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

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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 Xan Schwartz, Brittany Rees, Brandon Koziol

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UPFRONT MY MEMORIES OF TAMIR RICE: A PERSONAL ESSAY

By Diane Ferri

THIS WEEK

YOU NEVER EXPECT TO OPEN the newspaper in the morning and see someone you know. Especially not a former student. Certainly not a child. It took me a few moments to comprehend what I was looking at when I saw Tamir Rice’s smiling face in front of me. I had last seen Tamir a year and a half earlier, when I was his fourth grade math teacher.

As I slowly processed the information that he was dead and had been shot by a police officer in a neighborhood park, I felt a deep and disturbing indignation. Someone was to blame for the killing of this child— and it was not the child. I was sure that those who blamed this 12-yearold did not know him.

I remember a tall and handsome boy. Tamir looked older than his years but he was emotionally immature for his age. The thing about Tamir was that even if he gave you a hard time you still liked him. I don’t remember the tough days as much as that smile I frequently see on the news. He had a keen sense of humor and I sensed the capacity in him to achieve and even be a leader if life went his way—which it didn’t. What a waste.

Tamir was in my special-needs classroom, but, unlike most of my students, Tamir did not have a learning disability. He did well in math on the days that he chose to participate. On some days he wanted to answer every question and would become frustrated if he was not allowed to do so. He was placed in my room, in part, for the extra attention that he craved, for the attention he could not get in a larger classroom and, on certain days, could not do without.

Tamir, in his best moments, had a wonderful personality. He could be charming and funny. I believe his childhood had been a confusing one.

Tamir enjoyed attention and, like some other children I have known,

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negative attention can sometimes be as stimulating as positive attention.

So you can imagine the attention he was getting in the park that November day as he wielded an airsoft pellet gun, pointing it at passersby and other kids. The orange cap on the tip of the barrel that was supposed to indicate it was a fake was missing, so it appeared to be a real gun.

He’d been playing in the area of the recreation center gazebo when one of those passersby called 911. We later learned the caller had stated that the gunman was probably a juvenile and it was probably not a real gun.

The dispatcher never relayed that part of the message to the police. We will never know if those words would have changed the deplorable outcome of that day.

What we know for sure about that day was caught on a park security camera. We saw a police vehicle drive

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men whose lives have been taken, and for the families who will never stop grieving for them.

In personal conversations, most people I spoke with blamed the black parents for teaching their child

Inevitably I feel compassion for the wounded, the underdogs, the young men whose lives have been taken, and for the families who will never stop grieving for them. up within feet of the boy and within two seconds he fell to the ground.

There was no audio to tell us whether he had been asked repeatedly to drop the gun before he was shot (witnesses said they did not hear that). We did not see the police officer use a taser to get the child to drop the gun, or get assistance in any other way—we just saw the 12-year-old’s life end at that moment, never to use those leadership skills or engaging personality again.

Inevitably I feel compassion for the wounded, the underdogs, the young

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disrespect for authority—specifically white police. How do you know that, I wondered? Why is that the assumption? Would you be saying that if it was a white child?

Tamir’s academic and emotional development was most likely affected by transience. Tamir left our care abruptly right before the end of that school year. Many children in low-income areas are constantly on the move from school to school, neighborhood to neighborhood. They lose their apartments for various

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reasons and move on to another dwelling or move in with a relative— often in a different school district.

The work educators do with a child is often interrupted and negated at another school. The principal, Tamir’s mother, and other teachers, as well as myself, spent many heartfelt hours and much energy trying to meet Tamir’s individual needs and help him be successful in school.

A generation ago it was acceptable for children to have toy guns to play cowboys and Indians. It’s a shame that toy companies have created more realistic weapons and that so much focus is on guns in our society. Very few television shows or movies exist without guns. What else would we expect a young boy to want? It was reported later by an FBI agent who happened by that while lying on the ground wounded, Tamir asked for his gun back. Maybe we, the collective American society, are the ones to blame for constantly glorifying all types of guns and emphasizing the rights of everyone to own one.

To me, Tamir Rice is not a news item or a conversation starter. He was an unforgettable student I taught and cared for during a brief period in time. He was a kid who struggled with being moved from school to school. He was a child who needed a significant amount of attention.

Like many inner city children, Tamir had probably seen and experienced more than his 12-year-old brain could process. On November 22, 2014, he was simply an innocent soul who just wanted to have a good time as most children do.

What I imagine from knowing Tamir was that he was having great fun that day. He was a child pretending he had a real gun. He was a young boy who was getting the attention he craved. And he will never know the attention he received after that fateful day.

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UPFRONT RTA PROPOSES FARE INCREASES, SERVICE CUTS FOR 2016

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IN A LETTER TO THE RTA BOARD of trustees last week, CEO Joe Calabrese proposed fare increases and a “slight service reduction” in the 2016 budget to react to what he characterized as downward financial trends.

The proposed budget includes an increase in base fare from $2.25 to $2.50 and an increase in paratransit fare — the service for riders with disabilities — from $2.25 to $3.50.

Also, due to overcapacity at RTA garages, Calabrese has proposed a 1.3-percent reduction in the number of buses in service.

The board deliberated at its meeting last Tuesday, and will do so again, said Calabrese, at its meetings on Dec. 1 and Dec. 15. Public comments will be welcomed on those dates. (The meetings take place in the board room at RTA headquarters downtown, 1240 W. 6th St.) There’s liable to be plenty of dissent.

Shortly after Calabrese’s letter, the Ohio Organizing Collaborative released the results of a ridership survey which found that the leading concern among its 450-plus respondents, many of whom were low-income and said they didn’t have regular access to a car, was affordability.

“I already thought that $2.25 was really steep,” said daily transit rider Chris Brown of Bedford Heights.

“I’m just taken aback that it’s going up. Gas prices seem to be down. If anything I’d be expecting some relief.

This should be an area that should be well funded and well supported by our government. I’m just really blown away.”

A press release from the OOC acknowledged the lack of funding for public transit from state and federal sources but said that RTA needs to find ways to deal with its finances

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transportation,” Jackson said.

And we certainly might be — who can say? The Plain Dealer, in its latest round of layoffs, said farewell to its transportation beat writer Alison Grant, and all of these important developments and sizzling conversation topics have been ignored by our region’s major news outlet.

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without overtaxing its riders.

“RTA points out that fares have not increased in seven years,” reads the release, “but many survey respondents pointed out that since 2009, a one-way pass no longer covers transfers. This essentially amounts to a backdoor fare increase since they are forced to buy an all day pass, which costs $5.”

The second and third-ranking concerns among survey takers were the quality of bus stops and shelters, and the duration of their trips.

RTA media relations’ Linda Krecic told Scene in a phone call that the 2016 budget was as of now only proposed. The board will continue to deliberate and hear public comments before making a decision about raising fares.

“What we want to convey,” said Krecic, “is that this is a process.”

Calabrese, for his part, said the fare increase was necessary due to increased expenses in 2014 — including a 27th pay period for hourly employees — and 2015, not to mention smaller projected growth in revenues due to a shrinking available pool of grant funding. Expenses are budgeted to increase once again in 2016, this

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time by $20 million.

In more jubilant news, Calabrese was just named one of Governing Magazine’s Public Officials of the Year, in large part for his exemplary stewardship of Bus Rapid Transit, i.e., The Health Line. Locally, though, he’s been fending off public transit advocates who claim that RTA’s financial outlook is bleak, and that without a more holistic, regional approach to public transit issues (not the least of which is funding), RTA might be forced to close its rapid lines on the east side in a few short years.

Calabrese responds that RTA will continue to explore solutions to fleet upgrades, even if replacing all 108 rapid cars proves to be financially impossible.

Meanwhile, Mayor Frank Jackson issued an effusive, congratulatory statement last Thursday about Calabrese and his leadership.

“This award [from Governing Magazine], together with the appointment of Valarie McCall as the chair of the American Public Transportation Association, shows the nation that Cleveland is leading the conversation on public

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A celebratory crowd at the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center observed Veterans Day last week with the official opening of a clinic dedicated to transgender service members.

From the start, the clinic will be directly treating 20 veterans on a monthly basis. (There are an estimated 15,000 transgender personnel currently serving on active duty.)

At the beginning of one’s transition, patients must complete a specified amount of counseling.

Hormones are prescribed, and then patients must live outwardly as their desired gender for six months to a year before legally changing their name or gender.

As those patients undergo hormone therapy, their medical needs and risks change. Dr. Megan McNamara, who’s been working with transgender patients for two years, is directing the clinic.

In a December 2013 feature, Scene described an assault against two transgender women who ended up seeking treatment at the VA center.

(One of the women was a veteran; she told Scene that the VA had been excellent in providing care over the years.)

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By Sam Allard LARRY GORE’S YOUR GO-TO Allstate guy in Medina, Ohio. He’s got you covered on the things that matter most: your family, your home, your car, your business. Hell, even your boat. “My knowledge and understanding of the people in this community help me provide customers with an outstanding

level of service,” Gore’s Allstate page attests. “I can help you prepare a strategy to achieve your financial goals.”

Not exactly a practice-what-youpreach guy, though, Larry Gore — that is, if you’re inclined to believe the cops. Or the neighborhood rumors, for that matter. Just today,

Gore’s strategy to achieve his own financial goals took a discouraging turn. You might say the strategy collapsed, or that it imploded, or that it ran its natural course. But whatever it did, Gore’s got a chance, metaphorically twiddling his thumbs in the Medina County Sheriff’s Office so to speak, to mull it over.

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Gore was pulled over more than an hour ago in Brunswick Hills and arrested on the spot by a detective sergeant with the Medina County Sheriff’s Office. He was taken into custody right away and has been sitting here for half an hour. It’s not until 12:09 p.m. that detectives James Cartwright of Medina County, James Rico of Lorain County, and Mary Gross of Medina arrive and start probing him for information.

“This is the room where everything I say is used against me,” Gore chides them, familiar with his rights. And even though in some ways he wants to unburden himself — to find, even here, a sympathetic ear — he won’t disclose all the details the detectives are after. Not about this morning’s robbery at the FirstMerit Bank on Royalton Road in Columbia Station, and not about three other robberies in 2014 that he’s suspected of as well.

At least not right away, he won’t.

“I think from here on out,” Gore advises his interrogators early on, “I need to talk to a lawyer.”

That’s a prudent request — though its legal ambiguity would be debated in pre-trial motions — and one should expect nothing less from an insurance agent of Gore’s caliber and cred. But not even Allstate’s Mayhem Man (a suddenly relevant, if cruelly ironic, mascot) can protect Larry Gore from a hankering to talk. One senses he’s been dealing with a tremendous amount of stress.

And who wouldn’t, with a juggernaut mortgage to fend off (he lives in the nicest home in Brunswick’s Waite Farms development; price tag: $361,000); mounting college tuition to cough up; an insurance business to sustain; and, at 47 years old, an archetypal image (the All-American family man, the golden suburban dad) to uphold?

Detectives Cartwright, Rico and Gross know there’s nothing more they can do once Gore has invoked his right to an attorney. They stand to leave the interview room, but at the door Mary Gross turns back and offers a kind of condolence.

“If you have any questions for us, we’ll answer them the best we can,” she says. “We know you’re not a bad guy.”

The robberies began on July 23, 2014.

Larry Gore killed the engine

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of his black Honda Accord in the parking lot of the freestanding Medina FirstMerit on State Route 3, Court Street. It was late morning, and the sun was out and warm.

This particular branch was only five minutes south from his AllState franchise in the plaza on West Liberty Street and was secluded from the miniature bustle of downtown Medina. It was certainly a safer bet, as far as robberies go, than the branch up the street on Medina’s Public Square.

No one was caught.

Moreover, the Court Street location had drive-through teller service on the back side, which meant it was seldom crowded indoors: Fewer witnesses. Fewer threats.

Despite the summer heat, the robber (who is believed to be Gore) was dressed — almost parodically — as a cat burglar: dark athletic pants, hooded jacket, blue knit ski cap, sunglasses. The sandy dusting of his facial hair was barely visible in the shadows. He carried no weapon and he did not speak.

At 11:19 a.m., he hopped the 5-foot counter — a spry and driven former athlete, Gore — and compelled the teller to fork over the dough.

In banking, tellers (almost always bottom-rung employees) are advised to keep only $3,000 to $5,000 in a top working drawer and the balance of their station’s currency in a locked second drawer. The theory is that the second-drawer money is immediately available to a teller who might need additional cash but not to the stickup man.

Gore knew about the second drawer. Prosecutors would later claim that having a relative who’d worked for many years in the banking industry clued him into the terminology. Regardless, he drove away from the FirstMerit with $5,317 in hand. No one was harmed.

knows he does. Just not with the water. “Hey, can I talk to you for a second?”

Cartwright obliges.

Gore’s attorney, David Sheldon, would later attempt to have his client’s incriminating statements at the sheriff’s office deemed inadmissible because he’d already requested an attorney. The prosecution would counter, in backand-forth pretrial motions, that even if the court were inclined to interpret Gore’s requests as unambiguous (which the prosecution sure didn’t), Gore’s right to communicate through counsel was rescinded the moment he re-initiated conversation with police.

Whether it’s admissible or not, Gore begins talking with Cartwright, and detective Gross reenters the room: “Everything other than today’s robbery is circumstantial,” Gore tells them, for example. “You had the GPS tracker. Why didn’t you arrest me before?” he wants to know.

“How much time would I be looking at?” he asks.

Gore does periodically say that he ought to speak to an attorney.

And at one point, he even references his right to remain silent. But the detectives know he’s wobbly, and they capitalize.

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“It might be a few minutes,” says detective James Cartwright, poking his head into the interview room at the Medina County Sheriff’s Office to keep Gore abreast of his processing.

“Can I get you a glass of water?”

“Yeah, that’d be great,” Gore says.

Cartwright gets the water and returns, asking the seated and handcuffed Gore if he needs help taking a sip.

“No,” Gore responds, but he

that was worn in the robberies,” Cartwright mentions.

Gore pauses.

“What if that stuff happened to be destroyed?”

Blue jeans, hooded jacket, dark coat, hat and shades for robbery No. 2. Same outfit, different bank.

This time, four months after the FirstMerit job, Gore allegedly drove to the PNC in Valley City. It was a 20-minute trip west, via the backroads, from his Brunswick home.

In a diagonal parking spot on Center Road, the tiny town’s main (and only) drag, Gore gazed into the windows of the stern and sober government building-turned-bank.

An American flag rapped against its flagpole in the biting late-autumn air.

It was Nov. 21, 2014, and at that time, Gore couldn’t have been trying to outsmart authorities. After all, the robbery he was about to commit was so logistically similar to the one he’d committed in July that county investigators immediately began working to validate the probable connection.

On paper and in practice, all signs pointed to the same guy. The getaway vehicle was a black Honda Accord, model year 2011 or 2012.

The robber wore similar clothes and arrived at almost precisely the same time. (The incident in Valley City occurred at 11:32 a.m.) Witness statements on Gore’s physical build differed: Two women at the Valley City PNC, a customer and a bank teller, identified him as shorter and younger than he was, in part because (like at the Medina FirstMerit), he hopped the counter to demand money from a teller.

Surveillance video would later corroborate Gore’s real physical description: 6-foot-1-inch, 210 pounds.

This time, though, Gore spoke.

“Where is the second drawer?” he demanded. “Give me the fucking money! I want 100s!”

And this time, Gore drove off with a haul less than half the size of his first: only $2,202. That wasn’t even enough to pay his monthly mortgage ($2,341) on the Waite Farms home he purchased in 2007. The stressors — and the bills, one imagines — were continuing to mount.

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The Pat O’Brien placard had impressions on the back, dirt marks mostly. Investigators believed the suspect placed the placard over his actual license plate, and that the dirt, salt and snow from the plate’s numbers were transferred to the Pat O’Brien shield.

BP(?)8920. Or maybe BR(?)8920.

That’s what the Medina cops, poring over the placard with flashlights, were able to decipher. It wasn’t perfect, but it was enough to go on.

“I still think I need to talk to a lawyer,” Gore is telling Cartwright and Gross in the interview room, and Cartwright and Gross are getting antsy. A transport will be arriving shortly to take Gore out to Lorain, and they want to get all they can before he’s gone. They tell him an attorney will be provided for him before walking out.

But five minutes later, they return.

“What do you think?” Gross says.

“I think I am just going to wait until I have an attorney,” Gore responds.

“You sure you want to go that way?” Cartwright asks.

Gore ponders the question for a moment, and is ultimately dislodged from his reticence. He starts making several more “statements against his interest” over the course of five minutes before he advises the detectives — for the fourth time — that he still thinks he’d like to talk to a lawyer.

Fair enough.

Having been questioned, on and off, for an hour and a half, Gore is transported to the Lorain County Sheriff’s Office. But once he arrives, he is placed, yet again, in a soulless interview room and submits to questioning. It’s just detective James Rico this time, and Rico advises Gore that his Miranda rights still apply.

“You have the right,” Rico starts, and Gore nods.

Rico wants to talk about the robberies that occurred in Lorain County, he says, and then he wants to talk about Gore’s personal finances.

Rico would claim, during questioning at a pretrial hearing, that in the hallway of the Medina Sheriff’s Office, on Gore’s way out, Gore told

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Rico he wanted to talk to him once he arrived in Lorain. That claim is vigorously disputed by Gore and his lawyer David Sheldon. But Rico said he was “100 percent sure” the conversation happened.

“I have nothing against Mr. Gore,” Rico would say. “I like Mr. Gore. If it wasn’t for the robberies, I could see myself having a beer with him.”

Two thousand bucks doesn’t make much of a dent in the regular expenses of a Brunswick lifestyle, especially not if you’re spending long hours at the Horseshoe Casino, as neighbors say Larry Gore was known to do in the months preceding his arrest.

It’s unclear what role the rumored gambling might have played in Gore’s private financial calculations, though: Like robbing banks, was it a high-risk, high-reward strategy for achieving his financial goals — which at that time, one surmises, were little more than “stay afloat”? Or was it the gambling — like the mortgage and the tuition — that the robberies helped underwrite?

The Waite Farms neighbors don’t like to speculate, at least not in public.

And Gore’s closest friends prefer to say nothing at all rather than risk saying something inadvertently incriminating. A long list of them contacted by Scene declined to talk on the record about their friend and neighbor, but there are stories.

Gore’s wife Tiffany, for instance, a bombshell cheerleader at Brunswick High back in the ’80s, was known to tell friends that they were paying their kids’ college tuition in cash. One Brunswick High alum told Scene that Tiffany had been disliked (and still is) by many classmates because of her haughtiness. Another, a current close friend of Tiffany’s, said that neighbors are all emotionally behind the Gore family, and that Tiffany’s biggest priority is keeping the house in Waite Farms — at least until their youngest graduates high school.

Tiffany had long been a stay-athome mom, her friend said, but her college degree is in education, and since her husband’s arrest, she’s been “picking up some days as a sub.”

The Waite Farms house was foreclosed on in June, three months after Larry’s arrest. At the time, the Gores owed $335,000 on it, including interest and late fees for missed payments. Tiffany didn’t respond to multiple requests for comment. And when reached through a friend, she declined.

Both Tiffany’s father, Ron Less, and her brother, Ron Less Jr., are AllState franchise men like Larry. In fact, the phone number for Gore’s AllState business, which closed shortly after his

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arrest, now redirects to the office in North Royalton — Ron Less Jr.’s shop.

“No one here has anything to say about that,” said an associate, when reached by phone and asked about the case. Multiple attempts to contact Ron Less Jr. were unsuccessful.

It’s still not known whether and how much Tiffany Gore knew about the robberies.

What’s obvious, though, is that the $2,200 Gore is alleged to have stolen on Nov. 21, 2014, didn’t last long, wherever it went. After getting away with two robberies within four months (and 10 miles) of each other, a ballsy Gore allegedly did it once again.

At 10:52 a.m. on Dec. 8, he robbed the Fifth Third Bank on Royalton Road in Columbia Station. It was less than three weeks removed from his previous job.

On the very same day, however, detective James Cartwright obtained a GPS tracking warrant from Medina County judge James Kimbler for Larry Gore’s car. Cartwright had filed an affidavit establishing probable cause that Larry Gore was the perp.

In Medina County, there were 64 registered owners of a black 20112012 Honda Accord. In addition to surveillance video and at least one accurate eyewitness account of Larry Gore’s physical build, his license plate — FPW 8320 — was similar to the impressions left on the back of the Pat O’Brien placard: BP(?)8920 or BR(?)8920.

Per the affidavit: “The formation and the edges of the letter B is similar to the letter F, and the only discrepancy with the numbers is the second numeral, of which a three (3) could appear rounded on top to look like a nine (9).”

Attorney David Sheldon would argue that the above info was nowhere near sufficient evidence to establish probable cause, and that detective Cartwright exaggerated the similarity between the Pat O’Brien impressions and Gore’s plates. At this, the prosecution essentially rolled its eyes.

As it happened, Cartwright had to file for two extensions on the GPS tracking warrant. Gore had entered into a period of hibernation, it appeared, and Cartwright suggested to Medina judges that when the sun reappeared, so too would Larry Gore.

And he did.

On the morning of March 24, 2015, Larry Gore took his daughter to school. Then, at 10:42 a.m., he allegedly robbed the FirstMerit on Royalton Road in Columbia Station, in

plain sight of the Fifth Third branch he robbed on Dec. 8. Fitting, perhaps, that Gore should end where he began, at a FirstMerit Bank. He was pulled over by the officers who were tracking him and arrested at 10:54 a.m.

Inside Gore’s Honda, investigators found money from the robbery, a ski mask, and a temporary license placard that Gore had used to conceal his plates during the robbery.

Deputy sergeant Kevin Ross, the arresting officer, would later testify that Larry Gore was looking directly at him while on his stomach, handcuffed and being read his rights.

He appeared “shocked” and “surprised,” Ross would say, at the events unfolding around him.

On April 30, 2015, Gore pleaded not guilty to all 18 counts stemming from the four robberies. The trial, originally scheduled for late June, has been pushed back time and again as the opposing sides mount their cases. The jury trial was most recently slated for Nov. 16, but David Sheldon filed another motion for continuance last week. The trial has been pushed back to Dec. 28, though has not yet officially been court-ordered for that date.

Gore’s defense hinges on the admissibility of evidence obtained in interviews after he had requested an attorney. Furthermore, David Sheldon wants evidence obtained from the GPS tracking warrant suppressed because, he argues, the warrant was issued with insufficient probable cause. The assigned judge in the case, Joyce Kimbler, has recused herself at the defense’s request because her husband, James Kimbler, was the judge who issued the warrant.

Throughout the pretrial proceedings, Gore has been held at the Lorain County jail on $1 million bond.

David Sheldon has said that neither he nor his client would speak to Scene if we intended to write anything that put his client in a negative light. “There has already been,” wrote Sheldon, “a great deal of negative press.”

If convicted, the aggravated robbery count alone carries a prison sentence of 3 to 11 years. The second degree robberies (four counts) carry 2 to 8 years each. The third-degree felony burglaries carry 9 to 36 months. The five lesser counts of theft (license plate) and possessing criminal tools each carry 6 to 12 months. If convicted of all, and if on the receiving end of a maximum consecutive sentence, Gore would spend 40 years in prison.

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COMEDY

Cleveland Comedy Festival Close to 50 comics will be on hand for the 2015 Cleveland Comedy Festival Contest that pits up-and-coming comedians from all over the U.S. against each other for a top prize of $2,000 and paid work at Cleveland and Akron’s premiere comedy clubs. A series of preliminary shows at Playhouse Square, each featuring 12 comics, will launch the contest.

Audience vote will count for 50 percent of the results. In addition, a slew of other festivalrelated events are scheduled.

For more information, including specific times and venues, please visit the website. (Jeff Niesel) clevelandcomedyfestival.com.

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FILM

Drawing Power Great Lakes Brewing Company hosts Cleveland’s Drink and Draw Social Club on the first and third Wednesday of every month. The event is organized by the Rust Belt Monster Collective and sponsored by Carol and John’s Comic Book Shop. Drink and Draws are an opportunity for artists of all levels of experience to drink, draw, socialize/ network and collaborate in relaxed and welcoming environment. At the end of each session, prizes are awarded for various superlatives. It’s free. (Josh Usmani) 2516 Market Ave., 216-771-4404, greatlakesbrewing.com.

Men of the Cloth Three Italian master tailors talk about the decline of the apprentice system in Men of the Cloth.

They maintain that true tailors are like sculptors and are becoming harder to come by now that we live in a world of massproduced, ready-to-wear clothing. Tailor Davide Cotugno will appear via Skype after tonight’s screening, which takes place at 6:45 at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tickets are $9. (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.

THEATER

Hamlet Best known for playing Sherlock Holmes in the series Sherlock, British actor Benedict Cumberbatch has recently received a number of awards for his acting prowess, including an Oscar nod for The Imitation Game. So it’s no surprise that he stars in the National Theatre production of Hamlet. Catch a live broadcast tonight at 7 at the Cedar Lee Theatre. Tickets are $20. (Niesel) 2163 Lee Rd., Cleveland Heights, 216-321-5411, clevelandcinemas.com.

MUSIC

The Mystery of the Violin Since the 16th century, the violin has had a deep and meaningful connection to the Jewish people. Tonight at 7 at the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage, Dr. Julian Ross, a professor of violin and head of the Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Music’s string department, talks about that connection. He’ll also share personal connections to the instrument and perform on one of the violins from Violins of Hope, the Maltz exhibit featuring violins that have survived the Holocaust. Tickets are $12, $6 for Maltz Museum members.

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BAC N 4th Cleveland artist Darius Steward works in a variety of media, including pencil, watercolors and oils. He depicts characters in “an urban milieu” and depicts scenes from everyday life. A teacher at Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art and Saint Ignatius High School, his work has been shown at the William Busta Gallery, Zygote Press and Cleveland Clinic, among other locations. His art is currenly on view in BAC N 4th, a solo exhibit that opens today at the Kent State University School of Art’s Downtown Gallery. The reception takes place from 5 to 7 p.m. It’s free. (Niesel) 141 East Main St., Kent, kent.edu/galleries.

COMEDY

Cleveland Improv Jam The Angry Ladies of Improv has hosted the Cleveland Improv Jam for four years now. A few years back, Scene described the show as “fierce, formidable and very funny.” The event begins with a short-form set of improv games, followed by a long-form improv set. The event begins at 8 tonight at Sachsenheim Hall.

Arrive at 7:30 if you want to sign up and perform. Admission

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FILM

Coriolanus When an old enemy threatens Rome, the people call upon their hero, Coriolanus, to save them.

On top of facing the external threat, he must confront the issues that threaten Rome’s infrastructure: famine and the citizens’ uprising. The Shakespearean tragedy explores the plight of the real-life fifthcentury Roman, Caius Marcius Coriolanus, who was exiled from Rome and subsequently attacked the city. Tom Hiddleston (Loki from the Thor and Avengers films) plays the titular lead. Directed by Josie Rourke, who’s directed her fair share of the bard to much acclaim, this blood-soaked tragedy delivers all the passion one might expect.

The National Theatre Live presentation screens tonight at 7 at the Cedar Lee Theatre. It shows again Sunday at 11 a.m. Tickets are $20. (Patrick Stoops) 2163 Lee Rd., Cleveland Heights, 216-321-5411, clevelandcinemas.com.

COMEDY

Nelsin Davis Shop local. Eat local. Laugh local. That’s what Cleveland native Nelsin Davis hopes you’ll do tonight when he performs at the Improv. Davis has been traveling throughout the state for the past few years, leaving a trail of side-split Ohioans in his wake.

The situational comic focuses on storytelling, so expect more of a clever audiobook than a standup routine. Davis stands up at 7:30 p.m. at the Improv. He performs again at 7 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets are $17. (Brittany Rees) 1148 Main Ave., 216-696-IMPROV, clevelandimprov.com.

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a student (Emma Stone) and a colleague (Parker Posey). In the process, he decides he must commit a “meaningful act.” The movie screens tonight at 6:45 and tomorrow night at 9:15 at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque. Tickets are $9.

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Sip, Shop, Stroll An opportunity to do some local shopping for the holidays, the Winter Market: Sip, Shop, Stroll centers on the businesses along Linda Street in Rocky River.

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Rocky LaPorte In 1988, Rocky LaPorte quit his day job as a truck driver to become a professional comedian. Turned out to be a good move. LaPorte hasn’t forgotten his roots and, in his standup routines, he makes simple observations about the oddities of life. In one performance, the comedian talked about listing your parents as emergency contacts. “What are my parents going to do?” he joked. “‘Mrs. LaPorte your son has been in a horrific car accident.’ ‘Well give him some ice cream; he likes ice cream.’” It’s that sort of simple observation that makes LaPorte’s material stand out from the pack of other truck-driversturned-comics. He performs tonight at 8 at Pickwick and Frolic. Tickets start at $23; shows are scheduled through Sunday. (William Hoffman) 2035 East Fourth St., 216-241-7425, pickwickandfrolic.com.

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Schubert’s Great C-major Symphony A fan and friend of Beethoven, classical composer Franz Schubert served as one of the pallbearers at the guy’s funeral.

He even wrote his C-major Symphony, nicknamed “The Great,” as a tribute to the man. Tonight at 7:30 at Severance Hall, the Cleveland Orchestra plays the piece. The concert also features the world premiere performance of a brand-new concerto for two violas, written especially for the Cleveland Orchestra’s principal viola Robert Vernon and his colleague Lynne Ramsey. Additional performances take place at 8 p.m. tomorrow and Saturday.

Tickets start at $29. (Niesel) 11001 Euclid Ave., 216-231-1111, clevelandorchestra.com.

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Visual Arts Faculty Exhibition If you’re looking for art on the east side of town this week, stop by the Gallery at Lakeland Community College for its annual Visual Arts Faculty Exhibition.

This year’s show includes painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, ceramics, jewelry/metals, textile design, mixed media and graphic design created by Lakeland’s visual arts faculty.

The gallery hosts an artists’ reception from 7 to 9 tonight.

The reception features a musical performance by the FAC-PAC: Bob Brown, piano; Dave Sterner, tenor saxophone; Stephen Stanziano, bass; and Larry Smith, drums. The exhibition remains on view through Jan. 20. It’s free. (Usmani) 7700 Clocktower Dr., Kirtland, 440-525-7029, lakelandcc.edu/gallery.

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Welcome to Leith Described as a real-life horror film, this documentary centers on one man’s effort to turn a small North Dakota town into a haven for white power. The community doesn’t take kindly to his neo-Nazi ways, however, and the movie documents the upheaval. It screens at 8:40 tonight and at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque. Tickets are $9. (Niesel) 11610 Euclid Ave., 216-421-7450, cia.edu.

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The Amazing Nina Simone A terrific jazz singer who’s inspired a generation of vocalists, Nina Simone was also an outspoken civil rights advocate. Director Jeff F. Lieberman profiles her life and career in his documentary,

The Amazing Nina Simone. The movie makes its local premiere tonight at 7 at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tickets are $9.

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

ART

CAN Journal Release Party The release of the latest issue of CAN Journal is always reason to celebrate. The Winter 2015-16 issue includes an article updating the story we brought you this summer about the attempted theft of Frank Oriti’s painting, “Clarity,” from London’s National Portrait Gallery. The new issue also includes firsthand insight into the upcoming season’s full schedule of events and exhibitions throughout Northeast Ohio galleries, museums and nonprofits, as well as a number of features by some of the region’s most respected arts writers. Stop by Heights Arts to pick up your copy today from 7 to 9 p.m. While you’re there, you’ll have a chance to catch the opening of Heights Arts’ 14th Annual Holiday Show. It’s free. (Usmani) 2175 Lee Rd., Cleveland Heights, 216-371-3457, heightsarts.org.

NIGHTLIFE

Celebrity Bartending Night Plenty of local heroes and celebs will be on hand for tonight’s Celebrity Bartending Night from 6 to 9 at Barley House. There will be a 50/50 raffle, more than 20 raffle baskets, silent auction items including tickets to a variety of sporting events, a tour of radio stations at iHeart Media, engraved custom tiny footprints or a paw prints pendent from Jak Figler Designs and a variety of signed sports memorabilia. All proceeds will go toward the Rec2Connect Foundation that aims to build a scholarship fund for individuals with special needs. Former Browns wide receiver Brian Brennen and former Browns wide receiver and return specialist Josh Cribbs will be on hand as will former Indians reliever Jensen Lewis and Indians play-by-play guy Jim Rosenhaus. Tickets are $25. (Niesel) 1261 West Sixth St., 216-623-1700, barleyhousecleveland.com.

ART

Limelight Holiday Gallery Exhibition The Beck Center for the Arts hosts a reception from 6 to 7:30 tonight for its annual Limelight

Holiday Gallery Exhibition. This year’s event showcases works by Yvonne Bakale, Jennifer Chronister, Carol Eidenmiller, Jennifer Fitchwell, Marti Higgins, Amelia Joynes, Marcello Mellino andMaria Pujana. Limelight features paintings, prints, photography and jewelry. The Limelight Holiday Gallery Exhibition remains on view through Jan. 3 in the Jean Bulicek Galleria. It’s free.

(Usmani) 17801 Detroit Ave., Lakewood, 216-521-2540, beckcenter.org.

ART

NEO Geo The Akron Art Museum hosts an opening reception from 7:30 to 9 tonight for NEO Geo, its latest exhibition exploring the region’s rich history of geometric abstraction, through the work of eight contemporary artists living and working in Northeast Ohio. Featured artists include Gianna Commito (Kent), Natalie Lanese (Toledo), Janice Lessman-Moss (Kent), Michelle Murphy (Cleveland), Erik Neff (Newbury), Kristina Paabus (Oberlin), Paul O’Keeffe (Cleveland Heights) and Amy Sinbondit (Cleveland Heights). NEO Geo includes painting, printmaking, drawing, photography, sculpture, installation and fiber. The exhibition remains on view through April 24. The free opening night party includes live music and activities in the museum’s lobby, as well as opportunities to meet the artists. (Usmani) 1 South High St., Akron, 330-376-9185, akronartmuseum.org.

COMEDY

Ricky Smiley One of the few “clean” comics working the comedy circuit these days, comedian, television host and nationally syndicated radio personality Rickey Smiley often slips into character for his routines, taking on fictional personas such as “Bernice Jenkins” and “Rusty Dale.” Smiley, who likes to talk about growing up in the projects, draws from his childhood experiences as a poor black kid for his material. He performs tonight at 7:30 and 10:15 at the Improv; he has additional shows scheduled for 7 and 9:30 tomorrow night too. Tickets are $30 and are available online. Shows are 21 and over. (Niesel) 1148 Main Ave., 216-696-IMPROV, clevelandimprov.com.

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GET OUT COMEDY

Carl Strong Comedian Carl Strong likes to joke about everyday frustrations — traffic, road construction and extreme weather. His material comes off as rather pedantic, but he’s such a good-natured guy, he can make even the simplest observations sound amusing.

A veteran comic who’s toured with musical acts such as Paul Anka, Little Richard and Smokey Robinson, he performs tonight at 7:30 and 10 and tomorrow night at 7 and 10 at Club Velvet at Hard Rock Live. Tickets are $13 to $18.

(Niesel) 10705 Northfield Rd., Northfield, 330-908-7793, hrrocksinonorthfieldpark.com.

(The Dumbass), centers on Im Hussein, a woman who must deal with “the ignorance of her knowit-all husband.” The play takes on issues that affect the Arab American community as it addresses divorce, drug abuse, welfare fraud and more. Tonight’s performance takes place at 8 at the Hanna Theatre. Tickets are $50 to $85.

(Niesel) 2067 East 14th St., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

monthly residencies in New York and Los Angeles. Allison will host a live show at 9 tonight in the Louis Stokes Wing of the Cleveland Public Library. Local talent will also participate. Allison promises the show will feature “compelling, personal tales that can range from hilarious to highly emotional and are always uncensored.” Each Risk! show is recorded for a podcast that gets over one million downloads each month.

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An Underwater Holiday Tasting Adventure Home to an incredible shark tank and several interactive exhibits, the Greater Cleveland Aquarium provides an overview of all kinds of marine life. The place also regularly hosts wine and beer tastings.

Tonight from 7 to 10 p.m., you can sample a variety of Christmas ales and ciders at the Underwater Holiday Tasting Adventure. The $45 ticket includes 20 sample tickets, a souvenir glass, appetizers and an aquarium tour. Designated drivers pay only $25. (Niesel) 2000 Sycamore St., 216-862-8803, greaterclevelandaquarium.com.

FILM

ART

Third Fridays It may not be Thanksgiving yet, but the occupants of 78th Street Studios are hoping to encourage some holiday shopping with November’s Third Friday open studios from 5 to 9 tonight. E11even presents gallery co-founder Billy Nainiger’s A Christmas Art Show, inspired by A Christmas Story, a film with deep, well-documented ties to Cleveland. ARTneo showcases a special collection of archived greeting cards created by some of the region’s most significant artists. Kenneth Paul Lesko presents a new solo exhibition of Judith Brandon’s most recent breathtaking works on paper. Forum Artspace hosts the work of two rising stars: Clotilde Jiménez and Darius Steward. A number of galleries will host closing receptions for their current exhibitions, including Antoinette Nero and Leila Khoury’s Chemical Ash//Dirges at Zaina Gallery, Hedge Represents featuring work

by Hilary Gent’s new roster of represented artists at Hedge Gallery, Dana Depew’s first local solo show in three years at Popeye Gallery at Survival Kit and more. Admission is free. (Usmani) 1300 West 78th St., 78thstreetstudios.com.

DRINK

Risk! Live If you like The Moth, This American Life or Snap Judgment, chances are good that you’ll like Risk!, Kevin Allison’s awardwinning storytelling show and podcast that regularly sells out its

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comedians such as Marc Maron, Margaret Cho, Sarah Silverman, Patton Oswalt and Reggie Watts.

Admission to the show is free but tickets are required. (Niesel) 325 Superior Ave., 216-623-2800, cpl.org.

Until the End of the World One of the key leaders of the New German Cinema, director Wim Wenders has put together a remarkable resume over the course of a career that stretches back to the 1960s. The guy has shot movies all over the world and filmed in exotic places such as Berlin, Lisbon, Los Angeles, Cuba, Moscow, Tokyo and the Australian Outback. With some help from Janus films, the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque pays tribute to the auteur this month in a series dubbed With Portraits Along the Road. That series continues tonight with a screening of the director’s cut of Until the End of the World, a sci-fi film that stars William Hurt as a man who wants to help the blind to see with his high-tech camera. Tonight at 6:50 and tomorrow at 3:30 p.m., the Cinematheque shows the first part of the uncut 295-minute version of the film. Tickets are $10, or $14 if you plan to see both part one and part two. (Niesel) 11610 Euclid Ave., 216-421-7450, cia.edu.

SUN 11/22 FILM

Alice This month, the Cleveland Museum of Art presents four classic screen versions of Lewis Carroll’s imaginative novel Alice in Wonderland. Today at 1:30 p.m., it will show the 1988 Czech film Alice, a work that’s been described as “the screen’s darkest descent in the rabbit hole” with its “Kafkaesque mix of stop motion and live action.” While the book may be a childhood classic, this film version definitely is not recommended for the wee ones. In the words of

GET OUT The New York Times, in fact, it “unearths the fears that animate dreams and nightmares.” Tickets are $9. (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.

MON 11/23 FOOD

Vegan Mondays If you’re vegan, vegetarian, gluten free, or just plain interested in trying something new, head over to Townhall in Ohio City this evening from 5 to 10 p.m. for Vegan Night. Work your way through

the delicious and healthy vegan menu, featuring hits like Veggie Vegan Flatbread (think fresh tomatoes, chiles, mushrooms and vegan cheese), Tofu Etouffee (blackened tofu, onions, tomatoes and brown rice) or many of the regular menu items made vegan.

If you’re still feeling skeptical, know this: Monday night is also Craft Beer Night and all 36 crafts are only $3 from 6 p.m. to close.

Cheers! (Alaina Nutile) 1909 West 25th St., 216-344-9400, townhallohiocity.com.

FAMILY FUN

Free Zoo Admission for Local Residents Looking for a fun and free way to start your week? Head on over to the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, which offers free admission

for all residents of Cuyahoga County and Hinckley Township on Mondays. You can explore the zoo’s massive collection, which includes more than 3,000 animals and 600 distinct species, including the largest primate collection in the country. Or check out the zoo’s impressive botanical garden, which has been praised for expertly illustrating the interdependent relationship between plants, animals and humans. Whatever you decide to explore, you’ll be able to get up close and personal with all your favorite exhibitions since Mondays are usually one of the least crowded days of the week.

The Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is open on Mondays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. This free Monday promotion is not available on holidays

and unfortunately excludes access to the RainForest. (Nutile) 3900 Wildlife Way, 216-661-6500, clemetzoo.com.

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Life, the Universe and Hot Dogs Albert A. Michelson was the first professor of physics at Case School of Applied Science. The guy also went on to become the first American to win a Nobel Prize in science. His six years in Cleveland, 1883 to 1889, were marked by robbery, fire, a mental breakdown, institutionalization, a pay cut and a night in jail amidst accusations of adultery. But in 1887, he and colleague Edward

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GET OUT Morley performed the famous experiment now regarded as the foundation for Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. At 7:30 tonight at the Happy Dog, Dr. Harsh Mathur will recount the life and times of the physicist in a lecture dubbed “Albert A. Michelson: Modern Physics, Modern Art and the Birth of Relativity. A Cleveland Story.” It’s part of the Happy Dog’s Life, Universe and Hot Dogs lecture series. Admission is free. (Niesel) 5801 Detroit Ave., 216-651-9474, happydogcleveland.com.

DANCE

So You Think You Can Dance For better or worse, the 13-time primetime Emmy Award-winning show So You Think You Dance has single-handed renewed an American fascination with dance.

The traveling tour in support of the show’s 12th season and its new “stage vs. street format,” comes to the State Theatre tonight at 8 p.m. The Season 12 tour line-up includes the following top 10 finalists: Team Stage’s Gaby Diaz, Edson Juarez, Jim Nowakowski, Hailee Payne and Derek Piquette; and Team Street’s Megan “Megz” Alfonso, Eddie “Neptune” Eskridge, Virgil Gadson, Jessica “JJ” Rabone and Jana “Jaja” Vankova. Tickets start at $10. (Niesel) 1519 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

FOOD

Vegan Thanksgiving Feast One of our favorite punk clubs in town, Now That’s Class, also offers plenty of food options for vegans. Tonight at 9, vegans can indulge at the club’s annual vegan Thanksgiving feast.

Eleven bucks gets you homemade turkey substitute, roasted garlic mashers, roasted acorn squash, chestnut stuffing, vegan mac ’n’ cheese, and biscuits and gravy.

It’s all served “hungry man style.” For an additional buck, a 16-ounce can of Natural Light is included. And craft beer lovers can rest assured knowing the place has a killer selection of microbrews. (Niesel) 11213 Detroit Ave., 216-221-8576, nowthatsclass.net.

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ART LINES AND VISIONS

Northeast Ohio’s deep history and bright future in geometric abstraction is showcased at the Akron Art Museum

By Josh Usmani SINCE THE 1960s, ARTISTS throughout Northeast Ohio have experimented with geometric abstraction and Op Art. Many local contemporary artists continue to advance the genre in new and unexpected directions. NEO Geo, the latest exhibition at the Akron Art Museum, showcases the work of eight artists living and working in Northeast Ohio. Utilizing advanced color theory and a combination of pre-determined systems based on logic, mathematics and/or intuitive responses, geometric abstraction and Op Art create hard-edged, curvilinear and rectilinear forms and patterns, often inspired by science and math found in nature.

“Geometric abstraction pares art down to simple shapes, but these limits allow for an incredible amount of experimentation and innovation.”

— Theresa Bembnister “Geometric abstraction pares art down to simple shapes, but these limits allow for an incredible amount of experimentation and innovation,” explains Akron Art Museum associate curator and NEO Geo curator Theresa Bembnister. “The artists of NEO Geo expand the genre through their use of unexpected materials and processes or through their pursuit of new meaning.”

The illusory patterning of simplified geometric forms, along with fascinating surface textures and sophisticated, complex color theories unify the drawings, paintings, prints, photos, sculpture, ceramics, textiles and site-specific installations throughout the show.

What all does that mean for what you’ll see? “The exhibition features

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acrylic wall-hanging sculptures by Paul O’Keeffe, ceramic sculptures by Amy Sinbondit, jacquard tapestries

by Janice Lessman-Moss, prints and drawings by Kristina Paabus, photographs by Michelle Marie Murphy, paintings by Gianna Commito, paintings and sculpture

by Erik Neff and a site-specific installation by Natalie Lanese,” explains Bembnister.

NEO Geo will be contextualized by works of local masters such as Craig Lucas and Julian Stanczak, on display in the nearby collection galleries.

In the 1960s and ’70s, painters and sculptors in Cleveland, Kent and Oberlin pioneered the geometric abstraction and Op Art movements.

These artists were inspired by innovations in science, psychology and technology to create hard-edged forms with underlying geometric patterns. Though the genre is a global phenomenon, it has intimate early ties to Northeast Ohio.

“Some of these artists, such as Michelle Marie Murphy, are aware of and respond directly to this history,” says Bembnister. “Others, such as Kristina Paabus, who moved to Oberlin last year, were working in the style before they lived in the region. It’s important to mention that even though geometric abstraction is integral to the history of art in to Northeast Ohio, it’s a style of art practiced by artists all over the world.”

It sounds simple, but the baseline leads to myriad interpretations.

“When you walk through the galleries, you’ll notice immediately that NEO Geo is incredibly diverse visually,” Bembnister says. “Even

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Amy Sinbondit, “Section Break,” 2011

too. Erik Neff’s organic shapes and cast-off materials reveal his interest in nature and Michelle Marie Murphy’s photographs of makeup palettes arranged to resemble Op Art paintings also function as a critique of consumer culture.”

For NEO Geo, Bembnister and the museum wanted to showcase the breadth and range of the genre, the artists and their materials. “It was really important to me that the exhibition reflect the wide variety of media used by artists working in geometric abstraction today,” Bembnister says. “Historically, the genre has been associated primarily with painting and, to some extent, printmaking and sculpture. Artists today incorporate not only a wide variety of media but also new technologies. Janice Lessman-Moss designs her tapestries with Photoshop

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though each artist is limiting their formal vocabulary to basic shapes and lines, there’s a huge range in terms of colors, surface qualities, scale, pattern and spatial relationships. Many of the artists draw from the same sources of inspiration, such as architecture, urban planning or perceptual illusion, but there’s diversity there

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and has them woven on an industrial loom in North Carolina. Kristina Paabus removes the blade from a digital plotter/vinyl cutter, replaces it with a marker, and digitally instructs the machine to draw on top of her prints. Natalie Lanese began the process of creating “Depthless Without You,” her site-specific installation, by

making small gouache drawings and collages, photographing them, and using an app called Layout to create new designs before projecting them on the walls of the gallery for tracing.”

The Akron Art Museum hosts an opening reception for NEO Geo from 7:30 to 9 p.m. this Friday; a member’s preview begins at 6:30 p.m. The free opening night party includes live music and activities in the museum’s lobby, as well as opportunities to meet the artists. The exhibition remains on view through April 24, 2016.

Additionally, the museum hosts some related programming in 2016.

Featured artists Erik Neff (Thursday, Feb. 25) and Paul O’Keeffe (Thursday, April 21) each will lead a gallery tour.

At 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 31, Gianna Commito, Erik Neff, Amy Sinbondit and Amy Yoes will participate in an artists dialogue.

Admission to the Akron Art Museum is $7 for adults, $5 for students and seniors over 65 and free for members and children under 17. Gallery admission is free every Thursday. Regular hours are Wednesday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. (9 p.m. on Thursdays); the museum is closed Mondays, Tuesdays and all major holidays.

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STAGE

TWO GUYS ON A PORCH

A couple old friends chew the fat, and their loneliness, in Ages of the Moon at Ensemble Theatre

By Christine Howey Allen Branstein (Bryon) and Allan Byrne (Ames)

IT’S NOT OFTEN THAT YOU CAN compare a play to a kind of painting, but that’s an image that arises after seeing Ages of the Moon by Sam Shepard, now at Ensemble Theatre.

In this case, the painting is an impressionistic portrait of two old sax players, leaning in toward each other as they explore the various notes of a bluesy tune they’ve played countless times before.

Those sax players could stand for either the characters or the actors in this one-hour one-act that touches ever-so-lightly on the quizzical nature of getting older. While it doesn’t delve boldly into its themes, Shepard’s signature language — crackling

describing the phases of the moon as lushly as when he recalls the beauty of a woman. Ames is awaiting a lunar eclipse that night, now that his relationship with his wife has been similarly obstructed. And he wants Byron by his side (except, of course, when Ames is trying to shoot him).

Under the direction of Stephen Vasse-Hansell, the two actors in Ages turn in solid, resonant performances.

As Ames, Allan Byrne is a slight and wiry old coot with a hairtrigger temper. And Allen Branstein gives Byron a low-key charm and authenticity: You can see why Ames would have called on this man for some companionship. These theatrical

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sharp and often impulsively amusing — still manages to tickle the ear with its unexpected rhythms.

Ames is a snarky old dude who has been exiled to a fishing cabin in the woods, after his wife found evidence of him messing around with a younger woman. To salve his wounded soul, he has called up old friend Byron, who’s travelled a ways to come see his buddy.

Even though they haven’t laid eyes on each other in years, Ames often seems upset by Byron’s presence, erupting in anger at perceived slights.

When he’s not flaming Byron, Ames is immersed in a quiet euphoria,

“sax” players are at their best in the quiet moments, since their more boisterous riffs feel a bit pushed.

Ultimately, Ames and Byron emerge from their jumbled memories, shared loneliness and feisty conflicts into a reflective conclusion that we can all understand. It’s that moment we all experience, when we feel a little closer to a truth that we can’t really explain.

Ensemble Theatre is known, among other things, for its frequent use of non-traditional casting, which often refers to black actors playing

traditionally white roles. While there is none of that in Ages of the Moon, a recent production in the Northeast Ohio area has received national attention for such a casting choice.

In The Mountaintop, a play by the black playwright Katori Hall, the lead role of Martin Luther King Jr. was played by a white man. That choice, by the Cleveland-based director Michael Oatman, has garnered some national publicity and triggered a reaction of outrage from the playwright.

The play is set entirely in King’s room in the Lorraine Motel on the eve of his assassination in 1968, and seeks to plumb the depths of this ultimate icon of the black community. Director Oatman cast a local and accomplished white actor, Robert Branch, to play Dr. King.

As Oatman, an African-American and an adjunct professor of playwriting at Kent State University, has explained,” I wanted this casting choice to reflect King’s wish that we be judged by the content of our characters and not the color of our skin.” He sought to employ nontraditional casting as an “intellectual aspiration, a way to explore certain aspects of the play in a new way.”

But that argument apparently doesn’t hold water for the woman who wrote The Mountaintop. As she was quoted in an article in the Washington Times: “(This casting choice) echoes this pervasive erasure of the black body and the silencing

of a black community — theatrically and also, literally, in the world.” She went on to say, “Oatman’s experiment proved to be a self-serving and disrespectful directing exercise …”

What do others think? Well, Celeste Cosentino, artistic director of Ensemble Theatre and a white woman, sides with Ms. Hall. Even though Cosentino has recently cast black men in conventionally white roles (Greg White as Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman, Kyle Carthens as Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby), she indicates she would not make the casting choice Oatman did.

As Cosentino explains, “I believe non-traditional casting can work when the race of the character is not germane to the story. Martin Luther King Jr. was and is an icon in the African-American community for specific reasons. And I don’t believe casting a white man in that role does the character justice.”

For his part, Oatman welcomes the controversy: “All the criticism is justified. But as theater people, we often make provocative choices and we can’t be worried about a negative response. We have to roll the dice and take the consequences.”

Let the discussion continue.

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SHINING THROUGH

Spotlight, an ode to journalism, is worthy of early Oscar buzz

By Sam Allard ONE OF THE BIGGEST PARADIGM shifts for daily newspapers in the Internet age has been a movement away from international coverage and toward hard-hitting local reporting. Why waste resources on a bureau in Istanbul or Beijing, mused editors and publishers of mid-market dailies at the turn of the 21st century (and ever since), when a handful of major outfits and wire services are there already?

Marty Baron felt a similar way when he arrived as editor of the Boston Globe in 2001, shortly after the paper was bought by the New York Times. At the beginning of Spotlight, out this weekend at a Cleveland theater near you, Baron (played by a terse and sober Liev Schrieber) says he wants to make the Globe essential to its local readership, and the best way to do that is to take a long, hard, detached look at the city’s most powerful institutions, by which term he includes the Catholic Church.

“I think the city’s institutions work best when they work together,” Boston Cardinal Bernard Law tells Baron at a customary introductory meeting early in the movie. (Cleveland Bishop Richard Lennon was considered Law’s protege, for whatever that’s worth.)

“I’m of the opinion that for the newspaper to do its job, it has to

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stand on its own,” Baron responds.

Baron convinces investigative editor Walter Robinson (Michael Keaton) to sick his Spotlight dogs on the story of priest abuse. A court case involving one deviant priest had been on the fringes of the news at the time, and Baron felt there was important information in courtsealed documents — certainly more, in any case, than the Globe had reported on in previous years. The Spotlight team was an investigative unit dedicated to in-depth, long-term reporting (the sort of unit that’s often on the chopping block when newsrooms downsize).

Robinson and his team — Rachel

McAdams, Mark Ruffalo, Brian D’Arcy James — in their shambolic basement headquarters (a room that you just know positively reeks of old coffee) begin digging into the story: interviewing victims of abuse, tracking down lawyers and prosecutors familiar with the church’s cover-up tactics, scouring old church data, and mining the Globe’s archive of physical clippings to painstakingly assemble a massive (and ultimately Pulitzer Prizewinning) piece of investigative journalism.

Newspaper vets and movie critics alike have been gushing about Spotlight because it’s a film which,

like All the President’s Men in 1976, (and unlike last month’s Truth, for example), doesn’t glamorize the profession. Investigative journalism is tedious, often terribly unsexy work. And both director Tom McCarthy (The Visitor, Win Win) and his ensemble cast deserve acclaim for presenting onscreen what is likely the truest depiction of newsroom life ever. Kudos also to set designer William Cheng for perfectly recreating the Globe newsroom in an abandoned Sears warehouse in Toronto.

At the same time, the movie is thrilling: The eventual contact with a source or the recovery of missing documents become as gratifying as a delayed lover’s embrace. And though it’s an unabashed ode and homage to print journalism, it’s also a celebration of the things that good journalism (and good journalists) stand for: afflicting the comfortable and all that honorable J-school stuff.

It’s inspiring that in a town like Boston, with its huge number of Catholics and its incestuous culture of power and prestige among city leaders (a lot like Cleveland in those respects), a daily paper made good on its unique position to educate the public and to challenge leaders and institutions thought to be untouchable — indeed, thought to be sacrosanct.

SPOTLIGHT: I AM THOR THE OPENING SCENE OF I Am Thor, a documentary about bodybuilder/rock musician/ actor Jon Mikl Thor, opens with a clip from the ’70s. Decked out in big silver boots and a sequined speedo, Thor blows up a hot water bottle until it pops. The clip makes for an appropriate way to begin the bizarre story about Thor, an underground rock star who once promised to be a mainstream sensation but never fulfilled that promise.

The film, which screens at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 24, at the Capitol Theatre, paints a compelling portrait of a unique pop culture anti-hero.

Thor, who’s interviewed extensively in the film, says that, at an early age, he would wear super hero costumes to school and once had kids throw bricks at his head because he thought he was invincible. Inspired by Kiss and Alice Cooper, he forms the metal act Thor and the Imps and immediately booked an arena rock tour. “I was excited to go out there and conquer the world,” says Thor, who regularly wielded a hammer on stage.

“Everything was going according to plan.”

But then he’s reportedly drugged and kidnapped at gunpoint, and “some pretty heavy stuff went

down.” He says he didn’t want to press charges against anyone, so he just moves on after the incident.

And move on he does.

He eventually recruits Motorhead’s manager to handle his affairs. But once again, the band doesn’t deliver on its initial promise and Thor returns to New York to pursue an acting career. That doesn’t go so well either, and he turns into what he calls a “vampire,” as he wanders the streets of New York at all hours of the day. After suffering a nervous breakdown, he officially retires from the biz for a decade before launching a comeback in 1998. The comeback trail is a

tough one, and he suffers another nervous breakdown. In 2007, a stroke leaves him blind in one eye.

It all amounts to a sad story about a guy who can’t manage to turn his novelty act into a sustainable endeavor. By following a clear chronology and including behind-the-scenes and live concert footage, the film shows the rise and fall (but mostly fall) of a pop culture oddity. Worthwhile, even if you’ve never heard of Thor. — Jeff Niesel

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EAT A PH.D. IN PIE Citizen Pie studies up before delivering some of Cleveland’s best slices to Collinwood

By Douglas Trattner IF YOU LIVE OR WORK IN THE Waterloo Arts District of North Collinwood you might have noticed a man walking around the neighborhood handing out free slices of pizza. Since firing up his wood-fueled oven earlier this month, Vytauras Sasnauskas has been a pizza-making tsunami, cranking out pies at a rate of almost 15 per hour, depending on the time of day. Try as he might, he simply can’t eat them all.

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You can’t blame the guy. Despite the fact that he’s had in his possession for months now the hand-built Stefano Ferrara pizza oven from Naples that will power Citizen Pie (15710 Waterloo Rd., 216-417-2742, citizenpie.com), the small cafe he’s opening with Claudia Young and Velvet Tango Room owner Paulius Nasvytis, the chef hadn’t until very recently tossed a single pie in that tempting glory hole.

“You can’t just start building fires and making pizzas,” explains Sasnauskas. “Only after it’s fully cured can we bring it up to temperature to make a pizza.”

The heart and soul of the restaurant, the 5,500-pound beast

will set back an owner around $15,000. But add in transportation, installation, tiling and ventilation and that price easily doubles. Considering that amount of investment, it’s wise to follow the time-tested practice of properly curing the oven.

“If you just build a big fire, all the moisture in the clay and mortar will come to a boil and it will crack, so you have to sweat it out really slowly,” explains Sasnauskas.

So, over the course of two weeks, Sasnauskas would build and maintain small fires that did not exceed a certain temperature, roughly 400 degrees Fahrenheit. For an oven specifically built to absorb and retain heat, that’s easier said than done.

“It’s very hard to maintain low temperatures.”

Finally, just weeks before opening day, the chef built a fire to heat the oven up to its optimal operating temperature, about 925 degrees Fahrenheit on the floor and 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit in the dome. And he’s been making pizzas like mad ever since in an attempt to zero in on the styles and combos that will make it onto the concise roster.

Divided into categories for red and white pizzas, the menu offers guests more than a dozen traditional and creative pies from which to choose.

They are priced from $9 to $16 and utilize the highest quality ingredients for the job. Sasnauskas, the former chef-partner at Americano in Bratenahl, has an uncanny knack for combining ingredients in pitch-perfect arrangements that produce faultless flavors and textures.

with little more than tomato, mozzarella and basil.

The menu is rounded out by two calzones, one meat-based with salami, red onion, ricotta and mozzarella, the other a vegetarian version stuffed with spinach, roasted peppers, mushrooms, olives and cheese.

There also are two desserts, a frozen chocolate truffle and slices of owner Claudia Young’s light and lemony Naples-style cheesecake. Beverages will include beer, wine and, perhaps, a small roster of cocktails.

After the wood-burning oven, the second most important element in a Neapolitan-style pizza shop is the crust. For Sasnauskas, that means

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The Roman is topped with smoked mozzarella, Gaeta olives, Calabrian chiles and stracciatella, the soft and creamy cheese center of burrata.

The Verde is a dreamy concoction of mortadella, spinach, smoked mozzarella, pistachio cream and Castelvetrano olives. Of course, there are classics like the Marinara with fresh tomato sauce, oregano, garlic, basil and pecorino, and the Margherita

naturally fermented dough made with a type of soft wheat flour milled and blended specifically for wood-burning ovens. The pies take less than two minutes to bake, with the chef pulling them at just the precise moment.

“The crust should have uneven browning but not the big black carbon blisters,” he says of the trend to push pies well past golden brown. “That doesn’t taste good.”

At just 875 square feet, Citizen Pie is a petite cafe with seating for around 25 at communal tables, pizza counter seating, and a window rail. An entire wall is shellacked with colorful posters of “revolutionary types” like Lenin, Dylan, Spartacus, Hendrix, Hitchcock and Che Guevara.

Citizen Pie is on pace to open early next week, joining other recent entries on the Waterloo strip like the Millard Fillmore Presidential Library and Packy Malley’s, which in turn will be joined in the coming weeks and months by Six Shooter Coffee, a Mexican restaurant and a new bistro from Luxe Kitchen owner Melissa Cole. It’s the type of development that neighborhood anchor Cindy Barber of the Beachland Ballroom has been eagerly awaiting for eons.

“We at the Beachland are very excited to have Citizen Pie open across the street from us,” Barber says. “Chef V has been testing his Italian oven and bringing over sample pizzas for the staff to try, resulting in smiles and warm friendships growing between the two businesses.”

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LAST THURSDAY, WITH ABOUT 48 hours remaining until Touch Supper Club (2710 Lorain Ave., 216631-5200) reopened its doors to the public for the first time in a year, the two-level space is a beehive of activity.

“We’re still putting the last small things together,” says owner Rob Ivanov. “We’re going down to the wire.” Ivanov originally had planned to reopen his club in time to ring in the New Year, but that’s not the way things worked out. “We took some time off, the [food] truck got really busy over the summer and we’re doing a lot of the work ourselves,” he said.

When guests do show back up, they’ll see a nicely updated main floor along with a completely renovated lower level. Changes throughout include all new bathrooms upstairs and down as well as an updated and improved sound system.

The major renovations were confined to the basement, which got

a top-down overhaul. A new zinctopped bar was positioned further down the wall to improve entry and exit from the stairs leading into the space while also creating more room for seating. All new flooring abuts a new stretch of cushy banquette-style booths.

An updated kitchen will be paired with an all new menu courtesy of chef Jeff Fisher, who will return the food to its glory days. A new and improved beer, wine and cocktail list round out the changes.

“It will still be the same Touch but updated,” says Ivanov. “It’s been 15 years since anything major has been done here. Since I opened up.”

STONE SOUP AIMS TO PROVIDE CRUCIAL LINK BETWEEN EXCESS FOOD AND CLEVELAND’S HUNGRY Within a one-mile radius of the West Side Market, there are about a dozen soup kitchens that attempt to fill the nutritional needs of countless poor and homeless people.

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between that food and the people who need it most. Founded by chef, restaurateur and educator Giovanna Mingrone, Stone Soup CLE helps to feed Cleveland’s hungry while reducing waste and providing nutrition, support, dignity and a sense of community.

“We named our organization Stone Soup CLE after a folktale that reflects cooperation, especially in scarcity,” Mingrone explains. “If we can bring together those who want to help with those needing help, we can address our city’s ongoing hunger issues, including food insecurity. More people, especially children and the elderly, will have reliable access to affordable, nutritious food.”

Mingrone estimates that area soup kitchens at places like St. Malachi, St. Augustine’s and St. Paul’s Community Outreach serve nearly 20,000 meals each month.

Meanwhile local restaurants, caterers, market vendors, produce companies and grocery stores routinely throw away food because they don’t know what to do with it.

Since its first delivery in October, Stone Soup CLE has rescued more than 1,000 pounds of food, provided more than 400 meals and delivered more than 300 pounds of ready-touse produce and meal components to

five soup kitchens. Food that is not used is composted.

“I got a case of green papaya. No one knows what to do with that, so I made soup!”

– Giovanna Mingrone “We deliver some things as is: chopped salad greens, chopped carrots … . Some things we turn into dishes,” says Mingrone. “I got a case of green papaya. No one knows what to do with that, so I made soup!”

Mingrone says that she hasn’t even begun to tap into the potential that still exists in her own small neighborhood. Limited by the size of her facility, she says that Stone Soup is actively raising funds to secure a kitchen facility and purchase a few small appliances.

“We haven’t even begun with restaurants yet because the 300 to 400 pounds of produce per week is keeping us busy — and we need more space. But we wouldn’t turn down a donation!!”

To that end, Stone Soup is accepting monetary donations via a GoFundMe site.

“The support from our community, from vendors and from other not-for-profit organizations has been overwhelming,” Mingrone says. “We are setting the stage in Cleveland for what could become a national partnership model between suppliers and the people who most need nutritious food.”

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In baking, the golden brown crust on a well-baked loaf of bread is known as the “bloom.” Come late winter, Bloom will also be known as the place to go for premium breads, pastries and meals in two Cleveland locations all the while educating, training, employing and creating opportunities for meaningful selfsufficiency for people with barriers to employment.

Bloom Artisan Bakery & Cafe, a social venture from the non-profit organization Towards Employment, will open at 200 Public Square and 1938 Euclid Ave. on the Cleveland State University campus. Under the guidance of artisan baker Maurice Chaplais, student employees will learn craft baking techniques that produce high-caliber products.

“Bloom Bakery will distinguish itself by taking the time to perfect the art of baking,” says Chaplais, the bread consultant and teacher behind Flour Bag bakeries in the United Kingdom and Florida. “The effort to incorporate locally sourced ingredients and create delicious handcrafted treats demonstrates Bloom Bakery’s dedication to great taste and customer satisfaction.

With this high level of preliminary attention to detail and commitment to the craft of baking, Bloom Bakery is primed to stand apart based on the quality of its food alone.”

Thanks to financial support from local organizations like the Cleveland Foundation and the Business of Good Foundation, Bloom will begin offering people opportunities to earn a wage, develop career skills, and move on to a full-time position elsewhere, thereby freeing space for the next candidate.

“We have found ‘learn and earn’ opportunities are needed as an effective workplace introduction for many Towards Employment students, especially those with the most challenging barriers to employment like a criminal background,” explains Towards Employment executive director Jill Rizika. “With our board’s endorsement, we agreed to identify a social enterprise that could provide rigorous on-the-job training,

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work experience and income for these students. Bloom Bakery is the best opportunity to meet these goals.”

Like EDWINS at Shaker Square, the operation will cycle a set number of students through the program each year.

SARITA OPENS IN FORMER PLAYERS SPOT Players on Madison served its last meal in early October after nearly 30 years in business. But we knew the popular Lakewood spot wouldn’t stay idle for long, as longtime chef Anthony Romano announced that he and business partner Sandy Smith would be taking over the restaurant and reopening it as Sarita (14523 Madison Ave., 216-226-5200).

Following a major interior renovation, Sarita started welcoming diners last week.

Culinary Institute of America grad Romano describes the cuisine as New American.

“Lakewood, like many parts of the city and country in general, is this fantastic melting pot of cultures and flavors,” he says. “To me as a chef, that’s what New American cuisine is. It’s not pigeonholed into one country or one style, but is a representation of all of us. A blend of the best if you will.”

In terms of flavors and presentations, that translates into lighter dishes with natural reductions and vinaigrettes in place of heavy cream- and butter-based sauces. Romano intends to keep his menus seasonal, with frequent tweaks throughout the year. His goal, he says, is to provide tastefully healthy options at reasonable prices.

At the end of the day, Romano says that he just wants to create an environment that is casual, appealing and fun.

“We don’t take ourselves too seriously,” he adds. “This is the hospitality business; it’s supposed

to be fun. We aren’t saving lives, fighting wars or arguing politics.

We’re breaking bread and drinking wine. Our only goal is to treat people to a good time — just like we would if you were in our home.”

The 100-seat restaurant now features a custom-built, 16-foot communal table, a 12-foot chandelier made from kitchen utensils, and a contemporary black-and-white color scheme. It will be open for dinner seven nights a week. The 25-seat patio will reopen next spring.

THE VAULT AT THE 9 TO DEBUT NEW ‘GASTRO LOUNGE’ MENU THIS WINTER Vault, the exclusive nightclub with bottle service and a dress code, will add a lounge-exclusive menu beginning in December, according to Meg Duniec, vice president of marketing for Geis Hospitality Group.

Since opening at The 9 in 2014, Vault has been more focused on the liquid side of the business than the solid. Up to this point, food strictly was a catered affair, arranged on a case-by-case basis for events and parties. But now rechristened as a “gastro-lounge,” Vault will have its very own menu designed and executed by chef Nelly Buleje.

“We recognized the need and that we have the capability to serve more food at Vault than we do currently.”

– Meg Duniec “We recognized the need and that we have the capability to serve more food at Vault than we do currently,” Duniec explains. “We’ve been paying attention to what our guests have been asking for.”

Described as bar bites, with sharable items like housemade charcuterie and plenty of small plates, the menu will launch right after Thanksgiving.

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By Matt Wardlaw FOR MORE THAN A DECADE, singer Stephanie Trivison has been a familiar presence on the Cleveland music scene. With the release of Night Fires, the sophomore release from her band, These Knees, she’s finally starting to see years of hard work pay off. Its new EP represents the strongest batch of material that the group has released to date and a big step forward that reveals a tremendous amount of growth for Trivison as a songwriter and artist.

These Knees initially began in late 2010 as a solo venture for the talented singer/songwriter, who had written a batch of songs that didn’t feel right for randomstereo, her band at the time. Eventually, she broke away from the group and recorded those initial songs on her own using Garageband and began to perform solo, something she continued to do for about a year before realizing that she “really enjoyed and missed playing with other musicians.” She made a call to her former randomstereo bandmate, Rob Hassing, and asked him if he wanted to play a show with her under the

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The two continued to explore the collaboration and eventually hit the studio with a cast of additional players to record songs for what would become 2013’s The Young and the Bright. It would still be a little while before the official band line-up would solidify. Bassist Bryan Robinson joined the group about two years ago and guitarist Jesse Scaggs, also a randomstereo alumnus, joined the These Knees clan last November after a stint with Bethesda. Things had come full circle and Trivison is happy about how things have evolved.

“They’re all there,” she laughs.

“You know, I like what I like. I’ve been playing with Rob since we were 15. I mean, he’s been in every band that I’ve ever been in. So I’m pretty comfortable with both Rob and Jesse.

And then Bryan joined, I want to say, about a year and a half or two years ago now. It will be a year of the four of us all together, this month. But you know, Jesse, Rob and I all played in randomstereo together, so we were very familiar. We had a practice last

night and I was like, ‘Man, we’re really gelling!’ It just makes you feel good about it.”

Having released a one-off single, “Alive,” at the beginning of the year, the band turned its focus to working on an official followup to The Young and the Bright with producer Dave Piatek, who had worked with them initially on “Alive.” As Trivison shares, she had some pretty specific ideas on where she wanted to go with the next batch of songs, based on the reception of the previous album.

“We had some feedback from industry people that the last album was a little disjointed, you know, with the songs. We had a folk-rock song and a ’60s rock song and a Paramore-type song,” she says. “We got feedback that was kind of like, ‘Hey, you should kind of define your sound, like home in on what it is that you do best and then run with that.’ So I kind of had that in mind. I came in with seven or eight demos for Dave to hear. Two or three of them were written in one period and then the rest of them were written in a different period. And I think you may

even be able to pick out which ones were written at different times. I just wanted to have an album that was me kind of defining what my sound is.”

She refers to the years she spent in “these various bands” trying to get to that elusive sweet spot.

“And I’ve never really hit my sweet spot,” she explains. “I think I’ve gotten lucky and had some cool songs, but I feel like this is, more than ever, my sweet spot, songwriting-wise. I think I’m at a place where I’m finally understanding how I write best and not shying away from it, you know?

Because I have a tendency to want to write pop-sounding hooks and, in the past, I kind of wanted to cover that, like in heavier guitars with randomstereo. I would go, ‘How can I change this song so it doesn’t just sound like a pop song?’ And now I’m to the point where I’m like, ‘Well, if that’s what I write is pop songs, then I’m going to write pop/rock music.

That’s what I do.’ I’m taking what I feel like I’m good at and running with it.”

The new material, including “I Want You,” the lead track from the EP,

Vanessa Carlton, in a contemplative mood.

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MUSIC demonstrates how much These Knees have grown and progressed as a band, something that really flourishes thanks to Piatek’s production style, which left plenty of room for the material on Night Fires to breathe. But Trivison can see how her own growth and discipline helped to deliver better results as well.

“I think that Dave has a very specific idea of what he likes, soundwise, and I think he heard something in the demos that I created. He would hear how it was as a finished product.

But I do think that going into the songwriting of it, I was really trying to be a better songwriter with all of it.

And sometimes, I think for me, that means maybe stripping down some of the ideas. Because I can go overboard.

I can do 12-part harmonies; well, that’s not necessary for every song! So I think it was just a matter of homing in and deciding what’s necessary for the song to work. I came to Dave and the guys with the demos. Typically when I write, I’ll do all of the parts pretty close to finished, and then I’ll pass it on to the guys to do their little embellishments. But it was the same when I gave the demos to Dave — they were pretty well formed and I had spent a lot of time trying to get them to a place where I felt like they would be good songs on their own regardless of the production value. But I think Dave has a certain style that comes through on the record — he’s almost like the fifth member, kind of.”

After the release of Night Fires, the band plans to do some regional

songs in the shower. While some folks do that every morning, Trivison and her bandmates are taking the concept further, using the crowdfunding site Patreon to help power their Song in a Shower video series.

“I listen to a lot of music podcasts and they’ll introduce new ways of crowdfunding and kind of staying relevant. I also read Amanda Palmer’s book, The Art of Asking. You know, she famously had a two million dollar Kickstarter, and she’s also on Patreon,” she says. “It just seemed like a really interesting way to get people, one, engaged with you and, two, to force yourself to continually make content. With Kickstarter, you’re typically funding one album. With Patreon, you’re creating something weekly, daily, monthly, whatever it is, you’re constantly creating things and pushing it out to your subscribers.

And then they’re paying you, either by video or by month. They’re choosing kind of what their subscription level is. So instead of being locked in and saying, ‘I need X amount of dollars to get Night Fires recorded,’ you’re saying, ‘You know what? This is a way for us to get ongoing funding while we’re still pushing out new, cool content for you.’ I had recently moved to a house in University Heights and it had this giant shower, and I was like, ‘Well, we have to use this.’”

Watching the videos, it’s clear that the band is having fun with their “bathroom humor,” and they’re continuing to think of new ways to have a good time with the idea.

“We interviewed Dave for the next episode that will be coming out: We interviewed him on the toilet,” she

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touring and hopefully work on finding new ways to get additional exposure for its music.

“Ideally, I’d like to start pitching the songs from Night Fires to publishing companies for licensing opportunities and, you know, try to get the word out that way,” she says.

“And not even just get the word out that way, but licensing is a good way to make money and to continue funding your band. So for even that reason alone, I think it would be good. I’m always looking for what the next goal is for me and for the band as a whole. I feel like we work pretty hard, so we’ll just make things come of it.”

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says. “It’s just silly, because we’re kind of silly people. But I think it’s cool. I did a Beatles cover of ‘All My Loving,’ and it was one of the featured videos on Patreon and we’re like three videos into it, so it’s a cool way to meet new people, introduce people to what you’re doing, and I think it’s been kind of neat for family members and people that are out of town that can’t come to see you all that often. They have access to see you perform, which is cool. And it helps us. I think we’re at like $120-some a month, so it’s not a ton of money, but it helps us.”

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MUSIC RE-MASTERING THE PAST

Cowboy Junkies’ singer Margo Timmins talks about the band’s new boxed set

By Matt Wardlaw Photo by Chris Buck

THE RELEASE OF NOTES Falling Slow, the new boxed set from Cowboy Junkies, comes as a surprise on at least one level. It’s not the comprehensive career retrospective that one might expect. Instead, it focuses on re-mastered editions of three albums that the Canadian band made during the 2000s, with Open (2001), One Soul Now (2004) and At the End of Paths Taken (2007), rounded out with a fourth disc of nine previously unreleased songs which were recorded and demoed during the sessions for those albums. For singer Margo Timmins, it was a chance to revisit a time that, for her personally, was a bit blurry.

“It’s a period that kind of flew by.

Those albums to me are really kind of obscure. I don’t remember writing them. I don’t remember recording them!” she says with a big laugh during a recent phone conversation.

“Also, the mastering of them, we weren’t as happy with it, so it was a chance to sort of go back and revisit them and look at them, re-master them and get another feel for those songs.

Definitely, that period was a really big writing period for Mike [Timmins] and there were a lot of songs that we recorded and loved that didn’t make it to those albums. That was always frustrating for me, and there’s a couple of songs that didn’t make it that I was really frustrated with. So to be able to sort of bring them back and give them a new home, just sort of made sense at this moment in time.”

Originally recorded during the sessions for At the End of Paths Taken, “Morning Cried” is a track that Timmins hopes they’ll get to perform live during their upcoming shows supporting the new release, hinting that she feels like the song still has room for continued evolution and growth. “That’s a song I always loved.

I love the song and I love the sentiment of the song,” she says. “I still feel I haven’t captured that song, so that’s why I want to do it live, so I can sort of go at it and figure it out as [someone who is] a little bit older.”

“I don’t know how to describe it, but it was a really unique period,” she recalls, offering further reflection about the time when they worked on those albums. “We were all sort of

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turning 40, which I think is a bigger moment in your life than turning 30 ...

Even 50 didn’t sort of hit me as hard.”

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the birth of the band, which first began playing gigs in the Toronto area in 1985. They put out their first album, Whites Off Earth Now!! the following year, and although they’ve been quite prolific in recent years, they often record more material than what ends up on the albums.

“Sweet Jane” was featured in Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers

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movie in 1994, something that helped to introduce the music of Cowboy Junkies to a whole new audience. The track was released as a single at that time and charted inside the top 10 of the modern rock charts. It remains a staple favorite in the band’s concert setlist and, as Timmins reveals, it continues to pop up in interesting places, including an episode of American Horror Story which aired in late October.

“It was played [during the episode], I guess, while some guy was dancing

with some psycho killers,” she chuckles. “I don’t know, it sounded very weird. I just laugh and I say, ‘Can’t we just be the soundtrack to little deers running through the woods or something?’ No, it has to be the psycho killers! But yeah, it’s amazing how much that song has been played and used, and of course we’re grateful to it, but I’m always surprised.”

The band has had a good amount of success across the years and additional singles that performed well on radio, but Timmins acknowledges that “Sweet Jane” continues to be the one that many people know best, and they’re okay with that.

“When you start to feel like that, like, ‘Yeah, we have so many other songs,’ you know, you have to also realize and to be so grateful to have one song that so many people want to play and use in their movies or their TV shows or backdrops to whatever; that, in itself, is an honor. I mean, to have one album — you know, The Trinity Session has touched so many people — and to have a career and have one album do that is amazing, really. So you really can’t complain.”

Fans who are anxious to hear new music from the band besides the unreleased tracks on Notes Falling Slow can rest easy knowing that, according to Timmins, it’s in the planning stages for next year.

“Well, I think we’re going to tour this one for this year. We took last year off touring because I moved from the city out into the country and moved my son into a new school and a whole new kind of world, and I wanted to sort of be at home to make sure everybody was happy,” she says. “And we are, so this year we’re starting up touring again, and we’re starting to talk about writing another album with totally new material, so I think that’s what will happen next.

We’ll just put out a disc of new stuff and what that will sound like will have a lot to do with how we tour and what happens on stage. Because what we experiment with on stage sort of tends to end up on an album. So I have no idea what it will be.”

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MUSIC FRANKENJAM

Vermont-based Twiddle blossoms in second decade of music IT’S A TESTAMENT TO EITHER the water quality in Vermont or the simple bastion of talent up there that another offbeat band of stellar musicians has emerged from the Green Mountain State to carve up the national jam circuit. Twiddle, connoisseurs of “hi-def shred,” have taken up the mantle of genre-blending live improvisation — and they’ve done so patiently, woodshedding their craft as they make their way across the U.S. The band lands in Cleveland this weekend via the Twerk Tour with headliner the Werks. It’s a good fit, as the Werks have paved much the same freeway during much the same timeframe. The Werks, hailing from Dayton and dishing up an increasing emphasis on the electronic corner of the jam band ring, have helped shepherd Twiddle, in a way, into fresh markets and eager fan bases.

“I think both bands are pushing each other to play a better set every night,” Twiddle guitarist and singer Mihali Savoulidis tells Scene.

That’s the thing: Each show is stitched together with mystery and surprise. Like the jam band ethos, there’s no central “single” around which the band revolves.

And Twiddle, more than 10 years in on their craft at this point, has assembled a robust song list, one that offers up a variety of emotions and ideas for listeners to hang onto.

That’s the other thing: You need a good hook.

The band started in Castleton, Vermont, about 10 years ago.

Savoulidis and keys man Ryan Dempsey met during college orientation and began jamming early in their time together at Castleton State. Midway through their tenure there, they had already amassed the first stash of what would become Twiddle staples, like “Frankenfoote” — stuff that would appear on the first album, Natural Evolution of Consciousness, in 2007.

They were joined by drummer Brook Jordan and their original bassist, Billy Comstack. (Comstack later split to attend Berklee, and the band brought in Zdenek Gubb.)

By the time Somewhere on the Mountain came out in 2011, Twiddle was really making a splash on the regional festival circuit. In a sea

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of look- and sound-alikes, Twiddle was able to ride a sense of earnest dedication and creativity and carve their own den in the universe.

With tunes like the aforementioned “Frankenfoote,” Savoulidis was using his songwriting chops to illustrate characters, narratives, alternate worlds — the stuff that gives emotions and ideas their sticking

— stuff we’ve played for three years that we felt we needed a nice recording of,” Savoulidis says.

Prior to this one, the band’s last album was a live set recorded at Nectar’s in Burlington, Vermont.

“We decided to go kind of for the live sound, but not really — kind of more of an album as itself, by adding strings and horns and layers, things that aren’t going to

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points. (“Frankenfoote” distills thoughts on freedom and oppression through a Dr. Seussian tale.)

What lies ahead is the band’s first double album, a major statement piece after four years with no studio output. There are two songs on the album that have not yet been played live; most others have been roadtested for the past few years. The second album should be out around June or July next year.

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be there normally live but are going to make the songs sound great on the album,” Savoulidis says. “We wanted to do something a little more focused.”

That guiding directive for the instrumentation and production follows a similar evolution in the musicians’ songwriting. Listeners can pick up on a more exacting voice in newer songs.

“We’re all getting older, with more life reflection under our belt that’s coming through in the music,”

Savoulidis says. “There’s also the experience of playing together for so many years now. That’s definitely coming out in the songwriting process.”

That’s as opposed to, say, more offkilter offerings like “Doinkinbonk!!!” and lyrics like, “If you’re a sucker, then quick go ask your mother / Tell me what you had for supper / Don’t act like it’s a bummer…”

But you can’t have the decadelong lens of introspection without the earlier process of filling out your own shoes. Early on, Twiddle created a distinct voice — a band — and that’s indispensable for a group of young musicians hitting the road in this brutish millennium.

Eyeing 2016, Savoulidis says there’s still the relentless sojourn across freeways and through small and big cities alike. He says there are some “big offers on the table” — stuff that he couldn’t get into over the phone at this point — that promise a busy, dynamic summer.

And whether via odysseys like the Twerk Tour or any of the impending summertime festivals, bands like Twiddle succeed when they open themselves to experiences that prompt change. Savoulidis says his band doesn’t stand still. Even on a micro level, the band has been improvising songs that previously didn’t get much of the jam treatment, stretching everything out — “seeing what we can get out of it,” he says.

It’s kinda like the band’s arc as a whole.

“I don’t think it was ever a question for us whether this was something that we were going to do for the rest of our lives,” Savoulidis says. “At least, certainly not for me.

“It’s been a really nice experience touring with the Werks. They’re such good friends of ours,” Savoulidis says. “We’ve had some hurdles to overcome on this tour, and they’ve done it like champions and they’re still playing great every night. It’s been a ton of fun, and I don’t know when this will ever happen again for me or for us. It’s very special.”

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Dan Deacon/WUME/Pleasure Leftists: When electronic musician Dan Deacon played Cleveland three years ago, he delivered a highly engaging set at the Beachland Ballroom. Early in the set, he made everyone stand in a circle and dance in unison. Later, he would have everyone cram into the middle of the dance floor and gyrate. All the while, he kept a steady stream of hard-hitting beats flowing, turning the cacophonous “Lots,” a tune from his just-released album America, into noisy anthem. For “Trippy Green Skull,” he put electronic effects on his vocals to make it sound like he had sucked down a bunch of helium. A true eccentric, Deacon puts on one hell of a show and not many electronic artists come close to doing anything as engaging. (Niesel), 8 p.m., $22 ADV, $25 DOS. Grog Shop.

Tinsley Ellis & Tommy Castro and the Painkillers: With decades under his belt as a legendary rock musician, Tommy Castro commands a powerful stage. Cut from the Chicago blues cloth by way of San Jose, Castro has infused a number of American rock traditions into his repertoire. (Eric Sandy), 7:30 p.m., $22 ADV, $25 DOS. Music Box Supper Club.

Allen Stone: Born in Chewelah, Washington powerhouse singer Allen Stone started singing at his father’s church when he was just a kid. He wasn’t at all familiar with soul or R&B, but once he heard Stevie Wonder’s 1973 album Innnervisions, he was hooked. “It wasn’t the first time I ever heard him,” says Stone via phone from an El Paso tour stop as he tours in support of his terrific new album, Radius. “I had heard his music before but hadn’t had the name put to the music. I think it was ‘Isn’t She Lovely.’ I wanted to know more and just dove into his work and catalogue. I then wanted to discover anything from 1960 to 1970—soul, funk and R&B.” For Stone, who’s touring with a large ensemble, it’s important to keep the music organic and not resort to using electronic samples in place of live instruments.

“For some crazy reason, it’s cool for a computer to be on stage and people are okay with that,” he says.

“It’s super terrifying to me as a musician who plays instruments

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and sings live. There’s this influx of people using backing tracks and click tracks. As artists, we need to respect the common demographic and give [fans] real stuff and real energy.” (Niesel), 8 p.m., $22 ADV, $25 DOS. House of Blues.

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Chip Stephens/Glenn Wilson Quartet: 7 p.m., $20. Nighttown.

TreeHouse! “Give Thanks Tour” with Sun Dried Vibes/ROAR/Two Days until Tomorrow: 9 p.m., $5 ADV, $7 DOS. Beachland Tavern.

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the Wine Bar): 8 p.m. Brothers Lounge.

Heartbeat with Paul Weaver: 6 p.m., $5. The Euclid Tavern.

Heaven is in You/Josh Mace/Exotics/ Ice Cavity/ADAB & DJ Geauga Lake (in Club Atlantis): 9 p.m., $5.

Now That’s Class.

Hillbilly IDOL/Neon Don & Eva Dilcue: 8 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern.

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

The King Khan & BBQ Show/Milk Lanes/Archie & the Bunkers: 8:30 p.m., $15 ADV, $17 DOS. Beachland Ballroom.

Koji/Grey Gordon (in the Locker Room): 7 p.m., $8. Mahall’s 20 Lanes.

Nk Turner’s Hawkwind/Hedersleben/ Burnin Loins: 7 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Now That’s Class.

Parkway Drive/Miss May I/Thy Art is Murder/In Heart’s Wake: 7 p.m., $25 ADV, $28 DOS. House of Blues.

Paul Roth/Aidan Plank/Carmen Castaldi: 8 p.m., $10. Bop Stop.

Shop Talk/Emotional Support: 9 p.m., $5. Happy Dog.

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The Clarks/The Ohio Weather Band: For nearly 25 years, The Clarks have sustained a career as a betterthan-average alt-rock act that’s innocuous enough for a first date.

At their peak a few years back, the group could pack mid-sized venues throughout the region. (Niesel), 8 p.m., $15. Musica.

The Brian Setzer Orchestra 12th

Annual Christmas Rocks! Tour: The granddaddy of the rockabilly revival returns to the north shore for this yuletide concert staple.

Brian Setzer and his orchestra — musical talents of the highest order — know how to throw a party. This year’s show comes on the heels of Rockin’ Rudolph, Setzer’s first all-new studio album of Christmas tunes in a decade. The standards are all there — “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” “Here Comes Santa Claus,” “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing,” “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” — each with Setzer’s own personal flair. Bring your dancing shoes — and don’t forget the Santa hat. (Sandy), 8 p.m. Hard Rock Rocksino. !!!/Stereolad/p. stoops: At first blush, !!!’s latest album, As If, is a hiccupy trance wrought from the past decade’s obsession with dance music. But tunes like album opener “All U Writers” are actually more stripped-down than they seem on the surface; this is dancefloor disco.

From there, the album refracts that glitzy sheen across more pop rock-oriented songwriting (“Every Little Bit Counts”), 70s funk (the self-explanatory “Funk (I Got This)”) and a more contemporary indie electronic vein (“Lucy Mongoosey,” among the best tracks on this collection). It’s an album of variety, much like !!!’s fairly robust career by this point. (Sandy), 8:30 p.m., $15. Beachland Tavern.

Autumn Encore Festival Day One with The Modern Electric/ The Moxies/Ottawas/I Fight Fail/New Moon Rising/Jordan Thompson/Irwin Thomas/The Allies/Steadyfire/Falling Into Fire/ Arielle Tindel/Elipsus/Th3 Royal Skam/On Point: 6 p.m., $10 ADV, $14 DOS. The Agora Theatre.

The Black Lillies/Thor Platter Band: 8:30 p.m., $17 ADV, $20 DOS. Beachland Ballroom.

Blue Snaggletooth/Album/Contra/ Blackwater: 9 p.m., $6. Grog Shop.

Paul Christiansen (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m. Brothers Lounge.

Cleveland Tapes Beat Clash: 9 p.m., Free. Now That’s Class.

Designer Drugs/Man Amen/Mr. Indubitably: 9 p.m., $8. B-Side Liquor Lounge & Arcade.

Shannon Eller Sextet: 8 p.m., $10.

Bop Stop.

Elm St. Blues Band/Rio Neon/George Foley & Friends: 5:30 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern.

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Marianas Trench/Secret Someones: 8 p.m., $22.50 ADV, $25 DOS. House of Blues.

Mint Condition: 7:30 p.m., $45$87.50. The Tangier.

Peter & Will Anderson Trio: 8:30 p.m., $20. Nighttown.

Polka Happy Hour with DJ Kishka: 6 p.m., Free. Happy Dog. Queen of Hell/Hudson Falcons/All Dinosaurs: 9 p.m., $5. Happy Dog. Runaway Brother/Secret Space (in the Locker Room): 7 p.m., $6.

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Knucklepuck/Seaway/Sorority Noise/Head North: Earlier this summer, Chicago-based pop-punk band, Knuckle Puck released their debut full length, Copacetic on Rise Records. According to the official press release, “the band set out to flip the script.” “Going into it, we still wanted to be the same band we always were,” says guitarist Kevin Maida via phone from a Jacksonville tour stop. “We didn’t want to write the same 11 songs.

To us, that was boring concept.

We had an opportunity to impress ourselves and see how different we could make certain aspects of this while still maintaining the current band because we like the current band are. We didn’t want to pull a 180. We just wanted to do different stuff. It was fun to see how our music has changed over time.” The intro to the ballad “Ponder” features cooing harmony vocals. It’s typical of the band’s more nuanced approach on the album. Not that the band’s lost its edge. “Pretense” commences with parched, rapid-fire vocals before giving way to quieter guitar riffs.

And “Untitled” pairs call-andresponse vocals with noisy guitars.

(Niesel), 6 p.m., $14 ADV, $16 DOS. Agora Ballroom.

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Horizons/Beside The Silence/ Krymzon/Lethal Synergy: 6 p.m., $10 ADV, $14 DOS. The Agora Theatre.

Harry Bacharach Quartet Featuring Kenny Davis: 8:30 p.m., $10. Nighttown.

Between the Buried and Me/ Enslaved/Intronaut/Native Construct: 7 p.m., $22.50 ADV, $25 DOS. House of Blues.

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The Bunny The Bear: 6 p.m., $10.

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Little Ozzy: 7 p.m. Roc Bar. Jon McLaughlin/Tess Henley: 7:30 p.m., $17 ADV, $20 DOS. House of Blues Cambridge Room.

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Twerk Tour: The Werks/Twiddle: 8:30 p.m., $17 ADV, $20 DOS. Beachland Ballroom.

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In Celebration Of: A Tribute to the Life, the Music, the Love that is Carlos Jones: In order to “recognize and celebrate those who have filled the cultural coffers of our beloved Northeast Ohio, especially with their music,” local folk singer Charlie Wiener launched an annual tribute concert a few years back. Local singersongwriter Carlos Jones will be the fourth honoree following tributes to Alex Bevan, Pat Dailey and Michael Stanley. Local groups such as the PLUS Band, Umojah Nation, Dave Katz (from Ekoostik Hookah), Big Ship, Prayer Warriors, Colin Dussault, Alex Bevan, Robin Stone, and Outlaws I & I along with other special guests will play his music at Celebration of — A Tribute to Carlos Jones. The show serves as a benefit for Purple Heart Homes, an organization founded to provide “housing solutions to all generations of qualified Service Connected Disabled Veterans.”

(Niesel), 7 p.m., $20. Beachland Ballroom.

Spirit Caravan/Elder/Fistula: After a short run of seminal stoner rock albums in the late ‘90s and early ‘00s, Spirit Caravan faded into the ether. They reunited in 2014 (with a new drummer) for a handful of festival gigs and an earnest touring schedule. The band’s 1999 EP, Dreamwheel, mainlines all the best aspects of their music niche: desert highway guitar melodies, pulsing percussion, full-bodied vocal work, etc. After being away from the stash for so long, we can only imagine the band will be firing on all cylinders at shows like tonight’s in Cleveland, feeding fiery classics like “Sun Stoned” and “Burnin’ In” even more energy. Pack the bowl and turn the lights down low. (Sandy), 8:30 p.m., $13 ADV, $15 DOS. Grog Shop.

The Cleveland Battle of Bands: 4 p.m., $10. Agora Ballroom.

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Dominick Farinacci Sextet: 7 p.m., $30. Nighttown.

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Our Last Night/Palisades/Hail the Sun/Picturesque: 6:30 p.m., $15 ADV, $17 DOS. House of Blues Cambridge Room.

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Elle King/Horse Thief: Following the release of her debut album Love Stuff, which came out earlier this year, singer Elle King has been featured in national magazines and performed on TODAY and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. She made her Cleveland debut as headliner earlier this year when she played the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s Sonic Sessions concert; her return to town to play the Grog Shop tonight has been so anticipated, tickets sold out quickly. Her sultry single, “Ex’s & Oh’s,” has become a big radio hit even though its rockabilly vibe doesn’t sound like much else that’s popular on commercial radio.

(Niese), 8:30 p.m., $16. Grog Shop.

Dance Gavin Dance/Slaves/A Lot Like Birds/DayShell/Strawberry Girls: 7 p.m., $17 ADV, $20 DOS. House of Blues.

Kevin Gates: 7 p.m., $20 ADV, $25 DOS. The Agora Theatre.

Noah Hunt/Mato Nanji/The Alan Greene Band: 8 p.m., $20.

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“The challenge for us was: Do we go out and try to recruit a new lead singer?” Nickels says. “What we did was, for instance, Bill committed himself to figuring out how to sing his own stuff. I liked that, because to me that’s a great indie sort of thing.”

With The Clifton Beat, there’s an even greater emphasis on songwriting and ideas. The band’s debut, Pushing Back the End of Time, blends the three guys’ creative personalities into a stirring collection of power pop arrangements. “Collaboration is really what the record was all about,” Nickels says. Guitarist Jim Butterfield wrote some of the stuff on this album, too.

SECRET GARDEN “That song is sort of a classic microcosm of this band,” Nickels says of “The Garden,” one of the more psychedelic tunes on the album. “It started with a lyric that Mark wrote.”

Rouse wrote the rest, and Butterfield stopped in to push the guys on the vocal arrangements. From there, Nickels supplied the guitar solo -digitally recorded backwards.

HOUSE MUSIC Every note of the album was recorded at Nickels’ Lakewood house, where his production skills have really taken off. The bathroom down the hallway was used as an isolation room for the guitar cabinet. The gabled roof in the main room supplied a sort of proscenium atmosphere, perfect for percussion.

“Paul’s as passionate about recording as he is about the music,” Rouse says.

WHY YOU SHOULD HEAR THEM The band’s brand of power pop is timeless stuff. A lot of the tunes on this first album take on the idea that aging and growing up are two totally different concepts -- something very central to rock ‘n’ roll itself. “As you go through life, you make these choices and you commit to a path -- one thing you learn as time goes on is how incredibly fast this goes by,” Nickels says. “The acceleration is unbelievable. [Music] is something you can tap into for energy and perspective.”

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Fans show their support for the late Jim Konya.

THE LATE JIM KONYA TO RECEIVE KEY TO CITY IN A CEREMONY SCHEDULED for November 19, Parma Mayor Tim DeGeeter will present the Key to the City to heavy metal drummer Jim Konya, who performed with NunSlaughter and Schnauzer and who passed away in September at age 44 after suffering two strokes.

The local metal community rallied around Konya at the time, finding ways to support him and his family financially and emotionally.

“Beloved by thousands around the world, Jim touched the lives of everyone he met,” reads a remembrance on BraveWords. com. “Whether it was through selfless encouragement or his characteristically mischievous sense of humor, his impact on the worldwide metal and punk scenes was nothing but positive. ‘Jim Sadist’ was most renowned for ‘devil metal’ legends NunSlaughter, for whom he drummed for 20 years and across nearly a hundred releases, but for nearly as long, he drummed for Schnauzer and fronted (and occasionally drummed for) the Spawn Of Satan, who released the very first record on Hells Headbangers.”

The presentation to Konya’s parents will take place at 6:45 p.m. at the Cuyahoga County Library’s Parma branch. — Sam Allard

CARLOS JONES CELEBRATED In order to “recognize and celebrate those who have filled the cultural coffers of our beloved Northeast Ohio, especially with their music,” local folk singer Charlie Wiener launched an annual tribute concert a few years back. Local singer-songwriter Carlos Jones will be the fourth honoree

following tributes to Alex Bevan, Pat Dailey and Michael Stanley.

Local groups such as the PLUS Band, Umojah Nation, Dave Katz (from Ekoostik Hookah), Big Ship, Prayer Warriors, Colin Dussault, Alex Bevan, Robin Stone, and Outlaws I & I along with other special guests will play his music at Celebration of — A Tribute to Carlos Jones. The concert takes place on Sunday, Nov. 22, at the Beachland Ballroom. The show serves as a benefit for Purple Heart Homes, an organization founded to provide “housing solutions to all generations of qualified Service Connected Disabled Veterans.” — Jeff Niesel

NEW MUSIC VIDEO ADDRESSES LOCAL SHOOTINGS Local rapper A-Bomb says he tries to do “a little bit of everything — R&B, pop, hip-hop” on his new album This is Me. In advance of its release, he released a music video for the track, “In the Dark,” which he dedicates to the victims of “real life tragedies.” It includes references to shootings that have taken place both in Cleveland and in the rest of the country.

The video for the rap-rock tune opens with footage from the local news coverage of the shooting of five-month old Aavielle Wakefield and then includes footage from the rioting that took place in Ferguson and in Baltimore. “I tried to give a raw and scary feel inside the true life we live in,” says A-Bomb, who has been recording and performing locally for the past ten years. — Niesel

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Dear Dan, I’ve always been a big believer in the common-sense obviousness that monogamy is hard. Additionally, I like the idea of my wife getting fucked. I don’t have any desire to be denigrated or emasculated; I just get off on the idea of her being satisfied and a little transgressive.

Early in our relationship, we talked about monogomish guidelines: I’d like to be informed and consulted, and she would rather I kept mine to myself. Last weekend we were having sex, and she asked me if I “wanted to hear a story,” code for treating me to a tale of a sexual contact. She’d been out of town for work most of the summer, and she told me that one of her roommates had gotten in the shower with her and fingered her until she came.

I asked her if she’d fucked him, and she said yes. It was all hot and awesome. But a few hours later, I was experiencing pangs: Why hadn’t she told me or asked me at the time? Also, I felt very alone and depressed that summer, and when I’d gone to visit her, my wife and this roommate acted very strangely. I told her that I thought it was hot and cool, but that I didn’t think it was cool that she’d kept this from me for so long. Things got worse from there: Over the last week, we’ve had some great sex and open conversations but also a lot of anger and hurt. The truth is that she carried on with this guy all summer. It’s not the sex that bothers me so much as the breadth of the deception, the disregard for my feelings, and the violation of our agreement. And, yes, I’m feeling a little emasculated.

How does a loving husband who intellectually believes that fooling around is okay—and who finds it hot sexually—get over this kind of hurt and anger? Help me get right with GGGesus.

—Cocked Up Cuckold Keeps Stressing Two things have to happen in order for you to move on. One thing your wife has to do, CUCKS, and one thing you have to do.

Your wife has to express remorse for this affair—and it was an

affair, not an adventure—and take responsibility for the anger, the hurt, and, um, all the great sex you two have been having since the big reveal.

You don’t give her version of events—why she kept this from you—but you were depressed and lonely while she was away, and she may have concluded that informing and consulting you about this guy (first when she wanted to fuck him, and then when she was actually fucking him) would’ve made you feel worse. This conclusion is a massive self-serving rationalization, of course, because she knew you would veto the affair if she informed and consulted you.

Figuring it would be easier to ask for forgiveness than permission, she went ahead and fucked the guy all summer long and then disclosed when your dick was hard.

Your wife needs to own up to the deception, the dishonesty, and the manipulation, and then take responsibility for the hurt she caused—that requires a sincere expression of remorse—and promise it won’t happen again.

She shouldn’t promise not to fuck around on you again. You don’t want that, right? What she’s promising is not to deceive you again, not to go in for self-serving rationalizations again, and not to avoid informing and consulting you again.

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