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October 7 – 13, 2015 • VOL. 46 Issue 14

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A whistleblower, an ongoing Department of Labor complaint, a $735,000 FAA fine, a 35% decline in flights over two years…

The mess at Hopkins Airport.

By Daniel McGraw

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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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Cleveland notches 100 homicides on the year, stakeholders debate marijuana legalization, 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, Xan Schwartz, Brandon Koziol

Framed

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Feature

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Marketing and Events Jenna Conforti, Gina Scordos

We take a look at the ongoing mess that is Cleveland Hopkins Airport, and more

Creative Services Production Manager Steve Miluch Layout Editor/Graphic Designer Christine Hahn Staff Photographer Emanuel Wallace

Get Out!

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Art

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Stage

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Dining

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Music

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UPFRONT INNOCENT CHILDREN SHOT IN ESCALATING GANG VIOLENCE; TUESDAY MORNING SHOOTING MARKS 100TH HOMICIDE; CHIEF: ‘THIS SHOULD NOT BE HAPPENING IN OUR CITY’

Major Howard

THIS WEEK

THE DEATH OF 5-MONTH-OLD Aavielle Wakefield last week follows a disturbing trend of young children being shot and killed on Cleveland’s eastside, all in what appear to be random or botched gang shootings.

Amid a mounting homicide count in the city this year -- 100, as of press time -- the community is facing a deepening crisis.

The Cleveland Division of Police has not yet identified any leads in Wakefield’s case. “We are getting tips in, and our officers are following up,” Chief Calvin Williams said the following day. “But we need more. Our community needs to step forward.”

Wakefield was one of four people riding in a car on East 143rd Street on Oct. 1, Williams said, and she was shot once in her chest. Williams said the presumed target(s) of the gunfire remain unknown.

He urged the community to speak up, rather than march and protest.

Still, a Mt. Pleasant intersection was shut down by residents on Monday who demanded that those who know something speak up.

Williams updated the city on several additional shootings that contributed to September being Cleveland’s most violent month of 2015 yet: • Two suspects have been arrested

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and indicted in the shooting death of 5-year-old Ramon Burnett.

• An arrest warrant remains on the books for 22-year-old Donnell “Nell” Lindsey, who is still at large and is wanted in the shooting death of 3-year-old Major Howard. The police department suspects that Howard was mistakenly shot as part of the increased gang violence between the Benham Boyz and 103MurdaBlock on the city’s eastside.

• There are no credible leads in the murder of Donta Padgett Sr. and the shooting of Donta Padgett Jr, the father and son who were shot in a drive-by at MLK and Shaker Heights Blvd.

• Arrest warrants were issued for six individuals connected to the shooting deaths of Dexter “Deck” Mangham and Sidney Smith; Williams declined to name the suspects. As of press time, two men -- brothers Dontez and Devon Drake -- have been arraigned.

“We need people that are actually going to do things,” Williams said.

“We need people out there in the community that are concerned with black lives, brown lives, white lives, purple lives... We need people to do something.”

Mayor Frank Jackson drew a cultural connection between these

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recent murders in Cleveland and the community college shooting in Oregon on Oct. 1. “We have a problem,” Jackson said. “We’re going to address that problem. We’re going to make sure that the people of the city of Cleveland know that they’re safe — and if they help us, we want to enable them and empower them to control their community.”

OHIO SUPREME COURT WILL HEAR TYRONE NOLING’S APPEAL The Ohio Supreme Court last week accepted jurisdiction in the appeal of Tyrone Noling, a death row inmate convicted of murder almost 20 years ago.

(Read Scene’s 2003 feature on the case at tinyurl.com/noling.)

“We are grateful that the Ohio Supreme Court will hear Tyrone Noling’s case. Mr. Noling is an innocent man who has been on death row for almost 20 years,” Carrie Wood, assistant state public defender, wrote today. “As the Ohio Supreme Court determined in accepting jurisdiction, Mr. Noling’s case is one of great public importance and involves a substantial constitutional question.”

Wood was referring to the appeals process for death row inmates in Ohio whose post-conviction DNA

GCP groveling to state for $3.5 million to complete Public Square in time for RNC. Zack Reed says if city dips into rainy day fund, he’ll host nonstop public square dance during convention.

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Aavielle Wakefield

MINIBAR BEHIND BARS County leaders debate construction of new Justice Center or renovation of current building. Other option floated: Convert county jail cells to “authentic Cleveland experience” hotel suites.

testing requests are denied. Noling has repeatedly requested that shell casings and ring boxes found at the crime scene be tested for DNA — a use of technology that was not as advanced as it is today when Noling was first convicted.

The Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation has insisted that the shell casings and ring boxes are “unsuitable for DNA testing,” despite having never attempted to perform such tests.

“Yet,” Wood wrote in an email to Scene earlier this year, “at least two other state labs in Ohio perform testing on fired shell casings when the forensic question relates to the identity of the shooter, as do the government labs in a number of other states.”

On June 22, the Eleventh District Court of Appeals dismissed Noling’s appeal, ruling that the Ohio Supreme Court — rather than the Eleventh District — is the court in which Noling should be filing his appeal.

Hence today’s news.

“Ohio must do everything in its power to be sure it does not execute an innocent man,” Wood wrote today.

“The gaps in Ohio’s appeals process must be fixed. Non-capital defendants who have had their requests for post-conviction DNA testing denied are allowed to appeal to the Court of

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The City Club of Cleveland, as part of its Ohio Ballot Beat Series, hosted a conversation Monday afternoon between two prominent advocates on opposing sides of Issue 3, the measure that would legalize the sale of marijuana for medical and recreational use.

Ian James, Executive Director of ResponsibleOhio, represented the pro-legalization side. William Denihan, Director of the Alcohol, Drug Addiction, and Mental Health Services Board (ADAMHS), took the opposing view.

Both men articulated familiar arguments for and against marijuana legalization generally, and both provided persuasive statistics to suggest that their point of view was superior. James, a savvy campaigner, spoke strongly against an ineffectual state legislature, stating that Ohio has “epically failed” to reform marijuana laws since 1997, when it was first introduced to the general assembly.

He spoke also of the “cruel hoax”

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of decriminalization, saying that just because marijuana possession has been decriminalized doesn’t mean that it’s legal. He also cited the racial disparity of marijuana enforcement, saying that in Cuyahoga County, black people are six times more likely than white people to be arrested for marijuana possession. It’s even worse in other parts of the state.

Denihan, talking largely from prepared notes, leaned on the expertise of the medical community.

He said he wouldn’t even support the legalization of medical marijuana until it was sanctioned by the FDA. He said that in Colorado, where pot is legal for medical and personal use, DUIs for marijuana have increased dramatically, as have school expulsions and hospital stays for marijuana-related issues.

James responded that the only group who stood to benefit if Issue 3 did not pass was drug dealers. But if Issue 3 passed, “society” stood to gain the most. James said we’d use the $554 million in annual revenue to fund important issues like heroin treatment and infrastructure, and that law enforcement could spend their time on more pressing matters.

The Plain Dealer reported Sunday, however, that ResponsibleOhio has grossly overestimated the annual revenue figure. The Ohio Office of Management and Budget said that a fully functioning legal marijuana market might generate between $133 million and $293 million per year (all in tax revenue). The $554 million figure that ResponsibleOhio keeps touting comes from a study they commissioned themselves.

Still, the conversation lacked a meaningful discussion on the aspect of monopoly ownership. What makes marijuana legalization unique in Ohio is that marijuana growth will be limited to 10 facilities owned and operated by a monopoly -- the same moneyed entities who are financing ResponsibleOhio.

When asked by a City Club audience member -- “Why should we believe that 10 very wealthy people in Ohio that stand to benefit greatly would have the interest of the common people in mind?” -- James conceded that yes, the ten entities bankrolling the initiative stood to make money if Issue 3 passed.

But he said the reality is that this costs money, and when “the statehouse has literally refused to reform marijuana laws,” someone else has to pay to get it done.

Denihan’s response: “A monopoly’s a monopoly’s a monopoly.”

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FEATURE

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Is Hopkins reducing staffing because it’s running out of money?

By Daniel McGraw WHEN THE U.S. FEDERAL Aviation Administration slapped the City of Cleveland with $735,000 in fines last month for failing to plow and de-ice runways at Hopkins International Airport during the past few winters, there didn’t seem to be too much consternation about planes becoming disabled because the runways were too iced up for their brakes to work. After all, the city can’t plow streets very well, so how can it plow airport runways, and besides, the Republican National Convention will be here in the summertime, so who cares?

In fact, at the Cleveland City Council’s Transportation Committee meeting two weeks ago, no one even raised the issue of Cleveland being the subject of the FAA’s largest fine in such matters to date. Only city councilman Jeff Johnson even tried to ask a few questions, but he never got clearance to voice his criticisms of the Jackson administration in this matter.

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The question not being asked is why the city slimmed down its winter runway maintenance crews to below FAA standards in the first place. The standard theory put forth has been that the former director of the city’s airports, Ricky Smith (who conveniently bailed out in July and took a new airport job in Maryland), had merely mismanaged the airport’s day-to-day workings and had failed to fill some open maintenance positions.

But when looking at Hopkins’ declining numbers of flights since United Airlines de-hubbed here, maybe those positions went unfilled because Hopkins is running out of money.

According to Abdul-Malik Ali, the former manager of field maintenance at Hopkins and the one who informed the FAA of the problem (and who is also suing the city for being subsequently demoted), the airport was short six full-time foremen ($23.33 an hour), 12 full-time workers ($19.86 an hour) and 16 seasonal

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workers (800 hours annually each, at $17.99 per hour). The amount of salary and benefits off the books for the airport for those 34 workers was $1.4 million, according to Ali. But Ali also says that Smith shortchanged his department $2.2 million out of $2.5 million budgeted for de-icing chemicals, bringing the total to $3.6 million in annual savings.

This may not seem like much, as the Cleveland airports (Burke is also included) had $124 million in operating expenses for 2014. But the key factor is that the airports have gone from running a $6.2 million surplus in 2010 to a $9.5 million loss in 2014. The reason those numbers are important is that the Cleveland airport system is run as an enterprise fund, meaning it has to pay for itself. The city can’t move money from the road repair budget if the airport comes up short; the airport has to raise fees for airlines to land or parking rates and rents for businesses operating in the terminal.

Cleveland mayor Frank Jackson and former director Smith have been throwing each other under the bus in recent weeks, with Jackson claiming the positions were budgeted and that Smith didn’t fill them on his own accord. Smith has countered that the mayor’s office directed him to cut the budget and the snow removal employees were a part of that. Neither Jackson not Smith were available for interviews for this story.

Ali’s attorney, Subodh Chandra, said the issue of budget never came up between his client and Smith, and said the decision to cut personnel to clear the runways and the de-icing chemicals was a “bizarre autocratic edict” by Smith. “[Ali] was never told there was a budget problem that the airport had to deal with, and it doesn’t make any sense to cut in this area,” Chandra said. “It is a service that airports do for safety reasons.

It would be like a police department trying to save money by not having anyone to answer 911 calls. It

wouldn’t even be considered.”

Maybe Smith was looking down the road at budget problems, based on recent numbers, and didn’t inform his staff about it. That would be the huge dropoff in the number of flights to and from Hopkins after United cut their schedule, numbers the media hasn’t reported because, some suspect, of their pro-Cleveland RNC coverage. In 2013, before United de-hubbed at Hopkins, there were 181,340 total flight operations at the airport. In 2014, after the de-hubbing, there were 130,762 flight ops. Based on data from the FAA through the end of August, Cleveland will have about 117,000 fights in 2015. That’s a 35 percent drop in fights in just two years.

To put that into perspective, Cleveland will now be a smaller airport based on the number of flights than Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Memphis, Columbus, Louisville and St. Louis. Cleveland had 1,789 flights out of Hopkins in July 2010, and just 991 in July of this year, a drop of 45 percent.

Fewer flights mean fewer passengers, which means less money.

The number of “enplanements” (the FAA term for ticketed passengers) coming through Hopkins was about 4.4 million in 2013. That number dropped to 3.7 million last year.

Prorated numbers (based upon flight data through Aug. 31) indicate the number of enplanements will drop to around 3.3 million for 2015. That’s a 25 percent drop in just two years.

Hopkins gets about $20 in fees per passenger (money from landing and ticket fees, and other sources) according to the city’s own numbers. The figure is very high in the industry: Columbus is at $8 per passenger, for example. A drop of one million passengers from 2013 to 2015 for Hopkins would mean about $20 million less in revenue. That’s one-sixth of the operating revenue from 2014.

The City of Cleveland expects the number of passengers to go up at Hopkins this year, despite the number of flights decreasing.

“Although the number of commercial flights is lower than before the Hub termination, the closing of the Hub permitted the city to outreach to other airlines,” said City of Cleveland spokesperson Dan Williams in an email. “As a result, more airlines are serving Cleveland and legacy airlines have expanded operations.

As a result, a higher percentage of passengers enplaning in Cleveland are originating in Cleveland.

The projection for 2015 is that enplanements will exceed 2014.”

Cleveland is basing those rosy

figures on the fact that, with the United hub gone, each plane now has more passengers (fewer small aircraft flying into Hopkins from smaller markets). But in order for Hopkins to hit the 2014 passenger numbers in 2015, it would have to average 34 passengers per plane, six more than in 2014, and quite a bit higher than other airports in the region. Preliminary numbers say may be close to hitting that goal, but everything changes again starting in January, when many current airline agreements end and have to be renegotiated.

All of this becomes more complicated given that debt payments and separate airline agreements for how much they pay to use the airport vary and change over time, not to mention how accountants transfer money from one column to another in very complicated ways. But one thing is certain: Hopkins needs to lower its fee structure to attract more airlines but at the same time needs to raise more money from its nonaeronautical revenues to balance the books. Perhaps that’s why they have raised the parking fees twice in the past two years (a total of $2.50 a day at city-owned lots).

The financial analysts are already taking note. Fitch Ratings downgraded the airport’s bonds to “negative outlook” last May because of the decreased revenue from passengers compared to the $20 million borrowed for the terminal makeover currently underway. The negative outlook, Fitch Ratings wrote, “reflects continued concerns over enplanement levels after United Airlines announced service reduction in 2014 … . Traffic through the first two months of 2015 is down a further 8.2% but management is expecting traffic to rebound later in the year such that full year 2015 enplanements will surpass those in 2014. To the extent this is realized, concerns over operational risks may diminish.”

Of course they could solve Hopkins’ entire financial problem very easily. The city could close Burke (not many fly out of there anymore, either) and sell the 450 acres of lakefront property to some developer who wants to develop more hipster apartments and craft breweries. The result would be clear runways and free parking and lower airfares for flying public. Once again, wishful thinking.

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Ohio’s dog breeding regulations aren’t solving the puppy mill problem

By Eric Sandy THE FIRE SPREAD FAST AND flickered madly against the trees along Daniel Miller’s property line. At 10:54 p.m. on Feb. 8, 2014, six Loudonville firefighters arrived by truck to find Miller’s dog kennel completely ablaze.

According to the fire department, the fire was “under control” by 12:10 a.m.

A record of the fire appears in a single-column Ashland Times-Gazette story on Feb. 15. “Officially, the fire is still under investigation,” fire chief Tom Gallagher told the paper at the time. In the week since the fire, he and Capt. Todd McElwain had visited the property twice. Miller wasn’t home, and so the investigation stalled.

McElwain said he thought maybe 12 dogs had died in the fire. He didn’t know how many might have run away.

Neighbor Lee Gaines was quoted by the paper as saying that far more than a dozen dogs had been held at the kennel. “That place has bothered me for years, especially the noise, dogs barking all night some nights,” he told the paper. (Police records show that in 2008, Gaines also told police that “100200” dogs lived on the property.) On the night of the fire, a 911 caller told the Ashland County Sheriff’s Office that “over 60” dogs lived there.

It’s unclear what happened on the night of Feb. 8, 2014, and it’s unclear how many dogs perished in the fire.

The investigation was never finished.

What is clear to those who were paying attention back then is that

by Feb. 22 the barn was rebuilt with quickly claimed insurance money, according to notes from neighbor Judy Roberts. Workers poured the new cement floor on “approximately” Feb. 27. The fire and its cause were wiped from history.

Roberts says she spoke with the fire chief on Feb. 20, telling him about the backhoe work on the property.

“He told me we’ll probably never know the source of [the] fire,” she wrote in notes given to Scene. Another neighbor surmises that Miller left one or two —maybe as many as three — gas lanterns lit inside the kennel that night. According to an amalgam of notes and incomplete reports, Miller was not at home during the blaze.

The fire and its subsequent lack of any investigation remain troublesome

Photo courtesy of Jackie Hillyer

Daniel Miller’s dog kennels, as seen from a neighbor’s property.

developments for those who observe the dog breeding industry in Ohio.

While a new law hit the books down in Columbus a few years back, advocates for animal protection aren’t convinced it’s doing much. What’s happening at Miller’s property is just one example.

The Commercial Dog Breeders Act went into effect in March 2013, garnering statewide fanfare and outcry. The law requires licensure of “high-volume” dog breeders — those whose dogs “produce at least nine litters of puppies in any given calendar year and [who sell] 60 or more adult dogs or puppies per calendar year.”

(The word “and” is key here. This is called “the 9/60 rule” in state parlance.)

What the state found is that 182 breeders fall into that distinction. Erica Hawkins, spokesperson for the Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA) told Scene that, prior to enactment, the department estimated anywhere from 300 to 1,000 breeders might fall into that distinction.

With the law’s implementation, those 182 are now subject to annual inspection by the Ohio Department of Agriculture, and they are required to pay $150 to $750 in licensure fees.

Mandatory liability insurance clocks in at between $5,000 and $50,000.

(Violators are assessed a $100 fine.)

The state also reports that there are 252 licensed dog retailers in the state — and many high volume breeders double as retailers.

“When you have limits in the statute — and that could be about this program or any slew of regulations that we oversee — when there’s a threshold limit that you have to cross in order to fall into the regulations, I think there are always going to be people who would rather sit right under that line,” Hawkins says. It’s a concern for the department, but for now there’s no way of knowing how many breeders are working in Ohio outside of the prescribed 9/60 structure.

According to ODA records, Miller’s property falls outside both categories.

As such, there’s no obligation for the ODA inspectors to look into his kennel.

Soon after the fire, Ashland County dog warden Thomas Kosht visited Miller’s property. He found “dogs in kennels suspended from the rafters in a building which had one wall ... and was open on three sides,” according to a letter filed March 19, 2014, with the county prosecutor. “The dogs in the kennels had no bedding or anything to lie on except the wire floor of the kennel.”

According to records, Kosht told Miller to take care of the kennel’s exposure to the elements. (Some of the dogs were entirely exposed to latewinter wind, and piles of feces were mounting outside their cages.) “Before leaving, [the ODA inspector and I] let Daniel Miller know again what needed to be done on a temporary basis to protect the dogs from the weather and he agreed to tend to the problem as the temperature for the evening was going to get to near zero degrees.”

Kosht wrote.

Really, though, for breeders like Miller who fall beneath the 9/60 rule structure, there’s little that the state or local authorities can do. There’s no “teeth” to the laws on hand, one might say. No records are provided to government agencies for those breeders, keeping them far from the eyes of regulators. It takes a complaint — or a fire — to bring an inspector into the fold.

That all becomes a problem, because there’s a great deal of gray area in which breeders can operate.

Hawkins says that breeders who aren’t covered by the 9/60 rule fall outside of the state’s oversight up to the point that their behavior intersects with Ohio’s “animal cruelty” statutes.

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A dog carcass rests among the trees that seperate Miller’s property from his neighbors.

oversight for dog breeders. Nowadays, there’s at least the appearance of it.

Advocates for animal safety now find themselves at once applauding the fact that there’s some state law on the books while decrying its limited scope.

Board member Linda Stickney expressed some concern in the July 2015 meeting about the enforcement of the laws and whether those laws will do much to address dogs being left out in the elements.

According to neighbors, ODA inspector Kurt Pfeiffer found frozen dog carcasses on Miller’s property two weeks prior to the fire. “Nothing was done about it,” Roberts says.

According to notes, Pfeiffer’s boss, Richard Counter, reportedly later told neighbors he did not know about the frozen dogs. (Counter referred Scene over the phone to Hawkins.)

That wasn’t the only time that dead dogs had been discovered on Miller’s property.

It was with some sense of trepidation that I arrived in Loudonville in July. More than a year had passed since the fire, but that night had not been forgotten. A neighbor from down the road took me onto a friend’s property that abutted Miller’s land. We walked along the treeline that separated the two pieces of property, picking bramble berries and making idle conversation about the weather to avoid wandering eyes and ears.

As Miller’s dogs barked frantically, raising hell from within their kennels, we moved down the property line. I couldn’t help but feel profound dread. Enormous flies

flicked around our heads. As we got closer to the site, the stench of death clung to the air.

A pile of dog carcasses was stashed among the trees. Skulls lay half-buried in dirt. A small spinal cord rested at the base of a sapling.

Some of the carcasses still had fur.

Visibly, some of the bones could presumably be traced back to deaths that occurred during the 2014 fire; others had clearly died more recently.

Jackie Hillyer, who brought me to the mound of dogs, says she’s profoundly troubled by the lack of care for these animals and the ensuing lack of consequences. “I want it to be known what goes on,” she says, adding that this case is but one in a sea of breeders across Ohio.

Another neighbor told Hillyer that the bodies had been stashed in the woods “for about four or five years now.”

“If they would have been out there to check, they would have found these dead dogs years ago,” Hillyer says. “They encourage being inhumane to animals. It’s all in the guise of, ‘How much money are we going to make from these people?’”

Even using the most conservative estimates, the new structure of Ohio’s dog breeding industry spits out tens of thousands of dollars for the state each year. For the untold number of breeders left outside state regulations, they don’t even have to pay for the privilege.

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FEATURE OUT OF THE ‘ASBESTOS ROOM’ Cuyahoga County clerks are the latest workers to unionize

By Jonathan Welle JEFF CARDENAS NEVER KNEW what to expect when he fetched files from the “asbestos room” in the parking garage of the Cuyahoga County Justice Center. Among the piles of documents from decades-old asbestos cases and shredded court documents strewn on the floor, he found signs of life: rodent nests, animal feces, a dead bird. When a rat jumped out and bit Cardenas on the leg, he’d had enough.

On his way to the doctor, Cardenas showed the wound to the human resources department at the Cuyahoga County Clerk of Courts, where he works. “It was gushing blood,” he says.

“They thought it was funny. They said, ‘It’s like a petting zoo down there.’”

For Cardenas, HR’s indifference was the latest of many workplace grievances. Over the nine years he’d worked at the county clerk’s office, he’d accumulated concerns about safety, transparency in hiring, and wages that did not keep up with rising cost of living. HR’s reaction to the asbestos room incident a few years ago, Cardenas says, pushed him one step closer to the solution he and other workers have relied on for decades to resolve safety problems and disputes with management: forming a union.

In Ohio, union membership among public-sector workers like Cardenas has been growing, even as the rate of unionization has fallen in the private sector, where management has effectively blocked these organizations.

For three years after the public sector labor reform bill SB 5 was defeated, Cardenas hesitated to start a union. The asbestos room had been partially cleaned out and, more importantly, he worried that union affiliation would jeopardize his job at the clerk’s office. When it came to unions, the administration of Gerald Fuerst, Cuyahoga’s long-serving clerk, had “pounded fear into everyone’s heads,” according to Cardenas.

Even after a new administration led

by Andrea Rocco came in in 2013 following Fuerst’s retirement, those fears persisted.

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did friends at the county sheriff’s office, who were represented by the Communication Workers of America.

Cardenas called Dave Passalacqua, executive vice president of CWA Local 4340, in August 2014. What Passalacqua heard about the county clerk’s office shocked him.

“The treatment there was just ridiculous. They were getting abused.

‘You guys need a union,’” Passalacqua told Cardenas.

Cardenas and Passalacqua set out to convince clerk workers, most of whom had never been in a union, that joining one now was worth the perceived risk of reprisal. At first, colleagues like Marsita Ferguson, a legal account clerk, weren’t convinced.

“I didn’t want to make management think that I was against them,” says Ferguson. But she also wanted to see changes around the office, like more transparent hiring practices and more collaboration between staff and management. “A lot of people are afraid to speak up,” she says.

“Management needs to focus on building a better relationship with employees.”

The four colleagues who attended the first meeting Cardenas held in 2014 formed the core group of the internal organizing effort. “They were really committed to getting this off the ground. They talked to everyone and brought friends to the meetings,” says Cardenas. Seven people attended the next meeting, then 11, and then 19. Cardenas’ idea had momentum. “[Cardenas and Passalacqua] were trying to give us an explanation ... that we did not have to be afraid,” says Ferguson. “Once they started explaining that stuff, I was kind of hooked.”

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At lunchtime on a crisp fall day in 2014, Cardenas and Passalacqua sat near the bar in the Marriot hotel on St. Clair Avenue. Stacks of unsigned union interest cards lay on the table nearby. The men needed signatures from Cardenas and 29 of his colleagues to trigger a formal vote for unionization. They were prepared to collect cards for weeks, though they hoped to net a few this day.

The core supporters came in first, removing their jackets after walking from their offices. Next came other colleagues who, like Ferguson, had been skeptical at first.

“They just kept coming,” Passalacqua says.

Twenty-three workers signed cards that first day, and by the end of the year Passalacqua had enough signatures to file a petition for a representation election to the State Employee Relations Board, the Ohio agency that regulates unions.

In April 2015, four months after county executive Armond Budish replaced Rocco with Nailah Byrd, employees of the County Clerk of Courts voted in a secret mail ballot on whether or not to join the CWA. The measure passed, 57 to 9, with 20 abstentions. “It was great. People were really excited,” says Cardenas with a slight grin.

Baylor Myers, deputy state director of Americans for Prosperity, does not share Cardenas’ enthusiasm. While AFP supports the idea of unionization, it objects to current laws that require all workers in the county clerk’s office to join the union — even workers who voted against the union or abstained from voting in the election.

“If unions are forcing people to join, then they shouldn’t exist,”

Myers says.

AFP and many of their allies in the fight against SB 5 in 2011 would rather see Ohio adopt laws that allow workers to opt out of joining a union and paying union dues, even if a union is bargaining on their behalf.

Michigan, Indiana, and 23 other states have adopted similar laws, known as Right to Work, though efforts to do so in Ohio seem politically unviable today.

Cardenas hopes it stays that way. He understands if people don’t want to pay dues to a union. But if a worker benefits from a collective bargaining contract through a union, but doesn’t have to pay dues, collective bargaining, will unravel completely, he says.

The CWA and Cuyahoga County representatives entered negotiations in August 2015. Passalacqua expects county clerk employees to have their first union contract within the next few months.

“Cuyahoga County has a long and respectful relationship with the CWA,” says Mary Louise Madigan, director of communications for Cuyahoga County, while offering no comment on the ongoing negotiations. “We hope the parties come to a mutually acceptable outcome.”

Ferguson and Cardenas hope the contract will jumpstart a more productive relationship between clerk’s office workers and management, now led by Byrd.

According to Cardenas, union affiliation has already helped workers feel more supported at work. When a manager at the clerk’s office told her supervisees to remain seated, despite their protests, during a fire alarm earlier this month, workers turned to Cardenas for recourse. “People are a little less stressed because at least they know they have some backup,” he says.

And he’s encouraged by what he and his colleagues have accomplished. “I was amazed at how far the clerk of courts has come,” he says. “A lot of people finally were fed up and did something about it.”

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The Story Behind the Story Literary Cleveland and the East Cleveland Public Library have teamed up to present The Story Behind the Story, a monthly series featuring authors talking about the research behind their books.

Tonight, Samuel Thomas speaks.

A teacher at University School, an independent K-12 school outside Cleveland, Thomas has received research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Newberry Library and the British Academy, and has published on topics ranging from early modern midwifery to girls’ education in colonial Kenya. The event starts at 7 at the Euclid Tavern. Admission is free. (Niesel) 11625 Euclid Ave., 216-231-5400, facebook.com/litcleveland.

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Tonight, the Cleveland Orchestra performs the piece at Severance Hall, paired with two works by French composer Olivier Messiaen. The concert begins at 7:30; tickets start at $29. The concert repeats at 8 on Saturday. (Niesel) 11001 Euclid Ave., 216-231-1111, clevelandorchestra.com.

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Arnez J Arnez J’s little brother is mentally handicapped and gets him into trouble. Like that time at Burger King when he wanted to buy his little bro a burger — until his brother beat up a man who wanted their handicapped spot! His Rodney King skit is hilarious and his observations of the world are pretty spot-on. This one promises to be funny. He performs tonight at 7:30 and 10:15 at the Improv; shows run through Sunday. Tickets start at $25. (Liz Trenholme) 1148 Main Ave., 216-696-IMPROV, clevelandimprov.com.

THEATER

The Attaining Gigantick Dimensions Cleveland-based playwright Mike Geither, created The Attaining Gigantick Dimensions, a play that follows a military translator as he returns to Halifax from Afghanistan only to find a family crisis waiting for him. Framed by “the

trauma of large-scale conflict” on one side and “personal loss” on the other side, what would seem to be ordinary events take on great significance in this “poetic, visually arresting theatrical mediation on life’s spaces.” The performance takes place tonight at 7:30 at the Helen Rosenfeld Lewis Bialosky Lab Theatre. Tickets are $5 and the performance repeats tomorrow night at 7:30. (Niesel) 1407 Euclid Ave., 216-771-8403, playhousesquare.org.

ART

Cleveland Fine Audio Show We live during a time when most music fans are content to listen to tunes on their computers. But audiophiles still exist. Today from noon to 8 p.m. and tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Aloft Downtown Cleveland, you can hear some of the best stereo equipment that money can buy at the Cleveland Fine Audio Show.

Patrons will have access to two independent listening rooms with four individual music systems for active demonstration. Equipment from Wilson Audio, Audio Research Corporation, Transparent Audio, Dan D’Agostino Master Audio Systems, dCS (digital conversion systems), HRS (Harmonic Resolution Systems) and Thorens will be on display. You could also win a Thorens turntable. Admission is free but reservations are required on the website. (Niesel) 1111 West 10th St., 216-400-6469, paragonsns.com.

FESTIVAL

Collaboration Kickoff Beer Week is here and that means every brewery and bar in town with a decent craft beer selection will serve up some special brews between now and Oct. 18. The event officially kicks off tonight at bars in Lakewood, Tremont, Ohio City, East Fourth, downtown Willoughby and Flats East Bank.

Eight small-batch collaboration beers brewed by 24 local and national breweries will be served at a select group of neighborhood bars. Sample beers include Mash Appeal, a Kentucky common cooked up by Great Lakes, Oskar Blues and Lager Heads, and Mad Victory Dog, a dunkel hefe weizenbock brewed by Thirsty Dog, Victory and Mad Cap. A sampling pass costs $25. Advance tickets are required. Go to the Beer Week website for more tickets, merch and more information. (Niesel) clevelandbeerweek.org.

FILM

On the Edge Film Festival You can never have too many film festivals. On the Edge Film Festival, a new film fest that promises something for “extreme sport and armchair athletes alike,” makes its debut tonight and tomorrow night at the Breen Center for the Performing Arts. Tonight’s opening night reception includes food trucks and complimentary dessert, coffee and Red Bull from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Dessert, coffee and Red Bull also will be served for tomorrow’s reception from 7 to 8 p.m. Both receptions include exhibits for outdoor enthusiasts and unique door prizes. Members of Bike Cleveland will operate the wine and beer cash bar. The films begin at 7:30 tonight and 8 p.m. tomorrow. Purchased separately, advance general seating tickets are $25 for Friday and $25 for Saturday; or pay $40 for both nights (while they last) at Eventbrite. Free parking is available.

For more info, check out the website. (Niesel) 1911 West 30th St., theedgefilms.com.

THEATER

Potted Potter The Harry Potter series might be over but the fantasy novels that launched the seven-part movie series are as popular as ever. To capitalize on that popularity, former BBC television hosts Daniel Clarkson and Jefferson Turner have put together Potted Potter: The Unauthorized Harry Experience — A Parody by Dan and Jeff, a show that squeezes the tomes into a 70-minute performance complete with costume changes and props. Clarkson and Turner will also encourage the audience to participate in a real-life game of quidditch. The show has been touring since 2012 and stops in Cleveland tonight at 7:30 at the Ohio Theatre for the first of three shows. Tickets are $10 to $49.50.

(Niesel) 1501 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

ART

Reaching for Nothing Canopy Collective’s 1090 Club hosts an opening reception for Reaching for Nothing, new works

by Northeast Ohio-based artist Matt Kokoski, aka Spare Parts.

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The Tarot Card Show Amy Mothersbaugh’s Studio 2091 presents the Tarot Card Show, curated by Scott Alan Evans. Nearly 80 artists from Northeast Ohio and around the world were handselected by Evans and Studio 2091 to recreate one tarot card, chosen randomly from the deck.

In addition to the original artwork on display (and for sale), the gallery has created limited edition sets of the tarot cards which can be purchased through the gallery and pre-ordered on its website.

The Tarot Card Show opens with a reception at 5 p.m today. Additional viewing hours are Wednesdays through Fridays from 4 to 8 p.m., Saturdays from 1 to 6 p.m. and by appointment. It’s free. (Usmani) 2091 Front St., Cuyahoga Falls, 330-962-4292, studio2091.com.

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Three Cartoonists This weekend BAYarts’ three cartooning instructors — Randy Crider, Ryan Finley and Rev. Jim Giar — present new and recent individual and collaborative works.

All three have backgrounds in illustration and comics. Aside from teaching, Crider and Giar are founding members of the Rust Belt Monster Collective, and Finley is a charter member of the Scribble Nerds. Triple Lindy opens with a reception from 7 to 9 p.m.

The exhibition remains on view through Oct 28. It’s free. (Usmani) 28795 Lake Rd., Bay Village, 440-871-6543, bayarts.net.

MUSIC

Verdi Sacred Pieces Tonight Franz Welser-Möst will lead the Cleveland Orchestra as it performs sacred works by French composer Olivier Messiaen and the Italian composer Guiseppe Verdi. The concert begins at 8 at Severance Hall. Tickets start at $79. (Niesel) 11001 Euclid Ave., 216-231-1111, clevelandorchestra.com.

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The Crucible It’s finger-pointing and namecalling time and, surprisingly, it’s not a Donald Trump rally.

Arthur Miller set The Crucible 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. The Cleveland Play House’s rendition of the play opens tonight at 7:30 at the Outcalt Theatre. Tickets are $20 to $90, and the play runs through Nov. 8. (Christine Howey) 1407 Euclid Ave, 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

Bluegrass Beer Bash Bluegrass music and beer complement each other perfectly. That’s the thinking behind today’s Bluegrass Brew Bash, which takes place from noon to 5:30

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Painting the Modern Garden Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse opens today at the Cleveland Museum of Art. A collaboration between the CMA and London’s Royal Academy of Arts, the exhibit uses Monet and the Impressionists as a starting point to explore the garden’s role as a multifaceted theme in modern art. Adult tickets cost $18; students, seniors and children pay less. The exhibition remains on view through Jan. 5. (Usmani) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.

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COMEDY

Katt Williams Critics once said that comic Katt Williams might just become the next Dave Chappelle. While that didn’t happen, Williams is still hugely popular. Known for his roles on MTV’s Nick Cannon Presents: Wild ’N Out and the feature film Friday After Next, Williams is famous for wearing flashy outfits that make him look like some kind of pimp. Dubbed Growth Spurt, his new tour features hyper physical humor; and if recent shows are any indication, expect jokes about the arrests and lawsuits that have plagued him for the past few years. He performs tonight at 7:30 at the Akron Civic Theatre.

Tickets are $47 to $99.50. (Niesel) 182 South Main St., Akron, 330-253-2488, akroncivic.com.

Last Comic Standing NBC’s long-running comedy competition hits the stage tonight as finalists from the past season of Last Comic Standing grab the mic at the State Theatre. Michael Palascak, Dominique, Clayton English, Andy Erikson and Ian Bagg round out the bill for an evening of laughter. (English won the title of Last Comic Standing in the final episode of the season.)

The show starts at 8 p.m., and tickets range from $10 to $40.

Check out an interview with one of the comics at clevescene.com.

(Eric Sandy) 1519 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

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True Grit Stop by 2731 Prospect at 2 p.m. today for True Grit, a special panel discussion in conjunction with its fall exhibitions. True Grit is moderated by Jennifer Coleman, senior program officer of the arts at the George Gund Foundation. Additionally, she’s a noted urbanist, architect and founder of audio walking tour program CityProwl. Joining Coleman will be artists Michelangelo Lovelace, Donald Mengay and Hrvoje Slovenc. It’s free.

(Usmani) 2731 Prospect Ave., 888-2731881, 2731prospect.com.

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brews as it hosts the Beer Weekrelated race that starts and ends at the Ohio City brewery and restaurant. Everyone who finishes will receive a T-shirt, medal and a free pint at the finish. The race begins at 8:30 a.m.; register at tinyurl.com/greatbeerchase.

(Niesel) 2516 Market Ave., 216-771-4404, greatlakesbrewing.com.

Ben Vendetta Book Signing Toast, the cozy Ohio City restaurant and bar across the street from the Capitol Theatre, isn’t normally open on Sundays. But it’s opening today for a special event, the U.S. book launch of Ben Vendetta’s second novel, Heartworm. The novel highlights the “known and not-so-known bands of the Britpop era,” including Blur, Suede, Lush, the Auteurs, the Jesus and Mary Chain and Menswear. Cocktails and appetizers with an Irish twist will be served to a soundtrack of Britpop and Irish rock. Advance book copies will be available for purchase.

The event runs from 5 to 8 p.m.

(Niesel) 1365 West 65th St., 216-862-8974, toastcleveland.com.

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Offshore Pour Event organizers promise that “some of the best craft breweries in the world” will be represented

GET OUT tonight from 6 to 9 p.m. on the Nautica Queen. It’s Offshore Pour, yet another feature of this year’s Cleveland Beer Week. Tickets will set you back $45 for 20 beer samples and light appetizers.

Brewery reps will be on hand to answer questions too. (Niesel) 1153 Main Ave., clevelandbeerweek.org.

NIGHTLIFE

Suicide Girls Blackheart Burlesque There’s burlesque and then there’s the Suicide Girls. A group of “badass bombshells and geek goddesses,” the troupe takes the art form to another level. Consider, for example, their current Blackheart Burlesque Tour that they’ve re-launched after a six-year hiatus. Instructor/dancer Manwe Sauls-Addison, who’s worked with world-famous performers such as Beyonce, Jennifer Lopez and Lady Gaga, did the choreography and picked seven of the troupe’s best dancers for the tour. The show parodies contemporary pop culture and makes fun of films/ TV shows such as Star Wars, Orange is the New Black, Donnie Darko and Clockwork Orange.

Tickets are $25 in advance and $30 day of show. The show starts at 8 tonight at the Agora Theatre.

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Cavaliers vs. Milwaukee Bucks If you’re like us, you can’t wait to see a healthy Cleveland Cavaliers dominate the NBA this season. Having resigned all the superstars from last year’s squad (even sharp-shooting J.R. Smith and defensive gnat Matthew Dellavedova), the team stands to be on track to reach the finals again. The quest begins tonight with a preseason game against the Milwaukee Bucks. Tipoff is at 7 p.m. at the Q. Tickets start at $10. (Niesel) 1 Center Ct., 216-420-2000, theqarena.com.

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Culture Yourself Sixteen breweries pour beers that have been paired with artisanal cheeses at Culture Yourself, a Beer Week event at Great Lakes Brewery that allows you to meet and mingle with brewery representatives. Tickets are $45 for 25 beer samples with cheese pairings. Advance tickets, which can purchased on the Beer Week website, are required.

(Niesel) 2516 Market Ave., clevelandbeerweek.org.

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A Taste of Autumn The annual Taste Of Autumn: Coit Road Farmers Market Benefit returns to the Beachland Ballroom with food samples, live music and a silent auction. Tim Ogan will serve as chef/consultant, reprising the spicy sesame noodles he created when he was chef at the nowshuttered Grovewood Tavern in the early 2000s . Other featured chefs include Melissa Khoury and Penny Barend of Saucisson, Ryan Cipriani of Angela-Mia Pizza, Anna Harouvis of Anna in the Raw, John Bausone of Forest Hill Kitchen, Steve Sabo of Orange Truk, personal chef Lisa Pucci Delgado, Alfio Pinzone of Pranzo, and Tino Enriquez, vegan chef at large. Bert Dennis & Friends will provide the tunes. The proceeds support operation of the market during the winter months. The event starts at 6 p.m., and tickets

The Dead Next Door Just in time for its 25th anniversary, this digitally restored version of The Dead Next Door features a 2k scan of the original film and a new surround sound mix. The film centers on a team of soldiers and its attempt to stop the dead from coming back to life. Think of it as a precursor to The Walking Dead. The restored version of the movie features the voices of the original cast. It screens at 7:30 tonight at the Capitol Theater. Director J.R. Bookwalter will participate in a Q&A after the screening. Tickets are $9.50.

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TOON TOWN

Three cartoonists present their works at BAYarts

By Josh Usmani LOOK! UP IN THE SKY! IT’S A bird! It’s a plane! No! It’s three cartoonists doing a Triple Lindy!

What? You were expecting someone else? This weekend, BAYarts’ three cartooning instructors, Randy Crider, Ryan Finley and the Rev. Jim Giar, present new and recent individual and collaborative works.

Triple Lindy opens with a reception this Friday from 7 to 9 p.m.

Cleveland has a rich history of comics and cartoonists. Superman’s Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, Calvin and Hobbes’ Bill Watterson, Zap Comix’ R. Crumb and Marvel’s Brian Michael Bendis all started their journeys in Cleveland.

For Crider, Finley and Giar, a mutual interest in comics, cartoons and just about everything pop culture-related influences both their art and their sense of humor.

However, these artists take their silliness very seriously.

“Our boss made us do it, and she’s a real slave driver,” Randy Crider jokes about the show’s origins.

“Collectively, the three of us make up the cartoon ‘department’ at BAYArts, which isn’t to say we’re the only ones who draw cartoons, just that we’re the only ones who devoted our lives to this nonsense. This show was an opportunity to showcase what we’ve been up to in the past year, and less about making stuff collaboratively.

That being said, we did find the time to jam out a few pieces, and they look rad.”

Over the past few years, their classes have attracted dozens and dozens of young artists from throughout Northeast Ohio.

Through cartooning, the students are introduced to complex concepts

in simplified ways. Although they each teach different classes, each course is designed to build an early foundation for their young students.

Through cartooning, young artists learn about narrative storytelling, character design, sequential art, layout/composition and more.

“BAYarts programming has seen substantial growth with the inclusion of cartooning, comics and pop culture courses that are offered by these three instructors,” says Erin Stack, education director at BAYarts. “They are rock stars and I see firsthand the impact they are making on the children in BAYarts programs. Jim, Randy and Ryan have come together and collaborated on a few different workshops this year like Comic Book Day last January and Super Hero Boot Camp this summer. I think this teaching partnership inspired them to get together creatively and show their fans what they’re made of.”

Aside from teaching young students at BAYarts, Crider and Giar are founding members of the Rust Belt Monster Collective (RBMC), and Finley is a charter member of the Scribble Nerds. Their similarities and differences create a cohesion and balance in both their artwork and their classes.

“We all teach the same basic things, yet they’re filtered through our experiences,” Crider explains.

“Jim focuses a lot on visual storytelling, and Ryan focuses a lot on fan art, and I end up doing a lot of weirdo monster stuff. If you come to the show, exactly what’s on the walls is what we’re teaching the kids.”

“I like to focus more on the art of sequential storytelling or comic books,” Giar adds. “I enjoy the thought process that goes with it. Ryan teaches a lot of the fan-

character you would like to see in that show/movie/comic. It’s always an incredible feeling to walk into a room full of talented young artists eager to learn what you have to offer. I am very thankful for my opportunity to teach at BAYarts and encourage young artists to express their passion for art.”

Their students have made as much of an impact on these artists as they’ve made on their students. With Triple Lindy, Crider, Finley and Giar showcase what they’ve learned from their classes. All three artists are also fathers, and these experiences influence them as much as their students.

“Everything I am putting in this show was executed with the help and influence of my students,” Crider says. “Over the past year, they’ve been a very powerful engine in choosing what to draw, and honing the hand-drawn style that until this year I was too afraid to try.

A roomful of artists is a powerful motivator, but a roomful of artists not humbled with the realities of adulthood may be the most powerful motivator.”

Reflecting on his recent experience as a new father, Crider continues, “Becoming a father coincided with the success of the cartooning Art Club at BAYArts, causing an unplanned familyfriendly shift in my cartooning output. The pieces I’ve included in the show are very much me approaching my work with the mentality of a 12-year-old, backed with 15 years of illustration experience. I’m excited to share the beginnings this new direction.

Finley’s daughter and their mutual love for Star Wars influenced the work Finley made for this exhibition. In fact, he included a

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based classes, licensed properties that I know the kids really enjoy.

Randy teaches cartooning and basic drawing fundamentals. I can always tell when I have one of his students in my class because the groundwork is there.”

“When I pitch an idea for my classes I often try to think of what I enjoyed drawing at that age,” Finley says. “I have found that my students, like I did at their age, enjoy learning to draw some of their favorite pop culture icons. It’s not only about learning basics and how to draw characters you like, but creating a

father-daughter collaboration.

“The pieces I did for the show reflect my love for pop culture and comics,” says Finley. “Sharing the love for Star Wars with my little girl inspired a few of the pieces I did for the show, one I even did with her help. Jim, Randy and myself worked on three very cool collaborative pieces for the show. It was a fun experience to see three different styles come together to create awesome pieces of art.”

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STAGE KING ME

The regent is playing checkers while the others are playing chess in King Lear at Great Lakes Theater.

By Christine Howey IF MANY CONTEMPORARY playwrights were writing a play about a powerful and impetuous 80-year-old man with three grown and often scheming daughters, you’d expect to get a ton of exposition about their histories — all that back story yadda-yadda.

Not so with William Shakespeare, a man who knew a little something about putting on a show. In King Lear, old Will’s script moves relentlessly forward like a shark, always living in the moment, never blathering about the past, and always pulling us along, inexorably, with him. This is one of the reasons this play has always exerted such a powerful hold on both acting companies and audiences.

There is much to admire in this staging of King Lear by Great Lakes Theater, including some incisive performances under the direction of Joseph Hanreddy and a scenic design that falls into a state of decrepitude right alongside the King’s. While it is not exactly a perfect production, with too many scenes performed with an inward and sometimes inaccessible perspective, the tragedy of this leader and his family rings out in a powerful second act.

It all starts out amiably enough, with the elderly Lear yearning for a bit of time off, although he still wants to retain some kingly perks.

So he decides to ask his trio of daughters how much they love him, and split up Britain among them, according to the effusiveness of their answers. Hey, what could go wrong?

Of course, Cinderella’s evil stepsisters, Goneril and Regan, hide their fangs and blow massive blasts of sunshine up daddy’s ass, while the youngest sister Cordelia, always Lear’s fave, answers honestly and

Goneril (Laura Perrotta, right) appeals to her father King Lear (Aled Davies) as he divides his estate while her sister Cordelia (Cassandra Bissell, left) observes.

says she loves her daddy like, you know, the normal amount. That rational answer enrages papa and he vows to cut her out of his will, not to mention denying her any slice of territory. So he splits her share between the other two and heads off to spend alternate months with those loathsome offspring.

But the Lears aren’t the only family with progeny problems.

Down the street at the Gloucesters, the Earl (a dutiful and slightly dim David Anthony Smith) has two sons: nice legitimate Edgar and the calculating bastard (literally) Edmund. Bugged by his illegitimate status, Edmund plants a letter that

cracking keenly perceptive jokes meant to puncture his boss’s kingly balloon — kind of like an on-thepayroll Jon Stewart.

This show rises and falls on its leads, and in this instance it’s a mixed bag. On the plus side, Aled Davies is an impressive and vulnerable Lear, swerving from early impulsiveness to madness as he sees his legacy being destroyed.

Even as Lear’s life slips from his grasp, Davies registers the humanity and understanding that finally makes the King the ultimate tragic figure.

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indicates that Edgar is plotting to kill the Earl. Dad buys the grift and Edgar goes into hiding disguised as Tom, a mad beggar. Just goes to show, you should never name both your sons Ed, even back in ancient, pre-Christian Britain.

It gets seriously ugly from that point on, with Lear’s faithful Earl of Kent (Dougfred Miller) trying to run interference and Lear’s Fool

as Goneril. Indeed, her sharp, dismissive arm gesture after learning that she’s been granted (only!) a third of the kingdom tells you everything you need to know about this grasping woman. As Regan, Robyn Cohen holds her own but doesn’t register as enough of a mean counterpoint to Goneril, while Cassandra Bissell avoids most of the pitfalls of playing Cordelia, making

her strong without being sappy.

The Gloucester kids also have their performance ups and downs.

J. Todd Adams as Edgar is fairly invisible until he emerges as Tom, with Adams doing his now patented Crazy Scrawny Shirtless Guy routine (he did a similar riff as Caliban in The Tempest last spring). In the role of Edmund, Jonathan Dyrud emotes with surface passion but with little impact, minimizing the effect when he finally joins forces with Goneril.

As always, the go-to clown in the GLT company is Tom Ford, and he delivers a reliably Tom Ford-ish performance as the Fool. Playing to the audience more than to his fellow actors, he executes predictable, lowrisk comedy turns and swallows the laughter whole, like a hungry killer whale being tossed live mackerel.

The performances are augmented by scenic designer Linda Buchanan’s set, which begins as a solid and handsome stone wall with two huge glass panel doors. But by the end, the stones are askew, the glass panel missing or shattered, and the two pillars collapsed. It is a resonant metaphor for the life of King Lear, a man who, like most of us, is too soon old and too late smart.

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By Sam Allard MYSTERIES ABOUND IN THE latest Peter Pan adaptation. Of course, the biggest mystery is for whom this film was made.

Your guess is as good as mine on that front, but if the PG rating is any indication, this one’s for the whole family. Good news is, most of us have happily forgotten the 2003 Peter Pan film adaptation starring Jeremy Sumpter as Peter and Jason Isaacs as Mr. Darling / Captain Hook. Hollywood has taken advantage of that fact to grace us with a prequel. This time, director Joe Wright (Atonement, Hanna) tackles J.M. Barrie’s boy who won’t grow up. He endeavors to show us how an orphan named Peter becomes “Pan,” not only the familiar fun-loving wiseacre who’s tight with fairies, but the prophesied savior of Neverland’s native tribes. Pan opens in wide distribution Friday.

The movie begins not unlike another beloved story about an orphan boy with a messianic

future. Peter is unloaded not at the Dursleys, but at a London orphanage, where he is lorded over by an ogrish nun, Mother Barnabas.

When Peter is 12, in the thick of WWII, Mother Barnabas conspires to sell her stock of boys to pirates from outer space, a business transaction that’s better left unscrutinized.

Peter is whisked away, in a daring aerial escape over London, to the mines of Neverland. There, the world’s orphans have been enslaved

by Blackbeard (Hugh Jackman) to search for magic crystals that contain the dust of immortality. The mines are not the leafy Neverland of 1953’s Disney version; these are somewhere between Wild Wild West and Tatooine. In one of the film’s more perplexing moments, the sea of miners greets Blackbeard with a chorus of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” Blackbeard is sort of an Immortan Joe figure, but the history of his war with Neverland’s tribal peoples, and his secret love

for Peter’s mother (who turns out to be a legendary warrior), to say nothing of the inclusion of popular 20th century music, is, again, never quite clear.

Much like The Phantom Menace and other notable prequels, Pan attempts to show us famous characters in their youth. Here we have James Hook (Garret Hedlund) as a cowboy heartthrob, unsuccessfully channelling both Heath Ledger’s Joker and Jimmy Stewart’s George Bailey to create an over-the-top presence whose motives (and whose presumable descent into evil) remain shrouded in mystery. We also get glimpses of Smee, known here as Sam Smiegel, humorously portrayed by Adeel Aktar, and Tiger Lilly (Rooney

Mara), who attempts to subtly communicate a growing affection for Hook but is derailed time and again by Hedlund’s antics.

The young Levi Miller, as Peter, is charming on screen, and treats us to most of the movie’s sentimental moments. Jackman, too, is commendably daft as the pirate king. The production team deserves credit for doubling down on the flying pirate ships and generating a few action sequences that closely resemble video game commercials, and should, as such, distract the youngsters from an utterly convolved political backstory. Most of the plotting is just extremely messy, and the result probably will fail to hit any sort of demographic sweet spot.

SPOTLIGHT: CHAGRIN DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL NORTHEAST OHIOANS ARE BIG fans of a lot of things: craft beer, rock ’n’ roll, farm-to-table comfort food and professional sports, to name a few. And with the continued growth of cinema-focused festivals like the one coming to Chagrin Falls this week, it seems we’re also big fans of the big screen. This year’s Chagrin Documentary Film Festival (Oct. 7 to 11) is expected to draw an audience of more than 7,000 to the historic community, including the filmmakers themselves.

Founder Mary Ann Quinn Ponce created the festival after losing her son David, a documentary filmmaker, to leukemia. His film, The Lost Sparrows of Roodepoort (Oct. 11), screens every year. “When I took his film to festivals I really experienced what it meant to these passionate filmmakers to have their work seen and appreciated,” says Ponce. “Our audience goes out of their way to make them feel welcome. They embrace these filmmakers.”

The festival has repeatedly made MovieMaker Magazine’s top 50 film festivals and two of its U.S. premieres went on to garner Oscar nominations. “We had two nominated films and one winner in two years. We’re extremely proud of that, but it is extremely unusual for an indie filmmaker to go that distance. It’s a bit like lightning striking,” explains Ponce, who also says entries have quadrupled in the festival’s six short years. “We can tell from the quality and number of submissions we’ve received that we’re becoming a major part of the documentary circuit and we have every intention of growing this into a national and an international destination.”

If the 66 documentaries filling the 2015 five-day festival schedule is any indication, things are evolving in that direction. “From HipHoperation (Oct. 8 and 11) about a senior citizen dance crew to Among the Believers (Oct. 9 and 10), a film that looks at ideological warfare

in the Middle East, the breadth of topics is enormous,” says Ponce.

But while the films come from 28 countries around the world, there are still plenty of films that hit close to home. For instance, Move On (Oct. 9) looks at the growth of Near West Theatre, Kilbanetown Comeback (Oct. 8) follows the creation of a sculpture to honor legendary boxer Johnny Kilbane, and the short Hidden in Plain Sight (Oct. 8) spotlights the beauty of the Cleveland Cultural Gardens.

In addition to director appearances, the Chagrin Documentary Film Festival has added concerts, dance performances and food and beer tastings that play off the films’ themes. For example, following the Friday, Oct. 9, showing of Make Fun, a documentary about the local comedy scene directed by Jim Tews, moviegoers will be treated to live standup with Cleveland comedians Ramon Rivas, Carey Callahan and Yusuf Ali. And on Sunday, Oct. 11, Nashvillebased music duo the Grahams close

the festival with a live performance in tandem with Rattle the Hocks, which looks at the historical relationship between the railroad and American bluegrass music.

Of the many films generating early buzz, one of the more unusual is Orion: The Man Who Would Be King (Oct. 7), the story of a masked musician who had many believing Elvis Presley may have faked his death. “It’s a mystery wrapped in tragedy,” says Ponce. “I can only imagine it will lead to some interesting post-viewing discussions.”

Well-told stories like that of Jimmy “Orion” Ellis are what made Ponce a devotee of documentaries.

“Documentaries are almost addictive,” says Ponce. “They are windows into real-life stories that in many cases you couldn’t even imagine.” — Samantha Fryberger

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By Douglas Trattner AT THE END OF THE MEAL, THE two of us with the largest appetites were fighting over the last nugget of beef, which had been languishing in a corner of the grill until it was crisp and charred from the heat. It was precisely the sort of singe that only comes from an open flame, and attempting to duplicate it on a tabletop skillet is a sad and hopeless task.

There are a handful of wonderful Korean restaurants in and around Cleveland, but only one has tables with built-in gas grills. That’s why when Seoul Hot Pot closed its doors in 2012 after nearly 30 years in business, fans of real Korean barbecue were predictably crushed.

It’s also why we were predictably elated when it reopened this summer, following a much needed renovation that scrubbed decades off its life.

Korean barbecue, like Chinese hotpot, Japanese shabu-shabu and American fondue, places the diner in charge of cooking his or her own dinner. Though largely dissimilar, all of these meals share one thing in common: They transform dinner into a social event where friends gather to cook, chat, eat and drink until they’re too full to push away from the table. If you’re the sort of person who seeks out adventurous food-related activities, reserve one of the four grill

tables at Seoul Hot Pot. Meals start with a cup of warm roasted barley tea that tastes like brewing beer smells. Next come the banchan, those myriad little shared side dishes of fermented, pickled, marinated, steamed or dried veggies, fish and tofu. Steamed rice, bowls of soybean-chili paste and a mountain of bright green lettuce leaves come next.

While he’s there, the owner fires up the grill to give it a chance to heat up.

The two most popular options for Korean barbecue are galbi ($23.95) and bulgogi ($16.95), the former being spiral-sliced bone-in beef short rib and the latter a pancake stack of thin-sliced beef sirloin. Both are marinated in a dark, sweet and

of that zesty bean paste, some fiery kimchi, maybe some rice, before being swaddled up and jammed in the pie hole. There’s no wrong way to do it, and experimenting with various combinations is half the fun. Wash it all down with a cold OB Lager ($3.95), a Korean beer brewed from rice, or glasses of soju ($15), a hightest Korean spirit.

While the indoor cookout is more of a celebratory feast, Seoul Hot Pot has more than enough options for an everyday lunch or dinner too. A lengthy list of soups and stews could not be more season-appropriate, with cauldrons literally bubbling away when delivered to the table. A tart and pungent kimchi soup ($10.95)

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garlicky sauce and delivered on a plate. Sure, it takes some work and finesse to man the grills, adding, moving, flipping and pulling pieces at just the right time, but as we discussed at the outset of this article, even the burnt bits are tasty. Both meats are well-marbled and flavorful, and one order of either is more than enough for two people.

When cooked, the meat is tucked into a lettuce leaf along with a dollop

features cubes of silky smooth tofu, tender bits of pork, and the namesake pickled cabbage. Others are built around beef, fish and even dumplings. All are served with a side of steamed rice, which can be added to the broth or vice-versa.

Another still-cooking crock of delicious food is the ever-popular dolsot bibimbap ($11.95), a heavy bowl filled with rice, finely shredded veggies, a few pieces of meat, and a

fried egg. The egg yolk gets popped, the pepper paste gets added, and the whole affair gets stirred around until well blended. Rice that sits adjacent to the hot bowl continues to cook and crisp until it’s nutty and toasty.

Many folks start meals here with kimbap ($6.50), a Korean-style sushi roll with egg, pickled veggies, seasoned beef and sesame-scented rice, all wrapped up in seaweed and sliced into colorful rounds. Almost everybody orders the pajun ($6.50), a thin, crisp and eggy pancake studded with bits of shrimp and scallions, served with a sweet soy-based sauce for dipping. A similar sauce is served alongside the mandu ($6.50), steamed and pan-fried dumplings filled with meat and veggies.

After what owners Jin and Bok Hu have been through in the past three years — let alone the previous 25 —one hates to even bring up service issues. There is no mom-andpop-ier establishment in town, with Jin managing the front of the house and Bok sequestered in the kitchen.

That said, things can and do get bogged down when there’s a small crowd.

Here, patience truly is a virtue.

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GREG GOODRICH TOOK another bite of the Cleveland apple last week when he unveiled Beerhead, the latest in a spate of brand spanking new dining, drinking and entertainment venues in the Flats East Bank. The bar joins eight other freshly opened bars and restaurants in the immediate area.

If the business name doesn’t sound familiar that’s because Goodrich’s previous beer bar went by the name of Beer Cellars, which lasted in University Circle’s Uptown development for about a year. In the other five or so markets that Goodrich operates, the businesses had been called Beer Market, but all locations subsequently have been changed to Beerhead to reflect operational tweaks, says Goodrich.

“Over the last year we made a big effort to come up with a new brand, new logo and new look,” he explains.

Beerhead is different from Beer Cellars in three major ways, says the founder. Unlike before, the beerfocused business offers a full-service food menu, sells craft spirits, and better emphasizes locally brewed options. Like the original, live music is a component.

Open from 11 a.m. to midnight or 2 a.m. seven days a week, the riverfront bar has seating for 100 guests indoors and more on the front patio. Food options include a casual mix of bar snacks, salads, sandwiches, pizzas and desserts.

Of course, the big draw is the beer menu, a roster of some 50 beers on tap and 400 in the bottle or can, give or take. One of the modifications Goodrich and company have made since launching the Beer Cellars/Beer Market concept was to pare down the non-draft list by at least 100 bottles.

MRN Ltd., the developer behind Uptown, pins the Beer Cellars demise squarely on the concept, stating, “This was a concept issue,” explains Ari Maron. “Because they had no kitchen, they couldn’t generate enough foot traffic. Dynomite [Zack Bruell’s burger and sushi concept] is operating out of the same space and doing very well.”

Goodrich, on the other hand, places much of the blame on the location

rather than the concept.

“We put together a beautiful store there and we got a lot of high remarks from the customers we had, but the business wasn’t there so we decided to move on to another location,” he says. “There was an effort by the developer to try and create another entertainment district in Cleveland and the city wasn’t ready for it. It’s still kind of a lackluster area that doesn’t have the draw that other areas in Cleveland have.”

TREMONT SECURES GRANT FOR CONSTANTINO’S MARKET Last week, Tremont — one of Cleveland’s oldest neighborhoods — picked up a grant for $742,000 from the federal Department of Health and Human Services to develop a Constantino’s Market.

The grant was given as part of the department’s initiative to prevent what it calls “food deserts,” or urban areas with little access to grocery stores and markets. In these areas, low income families are more likely to turn to fast food chains or convenience stores, leading to unhealthy lifestyles and increases in obesity and heart disease. A weekly farmer’s market in Tremont’s Lincoln Park routinely accepts the most food stamps of any market in the region, making a new grocery store a welcome sight.

Though the feds just dropped a lot of dough on this project, Tremont still needs upwards of $1.5 million to complete the $2.5-million project.

The plan entails renovating an empty mansion on West 14th Street and Fairfield Avenue and moving in the grocery store.

In addition to supplying the area with fresh produce, the arrival of Constantino’s Market brings with it 30 new full-time jobs and dozens more part-time positions.

The market is projected to open in about two years, joining three other area Constantino’s. — Brittany Rees

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GIVEN THAT CHRIS CORNELL and bandmates in the grunge band Soundgarden got a big break in the ’90s when MTV started playing their music videos, you’d expect Cornell to be a fan of the format. But when he talks about music videos, the disdain drips from his voice.

“I can’t stand videos,” he says via phone. “I’m happy that it’s not a requirement anymore.”

And yet, when asked, he’ll put that disdain aside and deliver the goods. Envisioned by Cornell and directed by Jessie Hill, the music video for “Nearly Forgot My Broken Heart,” the first single from his solo album, Higher Truth, appropriately has an old-timey motif and features cameos by actors Eric Roberts (Runaway Train, Heroes, The Expendables) and W. Earl Brown (Deadwood). So how’d he come up with the concept?

“I was in Seattle with my wife and I was doing some Soundgarden rehearsal,” he says. “I was exercising in the room. I was thinking that I had to come up with something. I

listened to the first couple of notes of the song, and I came up with this story. It’s kind of a comedy or a farce. The guy is on death row in the Old West. He’s saved by a woman who puts a corrosive solution on the rope and it breaks and she carries him away and marries him with the preacher.”

Even though Cornell had a small role in the film Singles, critics have called the video his “acting debut” because the video comes off as something rather cinematic.

“People have also said the moment when I’m standing next to Matt Dillon in Singles was my acting debut,” Cornell says. “I got comments about whether I’m going to do any more acting. It would have to be explained to me. People would say, ‘Well, you acted in Singles.’ I would say, ‘Not really.’ I walked down the stairs and stood next to Matt Dillon.

I did that. I didn’t think that was acting. He was acting. He was cool.”

The press release for the new album explains that Cornell was inspired by the stark arrangements

of musicians like Nick Drake and Daniel Johnston. Songs such as “Through the Window” and “Murderer of Blue Skies” have a real tenderness to them.

Given the fury with which Soundgarden played, those seem like an odd set of references. Cornell says that he likes to listen to quieter tunes to take the edge off, a habit he picked up during Soundgarden’s early days.

“Somewhere in the late ’80s when Soundgarden was on the road a lot as an indie band doing van tours, I think our record was playing 22 shows in a row without a night off,” he says. “All the bands we played with were super-aggressive. We were super aggressive at the time. The shows were really violent. I started coming across these records like the very first Bob Dylan record. He just does cover songs and it’s just a guitar and him singing and playing harmonica. It’s a super simple and edgy recording but it has a lot of energy. Nick Drake’s Pink Moon similarly, in that he has such a calm

icy voice but this really aggressive finger picking style. It has that very magical British folk thing going on.

I started getting into those records with nothing going on except the storytelling and the singing. Maybe one instrument that isn’t even played that well. There was something about that that felt like it was clearing my palate.”

He says he initially thought his 1999 solo effort, Euphoria Morning, would show off his stark side. But when he started writing those songs, he realized they didn’t quite work as stripped-down acoustic songs.

The album represents yet another chapter in Cornell’s remarkable career. Though he has a natural ability to sing, he initially didn’t get much encouragement from his friends and family. “[I learned to sing] over a long period of time and a lot of trial and error,” he says. “[Seattle at the time] wasn’t a place where [anyone] would say, ‘You have a huge gift.’ All anyone ever said was that, ‘It’s great you like music. You should concern

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MUSIC yourself with a real vocation.’ I had one experience where I took a piano lesson. I was maybe 10 years old.

The piano teacher played a scale and asked me to sing the notes.

She wanted to see if I was tone deaf or not. When I sang, she jumped up. That was the first time anyone has reacted to me in that way for anything I did — ever. It was enough of a reaction that I remember it.

I remember thinking I shocked the heck out of this lady for doing something that was super easy. Why couldn’t math be this easy?”

By the time he was in rock bands, he was a drummer, his voice had dropped and he wasn’t singing. He would occasionally sing lead vocals and cover a blues song, and it would “bring the house down and piss off the lead singer of the band.” Even with Soundgarden, he drummed; he only started writing lyrics and singing because he was the best singer by default.

“As we started to get into songwriting, I realized we had a body of work and doing both [singing and drumming] wasn’t going to be good,” he says. “We had to find a drummer or a singer and I became the singer.”

It’s well known that Cornell gravitated to the Beatles at an early age, adopting a record collection that his friend had left to rot in his basement. He says that contributed

singing completely different on any one song. They seem to not have any concern about presenting an overall band sound from song to song or on consecutive records. They’re completely enthralled in music and whatever inspirations they get. It’s like, ‘I just came back from India and check this out.’ Or ‘I think I can write a song like Bob Dylan; check me out.’ They could do all this stuff. I think that’s the guy I came to be as a songwriter because it’s how I learned what music was.”

Back in 2006 when he was in Stockholm doing promotion, he did an acoustic radio show. One hundred people showed up. He thought he would play for a half hour and then conduct a Q&A. He played a few songs and the audience became “dead quiet.”

“I thought it would be cool to do a tour like that,” he says. “This manager I had at the time was really cautious about it. He wanted me to do test shows. I played Hotel Café in L.A. which is a really tiny place but really amazing for that type of oneman show. That went great. I started doing more. They weren’t as good.

Part of it is the venue. Anything that feels like a bar doesn’t really work.

In order to figure out how to do it, I needed to do a real tour. That’s what I did. Somewhere mid-tour I started to understand what it was. The room has to be the right room. There’s a flow that happens that’s based on the audience. I’m not following a set list.

I tell stories, but I don’t know what I’m going to say until I say it. If it

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to shaping his willingness to explore a variety of genres.

“They were rich records,” he says. “Revolver and Rubber Soul and Sgt. Pepper’s — those records were really magical for a kid at that age. Music was becoming an escape for me. I wasn’t good at anything.

I wasn’t good at school or sports.

I was outdoorsy but I started to disappear into this world of music.

What happened in terms of influence is that my intrinsic understanding of songwriting and being in a band and making records is based on those early experiences of listening to Beatles’ records. What’s important about what they did is that they had multiple singers singing in different ways. If you take John Lennon or Paul McCartney, they’re

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all comes together, it works really great.”

The current tour that brings him to Lakewood Civic will find him playing acoustic; Cornell says playing unplugged has become a way to make all his fans go home happy.

“It’s one way for me to play a show where fans of different periods can come and have a good time,” he says. “If you’re a Soundgarden fan, you can still like it. If you’re just a fan of my solo work, you’ll like the Soundgarden and Audioslave parts.

It works for everybody, and that’s not easy to do.”

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A CONVERSATION STARTER

Singer Grace Potter ditches the ‘safety blanket’ of a band for her solo debut

By Jeff Niesel WHEN SINGER GRACE POTTER meets with producers to see if they might want to work with her and her backing band, the Nocturnals, she doesn’t let the prospective producer listen to the demo tapes. But with producer Eric Valentine (Queens of the Stone Age, Nickel Creek), whom she approached about producing her solo debut, Midnight, she just couldn’t contain her enthusiasm.

“There were many people in the running and a lot of people I was considering, but none of them called out to me quite the way that Eric did,” she says via phone from a San Francisco tour stop. “When I meet with producers, I have a bunch of songs and a sound in mind. I explore their catalog and approach and see

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if it’s right for the song. I never ever play the song. That’s my secret. I don’t want to give away my poker hand. As soon as I sat down with Eric, I wanted to play him everything. I don’t know why. I think it was a good sign.”

She says she usually finds the studio to be a “daunting thing,” but with Valentine at the helm, she was able to relax and focus on the music.

“It’s the first time I enjoyed being in the studio,” she says. “Being in the studio is both fulfilling and deeply frustrating for me. This time around, I really submerged. I really allowed myself to enjoy it. I’m not a patient person. I want things to be done quickly, and I want them to sound great. The reality is that it does take time and a lot of experimentation

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before you can land on something that’s right on. Eric made that fun instead of making it like pulling teeth.”

Potter leaves her country and roots rock impulses behind on Midnight as the album commences with the poppy “Hot to the Touch” and embraces soulful pop (“Alive Tonight”) and futuristic funk (“Your Girl”). The core studio band consists of Potter and Valentine on most of the instruments with Matthew Burr on drums and percussion. In addition, members of the Nocturnals — guitarists Scott Tournet and Benny Yurco and bassist Michael Libramento — contributed to the sessions. Singer-songwriters Rayland Baxter and Audra Mae, Noelle Skaggs of Fitz & the Tantrums, Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips, and Nick Oliveri of Queens of the Stone Age all have cameos on the album as well. The way Potter describes the album, it sounds as if it were a happy accident.

“It took a long time to acclimate to the reality of it,” she says. “While I was writing the songs, I intended them to be for a band record. The band came and played on the record, and we spent time exploring different options and ways the record could go when we were in preproduction.

It was this thing, but it kept coming back to center. It was a different sound and collection of influences.

I wasn’t used to playing. It wasn’t a Nocturnals’ sound. At the same time, it was satisfying. It was charging me up. It’s a meditation on what fun is and what fun can and should be.

It took a while to recognize that.

Just because you’ve been something, doesn’t mean you have to keep being that. It felt like I was going to be in denial if I made it a Nocturnals record.

Everybody has to grow up at some point. I had been relying on the band as my safety blanket. I don’t need to lump everybody into that position.”

“Alive Tonight,” a great party anthem that could pass as an Annie

start the conversation and really jostle people. That’s what music is meant to do. There are times when music needs to be compelling and create a dialogue. I was happy to have that song be the catalyst.”

The sassy pop/R&B number, “Your Girl” recalls ’80s-era Prince.

“It’s one of my favorite songs on the record,” she says of the tune. “It’s one of the greatest sonic successes that Eric and I had in the studio. That was one that took a long time and a lot of head scratching to get it to sound the way it should sound.”

“Empty Heart” was supposed to feature a professional choir singing backing vocals. At the last minute, Potter ditched that idea and put together her own rag-tag choir.

“A lot of those voices are just me and Eric,” she explains. “I ended up coming in and directing the gospel choir. We were going to hire a gospel choir. I thought there’s something better about shaping it and exploring some sounds that aren’t one specific gospel sound. One of the things I found is that you can’t blend too much. You want the voices to have their own personality. I was worried that we would spend all this money on a gospel choir and have the sound of that specific choir. I wanted it to be more universal. I brought in a lot of the other vocalists — Max, my drummer, and Eric and I. People who aren’t even singers. They were like, ‘Fuck it. I’ll come in and shout and sing.’ It was a fun experiment. I enjoyed being able to direct it and I gave people notes that were wrong. I went very Brian Wilson on that one.”

Potter says she hasn’t started thinking about the next album yet, but she imagines it could represent another shift in sound.

“I’m always writing songs but not with the intention of making a record,” she says. “It’s been a huge year of massive change, shifting and uprooting everything I thought I knew. I have a lot to write about.

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Lennox/Eurythmics tune, shows off her terrific voice. A rainy day in Vermont inspired the track.

“I wasn’t feeling very alive at all [the day I wrote it],” she says when asked about the song. “I needed to wake myself up. Sometimes, a song can be a meditation on your life or a slap in the face. That song feels like a slap in your face. It was received by fans with shock and awe and horror.

That’s what I wanted. I wanted it to

I’m not done with the conversation.

Having said that, this tour will take us through the New Year. I have an awesome new band. It’s going to get crazier with the schedule for the rest of the year. I don’t know what’s next. For the first time in my life, I have no idea, and I’m totally okay with that.”

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MUSIC SOMETHING SPIRITUAL

Indie rockers Algiers draw from blues, gospel and psychedelic soul on their self-titled release

By Jeff Niesel IN 2012, ALGIERS, A TRIO OF “displaced Southerners” who now live in New York and London, released its first single, “Blood.” A somber tune that features bluesy vocals and the sound of rattling chains, it sounds like an old spiritual rather than a tune that was recorded in the 21st century.

“That particular song was the moment when we arrived at what we had been working toward,” says bassist Ryan Mahan via phone from London. He’s joined on the line by guitarist Lee Tesche, who also lives in London. “[Singer-guitarist] Franklin [James Fisher] had written this song.

I was in Atlanta at the time, and I was just trying to come up with guitar ideas. Out of frustration, I just laid down some guitar stuff over it.

There is a sense of frustration and failed progress [in the song]. There’s a feeling that racism is incessant, and we can’t see an end to it. But it’s also open to interpretation.”

On its recently released selftitled debut, which includes the aforementioned “Blood,” the band adroitly mixes together soul, gospel, rock and trip-hop. There’s a political dimension to the songs as well as the lyrics refer to post-colonial theories, the kind of heady stuff that’s usually reserved for graduate studies classes that dabble in critical thinking.

They recorded the album in London at 4AD Studios with Tom Morris (Bloc Party, Lydia Lunch), a producer who helped them cultivate their decidedly different post-punk sound. The band’s music has been described as “dystopian soul,” a term that Mahan says provides an apt description.

“That’s an interesting descriptor,” he says. “It captures some of the elements or some of our influences.

It has millennial gospel and minor key or melancholy elements or raw elements. And it makes sense if you think about the music pulling from protest music or psychedelic soul.

There might be sweet melodies in the later Temptations work or that era of music — even Marvin Gaye — where you feel that element of dystopia present. I think it has a nice ring to it.”

He admits there’s a political dimension to the lyrics, which make vague references to current affairs.

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Algiers

“We all think about things in a historical context,” says Mahan.

“Unfortunately, because of the way the world has been built through happenstance and power struggles, the history still lingers in the present.

The violence in the Middle East has definite vestiges of the past and vestiges of those power struggles.

People cannot actually turn their heads away — just like in the U.S. with the grotesque violence taking place against black people, men and women. It’s just re-emerging. It’s been

deal of experience” and has helped the band refine its sound.

“He’s been a great person to have out with us,” he says. “It’s all quite new for us. We never played a show with a band until well after we signed with Matador [Records]. We had played in bands previously but we hadn’t done much heavy touring. He’s a great guy. It’s been great having him around. He helps us understand how to operate and he’s an incredible drummer. It brings another element to the live show. The shows in the

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there and is re-emerging. It’s the same with refugees across Europe. This is the denial of years of imperialism. I’m not saying it’s the only thing but it’s definitely a continuation.”

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live context has this added element and dynamic. And he hits the drums really hard.”

Tesche says Tong is likely to be involved in the making of the new album too.

“It’s not too far off,” says Tesche when asked about whether the band

has started to write new material.

“We’ve been writing songs for years, never thinking we’d be in this position. We’ve got a lot of material.

We’re anxious to get back to that.

We’re excited that Matt is involved as well.”

Mahan says that touring has helped the band refine its sound as well.

“Playing in that live space has provided inspiration for what might happen next,” he says. “When we play live, we bring in different elements in between songs. We’re beholden to the influence of Fugazi and Brendan Canty and how he would hold a dub beat between songs. We all bring in these different elements when we play live that inform how we’re going to write in the future and they alluded to our new songs. It’s a growing process. We’ve been using the live setting to develop as a band and introduce things that point toward the future.”

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Aaron Neville: New Orleans has produced a number of great musicians over the years. Singer Aaron Neville certainly ranks with the best of them. Neville possesses a distinctive voice that lends itself well to the doo-wop numbers he covers on his latest offering, 2013’s My True Story. At a recent show, he sang some 30 songs, including Sam Cooke’s “A Change is Gonna Come” and Bill Withers’ “Ain’t No Sunshine,” tunes that are right in his wheelhouse. At 74 years old, Neville brings a veteran’s sensibility to the stage. (Niesel), 8 p.m., $35$49. The Kent Stage.

10 X 3 Hosted by Brent Kirby (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m. Brothers Lounge.

Ben Caplan & The Casual Smokers/ Istvan Medgyesi/The Help & The Hands: 8:30 p.m., $10. Beachland Tavern.

Raquy Danziger’s DUM (in the Supper Club): 7:30 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Music Box Supper Club.

Jody Getz & Friends/Triage/Filthy: 6:30 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern.

Health & Beauty: 10 p.m., $5. Happy Dog. Joe Hunter (solo piano): 7 p.m., Free.

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Jeff Lorber Fusion: 7 p.m., $30.

Nighttown.

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Skizzy Mars: 8 p.m., $16. Grog Shop.

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Love Muffin Palooza: The locally based Love Muffin Records started Love Muffin Palooza way back in 2008. The annual festival added a charity raffle in 2012 to benefit the Gathering Place, a cancer support center. Tonight’s lineup features Mal San Marco, Joe Rollin Porter, Dave Smeltz, Michael McFarland, Luther Trammell and Lonesome Ranger.

(Niesel), 8 p.m., Free. Barking Spider Tavern.

Bitchen Seahorse/Swindlella/Nature Camp: 9 p.m. Mahall’s 20 Lanes.

Chris Cornell/Hemming: 7:30

Soulfly brings the noise to the Agora. See: Tuesday.

p.m., $45-$52.50. Lakewood Civic Auditorium.

Deaf Wish/Unholy Two/Obnox: 9 p.m., $5. Now That’s Class.

Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas: 8 p.m., $25. Nighttown.

The Tania Grubbs Quartet: 8 p.m., $12. BLU Jazz+.

Haight Street Revuew/Brent Hooper Grateful Duo (in the Supper Club): 8 p.m., $8 ADV, $10 DOS. 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.

Nate Jones Band CD Release/Maura Rogers & the Bellows/Guggy: 8:30 p.m., $10. Beachland Tavern.

Lydia/Seahaven/Turnover/The Technicolors: 7 p.m., $15. Musica.

Street Smarts Presents: Underground Kingz: 9 p.m., $10.

Grog Shop.

Willie Watson/Heather Maloney: 8 p.m., $15 ADV/$18 DOS. Music Box Supper Club.

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Martin Bisi/Invisible Things/Blaka Watra: Martin Bisi, a New York performer and record producer, has been involved with indie, punk, avant garde, noire/cabaret rock and electronic music since the early ’80s. At a recording studio he started in 1981 in Brooklyn with the help of Brian Eno, he’s worked with acts such as Sonic Youth, Swans, Dresden Dolls, Cop Shoot Cop, John Zorn, Africa Bambaataa, Material/Bill Laswell, Boredoms, Herbie Hancock’s “Rockit,” White Zombie, Foetus, Helmet, Unsane,

Serena Maneesh, US Maple, Jon Spencer’s Boss Hog, and countless other indie, experimental and postpunk records. Currently at work on the next Violent Femmes and Larkin Grimm records, Bisi also plays guitar and sings in his own experimental band, which is touring in support of last year’s Ex Nihilo.

(Niesel), 9 p.m., $5. Happy Dog. Wesley Bright & The Hi-Lites Record Release Show/Third Coast Kings/DJ Alr!ght (Secret Soul Club): Akron’s Wesley Bright & the Hi-Lights played their first gig a little more than two years ago and the band has been going strong ever since. Because of its terrific live show — sharp-dressed Brent “Wesley Bright” Wesley is a real dynamo on stage — the soul/ old-school R&B band is suddenly in high demand. Their new single, “Losing You,” features a spirited horn arrangement and raspy vocals punctuated by a few James Brown-inspired grunts and groans.

Recorded in Akron and mastered and pressed locally at Gotta Groove, it’s good stuff. All their unhinged energy should make for a fun show.

(Niesel), 9 p.m., $13 ADV, $15 DOS. Beachland Ballroom.

Garth Brooks World Tour/Trisha Yearwood: Way back in 2000, country singer Garth Brooks announced his retirement. But Brooks, who was arguably at the height of his career at the time, couldn’t stay away. First, he played a series of shows in Las Vegas.

Then, he started touring. Last year, he released Man Against Machine, his first studio effort in 13 years. Now, for the first time in 19 years, he’ll play in Cleveland.

The initial two shows sold out in record time so two late shows

were added to the schedule. Expect a festive atmosphere tonight at the Q. (Niesel), 7 p.m. and 10:30 p.m.Quicken Loans Arena.

Casting Crowns/Lauren Daigle: 7:30 p.m., $16.50-$73. Covelli Centre (Youngstown).

Cat Toren, Angela Morris, Anthony Taddeo & special guest, Sam Blakeslee: 11:30 p.m., $5. BLU Jazz+.

Mikaela Davis/Lauren Shera/Dolfish: 8:30 p.m., $12. Beachland Tavern.

The First Five Jazz Quintet Featuring Ki Allen: 8 p.m.

Brothers Lounge.

FLAVA CLE & 40oz NYC present 40oz Bounce: 10 p.m., $20. Grog Shop.

George Foley: 8 p.m., $12. BLU Jazz+.

Funk Volume 2015 Tour with Hopsin/Dizzy Wright/Jarren Benton/DJ Hoppa: 6 p.m., $25 ADV, $30 DOS. The Agora Theatre.

Gladys Knight & the O’Jays: 8 p.m., $51.75-$127.75. State Theatre.

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

Nighttown.

James Marunich: 9 p.m., $10.

Musica.

Del McCoury Band/Clear Fork Bluegrass Quartet: 8 p.m. Music Box Supper Club.

Memphis Cradle/Railshakers/George Foley & Friends: 5:30 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern.

Mac Miller/Goldlink/Domo Genesis/ Choo Jackson: 8 p.m., $35 ADV/$38 DOS. House of Blues.

Misfits Revisit the Static Age: 7 p.m., $25. Odeon.

Mo Mojo: 9:30 p.m., $5. Brothers Lounge.

Jacob Moon/Brent Kirby: 6:30 p.m., $6. Grog Shop.

Ray Flanagan and The Authorities/ Xtra Crispy/MellaDramatics/ Listen Little Man: 9 p.m. The

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Justo Saborit & Latin Soul: 8:30 p.m., $10. Nighttown.

Sinatra Night with Michael Sonata (in the Supper Club): 8 p.m., $7.

Music Box Supper Club.

Tony Toni Tone: 7:30 p.m., $45$87.50. The Tangier.

Tricky Dick & the Cover-Ups: 9 p.m., $5. Vosh Club.

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The Boogers: Billing themselves as “the Anti-Barney” and “the Wiggles’ Worst Nightmare,” the Boogers write songs about pancakes and pandas. In one tune, singer Paul Crowe, who goes by the moniker Crusty Booger, extols the virtues of eating vegetables. Nice! A veteran punk rocker who holds a Ph.D. in developmental psychology, Crowe can really connect with the kids. The band’s official bio includes a quote from Ramones tour manager Monte Melnick. He says, “If the Ramones had ever decided to make a children’s album, this is what it would have sounded like.” You couldn’t ask for a finer endorsement. (Niesel), 1 p.m., $10.

Agora Ballroom.

Stars/Geographer/Seafair: An indie rock band out of Canada, Stars has carved out a cool niche for itself over the past decade or so during which it has toured and recorded. The band plays the kind of eloquent, sometimes folk-y indie rock for which peers such as Broken Social Scene are known. Its songs have been featured on Queer as Folk, Alias, The O.C., Warehouse 13, Degrassi: The Next Generation, Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill, The Vampire Diaries, Skins, Chuck and One Week. (Niesel), 8:30 p.m., $20.

Beachland Ballroom.

Wanyama/Drunken Sunday/Opposite Box/Evil Buck: In Wanyama’s music, the funk of the ‘70s meets roots rock reggae with a dollop of hip-hop. Think if your average ‘90s ska band had a rapper as its singer. The band’s most recent album Cleveland Zoo, features songs like “Funk Sandwich,” a tune that features traditional funk guitar and west coast reggae. Brandon Lowry, the band’s emcee, spits rhymes like a rapper, and the group puts on a show with a unique twist on traditional reggae funk. (Hannah Wintucky), 9 p.m., $8 ADV, $10 DOS. Grog Shop.

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Wanda Hunt Band Farewell: 8 p.m., $10. The Kent Stage.

All Keyed Up Dueling Pianos: 9 p.m., $5. Vosh Club.

Christine Marie (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m. Brothers Lounge.

Fallen Captive/Below The Tide/ Sentients/Ira Hill: 7 p.m., $6.

Agora Ballroom.

Josh Groban: 8 p.m., $52.50 $165.00. State Theatre.

The High Kings (in the Supper Club): 3 p.m., $20 ADV, $22 DOS. Music Box Supper Club.

Limp Wrist/Plack Blague/Glacial 23/ Uniclad: 8 p.m., $15 ADV, $20 DOS. Now That’s Class.

Little Fevers: 9 p.m. Mahall’s 20 Lanes.

The Music of Ray Charles Featuring Joe McBride: 7 p.m., $18. BLU Jazz+.

The Nu Blu Band: 9:30 p.m., $10.

Brothers Lounge.

Relaxer/Lo Pan/The Beyonders: 10 p.m., $5. Musica.

Revival: Allman Brothers Tribute: 8 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Music Box Supper Club.

Darius Rucker: Southern Style Tour 2015: 7:30 p.m. Covelli Centre (Youngstown).

Sayer + Onhell/Shaggs/Ryury/Man. Amen: 9 p.m., $3 ADV, $6 DOS. B-Side Liquor Lounge & Arcade.

Ed Schrader’s Music Beat/Chomp!/ Safeties: 9 p.m., $5. Happy Dog. Songwriters in the Round: 4 p.m.

Barking Spider Tavern.

Soul Clap & Dance Off with DJ Jonathan Toubin and special guest DJ Hot Trash: 9 p.m., $10.

Beachland Tavern.

Tom Stahl/Tim Matson: 8 p.m.

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Jackie Warren: 10:30 p.m., free.

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songs.” The four female singers are well-versed in traditional Irish folk tunes. A full band, the Anotas Choir, bagpipers and Irish dancers accompany them as music producer David Downes directs. (Niesel), 3 p.m., $41-$101. Akron Civic Theatre.

PigPen Theatre Co.: Part folk band, part theater troupe, Pigpen Theatre Co. writes narrative-driven songs and stories about crows, graveyards and the moon. They play whimsical Americana tunes rife with banjo, fiddle, accordion and all the usual old-timey goodness that comes with it. The titular track on the band’s first studio release, Bremen, tells the story of a dog and hen trying to convince people that they are kind.

“The Dress Song” is just that, a song about a dress sung to a jaunty waltz with vocals that are dusty and velvety. Pigpen’s songs are like little American fables in that they combine dialogue and visuals to create an encapsulated folksy experience. (Eric Gonzalez), 7 p.m., $12. Nighttown.

Kutt Calhuon: 6 p.m., $12 ADV, $15 DOS. Agora Ballroom.

The Claudettes (in the Supper Club): 7 p.m., $7. Music Box Supper Club.

Hot Potatoes: 6 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern.

Night Owls: 3 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern.

Pentagram / Electric Citizen / Satan’s Satyrs / Party Plates: 8:30 p.m., $15. Grog Shop.

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

RadiO ShOck/R.A. Washington/ Mothcock (in the Locker Room): 8 p.m., Free. Mahall’s 20 Lanes.

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Vanilla Fudge with Special Guest Paul Fayrewether: 7:30 p.m., $35-$40. The Tangier.

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Cleveland Blues Society Jam Night with 9 Volt Hot Rod (in the Supper Club): 7 p.m., Free. Music Box Supper Club.

Dreemers/Cool Ghouls: $5. The Euclid Tavern.

Helado Negro/Thomas Wincek/Sam Swinson: 9 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Mahall’s 20 Lanes.

Ernie Krivda & the Jazz Workshop/ Warren Bendler: 7:30 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern.

Seoul/Young Ejecta: 8:30 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Beachland Tavern.

Strange Wilds/Spray Paint/Key to the Mint: 9 p.m., $5. Now That’s Class.

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

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ALO/Yojimbo: Under the radar of West Coast alt-rock flies ALO, a dynamic backyard-campfire band well versed in the nuances of fullband improvisation and jaaaaams.

They’ve got an impressive discography, and they added to it last week with Tangle of Time.

The new album tosses a gem onto their totem pole of songwriting and musicianship. Tracks like “The Ticket” and “Not Old Yet” tap into the band’s penchant for majestic patterns (the former) and laid-back grooves cut with casual storytelling (the latter). The band was road-testing some of these songs all year, including at their stop in Northeast Ohio at The Ville.

(Sandy), 8:30 p.m., $18 ADV, $20 DOS. Beachland Ballroom.

Hanson: You might have missed it, but those cute Hanson siblings that gave us the hit tune “MMMbop” in the ‘90s are all grown up. As if to prove it, they’ve embarked on the Roots and Rock n’ Roll Tour, a special 10-city tour that’ll feature two concerts in each of the 10 major markets. The tour will also mark the launch of the band’s craft beer, Mmmhops Pale Ale, in new markets across the country.

“This tour is all about celebrating our musical journey, starting with a night of cover songs that have inspired us, followed by a night of rare tunes and fan favorites.

Each night will be a totally unique experience,” says Isaac Hanson in a press release. In addition to the two special concerts, at each tour stop Hanson Brothers Beer will present an after-party, which will feature a special DJ set from Taylor Hanson and showcase Mmmhops Pale Ale. (Niesel), 7 p.m., $80.

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FROM NOTHING COMES SOMETHING: For about three years, Joe Boyer played with Cleveland’s indie rock sensations Cloud Nothings, a group that records and tours incessantly (and has attained a cult following too). He started Chomp at about the same time that he was leaving Cloud Nothings. “I don’t have any complaints about playing with them,” he says when asked about the experience. “I learned a lot about playing guitar. I played a lot of guitar. In 2012, the last year I was in it, we were on tour the entire year. We took three trips to Europe and a couple to Japan. It was pretty intense. It was a good experience. I don’t regret it.”

STRAIGHT OUTTA MEDINA: The band initially formed with a different line-up but then Boyer reconnected with his childhood friends from Medina and retooled the line-up. “I just grew up playing music with these guys in middle school and high school and we found each other after not playing together for a long time,” he explains. “We were such good friends because we grew up listening to punk rock. The ’90s Lookout Records scene was great.

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THE I-X CENTER PLANS TO OPEN what it’s calling “the first large-scale flexible performance environment of its kind in the United States.”

The space will feature acoustic walls, portable elevated seating and staging that can be arranged in a variety of configurations to accommodate audiences of all sizes. A press release points out some of the facility’s advantages — parking certainly isn’t an issue as the I-X Center has some 7500 spots available.

“Previously, our barriers attracting major concert promoters and national touring acts, included a lack of elevated seating and the sound quality in this industrial complex,” says I-X Center Vice President of Business Development Jeremy Levine in a press release.

“We now offer a state-of the art performance space with remarkable flexibility and world class sound.

The acoustical environment has already blown away expectations and will only get better as we tweak the room. I-X Center’s new transitional Arena/Theater is a wonderful addition to the facility that already hosts large trade and consumer shows, as well as, our growing portfolio of self-produced events. We’re extremely excited with the capability to add live concerts, family shows, theatrical productions and corporate events to our calendar, while I-X Center continues to serve as an economic and entertainment engine for Northeast, Ohio.”

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VC Strategic Partners, a division of Venue Coalition, will “develop content and introduce this new venue to the live performance industry.”

On Thursday, Oct. 22, the general public gets a sneak preview of the space. National recording artists Here Come the Mummies and locals Pop Rocks Cleveland will perform at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20; they’re available at ixcenter.com and Discount Drug Mart. Tickets are only $10 for guests wearing a costume

TOWARD A GOOD CAUSE The locally based Love Muffin Records started Love Muffin Palooza way back in 2008. The annual festival added a charity raffle in 2012 to benefit the Gathering Place, a cancer support center. At 8 p.m. on Oct. 8 at the Barking Spider Tavern, the festival returns with performances by Mal San Marco, Joe Rollin Porter, Dave Smeltz, Michael McFarland, Luther Trammell and Lonesome Ranger. Then, at 8 p.m. on Oct. 9, MellaDramatics, Xtra Crispy, Listen Little Man and Ray Flanagan & The Authorities perform at the Euclid Tavern. Those tickets are $6. In addition, at 8:30 p.m. on Oct. 17, Wrath, a local thrash metal band that dates back to the ’80s, performs at the Phantasy Niteclub with Skychief and Jason Boone. This will be their first Cleveland show since the early 1990s. Tickets are $10.

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— Can’t Help Exploring Another Tush The speech you’re planning to give is lovely, CHEAT, but you should give it before you get caught. Tell your boyfriend you love him—you would have to, considering what you’ve put up with for nearly three years—and that you have no desire to leave him. But while your relationship is wonderful in many ways, it’s not sexual in any way.

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