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A BETTER BIKING FUTURE …

TOMORROW

Other cities are building protected and separated bike lanes.

Why not Cleveland?

By Lee Chilcote

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

CONTENTS

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Associate Publisher Desiree Bourgeois Editor Vince Grzegorek

Upfront

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

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Lakewood Hospital non-debate heats up, Ohio Rights Group endorses Issue 3, and more

Framed

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Feature

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

Advertising Senior Multimedia Account Executive John Crobar, Shayne Rose Multimedia Account Executive Kiara Hunter-Davis, Joseph Williamson, Savannah Drdek, Kelsey Cullen Classifi ed Account Executive Alice Leslie Creative Services Production Manager Steve Miluch Layout Editor/Graphic Designer Christine Hahn Staff Photographer Emanuel Wallace

Other cities are building protected and separated bike lanes. Why not Cleveland?

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Get Out!

Dozens of events spanning the next week in Cleveland

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UPFRONT AMATEUR HOUR: LAKEWOOD HOSPITAL NON-DEBATE HEATS UP

THIS WEEK

WITH THE ELECTION JUST DAYS away at this point, the debate over the future of Lakewood Hospital -- and, dare we say, the community as a whole -- is reaching critical levels.

Now, we’re not talking about a literal debate here; the two mayoral candidates, duking it out in a proxy war for the hospital’s fate, aren’t actually going to debate each other before the election. Mayor Mike Summers, according to a letter from challenger and State Sen. Michael Skindell, “insist[ed] on limiting” the Lakewood Hospital debate to just 25 percent of the event. No dice, apparently, as far as Skindell is concerned. He backed out, and the planned debate isn’t happening.

And it’s not that it matters much.

The court of public opinion has been in full swing since January, with both sides of the hospital question lobbing op-eds and mailers and -- as though the city were itself Harding Middle School -- accusations of “bullying.”

(Read our feature on the Cleveland Clinic’s proposal to shutter the hospital at tinyurl.com/lkwdhosp.)

Some of this rhetorical tripe is being swapped in real life or at City Council meetings, but most of the yearlong discussion has unfolded online -- in venues like the Lakewood Observer’s Observation Deck forum (“the Deck,” in local parlance), nextdoor.com, lakewoodbuzz. com, the NEOMG’s comments section, Facebook, etc. It’s all really

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Ground zero.

uncomfortable to peer in from the outside, to see what appear to be middle-aged adults lambast other middle-aged adults for being “nasty” or “mean.” (Note that, publicly, no one under the age of 30 really gives a crap about any of this.)

For instance, resident Brian Essi was essentially told on after he authored an open letter on the Deck titled: “Notice to BL: BLOOD OF YOUR VICTIMS WILL BE ON YOUR HANDS.” (“BL” is Build Lakewood, the pro-Summers group advocating for the hospital closure.) Essi’s point, which he’s driven home plenty of times before via rigorous fact-checking and context, is that by doing away with a functioning emergency department, EMS transport times to places like Fairview Hospital will inevitably rise (this is true, according to EMS personnel) and, ipso facto, more lives will be lost in the process (this is inevitable, and backed up by a 2014 study out of the University of California San Francisco).

“If you are successful [in closing the hospital] and later find out the

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truth of what I and others have been saying and writing about,” Essi wrote, “unfortunately it will be too late.”

There was no public vetting of the notion at council meetings, nor at Lakewood Hospital Association meetings, because that’s not what council nor the LHA does. Rather, nine citizens -- some directly linked to BL, some holding public office -filed a joint police report that accused Essi of “threatening” them. The case, baseless as it were, was closed almost immediately.

The BL crowd, for their part, have repeatedly mentioned “a woman in a red van” driving around and “shout[ing] obscenities” at people who are displaying Summers campaign signs in their front yards.

It’s spooky, actually. Who -- or what -is the Woman in the Red Van? It’s all very unclear.

(Imagine if you ate some really weird acid, and then traded ghost stories over a campfire with Fox Mulder -- whose FACE WAS MELTING OFF -- and you’re in the ballpark of what we’re dealing with

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CLASSIC JIMBO

Jimmy Dimora writes letter urging wiretap audio not be released to media, citing request for privacy. Of particular concern: an extremely disturbing fart in his office in April 2008.

here. All year in Lakewood.)

But Election Day looms, and public intimidation is a classic tactic in wartime. This week, business owners who’ve openly supported Save Lakewood Hospital (the proSkindell group hoping to save the inpatient hospital) have been targeted with anonymous letters warning of a boycott. (Roman Fountain Pizza on Detroit Avenue was kind enough to post the goofy letter in their window.)

“Seeing this [Save Lakewood Hospital] sign has and will keep me (sic), and I’m sure many others, from patronizing your business,” the letter states.

It’s just more dumb stuff from the F5 tornado of dumb that is the mishandled Lakewood Hospital fiasco. The city deserves better -- specifically from its bumbling council, in whose hands the decision rests entirely.

Over on the Deck, the wife of an Adkins Printing employee offered a rare moment of common sense in this mess. (The anonymous letter was printed at Adkins, and

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UPFRONT employees there posted the letter in their store because it was silly.)

“The point in posting [the letter on Adkins’ front counter] was to show how ridiculous it is, not to show support for one side or the other,” she wrote. “He isn’t pointing fingers at anyone but the person who thought this letter was going to make any difference to him, whoever that person may be.”

See you at the polls, Lakewood.

Godspeed.

THE SAGA OF THE PARMA HALLOWEEN DECORATIONS

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It wouldn’t be Northeast Ohio -- much less ‘Murica -- if there weren’t some Halloween decoration controversy in mid- to late October.

Thankfully, the Barrett family of Parma has given us quite the narrative to observe these past few weeks.

A Parma family came under fire earlier this month after their rather graphic Halloween display caught the eye of community members, many of whom send their children to a nearby elementary school, as Cleveland 19 News reported.

Their display depicts several “dead” bodies, all of which have met their fate in a most unfortunate and gruesome way. (One body is bent backwards, blood streaming down its face as a knife sticks out of its throat.)

“Shock,” Jackie Anselmo said was her reaction to the decor. “You take a double take because it is a very realistic display. Almost horrified that somebody would think that it’s okay to put it that close to an elementary school,” Anselmo told WOIO. Then, as the TV news stations stitched together what was becoming a growing controversy, the Barretts decided to take down their display.

The family explained that the increasing attention was making them feel unsafe.

“I came down one night a little bit after midnight and happened to see stuff flashing in my front yard and

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looked out my window and our front yard was full of people that we didn’t know,” Vicki Barrett told Fox 8.

When asked if she will put up any alternative decorations this year or ever again she said it was unlikely: “I don’t think we even want to do anything.”

THEN, like an All Hallow’s Eve miracle, the Barretts pushed back.

Earlier this week, the family announced that the display was going back up.

The family’s message, in full: “The decision to put the display back up was the overwhelming response from community. We had police officers visit our home offering protection if we decided to put [it back] up.

Parents stopped by saying their kids were upset we took it down.

We also received some weird mail that was unwelcomed. After a lot of debating, it came down to the fact IT’S HALLOWEEN and we don’t like plastic pumpkins or skulls. HAPPY HALLOWEEN.” Still no word on what the Barretts plan to dress up as for Halloween.

OHIO RIGHTS GROUP ENDORSES ISSUE 3 We generally don’t get involved in reporting on the endorsement game — except for those weird instances where media conglomerates delete dubious video footage of Gov. John Kasich or a longtime foe of the ResponsibleOhio folks suddenly endorses their ballot measure.

The latter, this week: Ohio Rights Group, an organization that has championed medicinal marijuana legalization since at least 2013, has endorsed ResponsibleOhio’s Issue 3 (which is appearing on the Nov. 3 ballot).

This is big news, because the ORG team has criticized the ResponsibleOhio team and its political approach all year. But, like others in the state, ORG top brass sees Issue 3 as a means justified by the end result of legal medical marijuana in Ohio.

As our brethren at the Athens News explained: “The group officers, President Mary Jane Borden and Vice President John Pardee, said that

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while good people can disagree about the temporary business structure the ResponsibleOhio amendment puts in place, ‘they all need to realize we are not likely to see an opportunity like this to end prohibition in Ohio in the foreseeable future.’” (This is despite repeated claims from other groups that ballot measures will appear in 2016 and/or future years.)

It’s disappointing, really, because the ORG crowd has long emphasized a vision for a more regulated marketplace for medicinal marijuana -- particularly in contrast to ResponsibleOhio’s de-facto monopoly being peddled this election cycle.

Athens-area attorney Don Wirtshafter, who had acted as ORG’s legal counsel, left the group following the decision. As he explained to the News: “Since my advice wasn’t followed, I had to leave the group. I think it’s capitulation to personal interest, is my opinion.

[Pardee] really wanted to be part of this new economy, and too many people like John are worried about missing the bus in case this thing actually passes.”

RTA INFRASTRUCTURE APOCALYPSE ON THE HORIZON? Speaking of missing the bus, an advocacy group for intercity train travel in Ohio published a story Monday suggesting that, due to a severe lack of state and federal funding, the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority won’t be able to operate Blue and Green Line trains from Shaker Heights to downtown Cleveland at full capacity in as little as five years.

“One or more of these rail lines would have to be shut down and run by replacement buses,” the story by All Aboard Ohio claimed.

And taking a bus along either route would be far less desirable, with commute times estimated to take two or three times as long as the rapid transit.

But without a huge injection of funds -- All Aboard Ohio has policy suggestions as well -- the trains currently in use will simply break down. The average lifespan for a

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Numbers of mills comprising the inevitable 2016 tax levy renewal request for Cleveland Metropolitan School District.

rail car in the RTA’s fleet is 25 years.

And even though RTA upgraded some of its train cars to prolong their lives by 10 years, the average age of the RTA train cars is now 33 years. Many of the oldest cars have been relegated to the train yard at Brookpark station where “usable parts are cannibalized to keep the rest of the fleet operational.”

It’s a bleak outlook, but RTA calls the All Aboard Ohio piece “absolutely false.”

“It’s no secret that public transit is underfunded, both nationally and throughout Ohio,” said RTA CEO Joe Calabrese in a written statement to Scene. “RTA’s Blue/Green Lines are a 100-year old community asset, with the Red Line 60 years old. We have absolutely no plans to abandon these irreplaceable assets.”

An RTA spokesperson invited us to look at the infrastructure upgrades currently in place, roughly $10 million per year on new stations like Cedar-University and Little Italy-University Circle on the Red Line and the soon-to-be-opened Lee-Van Aken Station on the BLue Line.

“The popular Brookpark Station is under construction now and will open next summer,” RTA said.

“Replacements for the East 34th Street and the East 116th Street rail stations are currently being designed, with planned construction starting in 2016.”

As for All Aboard Ohio’s predictions regarding the aging fleet, RTA says it has spent $30 million over the past 10 years prolonging the life of the fleet and that its target date for replacement is 2025.

“RTA is currently studying whether a single rail car fleet can replace what is now two different and non-interchangeable rail car fleets,” the spokesperson told us. “If so, the current 108 rail cars can be replaced by approximately 70 rail cars, offering a significant financial savings while providing operational and service flexibility.”

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FEATURE

A BETTER BIKING FUTURE … TOMORROW

Other cities are building protected and separated bike lanes to make urban areas healthier, more sustainable, and more prosperous.

Why not Cleveland?

By Lee Chilcote

Casandra Vasu says that she’s been spit on, called a bitch and the c-word, and nearly flattened by cars. She’s had plastic bottles and water thrown in her face. All for simply daring to ride her bike in the street.

Vasu, who commutes by bicycle from her home in Detroit Shoreway to her job at St. Theodosius Church in Tremont five days a week, says that some days she’s afraid to get on her bike at all.

But she does anyway. She and her

husband only own one car — she gave up hers to save money when she was unemployed a few years ago — and she likes the exercise and feeling of accomplishment she gets from riding her bike.

“I really enjoy cycling,” says

the 37-year-old. “I’ve never been an athletic person and I still sort of revel in the fact that I’m able to get around the city with my own two legs, that I can get from Point A to Point B by the strength of my own body. It’s really something that I take pride in.

“There are a lot of people I know who won’t really ride much anymore because of aggressive motorists,” she adds. “For me, honestly, no matter how many bad days I have with drivers, I don’t really think I should let them win.”

If you set aside the bit of self-

appointed martyrdom, Vasu has a pretty good point. Why should she feel as though she’s risking her life every time she gets on a bike?

Especially and ironically since a portion of Vasu’s route has dedicated bike lanes. Yet those haven’t stopped drivers from buzzing past her just inches from her handlebars or turning into her with a “right hook.”

After spending years in the slow lane, Cleveland is finally stepping up its efforts to become more bikefriendly. We’re on track to add 70 miles to our bikeway network by 2017

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(compared to 2013), an increase of nearly 150 percent. Bike commuting is also up from .6 percent to .7 percent in the past few years, and it’s risen nearly 240 percent in the past 15 years. Cleveland is currently ranked seventh among the top 50 largest cities where bike commuting is growing the fastest (behind Detroit, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh).

Yet Cleveland cyclists — who have to not only battle long winters, cratersized potholes and clueless drivers — say there’s a long way to go before they feel safe on the road.

“Cleveland’s cycling infrastructure is not great – there’s lots of peril out there for cyclists trying to get around,” opined cyclist Jarrod Zickefoose on Facebook. “Protected bike lanes that allow cyclists to do functional cycling, like commuting, as opposed to recreational cycling would be ideal. Buffered lanes would be an improvement on the current situation. Non-buffered bike lanes and sharrows [shared lane markings] are kind of pointless.”

Although it’s too early to tell the impact of Cleveland’s new bike infrastructure, according to data from the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency (NOACA), conflicts between bikes and cars are going up, not down. The number of bike crashes in Northeast Ohio rose by 10 percent from 2008 to 2011, according to the agency’s 2013 regional bike plan summary. “This increase is alarming because total crashes for all vehicles region-wide decreased 4 percent from 2008 to 2011,” the report notes.

Advocacy group Bike Cleveland says the city deserves a B- grade overall because its approach to bike infrastructure has mostly been to restripe existing roadways rather than create dedicated facilities for cyclists. Having more separated and protected bike lanes could improve safety, cyclists say, yet the vast

majority of Cleveland’s bikeways are either sharrows (painted roadway signs) or bike lanes with no buffer from traffic. That places us at risk of falling further behind cities like Pittsburgh, they say, which installed a protected bike lane on Penn Avenue a year ago and saw a surge in ridership.

“We have all these policies and plans that say we want to be a bicycle and pedestrian friendly city, but when it comes to engineering it, that’s where we’re falling short,” says Jacob Van Sickle, executive director of Bike Cleveland. “We have a Complete and Green Streets ordinance, and I think the city should just say, ‘We’re going to implement it.’”

THE WEST 25TH BIKE LANE DEBACLE Recently, a controversy between the cycling community and Cleveland’s traffic engineering department around the new West 25th bike lanes blew up, placing the city’s bike infrastructure in the national spotlight when it became a viral Internet meme.

You see, in September the city striped out bike lanes on 25th, and traffic engineering, in its infinite bureaucratic wisdom, put the buffer on the right side (between the cyclist and the curb) rather than the left side (between bikes and traffic). City officials claim this right buffer design is safer because it makes cyclists more visible to cars and reduces right hook accidents.

Oh yeah, and they also forgot to tell anyone. The first time cyclists learned of the striping plan was when they saw it on the street.

Bike Cleveland leaders were furious. “Buffers are great because they create space between vulnerable people and cars; they protect people and we love them,” Van Sickle told Scene. “You know what doesn’t

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A Streetsblog story by Cleveland writer and activist Angie Schmitt, titled “Cleveland traffic engineer puts buffer on the wrong side of the bike lane,” quickly went viral, generating nearly 200 comments online. A picture of a man riding in the right side buffer on 25th — exactly what the city’s traffic engineers says that he’s not supposed to do — was widely shared on Twitter.

In an email to members, Bike Cleveland called out the city’s traffic engineer, Andy Cross. “We think that it’s wrong the City simply dismisses the National Association of City Transportation Officials guide to bike lanes despite it being fully endorsed by the Federal Highway Administration.”

The city denied an interview request with Cross, but Bike Cleveland shared an email that he sent regarding their complaints about West 25th. “The terms ‘best practices’ and ‘protected’ are often used with what is shown in the NACTO guide,” Cross wrote. “A design that encourages or requires hook turns across the path of through cyclists is neither a ‘best practice’ nor ‘protected.’”

Cleveland’s sustainability chief, Jenita McGowan, vigorously defends the new bike lanes. “We put in buffered bike lanes when we think it’s safe to do so,” she says. “We understand that cyclists feel safer with a buffer between the car and their bikes. The reason we did not put in a left-side buffer on 25th is that there are numerous intersections right in a row leading up to a very complex intersection. We’re not willing to create facilities that create the perception of safety versus the

reality of safety.”

Several local officials, including Ohio City Inc. director Tom McNair, councilman Joe Cimperman and NOACA representatives, declined comment for this story. Yet privately, several area transportation experts agreed that the West 25th bike lanes are backwards. Pictures of the design on the Internet left many national transportation planners shaking their heads.

“The simple definition of a buffered bike lane is not met by what was just implemented in Cleveland,” says Matt Roe, director of the Designing Cities Initiative with NACTO in New York City. “It’s very common and accepted to drop the buffer on the intersection approach. You’re telling bikers that cars might be turning across, and telling cars to move over to the right if necessary.

“It’s bizarre,” Roe adds of the West 25th bike lane design. “As shown in the photo, it’s bizarre.”

McGowan said in a followup email that the city’s policy is to put in right side buffers where the curb cuts are less than 300 feet apart — in other words, on nearly every single street in the city of Cleveland.

Van Sickle cites studies like the one completed by the University of British Columbia in 2012 showing that a cyclist is 10 times more likely to be injured on a busy street with parked cars than on a cycle lane alongside the street, separated by a physical barrier. The city could have developed a separated or protected bike lane on 25th, but chose not to, he says.

Studies have shown that separated facilities grow ridership up to 300 percent. “We’ve tried vehicular cycling for the last 50 years in the

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Unfortunately, Cross is far from done wreaking havoc on the city’s bike infrastructure. Van Sickle and other advocates have seen preliminary designs for Lorain between West 129th and West 150th, which they say include the same flipped buffer design. Lakeshore Boulevard, which is now in the planning stages, also has buffers on the right side. West 25th could set a dangerous precedent, they say, making it harder to obtain separated or protected bike lanes on other city streets.

“We do think it’s wrong that a mid-level traffic engineer with the City of Cleveland can basically unilaterally design bikeway infrastructure in our city without any input from anyone else,” says Bike Cleveland marketing and membership director Rob Thompson.

“If their bosses won’t raise questions, then we’re going to ask them.”

Perhaps the greatest irony of the West 25th bike lanes is that Andy Cross is actually an avid cyclist.

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Pittsburgh is beating Cleveland at more than football The city of Pittsburgh has about 70 miles of bike lanes. Right now, two of these miles are protected lanes where bikes are separated from traffic with a barrier like a concrete curb, but that’s likely to grow.

“The mayor (Bill Peduto) has said he wants to have 5 miles of protected bike lanes,” says Eric Boerer, advocacy director with Bike Pittsburgh.

Pittsburgh’s bike commuting rate of two percent is significantly higher than Cleveland’s rates of .7 percent. Boerer says protected bike lanes are one factor that’s boosting ridership in his city.

“It’s been phenomenal and very useable,” he says of the protected bike lane on Penn Avenue in the Strip District. “On Bike to Work Day, 26 percent of the commuters were on bikes. We see families with children biking. We got a picture sent to us of a dad biking with his daughter with training wheels in the bike lane. We see a lot of new riders; the protected bike lane kind of encourages them to give it a shot.”

Pittsburgh’s new bike share system has only added to its reputation as a bike-friendly city, and that’s one reason why people are moving there.

“We’re getting a huge tech boom here,” says Boerer. “Google is here with 400 employees, Uber is opening up a huge campus. They’re very clear to city decision-makers that they want bike-friendly ways for their employees to get to work.”

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Yet while Cross may be comfortable riding with traffic, many cyclists aren’t. A graph from the Portland Bureau of Transportation shows that only eight percent of the city’s cyclists define themselves as “strong and fearless” or “enthused and confident,” while 60 percent are “interested but concerned.” Cleveland could do a better job accommodating these cyclists, Van Sickle says.

While cyclists who disobey traffic laws are part of the problem, separated bike infrastructure helps reduce conflicts. For cyclists, the backward bike lanes on 25th are just one example of where the city has made it hard for cyclists. They complain about the inbound lanes of the Detroit Superior Bridge, where cars often speed up to 50 miles per hour and cyclists are funneled out of a confusing bike lane into a busy intersection. Van Sickle is also still frustrated by the city’s inexplicable elimination of bike lanes along Ontario south of Public Square.

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He says that for Cleveland to become more bike-friendly, we have to be willing to slow down traffic. For example, bike lanes are likely being eliminated from Prospect where it’s being repaved west of Bolivar.

Adding bike lanes would require the removal of 100 on-street parking spaces, but apparently no one wants to piss off the businesses. The city is missing a chance to create a great connector, Van Sickle says. “There’s so much parking on Prospect already,” he says.

Part of the problem is that the city’s traffic engineering department is woefully understaffed. Other cities — including Detroit — have whole teams of people working on bike lanes. “The city needs to hire someone [else] that solely focuses on engineering bike lanes,” Van Sickle says.

‘WE COULD BE AWESOME TOMORROW’ Despite the controversy over West 25th, the city is doing a great job striping bike lanes, Bike Cleveland says. The bike lanes on Detroit have been a game changer. Many streets beyond the gentrifying near-westside have also gotten bike lanes, including Denison, Bellaire and Puritas — in some cases, over the objections of residents and councilpersons.

This fall and into next year, even more bike lanes and sharrows are being added to city streets. These streets include West 14th, Prospect, Community College, East Boulevard, Harvard, West Boulevard and West Third, among others. The city is even building the first contra-flow (against traffic) bike lane on East 22nd Street in the Campus District, which will include bike-only signals.

Cleveland also recently moved ahead with its first separated bike facility. “A two-way separated bike lane has come forward in the final recommendations of the Living Lorain Plan, described as a complete street,” reported GreenCityBlueLake in a recent story. Various options are being considered, including reducing Lorain from four lanes to two, but all have a cycle track.

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Indianapolis, a Midwestern city that has surged past Cleveland by aggressively adding new bike infrastructure, and saw the Indy Cultural Trail.

“They were impressed by the sanguinity of the mayor who says he fields calls from businesses insisting on space on the Trail,” Lefkowitz wrote.

As this story went to press, the Cleveland Planning Commission unanimously approved the new protected bike lanes on Lorain.

Yet the city is moving so quickly on repaving other roads with funding from NOACA’s Provisional Transportation Asset Management Program (PTAMP) that detractors say it hasn’t taken the time to engage the public or consider how it can best add bike infrastructure.

Streetsblog writer Angie Schmitt says Cleveland could be on par with cities like Minneapolis if it built the kind of bike infrastructure cyclists want: “Places with a high number of cyclists are willing to separate biking from cars. We could be awesome tomorrow. We have so much infrastructure, but we don’t have very much money. Striping is so cheap.”

Yet Schmitt’s cycling utopia will have a hard time becoming a reality if folks like Councilman Mike Polensek have their way. “There’s this big rush to put bike lanes everywhere,” he complains. “Some of them are not thought out very well. Whatever’s done on Lakeshore, we have to make sure it accommodates vehicles. There’s more cars than bikes, that’s a given.”

Van Sickle hopes to change the opinions of Polensek and other skeptical officials. He’s working with city planning on a Transportation for Livable Communities study of the Midway project. The idea is to develop guidelines and recommendations around protected bike lanes, and then construct them on extra-wide streets like St. Clair Avenue. He’s also working with the city and NOACA to study turning the southern lane of the Detroit Superior Bridge into a bike lane.

The group continues to try to build a larger constituency for cycling in Cleveland. There’s a lot of positive energy around biking right now, Van Sickle says, with monthly Critical Mass rides attracting upwards of 500 people during the summer.

“Bike infrastructure is not just good for cyclists, it’s good for pedestrians and neighborhoods,” he says. “It’s good for the whole city.”

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the funny movie about serious issues. “I think I sound like a very small man,” says David Sedaris.

It screens tonight at 7:30 at the Capitol Theatre. Ken Schneck, host of radio show/podcast This Show is So Gay, moderates a postscreening discussion with Thorpe, who’ll take questions and answers via Skype. Regular admission rates apply. (Niesel) 1390 West 65th St., 216-651-7295, clevelandcinemas.com.

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Circus Extreme The pitch for Circus Extreme, the latest offering from the longstanding Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus promoters, is that it will offer an unparalleled spectacle. Expect to see a human cannonball and exotic big cats.

There will also be tightrope walkers and dancers from Mongolia.

Asian elephants will be on hand as well. The show begins at 7 tonight at the Q, and performances are scheduled through Sunday.

Tickets start at $12. (Jeff Niesel) 1 Center Ct., 216-420-2000, theqarena.com.

LITERATURE

Drew Magary Book Reading A dark dystopian novel that’s been adopted as a text for this year’s Common Reading Program at TriC, Drew Magary’s The Postmortal centers on a young lawyer who finds a cure for aging. “I think the book is good at fostering ethics discussions,” Magary says in a press release. “It allows for a lot of possibilities for teachers to talk about the world and society. It’s a book about the world, and so it’s applicable to pretty much everyone.” A columnist and writer for GQ and Deadspin, Magary is currently working on a second novel due out next year. He gives a presentation and book signing at 7 tonight at the Tommy LiPuma Center for Creative Arts on Tri-C’s Metropolitan Campus. The event takes place during Magary’s twoday visit to the college. It’s free.

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Photography in America. The program begins at 6:30 p.m. at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tickets are $10, $8 for CMA members.

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An Artist Talk We’ve previously told you about Cleveland-based painter Dana Oldfather, who had exciting new exhibitions at Bonfoey Gallery in Cleveland and Angela Melaca Gallery in Columbus. She also has a 15-year history with Bonfoey. In conjunction with the exhibition, Soft Armor, Bonfoey hosts an artist talk today at 5:30 p.m. Wellrespected gallery owner William Busta will moderate the free talk.

The event will start with a small reception; the conversation will follow. (Josh Usmani) 1710 Euclid Ave., 216-621-0178, bonfoey.com.

A Desert of Magnificence Now on display at Shaheen Gallery, Corrie Slawson’s A Desert of Magnificence is inspired by her daily commute through Northeast Ohio’s diverse urban and suburban landscapes. These travels are dictated by her various roles as a mother and full-time artist as well as her day job. In addition to work inspired by Cleveland, the exhibition features work inspired by recent travels to Tijuana, Mexico and Dresden, Germany. Today at 6:30 p.m., you can learn more about her new work during a free artist talk with curator Indra Lãcis, a research assistant in the department of Modern European Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art. (Usmani) 740 West Superior Ave., 216-830-8888, shaheengallery.com.

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Tenshin Sinead Vilbar, the Cleveland Museum of Art’s curator of Japanese and Korean art, has called Japanese art critic, scholar and writer Okakura Tenshin the “godfather of Japanese art in the United States.” Today at 6:30 p.m., Vilbar will introduce Tenshin, a 2013 documentary about the man. The program also includes four films featuring the work of cinematographer Karl Strauss, whose work is represented in the exhibit Shadows and Dreams: Pictorialist

some guy in Austin thinks I’m losing,” he says. A veteran of the festival circuit, Cayton-Holland performs at 8 tonight at Hilarities and has shows scheduled through Saturday. Tickets are $22 to $27.

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He likes to joke about how he couldn’t keep up with the partyhearty crowd that showed up for the annual South by Southwest festival in Austin. When he failed to catch a beer thrown his way, the patron told him he was down 1 to nothing. “I’m very competitive so it makes me crazy that

Cortney Gee & Friends A Cleveland native best known for his numerous appearances on The Jamie Foxx Show, Cortney Gee makes a 7:30 Improv appearance tonight with a few fellow comics. Gee has been in the comedy game for awhile with appearances on HBO’s Def Comedy Jam. He also hosts BET’s Comic View and has worked with Keenan Ivory Wayans and opened for comedians such as Tommy Davidson and Chris Rock. Tickets are $10. (Lisa Hammond) 1148 Main Ave., 216-696-IMPROV, clevelandimprov.com.

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Here Come the Mummies The I-X Center recently announced that it will 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. Today, 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 through the I-X Center website and at Discount Drug Mart. Wear a costume and get in for 10 bucks. (Niesel) 1 I-X Center Dr., 216-676-6000, ixcenter.com.

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Do I Sound Gay? “Do I sound gay?” asks director David Thorpe in his new documentary film Do I Sound Gay? He explores the “gay voice” as he explores issues of self-hatred.

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His memoir forms the basis of My Father’s War, a play presented by his daughter, Carol Ponder, and her husband, Robert Kiefer.

Performing artists for more than 40 years, the duo presents the play at 7 tonight in the University of Akron Student Union Theatre.

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and an urge to “twist and shout.”

In remembrance of those who first contracted this mania, 1964: The Tribute puts on a hell of a show.

Choosing songs from the pre-Sgt. Pepper’s era — complete with costumes and authentic instruments — the band has received critical acclaim. That’s no easy task for a tribute act. You can catch a performance at 7:30 tonight at Connor Palace. Tickets are $10 to $35.

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Bill Burr Famous for roles on Breaking Bad and appearances on David Letterman, Conan O’Brien and Jimmy Fallon, Bill Burr is back on the road after time off to work on a new animated series for Netflix. “I get recognized a little more than usual, but I’m still a background guy,” says Burr. “I think it’s good to be the seventh or eighth character in a movie.

Like where I’m at. When people come up to talk to me, I’m still flattered. I’m at that level. Nothing that I say is going to change anything. It’s not like I’m writing legislation.” He performs tonight at 7 and 9:30 at the State Theatre.

Tickets are $47.50. (Niesel) 1519 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

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Crime Wave An aspiring writer seeks to write “the greatest color crime movie ever” in Crime Wave, a dark comedy from indie filmmaker John Paizs. The film attained cult status after its release in 1986 and provides a clever spoof of 1950s noir movies. A new digital restoration of the film screens tonight at 9:15 at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque. Tickets are $9. (Niesel) 11610 Euclid Ave., 216-421-7450, cia.edu.

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GET OUT published the resulting book, Good and Cheap, online; it’s been downloaded over 200,000 times since she posted it on her website in early June. She’ll talk about her book tonight. Any books sold at this event will be matched with a donation of books to the Food Bank and the Coit Road Farmers Market. The free event starts at 6:30 at the Euclid Tavern. (Niesel) 11625 Euclid Ave., 216-231-5400, happydogeuclidtavern.getn2.it.

COMEDY

Rich Guzzi A comedian who uses interactive hypnotism as the main focus of his show, comedian Rich Guzzi just appeared on Access Hollywood and in Parade magazine.

He decided to make the switch from traditional standup comedy, which he did for most of his career, to hypnotism because it was more unique and memorable. His show is based on motivating and inspiring the audience by hypnotizing volunteers on stage. He performs at Club Velvet tonight at 7:30 and 10 and tomorrow night at 7 and 9:30. Tickets start at $18.95. (Elizabeth Manno) 10705 Northfield Rd., Northfield, 330-908-7793, hrrocksinonorthfieldpark.com.

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R. Ariel Currently on an eight-week tour in support of her new album and book, independent musician and author R.Ariel has captured the attention of some notable people.

Uber-producer and musician Brian Eno chose her as “best new creative” for the 2014 Noise Fest.

A song like “Your Whole Life” features hushed vocals and percolating synthesizers. It’s a moody number that recalls ’90s trip-hop (think Portishead). She appears tonight at 8 at Guide to Kulchur.

(Niesel) 5900 Detroit Ave., 216-314-4644, facebook.com/ guidetokulchurcleveland.

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Other special guests include trumpeter Jack Schantz and trombonist/arranger Paul Ferguson. The event takes place at 8 at Severance Hall. Tickets start at $29. (Niesel) 11001 Euclid Ave., 216-231-1111, clevelandorchestra.com.

COMIC BOOKS

Cleveland Comic Con Now in its third year, the Cleveland Comic Con brings together comic artists, editors, and dealers for a one-day convention. This year’s guests include Andy Smith, who has worked as a professional artist for Marvel, DC, Image, Acclaim, and Cross Gen Ent, along with American cartoonist and independent comic artist Budd Root, and Cleveland native and illustrator Mark Pennington, famous for his work on such titles as X-Men, Batman and Spawn. Admission is $10. Children 10 and under are free. Doors open at 11 a.m. at the Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds.

(Niesel) 164 Eastland Rd., Berea, 440-243-0090, clevelandcomiccon.com.

MUSIC

Navasha Daya Navasha Daya, a soul singer who graduated with the Cleveland School of Arts class of 1993, headlines a benefit and grand opening celebration tonight for her alma mater. Daya began her career with the indie soul act Fertile Ground and has performed with India Arie, Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, Sweet Honey and the Rock and Common. Mojo Magazine calls her “an astral soul goddess,” while the Baltimore Sun describes her as “a dynamic performer who feeds off the exchange of energy between herself and the audience.” For the event, the school will transform into a “festival style environment with performances and artworks throughout the halls, classrooms, and even the elevators.” Doors open for VIP guests ($250) at 6:30 p.m. and for general audiences ($100) at 7:30 p.m. Purchase tickets online or call Ruby Watkins in the FCSA office; the number’s below. (Niesel) 10700 Churchill Ave., 216-838-9025, clevelandschoolofthearts.org.

MUSIC

Big Band and All That Jazz The Cleveland Pops orchestra pays tribute to the all-American big-band era at tonight’s concert with jazz singer Barbara Knight.

ARTS

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

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GET OUT a regular graphic novel series in the literature department on the second floor of the Cleveland Public Library. Today at 3:30, Dr. Charles Coletta, an American studies scholar at Bowling Green State University, delivers his talk Life With Archie: Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of Archie Comics. Admission is free. (Niesel) 325 Superior Ave., 216-623-2800, cpl.org.

$60 for teams. General admission is free. (Usmani) 11434 Uptown Ave., cleveland.aiga.org.

FILM

Red Beard Perhaps the only hospital drama

SPOKEN WORD

David Sedaris A preeminent humor writer, David Sedaris has published a number of books over the course of a career that dates back a few decades. His bestsellers include Holidays on Ice, Naked, Me Talk

THEATER

Joel Grey An Academy- and Tony-awardwinning actor — and Cleveland Play House alum — who’s known for roles in Cabaret, Wicked and Anything Goes, Cleveland-born Joel Grey presents an overview of his life in his show Joel Grey: Up Close and Personal. He’ll talk about his career and show rare film clips. He’ll also sing songs from his 50-plus years in the biz.

Performances are at 7:30 tonight and 2:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Allen Theatre. Tickets are $20 to $60. (Niesel) 1407 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

HALLOWEEN FUN

A Pumpkin Carving Competition In celebration of Halloween, the Cleveland chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts hosts GUTS, a pumpkin carving competition to benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation. The competition is open to local and regional creative professionals; prizes will be awarded. The event also includes a silent auction. GUTS takes place at Uptown’s ABC the Tavern from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. Registration is $30 for individual carvers and

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FITNESS

Yoga at the Museum With its giant atrium, the Cleveland Museum of Art has space to spare. So why not hold a yoga class? Today at 11 a.m., Atma Center sponsors a yoga session in the North Court Lobby. Tour the galleries and then take part. Preregistration is required; go to the CMA website for more info. Tickets are $12, $8 for CMA members.

It’s BYOM (bring your own mat).

(Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.

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Halloween Spooktacular Halloween Spooktacular promises “an afternoon of deliciously frightening fun and terrifying tales featuring the spooky sounds of orchestral favorites.” Expect to hear the Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra take on SaintSaëns’ Danse Macabre, Dukas’ The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and John Williams’ tunes from Star Wars, Superman and Harry Potter. Costumes are encouraged and there’s even a costume contest. The event begins at 3 p.m. at Severance Hall.

Tickets are $15 to $30. (Niesel) 11001 Euclid Ave., 216-231-1111, clevelandorchestra.com.

HALLOWEEN FUN

Halloweezy VI: Nowhere Looking for a Halloween party?

Tonight’s Halloweezy VI: Nowhere is billed as Cleveland’s premier Halloween celebration. This adults-only event begins at 9 p.m. and includes vendors and performances, including a grind show, burlesque dancers and a horror musical act by Miss Alexandra Huntington. Emcee Two Muffin Rabbit serves as host. Admission is $10. It all takes place in a vacant warehouse on East 30th St. (Usmani) 1771 East 30th St., facebook.com/halloweezy216.

Tickets are $10 to $47.50 (Niesel) 1615 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

Tribute concert Nov. 7th Playhouse Square’s State Theatre Performances by:

Dennis Edwards, Martha Reeves, Mary Wilson, and The Robert Glasper Experiment

Rockhall.com/SmokeyAMM that includes a sword fight segment, Akira Kurosawa’s Red Beard focuses on a doctor who tries to educate his intern and tell him that it’s better to care for the poor than the rich. To celebrate the film’s 50th anniversary, the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque will screen a new 35-mm scope print tonight at 7:05. Tickets are $10. (Niesel) 11610 Euclid Ave., 216-421-7450, cia.edu.

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Pretty One Day, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, and When You Are Engulfed in Flames. He’s put up some impressive numbers too: There’s some seven million copies of his books in print and they’ve been translated into 25 languages. A terrific speaker, Sedaris has been nominated for three Grammy Awards for Best Spoken Word and Best Comedy Album. He speaks tonight at 7:30 at Connor Palace.

MUSIC

Heritage Concert Series The Heritage Concert Series brings nationally known folk and roots acts to the Happy Days Lodge in Peninsula. A pre-show dinner at 6 features gumbo and local craft beer. Reservations are required. If you’re just interested in hearing some music, doors open at 7 and the concert begins at 8 p.m. (Niesel) 500 West Streetsboro Rd., Peninsula, 330-657-2909, conservancyforCVNP.org.

COMEDY

Josh Sneed An Ohio native, Josh Sneed holds the distinction of quitting his comfy job at Proctor & Gamble to become a comedian. That’s a decision that could have gone terribly wrong. But Sneed has become a working comic and he has a distinctive delivery as his calm voice serves as a precursor to the hilari-

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The shows take place tonight at 7 at Hilarities, and tickets are $18.

(Niesel) 2035 East Fourth St., 216-241-7425, pickwickandfrolic.com.

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Symphony Orchestra Concert In conjunction with Violins of Hope, an exhibit at the Maltz Museum featuring violins from the Holocaust, the Baldwin-Wallace University Symphony Concert will perform today at 2 p.m. at the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage. The program includes Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins, Strings and Continuo in D minor.

Tickets are $12, or free for members, and include admission to the exhibit. (Niesel) 2929 Richmond Rd., Beachwood, 216-593-0575, maltzmuseum.org.

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Industry Brunch Brunch isn’t just a weekend thing. Over at Mahall’s, you can grab a great brunch on Mondays as the club caters to industry folks who have the day off.

Staples include the Everything Pretzel and the Creamy Egg Sandwich. A live DJ from WCSB will be on hand. Brunch is served from noon to 4. (Niesel) 13200 Madison Ave., Lakewood, 216-521-3280, mahalls20lanes.com.

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How Did Modern Computers Get Here?

Just about everyone owns a laptop. But how did they get here? In his talk How Did Modern Computers Get Here (And Will They Eventually Eat Hot Dogs?), CWRU’s Danny Solow will examine the evolution of computing devices over the centuries. Part of the Happy Dog’s Life, Universe and Hot Dogs series, the free lecture begins at 7:30 p.m. (Niesel) 5801 Detroit Ave., 216-651-9474, happydogcleveland.com.

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ART

“Dwelling in the Mount Fuchun”

EAST MEETS WEST

Traditional and contemporary artistic worlds collide in new CSU exhibitions

By Josh Usmani

OPENING THIS WEEK, THE TWO latest exhibitions at the Galleries at Cleveland State University bridge East and West — and traditional and contemporary — through thoughtful, in-depth explorations of Chinese and Asian art. A Tradition Re-Interpreted: New Work by Chinese Artists and A Spirit Resonates: Chinese Art from the Degenfelder Collection open with a public reception from 5 to 8 p.m. this Thursday. A gallery conversation with the organizers takes place at 4 p.m.

“The decade-long Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) uprooted the cultural sophistication that is now only understood and preserved by trained Chinese scholars,” explains Diana Y. Chou, curator of A Spirit Resonates. “Many artifacts were either destroyed, kept in local museums, buried in unknown locations, or secretly transported out of China during the ensuing social and political chaos. Because of a rapid growth in wealth in recent years, China has significantly sped up the retrieval and reproduction of traditional art forms and cultural objects. This widespread phenomenon has brought some confusion to the Chinese art market of today. The objects in this exhibition may reflect some of these trends and thus stand educational opportunities.”

CSU’s North and Center Galleries host A Tradition Re-Interpreted: New Work by Chinese Artists. Curated

by CSU professor Qian Li, with academic advice from New York City College of Technology professor Zhijian Qian, this group exhibition features contemporary Chinese artists who re-interpret traditional

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aspects of Chinese art through the lens of ongoing social, economic and cultural changes. Through explorations of conventional forms, styles and materials, these artists recontextualize historical traditions and culture.

A Tradition Re-interpreted is the first exhibition of its kind in Northeast Ohio. It explores and addresses numerous relevant themes, such as historical traditions, environmental issues, life experiences and economic developments as well as the impact of contemporary art in everyday life in modern-day China.

Participating artists include Guangbin Cai, Shuxia Chen, Hailu Chen, Fei Cui, Qinghe Liu, Xuguang Liu, Wentao Liu, Xin Song, Qingji Wei, Zhongyan Wen, Leah L. Wong, Qiuyan Wu, Lu Yao, Yongliang Yang and Yueying Zhong.

Meanwhile, the South Gallery showcases A Spirit Resonates: Chinese Art from the Degenfelder Collection, curated by Chou, a Chinese

care and chemical/energy industries,” explains Chou. “Longtime collectors in areas as diverse as Op Art and glass, they became interested in Chinese works more recently. Their elder son Eric and his family were based in China for five years, and Pauline and Joseph’s 2008, 2010 and 2011 trips were a firsthand immersion in the arts of China, following Joseph’s 1999-2000 visits to Taiwan.

“This exhibition not only serves as a generous gesture to the CSU community,” Chou adds, “but also provides an important venue for student learning in the areas of Chinese art and history, art collecting in the 20th century, and particularly by supporting the University’s diversity mission educationally, culturally and intellectually.”

The exhibition’s title, A Spirit Resonates, was chosen by the Degenfelders in homage to Sherman Lee (1918-2008), former director of the Cleveland Musuem of Art. Lee

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art history scholar who teaches at both CSU and Cleveland Institute of Art. The exhibition showcases the rich cultural heritage of Chinese and Asian art from Pauline and Joseph Degenfelder’s fine art collection.

The Degenfelders are longtime art collectors, as well as supporters of the Cleveland Museum of Art and Cleveland Clinic Foundation.

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served as director from 1958 to 1983.

He redefined spirit resonance as “sympathetic vibration and greatness of character conveyed from the artist to the observer through the art work.”

“This exhibition attempts to recreate a physical setting evoking the worlds of upper-class merchants and cultural literati families of the late 19th and early 20th century in China,” adds Chou. “Prior to the modern era, Chinese art objects

were generally created with specific purposes in mind: for use either in ancestor worship, burial, religious practices, or everyday life. In this sense, objects were acquired for their practical use regardless of an owner’s religious belief and/or background ... .

These complex cultural values, which reflect broader Chinese belief systems, were an essential part of daily life until their gradually dissolution in the wake of a series of political upheavals in the 20th century ... . The installation arranges objects based on their function and cultural context in the hope of simulating that longlost environment, which one could regularly and consistently appreciate and contemplate in the past.”

In addition to Thursday’s opening events, the Galleries at CSU will host a gallery conversation with Chou at 2 p.m. this Saturday.

Both exhibitions are presented with the support of CSU’s College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences and the Ohio Arts Council. A Tradition Re-Interpreted: New Work

by Contemporary Chinese Artists also receives support from the Confucius Institute at Cleveland State University.

Both exhibitions remain on view through Dec. 5. Gallery hours are Wednesdays and Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Fridays 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Saturdays noon to 8 p.m., and by appointment on Mondays and Tuesdays. The galleries are closed Sundays. The exhibitions and all related events are free.

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STAGE A MONUMENTAL AND MEMORABLE CRUCIBLE Arthur Miller’s classic comes to life in this magnificent Cleveland Play House production

By Christine Howey the stage (it will subsequently sink, along with the hopes of many Salem citizens).

Once you’ve absorbed that arresting tableau, the play begins with a Halloween-spooky overture, of sorts, as young girls sing, scream and laugh, with one or two girls seen dancing in the rafters high above. And then attention is focused on the floating bedroom where Betty, daughter of the Rev. Parris, is comatose in bed due to some unknown ailment.

The reverend does not want to think the cause is otherworldly, but

a notch or two over-agitated, trying to register their panic and fear a bit too energetically, their agitation soon mirrors the weird occurrences appropriately. As Rev. Parris, Donald Carrier evolves from a concerned but pompous parent into a blind fingerpointer with dreams of power. He is joined by Fabio Polanco as Thomas Putnam, a rich and craven Salemite who wants to scoop up the land owned by the accused witches.

As Abigail, Katie O. Solomon is the girl we all feared in school, able to put on an angelic face when necessary, but spitting venom if you crossed her.

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rumors abound in town about Betty taking flight (literally) under some spell. From there, we see how Abigail and other of Betty’s peers begin to manipulate the adults, until it all spins wildly out of control.

The large cast, under the precisely defined direction of Laura Kepley, matches Bradley’s set — both in terms of originality and execution. Although everyone on stage begins the first act

And when she and the other teens show up near the end in costume designer Lex Liang’s matching blackgloved outfits, they look like the girl group from Hell. In the role of Mary Warren, the one girl who tries to stand up to Abigail and tell the truth about the pubescent charade, Mahira Kakkar is achingly vulnerable. There is little enough humor in this intense spectacle, but many of the laughs

that do come are thanks to Ray Shell, who plays the straight-talking, nononsense Giles Corey, a pal of John Proctor.

However, the most resonant roles in the show are Proctor, played with towering nobility and downto-earth honesty by Esau Pritchett, steadfast Rachel Leslie as his wife, and Cleveland icon Dorothy Silver as the ever-sensible Rebecca Nurse. In the final scene, when Proctor decides whether to sign a totally bogus confession to being a deputy of the devil, in order to save his life, Pritchett and Silver create a shattering moment of magic and truth.

This is a sizzling production befitting the theater’s 100th season.

But is it all still relevant, with regard to our political climate? Well, to slightly paraphrase Bertolt Brecht’s concluding line from his play Artuo Ui, regarding those who use deceit for their own purposes: “For though the world rose up and stopped the bastards, the bitch that bore them is in heat again.”

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IT’S OFTEN EASY FOR US, LIVING in the second decade of the 21st century, to look back on the Salem witch trials with benign condescension. How ignorant and gullible those people were back then. I mean … witches?!

But before we sprain our rotator cuff patting ourselves on the back, we should recognize that even now we have people, aspiring to be leaders, who are launching their own “witch hunts.” With presidential candidates accusing illegal immigrants of being rapists, comparing Obamacare and Planned Parenthood to slavery, and equating expanded marriage rights with the tyranny of the Nazis, we have no shortage of our own foaming-atthe-mouth wackos.

The Crucible is playwright Arthur Miller’s allegory of the McCarthy era in the 1950s when citizens were accused of being communists and then blacklisted by a Congressional committee led by Senator Joe McCarthy. Like McCarthy, many of the leaders of Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692 build hysteria to a fever pitch around the mysterious “illnesses” of local teen girls.

The girls initially just wanted to avoid punishment for some naughty dancing in the woods, inspired by the Parris family slave Tituba (Socorro Santiago). The mean-girls’ leader Abigail quickly recognizes the power they have, and soon they form a posse that is accusing everyone in sight of being a witch, and many of the accused are hanged because they won’t confess. Plus, Abby has had a sexual encounter with one local man, John Proctor, and she accuses John’s wife Elizabeth of witchery, supposedly clearing the deck for Abigail to move in.

The story in The Crucible is riveting all by itself. But this production by the Cleveland Play House is literally monumental in its scope. You are immersed in an entirely different world thanks to Scott Bradley’s jaw-dropping, fire-pit scenic design — augmented by Mary Louise Geiger’s evocative lighting design and sound designer Jane Shaw’s tingling aural atmosphere. Presented in the round, a square and weathered plank platform is elevated several feet above

The witch hunt ensues.

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KASBAH DOES EVERYTHING BUT ROCK Bill Murray’s zany Rock the Kasbah lacks humor, heart

By Sam Allard I INVITED A FRIEND TO THE press screening of Rock the Kasbah, the new Bill Murray agent-in-astrange-land comedy directed by Barry Levinson, opening Friday at theaters everywhere. And after it had finished, he advised me (my friend did) that instead of writing a traditional review, I ought to type the word “poop” over and over again, or for that matter just once, to signify its worth. He was so disgusted by the movie in the immediate aftermath that he said he’d have a hard time naming five he liked less.

For my part, having suffered through the indignities of Jennifer Lopez’s The Boy Next Door, the Wachowskis’ epic monstrosity Jupiter Ascending, the charmless Reese Witherspoon “comedy” Hot Pursuit, and Get Hard, that Ferrell-Hart carnage of anal yucks, I thought of four off the top of my head that I liked less in 2015 alone. But it’s true Rock the Kasbah is garbage pretty much from start to finish. Though you can depend on Murray for a few quality chuckles, the movie at large suffers from the twin box-office ailments of being neither entertaining nor true. It’s a rudderless, mad-cap Afghani adventure that’s content to appropriate whatever it pleases — unrest in the Middle East and women,

notably — for cheap laughs.

Murray is Richie Lanz, a rocktour agent purported (repeatedly) to have “magic ears.” He discovered Madonna, he tells anyone who will listen, while she was singing on a street corner. But his name-dropping has yielded little professional success, and at the movie’s outset, his one beacon of hope is booking cover singer Ronnie Smyler (Zooey Deschanel) as an opening act on a USO tour of Afghanistan. Don’t get too attached to Smyler though, or her antics, for the amount her presence impacts the story at hand is zero. She immediately ditches Lanz, and he thereafter meets her smuggler (Bruce Willis) and two American black-market munitions salesmen (Danny McBride and Scott Caan), who drive Lanz through Kabul, flicking off armed guards as they smoke weed and return fire, and then cut him a deal: They’ll give Lanz wads of cash (from a crate overflowing with such wads) and a temporary U.S. passport if he’ll deliver some bullets to a village three hours south.

It’s there, in this woebegone tribal desert village, while negotiating the sale of the bullets, that Lanz’s magic ears tune into the voice of the chieftain’s daughter Salima (Leem Lubany, who delivered a quiet knockout in 2013’s Omar),

secretly playing guitar and singing Cat Stevens in a cave. Providence hereby strikes after nearly two-thirds of the film has transpired, but it’s here that we stumble upon our plot.

Lanz wants to take young Salima to Kabul and put her in front of TV audiences nationwide on Afghan Star, the national equivalent of American Idol. Notwithstanding the strict dictates of Salima’s family and culture and country, to say nothing of the fact that Afghan Star appears already to be in the midst of its season’s quarterfinals, Lanz books Salima with ease. His negotiating strategy consists of offering people percentages of upcoming merchandising deals.

But he has to keep negotiating after he learns of a secret plot, orchestrated by both the arms dealers and a warlord eager to kickstart the

SPOTLIGHT: LABYRINTH OF LIES RECOVERING FROM TRAUMA takes time. Still in a state of denial, the Germany of the 1950s was a troubled place as members of a generation not yet born during the Holocaust began to take those responsible for it to task.

First-time director Giulio Ricciarelli captures that tension in his period piece Labyrinth of Lies. The film opens at the Cedar Lee Theatre on Friday.

The movie centers on idealistic public prosecutor Johann Radmann (Homeland Security’s Alexander Fehling), a guy who spends the better part of his days issuing fines for traffic violations. But when journalist Thomas Gnielka (André Szymanski) comes to him with the case of a certain Simon (Johannes Krisch), an Auschwitz survivor who has recognized a neighborhood teacher as a brutal S.S. guard, he begins to move into treacherous legal waters.

He begins to explore the war crimes of Auschwitz, but because many of the administrators are former Nazis, he finds it difficult to get any assistance.

Still, he befriends Simon and begins to spend time with him because he wants to know more about what happened at Auschwitz. As a result, his superiors dismiss him and criticize his actions.

And the general public doesn’t take kindly to it either. “Do you understand now, they’re still everywhere,” says Simon one night to Johann after an agitator throws a rock through his window while he and Johann are playing a board game.

Johann’s boss, prosecutor-general Fritz Bauer (Gert Voss), doesn’t support the endeavor and warns him against “opening old wounds.”

And an American solider who runs a warehouse of Nazi documents shows him some 600,000 SS files

but tells him he must dig through them himself. Once he gains access to the archives that identify the 8,000 SS soldiers working at Auschwitz, he realizes Auschwitz resembled a “killing machine” and he sets about bringing the criminals to justice, setting the stage for what would become known as the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials.

Based on a true story, the film doesn’t have the cinematic flourish to make it a great period piece. More than one critic has noted the use of an overwrought score to bring dramatic scenes to life, and the cinematography is rather pedestrian. Still, the movie has a compelling story at its core, and Ricciarelli gets solid performances out of the cast. — Jeff Niesel

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Whether or not he does want that, and why, remain anybody’s guess.

Something to do with the sanctity of the agent-client relationship? Perhaps that’s why Kate Hudson has been written in as a famous prostitute named “Mercy”: to distract the older white males, for whom the film seems to have been exclusively made, from worrying about the plot.

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EAT TAKING ROOT A decade ago, bubble tea was a rarity around Cleveland. That’s hardly the case now

By Douglas Trattner FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, I stumbled into an odd little shop called Turbo Four that purported to sell performance car parts to young Asian students looking to soup up their Subarus. In truth, the shop was merely a front for the owners’ sideline gig: making and selling bubble tea. To this day, I can still recall with absolute horror that first time chewy balls of tapioca came flying through a giant straw and into my mouth.

“I’m so glad we were the ones to pop your bubble tea cherry,” says Paul Yu, who opened the shop way back in 2000 with his buddy John Tran.

These days, Yu and Tran are partners in Fuel Hair, but 15 years ago they were 21-year-old pre-med students at Case who very intentionally attempted to kickstart a bubble tea craze in Cleveland.

“I guess we’re the grandfathers of the movement,” Yu laughs.

Like many Asians living in Cleveland, Yu and Tran had grown up with bubble tea being a part of their daily existence. Whether you hailed from Taiwan, Vietnam, Vancouver or San Francisco, you had your pick of bubble tea shops, each offering countless variations of the fruity, sweet beverage. But until Turbo Four opened up, there simply was nowhere to buy it locally.

“Back then none of the Asian groceries even stocked the ingredients or supplies to make it, so we had to order everything from New York or California — even the giant straws,” Yu recalls.

Even in the pre-social media days of the early aughts, word quickly spread on the campuses of Case, Cleveland State and anywhere else Asian expats congregated. Before long, Turbo Four was selling between 100 and 200 bubble teas per day, according to Yu.

Given the early enthusiasm for bubble tea, Yu assumed that the craze would spread like wildfire across the landscape, but that hasn’t been the case. Only now, with the recent opening of Kung Fu Tea, a popular bubble tea chain with locations in a dozen U.S. states, is the trend poised for a big push.

At its core, bubble tea is chilled tea mixed with milk and sugar. In the bottom of the cup are colorful tapioca balls. Large straws are used to suck up the beverage, balls and all.

But that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

Customers can choose from countless teas or coffees as the base. They can be blended with myriad fruit flavors into a slushie or smoothie. And then there are the add-ons that begin with tapioca pearls — called boba — but extend to jellies, bean pastes and even peanut butter. Many shops even allow shoppers to customize everything from sugar levels to ice, making the experience wholly intimidating to newbies.

“When you walk into a bubble tea shop, you have to be prepared to decide what you want,” explains John Phan, a regular at Kenko in University Circle, home to the area’s

only Kung Fu Tea. “With bubble tea, as with most beverages you order, once you find something you like, you tend to stick with it.”

Phan, who moved to Cleveland from the bubble tea-rich West Coast, suggests that newbies start with oolong milk tea with tapioca, which is not unlike British tea with milk and sugar. Well, except for the bubbles and straw.

“For me it’s a nostalgia thing; it brings back memories of me visiting Vietnam and going to the street carts that charge 20 cents for a bubble tea,” says Phan. “And even more so of growing up in Portland.”

Turbo Four closed after three years, but Koko Bakery soon picked up the torch when that Asiatown bakery opened in 2005. They were later joined by random Asian restaurants that began serving it.

When Jeff Su, a native of Taiwan, opened Vintage Tea and Coffee downtown last year, he knew that bubble tea would be part of the business plan.

“When I decided to open a tea and coffee shop, I thought it would be nice to have bubble tea,” Su says. “It’s unique and it represents where I’m

from. It’s like a cultural experience.”

In his shop, Su says he encounters three types of bubble tea people: those who know and love bubble tea; those who have heard about it but never tried it; and those who come for coffee or tea and learn about it for the first time.

“I’m from Taiwan where bubble tea was invented,” he says. “I’ve been drinking it since I was little. It’s on every corner so you can literally pick one up anytime.”

As for the beverage’s slow rate of acceptance, especially among non-Asian customers, Su isn’t at all surprised.

“It’s like how good coffee is still slowly progressing through Asia,” he says. “It takes time for things to spread across the world.”

Founding father Paul Yu is a little more surprised.

“I thought it would have blown up more by now,” he says. “But with the amount of Asian students coming here to go to school, it’s going to happen eventually.”

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IF ALL GOES AS PLANNED, JUD and Genevieve Smith will open the doors to Northeast Ohio’s first commercial wood-fired bakery before Thanksgiving. Located just outside Kent, Brimfield Bread Oven (3956 Rt. 43, 330-790-1887, brimfieldbreadoven. com) will be a European-style bakery and cafe specializing in naturally leavened breads featuring locally sourced grains baked using heat generated exclusively from wood.

The heart of the operation is a 20-ton, wood-fired masonry oven that was hand built onsite. The backbone of the retail and wholesale operation, the oven features 54 square feet of deck space on which to bake breads, pastries, and, a few nights per week, pizzas.

Both Jud and Genevieve have been baking for years, but Jud most often is the one covered in flour. He began his baking career at Great Lakes Baking Company in Hudson before heading off to the well-regarded King Arthur Flour Bakery in Vermont, where he worked as a bread baker for two and a half years. Genevieve soon joined him, working for more than a year as a pastry chef. After returning to Northeast Ohio, Jud worked at Blackbird Baking Company in Lakewood.

After relocating to sleepy Brimfield, just 10 minutes from downtown Akron and right off I-76, the couple launched a cottage bakery business

from their home. Using a small mobile wood-fired oven, they produced breads for sale at farm markets and through the Kent Natural Foods Coop.

This past spring they got the keys to their new 2,600-square-foot space, the focal point of which is that massive wood-fired oven. In addition to breads, pastries and coffee, the shop eventually will offer sandwiches and host wood-fired pizza nights. There will be seating for about 16.

Talk about a labor of love: The super-efficient oven is 9 feet deep by 6 feet wide. It will be fueled exclusively by local hardwoods. Unlike a woodfired pizza oven that is continually fed to maintain high temperatures, bread ovens take advantage of the temperature swings that come from infrequent fuelings.

“We’ll be baking on the curves, which means baking everything that loves hot first and then, as the oven gradually cools, getting into the bigger, slower breads,” Genevieve explains. “For example, baguettes, pretzels, focaccia and flatbreads love the heat and they bake real fast.”

Of course, cooking with a woodfired oven is an entirely different process than simply adjusting a dial. But a well-designed and constructed model offers benefits over a conventional oven.

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“We’re doing a Kickstarter just to help us get to the finish line,” she says. “We’ve already invested a lot of our own money along with getting an SBA loan to help us. We’re mixing it all together to help make this happen.”

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Since opening three years ago in Cleveland Heights, BottleHouse Brewery (2050 Lee Rd., 216-2142120) has continued to improve, grow and expand its offerings. Late last year, the brewery swapped out its makeshift 2.5-barrel system for an efficient 7-barrel system, while adding new fermenters, bright tanks, glycol chillers, keg washers … “the whole nine yards,” says owner Brian Benchek.

And it’s a good thing they did as plans for a second location, this one across town in Lakewood, will have them brewing up a storm to keep up with increased demand.

That second location, in the former home of Sullivan’s Irish Pub (13368 Madison Ave.), will allow Benchak and assistant brewer Jason Kallicragas to expand their product line even more.

“Brian and I really want to do a lot more sour beers,” Kallicragas says.

“In this facility there’s just no way to make that a priority; it’s just too risky.”

That risk, of course, is of crosscontamination between the sour beers and the others. Sour beers are inoculated with wild yeasts and bacteria that can easily infect other beers in proximity if you’re not extremely cautious.

“We started carefully here, with everything contained in barrels,” Kallicragas says of those sours that he and Benchek already have produced.

The Lakewood BottleHouse will

have a 24-tap taproom selling eight sours, eight meads, and eight other brews culled from the BottleHouse portfolio. More importantly, the building has plenty of room to store and age the large wooden barrels required to make sours. Depending on the style — fruity and funky to tart and puckery — the beers need

anywhere from three months to two years on wood before they are ready to drink.

BottleHouse was the city’s first official meadery, crafting and selling a line-up of various mead styles and flavors. Both Ohio Gold, made from local honey and apples, and City Mead, a light, sparkling beverage, will be tap regulars in Lakewood.

Since closing three years ago, the Sullivan’s space has been home to a few short-lived concepts, the latest being Saloon on Madison. Both the space and the neighborhood immediately appealed to the BottleHouse guys.

“That area really reminds me of Lee Road [in Cleveland Heights], surrounded by homes,” says Kallicragas. “And we’ll be going for the same community-based feel.”

That means that come late winter, Lakewood residents can look forward to roomy communal tables, chalkboard menus, art-glass chandeliers and zero televisions.

While the new Lakewood spot will be used for storage, aging and serving, Cleveland Heights will continue to serve as the production facility. That rearrangement will allow the brewery to expand its roster of beers, says Kallicragas.

“We really like to do the barrel-aged stuff, and once we move out the sours, we’ll be able to do more of it here.”

The team already is in possession of 20 bourbon and rye barrels, to be used for brews like bourbon barrelaged imperial stout and honey brown ale.

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A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE

Indigo Girls’ latest release offers another powerful collection of songs and stories

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By Matt Wardlaw

Indigo Girls have a friendship that goes back to grade school.

IT’S BEEN 30 YEARS SINCE THE Indigo Girls independently released their first single, “Crazy Game” in 1985. Appropriately, it’s been a wild ride for Emily Saliers and Amy Ray through the decades that have followed. The pair has a friendship that goes all of the way back to elementary school. By high school, they were already working on their first songs together and they quickly discovered that they had a unique chemistry.

“When we first got together, it was so fun,” Saliers recalls during a recent phone conversation. “Amy had a lower voice and she strummed really solid and I was more of a guitar picker and I had a higher voice and so we just immediately had fun. It was like different pieces of a puzzle that fit.

We got a lot of encouragement from our high school English teacher, and we always used school as sort of a springboard to build a small following.

But at the core of everything is our

friendship. You know, we never really had huge ego struggles and now they’re barely detectable if there are any at all, just because we have such an appreciation for what the other one does. So that’s all it was.”

She admits the band has had its struggles along the way, especially after the group signed to a major label and “everything got big and weird.”

“We were touring for weeks and weeks and weeks at a time, and it wasn’t sustainable for us,” she says.

“We’re just not that kind of band, and we’re homebodies. We want to be with our people, and we want to live normal lives and stuff. We figured it out.”

Even before things got “big and weird,” Saliers and Ray had been working hard and playing a lot of shows. After the release of “Crazy Game,” they took a DIY approach to get their music in the hands of the right people at college radio stations, hopeful that those radio connections would share their music with a wider

audience. But as Saliers remembers, they didn’t necessarily have grand aspirations; instead, they thought of it as “fun.”

“We didn’t really aspire to be famous or have big careers; we just thought, ‘Oh man, if we can get out of the medium rotations at this college station, then maybe we can go into heavy rotation,” she says. “We strategized and we had lists. Amy had names and numbers to call and I had names and numbers to call and then we set up our own gigs at different clubs. We would just scour the indie newspapers for what clubs to play.

Amy was so smart: She had a natural ability to sort of help us pick what to try to go for next. She’s awesome at it. So we loved it. It wasn’t like, ‘We’re doing this to get somewhere.’ It was like, ‘This is really fun.’ ‘Oh my God, the next biggest gig’ or, ‘Oh my God, we just got into heavy rotation at this college station’ and, ‘Oh my God, 15 people came instead of two!’”

Saliers wonders if bands today would even have the patience to take the route they took. “They might expect that things are going to happen more quickly,” she says. “But also, there’s barely a way to afford being a band anymore, you know, because you practically pay to play at clubs and it’s expensive to travel and if you have a family, forget about it.

We were lucky, we were young and didn’t have families and the time was right.”

Their breakout hit, “Closer to Fine,” introduced their music to a wider audience when their self-titled major label debut was released in 1989. “I was sitting on a porch in Vermont on a family vacation, and it felt good to sing,” Saliers remembers, looking back on writing the song.

“That’s how I know to keep songs, you know, if they feel good and I want to keep playing them again and again — then I figure they’re keepers.”

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MUSIC They’ve continued to use that philosophy with the hefty stack of fan favorites they’ve accumulated over their years of recording and playing shows together. “We play what we like to play, honestly,” she says. “Fortunately, we never get tired of ‘Closer to Fine,’ ‘Shame On You’ or ‘Galileo’ — we play those songs almost every night. But we make a fresh set list, and we don’t pick songs that we don’t feel like playing, so we’re just always engaged. We want to play the songs that we pick, and that feels good.”

With the recent release of One Lost Day, their 15th studio release, Saliers and Ray have assembled another powerful collection of songs and stories that will hit home with both longtime fans and newcomers.

The duo continues to write from its own personal perspective, and “If I Don’t Leave Here Now,” partially inspired by the passing of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, is a particularly poignant moment on the album, written by Saliers, who says, “I’ve gone through my own journey — I’ll put it that way.”

went to Tulane and we lived in New Orleans and crazy shit happened and I was young and every word in that song is true. But there is a lot of like ... I can’t help but make a cultural statement, the way that ... and I do it too, [with] everything my daughter Cleo does. ‘Oh, let me get the camera out and let me film it,’ rather than just being in that moment and letting it pass and remembering how sweet it was, you know, but not being able to recapture it.

“It’s always been the beauty of live music to me and now of course everybody can record live music on their phones,” she continues. “But I just did take one shot at the beauty of not doing that with this particular relationship. I haven’t looked this person up ... . I don’t even know where she is or what she’s doing. But I like that song and it’s really, really personal and fun to sing.”

The Indigo Girls will be on the road through mid-November supporting the new album, and when there’s free time, Saliers will be working to complete her first solo album, something that has been in the works for a while. She describes the developing collection as one that is “more about rhythms, more about grooves,” embracing her love of hip

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“I didn’t know him personally at all,” she says. “I just admired his work and I thought, ‘It’s very easy for addiction to kill anyone.’ And not only does it happen to great actors, it can happen to anyone and it does happen. You can get derailed without even knowing it and now, you know, in our country, we have this terrible meth problem and also addiction to painkillers and then if you can’t get the painkillers you go to heroin. I’ve known people who have died, and of course I read about it all of the time.

So it just became a very personal song about what it feels like to be addicted and how easy it is to go and how you have to remove yourself from that place with the help of others or you’ll never get out of it.”

“Elizabeth” recalls young love and wild times in New Orleans that are now years past. The song explores the idea that — while you could probably find that person on Facebook — perhaps some things should stay buried in the past as they are and as we remember them. “‘Elizabeth’ is a true story,” she shares. “There is an Elizabeth and I

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hop and R&B. From hearing her call it a “kitchen sink project,” it doesn’t sound like she’s holding anything back. Seven songs have been recorded for the album so far and she’s hoping to release it in 2016.

For now, fans can look forward to the duo’s return to the Cleveland area for a show at the Akron Civic.

Saliers is grateful that they’re coming back to town on the warmer side of the forthcoming winter. “We used to get a really cheap rate at the Ritz right near the water and I remember once when it was cold and the wind was blowing off that water and I was like, ‘I don’t know how you can live here. I don’t know how you can do it!’ But the winter comes and the winter goes.”

Calling Cleveland a “vibrant city” and praising the music scene and food in the area, Saliers, a diehard football fan, mischievously wraps up our interview with a quick jab. “I’m sorry about your football team; but besides that, you’ve got it going on!”

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Stubbornness has helped Motion City Soundtrack persevere for close to 20 years.

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Pop-punk act Motion City Soundtrack explores a nautical theme on new album

By Jeff Niesel MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK started in Minneapolis, a city with a long, strong music history. When it first formed, the band played the city’s smaller, underground clubs and partnered with acts such as Cadillac Blindside and Amp 176. Co-founder Justin Pierre has described the band as “friends with bands who were way better than us and were doing really cool shit.” And that, rather than a connection to the Minneapolis sound, helped launch the group.

The guys frequented the Foxfire Coffee Lounge, a place that had “all ages” shows with national acts such as Jimmy Eat World and Ultimate Fakebook; they would record their first album with Ed Rose who had done the Ultimate Fakebook records.

Released in 2005, Commit This to Memory became the band’s highest selling and most streamed album to date. Earlier this year, the band played the Mark Hoppus-produced sophomore record in its entirety as well as a selection of songs from its five-album, 16-year career.

“The thing I liked about that tour is that the people who came to it knew what to expect,” says Pierre when reached by phone at his Minneapolis home. “If they liked the record, they would come to the show. Not that people have been like ‘fuck you’ and then left. But people were super positive, and they were very stoked. I would say most of the songs we have played over the years, but there were a handful we avoided for whatever reason. With each record that comes out, you have to avoid more and more songs. But looking back on all of our

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records, that one is the best flowing from start to finish. It was really nice to play it all the way through.”

After that album came out, the band got airplay on MTV and Fuse. It was at the same time that other likeminded bands were becoming popular.

“We never blew up, but we did get some attention after that album came out,” says Pierre.

The band’s been going strong for the decade that’s passed after its release, and two years ago, the guys started to write the songs for the justreleased Panic Stations, which they recorded live in June 2014 at Seedy Underbelly North (formerly known as Pachyderm Studios) in Cannon Falls, Minnesota. John Agnello (Dinosaur Jr., Sonic Youth) produced the album.

“We started fucking around and accumulated a mass of cool stuff,” says Pierre of the initial writing sessions that began in 2013. “We were

warning posts in the oceans. Many of the songs reference water and the ocean, and the idea of letting go and not being immobilized by your own thoughts. A track like the album opener, “Anything At All,” features the same mix of snarling guitars and swirling synths, suggesting the band’s pop-punk impulses.

“For some reason, I had water on the brain,” Pierre admits when asked about the album’s theme. “It wasn’t intentional. It was just there. I used to run away from anything that was too much of one thing, but on this record I embraced it. I don’t want to use water-related words, but I want to say I went overboard with it. I chased after it. It’s about trying things and having fun.”

Pierre says the songs aren’t a reflection of anything that was happening in his personal life, though the track “It’s a Pleasure to Meet You”

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going to record in early 2014. We did preproduction with [producer] Mike Sapone, but it didn’t work out because we decided to keep writing and then he wasn’t available. Finally, we ended up recording in June of that year.

That’s the way of our band. In all likelihood we’ll record a new album in a week and it won’t come out for two years.”

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does stem from a time in his life when he used to drive around aimlessly during the middle of the night.

“The songs are about things I experienced during a different time,” he says. “It’s sort of a time traveling album. It’s also about accepting that life is a constant struggle. As you get older, it gets easier to deal with problems. They’re still there. You still might not be great all the time, but the percentage of time you feel all right

is a greater number as you get older and deal with these things. I don’t mean for that to sound depressing. If you can accept something like that at a younger age, you can skip over 20 years of thinking there’s a magical cure for everything.”

The band continues to use the Moog synthesizer to emphasize the pop dimensions of its tunes.

“We used a lot of Moog keyboards,” says Pierre. “The MG-1 only made an appearance in two or three songs.

We also used a Bladerunner type of keyboard that’s buried in the outro of ‘I Can Feel You.’ I can’t remember the name of it, but it was so huge.

We had a lot of keyboards on the album. A lot of it for me is wanting to sound like bands I like. It started with the Rentals and then turned into something else.”

And as the group closes in on 20 years, what’s been the key to the band’s longevity?

“I think we just have had a lot of hatred and utter disgust with one another,” laughs Pierre. “But I think we’ve had problems internally and we overcame them instead of imploding.

I don’t know how we did it, but we just decided to work through the issues instead of giving up. How we did it, I don’t know. Perseverance?

We’re all stubborn people. That works to your advantage when you all want the same thing. Then, it’s just a matter of figuring out how to achieve that outcome.”

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DARKNESS FOLLOWS

Still evil after all these years, Danzig brings his Blackest of the Black tour to the Agora

By Jeff Niesel

Danzig, sporting a perma scowl.

KNOWN AS ONE OF ROCK’S MORE cantankerous characters, singer Glenn Danzig isn’t an easy guy to interview. Even before our short phone conversation begins, we’re advised to not ask any questions about the Misfits, the horror-punk band that he founded and which broke up in 1983. Bassist Jerry Only reformed the Misfits in 1995, and Danzig sued Only last year in the attempt to get a cut of the profits from the merch that Only had licensed, allegedly in secret.

Danzig lost; we’re guessing he’s still a bit peeved, so we steered clear of the topic.

Even though anything relating to the Misfits was off limits, we still wanted to learn how Danzig, who grew up in Lodi, New Jersey, in the ’70s, gravitated toward horror at such an early age.

“I don’t think I ever gravitate to anything,” he says in a recent phone interview, his booming voice suggesting just how annoyed he is by the question. “I just do what I feel like doing. I blur the lines between what is heavy and aggressive. It’s just what I do. As a kid you’re exposed to all this stuff and like what interests you and intrigues you. I liked Edgar Allen Poe and H.P. Lovecraft. I liked history and ideas and things like that. That’s the kind of stuff that interested me.”

As much as the Misfits provided Danzig with an outlet for his fascination with the macabre, it was

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Samhain, a gothic rock group he formed in the wake of the Misfits’ breakup, that would catch the attention of influential producer Rick Rubin, the mastermind who formed Def Jam Records. Rubin would sign Samhain to his Def American label and then cultivate Danzig as a solo artist. The well-respected Rubin then enlisted him to write songs for rock icons such as Roy Orbison and Johnny Cash.

“They come to you and ask you to write a song for them, and it’s like, ‘Fuck yeah,’” he says when asked about writing for the Rock Hall inductees.

“They were the cream of the crop.

They turned out to be nice people too.

You know how sometimes you don’t want to meet people you look up to

reunited Samhain on occasion).

For Skeletons, his forthcoming album of covers, he revisited his past.

Fans might be surprised to find out that he’s a huge Elvis fan. He saw the Jailhouse Rock film as a kid and found it inspirational. The new disc includes a cover of Presley’s “Let Yourself Go.” “I was a kid and I liked watching old movies,” he explains. “Jailhouse Rock came on and I decided I wanted to do that. I thought it was cool. His voice is just incredible. Try singing some Elvis songs — they’re not easy.

He has a great voice.”

And do Danzig fans tend to be Elvis fans?

“I don’t know,” he says. “I’m sure there is a big chunk of them that

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Danzig had a big hit in 1988 with “Mother,” a grim song with bellowing vocals and a heavy guitar riff. While that song introduced him to the MTV generation, he’s continued to steadily cultivate an underground fanbase in the wake of that success (and has even

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are. I don’t sing like some traditional metal or punk singer. I couldn’t please everyone who likes Elvis. But someone who likes Elvis might like me.”

Danzig’s cover of “Devil’s Angels,” a dark number taken from a biker movie soundtrack, is more in line with what you’d expect from a Danzig covers album.

“I like old biker movies, and I remember watching Devil’s Angels

in the late ’70s,” he says. “I thought, ‘Wow. I think that song could be a cool intro song.’ I started playing it on my guitar, and it sounded really cool. I just told somebody yesterday that the arrangement of ‘Devil’s Angels’ is the same one that I came up back in 1979.

I’ve wanted to do a covers record for a long time. Just getting around to doing it has been difficult. Before you know it, a year or two has passed and you don’t realize it.”

He says he set out to put his own stamp on the songs he covers.

“People can do what they want to do, but I don’t want to do them exactly like the original,” he says. “Everyone has heard the original so many times.

People will say they like the original better because they’ve heard it a million times. I always try to bring my own take on it and take it in a different direction. The Elvis track is pretty heavy. Elvis wouldn’t have done it that way. There’s a Troggs track, and I made it super punky. It’s really just me taking a song and giving it a new life.”

The album also includes a rendition of the Black Sabbath tune “N.I.B.” Danzig has covered Sabbath in the past, and he treats “N.I.B.” with real reverence.

“Of course, there’s going to be a Back Sabbath song,” he says. “With ‘N.I.B.,’ I made it heavier. I cut the drums to half-time. It’s pretty heavy and pretty cool. It has a good vibe.

Some of those early Sabbath songs are so great, you don’t really have to do much with them.”

Danzig has said he doesn’t like touring anymore, but he’s on the road this fall with the Blackest of Black tour, a heavy metal package tour that pairs him with Superjoint Ritual, Veil of Maya, Prong and Witch Mountain.

“I love being on stage and that’s the great part of touring,” he explains. “I’ll always do that. It’s the bouncing around on a bus. That’s the part I hate. I’m a workaholic. When you’re on the road, you don’t have all your stuff with you and you can’t work. A long time ago, I stopped touring and my manager asked if I would tour if they let me fly home once in a while. We did a few West Coast tours and it worked. We tried it on a national level and it kind of works so that’s why we started doing shows again. If I retired, I would find other things to do. I just keep doing what I do. At some point I’ll stop touring. That’s for sure. After this tour, I’ll take a break for a while.

Then, we’ll see. There are comics and all that good stuff to keep me busy.”

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Masked Intruder/The Copyrights/ Not Scientists/The Missing: Known only as Intruder Green, Intruder Blue, Intruder Yellow and Intruder Red, the guys in Masked Intruder have been delivering pop-punk via Madison, Wisc., for just a handful of years now. Still, they’ve carved a nice niche in the Midwest touring circuit through a combination of their power-chord chops and the mystery of the band’s origins. (According to MTV, Intruder Blue and Intruder Green “claim to have met and formed the band while in jail.”) Check out their CD M.I. on their Bandcamp page, which serves up 13 slice-and-dice trips through angst and optimism.

(Eric Sandy), 8:30 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Grog Shop.

Edgar Winter: Multi-instrumentalist Edgar Winter takes an old school approach to making music. The keyboardist, guitarist, saxophonist and percussionist plays a variety of instruments and adroitly dabbles in different genres. “Free Ride,” one of his big hits from the ‘70s features a great blues guitar solo and some funky guitar work. (Niesel), 8 p.m., $37.50-$47.50. The Kent Stage.

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parties and frat events. These days, the band is known for playing an eclectic mix of original music that draws from blues, folk and rock. Its latest album, Love Loss Hope Repeat Reneaux, features an equal quotient of mid-tempo ballads (“Dirty Bird (Learn to Fly)” and soaring anthems (“Comfort”). (Niesel), 8 p.m., $22 ADV, $24 DOS. Music Box Supper Club.

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Singer-songwriter Patrick Sweany plays a special CD release show at Musica. See: Saturday.

of rough-and-tumble rock ‘n’ roll and lived to make an album about it. He’s seen his ballyhooed punk/ garage bands the Nuns, Rank and File, and the True Believers come and go. He’s also eluded death after a really bad bout with hepatitis.

All the while, he’s delivered one stellar album after another but hasn’t had anything resembling a hit. And yet, he’s a phenomenal live performer. His last album, 2012’s Big Station, combines garage rock and glam sensibilities. The music’s invigorating and Escovedo always delivers in the live setting. (Niesel), 8 p.m., $22 ADV, $25 DOS. Music Box Supper Club.

Into the Blue: Grateful Dead Revival Night: 9 p.m., $12. Beachland Ballroom.

Mayday Parade/Real Friends/This Wild Life/As It Is: Formed nearly ten years ago in Tallahassee, punk rockers Mayday Parade got off to a rip-roaring start. The band sold some 50,000 copies of its debut EP, Tales Told by Dead Friends, before inking a deal with Fearless Records (and then landing on Atlantic Records for a minute).

Initially, band members played in two separate groups before they realized they’d be better off as a single unit. Singer Derek Sanders and guitar player Brooks Betts were in one band while the band’s other guitarist Alex Garcia and drummer Jake Bundrick were in another band., The group has just released Black Lines, its most nuanced album to date. The opening track, “One Of Them Will Destroy The Other,” features some killer guitar riffs and restrained-but-parched vocals. The song even includes a rather complex bridge that leads to a spacey section featuring squealing guitars and call-and-response

vocals. Ultimately, it verges on prog rock and suggests the band has turned a corner to embrace more complex chord progressions and melodies. (Niesel), 5:30 p.m., $25.

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Dog Fashion Disco/Pscyhostick/ Megosh: 6:30 p.m., $13 ADV, $15 DOS. The Foundry.

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Patrick Sweany Band Album Release/Lilly Hiatt: Producer and engineer Joe McMahan helmed singer-songwriter Patrick Sweany’s new album, Daytime Turned to Nighttime, a low-key collection of tunes that suggests Sweany’s mellower side. With its cooing background vocals and twangy guitars, album opener “First of the Week,” for example, has a laid-back vibe to it. “I feel like I made four rock records in a row and was moving away from the finger style and acoustic guitar style approach,” Sweany says when asked about his approach on the album. “That’s what I started with. It’s what makes me unique and differentiates me.

I worked really hard studying to attain this blues pedigree, for lack of a better word. For this album, we have a really funky rhythm section. I wanted to concentrate on singin’ rather than shoutin.’ I just thought the record could use some softer strokes.” (Niesel), 9 p.m., $12.

Musica.

Saintseneca/The Sidekicks/Yowler: When the Columbus-based indie folk band Saintseneca inked a deal with Anti- Records a few years ago, it had already started to record what would become its next album, Dark Arc. But with some assistance from the label, it was able to finish the album with Mike Mogis (Bright Eyes, The Faint, Rilo Kiley). That experience was such a positive one, the group recruited Mogis to produce its new album, Such Things, another fantastic effort that utilizes a range of instrumentation, including balalaika, mandolin, dulcimer, Turkish Baglama and floor percussion. An Ohio band that’s become a national act, the group just keeps getting better with each

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release. (Niesel), 8:30 p.m., $12.

Grog Shop.

Old 97s/Banditos: When Old 97s played last year at the Beachland Ballroom, the group opened with the rowdy “If My Heart Was a Car,” and singer-guitarist Rhett Miller tossed his floppy hair in the air as if he just didn’t care. Band members have bragged that they never rehearse and that certainly might be the case. If you were to compare the live renditions of many of the songs in the set, you’d find a number of flaws.

“Dance with Me,” a country waltz of sorts, was played twice as fast as it should have been. Though the acoustic intro of “Longer Than You’ve Been Alive” stayed true to its studio counterpart, the song quickly turned into a garage-y jam. And the band turned up the volume for “Every Night is Friday Night (Without You),” reveling in it as if were a punk rock anthem instead of a country-ish ballad.

The band’s live shows are always ragged affairs but definitely worth catching. (Niesel), 8:30 p.m., $20 ADV, $22 DOS. Beachland Ballroom.

Joey Amato (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m. Brothers Lounge.

The Beach Boys: 8 p.m. Packard Music Hall.

Blu Jazz Jubilee: Sammy DeLeon Latin Jazz Septet: 9:30 p.m., $15.

BLU Jazz+.

Blue Jazz Jubilee: Jackie Warren Jazz All-Stars: 7 p.m., $15. BLU Jazz+.

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Nighttown.

Cats on Holiday: 9 p.m., $5. Happy Dog. Creedence Clearwater Revival vs. The Band: The Ultimate Showdown (in the Supper Club): 8 p.m., $7. Music Box Supper Club.

Dead Church/Grin and Bear It (in Club Atlantis): 10 p.m., $5. Now That’s Class.

Ex-Cult/Yambag/Real Regular: 9 p.m., $7. Now That’s Class.

Fifty Amp Fuse: 9 p.m., $15. Vosh Club.

Carlos Jones & the P.L.U.S. Band: 9:30 p.m., $8. Brothers Lounge.

Mary Martin and the Tuna Band: 8 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern.

Motionless in White/The Devil Wears Prada/Upon a Burning Body/The Word Alive/The Color Morale: 5:30 p.m., $22 ADV, $25 DOS. The Agora Theatre.

The Party of Helicopters/Pleasure Leftists: 1:51 p.m., $5. The Euclid Tavern.

Shivering Timbers: 8 p.m. Akron Civic Theatre.

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

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