now dominate wine menus. Not that that's a bad thing; after all, different flavors please different palates.

It's all about finding the best fit for you. So, if you like a White Zin, then go for it. After all, we're just looking to have a good time, right?

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A soldier's story

A harrowing, brilliant film set in the Iraq war by Josh Tyler The Hurt Locker R, 131 minutes,★★★★★ Director Kathryn Bigelow’s Iraq war movie ignores the usual trappings of the by now well traveled modern desert warfare genre, and, in the process, accomplishes something few of those other movies has been capable of: It’s good. Maybe it’s because she’s successfully welded all the harrowing excitement of speed to all the confusion and uncertainty of life in Iraq.

Or maybe it’s because she seems less interested in the political implications of everything that’s going on in the country than she is in what being there is like for the soldiers whose story she’s telling.

Whatever the reason, The Hurt Locker is unlike anything else you’ve ever seen, a wrenching rush of adrenaline set in a never-ending cycle of occupation and struggle and ever-increasing tension.

It focuses almost entirely on one, small Army bomb squad. Disarming deadly explosive booby traps is bad enough – imagine trying to do it in Iraq under constant threat of attack, stared at with hatred by the people you’re trying to keep from being blown up, surrounded by heavy artillery and threatened by snipers. That’s the job of Staff Sergeant William James

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(Jeremy Renner) and his three man team.

Every day they hop in their humvee and head out into the streets of Baghdad or, often worse, into the desert where some terrorist has planted deadly ordinance, just waiting to blow someone to hell. It takes a special kind of man to do the job, maybe even someone a bit nutty.

Sergeant James is maybe, a little nuttier than most.

He ignores protocols, refuses to use the relatively safe robots, preferring instead to suit up and walk straight into danger, where he disarms the bomb and gets the whole thing over with. “You’re a wild man,” declares one of his superiors. His team thinks he’s worse than that; they think he’s going to get them all killed. William doesn’t really see himself in either light, and figuring out exactly where his head is at is the deeper subplot of the film as his team drives from one potential explosion to the another, where, whether successful or not, they’ll leave you with fear rumbling in the middle of your gut.

It’s a harrowing film, brilliantly directed and wonderfully acted. Every second is taut and thrilling even though Bigelow’s approach to the material seems primarily to be showing men at work. She doesn’t resort to undue trickery to get us on the

The Hurt Locker gives a realistic account of the Iraq war through the eyes of a small Army bomb squad. edge of our seats. These are blue collar guys out there doing their job, it just happens to be the toughest, scariest job in the whole damn army. You feel every bit the danger they’re in, perhaps because Bigelow’s approach makes it real enough that we can believe without reservation that it’s happening. Or maybe it’s because we know that somewhere over in Iraq, right now, it actually is.

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The Hurt Locker is a magnificent film; moving and gritty and thrilling, not by coldly calculated design, but simply because it is. Taking a journey through our soldiers world of dust and desert and bullets and smoke has never felt so honest, so tense, so flat out scary. Test your mettle, watch it without flinching.

See The Hurt Locker.

The Hurt Locker is playing at Levis Commons Showcase Art.

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also playing

[ friday, august 7 ] An Inconvenient Truth, TLC sponsors this

showing of Al Gore’s global warming documentary.

A pot luck starts at 5pm with the film showing at 6:30pm. 419-343-4921. Bedford Library, 8575 Jackman Rd., Temperance.

Copyright controversy

Copyright critics put their ideas to the forefront in the Media Decompression Collective’s next Drive-In Cinema presentation, RiP: The Remix Manifesto. On Wednesday, August 19, the public is invited to a free screening of this controversial documentary by web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor. Exploring issues of copyright in the information age, the film focuses on mash-up musician Girl Talk —who is topping the charts with his sample-based songs — as its central protagonist. But is Girl Talk a paragon of people power or the Pied Piper of piracy? Find out what Creative Commons founder Lawrence Lessig, Brazil’s Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil, and pop culture critic Cory Doctorow have to say about the issue. Visit www.ripmix.com for more information on the project. Sponsored by the Toledo City Paper.

Free. 9 p.m. Bozarts Fine Arts & Music Gallery, 151 S. St. Clair. www.mdctoledo.org.

Back on Top

The Maumee Indoor Theater and Lyric Photoplay Society bring back some of history’’s greatest films with their monthly movie series, “Movie Classics at the Maumee Indoor.” This month welcomes the 1941 comedy-mystery Topper Returns on Sunday,

Fiddle me in

Are you a match made for the Oregon Community Theatre?

The local troupe is holding open auditions for their upcoming production of Fiddler on the Roof Tuesday, August 18 and Wednesday August 19, and they’re looking for thespians who know how to sing and dance. Set in the small Jewish village of Anatevka, Russia in 1905, Fiddler on the Roof tells the story of how Tevye (a dairyman), August 9. In this sequel, CosmoTopper (Roland his wife Golde, and their Young) is once again tormented by a fun-loving five daughters cope with spirit Gail Richards (Joan Blondell) who was their harsh existence under accidentally murdered. With Topper’s help, Gail Tsarist rule. Auditions held sets out to find her killer with the expected at Fassett Auditorium, 3025 zany results. Movie starts at 4:30 p.m. and Starr Ave., Oregon at 6 p.m.

7 p.m. $5. Can’t get enough of Hollywood’s Bring your own sheet music Golden Age? On Saturday, August 15 (during and come prepared to sing, Maumee’s Summer Fair), a continuous showdance and read from the ing of classic short comedies, cartoons and behind-the-scenes shorts will be presented.

Maumee Indoor Theater, 601 Conant St. 419897-8902/www.maumeeindoor.com.

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script. For more info, contact Kevin Wietrzykowski at 419-875-5374. www.oregoncommunitytheatre.org.

Chocolate-y chorus

The Toledo Repertoire Theatre presents a theatrical treat Thursday, August 13 - Sunday, August 16 with the Rep Pre-Teenies Musical, Willy Wonka, Jr. Roald Dahl’s timeless story of the world famous candy man and his quest to find an heir comes to life in this stage adaptation of Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, featuring young actors and actresses ages 6-13. Includes sing-alongable ditties from the family film, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, such as “(I’ve Got A) Golden Ticket,” “Oompa Loompa,” and “I Want It Now.” Runs ThursdaySaturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 2:30 p.m. $10 adults, $5 children. Toledo Rep, 16 10th St. 419-243-9277/ www.toledorep.org.

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theater events

Only at the OT

The Ottawa Tavern is now hosting weekly film screenings on Wednesday nights at 10 p.m. Bring your friends, share some drinks and get ready to watch the OT’s favorite DVD classics. Get ready to relive some memorable — yet creepy — childhood moments with the live action heap of fun, The Garbage Pail Kids on August 5. The short-lived, but not forgotten sketch comedy show Mr. Show starring David Cross and Bob Odenkirk will be screened on August 12. Ottawa Tavern, 1815 Adams St. 419-725-5483 / www.otavern.com —BW

[ friday, august 7 ] Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, This irresistible musical about the

trials and triumphs of Joseph, Israel’s favorite son, paints a picture of betrayal and hardship, prophecy and forgiveness. Presented by ToDAY Productions. $5-$9. See website to order tickets. Collingwood Arts Center, 2413 Collingwood Blvd. www.collingwoodartscenter.org.

[ august 6 - august 9 ] City of Angels, Tony Award winning spoof

of the 1940s detective noir movement. Two plots interweave effortlessly in this seedy tale of the underworld of Hollywood. Thursday, Friday and Saturday shows 8pm, Sunday 3pm. See website for ticket prices. Croswell Opera House, 129 E. Maumee St., Adrian, MI. www.croswell.org

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Searching for stars Local artist launches Toledo-based street art scavenger hunt

by Kelly McGilvery

From a vantage point eight feet high, a pink star with two crossed eyes and a protruding tongue surveys the scene: traffic coursing through a busy intersection in West Toledo; cars in drivethru lanes at a fast food restaurant, a coffee shop, a bank. An occasional pedestrian navigates the sidewalks and five-lane streets.

The star is painted on a foot-square wood panel, tacked high on a utility pole.

You’ll see it if you are looking closely — against a backdrop of two aging department stores and a parking lot the size of several city blocks. If you are looking really closely, you can spot this star, and several dozen others with varied expressions, all over town.

The Street Art Scavenger Hunt is a summer-long project by “Star 001”, a local artist and Davis College graphic design student. Nearly thirty of the star panels have been hung around the city for Toledoans to find. A website explains the project at http://star001art.wordpress. com. The site contains snapshots of several stars’ locations and clues to finding others. Star 001 will provide prizes to the scavenger hunt winners.

On a recent visit to Ann Arbor, Star 001 was inspired by the town’s native art scavenger hunt, the whimsical “Fairy Doors of Ann Arbor.” Energized by walking around town with his girlfriend seeking the ornate miniature entrances to imaginary spaces, “hours seemed like minutes,” said Star 001, and the spark was ignited for a Toledo-based art hunt.

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As an artist, Star 001 is influenced by graffiti and street artists such as Shepard Fairey, Banksy, D*Face and Dalek, who spread their work throughout public spaces across the world.

“These are people who are putting a message out there for everyone to see. I definitely admire that,” said Star 001. “As much as I have a heart for graffiti and street art, I wanted to do something that was fun.”

The Toledo Street Art Scavenger Hunt combines city pride with an activist sensibility, working to counteract the negative opinion of graffiti and art in public spaces. At the same time, the project aims to help participants engage their natural curiosity about their surroundings, by encouraging a fresh, wide-eyed journey around the city. Turning the search for stars into a competition will hopefully result in “people seeing parts of Toledo where they don’t usually go,” according to Star 001.

So, while the summer winds down, enjoy a trip around the city, scanning the landscape for these iconic stellar characters. Keep your eyes open while walking or driving through town, trying to discover the stars amid the visual noise of lighted signs and messages on marquee signs.

The Street Art Scavenger Hunt runs through the end of August. Check out the website at http://star001art.wordpress.com for clues, photos, and more information about the project.

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Unleash your artistic beast Join some of Toledo’s most uninhibited cultural organizations for the second annual Arts Gone Wild Festival.

The festival at the Toledo Botanical Garden features free performances, demonstrations, story telling, strolling performers and hands-on activities — the perfect place to celebrate your inner artist.

The Arts Commission of Greater Toledo’s Young Artists at Work will lead a scavenger hunt for recyclables along an artistically-fabricated cityscape path. Create sunprints, as well as flowers and plants using a variety of materials with the Toledo Museum of Art. And enjoy a variety of performances, ranging from high-energy Afro-Caribbean, the happy sounds of Glass City Steel, the smooth sounds of Urban Jazz Collective and TSA One Acts performances.

Arts Gone Wild is a collaboration of the ACGT, Metroparks of the Toledo Area, Sauder Village, Toledo Ballet, Toledo Botanical Garden, Toledo-Lucas County Public Library, TMA, Toledo Repertoire Theatre, Imagination Station, Masterworks Chorale,TSA, Toledo Symphony, Toledo Zoo and WGTE Public Media. Don’t miss the Kick-Off Celebration on Thursday, August 6 from 6-9 p.m., featuring Jazz in the Garden at a reduced ticket price. Arts Gone Wild runs Friday, August 7 and Saturday, August 8 from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Free parking and admission. For more info, www.artsgonewild. org. Toledo Botanical Garden, 5403 Elmer Dr. 419-536-5566/ www.toledogarden.org.

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Artisans at the Attic

There’s always something artsy to do in Toledo — even on Sunday. Witness the newlyannounced Artisan Sunday, a weekly event at the Attic on Adams. Beginning at 4 p.m. every Sunday afternoon, local artisans will line the Attic’s outdoor patio with their handmade arts and crafts. Jewelry, photographs, perfume and incense are just a few of the goods you can purchase. Whether you’re a local artist looking to set up shop, or just a fan of the arts scene, Sunday at the Attic is the place to be. Artists interested in selling their art at the bar can contact Amelia at 419-243-5350.

The Attic on Adams, 1701 Adams St. www.theatticonadams.com.

Remembering Eleanor Gustafson

Join the Sylvania Area Chamber of Commerce and the Sylvania Advantage for an enchanting evening honoring the late Ohio artist, Eleanor Gustafson Thursday, August 6.

The reception features art created by Gustafson — who worked in printmaking, paper cutting and drawing, but specialized in watercolors — as well as delicious fine wines. All paintings are for sale, with proceeds used for community and business programs, including scholarships for Sylvania area students and grants to nonprofit organizations. An avid local arts promoter, Gustafson helped begin the Chamber’s annual arts and crafts festival, which she envisioned 52 years ago. To make reservations for the reception, contact Laura Glover at 419-882-2135.

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Free. 5-7 p.m. Sylvania Chamber Area Chamber of Commerce office, 5632 N. Main St., Sylvania. www.sylvaniachamber.org.

That’s my Mona

Toledo’s oldest organization supporting professional women artists is on the road with a familiar face. The Athena Art Society (formerly known at the Society of Toledo Women Artists) brings us 35 personal interpretations of the Mona Lisa, currently on display at the Toledo Heights Library. The “Mona Project” is presented by members of Athena, and note cards of original work are available at Inside Angles Gallery and Frame Shop (909 S. McCord Rd, Holland). Funds will support the Athena Art Society’s community, exhibition and scholarship projects. Runs through Friday, September 11. Toledo Heights Library, 423 Shasta Dr. 419-259-5220/ www.toledolibrary.org.

The art of prevention

Calling all artists practicing (and keen on promoting) safe sex! Planned Parenthood of Northwest Ohio (PPNWO) is hosting a new type of art competition, focused on raising awareness about STDs, healthy choices and safer sex. The non-profit is challenging local artists to create 3D art pieces using Proper Attire brand condoms. PPNWO will select up to 15 artists to display their work during the organization’s Anniversary fundraiser, The Art of Prevention, on Thursday, September 17. A $500 prize will be given to the winning artist, selected by a panel of local experts. For more information on contest guidelines, contact Melissa Mills-Dick at 419-255-1115 ext. 303. www.ppnwo.org.

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Exhibition of Rejects

Highlighting artists at Salon des Refuses by Abby Liebenthal Every year, the Toledo Federation of Art Societies hosts the competitive Toledo Area Artist Exhibition. And every year, a fair amount of talented local artists are rejected — their work refused to be displayed at the Toledo Museum of Art. After the initial blow from not being “good enough” subsides, the rejected artists dusts themselves off and submit their work to Prizm’s annual Salon des Refuses exhibit. TCP profiled a few of the rejected artists from this year’s show; most of them winners in the underdog competition. Salon des Refuses runs through Friday, August 21 at the Parkwood Gallery, 1838 Parkwood Ave. Suite 120. For more info, 419-254-2787.

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Lauren Kalinoski

As an assignment for class, Lauren Kalinoski was required to create a selfportrait based off a personal photo. The challenge was to illustrate a unique side of expression, perhaps different than the usual profile. Portraying an opposite emotion of her usually blissful attitude, Kalinoski focused on conveying the sadness that occasionally occurs in life. She also placed emphasis on the

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"Flowers in the City" by Maureen Kirwen Huffman is made of stainless steel and bronze.

Maureen Kirwen Huffman

Conveying the art of decay is Maureen Kirwen Huffman with her stainless steel, bronze, copper and stone pieces. The oxidation of metal and the colors produced intrigued Kirwen Huffman when she first began working with the materials,

Ellen Loeffler-Kalinoski's "Jetty's" catches eyes at the Salon show. hair, experimenting with ink rather than using her usual medium of pencils. When not busy with assignments and other activities, Kalinoski likes to use chalk pastels, paint and snap a few photos as well. The Van Gogh award was presented to Kalinoski for her self-portrait. “I never used ink before, but I really like how it turned out,” Kalinoski said.

Ellen Loeffler-Kalinoski

Palm trees swaying in the wind, perfect lighting reflects on the leaves, Ellen Loeffler-Kalinoski catches the moment in time. Photography became Loeffler-Kalinoski’s passion when she started playing with cameras in high school. Continuing the hobby throughout college, Loeffler-Kalinoski became a

Lauren Kalinoski and her mother Ellen stand proudly by their artwork. graphic designer by trade but is an artist at heart. Watercolors and drawing are other mediums she works with, but photography is her main focus. Her photo titled “Jetty’s,” illustrates the quiet beauty of Florida palm trees drifting in the night sky. The slow shutter speed captures the movement and the night sky adds to the vibrant colors. Other than nature photos, Loeffler-Kalinoski likes to catch “something you might just pass by… capturing lighting on a specific building with a natural element in it.”

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taking the hobby to new heights. Usually creating masterpieces of stone and bronze, Kirwen Huffman’s winning piece, “Flowers in the City,” was produced with stainless steel. The two-dimensional piece consists of four panels detailing rustic flowers. Flowers are a motif of Kirwen Huffman’s work, either in her stone sculptures or as seen on stainless steel. “It’s like the graffiti you see in the city. I use flower images to add beauty,” Kirwen Huffman said. Other pieces by this artist are showcased at the Kirwen Gallery in Elmore.

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events wednesday 5 YAAW public open house, 5:30-7:30pm. See the artistic talents of the apprentices of the Young Artists At Work program, including paintings, jewelry, picture frames, and journals. Entertainment and refreshments included. Toledo School for the Arts, 333 14th St. www.yaaw.org

friday 7 Arts Gone Wild, Celebrate Toledo’s artistic instincts.

This two-day summer festival explores the many diverse cultural offerings found in the Toledo area, free performances and hands-on activities. Toledo Botanical Garden, 5403 Elmer Drive. www.toledogarden.org. Through August 8.

photography, focuses on the impact westernization is having on eastern traditions and culture.

419-255-5117. Space 237, 237 N. Michigan Ave. www.space237.com. Through September 5.

The (un)Stable Artists of Flatlanders Exhibition, Features work by James Freeman, Michael Joseph, Denise Keeley, Nathan Longsdorf, John Leyland, Margo McCafferty, Tom Rudd, Kenneth M. Thompson, and Mark Wagar. Flatlanders Art Gallery, 11993 E. US 223, Blissfield. Through September 6.

Review / Preview, Review / Preview is a show consisting of paintings, ceramics, jewelry and sculpture, featuring the local, regional and international artists who have been the core of 20 North’s exhibitions over the past 17 years — as well as a preview of artists to be featured in the upcoming 2009 - 2010 season. 20 North Gallery, 18 N. St. Clair Street. Through October 10.

A List of all the People I Love Opening, 7pm. The solo show features art by Douglas D. Kampfer. Bozarts Gallery, 151 S. St. Clair, Toledo.

saturday 8 Downtown Monroe Fine Art Fair, 10am-6pm.Fifty artists in gather in downtown Monroe's historic Loranger Square.

Children’s Corner face painting and entertainment. Free shuttle service to and from River Raisin Jazz Festival, two blocks away at St. Mary's Park. Downtown Monre, East First and Washington Streets, Monroe, MI.

Toledo Museum of Art 2445 Monroe St. 419.255.8000 www.toledomuseum.org

Artwork from Young Artist At Work program.

exhibitions [ new ]

saturday 15 Summerfest Trunkshow, Bonita Bead presents this show featuring handmade lampwork art beads and jewelry by Hager Studios of Maumee. Meet artist Susan Matych Hager from 10am-6pm. Bonita Bead Boutique, 215 Conant St., Maumee.

[ ongoing ] Salon des Refusés The Salon des Refuses exhibition is a long standing and well loved Toledo tradition and is an exhibit for art refused by the Toledo Area Artist Exhibition sponsored each year by the Toledo Federation of Art Societies in conjunction with the Toledo Museum of Art. The 2009 Salon show is sponsored by PRIZM Creative Community. This year the show is exhibited at two galleries, Parkwood Gallery (1838 Parkwood Ave.) and the Collingwood Arts Center (2413 Collingwood Blvd. ) For more info, www.collingwoodartscenter.org or www.acgt.org.

The Long View, The exhibit includes 50 works from Herral Long’s private collection and photos shot during his career at The Blade.

Downtown Library, 325 Michigan. Through August 28.

The Mona Project, The Mona Project is an Athena fundraiser which consists of personal interpretations of the Mona Lisa by members of the Athena Art Society. The display includes 30 pieces of framed artwork. Lucas County Library - Toledo Heights Branch, 423 Shasta Dr. 419-2595220. Through August 31.

Between the Cracks, A Tale of Two Cities Opening, The artists chronicle their reactions to life in the separate cities of Cleveland and Taipei, Taiwan.

Michelangelo Lovelace’s acrylic paintings depict inner-city life in Cleveland with a mixture of sadness, hope and humor. Tina Gionis, through her digital

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it’s friday

August 7 Features glass flower and flameworking sessions, acoustic music by The Potential, a gallery talk with Carolyn Putney, hands-on activities and a wine tasting. Open until 10pm.

Admission is free, a fee applies for some activities.

August 14 Enjoy free glassblowing demonstrations, glass flower and flameworking sessions, classic R&B with Voodoo Libidom, featured local glass artist Joel O'Dorisio and a wine tasting. Open until 10pm. Admission is free, a fee applies for some activities.

new exhibits august 14 TMA Staff Creates, Toledo Museum of Art staff, volunteers, and Docents demonstrate their own artistic talents through a variety of media in this annual exhibition. Located in the Community Galleries. through September 20.

ongoing exhibitions Toledo Area Artists Exhibition, Celebrating Northwest Ohio’s artistic community with new and exciting area pieces in this free gallery event.

Monkey Business, On this 150th anniversary year of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, come explore simian symbolism through the ages. Through August 30.

Prints of Pop II: The Art of Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Sir Eduardo Paolozzi collected old magazines, comic strips, consumer products and advertisements. This lifelong obsession supplied him with the imagery that he used in the over 160 graphic works in this exhibition. Located in the Works on Paper Galleries. Through September 6.

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[ spiritual fitness ]

[ education ]

Zen Buddhist Evening Practice, This traditional Zen Buddhist Wednesday evening practice includes liturgy, Zen meditation, a talk and discussion. Everyone is welcome, first timers will receive beginning instruction in Zen Meditation.

7:15pm. Free will offering, $10 suggested. Shobu Aikido of Ohio, 6537 Angola Rd. Holland.

419-861-1163. www.toledozen.org.

[ miscellaneous ]

Tarot Card Readings, Liz Hazel does mini tarot and astrology readings every Wednesday night.

5pm. Manos Restaurant, 1701 Adams. www.kozmic-kitchen.com.

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Schedel Evening Guided Garden Tour, Learn historical Schedel information plus detailed information on trees and flora on the 17 acre garden estate. Reservations are required. $12 per person.

419-862-3182. 6:30pm. Schedel Gardens and Arboretum, 19255 W. Portage River South Road Elmore. www.schedel-gardens.org.

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Mudhens Baseball, The Hens take on Gwinnett County for a four game series. Thursday 7pm, Friday 7pm, Saturday 7pm and Sunday 6:30 pm.

See www.mudhens.com for tickets. Fifth Third Field, 406 Washington St. 419-725-HENS.

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The Dawn of Astronomy, Have you ever wondered why the pyramids in Egypt were constructed or how Stonehenge in England was built? Learn how man measured the length of the year, developed the concept of the zodiac, and predicted the movement of the sun and the moon in the sky in this informative planetarium show. Fridays through August 29. 8:30 pm. Ritter Planetarium at UT, 2801 Bancroft Toledo.

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Christ the King Great Festival, These 3 days of family fun include rides, games, food, live entertainment, pony rides on Sunday and more. Friday and Saturday 5-10pm. Sunday 1-8pm. Christ the King Church, 4100 Harvest Lane Toledo. www.cktoledo.org.

The Festival of India, Come celebrate the treasures of India with vibrant Indian traditions, delicious food, lively music, graceful and energetic dances and colorful costumes. Hindu Temple of Toledo, 4336 Kind Rd Toledo. www.hindutempleoftoledo.org. Through August 8.

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The Stone Woman Speaks: Poetry as Spiritual Practice, This workshop is open to anyone with an interest in poetry and will be lead by Dr. Larry Smith, a professor emeritus and author of Songs of the Woodcutter: Zen Poems of Wang Wei and Taigu Ryokan. $50. Call or see website to register. 9am-5pm. Toledo Zen Center at Shobu Aikido of Ohio, 6537 Angola Rd., Holland. 419-861-1163. www.ToledoZen.org.

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Frogtown Fair, Discover and explore environmentally friendly ideas for green living. AccuShred will be accepting documents to be securely destroyed and electronics for recycling. The day also features displays, entertainment and children’s activities. Some fees apply for recycled objects such as televisions and computer monitors. See website for full schedule of events. 9am. Erie St Market, 237 S Erie St. Free. 419-936-3015. www.frogtownfair.org.

August Green Drinks, Green Drinks will be socializing after the Frogtown Fair. A presentation about using waste vegetable oil (WVO) as a fuel will take place at 3:30pm. 2:30-5pm. Erie Street Civic Center, 237 S. Erie Toledo. www.myspace.com/toledogreendrinks.

Hawaiian Luau Party, Guys, impress the ladies by wearing your wild, romantic and colorful Hawaiian Tropical for a one dollar discount at the door from 8pm until 8:30pm. There will be chance to win free admission coupons in a hula-hoop contest. 8:30pm. Gladieux Meadows, 4480 Heatherdowns, Toledo.

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Healing Through American-Indian Style Drumming, This community event includes a pot-luck dinner followed by a session of American Indian style drumming. Call to RSVP. 734-888-2600. 7pm-9:30pm. Glasgow Home, 4900 Tawas Dr. Ottawa Lake.

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Mutt Strut, In addition to the walk, activities will include readings by Pet Communicator Bryan Flournoy, caricatures by Bayer Graphics, a Beauty PAWgent (11:30 am), unicycling and juggling.

The $15 registration fee will be waived for walkers raising that amount in donations. Walkers are encouraged to bring a pet, friends or family members. See website to register. 10am-2pm.

Fort Meigs, 29100 W River Rd., Perrysburg. www.woodcountyhumanesociety.org

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Yoga in the Garden, Come practice the ancient art of Yoga in the serenity of the Toledo Garden.

The Toledo Botanical Garden, 5403 Elmer Dr. Toledo. www.toledogarden.org.

Argentine Tango Lessons, Attend the first session in this six week course with no obligation. $78 for the full series. Call for reservations. 419885-3277. 7pm. The Mindful Body, 6600 Sylvania Ave. Sylvania.

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Organic Herb Gardening, Vicki Gallagher, Head Gardener at the 577 Foundation, shares the benefits of organic gardening and herbs from around the world. 6:30 pm. Schedel Gardens and Arboretum, 19255 W. Portage River South Rd., Elmore.

419-862-3182. www.schedel-gardens.org.

Finger-lickin’ fun thursday6sunday9 The 2009 Andersons Northwest Ohio Rib-Off boasts an array of local and national rib roasters, and promises to be a palate-pleasing event. Held at the Lucas County Fairgrounds Thursday, August 6 - Sunday, August 9, this finger-lickin’ festival features ribs by 10 different vendors, including Butch’s BBQ, Mojo’s Rib Shack and Smokin’ Joe’s Hog Wild BBQ. A variety of musical guests will perform, starting with the Midwest’s number one old skool and Motown vocal group, Touch, on Thursday. Country stars Luke Bryan and Tracy Lawrence play on Friday. And don’t miss ‘70s rock sensations Foreigner (known for their classic songs including “Cold As Ice,” “Hot Blooded,” and “I Want To Know What Love Is”) on Saturday. Sunday features family-fun activities and entertainment all day long. The NW Ohio Rib-Off runs Thursday 3-10 p.m. ($5), Friday 3-11 p.m. ($8 general admission, $25 preferred seating), Saturday noon-11 p.m. ($8/$25) and Sunday, noon-6 p.m. (free admission, donated canned goods welcomed). For more info or to purchase tickets, www.nwohioriboff.com.

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Drumming Vibrations, Retha will introduce you to the connection between the beating of your heart and the beating drum. You’ll do some drumming yourself and experience the intense healing sound therapy of drumming vibrations to help bring your body back into balance. Includes a dessert paired with a coordinating tea. $20.

419-885-1515. 7pm. 6600 Sylvania Ave. Sylvania.

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Early Stage Memory Loss Support Group, Individuals with early stage memory loss with their families or friends are invited to attend this program for social and educational opportunities and group sharing. Those who are experiencing forgetfulness, mild confusion, or difficulty finding the right words are most likely to benefit from this program. Call to register. 800-272-3900. 1:30pm-3:30pm. Also Wednesday, August 19 from 4-6pm. Alzheimer’s Association, 2500 North Reynolds Rd. Toledo.

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Gaufest Convention, Dedicated to the promotion and preservation of the Bavarian and Northern Tyrolean culture, the Gaufest Heimatabend will be open to the public Friday evening from 7-9pm.

This 2-hour German cultural event features singers, dancers, musicians and authentic German food. A Boarisch Tanz (dance) will follow. Tickets are $7, buy one get on free at all The Anderson Toledo-area store locations. 419-891-64863/ www.andersonsinc.com. SeaGate Convention Center, Downtown Toledo.

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Customer Appreciation Night, Glass City Singles hosts a customer appreciation night. DJs will be spinning your favorite dance mixes all

night long, with free munchies and drink specials at the bar. $6 before 8:30pm. 8pm.-11:30 pm.

Gladieux Meadows, 4480 Heatherdowns.

[ miscellaneous ] Rock N’ Roar, The Toledo Zoo is proud to present Rock N’ Roar, with three bands, one DJ, and four stages of fun. Food will also be available throughout the Zoo. 21+. $20 for Zoo members and $25 for non-members, Reserved tables of ten start at $300. 7pm-12am. The Toledo Zoo, 2 Hippo Way. 419-385-5721, ext 2091. www.toledozoo.org.

TCP’s 2009 Poetry and Fiction Awards, Join the Toledo City Paper for an evening devoted to the creative written word. Features scrumptious appetizers, complimentary drinks, and a celebration of original writings. An open mic will follow the awards ceremony. The Ground Level Coffee House, 2636 W. Central Ave. Free. 5:30-8:30pm. www.toledocitypaper.com.

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Jazz on the river sunday16 Join the Grand Rapids Art Council for their fourth annual Sunset Jazz and Art Festival Sunday, August 16 from 2-9 p.m. The Maumee River in Grand Rapids sets the backdrop for this day of jazz performance, art show and taste of the village. Area jazz groups including Bob Rex Trio, Anna Givens, Pete Ford Trio, Organized Jazz and headliner group 6th Edition will perform throughout the day. Various artwork selections of jewelry, ceramics, glass and wood will be available for purchase at the invitation only art exhibition. Local food vendors will be selling their favorite items, so bring a lawn chair and the family for this free and relaxing event.

For more info contact 419-832-ARTS/www.grandrapidsartscouncil.org.

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The Josh Project’s 3rd Annual Fundraiser, TThe Josh Project is a non-profit organization formulated to teach, educate, and empower youth, by offering educational opportunities in the area of water safety. The United State Coast Guard, Ohio Donate for Life, Lucas County Sherriff’s department and others will provide education stations. Food, an inflatable jumping area, face painting, raffles and crafts.

419-973-1383. www.joshproject.org. 12-5pm.

Indiana Avenue Baptist Church, 640 Indiana Ave, Toledo.

Barefoot at The Beach, Enjoy great food and entertainment on the shores of Lake Erie. Barefoot at the Beach will help raise money for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Toledo. $100. 6pm-11pm.

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[ tuesday ] Augsburg Church, 3pm-7pm 1342 W. Sylvania Ave. [ wednesday ] Westgate, 3pm-7pm Elder-Beerman parking lot, Secor and Central [ thursday ] Mayberry Square (Sylvania), 3pm – 7pm Centennial just south of Erie Perrysburg, 3pm-8pm Downtown on Louisiana Avenue West Side, 3pm-7pm Church of Our Saviour parking lot, 2820 Alexis (near Whitmer HS) [ saturday ] Downtown Toledo, 8am–2pm Market Street between Erie and St. Clair Maumee Bay State Park, 1400 State Park Road Oregon. www.barefootatthebeach.org.

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Daylily Workday and Auction, The Black Swamp Hosta and Daylily Society hosts a Daylily Auction ehind the Conference Center at Toledo Botanical Garden. The public will have an opportunity to purchase some of the newest varieties at great prices. All proceeds go to Black Swamp’s projects at the Toledo Botanical Garden, 577 Foundation in Perrysburg, Simpson Garden in Bowling Green, the Sandusky Historical Society in Fremont, and the library project. Free. 2-3pm. Toledo Botanical Garden, 5403 Elmer Drive Toledo.

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staff picks I collette I [ miscellaneous ] Go south friday7-saturday8 Give to a good cause and have a blast doing it at the 14th Annual Ohio’s South of the Border Festival Friday, August 7 - Saturday, August 8.

Each year, the Perrysburg Heights Community Association hosts the festival — featuring great food, dancing, rides, games and raffles — as a means of raising funds for their community center. Since 1991, the PHCA has worked to promote and improve the quality of life for Perrysburg Heights residents through educational, social, recreational and neighborhood improveproment grams. The festival runs Friday 5 p.m. - midnight and Saturday, 2 p.m. - midnight. Perrysburg Heights Community Park, 12282 Jefferson St., Perrysburg. For more info, www.myspace.com/heightsctr.

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Back to School Fair, Meet representatives from the area’s best schools, sign up for after-school activities and take home a cover shot of your kid on Toledo Area Parent! 10am-5pm. Westfield Franklin Park. 5001 Monroe. 419-244-9859/ www.toledoparent.com.

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August 16 Birmingham Ethnic Fest

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Birmingham Ethnic Festival, The annual celebration of the community’s ethnic heritage will be from noon to 9pm on Consaul Street in East Toledo’s Birmingham neighborhood. This family event features Hungarian and ethnic foods, arts and crafts exhibits, cultural displays, and a wide varity of music, dance and continuous entertainment. Visit www. birminghamethnicfestival.org for more information.

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Photo Primer: The Tallgrass Prairie, The tallgrass prairie is one of the most fascinating habitats of the Oak Openings region.

Nature Photo Center Director Art Weber and naturalist-photographer Bob Jacksy will give tips on how to take great nature photos, while teaching you about the wildlife around the park. Cameras with close-up capability recommended. See website to register. $15. Oak Openings Preserve, 5598 Berkeley Southern Rd. Whitehouse. www.metroparkstoledo.com.

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Tastes like Maumee friday14-saturday15 Summer is in full gear as the city of Maumee prepares for the 32nd Annual Maumee Summer Fair, held Friday, August 14 and Saturday, August 15. Friday evening kicks off the weekend at “The Taste Of Maumee,” featuring 20 area restaurants serving tantalizing foods and desserts, as live bands play all night long (don’t miss performances by Toledo’s own Kyle White at 5 p.m. and headliners the Danger Brothers at 7 p.m.). The parade begins Saturday morning at 10 a.m. with the Maumee High School marching band leading the way, followed by a full day of food (continued Taste of Maumee), musical performances (by East River Drive, Vital Signs and Under the Covers) and four blocks of arts and crafts booths. The classic car show, beer tent and kid’s fun zone make the Maumee Summer Fair the place for everyone to be. Runs Friday 5-11 p.m. and Saturday 9-11 p.m. in historic uptown Maumee. For more info, —ER www.maumeesummerfair.com.

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OWE Records takes a new approach on the music industry by Matt Desmond Ben Langlois is young, but he’s old enough to know about the music industry. In the not-too-distant past, record companies were corporate entities, large or small, who were in the business of selling “records,” whether those took the form of vinyl discs, cassettes or CDs. Companies would sign artists to contracts, spend money to promote them, and hope there was money to be made in the product that resulted.

These days, that doesn’t work, as the mainstream music industry has been learning to its horror now for a decade or so. Today, a record label often looks something like Toledo’s own Old West End Records, and the people in charge look less like anyone’s idea of a “businessman,” and more like Ben Langlois.

Langlois hopes that he’s found the right business model for the place and time we’re in, but it’s the music that is the focus. Already, he has several personal projects working under the Old West End Record label.

“We’re still a really fledgling operation,” said Toledo native Langlois. “We’ve only been doing this for six to eight months. But it’s cool; it’s exciting.”

The Glowing Brains, in turn, morph once a month into the bluegrass act The Blowing Grains, for Old West End Records’ series of Bluegrass Breakfasts at the Glass City Café on Jackson St. Held the final Saturday of each month at 10 a.m., the Breakfasts have already built a reputation as a raucous can’tmiss occasion.

And indeed, if you didn’t know any better, Old West End Records might seem more like an idea than a company. But that’s precisely the point: Langlois admits that if anybody is doing the “administrative” tasks that go with running a business, it’s him. But the strength of an operation like OWE Records is the fact that it’s a community of like-minded individuals, working on a number of interconnected projects, and without the overhead that would come with running a traditional company. In fact, Old West End has yet to sell any “records” at all.

“When we’re ready, we will,” Langlois says. “We’ll put out some nice limited-edition vinyl and stuff like that. If you want a CD, we’ll make you one, and it’ll be really cool. Artwork, packaging, the works.”

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Langlois produces his solo work under the name Mighthaveben — mildly eerie psychedelic-folk rock, along the lines of the nationally successful Fleet Foxes or Bon Iver, but informed by Langlois’ jazz piano training. At the same time, Langlois plays in Toledo music scene fixture Dan Greunke’s pseudoHawaiian act The Fairly Handsome Band, as well as the country-tinged acoustic punk trio the Glowing Brains.

“It’s like the whole Old West End family comes out,” Langlois says. “Friends, artists, whoever. And I can tell that by 11 in the morning the whole staff is ready to throw their spatulas in the air and give up making sausage patties. But it’s a great time.”

For more information on Old West End Records and their supporting acts, contact Ben Langlois at 419-344-5765 or mighthaveben@gmail.com.

Ben Langlois runs OWE Records, a less traditional music label.

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Foreigner forever

An interview with bass player Jeff Pilson

by Emily Rippe Known as the half-British half-American rock band that took the world by storm throughout the late ‘70s and ‘80s, Foreigner, with eight albums (six of which went Platinum +), brought chart-topping hit after hit, including “Feels Like the First Time,” “Cold as Ice,” “Hot Blooded,” and “Urgent.”

Before their appearance at the Northwest Ohio Rib-Off on Saturday, August 8, current Foreigner bass player Jeff Pilson (playing with the band since 2004) talked with TCP about his pre-Foreigner life, his moment on the big screen and the band’s cultural influence.

TOLEDO CITY PAPER: You played with Dio and Dokken before joining Foreigner. How is being in this band different from playing with your earlier groups?

Jeff Pilson rocks out as the current bass player for influential '70s and '80s band, Foreigner.

JEFF PILSON: You know, it’s not as different as a lot of people might think. Those bands are considered heavy metal, but we were sort of influenced by Foreigner — especially Dokken — we were inspired by their melodic hard rock. And Foreigner has such a great stock of songs; they play them with high energy. It was definitely a natural transition.

You were no doubt a Foreigner fan before you joined the group. What album (or songs) of theirs was your favorite?

Yes, I am still a big Foreigner fan. 4 is my favorite album — aside from their very first album — with songs like “Waiting for a Girl Like You” and “Urgent,” they’re such phenomenal achievements of recording, kind of a peak for the industry in many ways. They’ve recorded so many songs, “Feels Like the First Time, “Cold As Ice,” there are a lot of great ones.

You were a member of the band Steel Dragon in the movie Rock Star. How’d you like working with Mark Wahlberg?

He’s a lot of fun. Mark took the band’s role quite seriously, he really wanted to capture the metal attitude. Really, he’s a great guy and very down to earth, believe it or not.

Will you be doing any other film roles?

I have no idea. I certainly would if the opportunity arises. The conditions with Rock Star were pretty ideal. I mean, I was basically playing myself, it doesn’t get much easier than that. Chances of being in another film are probably remote, but hey, I’m game.

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Foreigner songs get referenced all the time on Adult Swim’s Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

How does it feel to be linked to such a subversive show?

I think it’s great whenever you can connect to the culture. I view Foreigner being referenced on shows like this as an affirmation of relevance, even if it’s tongue-in-cheek.

Final question: Does Mick (Jones) ever regret the Head Games album cover?

It’s so creepy.

(Laughing) You mean, do I think people see it as a molestation scenario? I doubt that was Mick’s intention. I certainly never thought of it that way. To me, it’s really just a bathroom sex scene between two willing partners, I don’t think there’s anything “molestation” about it. Of course, I could see how someone would think that now. Shows you how much the times have changed. As for Mick, I doubt he has regrets.

Foreigner performs Saturday, August 8 at the Lucas County Fairgrounds in Maumee. 6 p.m. $8 general admission, $25 front of stage open seating. The band is touring in support of their new record, Can’t Slow Down (“because we can’t,” Pilsen said) out Tuesday, September 29.

For more info, www.nwohioriboff.com.

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ROCK, POP, AND HIP-HOP

ROCK, POP, AND HIP-HOP

Frankie’s Inner City: Mitch Rossiters Summer Rocktacular TCP Ground Level Coffee House: The Fairly Handsome Band TCP Toledo-Lucas County Public Library (Main Lawn): The Coosters (final Brown Bag Concert) Toledo Zoo Amphitheater: John Legend and India Arie

Frankie’s Inner City: Dungen Mickey Finn’s Pub: The Falling Spikes The Roadhouse: Locoweed

JAZZ, BLUES, AND R&B Murphy’s Place: College Night

ACOUSTIC, FOLK, AND ETHNIC The Village Idiot: Nate and Evan Treo Restaurant: Bobby May and John Barile

DANCE AND TECHNO Avalon: Volume The Distillery: Rock Star Wednesdays

OTHER MUSIC TCP Mickey Finn’s Pub: Open Mic w/ Mouths of Dogs Ottawa Tavern: Political party w/ David P.R.E.Z. Washington The Omni: Karaoke w/ DJ Z-Man The Roadhouse: Karaoke TCP Woodchuck’s: Karaoke w/ Georgia Peach Yeeha’s Bar & Grill: Karaoke Night

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JAZZ, BLUES, AND R&B Commodore Square: Music in the Park feat. Bobby May & Dry Bones Revival TCP Fat Fish Blue: John Lee Hooker Jr. Home Slice Pizza: Mike Whitty

ACOUSTIC, FOLK, AND ETHNIC Attic on Adams: Sarah Cohen Casa Barron: John Barile Pizza Papalis: Kyle White TCP The Blarney Irish Pub: Jeff Stewart The Village Idiot: The Ragbirds

DANCE AND TECHNO TCP Club Eclipse: Eclipse Thursdays Route 66 Kitchen: Live ‘70s and ‘80s R&B DJs The Omni: Therapy Thursdays Wesley's: Throwin' Down Thursdays w/ John Grookshier & Guests Yeeha's Bar & Grill: Ladies Night

FRI, AUG 7 ROCK, POP, AND HIP-HOP Clazel Theater: Andrew Ellis and the Setting Sons

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Fat Fish Blue: Curtis Jr. and the Midnightrockers w/ Bobby G. TCP Frankie’s Inner City: The Red Scare w/ Unsinkable Molly Brown, The Fight Within, Come On and Frank and Ernest Mickey Finn's: Mourning View and Floppy Ottawa Tavern: Jeff Stewart & the 25’s Pizza Papalis: Ramblers Rosie’s Italian Grille: Blackbeard’s Delight feat. Shane Piasecki The Blarney Irish Pub: Empire Drift The Distillery: The Bridges TCP The Longhorn Saloon: Black Knots w/ Grommet, Ugly Tribe Revival and Smoke Theory Yeeha’s Bar & Grill: Captain Jack

ACOUSTIC, FOLK, AND ETHNIC JoJo’s Night Club: Bobby May Trio Manhattan’s: Chris Knopp The Flying Bean: Jack Schilb

COUNTRY AND BLUEGRASS Lucas County Fairgrounds: Luke Bryan The Village Idiot: Whitey Morgan and the 78’s

DANCE AND TECHNO Avalon: Frequency Dexter’s Jamaican Club: JumpUp Friday TCP Wesley’s Bar: Old School Fridays w/ DJs Folk, N. Mattimoe and Todd Perrine

SAT, AUG 8 ROCK, POP, AND HIP-HOP Freebird Lounge: Blackbeard’s Delight feat. Shane Piasecki TCP Lucas County Fairgrounds: Foreigner

Manhattan’s: Eric Brazier and the Truth TCP Mickey Finn's: Harmony Reigns w/ Fairly Handsome Band Mulvaney's Bunker: Chris Shutters Band The Blarney Irish Pub: Freak Ender

The Bronze Boar: Dave Carpenter & the Jaeglers TCP The Village Idiot: The Kripkes and The Dougouts Yeeha’s Bar & Grill: '80s Party featuring Captain Jack

DUNGEN FRANKIE’S INNER CITY/ THURSDAY, AUGUST 6

Music is a universal language, and no band exemplifies this better than Sweden’s psychedelic rock group Dungen. Although their songs are sung entirely in Swedish, that doesn’t mean the band can’t reach audiences all around the world. Lead by singer/composer Gustav Ejstes (who actually plays most of the instruments on the band’s albums himself), Dungen performs live as a four-piece with Reine Fiske on guitar, Mattias Gustavsson on bass and Fredrik Björling on drums.

Their combined sound reminds us of a Scandinavian version of the Beatles, circa 1966 (see “Panda”). After successfully recording five independently-released albums, gracing the Bonnaroo stage and performing on Late Night With Conan O’Brien, Dungen finds themselves welcomed to the often exclusive indie rock circles in Australia, England and the U.S. Dungen performs at Frankie’s on Thursday, August 6. 9 p.m. $13 in advance/ $15 doors. 308 Main St. 419-693-5300/ www.frankiesinnercity.com.

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JAZZ, BLUES, AND R&B Attic on Adams: Jordan Brown Band Fat Fish Blue: Tom Turner and Slow Burn Murphy’s Place: Jeff Zavac TCP Pizza Papalis: Andre Wright TCP Toledo Farmers’ Market: Jazz Brunch featuring Bob Rex Trio (9 a.m. - noon)

ACOUSTIC, FOLK, AND ETHNIC TCP

The Flying Bean: Allison

Woods Webber’s Waterfront Restaurant and Lounge: Beatles Acoustic Show with Elixir

DANCE AND TECHNO 201 Morris St. (next to the Oliver House): Who Spilled the Beats?

The Omni: Local Love Saturdays TCP

SUN, AUG 9 ROCK, POP, AND HIP-HOP TCP Owen’s Community College: David Cook’s Declaration Tour The Roadhouse: Chris Shutters Band Webber’s Waterfront Restaurant and Lounge: Junkanoo Brothers

JAZZ, BLUES, AND R&B The Village Idiot: Bob Rex Jazz Trio

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OTHER MUSIC

Route 66 Kitchen: Live ‘70s and ‘80s R&B DJs

Ottawa Tavern: Political Party w/ Teamwork Toledo The Omni: Karaoke w/ DJ Z-Man The Roadhouse: Karaoke Yeeha’s Bar & Grill: Karaoke Night

Ground Level Coffee House: Open Mic Night Manhattan’s: Open Mic

TUES, AUG 11 ROCK, POP, AND HIP-HOP Frankie’s Inner City: Infernal Names w/ War Of Words, Oceans Are Graves, Small Town Murder TCP

JAZZ, BLUES, AND R&B Manhattan’s: TSA Ensemble TCP SouthBriar Restaurant: Jeff McDonald’s Big Band Revival Party

OTHER MUSIC Fat Fish Blue: Karaoke Night TCP South End Bar and Grille: Open Mic w/ Chris Shutters

WED, AUG 12 ROCK, POP, AND HIP-HOP Frankie’s Inner City: Delta Delta w/ Small Scale Epic, Highland and Embracing Elegance

JAZZ, BLUES, AND R&B SouthBriar Restaurant: Ray Heitger’s N’Orleans Dixieland Jass Jam

DANCE AND TECHNO TCP Avalon: Volume The Distillery: Rock Star Wednesdays

FESTIVALS/SPIRITUAL/ORCHESTRAS/ OUTDOORS/ MUSIC YOUR PARENTS LIKE

THURSDAYS, AUGUST 6 AND 13

DANCE AND TECHNO

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Jazz in the Garden, Toledo Jazz Orchestra presents an Arts Gone Wild kick off celebration. Aug. 13 features Ramona Collins. 6:30-8:30 p.m. $7 adults; $6 seniors/students; $5 members. Toledo Botanical Garden, 5403 Elmer Dr.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 8

Johnny Knorr Orchestra Presents the Music of the World War II Era,

7:30 p.m. $10. Centennial Terrace, 5773 Centennial, Sylvania. 419-882-1500. www.johnnyknorr.com.

THURS, AUG 13 ROCK, POP, AND HIP-HOP Frankie’s Inner City: We Came As Romans w/ The Word Alive, Belle Epogue, Sound Of Glory and All Dreams Arrest TCP Howard’s Club H: Banana Migration Mickey Finn’s Pub: The Falling Spikes Mulvaney’s Bunker: Blackbeard’s Delight feat. Shane Piasecki TCP Ottawa Tavern: Hat Company TCP The Roadhouse: Harley Packer Band The Village Idiot: Stonehouse

ACOUSTIC, FOLK, AND ETHNIC Casa Barron: Johnny Rodriguez Pizza Papalis: Jeff Stewart The Blarney Irish Pub: Rick Whited

DANCE AND TECHNO Wesley's: Throwin' Down Thursdays w/ John Grookshier & Guests Yeeha's Bar & Grill: Ladies Night

OTHER MUSIC

SUNDAYS, AUGUST 9 AND 16

Music Under the Stars, The free Sunday concert series continues with the Heinzman Irish Dancers.

Aug. 16 features Swingin' Band and the Manhattan Dance Company. 7:30 p.m. The Toledo Zoo Amphitheater, 2700 Broadway.

TEAMNATE

HEADLINERS/SATURDAY, AUGUST 15 The peculiar thing about the techno electronic (tecktronic) duo Teamnate is that neither band member is actually named Nate.

“We get a lot of questions about the name,” explains keyboardist/music arranger Brandon Scott. “Teamnate derived from our friend Nathan Buker’s idea of a perfect community he plans to build when he’s a billionaire. It involves an island and a barter system, and all the lovely things we like to put in our versions of a perfect world such as ice cream fountains and beer slides.”

The name is also a play on the word “teammate.” And while Scott and vocalist Alan Plotts are not named Nate, they’re definitely teammates. Together, the two non-Nates utilize their musical abilities — Scott with his knack for producing sounds using various software synthesizers, and Plotts who is a classically trained vocalist — to create music that people notice. With glitchy blips, harsh bass lines, and the amalgamation of several genres into one tight, yet aloof package, Teamnate proves to be a fresh musical act hailing from Bowling Green, Ohio.

Teamnate is currently mastering a five-track EP, which will be available when they open for Mayday Parade at Headliners on Saturday, August 15. The Comeback and Always Falling also play. 6 p.m. $14. Headliners, 4500 N. Detroit Ave. 419-693-5300/www.headlinerstoledo.com.

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TCP Ground Level Coffee House: Toledo City Paper's 2009 Poetry and Fiction Awards

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WHO SPILLED THE BEATS?

201 MORRIS ST. (NEXT TO THE OLIVER HOUSE)/ SATURDAY, AUGUST 8 In case you haven’t heard, there have been numerous reports of UFO sightings in Toledo. Erich Burger of Blue Midnight Highway Productions is allegedly housing the alien spacecraft at 201 Morris St. (the building next to the Oliver House in Toledo’s Downtown Warehouse District).

Not to “spill the beats,” but the UFO is actually a stage — a piece of art made by Burger himself — where local DJs can perform among the metal and lights of the otherwise barren venue. On Saturday, August 8 local DJs and live performers will gather for “Who Spilled the Beats,” a mixed genre show of electro, trance, and hip hop. Featured DJs include Ted Fury, N. Mattimoe, DJ Zu and Todd Perrine. Live performances by Billy Blade, JPX, Mighthaveben and Blue Midnight Highway. Don’t miss a special appearance by the Mixed Nuts B-Boy crew. This is an event you’ll have to see to believe. 9 p.m. $5. 201 Morris St. For more info, www.myspace.com/bluemidnighthighway.

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SAT, AUGUST 15

ROCK, POP, AND HIP-HOP

ROCK, POP, AND HIP-HOP

Frankie’s Inner City: Red Wanting Blue w/ Resonant Soul TCP Mickey Finn's: Dooley Wilson w/ Scarlet Oaks Ottawa Tavern: Stonehouse Pizza Papalis: Sanderlings South End Grille: Chris Shutters Band Yeeha’s Bar & Grill: Under the Covers

Attic on Adams: CEO Band Frankie’s Inner City: Man Of Leisure w/ A Million Engines In Neutral and Jolly Molly TCP Headliners: Mayday Parade w/ The Comeback and Team Nate Howard’s Club H: Falling Spikes Pizza Papalis: The Sanderlings The Roadhouse: Up For Grabs The Village Idiot: Hullabaloo Yeeha’s Bar & Grill: Under the Covers

JAZZ, BLUES, AND R&B TCP Murphy’s Place: Mark Kieswetter w/ Marty Greenberg, Ron Oswanski, Scott Kretzer and Ben Jansson

ACOUSTIC, FOLK, AND ETHNIC The Blarney Irish Pub: 2 Dudes and a Chick

DANCE AND TECHNO TCP Wesley’s Bar: Old School Fridays w/ DJs Folk, N. Mattimoe and Todd Perrine

JAZZ, BLUES, AND R&B Casa Barron: Fat Mouth Charlie and the Bisquit Rollers Fat Fish Blue: Damon Fowler TCP Hines Farm Blues Club: Griffin’s Hines Farm Blues Club Festival Manhattan’s: Lisa Lynn

ACOUSTIC, FOLK, AND ETHNIC The Blarney Irish Pub: Celtic Cross

BAR HOPPING MADE EASY FRIDAYS AND SATURDAYS THROUGH AUGUST

Hop aboard the Nightlife Navigator! Thanks to Destination Toledo, Inc, (formerly the Greater Toledo Convention and Visitor’s Bureau), Toledo residents and visitors can frequent an array of Toledo nightlife hot spots without the hassle of driving from venue to venue. This free shuttle service travels in a continuous loop between nine popular restaurants and bars — including The Blarney Irish Pub, Maumee Bay Brew Pub (at the Oliver House), the Attic on Adams and Ottawa Tavern. The service is available Friday and Saturday nights throughout August from 8 p.m. - 2 a.m. beginning Friday, August 7. For more info, www.dotoledo.org.

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The Flying Bean: Grant Perry Webber's Waterfront Restaurant: Johnny Rodriguez

OTHER Hilton Hotel/Dana Center (Glendale Ave.): The African American Steel Guitar Legends TCP Mickey Finn’s Pub: Rock And Rummage ft. Hell’s Belles Girlie Revue, Potty Mouth Sissys and General Bastard Ottawa Tavern: Raising the Bar w/ Community Shares

SUN, AUGUST 16 JAZZ, BLUES, & R&B The Roadhouse: Mudfoot

ACOUSTIC, FOLK, AND ETHNIC Webber's Waterfront Restaurant: The Touched Trio

MON, AUG 17 JAZZ, BLUES, & R&B Manhattan’s: Cynthia Kaay Bennett

OTHER MUSIC Ground Level Coffee House: Open Mic Night

TUES, AUG 18 JAZZ, BLUES, AND R&B TCP

Manhattan’s: TSA Ensemble

OTHER Rhouse: Karaoke w/ DJ Georgia Peach South End Bar and Grille: Open Mic w/ Chris Shutters

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FOR SALE

_____________________________ SCHWINN CHROME 16 INCH BOYS BIKE mint. 20 inch chrome free style bike. Make offer.

419-666-5706. _____________________________ INDIAN COLLECTION & LOTS OF JEWELRY for sale call 419-470-6831 _____________________________ AC, AIR CLEANER,KEROSENE HEATER AND FISHER-PRICE SANDBOX, $35 each. Birch Kitchen Cabinets $50 per unit 419-536-6891 ______________________________ CHIHUAHUA PUPPIES. LITTLE BEAUTIES. first shots and wormed. $350 (males)/$400 (females). 419-476-6901 _____________________________ 3 FT BY 5FT DRAFTING BOARD. With paragon machine. $100. 4193811675 ______________________________ 30 GALLON FISH TANK. Everything needed for startup! Filters, food and (5) African Cichlids.

Asking $125. 419-410-4393 _____________________________ SOFA LIKE NEW. Used very little. Three cushions. Flowered with off white background.

Matching pillows. $150 or best offer. Call 419-841-1716. ________________________ MAYTAG WASHER AND DRYER. Currently in use. Good condition. Wife redecorating. $125.

Call 419-882-1839 _______________________ ELECTRIC SCOOTER. HOT PINK. Almost New! $150. Call our home phone at 419-5361860 or my cell phone at 419-973-1081. _______________________ TACO BELL CHIHUAHUA AND GODZILLA TOYS FOR SALE. $150. Ask for Ralph at 419-255-2455.

________________________ ROLLIN ROSS ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM. 5.1 channel. Best offer. New, just out of the Box! Call 419-3441805 _______________________ ELECTRIC POWER WHEELCHAIR. With battery charger. Excellent condition. Asking $550. 419-474-2470. _______________________ REFRIGERATOR, GAS STOVE and apartment sized dryer. Whirlpool refrigerator-$75, Apartment sized dryer$60 and Gas stove-$60. 419-531-7256 or 419-514-7700. LM ________________________ MEN'S 2-XL FIELD/STREAM hunting coat. Worn only one season. Also, ladies large black leather coat. Asking $60.

419-386-5661. ________________________ AMISH HANDCRAFTED dining table, w/ Walter of Wabash slides, 40+ yr old, will last 40 more, 419-704-3299 LV mess. $100 nego. ________________________ STAINLESS ROUNDER clothes rack. Approx. 4 ft. tall. Just like at the dept. stores. $20/OBO Reply to newdaddy4mom@yahoo.com or 419-290-0091 ________________________ 37 GALLON MARINELAND aquarium. Includes stand and everything needed for startup. $150/OBO. 419-377-8597. ________________________ MUDHENS TICKETS FOR SALE! Season ticket holder. selling various games in sec 207club level. $24/pair. call for dates available 419-283-2118. _______________________ JACK RUSSELL NEEDS A LOVING FAMILY. 2 1/2 yr old female. Spade trained. White and brown 419-475-2611 Ask for Bonnie. ________________________ ORECK TABLETOP AIR PURIFIER. $75.

Call 419-376-5065 ________________________ COLLECTIBLE #8 DALE EARNHARDT jacket, 2 shirts and a rain poncho. All collectable items. $150 or best offer.

Men’s size Large. Call Gina at 419-243-4189. _______________________ 3 TRACK STANDARD/LIONEL GAUGE STEAM ENGINE: plus 4 cars & caboose & track, plus more!

For someone's Christmas. $500. Call 419-539-6833 ________________________ FOUR MONTH OLD, PIT-BULL TERRIER. Had shots, house broken, and potty trained. Good around kids. $120 or best offer. Call 419-724-3627 ________________________ TREADMILL. Pro-form 525. $75.

419-474-1876. ________________________ FRIGIDAIRE AIR CONDITIONER UNIT. 5200 BTU. Digital comes with a remote. Brand new, in the box, never been opened. $80 or best offer. 419724-3677. ________________________ BLACK LEATHER JACKET. Harley Women's medium. fringed with rose. $100. great condition. Also womens black leather vest $50. 419-381-1106. ________________________ GREAT HOUSEHOLD ITEMS for sale!

Super deals! All under $150 Call Bill Now 419-3767905 ________________________

ANNOUNCEMENTS

________________________ CALL FOR ARTISTS Davis Bldg.

Exhibit sculpture and two dimensional art. 8/20/09 Third Thursday Artwalk.

Info: Lisabelle 419-509-8942. _________________________

ATTENTION TOLEDO DIY ARTISTS! The Attic on Adams wants you to come down on Sunday afternoons to exhibit—and sell—your creative wares.

Artisan Sunday is your chance to hang out at Uptown’s hippest pub while giving your muse a chance to shine. Call Amelia at 419-243-5350 for information. 17th and Adams (above Manos) ________________________ APHASIA SUPPORT GROUP meets at Dazy Aphasia Centre, 2940 Douglas Rd. Toledo 43606. Every Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. The group is for stroke survivors with Aphasia & their caregivers. _______________________ NEEDED 20 PARENTS. Improving parenting skills/raising safe kids. Free sessions June/July/August. Registration/information 419-537-0021 / 419-277-0153 ________________________ COUNTRY MUSICAUG 7 & 8 GRAND RAPIDS ROAD HOUSE 11900 JEFFERS RD GRAND RAPIDS OH AUG 7 FRI JUST US TWO AUG 8 WHISKEY BEFORE BREAKFAST _______________________ JOIN US EVERY 1ST THURSDAY of each month at Borders Toledo for Open Mic Nite in the Seattle’s Best Cafe @ 7pm! ________________________ DISCUSSION CIRCLES for women incest and child sexual abuse survivors.

Meets twice monthly. (419) 729-0245 or www.mynirvananow.org. ________________________ FAMILY ESTATE SALE 6th 7th 8th 2509 Eden, North ________________________ ________________________

WANTED TO BUY ________________________ BUYING OLD HAND TOOLS: One item or a shop full. Not sure what you have? Please call anyway, Cooper at 419-382-5865 ________________________ VENDORS FOR FLEA MARKET/ YARD SALE. Sat August 15th 2009 9a.m.-5p.m. The Mildred H. Gibson Center 3360 Nebraska & Cuthbert. Zion Lutheran Church. (2) 6'-8' Tables $25.00.

(1) 6'-8' Tables $15.00. Deadline August 1st 2009. (419) 810-5284 for more information. ________________________ LOOKING FOR: One piece or whole house, buying antiques or vintage toys, gas station, car magazines, advertising, fishing, hunting, primitives, pottery, doorstops, bookends, old books, postcards, art, paintings, bronzes, military, jewelry, quilts, lead soldiers, marbles, cap guns, b.b.guns, Tonka trucks, Hot Wheels & Matchbox, car models, slot cars, sporting items, farm toys, comics, trains, boats, airplanes, gi joe, Barbie, dolls, little kiddles, trolls, science fiction & car magazines, lunch boxes, rock roll, Lego’s, Star Wars, Fisher Price, board games, Batman, Disney. Call Debra 419-873-5521 ________________________

AMERICAN HEART CPR/FIRST AID TRAINING Experienced instructor, flexible scheduling, affordable rates with student & group discounts. Call Kathy at 419-867-0695. ________________________ DONATE YOUR CAR, Truck or Boat to HERITAGE FOR THE BLIND. Free 3 Day Vacation. Tax Deductible, Free Towing, All Paperwork Taken Care of. 1-888544-9393

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SURROGACY

CHILD CARE in my reliable home.

25 year experience. CPR, First Aid. Nonsmoker. Meals. Excellent references.

Reasonable rates. 419-476-6629 ________________________ FULL TIME BABYSITTER FOR HIRE. open availability. call Sarah 419-932-1111 _______________________ CUSTOM SLIPCOVERS: Draperies, window treatments, upholstery, pillows and much more. Call Tricia 419-810-0832. _______________________ AFFORDABLE MOTORCYCLE REPAIR-15-years Harley Davidson service experience. Dirt bike, ATV, small engine repair, pick-up & delivery available. Call Bob at 517-486-4818. __________________

________________________ SURROGATE MOTHERS NEEDED FROM OHIO: Carry couples biological babies, prior birth experience required.

Generous compensation.

1-888-363-9457, www.reproductivelawyer.com Melissa B. Brisman, Esq., LLC 77 Market Street / Park Ridge, NJ ________________________

FREE COMPUTER AND ELECTRONIC RECYCLING Business and residential pickup. Call Retro PC Recyclers at 734-347-7004 Or email at jwauctions@bex.net ________________________

EDUCATION ________________________ ELEMENTARY TUTOR. Affordable tutoring by certified elementary schoolteacher. Available grades preK - 5, all subjects. For more information, please call 734-652-1436. ________________________

CHILD DAYCARE IN MY WEST TOLEDO HOME. Close to express way. By a responsible reliable mom . references and experience. 4194786068. ________________________

DRAWING & PAINTING INSTRUCTION from professional artist on Saturday morning at the Secor Building Studios. 419-345-8980. www.ivankende.com ________________________ COMPUTER TUTOR/Freelance Writer.

Microsoft Office Suite Certified. Ghost writing, brochures, more. References/ writing samples upon request. Contact Tracey: runtrace2000@yahoo.com or 248-347-4949. _______________________

SERVICES

________________________ M.E.S. PAINTING & HOME REPAIRS. “You save money, I get to feed my family. Just call Mel at 419810-0526. Ask What I can do for you.

________________________ WHOLISTIC VIEW Foreign languages and performing arts. Ages 12-17.

Monday-Friday 8:30-4:00. Call 419-973-8510. Ms. Stuart.

DIABETIC TEST STRIPS.Will pay up to $10/box. Same day cash. Call Dale.

419-707-2369 or Patsy 419-708-0914 ________________________

AUTOS/MOTOS

________________________ 4 MAG WHEELS with tires-off 1996 T-Bird with lug nuts and center caps.

Like new condition. $180.

410-666-2528 ________________________

COMPUTER TUTOR/FREELANCE WRITER. Microsoft Office Suite Certified. Ghost writing, brochures, more. References/writing samples upon request. Contact Tracey: runtrace2000@yahoo.com or 248-347-4949.

BEAUTIFUL 1 BEDROOM APARTMENT 900 SQ. FT in Historic Old West End. 1 block from Toledo Museum of Art. Off-street parking, hardwood floors, sunroom, heat & water included, washer & dryer onsite. Beautiful yard. $500/mo. + deposit. Call Richard 419-241-1930. ________________________ 1-BEDROOM TOWNHOUSE with panoramic view of the river. Located downtown in the historic Oliver House.

Stove, refrigerator, garbage disposal, dishwasher, cable and WiFi included.

Water, gas, heat and central air. Ranging from $850-$975. 419-243-1302 for more info. _______________________

UPTOWN LIVING – ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT $540/month 321-325 16th Street. Spacious, unique, hardwood, two bedroom apartments with character offers space and convenience of Uptown living, must see! Heat paid, 419-843-4178 for appointment

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HOMES FOR SALE ________________________ TERRIFIC WELL MAINTAINED HOME with many updates - great Maumee location/($125,000)! For more information call 419-410-4718 or view online http://toledo.craigslist. org/reo/1112127665.html ________________________ TWO BED MOBILE HOME. Acres road park Sylvania. All new in and out. Quiet safe park. Sell or lease. Call 419-8222271 or 419-822-9261 ________________________ HOUSE FOR SALE ($149,900) OR RENT ($1,250). Located in Old Orchard. 3035 Barrington Rd. 4 Bed 2 bath 2 car detached garage. Call 419-509-6242

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________________________ DUPLEX W. Toledo north Haven, 2 bedroom spacious upper. Bay windows, natural wood work, fire place, appliances, basement. Great neighborhood & location. $550, call 419-474-9062. ________________________ THE RENTAL/SALE of real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act of 1968 as amended which makes it illegal to advertise "any limitation or discrimination." This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. Our readers are hearby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal housing opportunity basis _______________________ 4 LOTS OTTAWA MILLS MEMORIAL PARK $4000 419-3463782 ________________________

ENTERTAINMENT _______________________

Swancreek Stable Guided 1 and 2 hour trail rides through the Oak Openings Region.

Between $40-$55

Riding Day Camps (call for prices and lessons- $45) Open 365 days a year.

(419) 826-1313 www.swancreekstable.com

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PETS ________________________ ADOPTION CARNIVAL. Sunday June 28th from 12-5pm. Sylvania Veterinary Hospital 4801 N. Holland-Sylvania.

419-885-4421. There will be pets for adoption, games, food and much more!!! ________________________ Female cat and three 10 wk. Old kittens-free to good home. 2 female and 1________________________ male kitten. 419-475-746

THERE HAS NEVER been a better time to start your own business, and you won’t find a better partner then AVON. Open your door to unlimited earnings potential. Contact Michelle/unit leader 419-902-3612 www.youravon.com/mdavis0327 ________________________ THE OMNI is looking for Entertainers: Mimes, Tarot readers, jugglers, stilt walkers, fire breathers, tumblers, etc. If you have a unique gift or talent we may want you call 419-535-6664 or email : omnineal@gmail.com ________________________

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STYLIST/BARBER WANTED booth rental, Reynolds & Glendale area. Rent negotiable.

Call Kelly at 419-810-6566. ________________________ THEATRE TECH STAFF NEEDED. The Toledo Rep is looking for some talented backstage volunteers to help with performances. Different levels of skill are acceptable. We need lighting & sound crew as well as running crew. Call Aggie at 419-243-9277. ________________________ LOOKING FOR A MORNING barrista Monday thru Friday 6:30 am -10 at Petit Fours Patisserie & Cafe, now locatedat 27 Broadway, at the Oliver House.

Entrance located on the Ottawa Street side. Please apply in person. Questions call Liz Grosjean @ 419-724-4477 ________________________

JAM SECTION Ads run for 2 issues and must be renewed after the two issues. You must be: advertising for band members or selling instruments under $200. Business related ads run for $20. Limit 20 words per ad; $0.40 per additional word. Log onto www.toledocitypaper.com or call 419-244-9859 to post your ad!

MUSICIANS SEEKING WORKING MODERN COUNTRY MUSIC GROUP is seeking a female singer

GUITAR PLAYER SEEKS working old

time rock n’ roll band. Call Keith at 419-392-5020

who plays keyboard. Call 419-4607112.

DEUTSCHMEISTER GERMAN BAND.

LEAD VOCALIST plays drums and keyboards. Looking for band or musicians. Call 419-691-2820.

WANTED

Contact nancy 419-6667868

MODERN ROCK SINGER needed for

cover band. Now auditioning. For more info. email JT6919@gmail.com

THE BAND 427 is reforming and seeking a guitarist or keyboardist that can sing. Our contact information is 419-344-4174.

COUNTRY KARAOKE SINGERS. Inquire

FOR SALE

@ Zingers Food & Spirits920 Matzinger Rd.Toledo, Ohio 419-726-0200

___________________ POLE DANCE FITNESS, build strength, flexibility and confidence in a fun and relaxed environment. Ladies only. Classes forming now. Pre-registration required. Classes held at 10 S. Holland Sylvania Rd. Suite 302.

Call Paulette’s Studio of Dance for more info. 419-654-3262 or www.Paulettesdancestudio.com. ___________________ INTEGRATION YOGA STUDIO, the Place to Be: Yoga & Brunch at The Ground Level Coffee House, Outdoor Yoga at Toledo Botanical Garden, Yoga, Senior Yoga, Lunch Hour Yoga (Downtown), Kids Yoga, Parent & Baby/Toddler Yoga, Family Yoga, Pilates, Nia. Yoga for Belly Dancers 7/10. Yoga & Body Image 7/24. 4633 West Bancroft (just west of Talmadge). www.integrationyogastudio. com. (419) A-OM-YOGA. yoga. jenn@sbcglobal.net. ___________________ HOT YOGA in Perrysburg uses heat to heal & strengthen Warm muscles are suppler and result in deeper stretching with less soreness. New Student Special 10 Days for $20! Ongoing AM & PM Classes. visit: www.fitnesswithjoe.com or call 419.874.2911 ___________________ BELLY DANCE – Shimmy into summer with internationally recognized artist/instructor, Aegela. Beginning August 3rd.

Mon – Thurs., daytime or evening classes available. No prior dance training required. $50 for 5-week session. Martin School, 10 S. Holland Sylvania at Hill, Toledo.

Aegela@mindspring.com, www. aegela.com, (517) 918-9547.

ELECTROPHONIC 8-TRACK stereo player and recorder with 3-speed phono changer. Plus AM/FM tuner. $100. 419-474-2470.

ALVAREX ACOUSTIC GUITAR: excellent condition, leather strap and hard case included. $250 OBO. Nicole 419-205-5746.

ELECTRPHONIC 8-TRACK stereo player and recorder with 3-speed phono changer.

Plus AM/FM tuner. Asking $100. 419474-2470.

LESSONS FREE GUITAR LES-

SONS Rock, Blues, Country, all styles; 30 yrs. experience.

Give me a call, what do you have to lose? 419-5146097.

CLARINET, FLUTE, VIOLIN,

TRUMPET, Trombone, Amplifier, Fender Guitar $70. ea. Cello, Upright Bass, Saxophone, French Horn, Drums $190. ea. Tuba, Baritone, Others. 1-516-377-7907.

Rentals BANDS, ARTISTS, MUSICIANS: REHERSAL, jam, recording and now

storage spaces available 24/7 access. No noise restrictions. Call the house of rock 419-346-5803.

Home run health

Mitzi Dulan visits Fifth Third Field Athletes are always looking for ways to maximize their energy and performance. One of the solutions is completely natural. On Friday, August 7, nutrition and exercise expert Mitzi Dulan, RD, CSSD, will offer tips for improving your health with honey. She’ll highlight the benefits of this sweet condiment in muscle recovery and increased energy before, during and after workouts. Dulan is the spokesperson for the National Honey Board and the nutritionist for the Kansas City Chiefs and Kansas City Royals. She’ll speak at the Suite Level, behind the press box at 2:30 p.m. www.mudhens.com.

-GS

That’s hot

Toledo trainer turns up the heat for Yoga

Looking for that little something to heat up your yoga routine? The obvious solution — turn up thermostat! Local trainer Joe Sparks (www.fitnesswithjoe.com) has started a new Hot Yoga class for yogis of all levels, from beginner to experienced. In these sessions, Joe and his students employ the same routines as traditional yoga but practice them in a 90° room.

Originally developed by the Bikram Yoga School, and traditionally only taught by schools owned by Bikram Choudhund, the practice of hot yoga is starting to make its way to the Midwest.

Yoga can help to improve balance, posture, flexibility, and also relieve stress. In addition to these benefits, the heated room forces toxins to be pushed from the body. The heat also works to loosen muscles and skin, making the stretches and the poses easier to achieve, allowing you to accomplish more in the hour long session.

___________________ SUMMER SPECIAL AT STILL WATERS YOGA. Unlimited ongoing yoga and strength classes.july first though august 31. 120. clander and online purchasing. www.stillwatersyoga.com or 418-8779038. ___________________

With new Hot Yoga schools popping up around the country, Joe hopes to do his part to bring this fun activity into the mainstream. If you’re at all worried about the difficulty level of the classes Joe says “don’t worry, it’s all about doing the best you can do.” So, don’t sweat it!

Classes are run out of Joe’s studio at 29101 Hufford Road in Perrysburg. Visit www.fitnesswithjoe.com for complete information on classes and pricing.

419-874-2911.

-AL

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and eclipse on the 5th light up your social life.

The glow lasts thru the 8th and 9th. The week of the 10th get organized at work on routine matters. Then you are as can head north to the Monroe County Fair the 15th and east to the Hungarian Festival on the 16th.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) You are center stage at work and in your community when the full moon shines on the 5th. Stay close to home (except for the Rib Off) the weekend of the 7th. There is work to do on the 10th and you try to stick to your diet. Sing, dance and EAT on the 16th.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) The full moon and eclipse on the 5th is in your ninth house.

This highlights travel and education, perhaps both, something for each twin. Make plans the week of the 10th. Take time on the 15th, 16th, or 17th to make a serious commitment about your future.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) You need to

do some serious financial planning on the 5th or 6th. Some peace and quiet are in your stars the 8th and 9th. Start a new project the week of the 10th and wind it up on the 14th. Then you can celebrate your success on the 15th or 16th close to home.

LEO (July 23-August 22) You are thinking about money. Excitement is yours as you are pursued by someone with strange ideas on the 5th. Hop from one event to another on the 8th and 9th. The same is true on the 15th and 16th. Neptune makes you gullible on the 17th and 18th. Beware!

VIRGO (August 23-September 22) Bask in the light of the full moon on the 5th as you celebrate your ability to stay healthy and organized. A new place and meeting new people is fun on the 8th. Juggle your responsibilities so you can run around the 14th. Make long range plans on the 16th.

LIBRA (September 23-October 22) Take a chance and go out to play on the 5th. Take

advantage of all opportunities. Some work (volunteer) shows up on the 8th and 9th. Take a realistic look at your budget on the 12th and 13th. Your appetite is satisfied at the Hungarian Festival the 16th.

SCORPIO

(October 23-November 21)

Any mystery in your life may be solved on the 5th, thanks to the eclipse. On the 12th the moon is in your seventh house and Jupiter aligns with Mars. Your relationships are spectacular. You are on the go constantly the 15th and 16th. Rest on the 17th.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22-December 20) Be prepared for some financial shocks on

the 5th. Even though you want to be home the 8th and 9th, it is not in your stars. Pass out literature for your favorite candidate or issue.

Jupiter gets great vibes from Mars starting the 12th so your optimism returns.

CAPRICORN (December 21-January 19)

You reach a conclusion on the 5th which has a lasting effect on your financial status. It is positive. You have unbelievable energy from the 7th thru the 12th keeping your personal and professional life under control. The week of the 17th is almost perfect.

AQUARIUS (January 20-February 18)

The eclipse and full moon on the 5th are IN your sign. You need to get off the stage to avoid exhaustion. Start slowly to return to the social scene the 8th and 9th. Catch up on errands the week of the 10th. Party like a champion the 15th and 16th.

PISCES

(February 19-March 20) You want to be all things to all people. Remember if you go overboard finding a life preserver may not be easy. Make a specific list of goals on the 10th for the remainder of August. The 16th is social. Organize obligations the week of the 17th.

Sue Lovett is available for personal astrology readings and private parties.

Visit her on the Web at www.suelovett. com or call her at 419-474-6399.

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4. Artsy renaissance woman Ono 5. Many generations 6. Summer home?

7. Get coffee on, say 8. “Shame ...”

9. React to pain, perhaps 10. Team in a division with CHI, MIL, HOU, and PIT 11. Contemporary of Picasso 12. Toni or Anthony of music 13. “Pocket Symphony” band 19. Big name in circular saws 21. Used for spiking 24. Gp. Stephen Colbert did a tour with in June, 2009 26. You might draw one when threatened 27. Popped to short, say 28. Bay area hub: Abbr.

30. “Drag Me to Hell” director Raimi 31. Org. featured in “The Good Shepherd” 32. Figure that generally drops with circulation 34. Old radio format, for short 37. Gross spam euphemism 38. Matterhorn, e.g.

39. Most extreme degree 40. Red carpet moment 41. Groups in power 44. Got lit?

45. Potato skins, onion rings, etc.

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48. Wax’s opposite 49. Word before Club or Nevada 51. “It was all a ___/I used to read ‘Word Up’ magazine” 54. Kissy sound 55. “Ali G ___house” (2002 “Brüno” forerunner) 57. Hockey player Evgeni Malkin’s bizarrely Italianized nickname 58. “Good” cholesterol, briefly 59. Surgery ctrs.

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August 5 • August 18 There is something for everyone beginning with a full moon and lunar eclipse on the 5th.

This puts you in the mood for the Rib-Off at the fairgrounds, the Monroe County Fair and the Hungarian Festival. EAT! EAT! EAT! — BY SUE LOVETT

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Chicks Mix 2009

Hundreds of "Chicks" from Chicks for Charity gathered at the Toledo Botanical Garden July 22 for their annual fundraising event. The evening's proceeds were donated to The Victory Center, their chosen charity for 2009-2010.

THE MELTING POT'S LADIES MAKEOVER NIGHT Macy's professionals stopped into The Melting Pot to celebrate beauty on July 30.

Victory Center's Executive Director Kelly Brooks (left) and Chicks for Charity founder Martha Vetter (right) with Joy Ortyl and Barbara Manley.

Regina Martin (support staff supervisor) and Tammy Holder (director) of Beach House celebrate the night with "beach babes" Kim Iott and Shelley Iott.

Macy's Estee Lauder rep Jennifer Ruiz and Andrea Slusarski

Jean Faber and Bev Welker of the Imagination Station toast to a fun evening for a fantastic cause.

TCP's Pub Crawl

Sam Tischler, Kate Waggoner, and Kristin Brochetti mix and mingle at the lively Chicks gathering.

Our pub crawl on July 24 kept nightcrawlers busy with stops at Chuck's, Basin Street Grille, Nick & Jimmy's and Claddagh Irish Pub.

Staci Slasiak and Bonnie Everett, a Macy's Clinique rep enjoy a ladies' night out.

OMNI BIKER MIKES BENEFIT On July 24, The Omni welcomed "Biker Mike" supporters for a special fundraising event for Michael McCloskey Jr.

Yvonne and Tom Goodwin take it easy at the Basin Street Grille.

Chad and Gretchen Matuszewski, Janelle and Scott Czubek, and Cassie and Clark Staszak hanging out Claddagh Irish Pub.

Pub crawlers smile for the camera on their way to Nick & Jimmy's.

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Omni owner Jimmie Dibari with Biker Mike. photo courtesy of flashtoledo.com

Amanda Loughton, Angela Reed, Monica Lynn, Nicholas Lucht, Shannon Murphy, Gina Peluso, Mathew Abel and Emily McAllister enjoy Chuck's patio.

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A crowd of Biker Mike supporters gathered at the Omni. photo courtesy of flashtoledo.com

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Fictional Fun Halloween is still almost a month away, but first you have another agonizing costume decision to make — what are you wearing to the Toledo Museum of Art’s Literati! party? In honor of the Museum’s three new exhibits for October (LitGraphic, Storybook Stars, and Word Play), TMA is throwing a glitzy party celebrating the artistry of literature. The party goes down on Friday, October 9 from 6:30 - 9:30 p.m — and revelers are encouraged to come dressed as their favorite fictional character. Should I go as Rorschach from Watchmen or Patrick Bateman from American Psycho? Decisions, decisions. Free for Museum members, $20 for non-members. 419-254-5771/ www.toledomuseum.or seurg —JW

Go take a walk!

The Ann Arbor Art Walk turns 10 this year. You’re invited to one of Lake Erie West region’s largest creative parties.

Mosey to Downtown Ann Arbor for one last walk/bike-friendly arts hurrah before autumn takes hold. On Friday, October 5 and Saturday, October 6, all of A2’s best art galleries, exhibition spaces, and independent art studios will open their doors to provide a tour of the facilities that produce that special Ann Arbor creative energy. There are literally dozens of participating venues on the ArtWalk (the online program spans more than 40 pages!), so visit www.annarborartwalk.com for a map and list of venues.

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B-zone Bozart’s Fine Art and Music Gallery (151 S. St. Clair) is rapidly becoming a staple Toledo creativity den. Owner Jerry Grey serves up a funky stew of great multimedia art and music, and the new “B Here Now” exhibit, opening Friday, October 2, is a great sampling. This marks the first group exhibition at Bozart’s, showcasing visual art from some of Toledo’s most acclaimed artists — Adam Russell, Har Simrit Singh, Yusef Lateef, and Kelly Lever. Come by for the opening night party at 5:30 p.m., featuring plenty of music and artistic fellowship. 419-464-578 —JW

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