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SEPTEMBER 23-29, 2015 • VOLUME 46 No 12

Dedicated to Free Times founder Richard H. Siegel (1935-1993) and Scene founder Richard Kabat Publisher Chris Keating Associate Publisher Desiree Bourgeois

CONTENTS Upfront

Editor Vince Grzegorek

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Dennis Kucinich joins the fight to save Lakewood Hospital, the bike lane on West 25th is causing angst, and more

Editorial Managing Editor Eric Sandy Music Editor Jeff Niesel Staff Writer Sam Allard Web Editor Alaina Nutile Dining Editor Douglas Trattner Contributing Dining Editor Nikki Delamotte Stage Editor Christine Howey Visual Arts Editor Josh Usmani Interns Caitlin Summers, Dana Hetrick, Alexandra Hintz, Xan Schwartz, Brandon Koziol

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All the best photos we’ve shared with you this week

Advertising Senior Multimedia Account Executive John Crobar, Shayne Rose Multimedia Account Executive Kiara Hunter-Davis, Joseph Williamson, Savannah Drdek, Kelsey Cullen Classified Account Executive Alice Leslie

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Our Fall Arts Guide will point you toward the best in Cleveland’s visual, theatrical and musical offerings this season

Marketing and Events Jenna Conforti, Gina Scordos Creative Services Production Manager Steve Miluch Layout Editor/Graphic Designer Christine Hahn Staff Photographer Emanuel Wallace

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Business Asst. To The Publisher Angela Lott Sales Assistant/Receptionist Megan Stimac

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Dozens of events spanning the next week in Cleveland

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A woman faces her former torturer— or does she?—in Death and the Maiden

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UPFRONT KUCINICH THROWS CLOUT BEHIND EFFORTS TO SAVE LAKEWOOD HOSPITAL Photo by Eric Sandy

Former U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich speaks outside Lakewood Hospital.

document is what’s relevant here,” he said. “Every single bit of evidence that Mr. Kucinich raised today we are considering. I’m sorry to say that his interpretation is inaccurate.”

City Council has the final say on any deal to close or alter Lakewood Hospital as an in-patient facility.

Five votes are required, and, to date, council has been unable to meet that threshold. Three of the seven council members are known to be openly questioning the Clinic proposal.

The press conference came three days after a motion was filed in court urging an emergency order to compel the Clinic to produce more documents pertaining to the decanting process.

The motion discusses a long-running and alleged cover-up on the part of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and the Lakewood Hospital Association, one which involves concealing records that are germane to the “master plan” timeline (i.e. were Clinic officials secretly plotting the dismantling of Lakewood Hospital even as they assured City Council of the hospital’s long-term viability?).

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THIS WEEK

THE STRUGGLE TO SAVE LAKEWOOD Hospital picked up a high-profile supporter in former U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, who stood outside the hospital Monday morning and urged City Council to intervene legally on behalf of city residents.

In January, Mayor Mike Summers announced the Cleveland Clinic’s plan to close and demolish the hospital and open a family health center on the site. Since then, the city has grown divided over the future of the hospital — and over a perceived lack of public accounting for the Clinic’s past actions.

Amid the discovery process in a civil lawsuit filed by five Lakewood residents (Case No. CV-15-846212 in Cuyahoga County court), documents have been made public that outline a “master plan” to “decant” services from Lakewood Hospital to other, wholly owned Clinic sites (like nearby Fairview Hospital).

(Scene published a feature on the background of that lawsuit, as well as the overarching narrative forming in Lakewood, in last week’s issue.)

“Based on documentation only recently produced through the lawsuit, from 2007 to 2012 the Clinic and its steering committee shockingly plotted a secret plan, which, if implemented, would dismantle and demolish the same Lakewood Hospital,” Kucinich said.

Councilman Tom Bullock, a member of the Lakewood Hospital Association and the most outspoken city representative in the past eight months, insisted that Kucinich’s remarks were based on inaccurate readings of the court documents.

“Kucinich has no credibility on this issue. He’s absolutely wrong about the facts on Lakewood Hospital,” Bullock said.

When asked if he knew of anything revealed in the court documents to be false, Bullock replied that he did not. “I don’t think that the court

FirstMerit Corp. expected to purchase naming rights for Cleveland Convention Center. Much like “The Jake” purists, most Clevelanders say they’ll “stick with the classic.”

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OLD SCHOOL

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handsomely resurfaced this summer, and thanks in large part to the city’s Complete and Green Streets initiative, it now includes a bike lane. (As part of that initiative, Cleveland is slated to paint more than 22 miles of bike lanes by the time 2015 wraps up.) But local bike advocates say the new bike lane has been painted with a traffic buffer on the wrong side.

Detroit-Shoreway resident Angie Schmitt, a writer and editor at Streetsblog USA, called out city engineer Andy Cross, who’s responsible for the design, in a Friday posting.

“While Cleveland is accelerating its rate of bike lane installation,” Schmitt wrote, “Cross’s penchant for ineffective design threatens to sabotage the usefulness of the new infrastructure.”

Indeed. Schmitt said that Cross’ design -- with the buffer between the bike lane and the curb instead of between the bike lane and the traffic -- isn’t in line with best practices.

She cited the National Association of City Transportation Officials, which recommends the buffer adjacent to traffic to increase the distance between cyclists and motorists and to increase the perception of safety.

Jacob Van Sickle, Executive

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Director of Bike Cleveland, posted on his organization’s site last month when the chalk drawings first appeared on W. 25th.

“Buffers are great because they create space between vulnerable people and cars; they protect people and we love them. You know what doesn’t need protection?” Van Sickle inquired facetiously. “A concrete curb.”

Van Sickle said that a buffer between the bike lane and cars creates space for additional protection -- things like bollards or public art -- which, in turn, encourages less experienced riders to bicycle.

But city engineer Andy Cross, in a recent email to Bike Cleveland, dismissed that idea, saying instead that a buffer on the driver side was actually more dangerous, because it leads to collisions between cyclists and vehicles turning right.

“The terms ‘best practices’ and ‘protected’ are often used with what is shown in the NACTO guide,” Cross wrote to Bike Cleveland. “A design that encourages or requires hook turns across the path of through cyclists is neither a ‘best practice’ nor ‘protected.’”

Cross did not immediately reply to questions from Scene, but we managed to catch Van Sickle on the phone. He said that he suspects Cross designed the bike lane with a vehicular mindset.

“He was probably thinking about the seven curb cuts that exist on W. 25th, and about visibility for motorists who want to turn right,” Van Sickle said. “That’s sound reasoning, but there are other things that could’ve been done to notify motorists. This felt like taking the easy way out.”

Ultimately, Van Sickle told Scene, it’s impossible to design a street that’s distracted-driver proof.

“It comes down to motorists’ responsibility,” said Van Sickle. “They need to pay attention and realize that they’re sharing the road with cyclists.”

Though Van Sickle raised the

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UPFRONT alarm when he first saw the chalk drawings on W. 25th, it was too late to change the design. Even after a meeting between the City, Ohio City Inc. and Councilman Joe Cimperman, the city wasn’t prepared to go against the recommendation of its engineer (as Van Sickle heard it).

“Ultimately, in the future,” Van Sickle said, “we’d hope that these plans could be vetted by the public, and that we’d have an opportunity

to talk to residents before striping occurs.”

Van Sickle said that he got a chance to do just that in a community meeting about the resurfacing of Lakeshore Blvd. That meeting was held at the request of Councilman Mike Polensek, and Van Sickle said it was an important opportunity to answer residents’ questions and note their concerns.

NEW MURAL GREETS CLEVELANDERS IN OHIO CITY Former New York City graffiti artist Victor Ving and his Ohio-

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native, professional photographer girlfriend Lisa Beggs have been travelling around the country in an RV and stopping now and then to paint murals inspired by vintage postcard designs. So far, their work has shown up in cities like Canton, Chicago, Denver, Seattle, New York; now, Cleveland boasts one of Ving’s “Greetings From” pieces.

The mural, which graces of the cover of this week’s issue, is made possible thanks to Ohio City and Graffiti HeArt with support from SOLO Block Club and Destination Cleveland.

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Ving wanted to use his talents to help transform communities. “It’s a great way to introduce graffiti/street art into communities,” he says With each new project, Ving tries to work with local artists from each city. One of Ving’s friends and fellow artists Alex Tang assisted Ving with the Cleveland mural. Ving was part of Graffiti HeArt’s first live art mural project at the Gay Games 9; painting an 8-ft. by 8-ft. mural at Festival Village.

“Several years ago, before Graffiti HeArt was founded, I wanted to hire a graffiti artist to paint a graffiti mural on an interior wall of our home,” Graffiti HeArt founder Stamy Paul says. “I was unsuccessful finding a local artist, and ended up contacting Victor Ving through a ‘Graffiti For Hire’ business in NYC. Rather than flying to Cleveland, Victor helped me commission a local Cleveland artist by the name of Alex Tang who eventually painted an awesome ‘TREMONT’ piece in old school graffiti and Cleveland landmarks in our home. Alex subsequently designed the Graffiti HeArt logo for me.”

The mural is located on the south side of the old furniture appliance store at the corner of Chatham and West 25th.

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FRAMED!

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THE THEATER WORLD CAME TO CLEVELAND The Theater Communications Group held their annual National Conference in Cleveland … and left dazzled

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“I never dreamed it could be that good!”

According to multiple reports, that is the feeling most of the more than 800 theater people had when they spent a weekend in our town. Back in June, members of the Theater Communications Group (TCG), a national organization that fosters communication among professional, community and university theaters, were summoned to Cleveland for their annual conference — and they came from all corners of the country.

This was a conference unlike many, since all of those people were active movers and shakers in their own cities and states. And they were blown away by what Cleveland has to offer in terms of theater resources. In short, as Raymond Bobgan, executive artistic director of Cleveland Public Theatre notes, “These aren’t people who are going

to leave the conference and then go back into a cubicle and do their work quietly. These are people who are vocal and will share their experience here.”

Sure, initially there were doubters from both coasts and in-between — theater administrators, directors, performers and playwrights — who asked, “Why are we going to Cleveland for a theater conference?”

That question was partially answered right away, during an opening speech

by Cleveland City Councilman Joe Cimperman. As he said to the theater people assembled: “Thank you for being so relevant in this time of discordance in our nation, when it is so hard to be honest about our past, and our present.”

But more than that, Cimperman connected with the visitors on a personal level, citing his early years: “Had it not been for people like you, there would be people (like me) who would not know what it meant to be loved, what it meant to feel goodness, and what it meant to feel what it’s like when you are alive. You guys are the ones who helped people that you never knew you helped.”

Councilman Cimperman received a standing ovation from hundreds of people he’d never met before, after a

six-minute speech. And if that doesn’t illustrate the power of theater, then nothing does.

From there, the conferees split off to start attending small sessions, many of which were focused on helping theaters make the kinds of connections that Cimperman talked about.

Diversity, equity and inclusion were major themes of these presentations and discussions, targeted on creating welcoming spaces for everyone.

As Laura Kepley, artistic director of the Cleveland Play House and a member of the TCG host committee says, “The TCG conference was electric, inspiring, galvanizing and challenging. One thing visitors were impressed with was how our local theater scene has become an economic driver for downtown and the neighborhoods.”

Indeed, with CPH now part of the

Local theaters focus on community needs to develop their seasons One of the key messages from the summer’s Theater Communications Group national conference in Cleveland was diversity and putting an emphasis on listening to the community and hearing their needs.

Many theaters in Cleveland are already doing that, one being Mamai Theatre. This is a theater run entirely by women and targeting classical and contemporary plays that aren’t often seen in the area.

Founded in 2013, Mamai has produced stirring productions of Medea, Boston Marriage and A Streetcar Named Desire. Their current production, Death and the Maiden, is now running at Kennedy’s at

Playhouse Square. (mamaitheatre.org) Another example of meeting community needs is the Theater Ninjas group, which calls itself the “food truck” of Cleveland theater. Putting up non-traditional shows in non-traditional venues (i.e., the small basement of a bookstore), the Ninjas bring innovative and often mindbending theater out to where the people are. Their next production, Tall Skinny Cruel Cruel Boys, will open Oct. 29 at the Near West Lofts on Detroit Avenue. (theaterninjas.com) If you haven’t sampled the exciting diversity of theater in Cleveland, there are two places you can start!

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Playhouse Square complex, along with Great Lakes Theater and Cleveland State University, Cleveland has a powerful theater presence in the core of our city that others drool over.

Kevin Moore, managing director of CPH observes, “In the past, most TCG conferences in other cities were held in hotel ballrooms, which feels antiseptic for theater people.” But here, they were walking from one theater-oriented space to another — the stages, lobbies, and rehearsal halls in and around Playhouse Square — and it all felt comfortable and organic. And chances are, every time one of the participants sees a chandelier anywhere, they’ll be reminded of their stay in Cleveland thanks to the light fixture that dominates the intersection of Euclid Avenue and East 14th Street.

Conference attendees also saw how theater is affecting our local neighborhoods, such as the Gordon Square Arts District (see sidebar), where an entire community has been lifted up by its bootstraps by the presence of exciting theaters.

In addition, the TCG conference will have a long-term positive effect for all of Cleveland. As Kepley notes, “The people who came to Cleveland also function as mentors, teachers and educators. And they now know that Cleveland is a place where creative people can come and make things happen. It will help draw young and talented people to our city, making us even stronger. In fact, we have an apprenticeship program at the Cleveland Play House, and many of those apprentices stay and work right here, because of all the opportunities.”

Of course, like any convention, it wasn’t all work for the participants.

Most of the 800 visitors attended an opening party at Cleveland Public Theatre, but this wasn’t any ordinary

party. Under the direction of Bobgan, CPT opened their entire campus and had multiple short performances occurring all over the place. As Bobgan says, “It was a risk, since most people at a party like this just want to meet old friends and chat. But at our party, they met, chatted, and walked around looking at all kinds of performances.” That included a dancing chorus line of gigantic pink elephants. Bobgan adds, “All I kept hearing was, ‘What is going on here?

This is crazy!’”

On another night, the attendees were treated to a Full Cleveland Cookout on the top of a parking garage behind Playhouse Square, with a rock band, a beer-stuffed bar, and lots of grilled sausages. There was even a doughnut truck parked on Euclid Avenue to satisfy momentary hunger pangs.

What is the take-away of the TCG conference for people here? As Faye Sholiton, local playwright, founder of Interplay Jewish Theatre and a TCG participant says, “I think the whole Cleveland theater community bonded during the conference. We worked together to make it happen, and now a lot of eyes are on Cleveland, eyes that never gave us a glance before. Everyone is sensing the arts renaissance in this city.”

The bottom line is, it’s all about the people in the community. And our theaters are increasingly focused on serving those communities (see sidebar). As one speaker at the conference, Stephen Wolfert, said: “We have to listen to the people. I think of an Italian who did a stint in the Peace Corps in Africa. He wanted to get the locals to grow tomatoes, but he couldn’t talk them into it. So he planted his own and got a bumper crop. Almost immediately, however, the

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Says Feniger, “Since we began our campaign to revitalize this neighborhood in 2007, more than 80 new businesses have opened up here. And we can connect a lot of that activity to the theaters that now welcome audiences to this area.”

Indeed, even though the GSAD is fairly small, extending from Edgewater Park to Franklin Road and from West 45th to West 80th Streets, it boasts four active and thriving theaters. Cleveland Public Theatre, Near West Theatre, Blank Canvas Theater and Talespinner Children’s Theatre are all operating within this neighborhood. And

then there’s Theater Ninjas, a traveling theater company that often does pop-up shows at random locations in the area. All these live performance theaters in addition to the popular Capitol Theatre, a movie theater, draw countless people in from all over Northeast Ohio.

For example, Near West Theatre drew 9,000 people from February to August, for shows as well as private and community events. As Feniger observes, “We’re seeing a lot of symbiotic growth. As the theaters grow, more restaurants appear, and then other shops open. There’s a force multiplier of energy at work, and it’s exciting to see!”

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tomatoes disappeared, because a bunch of hippos came and smashed them to the ground. A local man said to him, ‘That’s why we don’t grow tomatoes.’”

The message is, always ask what you community needs, so you don’t “grow tomatoes.” And apparently that message, and many others, came across loud and clear to the participants.

In fact, at the end of the conference, Diane Rodriguez, president of the board of TCG, said, “Before the

conference, some people asked, ‘Why Cleveland?’ Now, we know the answer.”

The response, a thunderous ovation, signaled that Cleveland was now occupying a respected place on the national theater map.

(Many thanks to Faye Sholiton, who shared her copious and detailed notes on the conference for this article.)

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FALL ARTS GUIDE THE DANDY DOZEN

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By Christine Howey EVERY NEW THEATER SEASON brims with hope and a sense of adventure. On what unforgettable journeys will these live stage presentations take us?

There are some plays on tap that have the potential for making their mark. Here are an even dozen that we’re targeting from now till the end of the year.

Death and the Maiden

by Ariel Dorfman at Mamai Theatre In an unspecified Latin American country, a husband offers hospitality to a stranger and all is fine, until the wife recognizes the stranger’s voice as that of her former torturer.

It was turned into a Roman Polanski film. This one stars Cleveland acting

luminaries Derdriu Ring, Jeffrey Grover and Terence Cranendonk.

(Now through Oct. 4; Kennedy’s Theatre, Playhouse Square, 216-241-6000.)

Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller at Ensemble Theatre This classic is always a big challenge for any theater company, and this time Ensemble’s color-blind casting puts the fine African-American actor Greg White in the role of Willy Loman.

He plays opposite Mary Alice Beck as the indomitable Linda. (Now through Oct. 11; 2843 Washington Blvd., Cleveland Hts., 216-3212930.)

King Lear

by William Shakespeare at Great Lakes Theater Is it Shakespeare’s most negative play? Is it his best? You can decide when this story about an old man and a “thankless” daughter hits the boards. Treachery and moral conundrums abound in this classic work. (Oct. 1-Nov. 1; Hanna Theater, Playhouse Square, 216-241-6000.)

White Rabbit Red Rabbit

by Nassim Soleimanpour at Cleveland Public Theatre How can you not be fascinated by a play that breaks all the rules: No director, no set, no rehearsals and a different actor performing each night — having never read

the play! Sounds like my recurring nightmare, but it could be amazing.

(Oct. 8-25, 6415 Detroit Ave., 216631-2727.)

Mothers and Sons

by Terrence McNally at Beck Center Nominated for the Best Play Tony Award last year, it’s about a woman whose son died of AIDS. When she visits his ex-partner, who is now living with his new husband and their child, raw emotions are exposed. (Oct. 8-Nov. 15; 17801 Detroit Ave., 216-521-2540.)

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Mary Alice Beck as Linda Loman. Greg White as Willy Loman.

calling time and, surprisingly, it’s not a Donald Trump rally. Miller set this play at the time of the Salem witch trials, and it’s loaded with false accusations that fire up the citizens.

Hmm, maybe it is a Trump rally. (Oct. 19-Nov. 8, Allen Theatre, Playhouse Square, 216-241-6000.)

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by Robert L. Freeman and Steven Lutvak at Playhouse Square A frothy musical about a man with lots of relatives whom he’s trying to kill so he can glom onto the whole inheritance. Meanwhile, he has to deal with his fiancée and his mistress and then show up for tea. (Nov. 3-15; Connor Palace, Playhouse Square, 216-241-6000.)

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out great. Bob’s epic cross-country journey brings us an exploration of American myths and values. (Nov. 20Dec. 19; 2438 Scranton Rd., 216-687-0074.)

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by Rick Elice at Dobama Theatre This prequel to Peter Pan takes us along on the ride as teenage Peter parlays his disgust with grownups into the ability to fly. In that sense, it’s a play immersed in the magic of storytelling and appropriately adolescent humor. (Dec. 4-Jan. 3; 2340 Lee Rd., Cleveland Hts., 216-932-3396.)

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by Kevin Murphy and Dan Studney at Blank Canvas Theatre Based on the florid 1936 propaganda film, this musical observes clean-cut kids fall into sin and degradation because of that first puff of ganja. What better way to celebrate the holidays! (Dec. 4-19; 76th Street Studios, 1305 West 80th St., 440-941-0458.)

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FALL ARTS GUIDE WORDS WE SAIL UPON Ohio will soon have its first poet laureate. What does that mean?

By Eric Sandy NEARLY EVERY STATE IN THE U.S. counts a poet laureate among its artistic ranks, but Ohio has never been one of them — until now. Later this year, Gov. John Kasich will formally appoint the state’s first poet laureate, casting a nod to Ohio’s legacy of poetry.

The Ohio Arts Council opened the call for nominations in April, and now a selection committee is meeting throughout the fall to winnow the list of nominees. They will shuttle three recommendations to the governor, who will make the final call.

“Broadly speaking, we’re looking for somebody who will generally contribute to the growth and awareness of poetry throughout the state,” Ohio Arts Council executive assistant Justin Nigro says. The poet

laureate will be expected to provide at least 10 public readings each year in settings all over Ohio, from the rural to the urban, and engage young students’ interest in poetry.

State Sen. Eric Kearney, a Cincinnati Democrat, originated the legislation that led to this process. He wanted to expand the role of poetry throughout the state. The Ohio Arts Council picked up the workload once the bill passed.

“This could really blossom into something very, very special for the state of Ohio,” Kearney told WVXU in 2014.

So far, so good: The state received 17 nominations for the position, giving the selection committee a lot of great material to work with. Once chosen, the poet laureate will serve a

two-year term. Nigro expects the state will receive even more nominations in 2017, the next time someone will be chosen.

Even before the appointment is made, this news has given Ohio residents a chance to reflect on the world of poetry born in the Buckeye State. “We’re excited to reach a new audience and get more support around poetry,” Ohio Arts Council communications strategist Hannah Brokenshire says. “Ohio already has a lot of great poets associated with the state throughout history. It makes sense for us to recognize poetry in a state that’s produced so many great poets.”

Ohio’s contributions to the canon include Langston Hughes (who grew up in Cleveland), Paul Lawrence

Dunbar and Nikki Giovanni. But the field of contemporary American poetry is rife with talent — names that might only be known in the tightest of poetry circles. Having a poet laureate on hand does wonders in terms of introducing a community of artists to the people.

Lance Larsen, the poet laureate of Utah, tells Scene that he’s experienced that interaction quite a bit as he travels around his state. He says his role is fairly open-ended, giving him a lot of latitude in terms of how he presents his poetry. “I participate regularly in certain annual events: an awards ceremony for Utah writers and Poetry Out Loud, a national high school recitation contest sponsored by the NEA. And of course I give readings and lead workshops around

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FALL ARTS GUIDE “Dreams”

By Langston Hughes

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the state,” he says.

The job will work in much the same way here in Ohio: plenty of readings and workshops and opportunities for the uninitiated to get familiar with how poetry affects us.

In fact, on a related note, the Ohio Arts Council is now accepting registrants for the national Poetry Out Loud competition. High school students memorize classical and contemporary poetry and compete in recitation contests. (Get more information at oac.state.oh.us.)

Brokenshire says that the poet laureate will be involved with the Poetry Out Loud programming.

“So much of the vision that we share with Eric Kearney is that we want to make poetry relevant to the next generation, and we want it to be more accessible,” Nigro says.

“Oftentimes it’s perceived as a high art and a thing that’s inaccessible to the public. Part of the hope for having a state poet laureate is to show that poetry is for everybody. You don’t need a Ph.D. in English to read a poem, to understand a poem, to connect with a poem.”

It’s true, and Ohio’s advance into the world of poets laureate will only help impress that on young and old readers alike.

Shelby Stephenson, the poet laureate of North Carolina, says that people reveal an innate “thirst

Frozen with snow.

or desire” wherever he goes. He writes about his view of the world — spinning yarns that wind around his childhood and his home in southeastern North Carolina — and finds that people who may not have a direct connection to his life experiences will begin to share their own.

“People of all ages are starved to tell their stories, to engage the unknown and the known — and to leave a deposit with earning power, to go on and live the days and keep waking up and going again,” he tells Scene. “Everyone on the planet has a story, stories to tell.”

Larsen concurs, and notes that sometimes it takes a little nudging from expected sources — like America’s poets — to get people to realize that power.

“Kafka once said that a book ‘should serve as the ax to the frozen sea within us,’” Larsen says. “If this is true for books, then it holds true in spades for readings and workshops and literary celebrations. We need to flex and stir our collective memories.

Poetry, like theater, reminds us who we are, and temporarily brings interior and exterior landscapes together.”

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FALL ARTS GUIDE SHIFTING TIDES

Checking in on the current state of gallery openings in Cleveland

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ONLY A DELUSIONAL PERSON would open an art gallery in Cleveland hoping to strike it rich. It’s a better way to spend money than make money. Owning a gallery is a labor of love. But despite wellknown obstacles, Cleveland seems to have more galleries than ever.

So why are so many artists and non-artists opening new spaces dedicated to selling and exhibiting artwork?

It’s important to note that these types of changes aren’t unusual.

Life in the art world can be very cyclical, and it seems as if the landscape changes every two to five years. There are, of course, notable exceptions like Bonfoey Gallery, which at just over 120 years old is the only gallery in town that predates the Cleveland Museum of Art. However, this is undoubtedly a very significant time for visual arts in Northeast Ohio. With William Busta Gallery transitioning to Lauren Davies’ 2731 Prospect last weekend, it seemed an appropriate time to focus on the changing landscape of Cleveland’s art community.

“When the recent situation arose involving Bill Busta’s retirement and the closure of his well-known gallery, it was entirely my brother’s (John Davies) idea that we should approach Bill about finding a way to keep the gallery going,” recounts Lauren Davies of 2731 Prospect.

“As a newcomer, I have no predetermined agenda. I’ve been here less than three years and continue to explore the many differences from living in California. It’s utterly refreshing to be living in a place that is less overrun with a million different career-driven, ambitious things. I love the startup vibe, the grit, the authenticity, along with people who feel smart, hardworking and authentic.”

Aside from 2731 Prospect, recent changes include Fred and Laura Bidwell’s purchase of the Van Roy Coffee Roasters building in Hingetown, just steps from their

relatively new Transformer Station, which is a partnership with the Cleveland Museum of Art. “Laura and I have always known that Cleveland has a vibrant arts community,” explains Fred Bidwell, Transformer Station co-founder and former interim director of the Cleveland Museum of Art. “As we have become more involved with the Cleveland artistic scene we see tremendous potential for the talent here to gain the experience and the recognition of playing on more of a world stage. The Cleveland arts community is ready to take it to the next level. Laura and I are excited to make the change to city living and be a part of all the positive changes that are happening in the neighborhoods of the westside and beyond.”

As for the Van Roy building, Bidwell adds, “We look at our new third-floor living space there as a personal artistic project. We hope that the other two floors will be occupied by creative professionals who will bring even more energy and innovation to the center city.

We think that the gallery scene has a lot of potential. There are some new players, but they are building on significant strength and they are part of a collegial community. I hope that some of the new gallerists and artists of Cleveland start to take their show on the road to show the rest of the world what Cleveland's got. We hope that our investments in the artistic landscape of Cleveland inspire collectors to invest in creativity and artists to establish vibrant sustainable careers in Cleveland.”

The renovations and unification of Cleveland Institute of Art’s campus (with new Reinberger Gallery, Student and Alumni Gallery and state-of-the-art Cinematheque) has been big news in the local art world.

“The opening of our new Reinberger Gallery is great news for Cleveland,” promises Cleveland Institute of Art president Grafton

Nunes. “Our gallery features free, public exhibitions by CIA faculty, students and a host of local, national and international contemporary artists and crafts people throughout the year. It’s a welcoming, contemporary space. We think of our building as the eastern anchor of Uptown, with MOCA being the western anchor, a pleasant stroll away.”

The ongoing transformation of Waterloo is also newsworthy.

“We’re delighted that the three newest Collinwood art centers all have CIA ties,” adds Nunes. “Ink House, the Zygote Press satellite, is a contract fine-art printing studio run by CIA grad Christi Birchfield; Brick Ceramic + Design Studio was founded by CIA grad Valerie Grossman; and Praxis Fiber Workshop is a CIA partner, founded

by CIA faculty member Jessica Pinsky with looms donated by CIA. These three dynamic women are helping to revitalize Collinwood in some truly creative ways.”

Through Zygote Press and Ink House, as well as the Collective Arts Network and its CAN Journal, Liz Maugans continues to support and promote the arts community while engaging the community-at-large.

“Twenty years ago Zygote

opened our doors,” recounts Maugans, Zygote Press co-founder and executive director. “We have consulted with other like-minded folks over the years who wanted to open other entrepreneurial spaces where people could share stuff, like the Morgan Conservatory, Praxis Fiber Workshop, Brick Ceramic Studio + Design, the Cleveland Print Room, Flux Metal Arts, Guide to Kulchur and now our own satellite, Ink House. The production of art historically was, first and foremost, a cooperative venture.

“The rise of collective studios, artist hive spaces, collective speaker series, monthly neighborhood art walks, placemaking festival events and the cross section of these shared work-and-live spaces are imbedded with intergeneration groupings, integrated educational programming for youth and inclusive, free and accessible arts and cultural offerings for our communities.”

Citizens Bridge Gallery and Residence recently opened next door to Zygote Press. “My sister (Elizabeth Klingler) and I dreamt of running a gallery together for many years,” explains Citizens Bridge cofounder Melissa Dunfee. “Citizens Bridge Gallery and Residence’s

mission is to help emerging artist in their careers. No matter an artist’s background, it can be difficult to find representation and exhibition opportunities as an emerging artist.

As artists and art school graduates ourselves, we understand these struggles. This is why we support artists by providing opportunities for networking development, portfolio expansion, experimentation and educational artistic experience.

In this process, we help bridge the gap between artists and the Greater Cleveland community, one exhibition, one mentoring session and one connection at a time.”

Additional changes include major upgrades to 78th Street Studios (including the new Derek Hess Gallery and a renovated lower “ramp” level anchored by ARTneo’s beautiful new home) and Akron’s Harris Stanton Gallery’s new Cleveland location.

Galleries have also closed.

Following a less-than-successful crowdfunding effort, Breakneck Gallery in Lakewood closed after just three and a half years; it had been Rich Cihlar’s Pop Shop and (Art)ificial Gallery for about five years before then. Loren Naji’s Studio Gallery in Ohio City remains closed as Naji continues to battle red

tape in the legal system. Additional, less recent closings include Rotten Meat Gallery, Proximity Gallery, Brandt Gallery and William Rupnick’s still-vacant gallery on Euclid Avenue. BUCKBUCK also closed, but was reborn as Canopy Collective.

“Canopy came to be out of our desire to create a space where just about anyone could have the opportunity to participate in the growth of the arts in Cleveland,” explains Erika Durham, who cofounded canopy with Anthony Koch. “We see ourselves not only as a gallery, but as a creative space available to all disciplines. When you open your eyes to it, it’s amazing to see the creativity that exists in the people of our city. I believe that Canopy’s role in Cleveland’s art scene is to be a space that can at once take the arts very seriously and still maintain a level of approachability that allows anyone to be comfortable here. The arts do wonders for people in so many ways, and we are incredibly grateful to be able to offer those experiences.”

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FALL ARTS GUIDE SEASONED CREATIVES Scene’s guide to the fall’s visual arts offerings

Do Ho Suh, “Apartment A, Unit 2, Corridor and Staircase, 348 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011, USA, 2011– 2014,” polyester fabric and stainless steel tubes.

By Josh Usmani FALL STARTS OFF WITH THE return of IngenuityFest on Friday, Oct. 2 through Sunday, Oct. 4. The 11th annual IngenuityFest will be centered around Voinovich Park, and promises a greater emphasis on urban experience and waterfront programming. Once again, the Great Lakes Science Center and the Rock Hall will also host some of IngenuityFest’s programming.

Friday Oct. 2 will be a busy night for the local art community. It also includes an opening reception for Dana Oldfather’s latest exhibition, Soft Armor, from 5 to 8 p.m. at Bonfoey Gallery, Cleveland’s only gallery older than the Cleveland Museum of Art! In November, Bonfoey presents the work of Julian and Barbara Stanczak. The gallery hosts an opening reception

from 5 to 8 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 6.

October 16’s Third Friday at 78th Street Studios includes opening receptions for CAN Journal executive director/editor/publisher Michael Gill’s highly anticipated children’s book and exhibition, A Pocket Full of Change, at Tregoning & Company; Gojira, a Godzilla-inspired group show at Derek Hess’ gallery; and Popeye Gallery, where this writer is one of the directors, presents Dana Depew’s Assholes and Elbows at Survival Kit. You’ll also have an opportunity to take in a number of exhibitions remaining on view this fall including Hedge Represents, Cinema 06 at Kenneth Paul Lesko, and the Cleveland at Home Collection at E11even 2. Most studios and galleries are open from 5 to 9 p.m.

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Lakeland Community College’s gallery coordinator Mary Urbas really loves skulls and skeletons.

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October. Triple Lindy opens with a reception from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 9, and remains on view through Oct. 28. The following Friday, Oct. 16, BAYarts hosts an opening reception for Jen Craun’s Of The Earth, on view through Nov. 8.

Both the Cleveland Museum of Art (and the Galleries at Cleveland State University present special exhibitions celebrating Chinese masterpieces.

Opening Nov. 14, Silent Poetry: Masterworks of Chinese Painting will remain on view through April 24 at the CMA. Additionally, Chinese Landscape Duets of Arnold Chang and Michael Cherney is open now and remains on view through Feb. 2 at the CMA. Local ceramics artist Gina DeSantis has a busy season ahead.

From 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 2, she hosts a Grand Redesign Opening of Gina DeSantis Ceramics and RTD Design Collective at the Screw Factory in Lakewood. On Thursday, Nov. 5, DeSantis teams up with Toast Wine Bar for Kiln to Table, a special dinner, plated using DeSantis’ custom, handmade tableware, which itself was inspired by Toast Wine Bar’s menu and decor and designed to accentuate the meal’s presentation.

The event is free with the purchase of dinner. Pieces will be available for purchase after dinner.

And speaking of the Screw Factory, from noon to 6 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 7, the artists of the Screw Factory host their annual Holiday Sale. As in previous years, a large number of guest artists and makers will also have booths in the building.

Additionally, the Screw Factory will once again host Genghis Con. John G.’s (John Greiner) independent and small print comics convention is quickly becoming an afterThanksgiving weekend tradition.

From 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 29, dozens of local and regional artists, writers, readers and fans will fill the Screw Factory in Lakewood for this one-day-only, annual event.

The convention continues to get bigger and better every year, and 2015 surely won’t disappoint.

November is also a busy month for Spaces. From 6:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 7, Spaces hosts its annual benefit, costume party and art auction. This year’s theme is based on The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and the evening honors now-retired local gallerist William Busta and his wife Joan Tomkins.

Later in the month, Spaces debuts three new exhibitions including The Venus Vault, The People’s Museum of Revisionist Natural Itstory, and artist

in residence Anna Viola Hallberg’s Imperial Differences. These new shows open with a reception Friday, Nov. 20, from 6 to 9 p.m., and remain on view through Jan. 15.

Collinwood’s historic Waterloo Arts District hosts its Walk All Over Waterloo events on Oct. 2 and Nov. 6 this fall. However, it’s worth noting that the annual DayGlo show is moving this December. DayGlo 4 opens with a reception from 5 to 9 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 4, at Waterloo Arts. The Cleveland-based DayGlo Color Corporation sponsors the show, providing artists with free paint and awarding prizes through guest jurors. The gallery will be lit in ultraviolet blacklight, causing the fluorescent paintings to glow like lightbulbs. A closing reception takes place for January’s Walk All Over Waterloo on New Year’s Day, Friday, Jan. 1, from 5 to 9 p.m.

Don’t forget about MOCA Cleveland’s fall exhibitions, which remain on view through Jan 10. The schedule includes Nevet Yitzhak’s Off the Ruling Class, Fatima Al Qadiri’s Chinas of the Mind and Do Ho Suh’s self-titled exhibition. The first Saturday of each month is free to the public. Regular admission is $8 for adults; $6 for seniors; $5 for students with valid ID; and free for children 5 and under.

In conjunction with the fall 2015 exhibitions, MOCA Cleveland has planned a number of events. At 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12, MOCA Cleveland hosts Break It Down: Iconoclasm Today, a special panel discussion around Nevet Yitzhak’s exhibition, inspired by the 1970 bombing of Rodin’s The Thinker outside the Cleveland Museum of Art. In advance of a special summer 2016 exhibition, Devo co-founder Mark Mothersbaugh joins executive director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (and curator of Mothersbaugh’s Myopia) for a special talk at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 15.

All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.

The good news is that there are even more arts events happening this fall — many more. The bad news is that we’d need to devote a full issue to get everything in print. See more arts offerings on clevescene.com and check out the many art-related events happening this week in this issue’s Get Out section.

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FIRST CHAIR

The offbeat venues and performances giving Cleveland a fun introduction to classical music

by Mike Telin and Daniel Hathaway IF CLASSICAL MUSIC HAS, FOR whatever reason, seemed to be a complete mystery to you, Cleveland offers a number of easy entrances into a world of new sonic adventures. Here are some fun and inexpensive ways to introduce yourself to the music, get to know the performers and make some new friends.

For starters, if you’d like to experience classical music in a clublike atmosphere, there are several possibilities that you should know about.

Founded in San Francisco in 2006, Classical Revolution became a national movement with the mission of creating a “platform for classical music to be heard in unconventional places by new audiences,” explains Classical Revolution Cleveland’s director Ariel Clayton Karas, in an article in ClevelandClassical. com. The Cleveland chapter has organized performances by classical musicians at various Cleveland pubs and bars since 2009. Today Classical Revolution Cleveland can be heard on the third Tuesday of each month at the westside Happy Dog on Detroit Avenue in the Gordon Square Arts District. There is no cover charge, the vibe is laid-back, and the hot dogs can’t be beat.

A recent addition to Cleveland’s burgeoning alternative classical music scene, Groupmuse organizes classical music house parties, or groupmuses, that bring friends and strangers together to socialize and enjoy music in an informal setting. Founded in 2013, the New York City-based organization currently has chapters in Boston, New York, San Francisco, and Seattle. The Cleveland branch, founded by cellists Carlyn Kessler and Sophie Benn, began organizing events this fall. Kessler and Benn say they were attracted to the Groupmuse mission because it’s a less formal way

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of sharing music with others. And for them, one of the most important aspects of being a musician is being able to connect to your audience in a personal way, which is sometimes difficult to do in a traditional concert setting. Events are free, although a $10 donation for the musicians is requested.

Bop Stop: Since the popular jazz club was acquired by the Cleveland Music Settlement in the summer of 2014, and the venue began presenting events in the fall of that year, manager Gabe Pollack has carved out a niche for the acoustically pleasing club by presenting all genres of music. That includes what we might think of as traditional classical as well as concerts featuring new music and experimental genre-bending ensembles. In addition to the great performances, the atmosphere can’t beat, and the food and bar service is outstanding. (There is a nominal ticket price.)

If you’re a habitue of Beachland Ballroom, try Waterloo Arts just down the road. At 4 p.m. on one Sunday each month, “Music for Miles” presents a free performance by local professional musicians that’s one of the kid-friendliest series in town.

Next door, the Callaloo Cafe serves up drinks and Caribbean food during the performances, and there’s usually an art show up as well.

In addition to the clubs, there are plenty of concerts around town in alternative venues, or that offer easy access to classical music in various non-traditional ways.

Founded by baroque oboist Debra Nagy in 2009, Les Délices, a period instrument ensemble that explores the dramatic potential and emotional

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resonance of long-forgotten music of the French baroque, has thrilled area audiences with their annual concert series in Cleveland art galleries and at Plymouth Church. This fall the ensemble will add a series of free performances around town, including a family concert at the Bop Stop, and pop-up concerts in westside art galleries. If you’ve never attended a period instrument concert, why not give Les Délices a try?

Arts Renaissance Tremont: Now in its 25th year, ART, under the guidance of Chris Haff, annually presents a variety of classical music concerts by outstanding area musicians, often members of the Cleveland Orchestra. These free Sunday afternoon concerts in the sanctuary of Tremont’s Pilgrim Church are a great way to introduce you, your family and friends to classical music.While you’re there, why not take in one of the area’s superb culinary offerings?

In need of a mid-week respite?

The free Wednesday one-hour noon concerts at Trinity Cathedral downtown and Trinity Lutheran Church in Ohio City may be just what you’re looking for. The Cathedral’s Brownbag concert series offers a smorgasbord of musical offerings. If you’re intrigued by an organ concert, you can find one every Wednesday of the year at Trinity Lutheran.

These are “come when you can, leave when you must” events. Lunches are welcome and Trinity Cathedral offers a lunch special each week for $5.

CityMusic Cleveland has the unique mission of bringing free orchestral music to your doorstep.

Each set of its annual programs is performed in four or five different

venues — usually churches — around the Greater Cleveland area, and features appearances by outstanding soloists.

BlueWater Chamber Orchestra takes a slightly different tack.

They perform in the Breen Center at St. Ignatius High School and Plymouth Church, but they hold the length of their programs to just over an hour, and there’s no intermission. Known for creative programming, the performances are a great way to introduce yourself to the great repertoire for classical chamber orchestra without killing an entire evening. (As for the rest of the evening, the West 25th Street entertainment district and Shaker Square are close by.)

The Cleveland Orchestra is world famous for its performances of great works, but it lets its hair down on certain occasions — like its neighborhood residencies and Nights at the Movies. The big screen will come down twice this fall at Severance Hall, when the orchestra will play live scores for Back to the Future and Home Alone. A third movie night will feature organist Todd Wilson improvising a score to The Hunchback of Notre Dame — a great way to dip your toe into an organ concert.

Finally, the area’s conservatories and schools of music offer an abundance of free performances by faculty members and talented student ensembles. The price is right, and your fellow audience members will fall on the younger end of the age spectrum.

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WITH OVER 600 CLASSICAL music events to choose from between now and the end of December, it’s a challenge to tease out a short list of not-to-be-missed performances. Here’s a rundown of some interesting events for the fall.

After beginning its Severance Hall season with an eclectic mix of repertoire — and a particularly intriguing pair of programs of music by Olivier Messiaen, Richard Strauss and Giuseppi Verdi led by Franz Welser-Möst the weekend of Oct. 8 — The Cleveland Orchestra will return from its 12-concert European tour for three attractive programs under guest conductors in November. Greek violinist Leonidas Kavakos will solo in Dimitri Shostakovich’s first concerto the weekend of Nov. 6 under the direction of Gianandrea Noseda.

Music director laureate Christoph von Dohnányi will return to lead Richard Sortomme’s two-viola concerto featuring soon-to-retire principal violist Robert Vernon and his standmate Lynne Ramsey on the weekend of Nov. 19 (the work is based on themes from Smetana’s string quartet “From My Life”).

And the orchestra’s solo English hornist Robert Walters will play the first performances of a concerto written for him by Bernard Rands on the weekend of Nov. 27, with Lionel Bringuier also conducting Claude Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, and Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, that famous musical portrait of an artist’s opium dream.

Before all of that happens, Welser-Möst and the orchestra will launch the four-month-long Violins of Hope project, simultaneously inaugurating the new Maltz Center for the Performing Arts at CWRU with a concert on Sept. 27 (that performance is sold out, but you can watch a simulcast on WVIZ

Ideastream or listen along on WCLV 104.9 FM). A staggering schedule of concerts, lectures, exhibitions and educational activities surrounding the Maltz Museum’s exhibit of 19 violins that survived the Holocaust is detailed at violinsofhopecleveland. org, but two performances of special interest will be a visit to Severance Hall by the Israel Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta on Nov. 17 and a Park Synagogue concert on Dec. 6 by the Cleveland Women’s Orchestra led by Robert Cronquist commemorating the women’s orchestra at Auschwitz.

Opera is in demand but has been in short supply in Cleveland, but two companies are busy filling that gap. Opera Circle Cleveland will produce Bedich Smetana’s The Bartered Bride at the Bohemian National Hall on Oct. 25, and Cleveland Opera Theater will mount the Ohio premiere of André Previn and Philip Littell’s A Streetcar Named Desire, based on the Tennessee Williams play, on Dec. 4 and 6 at the Masonic Temple Performing Arts Center in Midtown.

Early music is becoming a Cleveland specialty. Minneapolis’ brilliant Rose Ensemble will visit the Helen D. Schubert Concert Series at St. John’s Cathedral on Sept. 30 for a program called Slavic Wonders: Feasts and Saints in Early Russia, Poland, and Bohemia.

Contrapunctus Cleveland will revisit the choral music for the 1727 coronation of King George II, including George Frederic Handel’s Coronation Anthems, at Mary Queen of Peace Church on Oct. 25.

Les Délices will treat you to French baroque music from “The Age of Indulgence” on Nov. 7 and 8, first at Survival Kit in the 78th Street Studios, then in Herr Chapel at Plymouth Church in Shaker Heights.

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the art of the canon from the 13th century “Sumer is icumen in” to Benjamin Britten’s 20th century opera Peter Grimes at St. John’s Cathedral on Nov. 7.

Apollo’s Fire, just back from a series of European triumphs, will present four shows this fall, including a October Venetian orchestral extravaganza and two Christmas shows (“Sacrum Mysterium, a Celtic Christmas,” and “Michael Praetorius: Christmas Vespers”). Among them will be a stunning one-man performance by singer-storyteller Benjamin Bagby, who will bring the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf to life on three evenings beginning on Nov. 13.

Standing concert series have big plans for the fall. Here are a

few standouts. Violinist Christian Tetzlaff will visit the Oberlin Artist Recital Series in Finney Chapel on Oct. 30.

The Cleveland Museum of Art will present the Calder Quartet in works for string quartet by Daniel Bjarnason, Benjamin Britten and Ludwig van Beethoven at Transformer Station on Nov. 16 and former Cleveland Orchestra assistant conductor James Feddeck in an organ recital featuring music

by J.S. Bach, Felix Mendelssohn, Samuel Barber, Jehan Alain and Charles-Marie Widor in Gartner Auditorium on Dec. 6.

Cuarteto Quiroga, the string quartet in residence at the Royal Palace in Madrid, where they play a stunning set of decorated

Stradivarius instruments, will play in the Rocky River Chamber Music Series at the West Shore Unitarian Universalist Society on Nov. 16 (with a repeat performance at Stull Recital Hall at the Oberlin Conservatory on Nov. 18).

The Cleveland Classical Guitar Society will bring Croatian guitarist Ana Vidovi to town on Oct. 24, followed

by Russian flamenco virtuoso Grisha Goryachev on Nov. 21.

Both performances will take place at Plymouth Church in Shaker Heights.

And the third performance on the Cleveland Chamber Music Society series, also at Plymouth, will feature the Jupiter Quartet on Dec. 1, in conjunction with the

Cleveland Institute of Music’s winter chamber music festival. They’ll play quartets by Joseph Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven, plus Henri Dutilleux’s Ainsi la nuit.

(Before that, you can hear London’s Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble on Oct. 6, and the Barcelona-based Cuarteto Casals on Oct. 27.)

We’ve had to leave many interesting performances off this list, including events scheduled outside Greater Cleveland. Check the Concert Listings page at ClevelandClassical.com for a complete schedule.

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The season of holiday cheer begins with Winterfest in Downtown Cleveland, Saturday, November 28 at 1:00 pm! Join the City of Cleveland, Downtown Cleveland Alliance, and Huntington Bank at Playhouse Square, for the annual tree-lighting and wonder of the holidays in Downtown Cleveland. GE Lighting, with the help of IBEW Local 38, Cleveland Public Power and RTA, will light up Euclid Avenue with thousands of sparkling lights from Public Square to Playhouse Square.

Winterfest festivities will feature a full day of free activities perfect for your entire family and friends to enjoy. Meet us Downtown for live musical performances, carriage rides, plenty of food, shopping, and of course a magical visit from the man in red, as we celebrate the holiday season with fireworks and the lighting of the tree.

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FALL ARTS GUIDE BETTER THAN SIN

Why the mechanism for public arts funding is better than the mechanism for public stadium funding (according to recipients)

By Sam Allard IF YOU’RE A NON-SMOKER who’s opposed to the county tax on cigarettes for the arts, chances are you’re somewhat morally indignant about the major cultural institutions that stand as the tax’ beneficiaries: the Cleveland Orchestra, for instance, which, since 2007, has received more than $15 million from smokers in the county. You may roll your eyes at Playhouse Square or the Cleveland Museum of Art, which have received about $13 million and $12 million, respectively, over the same period.

You might sneer at the premier arts schools in University Circle — the Institute of Art and the Institute of Music — both of which have received more than $6 million since 2007. You might even gesture ironically toward

the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which is doing A-OK on its own but has nonetheless received awards totaling nearly $8 million since 2007.

But if you ask some of the smaller arts organizations that receive funding from the tax, all that money awarded to big institutions isn’t indicative of inequity in the process.

“It’s a real point of confusion and contention” says Liz Maugans, founder and director of Zygote Press.

“People think this money is lining the pockets of executive directors.”

In reality, Maugans says, there’s an extremely thorough adjudication process.

“It’s like getting a scope,” Maugans says. “You’re committing to about 50 hours. But a lot of these

organizations take a lot of time because they know how important this is. They know it merits this type of scrutiny because it is public money.”

An outside jury rates organizations that apply for funding, and then money is disbursed based on a cumulative score that measures objectives and programming and is scaled to the individual organization’s budget.

“They’re measuring things like our reach into the community, whether our programming is free and accessible to the public, our partnerships, our fiscal trajectory,” Maugans says.

Zygote, a collaborative workshop and printing house described by

Maugans as a “small, grassrootsy arts organization with an energetic staff” has received the highest score countywide for two funding cycles in a row. Still, according to Cuyahoga Arts & Culture documents, Zygote has received just $130,566 since 2007.

Is that adequate?

Maugans says absolutely. The first year Zygote applied for CAC money, they received $5,000 more than they’d anticipated, and Maugans says that for an organization with a total budget of $350,000, the extra money is huge for its bottom line.

Among other things, it helps them pay employees a living wage and helps facilitate projects that bring arts programming to Cleveland

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Bringing the arts into Cleveland neighborhoods is important, and it distinguishes the CAC funding from the stadium Sin Tax, at least according to Maugans. Not only does the funding make artists feel relevant — things like the Creative Workforce Fellowship, which Maugans has won, are “huge incentives” — it actually improves communities by giving money to organizations that work there: organizations like the Broadway School of Music in Slavic Village, Karamu House in Fairfax, and the Rainey Institute on the border of Hough and Superior / St. Clair.

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“It’s a real point of confusion and contention. People think this money is lining the pockets of executive directors.”

— Liz Maugans, founder and director of Zygote Press The Rainey Institute is a community organization that hosts summer camps and afterschool programs in the visual and performing arts for youth.

“Cuyahoga Arts & Culture is very important to us,” says executive director Lee Lazar. “It has provided significant, long-term funding which has helped us to grow humongously in the last eight years, to increase the number of kids we serve from 400 to more than 1,600 today.”

Rainey, which has a long history on the east side — Eleanor B. Rainey founded the organization in 1904 as a settlement house for Eastern European immigrants — has received more than $400,000 in grants through the tax.

One of the unique programs that Lazar says the cigarette tax has helped make possible is El Sistema, a youth orchestral music program that came from Venezuela.

Currently, 75 kids participate in the after-school program that provides instruments and instruction from the Cleveland Orchestra.

“They’re going to be performing in a couple of weeks at the Cleveland Museum of Art,” Lazar tells Scene.

“And on MLK Day, they’ll be performing on stage at Severance Hall.”

Lazar, like Maugans, disputes

the notion that too much of the tax goes toward big, powerful arts organizations. He says that Cuyahoga Arts & Culture has been “wonderfully helpful” in dealing with smaller organizations that might not have, for example, a development team or full-time grant writers on staff.

Lazar is proud to mention that over the past two funding cycles, the Rainey Institute has been given the second and third highest scores, respectively, for general operating support.

The reason for its success?

“We’re focused on serving the community,” Lazar says. “We have a strong sense of community purpose.”

But some residents still take great exception to the regressive cigarette tax. Lazar says he certainly hears “a little bit” of opposition, “but I think once people truly understand that the tax benefits arts and culture organizations of all sizes, they then understand the importance.”

All sizes also means all ages. And indeed, some of the organizations that receive funding you’ve probably never heard of, like the TOPS Swing Band, a classic big-band orchestra “for seniors, by seniors.”

The average age of the TOPS Swing Band’s members: 74.

The $9,000 that TOPS (the Tough Old ProS) receives through CAC represents anywhere from 15 to 20 percent of the group’s budget, says one of the group’s directors and vocalists Larry “Patch” Paciorek.

He says that money is used for things like musical arrangements, equipment, transportation and even postage.

“In some cases,” Paciorek tells Scene, “our music motivates people to tap their feet or sing along, while others may have tears in their eyes when sung to, perhaps relating to special memories … The most rewarding part of what we do is the heartwarming feeling that comes over you when you’re a part of this motivation. We feel, and are told, that we project a motivational value that triggers a desire in some of these seniors to be more active and productive which could bring more joy to their lives.”

The TOPS Swing Band performed at the Senior Games when they came to Cleveland in 2013 and was, Paciorek is pleased to point out, the very first swing band to perform in the Cleveland Convention Center.

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drama about a young Mississippi woman who’s kidnapped and raped by a backwoods bootlegger.

Directed by Stephen Roberts and starring Miriam Hopkins and Jack La Rue, the film screens tonight and Friday night at 7 at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tickets are $10. (Xan Schwartz) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.

MUSIC

Angela Easterling A veteran singer-songwriter who issued her debut back in 2007, Angela Easterling has the kind of brittle voice that really resonates.

She recorded her latest album, Common Law Wife, with Joe Pisapia (Guster, k.d. lang, Drew Holcomb) at his Middletree Studios in Nashville. Guests on the album include seasoned musicians such as Will Kimbrough, Fats Kaplin, Dave Jacques and Paul Griffith.

She wrote the tender ballad “Isaac Woodard’s Eyes” after learning the real life story of an AfricanAmerican World War II veteran who was savagely beaten and blinded by police officers in South Carolina just hours after being honorably discharged from the U.S. Army in 1946. The late folk singer Pete Seeger inspired the track “Hammer.” She performs a Listening Room Concert tonight at 7 with Brandon Turner at the Solon branch of the Cuyahoga County Public Library. Admission is free. (Jeff Niesel) 34125 Portz Pkwy., Solon, 440-248-8777, cuyahogalibrary.org.

FOOD

Walnut Wednesday Today from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., some 30 food trucks will gather at Perk Plaza at Chester Commons (East 12th and Walnut) to serve up delicious eats. Live entertainment, usually of the musical variety, is also expected.

Don’t miss it: This is your secondto-the-last chance to take part in the 2015 series which concludes Sept. 30. (Alaina Nutile) East 12th Street and Walnut Ave., facebook.com/ DowntownClevelandAlliance.

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Patio Kulchur Today and continuing through September, the Gordon Square Arts District hosts Patio Kulchur, “an evening of art in the arts district.” Area merchants will present music, theatre, dance and visual arts on their patios from 6 until 9 p.m. The event follows the Gordon Square Farmers Market, which runs from 4 till 7 p.m.

Maps of the area and listings of the events will be available at the venues as well as at the Gordon Square Farmers Market. (Niesel) 6516 Detroit Ave., gordonsquare.org.

MUSIC

Ellen Fullman Experimental composer, instrument builder and performer Ellen Fullman originally thought she’d follow in her father’s footsteps and become a visual artist. She’s certainly ventured far from that world and is now known for her Long String Instrument: an installation of dozens of wires

The Firefish Festival will turn up the heat in downtown Lorain. See: Saturday.

50 feet long or longer tuned in Just Intonation and “bowed” with rosincoated fingers to produce exotic, otherworldly sounds that resemble classical violin — or even an entire string section! Fulman kicks off the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Performing Arts Series with a series of weekend concerts at the Transformer Station in Ohio City.

She’ll mark her NEO debut with a piece she co-composed with cellist Theresa Wong. The concerts take place at 7:30 tonight through Saturday; tickets are $25. (Niesel) 1460 West 29th St., 216-938-5429, transformerstation.org.

FILM

The Reflektor Tapes Directed by Kahlil Joseph, the 2013 Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Short Films winner, The Reflektor Tapes, provides a behind-the-scenes look at Arcade Fire’s most recent album Reflektor. It follows

band members as they started sessions in Jamaica, and then began recording in Montreal. The film includes footage from an impromptu gig at a Haitian hotel on the first night of Carnival and also captures the band as it plays stateside arenas. The band gave “previously unprecedented access to Joseph,” so the movie features never-before-seen personal footage and interviews. Additionally, it features 20 minutes of exclusive unseen footage, filmed only for cinema audiences. It screens at 7:30 p.m. at the Capitol Theatre (and at the Cedar Lee Theatre).

Tickets are $15. (Niesel) 1390 West 65th St., 216-651-7295, clevelandcinemas.com.

FILM

The Story of Temple Drake Adapted from the highly controversial novel Sanctuary

by William Falkner, The Story of Temple Drake is a 1933 pre-Code

An Alpine Symphony Richard Strauss liked the outdoors and his An Alpine Symphony provides a musical depiction of a day spent climbing an Alpine mountain. One of the best orchestral tone poems ever written, it’s challenging to perform and requires a huge orchestra of some 125 musicians.

For tonight’s concert, conductor Franz Welser-Möst has paired the symphony with Mozart’s final symphony, nicknamed “Jupiter.”

The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. at Severance Hall and tickets start at $29. Performances are scheduled for tomorrow and for 8 p.m.

Saturday as well. (Niesel) 11001 Euclid Ave., 216-231-1111, clevelandorchestra.com.

ART

Fine Print Fair This weekend, the Atrium at the Cleveland Museum of Art hosts the 31st Annual Fine Print Fair.

From 6 to 9:30 p.m. tonight, organizers host A Prints of a Party Opening Night Preview. Dr. Jan Glaubinger, curator of prints at the Cleveland Museum of Art, gives the Curator’s Choice tour at 7 p.m. Tickets are required for

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GET OUT tonight’s preview, but the rest of the weekend is free and open to the public. On Saturday, Dr. Glaubinger will present a special lecture, Prints: The Multiple as Original, at 11 a.m. Additionally, the weekend includes printmaking demonstrations, discussions of paper conservation by the Intermuseum Conservation Association, and demonstrations of papermaking techniques by the Morgan Conservatory. The fair runs through Sunday. (Josh Usmani) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.

MUSIC

Grog Shop Anniversary The Grog Shop, the Cleveland Heights concert club that hosts everything from hip-hop to rock and comedy, is turning 23. To celebrate, it has put together a series of special shows. At 8:30 tonight, the indie rock outfit Man Man performs at the club.

After the gig, the band will be on hand for a free party for all ticket holders at the B-Side Liquor Lounge & Arcade. The guys will DJ the event and there will be free pizza. At 9 p.m. tomorrow, the Tossers will play a Half Way to St. Patty’s Day show. Before and during the show, Barrio will provide limited free tacos (while supplies last) on the B Side patio.

And at 9 p.m. on Saturday, Total Babes, Relaxer and the Nico Missile will play a free show at the club. From 7 to 9 p.m. on the B-Side patio, Coventry Village merchants will provide free food and snacks as part of a pre-show party. (Niesel) 2785 Euclid Hts. Blvd., 216-321-5588, grogshop.gs.

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Hooked on Books Need something exciting to do with your little ones? You can join the Childrens Museum of Cleveland every Thursday morning for their Hooked on Books program. The immersive entertainment gives kids a new learning experience as they take part in songs and stories. The program is included with your $8 museum admission; it begins at 11 a.m. (Alexandra Hintz) 10730 Euclid Ave., 216-791-KIDS, clevelandchildrensmuseum.org.

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ART

The Drawing Show The Drawing Show: From Doodles to Digital features the work of 35 local artists and opens with a free, public reception at the Florence O’Donnell Wasmer Gallery at Ursuline College today from 5 to 9 p.m. Each artist was invited to submit up to two works, as well as sketchbooks for a glass display case, and digital sketches to be projected through a slideshow.

The slate of 35 artists includes Loren Naji, Karen Sandstrom, Douglas Max Utter and this writer. The opening includes refreshments and live music. The exhibition runs through Friday, Oct. 30. (Usmani) 2550 Lander Rd., Pepper Pike, 440-449-4200, ursuline.edu.

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Fall Season Opening Night MOCA Cleveland officially opens its fall 2015 exhibitions today with a free Fall Season Opening Night Party from 7 to 10 p.m.

MOCA’s new exhibitions include Nevet Yitzhak’s Off the Ruling Class, Fatima Al Qadiri’s Chinas of the Mind and Do Ho Suh’s self-titled exhibition. The evening begins with a special artist talk with Do Ho Suh at 7 p.m., followed by music and mingling from 8 to 10 p.m. Throughout the night, guests are invited to the third floor to create artwork inspired by the new exhibitions.

The shows remain on view through Jan. 10. (Usmani) 11400 Euclid Ave., 216-421-8671, mocacleveland.org.

MUSIC

Fall Badfish The legacy of ska-punk act Sublime lives on with Badfish, a popular tribute act that pays homage to the late, great Bradley Nowell and Sublime. The band headlines Fall Badfish 2015, a two-night stand at Nelson Ledges Quarry Park that includes performances by a slew of other like-minded bands. The music starts tonight at 7 and Badfish performs tomorrow night too.

Campers can stick around through Sunday if they want.

Tickets are $55 to $75. (Niesel) 12001 State Route 282, Garrettsville, 440-548-2716, nlqp.com.

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The night market is using this opportunity to show all the ways St. Clair Superior and AsiaTown are growing. (Nikki Delamotte) East 21st Street and Rockwell Avenue, nightmarketcle.com.

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An Opening Reception Cleveland-based architect Robert Maschke’s 1point618 Gallery recently celebrated its 10th anniversary with a special exhibition commemorating 66 artists and 88 exhibitions. The latest exhibitions at the Gordon Square gallery include Jenniffer Omaitz’s Folding Gesture in the main gallery and Susan Squires’ Geometric Suggestions in the project space. Both artists explore geometry and abstraction. The exhibitions open with a reception from 7 to 10 p.m. today and remain on view through Dec. 4 during regular business hours and by appointment. Admission is free. (Usmani) 6421 Detroit Ave., 216-281-1618, 1point618gallery.com.

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The Quay Brothers in 35 mm Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight, Inception) assembled this program of three stop-motion ani-

mated films by the Quay Brothers, twins Stephen and Timothy, who have spent their lives animating everyday objects and integrating them into visually unique films reminiscent of European fairytales gone wrong. The short films are Street of Crocodiles (1986), The Comb (1991), and In Absentia (2000). The program includes Nolan’s new short film about the brothers too. The films screen tonight at 9:25 at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque, and the program repeats at 6:45 on Saturday night. Tickets are $10.

(Xan Schwartz) 11610 Euclid Ave., 216-421-7450, cia.edu.

THEATER

The Secret Garden An adaptation of a children’s novel, The Secret Garden focuses on a 10-year-old orphan who travels to England to live with her uncle on his estate. When she unlocks a secret gate, both she and her uncle are forced to confront the secrets of their pasts. Performed by Great Lakes Theater, the Tony Awardwinning musical opens today at 7:30 p.m. at the Hanna Theatre at Playhouse Square. Performances are scheduled through Oct. 31.

Tickets start at $15. (Niesel) 2067 East 14th St., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

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Wizbang!

Remember the Voix de Ville tent at IngenuityFest the past two years? Well it’s back as Wizbang! popping up on the East Bank of the Flats between FWD and Alley Cat. Organizers Pinch and Squeal (Jason and Danielle Tilk) host a stellar line-up of vaudeville, burlesque, circus and sideshow acts. This weekend’s performances include Detroit’s legendary Satori Circus, the World’s Laziest Strongman Titano Oddfellow, acrobatics by Vivacious Miss Audacious and more. Showtimes are 7 and 9 p.m. today; 4, 7 and 9 p.m. tomorrow; and 1 p.m. on Sunday. Matinees are family friendly, but evening shows are adults only. Matinees last about an hour; evening shows are about 90 minutes long.

Next month, Wizbang! returns to the East Bank for a special haunt-themed weekend before Halloween. General admission is $20 for evening shows and $15 for matinees. Tickets are on sale now through the website. (Usmani) wizbangtheatre.com.

A COMEDY WITH SONGS! Stan gives flowers to his girlfriend Annie at brunch, and Annie tells Stan that she wants to take a break. Aaron suggests to his boyfriend Marcus that they make a change in their long-term relationship. When Stan and Marcus meet online and hook up, the lives of the two couples become awkwardly entangled. Meanwhile all their other friends are involved in their own complex interlocked love triangles. In a city with way too many options, The Happy Sad, takes on open relationships, sexual confusion and figuring out what you really want from life.

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ARTneo Annual Benefit This year’s ARTneo annual benefit honors Case Western Reserve University’s Henry Adams, a leading expert on American art.

Adams has written more than 300 scholarly and popular articles and more than a dozen books and exhibition catalogs. The benefit is in conjunction with an exhibition curated by Adams in ARTneo’s main gallery, and takes place at ARTneo’s beautiful new location, on the lower “ramp” level of 78th Street Studios, tonight from 6 to 10. Tickets are $75 and include a silent auction, heavy hors d’oeuvres and a complimentary cocktail. (Usmani) artneo.org.

ART

A Closing Reception Zygote Press’ current artists in residence Patti Fields and Ray Juaire met in classes at Cleveland Institute of Art and began collaborating more than 20 years ago. Fields is a trained metalsmith, while Juaire’s work includes painting, sculpture and photography. Zygote Press hosts a closing reception for Fields and Juaire from 2 to 4 p.m. today. The artists will discuss their work at 3 p.m. in the gallery. It’s free.

(Usmani) 1410 East 30th St., 216-621-2900, zygotepress.com.

An Evening with Sascha Radetsky Ballet dancer Sascha Radetsky began his ballet studies in California before leaving the States to study for a year in

an “in-depth look” at his career.

Tickets are $25; a $100 VIP ticket gets you access to a preand post-show reception. (Niesel) 1501 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

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A Graphic Novel Speaker Series Comic books aren’t just for kids.

With that in mind, local comics scholar Valentino Zullo hosts a regular graphic novel series on the second floor of the Cleveland Public Library. Today, Dr. Carol Salus, an art historian at Kent State University, makes a guest appearance. She’ll deliver her talk, Roy Lichtenstein’s Appropriations of Low and High Art: A Look at His Comic Images and His Matisse-Inspired Works at 3:30 p.m. Admission is free. (Niesel) 325 Superior Ave., 216.623.2800, cpl.org.

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A Desert of Magnificence Shaheen Modern and Contemporary opens its fall 2015 season with A Desert of Magnificence, new and recent work by Cleveland-based artist Corrie Slawson, grants director and archivist at Zygote Press.

Slawson’s history with Zygote is apparent through the wide variety of processes and techniques she utilizes. She incorporates printmaking, drawing, painting, spray-painting, metal leaf and photo-based images to create dynamic, vibrant compositions that draw the viewer in. A Desert of Magnificence opens with a reception from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. today. It’s free. (Usmani)

a fire truck, art installations lighting up storefronts, fire dancing on rooftops, ballet in an alley or cabaret in an abandoned building — anything is possible at FireFish!” Highlights include Alley Opera with Great Lakes Light Opera, a giant fire-breating fish sculpture that comes to life, the world premiere of Cleveland Cabaret Project and Dana Depew’s Asterisk on Broadway pop-up art gallery. It all takes place from 4 to 10 p.m. today. Find a map and more info on the website.

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Moscow. He joined the renowned American Ballet Theatre in 1995 and subsequently became a ballet superstar, appearing in the 2000 movie Center Stage and starring in shows on PBS, NBC and Starz Network. Tonight at 7:30 at the Westfield Insurance Studio Theatre, he’ll premiere a piece featuring music by Black Violin. The show also features

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Theatre, IngenuityFest, Cleveland World Festival) has been busy preparing for another community-based festival. The inaugural FireFish Festival plans to transform Lorain’s Broadway Avenue into a playground of art, music, dance and more.

The festival aims to present art experiences in unexpected places.

Organizers imagine, “Opera on

WWE Live Back in the 1980s, the WWE (then known as WWF) helped catapult wrestlers such as Hulk Hogan and Randy “Macho Man” Savage to fame. Recently, WWE stars such as the Rock and John Cena (who had a cameo in the recent Amy Schumer film Trainwreck) have become household names.

Tonight’s WWE Live event that takes place at 7:30 p.m. at the Q features bouts between Roman Reigns and Dean Ambrose, Bray Wyatt and Braun Strowman, and Randy Orton and Sheamus.

Tickets start at $20. (Niesel) 1 Center Court, theqarena.com.

SUN 09/27 MUSIC

Home Free Singing a cappella ain’t easy.

Without the backing of a band, all the emphasis is on the vocals.

So you gotta respect a band like Home Free for the simple fact that they pulled off a victory in Season 4 of NBC’s The Sing-Off. Founded in 2000 by brothers Chris and Adam Rupp, the group regularly

GET OUT tours, playing every place from college campuses to county fairs and company parties. They perform tonight at 7:30 at the Ohio Theatre. Tickets start at $10 but VIP packages are available for $125 — and that price includes a pre-show Q & A, a signed copy of the new album and an autograph session. (Niesel) 1501 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

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Ohio City Street Festival Need another excuse to visit Ohio City? How about the Ohio City Street Festival which takes over the Market District today from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.? Ohio City vendors will spill out into the streets to showcase local goods and activities including a Mitchell’s Ice Cream eating contest, beer gardens featuring brews from Great Lakes, Platform, and Market Garden Brewery, and a dunking booth for soaking your Ohio City friends. Music, dance, and art are also on the docket, and the West Side Market is planning a rare Sunday opening with select hours and vendors.

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Toxic Burlesque Carmen M’Knoxide & Co., the folks behind Toxic Burlesque, kick off their fourth season tonight at Brothers Lounge with their Fabulous Fall Edition.

Carmen M’Knoxide, Rubi~Nesque, Chelsea Daring plus eight others will perform. Celebrity comedian James Pequignot will emcee the event. The show starts at 7 p.m. and tickets are $10. (Niesel) 11609 Detroit Ave., 216-226-2767, brotherslounge.com.

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Violins of Hope Cleveland Violins of Hope Cleveland, a Maltz Museum exhibit featuring violins from the Holocaust, opens today with this special Cleveland Orchestra concert marking the first phase of the Milton and Tamar Maltz Performing Arts Center at the Temple–Tifereth Israel. The concert showcases the newly-renovated Silver Hall and features performers playing several of the violins from the exhibit. The concert begins at

2:45 p.m. Tickets are sold out but the concert will be broadcast live by ideastream on WVIZ/PBS television and WCLV Classical 104.9 FM, along with live internet streaming online at WVIZ. ideastream.org. (Niesel) clevelandorchestra.com.

MON 09/28 OUTDOORS

Free Admission Day at the Zoo You’ll find free admission to the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, today and every Monday, for all residents of Cuyahoga County and Hinckley Township. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. This free Monday promotion is not available on holidays and unfortunately excludes access to the RainForest. (Nutile) 3900 Wildlife Way, 216-661-6500, clemetzoo.com.

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Dr. Sketchy In honor of the upcoming Suicide Squad DC Comics-based film, Dr. Sketchy Cleveland is hosting an evening of live model drawing with special guest Aleata Illusion dressed as the Joker’s favorite sidekick, Harley Quinn. For $10, you’ll have a chance to draw Aleata/Harley in a variety of poses. Stop by Market Avenue Wine Bar at 7:45 tonight. Don’t forget your sketchbooks and art supplies. (Usmani) 2526 Market Ave., 216-696-9463, marketavewinebar.com.

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Heritage Concert Series The Heritage Concert Series brings nationally known folk and roots acts to the Happy Days Lodge in Peninsula. For those looking to get a bite before the show, a 6 p.m. dinner will include Chef Larkin Rogers’ gumbo and local craft beer.

Dinner seating is assigned by table so reservations are required. If you’re just interested in hearing some music, doors open at 7 and a concert by the Tannahill Weavers begins at 8.

(Niesel) 500 West Streetsboro Rd., Peninsula, 330-657-2909, ConservancyforCVNP.org.

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STAGE A NIGHTMARE REVISITED

A woman faces her former torturer — or does she? — in Death and the Maiden

By Christine Howey OFTENTIMES, THE IDEA OF achieving justice in our fractured world seems like a pipe dream.

In particular, people who torture and/or kill others, for whatever political reason, are rarely held to account. After their season of abuse is concluded, they usually just blend back into society and become consultants to the next horror show.

Torture and its ramifications form the happy subject of Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman, now being produced by the Mamai Theatre Company. Written with the pacing and focus of a nail-biting thriller, the play raises questions about the nature of truth, the possibility of justice, and the questionable ways we find to live with ourselves, and each other, in the wake of unspeakable events.

Thanks to a sure-handed threeperson cast and sensitive direction, Death keeps the tension twisted tight. It all takes place in a nonspecific South American country, modeled after the playwright’s home country of Chile, which has just emerged from a long period of dictatorship. Paulina, who was tortured by that totalitarian regime 15 years before, is still suffering from PTSD, reacting in fear at the start of Act 1 when she sees a strange car pull up to the beach house she shares with her husband Gerardo.

Turns out, it’s just the car of a good Samaritan who gave her hubby a lift after Gerardo’s car broke down.

A bit later, however, the car returns and the helpful stranger, Roberto, is back and offering to give Gerardo a ride to an auto mechanic the next morning. Hiding in an adjoining hallway, Paulina listens to their conversation with growing dread — since she’s sure the stranger’s voice is that of the man who tortured her 15 years earlier. This is based on the human rights violations that occurred during the time Augusto Pinochet ruled Chile in the 1970s and ’80s.

The two men decide that Roberto should sleep over, so it’s easier for him to drive Gerardo the next morning. And Paulina uses that opportunity to knock out Roberto and tie him to a kitchen chair,

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preparing for whatever retribution she decides to impose on him. Will she kill him, or torture him as she was tortured? She even contemplates having Gerardo rape Roberto (with

playwright hints at but never states the actual identity of Roberto, finding similarities between him and her torturer with their fondness for the fey phrase “teensy-weensy”

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a broom handle or otherwise) so her rapist can experience how it feels.

Dorfman’s script is pieced together in interesting ways, as Paulina and Gerardo have intense discussions about the fate of her captive. Using bits of detail the

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and a shared appreciation of Franz Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden” chamber music composition.

Gerardo is a lawyer, recently appointed to a governmental commission, whose task is to reveal what really happened during

the reign of the brutal military dictatorship. And he is immediately conflicted by the grave situation Paulina has created in their home.

Jeffrey Grover fashions a believable Gerardo, loving but mystified by his wife’s bold and seemingly nonsensical actions. And he raises the point that if victims seek their own kind of personal justice on people who have harmed them, are they no better than the torturers themselves? But as Paulina believes, if evildoers aren’t held accountable, doesn’t that just serve to perpetuate the evil?

There are clearly more questions than answers in this piece, many of which are powerfully embodied by Derdriu Ring as Paulina. Shifting from rage to sullen silence and then from sharp-tongued sarcasm to vulnerability, she provides a roadmap of the emotional cataclysms that now rule Paulina’s life. You root for her to find justice even as you wonder about what such justice would look like.

In the frequently silent role of Roberto (he is often gagged with a pair of Paulina’s panties), Terence Cranendonk walks a fine line.

Jovial and friendly early on with Gerardo, he erupts with anger at his imprisonment. And when Roberto is forced to offer a confession, either real or imagined, Cranendonk’s well-modulated delivery keeps you jumping from one side to the other, wondering if he’s the real villain or just an innocent man playing a role.

Director Katia P. Schwarz keeps the tension ratcheting up on Playhouse Square’s small Kennedy Theatre’s stage while allowing the personalities of the characters to emerge. But at times the actors are so close together, especially when she is holding a gun on Roberto, that it seems illogical that he could not overpower her.

At the end, in a nicely staged scene that spills out into the audience, it becomes clear who is who in this standoff. And that denouement, accompanied by lovely music, lends an elegant and ambiguous conclusion to this engrossing play.

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FINDING BOBBY FISCHER

A solid biopic of chess’ biggest celebrity

By Sam Allard TOBEY MAGUIRE STARS AS THE paranoid chess prodigy Bobby Fischer in Pawn Sacrifice, directed by Edward Zwick and opening everywhere Friday. Fischer took on the Soviet heavyweight Boris Spassky (Liev Schrieber) in a hugely publicized World Championship match in 1972, billed as an important battle in the ongoing Cold War. Unlike hockey or gymnastics, for example, chess represented an intellectual confrontation. It was, therefore, in the imagination of a fiercely patriotic viewing public who tuned in to watch chess — hardly a spectator sport — and discussed Fischer’s moves as they might discuss a football team’s late-game heroics, a more accurate measurement of the American vs. the Soviet way of life.

So a great deal was at stake for Fischer when he reluctantly traveled to Iceland in 1972. Even the President of the United States — Richard Nixon, pre-Watergate — called Fischer’s bunker when Fischer failed to show up for a match. By that time, Fischer’s mind had already been infected with

anti-semitism, anti-communism and an intense, violent paranoia. So in addition to being a methodical student and player of chess, he was also a volatile personality. He tended to make outlandish demands before every match and threatened to walk if they weren’t met.

Through his international ascent, he was guided and calmed by both an agent (A Serious Man’s Michael Stuhlburg) and a former rival, unnerved by the effect of chess on Fischer’s mental health (Peter Sarsgaard).

Though Fischer vs. Spassky is the film’s culmination and brilliant third act, the events leading up to the contest are fairly bland, if well-composed. Scenes of Fischer’s Brooklyn youth, in an apartment with his activist mother and her commie friends, are somewhat uneven. His relationship with his big sister (Lily Rabe) isn’t given enough screen time to germinate. The montage-conducive rise to chess prominence is about what you’d expect — Maguire does nail Fischer’s look and cadence — but

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the origins of his paranoid descent are never quite clear. They seem inextricably linked to both his youth and his devotion to the game, and then exacerbated by the tenor of the times.

Indeed, the film hints that Spassky suffers from similar demons, though nowhere near as debilitating as his American adversary’s. In one strong scene, Spassky addresses the Russian authorities he’s convinced are listening in to his hotel room via phone bugs or hidden cameras.

In the next scene, during one of his championship matches with Fischer, held in an underground rec room at Fischer’s request, Spassky is convinced that his chair is bugged.

This reviewer might even argue that Schreiber’s portrayal of the Soviet champion is stronger than Maguire’s of the broad, erratic Fischer.

Spassky, a man babied and manacled by the Soviet system, seems to prefer America — he’s caught playing pinball at a pizza parlor late one night before an exhibition match in California

SPOTLIGHT: WILDLIKE A SELF-PROFESSED LOVER OF the outdoors, Wildlike writer-director Frank Hall Green took a backpacking trip to Denali with his wife for about eight days. While he was on the venture, he realized the setting would be perfect for his next film.

“I wanted to tell an adventure about someone in the outdoors and recovery and perspective and what you learn from being alone or with others in a new unobstructed environment or setting,” he says via phone from his New York home.

The resulting film centers on MacKenzie (Ella Purnell), a teenage girl who’s gone to live with her uncle (Brian Geraghty). When he begins to molest her, she runs away and befriends Bart (Bruce Greenwood), a guy on a backpacking trip in the wake of a personal tragedy of his own. The two eventually bond. The film handles a delicate issue with finesse, keeping the scenes of molestation to a minimum and focusing on the recovery process. It

opens on Friday, Sept. 25, at the Capitol Theatre and arrives on Video on Demand that same day.

Green, who’s directed several short films and produced a slew of movies, says the idea for the film had percolated for some time.

“The social issue regarding sexual abuse was something I’ve wanted to draw attention to for a long time,” he says.

“I felt like it hasn’t been represented on screen in the way that I wanted to show it, in a quiet, more understated and truthful manner, at least according to what I had researched. We’ve seen a lot of old person and young person funny road-person buddy comedies. I wanted to stay away from that and from the stereotypically curmudgeonly older person who doesn’t want anything to do with the young person. I wanted to be honest to the characters.”

There’s a certain amount of subtlety in the film as we don’t see exactly what MacKenzie’s uncle does to make her run away. Green says it was important that

the film didn’t become too graphic.

“I think there are audience members, especially females, who have said they don’t want it to go any further,” he says. “I think we hit the right notes in portraying it. We filmed the scenes very mechanically. Everyone was great about that. It was important for me for the scene to fell real and natural. If that was achieved — and it was quiet and there was no music — the uncomfortability would carry it through and not take it any further. I also think that once he crosses a certain line, it doesn’t matter what else he does.”

The low-budget film doesn’t have a huge marketing campaign behind it, but it has been a big hit on the festival circuit.

“We’ve been to over 150 film festivals,” says Green. “I think we just won our 42nd best film award over the weekend. It’s had a great festival run, which is great so [people who’ve seen it] can talk about it before the Sept. 25 release.”

— and yet he cannot make heads nor tails of his opponent, who plays recklessly and spontaneously and yet with a genius the game had never known.

Fischer’s 12-game match against Spassky (in particular, Game 6) was so elegant that international grandmasters were said to watch him play with actual tears in their eyes. You won’t be thus moved while watching Pawn Sacrifice, but the Icelandic bout is captured with all the manic intensity of a Superbowl, but with all the post-hippie anxieties of the early ’70s to boot. Strong performances, good look, good movie.

But let the record show: It’s got less heart than 1993’s family drama, Searching for Bobby Fischer.

ALSO OPENING

Goodnight Mommy Susanne Wuest stars in this Austrian horror film about the conflict between a mother and her identical twin sons (Elias and Lukas Schwarz). The movie opens on Friday at the Cedar Lee Theatre.

The Green Inferno Veteran horror director Eli Roth ( Hostel ) helms this thriller about a group of students taken hostage by a tribe of people they had hoped to save. It opens area-wide on Friday.

Stonewall This drama centers on the Stonewall Riots that kicked off the gay rights movement in 1969.

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Voodoo Tuna plants sushi fusion flag in Lakewood

By Douglas Trattner ORDERING SAKE CAN BE intimidating for all but the most seasoned admirers. The Japanese rice wine comes in a multitude of grades, styles, bottle sizes and filtration levels, ranging from cloudy and sweet to crystal clear and bone dry. And then there are those indecipherable names.

Unfortunately, our young server at Voodoo Tuna provided little assistance navigating the drinks menu, which also proved of no help when it came time to order our beverages. Though eager to help, our waitress admitted up front that she hadn’t sampled any of them, and she couldn’t specify which were served cold and which were served hot, if any. It was a rocky start to an uneven meal at the threemonth-old Asian-fusion restaurant in Lakewood.

For years, it seemed, Lakewood residents have been pining for a worthwhile sushi restaurant to add to their considerable dining portfolio.

As for whether or not Voodoo Tuna is that restaurant likely hinges on one’s preferred style of sushi.

Traditionalists won’t be convinced to swap their favorite sushi bar for this one, while those who favor contemporary rolls stuffed and gilded with nonconventional ingredients will feel right at home.

Try as I might to avoid them, I always ended up with sushi that was heavy handed and overly dressed. A diminutive listing of nigiri is dwarfed by a lengthy roster of large and larger rolls, some relatively traditional but most taking considerable liberties when it comes to design and construction. A Potsticker Roll ($15),

too generous with the squeeze bottle of creamy mayo. Even a dish of hamachi sashimi ($7), selected precisely for its characteristically spare presentation, ended up being hijacked by the ponzu-sauced seaweed salad it was served upon.

Steamed buns are fun to eat, plain and simple, and Voodoo’s are no exception. There are seven different options, each served by the pair. In the Po’ Boy ($7), the warm and squishy buns make an excellent backdrop for the crispy deep-fried shrimp, crunchy slaw and twin sauces. Others are filled with barbecued eel with unagi sauce, orange beef tenderloin, or chicken yakitori. We barely touched our oddly textured tuna tacos ($12), Cajun-marinated tuna chunks and fried wonton strips in floppy flour tortillas.

Despite being deep-fried instead of pan-fried, the chicken potstickers ($8) arrive hot, crispy and wellseasoned inside. They are paired with a cold sesame noodle-style salad. An appetizer that gets very mixed reviews at our table one night is the lobster nachos ($13), which have almost nothing in common with nachos of any kind. A mound of cold lobster salad is layered atop guacamole and ringed by fried wonton strips that are drizzled with yet another sweet glaze. It’s more of a dip really, and one that could use some retooling.

In addition to the rolls, the menu offers more than a few “bowls,” items that range from shrimp and tofu pad Thai (topped with a

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for example, was built around chicken potstickers, which would have been more enjoyable had the meatfilled dumplings been hot. We fared better with the crispy tempura-fried Lakewood Roll ($8) starring faux crab and avocado, but the kitchen crew was

poached egg) to calamari in a spicy pepper broth. Tender beef slices, earthy mushrooms and pleasantly chewy udon noodles in a robust broth combine to form a savory and satisfying bowl ($16). But the ramen noodles in the Voodoo Ramen ($15)

had a starchy, gummy texture that made them feel undercooked and overcooked at the same time. We sidestepped them in favor of the juicy chicken, spicy andouille sausage and zesty Cajun miso broth.

Voodoo Tuna feels like a toned down Sushi Rock, a trendy loungelike space that likely will feel dated before too long. LED lighting imperceptibly shifts from hue to hue and the twin bars — one dedicated to drink-making and the other to sushirolling — only serve to heighten the clubby vibe. Come early and the restaurant glides smoothly through the courses. Come later and the noise picks up, the service drops off and the emphasis appears to shift from food to fun.

Regarding the sake. We never did end up ordering any despite our fondness for it, especially when paired with sushi and sashimi.

But at prices ranging from $12 to $18 for unspecified bottle sizes and convoluted sweetness ratings, we couldn’t pull the trigger. Instead, we ordered a tasty gin-hibiscusstrawberry cocktail ($10) and cherry picked one of the few lighter beers off a draft list loaded with heavy, fruited and spiced crafts that seemed out of place in a sushi restaurant.

But then again, Voodoo Tuna is not your typical sushi restaurant.

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FOR MORE THAN 15 YEARS, Gavi’s was the place to go in Willoughby for fine Italian food.

But the restaurant closed four years ago and the landmark building, a 100-year-old brick structure originally built as a streetcar powerhouse, has been sitting idle.

That was until about a year ago when the Local Tavern restaurant group began making improvements to the 5,000-square-foot complex.

Those improvements have paved the way for the forthcoming opening of Local Sol Kitchen & Cantiki (38257 Glenn Ave.), a Latin American meets Polynesian themed eatery that will seat up 250 people inside and out.

“It’s a completely different space,” says chef-partner Michael Schoen.

“It’s such a cool, old brick building.”

Schoen’s partners in the project are John Loxterman, Tim Roush and David Bartulovic, the team behind the small chain of Local Tavern restaurants in Mentor, Willoughby Hills and Parma. They also operate the Painesville eatery fish:bar.

Attendees to Scene’s recent Pig & Whiskey event in Willoughby got a sneak peek at the interior and an early taste of some of the food.

The renovated interior is lighter, brighter and more open than ever, especially the front barroom that now opens up to the parking lot thanks to a new garage door. It is just one of three interior bars in the spacious property. The bar program is described as craft beer and cocktail driven — “Polynesian meets the old

classics.” Guests will have a choice of a dozen craft beers, wines by the glass, classic cocktails like the Sazerac and Negroni, and Tikistyle drinks like Mai Tais and Fog Cutters.

Schoen, who recently moved back to Northeast Ohio after five years in Chicago, describes his menu as Latin American, but with more emphasis placed on South America than the typical modern Mexican cuisine.

“The menu will be intimate but fun, not stuffy, with lots of tapas and shared plates,” Schoen says of the 20-item menu.

Snacks include fried malanga and plantain chips with olive relish, housemade tamales and tortillas, yucca frites with garlic aioli, and chorizo and goat cheese croquettes with romesco sauce. Diners can also look forward to housemade queso and house-cured hams down the road.

As for the entrees, Schoen says the short list of items will be “straightforward but done well and with a modern flair.” There will be a “gaucho steak,” a boneless grilled ribeye with chimichurri and poblano potato gratin, and a roasted half chicken.

Local Sol is planning to host two weekends of private dining events in early October and open to the public in the middle of the month.

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After being in construction for nearly one and a half years the Blue Breeze was born. During it’s first couple of weeks of opening, Wheeler and Tayeh researched the neighborhood even more and still thinking of ways to improve the business. It dawned on them there was a lack of places in the community where people could go for a good hot breakfast, especially with the closing of McDonald’s. Thus a full breakfast menu was created along with lunch and dinner. The Blue Breeze is fun for the entire family as it offers electronic bowling and basketball games, pool tables, 130 inch projection screen along with over 14 flat screen t.v.’s for the viewing pleasure of all the neighborhood sports fans, breakfast bar, Sunday brunches, side and front patios fenced in for a pleasurable outdoor dining experience, bar area constructed with granite counter tops and has seating for over 25 patrons.

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By Douglas Trattner WHEN BRIAN OKIN LAUNCHED Dinner in the Dark five years ago, he did so merely on a whim. He and co-founding chefs Jeff Jarrett and Ellis Cooley thought it would be fun to round up some chef pals, provide them with the space and freedom to prepare creative dishes, and see what happens.

For their part, participating diners would submit to a meal — experience, really — where everything from the food and drink to the chefs is a total surprise, hence the name “Dinner in the Dark.” The formula has been described as an “open mic, jam session for chefs,” and it has been such a success that they’ve pretty much been selling out monthly.

Since that first dinner at Okin’s Verve restaurant on Carnegie there have been special meals prepared by some of the city’s top culinary talent, as well as some interesting reunions, like the one at Grove Hill in Chagrin Falls featuring chefs who worked together at Moxie 20 years ago.

For the next event, scheduled for Monday, Oct. 19, Okin and his partners once again are arranging a reunion.

“Because it was going to be our five-year anniversary, we thought it would be a nice idea if we could do it in the original spot with the original chefs,” Okin says.

Of course, that original spot no longer is Verve, it’s Hotspot Café. No problem, notes Okin, adding that the current owners, former Verve regulars, gladly offered up the space for the cause.

Also, chef Ellis Cooley no longer lives or works in Cleveland. No problem, notes Okin (Cork & Cleaver, Graffiti), adding that Cooley will make the return trip from Florida to join his co-founders and other inaugural chefs like Adam Bostwick (Cork & Cleaver, Graffiti), Matt Mathlage (Peachtree Southern), Brandt Evans (Pura Vida) and Brian Toomey (Cork & Cleaver).

“I really think it’s going to be interesting because these chefs were the very first ones, so they’re really going to bring their game this time — not that they didn’t before,” Okin says. “I think they’ll really go over

the top because it’s our five-year anniversary.”

As always, ticket proceeds will be donated to a charity, which is also revealed that night. And given the setting, diners will have access to plenty of free parking in the adjacent lot, Okin points out.

LAST MEALS BEING SERVED AT AMERICANO IN BRATENAHL Past a gatehouse and inside an exclusive lakefront condo building that frowned upon signage and advertising, this wonderful little bistro managed to make a lot of diners very happy. The EuroAmerican bistro run by partners Cole Davis and chef Vytauras Sasnauskas will close following dinner service on Sept. 26 after a little more than seven years.

Owner Davis explained that his inability to secure a long-term commitment with the condo board led him to the painful decision to close his first — but likely not last — restaurant.

“This is heartbreaking to us, as we have so enjoyed serving delicious meals and drinks to you over the past 7-plus years, and deeply wanted to continue,” Cole wrote to Americano’s Facebook followers. “Despite massive effort on both parts, the board has decided to go in a new direction with the restaurant.”

There is still time to show your support. A great time to swing by might be for one of the popular Americano Pizza Café nights (Tuesday 5 to 7 p.m. weather permitting) or one of the Fantastic Big Wine Sales (Thursday 5 to 7 p.m.). The bistro is at One Bratenahl Pl.; 216-541-3900.

In June, we broke the news of chefpartner Vytauras Sasnauskas’ plans to open Citizen Pie, a Neapolitan-style pizzeria and cafe across the street from the Beachland Ballroom in Collinwood. Sasnauskas’ partners in the venture are Claudia Young and Velvet Tango Room owner Paulius Nasvytis. The latest estimates place opening day in October.

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MUSIC MONSTERS OF ROCK

Scorpions bring their arena rock-worthy stage production to Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica

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The Scorpions will play their first show in Northeast Ohio in years.

FANS OF METAL AND HARD rock lucky enough to attend the 1983 US Festival over Memorial Day weekend were witness to a dream bill that in the minds of many still hasn’t been topped. “Heavy Metal Day” featured performances by Quiet Riot, Motley Crue, Ozzy Osbourne, Judas Priest, the Scorpions and a memorable headlining performance from Van Halen.

Naturally, there were a few bumps.

The Clash were headlining New Wave Day, the first day of the threeday festival, and they were ticked when they found out that Van Halen was getting paid twice as much as they were paid, which caused a bit

of drama between the two camps.

But Van Halen allegedly helped to generate some additional drama on Heavy Metal Day that could have ended badly for both sides.

The Scorpions were set to go on right before Van Halen’s scheduled stage time. The German hard rockers had a big entrance planned — a fleet of fighter jets would fly over the festival followed by a giant pyrotechnic explosion from the stage and then the band would take the stage. Allegedly, someone in the VH camp decided to meddle with the Scorpions’ plans.

“It was unbelievable. It’s dangerous: Normally, [planes] are not allowed

to fly over a lot of people,” Scorpions guitarist and founding member Rudolf Schenker recalls during a recent phone conversation. “With 325,000 people, I mean, that’s really a risk. You know, in England, at a major kind of plane show, a plane crashed into a heavily loaded street with many cars and many people died. Van Halen found out that we wanted to make a big start and they went to their air connections and tried to interfere, so that’s the reason why our announcer was [almost] burned, because the [explosion] came a little bit too early. It was a dramatic thing, which in the end, was very good. It was a fantastic start for this kind of

big festival, no question about it.”

A few years later when the two bands toured together on the Monsters of Rock festival in 1988, Schenker admits that the subject never came up.

“You know, what can you say?

First of all, we did our show and after that we left by helicopter, because you know, when the last event would finish, there will be a lot of people [leaving],” he recalls. “In this case, the helicopter had to leave very fast. We never talked about it. We played with Van Halen together on the Monsters of Rock tour in 1988 and it was a great possibility to ask them, but we had [such] a great feeling [touring]

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MUSIC together, that we were afraid to ask them about that.”

That’s just one of many tales told in Forever and a Day, the documentary about the band which will be in theaters in October. The film charts the incredible 50-year history of the group, which Schenker has been a part of since Day 1.

“You know, you have 50 years and you’re going into the details and you know, you find so many things,” he says. “But I think the woman, Katja von Garnier, the director, she did a very good job as a woman, seeing behind the macho mask and getting the sensitive side of the rock band and really [captured] what we were. We were a bunch of good friends, traveling around the world as a gang, building bridges between different generations, different religions, different philosophies and different continents. I think that came across.”

The anniversary was something that almost slipped by Schenker, who was knee deep in a planned farewell tour with the group that continued to get extended with additional dates and events. He was looking for an old demo cassette at home during a break in the touring and found an accounting book that his mother had given him.

“My mother made a book when I was visiting my parents and needed money for buying equipment,” he explains. “My mother said, ‘You know, you have to pay the money back, because you have to appreciate what your father gave to you.’ This book started actually in September of ’65.

I told [the band], “Hey, look here — 50 years.’ Of course, our manager

“We [decided that we had to make] this album [Return To Forever, which came out earlier this month] sound new,” Schenker says. “Getting into the DNA” of the older material came in handy as fuel for the fire that also helped to influence the writing of the new songs. “It’s really good to have this material already, because it’s a part of the history. Looking back and seeing the weak parts, [we were able to] repair the weak parts, by fixing a few choruses that weren’t strong enough and then the songs became as strong as they would be on Blackout or on Lovedrive or stuff like that.”

“So in this case also, we involved very much, songwriting-wise, the career from the Scorpions [when it came to the new material], like ‘We Built This House on Rock,’ that’s the history of the band, that’s the way that we came out of Germany and [began] rocking the world and [later] the times changed, grunge and alternative came, the wind was blowing in our face,” Schenker says.

Having a great producer team in Mikael Nord Andersson and Martin Hansen helped too.

“Mikael was growing up in north Sweden and became a big Scorpions fan by buying the album In Trance,” says Schenker. “He and Martin gave us great inspiration by going back to the roots but with a twist, a twist which really made this album sound more new. We now have so many young fans in the audience, because they’re seeing on YouTube what we do on stage and they are listening to the stuff and they’re feeling very much rocked by our music and by our performance. We made a great [connection] between the old material and the new material.”

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immediately said, ‘You have to make this anniversary party.’ So that’s the reason why we came from the farewell to this tour, because to celebrate this kind of career, it’s a must.”

The farewell tour and a pivotal appearance on MTV Unplugged, filmed in Athens, Greece helped to turn the tide on the group’s plans to hang things up. They saw audiences each night that were filled with younger generations that had never seen the band and realized that they still had a lot of ground to cover. They had plans to finish a batch of songs from the ’70s and ’80s and release them as an album, but as the touring continued, that plan changed too.

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Fans will be able to see that connection for themselves this week when the Scorpions return to Cleveland for their first show in the area in several years. They’re touring with an arena rock-worthy stage production, and the show will showcase material from the new album, their biggest hits and also a smattering of rarities from the group’s earlier years. With 50 years of history, that’s a lot of ground to cover, but you can be sure that the ’80s hard rock legends are ready for the challenge.

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MUSIC FINDING HIS VOICE

A late addition to The Voice, singersongwriter Joshua Davis learned valuable lessons on the reality TV show

By Jeff Niesel WHEN CONTESTANTS ON THE Voice, the American Idol-like reality show that pits unknown singers against one another, participate in a “blind” audition, they sing in front of judges who have their backs to them so they can’t see the person singing. If they like what they hear, they “claim” the singer. When singer-songwriter Joshua Davis participated in his blind audition, both Adam Levine and Blake Shelton, two of the four judges, immediately claimed him and then debated who would get to coach the talented singer.

A veteran singer-songwriter who has been performing for about 15 years, Davis possesses a husky, soulful voice. For the aforementioned blind audition, he sang “I Shall Be Released,” a gospel standard. And he nailed it, no easy task for a pasty white guy out of Michigan. When asked what his experience on The Voice was like, Davis admits he had some reservations about participating on the program.

“I had never seen the show before I was on it,” says Davis via phone from his Michigan home, where he was on the way to his aunt’s house to pick up his dog. “Reality shows aren’t in my daily diet. I couldn’t believe it. I decided to do it after checking out the show because it’s a lot more positive than other reality shows. There’s not that element of embarrassing people or laughing at people. That’s not what the show is about. I liked that about it.”

He says he was one of the latest adds to the show and walked into an environment in which the contestants and producers already know one another. But he didn’t feel like an outsider.

“Everyone that works on the show and all the other contestants are like part of a family,” he says. “That was surprising to me. One of the strangest things for me was that I’m used to gigging and playing a few sets a night. It was like preparing for a month to do one 90-second spot. I like things that are raw and unrehearsed and have that kind of energy. But to focus on one part of a

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song for a month and nail it showed me that there is something to be said for raw power and that real organic sound, but it doesn’t mean you have to forsake rehearsing. It was a wild scene, especially after being a grassroots guy for so long.

It was a learning curve. Everyone was supportive and it was a great environment.”

Davis became one of the final three contestants. Along the way, he became the first artist in eight seasons of The Voice to perform an original song.

He also sang duets with Maroon 5 vocalist Adam Levine and nine-time Grammy award winner Sheryl Crow.

The decision to sing an original song didn’t go over especially well with the show’s producers.

“The show focuses on who you are as a person as well as how well you can sing,” says Davis. “Who I am as a person comes from my songs. I approached them and said that I am a songwriter. I sat down with [judge] Adam Levine. He liked the songs.

I had to fight the network in a big way. I’m a pretty nice guy but I got pretty mean with them. I told them I wasn’t going to sing and they could find someone else to do. They finally agreed and they caved. It was one of the more successful songs I did on

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says Davis. “We did country blues and New Orleans street music and old country stuff. We did 200-plus shows with that band. We played lots of festivals. We toured all over the country and then into Canada. The scene in Michigan and the Midwest

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the show. That, to me, was my big win. Hopefully, that moment changed their perception of the contest. It’s a controlled environment. It has to be.

I understand. But hopefully it shows that they can have more faith in their artists and in their audience.”

Born and raised in Detroit, Davis initially gravitated to country blues and Delta blues. When he was in college, he formed Steppin’ In It, an American roots ensemble that “stole things from traditional American forms and synthesized everything into a different sound.”

“I did a lot of writing for genre,”

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is very collaborative and other scenes are more cutthroat. But that’s not the way it is for us. There’s reciprocal enthusiasm and firing up of one another instead of just getting ahead yourself. It’s community-based music for community gatherings.”

Now, he manages Earthworks, a musical cooperative/record label, and plays shows both as a trio and a quintet. He brings the latter to the Kent Stage on Sept. 25.

“When I came home after The Voice, I wanted to spend the summer in Michigan,” he says. “I played some incredible shows around Michigan.

I did a lot of songwriting. I have a slew of new tunes. The plan for the fall is to play more out of state shows and start recording. I’ve lined up a few different producers. I’m really excited. There’s great opportunities on the horizon.”

He says he plans to release a 7-inch single soon and then issue a full-length shortly after the single comes out.

“I’ve been doing this for 15 years,” he says. “I found my voice as a songwriter and as a producer and arranger. I’ll also add in what I learned from the show. I want to look at my voice as an instrument.

Now, I warm up and work on my voice. I feel like it’s more expansive of an instrument. That work ethic I learned from the show. I think it will make the new recordings different.

I’m kind of a control freak too. It’s always going to sound like me. I feel like I’ve been at it long enough that I have my voice and I have my sound.”

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MUSIC ENO-ESQUE

A record label deal has helped arty indie rockers NIGHTS reissue their debut

By Jeff Niesel GUITARIST FRANKIE MARALDO formed the local indie rock group NIGHTS, a group that featured shoegazer guitars and high-pitched male vocals, back in 2009, but because the band was so unstable, it didn’t play more than a handful of shows. Maraldo was even thinking of pulling the plug. So when he came across Jenna Fournier, a singer, artist and graphic designer who had just put her indie rock band Sparrows & Arrows to sleep and was trying to sell the band’s van, he thought it might be good to invite her to join the group as a way to jumpstart things.

“We’re both songwriters,” says Fournier one afternoon over pad Thai at Phnom Penh, an Ohio City eatery near her and Maraldo’s home (in true DIY spirit, the two filled a beer growler at the nearby Market Garden Brewery before arriving at the BYOB establishment). “It was a good time for everybody. We were in the right mindset to pour ourselves into the project and we got some songs written quickly.”

“I thought instead of getting a guy who could sing like a girl,” adds Maraldo, “we should get a girl who can sing like a girl.”

The band initially started recording its debut, Whisper, at the locally based Bad Racket Studios.

But those sessions didn’t go well and the group ended up discarding them after accumulating what they estimate to be $1,000 in recording expenses.

“We started it three times and then scrapped it,” says Maraldo.

“This album was four years in the making if you consider the release now to be its official release. The first time we recorded the songs we had difficulty with the studio. It was just an amateurish job.”

So the group teamed up with Jim Stewart, a veteran local producer who’s worked with a slew of local bands. Over the course of a year, they then tracked the songs at Lava, a Midtown studio that’s regularly used by both local and national acts.

Because the process was so drawn out, there was a lot of “going back and forth.”

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“We get that all the time,” admits Fournier when asked about the Cocteau Twins. “I wasn’t familiar with the Cocteau Twins’ music, but people kept saying that we sounded like them so I had to listen to them. I love them now.”

“Mouthful of Sand,” one of the album’s highlights, rocks harder than the rest of the material. A breakup inspired the track.

“I was dating Bradley Hathaway who is a musician and had an album called A Mouth Full of Dust,” says Fournier. “After we broke up, I wrote that song about him.”

“I wasn’t familiar with the Cocteau Twins’ music, but people kept saying that we sounded like them so I had to listen to them. I love them now.”

–Jenna Fournier an album that we felt we had compromised on and nobody was happy with,” says Fournier.

Last year, however, the group inked a deal with Tragic Hero Records. The label saw potential in Whisper and wanted to re-release it, so it enlisted Jim Wirt, a producer who’s worked with national acts such

Pumpkins, Cranberries and My Bloody Valentine as influences, and you can hear those influences in the shimmering songs on the disc. Tracks such as the moody “Butterflies” and “Rosebush” certainly sound like the kind of atmospheric alternative rock/pop that could be heard on commercial radio.

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“Jim is a musician first,” says Maraldo. “He’s able to sweep the technical aspects under the rug and bring out the musicality. The label saw the strength of the songs. It had taken almost two years to record this batch of songs, and they wanted to bring those to light. There’s a learning curve to anything, but he was easy to work with.”

The band cites the Smashing

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“That’s just our age,” says Fournier when asked about the musical influences from the ’90s.

“I haven’t listened to anything in the last 15 years,” says Maraldo.

“Our bassist said our music sounds like if Brian Eno was in a heavy metal band with Tinker Bell singing over the top of it.”

Perhaps the best reference point would be the Cocteau Twins, the artsy Scottish act that was popular on college radio for a spell in the ’80s.

“Butterflies” has a particularly loopy sound to it. It starts with a repetitive guitar riff that’s set to an infinite delay.

“When we recorded that, all I did was play that one part and then walk out of the studio and our drummer and bassist built the rest of it in piecemeal,” says Maraldo. “It’s definitely a more abstract song.”

Maraldo and Fournier say they’ve already started working on tracks for their next album. They’re happy to now have the support of a record label, which they say will make it easier to record.

“One of the benefits of signing with a label is that they have studio connections,” Maraldo says. “They want to pay for us to record the next record. We don’t have to think about the money. It’s all part of the deal, and that’s something you don’t see that much. Most labels don’t have that in-house connection anymore. I see that as a benefit for sure. We have a home base to go to. ”

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Tom Rush: 8 p.m., $32 ADV, $38 DOS. Music Box Supper Club.

Skerik’s Bandalabra/Acid Cats: 9 p.m., $10. Beachland Tavern.

Video Daughters/Magnetic West/ Sails/Loss/Orange/Sopko/ Stranahan: 9 p.m., Free. Now That’s Class.

09/23

Hot Tuna Acoustic: This American blues band originally in 1969 started as a spin-off of Jefferson Airplane. Though it’s taken a few breaks along the way, the band is still going strong and even released a new studio in 2011. Recorded at the late Levon Helm’s studio in upstate New York, that album, Steady as She Goes, has that same bluesy swagger that distinguished the band’s early albums as well as the music of Jefferson Airplane.

(Jeff Niesel) 8 p.m., $28.50-$38.50.

The Kent Stage.

King & Country: Often compared to U2 and Coldplay, Aussie duo King & Country makes atmospheric pop music that often includes interludes of hip-hop. Songs such as “Run Wild” and “No Turning Back,” both of which are on the band’s 2014 album Run Wild. Live Free. Love Strong., feature anthemic choruses.

The group plays an unplugged show today at 6:30 p.m. at the Aloft hotel on the East Bank of the Flats.

The show is part of Live at Aloft Hotels, a music series that features up-and-coming artists performing stripped down sets. The show is free. (Niesel) ZZ Ward/Marc Scibilia/The Young Wild: There’s something Adele-like about singer ZZ Ward. She’s got a big, soulful voice that can brighten up a clichéd song like “Blue Eyes Blind,” a spirited love song on her 2012 album ’Til the Casket Drops.

She also works that same magic on “Last Love Song,” an R&B number that doesn’t break any new ground but does enable Ward to show off her vocal power. She’s currently touring in support of Love and War, a new EP that kicks off with the soulful, breezy “LoveX3” and then gets funky with the rambunctious “Lonely,” a song that sounds like it could be a collaboration between Aretha Franklin and Beck. (Jeff Niesel), 7:30 p.m., $20 ADV, $23 DOS. House of Blues.

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Antichrist Demoncore/Grin and Bear It/Retail Therapy/Primitive Binocular Rainbow: 9 p.m., $10.

Now That’s Class.

The Bluewater Kings Band: 8 p.m., Free. Brothers Lounge.

Dirty Bourbon River Show (in the Supper Club): 8 p.m., $10 ADV, $12

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Good Graeff/Half an Animal: 8:30 p.m., $8. Mahall’s 20 Lanes.

No Strangers Here/Jeff Powers/ David Pollack: 6 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern.

On and On/Eliot Sumner/Dosh: 8:30 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Beachland Tavern.

Scorpions/Queensryche: 7:30 p.m., $37.50-$85. Jacobs Pavilion.

Superhumanoids/Rush Midnight/ Sammy Slims: 9 p.m., $5. The Euclid Tavern. #TheBrew: Cleveland with Midwest Millz/Will Turner/Slim Slater: 9 p.m., $10. Grog Shop.

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Calexico/Gaby Moreno: With another strong notch in their Tex-Mex belt (2015’s Edge of the Sun), Calexico has once again proven its indierock mettle. Though the band has been around since the mid-90s, it’s really been the past 10 years -- and their accompanying bloom of regional and national festival circuits -- that have seen Calexico blowing up. A string of strong studio cuts, including Algiers in 2012, culminates in this year’s release, which would fit perfectly into a broken-down pickup’s cassette deck on a southbound trip through Baja Cali. “Bullets & Rocks” drifts through singer Joey Burns’ smoky vocals and Jacob Valenzuela and Martin Wenk’s dual trumpets.

“Cumbia de Donde” connects listeners with the band’s Latin

traditions (dig that percussion) -- musical traits that have defined Calexico from the get-go. (Eric Sandy), 8:30 p.m., $20. Beachland Ballroom.

Ghost Wolves/Duo Decibel: Last year was a busy one for this raucous Austin-based duo. It played festivals such as South by South

by Southwest, Electric Picnic and Psych Fest. The twosome even flew to Tokyo to play a fashion show.

Plowboy Records, the label run by former Dead Boy Cheetah Chrome, issued last year’s retro-leaning Man, Woman, Beast. Album opener “Shotgun Pistol Hip” features a good groove as the band sings about “big dreams, big bullets.” “Gonna Live” has a nastier edge, suggesting the White Stripes-meets-Stevie Ray Vaughan. To date, the group has played over 1000 shows so expect tonight’s concert to capture the fierceness found on Man, Woman, Beast. (Niesel), 9 p.m., $5. Happy Dog. Aer/Cody Simpson: 8 p.m., $17.50 ADV, $20 DOS. House of Blues.

Vicki Chew/Eric Everett Jazz Ensemble/Charlie King: 6 p.m.

Barking Spider Tavern.

Dead Winter Carpenters (in the Supper Club): 7:30 p.m., $7. Music Box Supper Club.

Chris Hatton’s Musical Circus (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m. Brothers Lounge.

Jam Night with the Bad Boys of Blues: 9 p.m., Free. Brothers Lounge.

Man Man/Shilpa Ray: 8:30 p.m., $15.

Grog Shop.

09/25

Into the Blue: Grateful Dead Revival Night: Regardless of your take on the Grateful Dead, the band to which Into the Blue, an ensemble of local musicians pays tribute, the group maintains a damn important stature in the rock ‘n’ roll canon.

Into The Blue revives that spirit and lends it the respect Jerry and Co. rightfully deserve. Anyone interesting in hearing — and seeing — great music flow from the stage should check out what these guys are doing. Fellow musicians and artists will glean inspiration.

(Sandy), 8:30 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Music Box Supper Club.

Archie and the Bunkers CD Release/ Shitbox Jimmy/Ma Holos: 9 p.m., $8. Beachland Tavern.

Big Ship/Cuda/George Foley & Friends: 6 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern.

Matt Campy/Dutty/Rob Roa/Nice Guy Eddie: 10 p.m., $12 ADV, $15 DOS. Beachland Ballroom.

Joshua Davis: 8 p.m., $16-$25. The Kent Stage.

An Evening of the Glenn Schwartz Four: 9 p.m., $5. The Euclid Tavern.

Nir Felder: 7 p.m., $25. BLU Jazz+.

John Hertler & the Rainbow Seekers/Dave Sorboro: 9 p.m., $8.

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Brent Kirby and His Luck/The Gage Brothers (in the Supper Club): 8 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Music Box Supper Club.

Dennis Lewin: 10:30 p.m., free.

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Loren and Mark: 8:30 p.m., $25.

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Jeremy Pinnell: 9 p.m., $5. Happy Dog. Polka Happy Hour with DJ Kishka: 6 p.m., Free. Happy Dog. Riverside/Sixxis/First & Throne/ Wixor: 7 p.m., $15 ADV, $18 DOS. Agora Ballroom.

Sheer Mag/Diet Cig: 9 p.m., $8 ADV, $10 DOS. Mahall’s 20 Lanes.

Sounds of Jazz Featuring Nancy Redd (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m.

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Over the Rhine: Cincinnati’s indie folk-rock act Over the Rhine first formed in 1989 and had a brief brush with stardom in the ’90s, when it signed to the I.R.S. imprint, the same label that launched the career of R.E.M. The band never broke through to the mainstream but it has delivered some solid albums and regularly plays Northeast Ohio, where it has a small but devote following. (Niesel), 8 p.m., $25. The Kent Stage.

Distant Signals: Over the course of the last few years, this Pittsburgh band has become one of the nation’s best Rush tribute acts. The band’s rendition of “Distant Early Warning” features the tune’s beefy bass riffs and high-pitched vocals as the group delivers the song precisely, nailing all its off-kilter time signatures. The guys also play “Tom Sawyer,” one of Rush’s biggest hits, with plenty of swagger and accurately replicates the trippy synthesizer riffs. Expect to hear these songs and more at tonight’s show. (Niesel), 9:30 p.m., $10.

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Slash Featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators/The Last Internationale: When Slash played Hard Rock Live last summer, the crowd was fully engaged in the experience from the first moment Slash, with vocalist Myles Kennedy and the rest of his band (dubbed “The Conspirators”) took the stage to the sounds of an intro tape of circus music. It’s a rarity to see a crowd stay on its feet for the entirety of the full two-hour set.

Usually, there’s a ballad or a new song that finds patrons taking their seats for at least a few moments, but Slash and his Conspirators turned out a set that had no dead space to

even contemplate a bathroom break.

Kennedy was the chameleonic vocalist who would tie the entire thing together (with bassist Todd Kerns filling in additional high harmonies), easily covering every inch of Slash’s back catalog with ample material featured from the past three albums, a single cut from the Velvet Revolver era (“Slither) and a healthy handful of classic GNR favorites, including a 15 minute-plus trip through “Rocket Queen,” nearly 10 minutes of which was occupied by an epic slow burner of a solo from Slash. Expect a similar experience for tonight’s show. (Matt Wardlaw), 8 p.m. Hard Rock Rocksino.

DJ Earl/The Most/SloeGinFizz/ Thunder St. Clair: Dance battle champion DJ Earl started performing in 2005 when he worked the skating rink parties around his Chicago home. In 2008, he formed Ghetto Teknitianz with fellow DJs Spinn, Rashad and Traxman. A track like “Super Unlimited Forever,” a tune you can find on his Soundcloud page, features glitchy, Crystal Methodlike beats as Earl cranks up the volume. (Niesel), 9 p.m., $5 ADV, $8 DOS. B-Side Liquor Lounge & Arcade.

Whiskey Daredevils/The D-Rays/ Lords of the Highway: With bellowing vocals and twangy guitars, the songs on the Whiskey Daredevils’ new album, Nashville Surprise successfully channel bands like the Blasters and the Beat Farmers. Recorded with East Nashville producer Dexter Green at his SeaLab Studios, Nashville Surprise finds the band at the top of its game. (Niesel), 9 p.m., $8.

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Anne E. DeChant CD Release/Lost State of Franklin (in the Supper Club): 8 p.m., $15. Music Box Supper Club.

DJ Rekha with Case Western’s Spartan Bhangra Dance Troupe: 9 p.m., $8 ADV, $10 DOS. Mahall’s 20 Lanes.

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09/27

Hey Mavis with Hal Walker UU Church of Kent Capital Campaign Kickoff Concert: Billed as “a musical feast that contains a pinch of jazz, bluegrass, old-timey, and folk, and a heaping spoonful of rock,” tonight’s benefit concert features two terrific local acts — the Americana act Hey Mavis and singer-songwriter Hal Walker. A finalist in the Telluride Bluegrass Festival Band Contest , Hey Mavis saw its 2010 CD “Red Wine” clock in at No. 13 in Folk Alley’s Top CDs of 2010. Walker plays “soulsearching songs that celebrate community, diversity and the creative process.” The Kent-based musician composes and improvises on the guitar, piano, harmonica, the khaen, jew’s harp and concertina.

Proceeds from this concert to the Capital Campaign of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Kent.

(Niesel), 7 p.m., $20-$40. The Kent Stage.

Jonny Craig/Travis Garland/ Kyle Lucas/Visionaries/Keys & Corridors: 6:30 p.m., $15 ADV, $18 DOS. Mahall’s 20 Lanes.

Electric Six/Yip Deceiver/Public Squares: 8:30 p.m., $12 ADV, $14 DOS. Grog Shop.

John Gorka/Mustard’s Retreat: 7 p.m., $20. Beachland Ballroom.

The Harvest Moon Big Band Ball with Ernie Krivda & the Fat Tuesday Big Band: 8 p.m., $10.

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Kamal Adbul Alim & the Real Thing: 7 p.m., $10. Nighttown.

Brent Kirby: 3 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern.

Mike Petrone (in the Wine Bar): 5:30 p.m. Brothers Lounge.

Pop Will Eat Itself/Petals and Thorns/Passing Time: 7 p.m., $15 ADV, $20 DOS. Agora Ballroom.

Sur’ Lawrence Trupo: 6 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern.

We Are Harlot/Via the Sun: 6:30 p.m., $10. Agora Ballroom.

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Toro Y Moi/Astronauts: Thanks to his acclaimed first few records, Toro y Moi became known as a pioneer of the chillwave genre but his new album What For? represents a stylistic departure for singerguitarist Chaz Bundick as the album has a vintage, ‘70s rock feel to it. Inspired by the retro sounds of Todd Rundgren and Tim Maia, the album could nearly pass as yacht rock. But Bundick, who often sings about relationships gone awry, inflects the music with enough of an edge to prevent from becoming cheesy. (Niesel), 8 p.m., $18 ADV, $20 DOS. Beachland Ballroom.

Skatch Anderson Orchestra: 8 p.m., $10. Brothers Lounge.

Luca DiMartino/Bro Dylan: 8 p.m.

Barking Spider Tavern.

EZTV/Another Mother’s Milk: 9 p.m., $8. Now That’s Class.

Slow to Speak/The Foolish Souls/ Trusting Obscurity/Erin Burke: 7 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Beachland Tavern.

Velvet Voyage (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m. Brothers Lounge.

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Pure Bathing Culture/Wild Ones/ Key to the Mint: 7:30 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Beachland Tavern.

The Wood Brothers: Chris and Oliver Wood join forces with multiinstrumentalist Jano Rix for this folksy-bluesy project. (Listeners will surely recognize Chris from Medeski Martin & Wood, and Oliver from King Johnson.) The group released The Muse in 2013, and it’s a great album filled with pianoladen roots music. This is laid-back American rock; tunes like “Neon Tombstone” and “Honey Jar” slide into uptempo grooves and wide-open rock ‘n’ roll terrain, all while maintaining the trio’s patently tight feel. “Sweet Maria” has the band showing off a more balladesque side. (Sandy), 8 p.m., $16-$25. The Kent Stage.

Halestorm: 8:30 p.m., $29.50.

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MEET THE BAND: Emmett (drums, vocals) and Cullen (organ, vocals) STRAIGHT OUTTA THE BASEMENT: The local group, which consists of teenage brothers Emmett and Cullen O’Connor on keys and vocals, formed in 2013.

“My brother Cullen was playing bass at the time and we wanted to start a band,” says Emmett. “We were looking for a guitarist and went through different guitarists. It wasn’t working out. Cullen wanted to start on keys. I didn’t think it would work. But then we heard the Screamers, an old L.A. punk band that had no guitars or bass guitars, and we thought we could do it.” The two guys began recording music in their basement and selfproduced their first two EPs (Comrade X and Trade Winds). “We bought some mics and an interface and went with it,” says Cullen when asked about the basement sessions. “Our computer was old that it cut out midway through recording a song so we often had to record things over and over.”

A RANGE OF INFLUENCES: Influences range from jazz organ greats like Jimmy Smith and Richard “Groove” Holmes to punk icons Dead Boys and the Stooges. “We have jazz influences like Jimmy Smith, who’s a great organist,” says Cullen. “We owe a lot to our parents for getting us into music. We just went into our own directions. We found tons of different bands, and it’s been like a tree with all the branches going out in different directions. I don’t think anyone our age knows who the Dead Boys are.”

WHY YOU SHOULD HEAR THEM: This year sees the release of their first full-length album. The band sent demos to several labels, but the folks at the UK-based Dirty Water Records were the most excited about releasing the album. The guys recorded 12 songs at Ghetto Recorders in Detroit.

Producer/engineer Jim Diamond captured their “HI-FI Organ Punk” sound that Emmett describes as “rock ’n’ roll that’s been peeled back to its raw foundation.” “We’ve created our own genre,” he says. “But we just like to play rock ’n’ roll. He says recording at Ghetto Recorders was a blast. “It was really cool getting to do our record there, especially since they’re tearing it down,” he says. “We drove, set up and recorded pretty much everything. Then, we went back to the hotel and recorded the next day. The next day Jim played us our songs and we liked them.”

The band is in the process of trying to put together a European tour for 2106. “It’s been crazy how quickly people got interested in the band,” says Cullen.

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Sometimes my roommate/best friend and I have drunken threesomes with men. We’ve had some great one-night stands (less scary with a friend!), but recently we slept with a man I’ve been (drunkenly) sleeping with over a period of months, my “friend with benefits.” I shared my FWB with my roommate because she wanted to have sex, and I shared my roommate with my FWB because he wanted to experience a threesome. I told my roommate afterward that I wouldn’t like it if she slept with my FWB on her own, and I told my FWB that we should have discussed having a threesome before it happened. We went out drinking another night, I left early, and they wound up sleeping together. I was upset with my roommate, because she knew how I felt. But I am disgusted and angry with my FWB because he had to “work” to convince my roommate to get her into bed. I have forgiven my roommate—she says she is mad at herself and at him—but it’s hard to blame these two friends for hurting me because people make mistakes when they’re drunk. Still, this whole ordeal has made me reconsider my friendship with my FWB. He thinks we’re just friends, but I have now realized that I have deeper feelings for him. I feel very close to him, and we do a lot of fun things together. I’ve been pretty open with him about my feelings, but he hasn’t shared how he feels. Can I continue being friends with my FWB? Or do I need to break off my friendship with my FWB because I actually want something more with him? What can my FWB do to mend this? What can I do?

— Best Friend Fucker I had to read your letter three times to figure out who did what—and I had to shorten it considerably (and edit for clarity)—and honestly, BFF, I’m still a little fuzzy on the violations. But I think it goes like this: You asked your roommate not to fuck your FWB in your absence despite having already invited her to fuck him in your presence and your roommate went ahead and fucked your FWB anyway (violation #1), and you told your FWB that a threesome with your roommate without prior discussion was a misdemeanor so he should’ve known that initiating a twosome with your roommate would be a felony but he went ahead and twosomed the shit out of your roommate anyway (violation #2).

Taking your questions one at a time: Can you continue being friends with your FWB? That depends on what your roommate means by “work.” If she means your FWB overcame her initial reluctance to fuck him solo with some flirty talk and assurances that you wouldn’t mind, then, yeah, you can continue to be friends with your FWB. People have managed to salvage friendships out of relationships that imploded much more spectacularly, BFF. If someone can get past an infidelity or a betrayal or a child conceived with a piece-on-the-side and remain on friendly terms with their cheating, lying, breeding ex, you should be able to work through this. But if what your roommate means by “work” is that your FWB coerced her into having sex, you shouldn’t want to salvage a friendship with that rapey POS. Do you need to break off your friendship with your FWB because you’ve realized you want something more from him, i.e., a committed relationship?

Someone in a FWB arrangement wanting to be more than friends—boyfriend or girlfriend or nonbinaryfriend—is the leading cause of death for FWB arrangements. And while normally the friend who wants to keep things casual is the one who ends the arrangement, BFF, if you want more and you know he can’t give it to you, or if you fear you can’t trust him around current and future roommates, then feel free to end it. But if you really like him—despite the violation and, emphasizing this again, only if the “work” he did on your roommate wasn’t coercive or rapey—then go ahead and ask him to upgrade your FWB arrangement to GF/BF relationship.

What can your FWB do to mend this? He can apologize to you and your roommate and toss his dick around more considerately in the future.

What can you do? You can try to see this for what it was: Two people who’d already fucked—two people who fucked in front of you at your invitation—got drunk and fucked again. You can choose to see that encounter as a violation that requires drastic retaliatory measures (friendships ended, leases broken), BFF, or you can choose to see it as the messy denouement of an ill-advised/rushed threesome that you set in motion.

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BROOKSIDE OVAL APARTMENT Located on Park Fulton Oval near the Cleveland Metroparks! 216-351-6936 Choose from any of our newly remodeled 1 & 2 bdrm apartments, all w/ modern kitchens & bathrooms. All feature air-conditioning & Garage parking also available.

Brookside is located close to I-480, I-71, and I-90, just minutes from downtown Cleveland. Come home to the beautiful park-like setting of Brookside Apartments! You’ll be happy to call Brookside home.

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2 Br+ Beautiful Georgian Style large suite 7 minutes to downtown Cleveland. 1300 sq feet gas, water, and trash removal Included.

Custom paint throughout fireplace.

Extra large living room- refinished hardwood floors, formal dining room kitchen, all appliances bathroom new floors and fresh paint- additional den/sunroom- lots of closet space foyer storage laundry on premises, garage and parking space. Quiet building.

Rent is $995+security. Call for appointment. 440-590-3975 or 440590-0704

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13540 Detroit Ave. Spacious 1-2 bedroom apts Vintage Bldg Private tree lined street Off street parking Heat & Water included Park like setting New Energy Efficient Windows Cats & Small Dogs are welcome call 216-392-5384 for details ***some restrictions apply*****

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18900 Detroit Extension Newly Renovated 1-2 Bedroom Apts Heat & Water Included Updated Laundry on Site Off Street Parking Air Conditioning Secure Entry Lake and Park Views Call for our Specials 216-392-5384 *****some restrictions apply*****

Real Estate: East/Subur EUCLID FOR SALE BY OWNER

Nestled near 260th & Lakeshore this unique 1920’s historical property is perfect for the savvy investor. This beautiful 9 bdrm home features 3 full baths & a basement, & has a solid structure. New electric, roofing, siding & windows have recently been installed, newer lighting spacious and beautiful. Formerly zoned commercial now is zoned two family.

Grants may be available for historical renovations. Asking $ 156,900.

Please contact Barbara to view this unique property. Barbara 216-6471973 babs4445@gmail.com

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