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upfront CONSULTANTS GET BIG BUCKS FROM CITY TO “HELP THE PROCESS”

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As reported lAst week, Mayor Jackson and the city of Cleveland hired two PR consultants -- both former Plain Dealer staffers -- to assist in the city’s negotiations with the U.S. Department of Justice. In customary fashion, the city paid them handsomely for work that would strike most law-abiding, cop-fearing taxpayers as redundant. Consultant Mary Anne Sharkey and Dave Davis, a Youngstown State University journalism professor, were each paid $115 per hour, according to the city’s contract, to supplement regular law department personnel and gather and compile information to help the city determine with which items in the DOJ report it agrees (the logic of which we won’t bother to dissect or impugn). “Although the city disagrees with the conclusions of the [DOJ],” reads the contract, “the City and the [DOJ] have agreed to engage in pre-suit negotiations toward a courtenforceable settlement agreement to be filed with the Federal Court in conjunction with the filing of a civil complaint by the DOJ against the City.” It’s “pre-suit” negotiations because if said negotiations fail, the DOJ will, in all likelihood, file suit against the city of Cleveland. But that won’t be happening anytime soon. A spokesman for the DOJ confirmed to Scene that consent decree negotiations were “productive” and “ongoing,” but declined to comment further. He did add, via email, that “there is no timeframe for negotiations vs. lawsuit.” When asked whether he thought it odd that the city would go to such great time and expense to personally validate conclusions in the DOJ’s thorough investigation (requested, by the way, by Jackson himself when he

was eager to embrace change and a more professional police force back in 2013), the spokesman said only: “We stand by the report.” As for the consultants’ work, which began in December: It’s now just about done. The NEOMG’s Leila Atassi reported that Sharkey and Davis, among other things, were responsible for putting together that glowing PowerPoint for a mayoral press conference in which Jackson highlighted the declining usage of force by Cleveland police and celebrated his commitment to reducing police brutality since long before he took office. The MITA Group -- “Marketing and Public Affairs Consulting with Results” -- of which Sharkey is President, claims in its case studies to have worked with, or at least to have “partners” who have worked with, a defense contractor and “a foreign nation.” So the city of Cleveland ought to be a fairly small potato for the former Editorial Page Editor at the PD. That said, what are the “results” that $50,000 in lavish hourly consulting fees have bought in this instance? (Or will buy, technically, seeing as Sharkey and Davis have not yet been paid). “It was intended to help the process,” a city spokesperson told Scene. “But the process is distinct and different.” Per usual, it was unclear to which process the city was referring. Neutralizing the great social threats of our era, no doubt. Either that or changing public perception of the Jackson administration in the wake of the DOJ. When local groups were clamoring for specific responses after the deaths of Tamir Rice and Tanisha Anderson, Jackson did little, it appeared, but spout off about silver

QUITE A VIEW Local woman charged with felony after dangling child over cheetah exhibit at Cleveland zoo. Managers at The 9 preemptively ban her from soonto-open rooftop bar.

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bullets and band-aids, and yet how the DOJ Report didn’t go far enough. A city spokesman assured us, in our most recent phone call, that at this point there is no “sitting around” at City Hall. “There’s a lot of stuff going,” he said. “The negotiation, it’s constant.” To that end, we wanted to know, what was the significance to the completion of the consultants’ work? Does it mean we might expect more tangible results soon? “It means her work is done,” the city said, referencing Sharkey. “It doesn’t mean anything else.” Sharkey can now devote herself more fully to City Council, which loves consultants and retains her at a monthly rate of $5,000.

TwiTTer Troll Brings HeaT againsT neoMg Just about every media outlet has a troll, and Cleveland.com’s is of the more biting variety. Adorned on Twitter by the face of Louis B. Seltzer, longtime editor of the Cleveland Press and legendary Northeast Ohio journalist, @1801SuperiorAve is starting to get under the skin of some of NEOMG’s editors and reporters. (As far as the handle? It’s just the address of the former Plain Dealer and current Northeast Ohio Media Group offices.) @1801SuperiorAve has been on Cleveland.com’s case for awhile with a mix of vitriol, critiques and newsroom gossip. The account is protected now (and it occasionally goes offline for reasons unknown), but it’s been a persistent thorn in the sides of both PD and NEOMG employees and the source of much speculation.

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Portion of building facade crumbles and falls onto East 6th Street, crushing one vehicle. A nearby dad cracks wise: “Cleveland weather, am I right?”

Plenty of names have been bandied about as the culprit, ranging from former Plain Dealer writers and employees to third parties with tangential interests in lambasting the operation. Yes, a handful of specific names have been discussed as the source, a few even confronted or accused personally by current scribes, but the true identity of 1801 remains a mystery. (We emailed @1801 about answering some questions for us back in January — “All right, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up. Send your Qs,” he/she responded — but we’ve heard nothing since.) The account claims only 156 followers (as of publication), but just about everyone at 1801 checks in to see what he/she is saying. Most just don’t want to publicly follow the account or give @1801SuperiorAve the pleasure of clicking the follow button. As you can glean, @1801’s attacks aren’t merely professional in nature. Most of his targets get nicknames — Captain Click, for instance, is NEOMG content boss Chris Quinn — and @1801 has crossed all boundaries of good taste with a couple of significantly mean-spirited and prying personal attacks against certain people. Which is part of the reason the account is such a topic of conversation in the newsroom and in the offices of Top Men. Here’s how one newsroom source described it to Scene last week: “People at PD and NEOMG are pulling hair out like crazy. His/her tweets are spot on and the folks have thin skin. It is schadenfreude at its best for us here. I think people are spending more time checking his/her Twitter feed than

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upfront working on stories. Reporters on both sides are so mad.” And then there was this: “[Chris] Quinn is going apeshit over this. It is an obsession. I know he reached out to Twitter to shut it down but they, of course, refused. The irony — the suppression of protected speech by a newspaper — was not unnoticed.” We reached out to Quinn to see why he would want to get Twitter to shut down the account but haven’t heard anything back yet, and we probably won’t. Until then, our offer still stands to learn more about you, @1801. We’re sure you’re reading.

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Cuyahoga County Executive Armond Budish planned to announce this week at the State of the County speech a new deal with KeyBank as the naming rights partner for the Cleveland Convention Center. Specific contract numbers were not known at press time, but sources put the deal at more than $350,000 a year for 20 years, which would be above the national average of about $322,000 a year for such contracts in similar markets. The Superlative Group, a Westlakebased company with a national portfolio of work in this area, had been contracted by the county and city to find naming rights partners for the Convention Center and Med Mart (er, Global Center for Health Innovation), as well as other sponsorship deals. The $500,000 yearly fee for its services was split between the county and city since 2013. The more than $7 million in profits will be split as such too. A county spokesman, a representative from KeyBank and the Superlative Group did not respond with comment before press time. We’ll filter in details on signage placement and timeframes, as well as comment from the relevant parties, as we get them. Tune in to clevescene.com.

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justiCE o’nEiLL to ohio DEms: run For your LiFE After a piss-poor statewide showing in 2014 -- remember when we all found out that Ed FitzGerald didn’t even have a driver’s license for like a decade? -- the Ohio Democratic Party is on the ropes. Their next Big Race: the U.S. Senate seat presently occupied by Sen. Rob Portman. With 17 months until the actual election, Ohio Dems formally endorsed former Gov. Ted Strickland last week. Ohio Supreme Court Justice William O’Neill -- and surely thousands of other voters -- ain’t happy. The judge published a scathing Facebook post (a “personal heartfelt message,” he says) last weekend, eviscerating the Ohio Democratic Party and urging

moment, and both his youth and hefty early-campaign donation have garnered more than a few curious supporters. O’Neill called Sittenfeld a “young Ted Strickland,” in fact, and added that an open primary would make for a stronger candidate. This is no knock on Strickland himself, of course. On the surface, he’s got plenty of the stuff that wins elections: name recognition, state and federal experience to which he can point, and a healthy cache of bigmoney donors upon whom to call. But with a party stricken by rigor mortis and an increasingly approvedof incumbent on the other side of the race, there’s little in the way of shining optimism. Except maybe for underdog P.G. Sittenfeld. O’Neill concluded his antipaean with a frightening image: “Run people. Run. The inmates are running the asylum.”

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everyone to stay away far from it. “Leave the Ohio Democratic Party immediately. I have just learned that they have made an endorsement in the US Senate race for my dear friend Ted Strickland. When you see Ted, give him a hug and kiss him goodbye. He is a walking dead man.” Columbus Dispatch correspondent Jessica Wehrman initially broke the story, and the words stuck. Political observers around the state either rejoiced in agreement or lashed out with vitriol. O’Neill’s basic message was that the electoral process is just better served by having at least the sense that the Democratic primary will be worthwhile and robust. Cincinnati Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld is the other name in the ring at the

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CmsD to swEAr in nEw BAC mEmBErs Next week, Cleveland schools’ Board of Education Chair Denise Link will swear in the 14 members of the newly reconfigured Bond Accountability Commission. The group is something of a watchdog, meant to oversee the district’s construction and demolition spending. After months of uncertainty, Link re-appointed six current BAC members and appointed eight new ones. Amid the November 2014 election, in which voters approved $200 million in school construction and maintenance bonds, the board promised to reinstate funding for the BAC. The ensuing four months were not rosy, as the BAC was forced to

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compile an in-depth report on the district’s ongoing, interminable bout of new construction -- all without the guarantee of pay past March. The board did rectify that, though, and approved future payment -- with noted caveats. Unanimously, board members voted to tie funding to a weird set of tiered term limits (some members will serve two-year terms, others one-year terms). Until now and since the BAC’s early-2000s creation, members served indefinitely. With Link and the board having a hand in appointing eight new members (a majority) and imposing term limits, the new BAC scenario dismantles the commission’s “watchdog” status totally. It’s also worth pointing out that Link didn’t mention any term limits in her 2014 campaign for the levy. The BAC has repeatedly raised concerns about declining student enrollment (down from approximately 70,000 in 2002 to 37,000 today), yet the board has pressed on with an ambitious Issue 4 construction, rehab and demolition plan. We’re talking 22 new school buildings in four years and a spectrum of refurbishments across even more -- and that’s just the current three-segment phase we’re in now. This plan has been under way for a decade or so. Also notable is the opening line in the BAC’s March 21, 2015, report, in which the commission explains that the board missed out on $8.5 million in federal rebates through technology purchases. Ohio State Auditor David Yost has already intimated that his office will review that mishap and potentially audit the district, were the hint of fraud to waft across CMSD invoices. (Read the full BAC report at clevescene.com.) The meeting to approve the new BAC will take place at 6:30 p.m. April 21 at Paul Dunbar Elementary School on the city’s westside.

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facetime apartment hunters Amit Patel and Naman Desai will help you find the place of your dreams in CLE By Eric Sandy Among the demAnding And dynamic millennial demographic, a sense of place is more important than ever. Thankfully, Cleveland boasts lots of awesome places to call home -- we are a city of neighborhoods, after all. Too often, though, the apartment search is a mind-numbing hassle that takes too much time away from all the fun we’re trying to have. Enter Amit Patel and Naman Desai, whose startup Quo is the one-stop concierge service that will streamline your next lease -- all the way up to you signing on the dotted line and forking over first and last month’s rent for the home sweet home you’re looking for.

how did Quo come to be? Amit: I’m a Clevelander, born and raised, and I went out to New York for grad school. I decided to move back home to Cleveland, and I was in that process of trying to find a place to live. It was tough to gauge which neighborhoods were really a good fit for me, because I hadn’t been around for a long time. I did a ton of research online and asked around. I finally found a place, but it was frustrating. I wanted to do something about that. If I had one point of contact to help do the research for me, it would have been less painful. i imagine you’ve had similar experiences, naman? Naman: I grew up in Florida and went to school there. In college and in the years since, I’ve lived in 15 different apartment buildings in eight different cities. Lucky for me, I love maps and exploring, but a lot of people don’t love that stuff. Right after college, I moved to a suburb of San Francisco called Dublin. I was 21. I didn’t really understand that if you live in the suburbs, then your entire lifestyle changes. It wasn’t conducive to my hobbies, and as soon as my lease expired I was like, “I have to move into the city.” In talking to people, I realized that so many people, when they first move to a place, they wind up living in an apartment complex that they immediately leave when their lease expires. They realize that it wasn’t the right location for them.

how does Quo work to streamline that? Naman: We want to get to get folks into the right building and the right neighborhood the first time around. We treat ourselves like your best friend that knows a ton about apartments and knows a lot of property managers. We get to know folks -- their likes, their dislikes, their routines. We provide a tailored list of three to five apartments that we think they’ll really love. We act as that single point of contact. the last few places i’ve lived have been found after days of just driving around town, looking for signs. Naman: We’ve really focused things for our members. My one and only goal is to find the perfect apartment for you. Amit: What we do that is really unique is that Naman and I actually physically walk through these buildings as if we were prospective tenants. We get the real experience and take notes. We have real insight. And there are so many new buildings opening up. i’m thinking downtown, mostly, but there’s a great variety out there for newcomers. Amit: What we’ve done that’s pretty successful in marketing ourselves to people outside Cleveland is partner with Destination Cleveland to really get the word out there. Naman: There was an article in the New York Times in late 2014 and it specifically mentions Cleveland: The number of young people that are living within three miles of the city center has gone up 37 percent since 2000. There’s a change in the way that folks graduating from college are living their lives. It’s less about their job, and it’s becoming more of a social position. People are choosing to live where their friends live. We’re able to cater to that and get people into the neighborhoods and buildings with vibes and cultures that fit them. obviously everyone is different, but are there common criteria people are looking for in Cleveland? Amit: A lot of the requests are about living near a gym or near hot restaurants and bars. People specifically have needs for what’s

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Photo courtesy of Amit Patel Naman Desai, top, and Amit Patel co-founded Quo

in the building. We worked with a producer who was looking for high ceilings, like lofts. It’s being able to be in walking distance of restaurants, gyms, big employers. There’s a lot of development occurring around those needs, and I think that’s why you’re seeing so much growth in Cleveland.

there’s a great convergence of people having grown up here now moving back as adults. Amit: Just in my own experience, knowing the fact that other folks like me are moving back home -- I’m really excited about seeing all the development and growth. I think it’s really important, the way Cleveland is marketing itself. Naman: I’m not a native Clevelander, but I’ve spent a lot of time here. I’ve been able to watch the city grow from afar. There’s something different about Clevelanders. I’m from Tallahassee, and I don’t talk about

Tallahassee pride -- not that I don’t like it there -- but there’s something unique about the way folks from Cleveland talk about their city. It’s a sense of pride.

how can people get started with Quo? Naman: If you come to our website (rentquo.com) and fill out that initial form, we’ll start to get to know you -your contact information, but then your favorite clothing stores, your Pandora station of choice. We really want to get to know you. We ask for them to login through Facebook specifically because we use some of their information from Facebook to get an idea of the places they’ve visited and the types of stuff they’re into. Through that, they become a member. Then we reach out.

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feature It’s goIng to get weIrder The Rock Hall turns 20 this year, but the real fun comes in the next 20 years By Rob Harvilla A beloved rock-critic colleague of mine once told me that as an editor, he has one abiding rule: Writers can style the term rock and roll however they want. Rock ‘n’ roll, rock & roll, rock-and-roll, Rock ’N’ Roll, and so forth. The idea being that the genre itself is so broad, so vague, so malleable that there’s no one right (or wrong) way to think about it. In 2015, rock & roll (I’m an ampersand man myself, though it be the smooth jazz of punctuation marks) can mean anything, which of course also means that it doesn’t really mean anything, but this is Not My Problem. (I make up for the ampersand thing with a very rock & roll attitude.) No, this is the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame + Museum’s problem. (They go with a plain old and, but with the N bolded in the logo, very clever. I go back and forth on the plus sign.) The Rock Hall exists in two spheres: There is the actual museum, which is delightful, and which if you’re a local you’ve probably visited once or twice since it opened in 1995 and definitely seen hundreds of times as b-roll during televised Cleveland sporting events. And there is the abstract, metaphysical pantheon, which has welcomed a dozen or so inductees every year since 1986, via a weirdly formal ceremony, involving a lot of interminable speeches and 50-grizzled-dudes-strummingacoustic-guitars-simultaneously all-star jams, that they deign to actually hold in Cleveland sometimes. Everybody loves or at least appreciates the physical place; everybody loves to hate, or at least loves to be grievously offended by, the metaphysical pantheon. Look, it’s a silly idea. Fun-silly, but still silly. For the obvious “Why would you create an establishment to celebrate ostensibly anti-establishment music?” reasons, sure, but also because all Halls of Fame are designed to start arguments about the “fame” part, about each inductee’s worthiness; the Rock Hall is further hobbled by nobody agreeing on what constitutes “rock” either. Everyone agrees that Pete Rose was a baseball player, at least, but you most likely know a few folks on Facebook (or sitting at your Thanksgiving dinner table) with Real Strong Opinions on the Rock Hall validity of, say, Madonna, or Public Enemy, or ABBA — not because they

suck, necessarily, but because they’re not rock at all, man. Get used to this. It’s going to get weirder. Like any monolith, the Rock Hall has its biases and blind spots — Chic finally made it in this year after years of neglect, though snubs persist

Given that you’re eligible 25 years after your debut album, we’re working through the alt-rock/grunge era now, which is designed to make children of the ’90s feel old (bleagh), but at least provides a steady supply of world-conquering guitar-slinging types — Nirvana last year,

You have almost a decade and a half to prepare for Kanye West’s acceptance speech — but is that enough time? for the Replacements, the Smiths, Captain Beefheart, Janet Jackson, T. Rex, Yes, Kraftwerk, etc. etc. etc. — but excluding worthy entities and enraging fans is the whole point of doing something like this at all. There is a deeper, scarier, more fascinating problem.

Green Day this year, Pearl Jam next year — that pretty much everyone can agree on. But once you get past, say, Radiohead (eligible in 2018, along with the Wu Tang Clan, which is going to be hilarious), that’s pretty much the twilight of the era when Great Big Rock Bands were a thing at all.

Instead, from there, you get a few shoo-ins (White Stripes), some edge cases (Coldplay), a handful of cult favorites (Queens of the Stone Age, c’mon), and a coupla shrugs (the Strokes), but beyond that, it’s all rappers (Jay Z!) and pop stars (Beyoncé!). Does any living human better embody the rock & roll ethos than Britney Spears? Are you gonna be the person to tell Taylor Swift she’s not a part of this conversation? You have almost a decade and a half to prepare for Kanye West’s acceptance speech — but is that enough time? Does any of this matter? Of course not. From its inception, the Rock Hall has been polarizing by design, something to actively oppose or at least passiveaggressively subtweet. The famous bands whose personal brands revolve around being difficult about this sort of thing — the Sex Pistols, Guns N’ Roses, Black Sabbath for awhile, KISS sort of — have not disappointed, and we civilians get to bitch about who’s out (the Cure! Meat Loaf!) and who’s in (the Red Hot Chili Peppers! Ringo Starr as a solo act!). But amid the semantic lunacy, there’s still the potential for random, sublime, unifying moments where the whole thing makes, well, not sense exactly, but at least a semiconvincing case for its own existence. A couple years back I found myself watching the 2013 induction ceremony on HBO with my parents, with whom, naturally, I do not always agree on musical matters. (My mother once wrote an angry letter to this very newspaper because I made fun of U2; this remains a point of contention to this day.) But suddenly, all three of us were held rapt by a post-induction performance by, of all people, Heart, blazing through “Crazy on You” with a fervor and exuberance that demolished the stuffy/incoherent/ embalmed vibe haters insist the Rock Hall can’t help but radiate. This was, presumably, the platonic ideal of this joint: Bring generations together, remind you of righteous and/or magnificently coiffed musicians you may have undervalued, put a great song or two in your head, and get those old air-guitar juices flowing again. There in my folks’ living room, wilding out to “Barracuda,” it was frankly a pretty awesome moment. You could even call it rock ‘n’ roll.

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feature The snub club The artists still waiting for their deserved Rock Hall nods By Jeff Niesel, Matt Wardlaw and Annie Zaleski Each yEar, a nEw crop of rock, hip-hop and pop acts becomes eligible for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. Next year, some of the bands that could be nominated for the first time include alt rockers such as Smashing Pumpkins and Hole as well as the Brit-pop icons Blur, grunge rockers Alice in Chains and pop singer Mariah Carey. But there are a number of quality acts that have yet to be inducted (and some of them have never even been nominated!). Here’s a list of some of the bands that have been snubbed along with our take on why they should be inducted.

Big Star Rock ’n’ roll as we know it today wouldn’t exist without Memphis misfits Big Star, an unselfconscious, folk- and twang-inflected pop band that inspired everyone from the Replacements and Wilco to R.E.M. and the Bangles. Keening harmonies, chiming riffs and lyrics infused by longing, loneliness and faint optimism made the band’s music feel like the comforting shoulder of a good friend. Cult acts rarely get the credit to which they’re entitled, but Big Star deserves every accolade they receive.

to rock ’n’ roll (Queen’s “Another One Bites the Dust” was reportedly inspired by the song). Plus, Chic co-founder Nile Rodgers became an influential producer who steered popular music in innovative directions; clients ranged from David Bowie and Madonna to the Honeydrippers and Duran Duran.

ChiCago Their ’70s output included songs like “25 or 6 to 4” and “Saturday in the Park,” and the innovative guitar playing of Terry Kath, whose career was tragically cut short at 31 with a 1978 gun accident. The “rock ’n’ roll band with horns” sent those same horns out on lunch break for most of the ’80s, collaborating with David

passing last December after a battle with cancer. Eligible since 1994, Cocker was a masterful interpreter of songs that had been written by others, and the fact that he didn’t write them probably figures heavily into his continued exclusion. He put a huge amount of effort and passion into his performances, something that was famously parodied by John Belushi on Saturday Night Live, and if you saw him perform, it was evident that no matter who wrote the songs, he certainly wasn’t coasting on the compositional work done by others.

Nugent and others to be inducted. Since then, Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich has acknowledged that he’s part of a group of individuals working to get the English hard rockers, famous for the classic rock staple “Smoke on the Water,” into the Hall. Frontman Ian Gillan couldn’t care less, saying that the Hall voters “don’t quite understand what we are” and, as he notes, “Who the hell wants to be in an institution anyway?” Nominated in 2013 and 2014, Deep Purple seems very likely to get an eventual nod.

the Cure

Someone oughta represent the influential Native Tongues movement that took hold in New York in the late ’80s and early ’90s and found rap groups opting for a more positive portrayal of black culture. Rappers such as Mos Def were clearly influenced by the movement. So it might as well be De La Soul. The forward-thinking hip-hop act had only one outstanding album — 1989’s Three Feet High and Rising, which just happened to be its debut — but the group’s clever use of jazzy samples and skits made it into one of hip-hop’s most distinctive acts. Producer Prince Paul deserves some of the credit; he went on to produce a slew of rap acts and issue a handful of solo efforts. If the group is inducted, it better invite him to the ceremony.

These British Goth rockers will probably never get inducted (they’ve only been nominated once) but they’ve

Cheap triCk There are fewer bands cooler than the pride of Rockford, Illinois: Cheap Trick. Back in the day, the powerpop godfathers appealed to teenage hellraisers and wholesome suburban kids alike, thanks to Robin Zander’s pitch-perfect voice and flowing locks, guitarist Rick Nielsen’s riffs and flashy axes, and Bun E. Carlos’ ferocious drumming. Today the band’s songs (and Zander’s voice) still sound as fresh as they did in the late ’70s, making their Rock Hall exclusion all the more mystifying — and disappointing.

ChiC Chic found their greatest success as a disco act thanks to propulsive hits such as “Le Freak” and “Good Times.” However, the group’s basslinefirst approach and emphasis on groove infiltrated countless other genres, from hip-hop (“Rapper’s Delight” sampled “Good Times”)

De la Soul have been waiting so long they fell asleep.

Foster on a string of hits that sent the group in a ballad-heavy direction that built off of the success of similarly light ’70s tracks like “If You Leave Me Now.” Admittedly, group members themselves were well-aware that they were never critic’s favorites, with Lamm penning “Critic’s Choice” in the mid-’70s as a lyrical response to the group’s detractors. You can also wonder if their ’80s legacy will permanently overshadow their ’70s accomplishments and keep them out. Either way, with nearly a half century of work in the books, you can bet that Chicago isn’t losing sleep over the snub.

Joe CoCker It’s a real shame that the gravelly voiced Cocker couldn’t get his moment on the Hall of Fame stage prior to his

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got the catalog to merit inclusion. Formed in the wake of the punk explosion, the band still had that edge but it harnessed pop sensibilities in radio hits such as “Boys Don’t Cry,” “Just Like Heaven” and “Lovesong.” There’s a reason these songs still find their way onto movie soundtracks — they capture the restlessness of youth in a way that few other songs do and they have great hooks too.

Deep purple Media personality Eddie Trunk has been banging a very loud drum in recent years over artists who continue to get snubbed by the Rock Hall. When Metallica was inducted in 2009, singer James Hetfield borrowed elements of Trunk’s list during his induction speech, calling for Deep Purple, Thin Lizzy, Motorhead, Ted

De la Soul

eleCtriC light orCheStra ELO majordomo Jeff Lynne hobnobbed with Bob Dylan in the Traveling Wilburys and co-produced albums for Tom Petty, Joe Walsh and every member of the Beatles but John Lennon. That the music he created and produced with Electric Light Orchestra doesn’t receive the same sort of respect as these icons is perplexing. Complex harmonies and arrangements — and hooks for days — make “Do Ya,” “Mr. Blue Sky” and “Evil Woman” pop music staples, while his disco fusions are underrated. Hopefully Lynne’s contributions to the Xanadu soundtrack aren’t being held against him.

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feature eligible. However, the band wouldn’t exist without the ’80s punk and hardcore underground, specifically kindred sonic spirits Hüsker Dü. The Minneapolis power trio (fronted by the mighty Bob Mould) merged furious tempos, aggressive guitar hooks and unstoppable pop melodies, and in the process proved that punk could be delicate and confrontational.

Iron MaIden and Judas PrIest Iron Maiden and fellow British hard rockers Judas Priest have each been eligible for induction for a long time now (10 years for Maiden, 15 years for Priest). Both bands are cornerstones of ’70s and ’80s hard rock and heavy metal. So what will it take to get them inducted? It might be as simple as waiting for turnover in the voting pool — the continued addition of hard rock inductees (and those who worshipped at the altar, like Dave Grohl) might eventually provide the necessary juice that will get them voted in.

Ben e. KIng Technically, King is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame — as one of the members selected from the complicated scorecard of musicians that made up the Drifters over the years. During King’s short time with the group, he lent his soulfully smooth vocals to a number of future classics, including “Save the Last Dance for Me” and “There Goes My Baby.” Due to management disputes, King’s run with the band ended after less than two years and he went solo, recording a string of additional hits including the iconic “Stand by Me,” penned with legendary songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller — a track which went Top 10 twice, in 1961 and again in 1986. Since he was nominated three times in a row beginning in 1986, it’s likely the window to induct King as a solo artist officially closed in 1988 with the Drifters induction. He hasn’t been nominated since then.

KraftwerK They’ve been nominated before, but now more than ever Kraftwerk deserves a spot in the Rock Hall. Between their DIY instrumentbuilding and electronic music experiments, the German act has been an inspiration to countless artists or scenes: ’70s experimenters such as Bowie, Gary Numan and Human League; ’80s new wave; ’90s rock bands such as Nine Inch Nails and the modern EDM movement. Electronica

is pretty much the new rock ’n’ roll, and this wouldn’t be the case without Kraftwerk.

Moody Blues The English progressive rockers had success that was spread across four decades including their unexpected resurgence in the ’80s with “Your Wildest Dreams” and “I Know You’re out There Somewhere.” Now 51 years into their journey, the Moody Blues continue to play a yearly run of gigs that are well attended. Even with that enduring popularity, the group feels like a bit of a long shot; but it’s not hard to imagine that someday, all of those “Nights in White Satin” tributes might pay off.

wIllIe nelson Is there anybody more rock ’n’ roll than Willie Nelson? In the eyes of the Hall, apparently so. The outlaw country singer-songwriter has been eligible since 1986, but never nominated. There have been collaborations with inductees like Aerosmith and U2, and his buddy and fellow Highwayman Johnny Cash is in the Hall. Like Cash, Nelson worked in a lot of different genres over the years, so it doesn’t feel like much of a stretch to say that the Texas-bred storyteller has earned his place in the Hall. But he’s also gotten his share of accolades in the right places — like the Country Music Hall of Fame. So a nod from the Rock Hall might not be coming anytime soon.

stevIe nIcKs If Lou Reed, Springsteen and each Beatle can get into the Rock Hall as solo artists, why not Stevie Nicks? Fleetwood Mac’s queen witch has had a successful solo career for decades, starting with her Tom Petty duet “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” through the unstoppable “Edge of Seventeen” and last year’s underrated 24 Karat Gold: Songs from the Vault. Nicks’ inimitable, gravelly voice and sartorial perfection — not to mention feminist perspectives — make her a musical icon; recognizing her bulletproof nature with a Rock Hall nod is the right thing to do.

n.w.a. This hip-hop supergroup didn’t have the longevity of inductees such as Public Enemy, but don’t hold that against them. The group yielded some of the biggest names in hip-hop today, including Dr. Dre and Ice Cube. Its incendiary album Straight Outta

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Compton provided a snapshot of what life in South Central L.A. was like in the ’80s and scared the shit out of the FBI, who allegedly kept tabs on the guys in the wake of the album’s release. They’ve been nominated but haven’t gotten the votes to get in. Look for them to finally get the nod in the coming years.

nIne Inch naIls Nominated for the first time this year, Nine Inch Nails fell short of the mark and won’t be getting inducted at this year’s ceremony. It’s rather disappointing, especially when you consider that the industrial rock group has such deep roots in Northeast Ohio. The group deserves the nod simply because album such as Pretty Hate Machine, Broken and The Downward Spiral introduced industrial rock to a wide audience and did so without making any significant compromises. In the wake of those releases, frontman Trent Reznor has proven himself to be quite the composer on soundtracks for films such as The Social Network and Gone Girl.

roxy MusIc That Roxy Music hasn’t joined fellow U.K. shapeshifters David Bowie, Genesis and Peter Gabriel in the Rock Hall is a puzzle. Their early years were as challenging (and prog-leaning) as the latter two acts, while their shapeshifting tendencies and sleek, sophisticated electropop became a touchstone for debonair, boundarypushing rockers of all persuasions. Bryan Ferry is also one of rock’s great frontmen, dapper and classic in all the right ways.

sMIths Certainly ’80s mope merchants the Smiths aren’t — and were never — as mainstream as other college rock bands. However, in the past three decades, the group has been more influential overall, on genres both unexpected (’90s hardcore and post-rock, ’00s Warped Tour rock) and logical (shimmering indie rock, gloomy singer-songwriters). Of course, it helps that frontman Morrissey (who’s playing Akron in June) and guitarist Johnny Marr are a musical pairing on par with the Glimmer Twins, in the way the latter’s effortless riffs and the former’s playful melancholy created angsty, relatable magic.

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Not only did Sonic Youth’s DIY, artsy ethos and punk attitude influence recent Rock Hall inductees Nirvana, the New York band proved underground artists could be successful on their own terms — and join the mainstream without compromising their ideals or sound. The band’s distortion-filled music and paeans to (and skewering of) pop culture kitsch were spot-on, while their detached-cool observations about power, feminism and relationships made them countercultural heroes. Even if Sonic Youth ended with the end of Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore’s marriage, their noisy, chaotic rock and roll left an indelible legacy.

yes Bassist Chris Squire is the only constant presence in the constantly revolving lineup of members who have shuffled in and out the door — sometimes several times — over the years in Yes. But these are highly influential names we’re talking about, from Squire to vocalist Jon Anderson, keyboardist Rick Wakeman, guitarist Steve Howe, drummer Bill Bruford and even future super-producer Trevor Horn, to name just a few. The group influenced a long line of future prog rockers, including bands like Dream Theater and Porcupine Tree, and with the recent inductions of Genesis and Rush, it seems very likely that Yes will find their place sometime “Soon.”

warren Zevon If you did a quick poll of people on the street, most of them would probably tell you that Warren Zevon is already in the Rock Hall — because Zevon just seems like a guy who would have been inducted automatically in his first year of eligibility, right? One can only wonder if the notoriously difficult singersongwriter pissed off more than a few of the people holding voting ballots. But his inimitable songwriting style and lyrics — preserved in songs like “Werewolves of London,” “Lawyers, Guns & Money” and “Poor Poor Pitiful Me” — make a case for induction that cannot be denied. And with pals like Jackson Browne and Linda Ronstadt in the Hall, hopefully Zevon’s legacy will eventually become a noise that can’t be ignored.

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feature the collectors True confessions from the Rock Hall employees who put Eminem’s underwear on display and keep watch over the lyrics to ‘Purple Haze’ By Jeff Niesel The Rock and Roll hall of Fame and Museum and the Library and Archives are home to thousands of artifacts relating to all things rock ’n’ roll. At the Rock Hall, you can see the hand-painted Porsche that Janis Joplin drove between Los Angeles and San Francisco back in the ’60s. And at the Archives you’ll find everything from the hand-written lyrics to Jimi Hendrix’s “Purple Haze” to an Elvis Presley set list from the ’70s. Both places are treasure troves for scholars and fans alike. We met up with assistant curator Meredith Rutledge, who works at the Rock Hall, and the director of library and archives Andy Leach, who works at the Archives, to get a behind-the-scenes look at how the Rock Hall keeps up its collection.

do you process new items on a daily basis? Rutledge: Yes. Just today, I got a cold call from somebody who has “something” that they think we might have an interest in. Every day we get calls from people offering stuff or wanting to know what things are worth, which we cannot do. We don’t do appraisals. Things come in everyday and especially now in front of the induction ceremony we’ve had inductees coming in. [Black Hearts bassist] Gary Ryan came in last week and was so excited by what he saw that he came back and donated a few things. The next day, he brought a shirt he’s wearing on the back cover of the I Love Rock N Roll album. What would you consider to be some of the most sacred items at the Rock hall? Rutledge: One of the most obvious is Janis Joplin’s Porsche. That’s one of the biggest, most tangible items. It’s been here since the beginning. It goes off display because it’s popular with museums all over the country. It’s intrinsically valuable because of what it is. It’s a 1965 Porsche. The artwork adds to it. John Lennon’s bed-in guitar is an incredibly iconic instrument. Wanda Jackson’s guitar. It’s a Martin guitar that’s a vintage. They’re incredibly prized instruments. The Alice Cooper guillotine head, just for shock value. It’s a great thing visually.

John Paul Jones’ outfit from The Song Remains the Same. It’s beautiful. It’s a collage jacket and a beautiful piece of art. Leach: The most popular thing and maybe the most valuable thing in the building is the original hand-written lyrics for “Purple Haze.” We don’t provide direct access to that. We have them digitized and provide a print facsimile. It’s on exhibit at the museum as a facsimile.

Which exhibits are the most popular? Leach: We have an Elvis Presley set list from 1974 that people get a kick out of. The [late Plain Dealer rock writer] Jane Scott collection is something that people are excited about. We haven’t

underwear and socks were in the bag too. We don’t wash the clothes that come in because whatever bodily stuff is on them is part of the artifact. We would only alter something if it presented a danger to itself or other artifacts. For instance, if there was a mold problem. Or if an artifact was unsound and it needed to be stabilized before it was exhibited. Anything we do has to be reversible. If we put a super structure under an outfit to hang on a form, it has to be done in such a way that it can be taken out. We’ve got [Green Day singer] Billie Joe Armstrong’s complete outfit from Woodstock ’94. He started this mud fight with the chant, “I don’t care what you do. I don’t want to be a mud hippy like you.” [Bassist] Mike Dirnt lost three teeth. We have Billie Joe’s tie,

Meredith Rutledge examines Lou Reed’s Bolin guitar

made it available yet, but we received it after her death. Within the past month, we received a grant from the History Ohio Connection to process it and digitize portions of it. It’s all of the notebooks she saved from interviews or from reviewing shows. There are photographs and clippings of all her stories. We have her record collection. Her first music gig was covering the Beatles. She has four loose pages that each have a Beatle’s autograph on them.

have you ever received something that really shocked you? Rutledge: Eminem’s underwear. He sent us a whole outfit. He didn’t just send his underwear. It was everything from a raincoat to a full outfit and the

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which has a shadow of mud on it. The shoes we kept in a bag. Leach: You get used to seeing some crazy things in collections. In one collection we have here, we found an almost-empty bottle of vodka in the bottom of a box. It was in the Art Collins collection. He was Iggy Pop’s manager. We also found marijuana leaves pressed in a book. That’s not exactly shocking but it was surprising.

do you ever interact directly with the artists? Rutledge: Rarely. I will never forgot when I picked up my phone and Debbie Harry was on the other end asking about a dress she had worn. That was a huge thrill but a real exception. I don’t often speak directly to the artists.

I mostly deal directly with agents, managers and lawyers. I always say that moms are the curator’s friends. They’re usually very proud and keep everything and are eager to share.

not that you would ever steal anything, but what’s one item you would want to own? Leach: I’m more of a book and record guy. The two things I won’t buy on my own but would be cool to own are the two box sets that Paramount put out. I’ll show you them. They’re beautiful historic reissues. Each compiles 800 recordings from the Paramount label from the ’20s and ’30s. They’re great but I can’ t pull the trigger to purchase them on my own. Many of the artifacts are notepads containing lyrics and studio equipment. Given that we live in a world when few people use a pen and paper and few artists record their albums in studios, is a curatorial crisis looming? Rutledge: We’ve started getting hard drives from some of the DJs. In our festivals exhibit, we had a couple of laptops. Skrillex gave us a laptop. They’re not as visually interesting. Visitors love seeing hand written lyrics. Now that the writing is going on on laptops, it makes it a challenge to replicate that experience for visitors. It’s a challenge we embrace. Leach: The question that I really worry about it is whether in 50 years, if someone wanted to write a fulllength biography or study of a very important artist, what raw materials would they have? We have the Eddie Cochran collection and you can see lyrics and contracts and receipts and letters and all these things. These things have become digital. Not to mention the recordings are digital and the information that people write about them is becoming more and more digital. How is all that going to be preserved? It’s very complicated. I worry that it just won’t exist and won’t be as easy to organize as paper and other things.

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FEATURE cloak, daggers & complaints A look at the cryptic and contentious Rock Hall voting By Jeff Niesel When the Sex PiStolS Were announced as a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum inductee in 2006, singer Johnny Rotten posted a scathing letter to the Rock Hall on the band’s website. He called the museum “a piss stain.” “Your [sic] anonymous as judges but your [sic] still music industry people.” His criticisms probably wouldn’t have been any less harsh if the names of the voters were public, but it does raise questions about just who decides who gets inducted and why. The Rock Hall’s voting system has been in place since the start (the first class was inducted in 1986, even before I.M. Pei’s iconic glass house opened on the shores of Lake Erie), and it isn’t about to change. And though this year’s list of nominees isn’t as controversial as that of past years, the system still has its share of critics.

How it works Each year in September, a group of rock critics, scholars and musicians gathers at the Rolling Stone magazine offices in New York to choose the bands that end up on the nomination ballot. It’s a confidential process. Whatever is said in the room where the various critics, musicians and industry types have gathered isn’t supposed to leave the room where they’ve gathered. It’s like Vegas except with heavy doses of tweed. No one is supposed to know the names of the members on the committee (though that information manages to leak out every year, because journalists are the worst at keeping secrets). In addition to the select group of about 40 people that serve on the nominating committee, several outside committees devoted to different genres (hip-hop, early rock pioneers, progressive rock, etc.) submit the names of acts to be considered for nomination. The only

criteria: The artist must have put out its first release at least 25 years ago. In the end, the 15 acts with the most votes make it onto the ballot and then the top vote getters on the ballot that’s voted upon by a much larger pool of people — about 600 — finally get the honor of officially being named inductees. Seems simple enough. But when you start asking questions, you realize that the process isn’t as transparent as it might appear. “I’ll talk to you [about the process], but I’m uncomfortable about it because it’s supposed to be confidential,” says one nominating committee member who wished to remain anonymous. “It’s a physical meeting. Not everyone on the committee is at the meeting, but the bulk of them are. Folks are asked to suggest three names of artists who should be considered to be on the ballot and make whatever remarks they want to make about the merits of the folks they’re

suggesting, and it goes around the table. There are also committees that meet earlier and come up with suggestions of different nominees, but it’s not a given that they’ll get on the ballot.” Rock Hall president and CEO Greg Harris agrees there’s a certain subjectivity to the process. Harris, who spent 14 years at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum where he “advanced from curating the Hall of Fame Library and Archives broadcast collection to serving as vice president of development,” according to his Rock Hall bio, explains why the process is much different than that of sports hall of fames. “It’s not based on record sales,” he says from his office at the Rock Hall one recent afternoon. “If you think about it, if it were based on record sales, the Velvet Underground and the Stooges would not be here, but clearly they belong here. You could say that for other bands as well.”

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After the nominating committee settles on its choices, a “book” is put together and ballots are mailed out to hundreds of voters. The “book” includes blurbs about each of the nominated artists and links to websites where voters can listen to their music, (because getting to know an artist for the first time is a damn fine way to decide their historical relevance). Voters get to select up to five of the nominated artists and then must physically mail ballots back to New York. “The cool thing about the ballot is that it goes out to all the living inductees,” says Harris. “They’re the largest single voting body. When you think about it that way, people like Bono get a vote. If they made their living in this art form, they should be able to judge the merits of others. It’s very different than the process of other halls of fame.”

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The ConTroversy Each year, the nominations receive a certain amount of criticism. Some years are more contentious than others, and as with any Hall of Fame, there’s bound to be disagreements on the subjective process. Fans have bitched and moaned that acts like Big Star, Cheap Trick, Chicago, Electric Light Orchestra, Jethro Tull and the Moody Blues have never been nominated even though they’ve been eligible for years. And acts like Rush and KISS have only recently been nominated after years of never making the ballot. Harris admits that not everyone is going to agree that the bands on the ballot are deserving of a nomination. “There are people on the ballot who have been impactful and influential and did a lot and quite frankly you might not be a big fan of them,” he says. “But you have to recognize what they’ve done. On the public side, everyone has their

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favorite artists. There’s the album that got you through something and that type of thing. What’s neat about the process is that people actually care. If they didn’t care, that would be a statement that we’re not relevant. The volume and mail of other stuff that comes through is really terrific. We love it and embrace it. I think it’s great that people are online talking about their favorites. Stevie Ray Vaughan has a very passionate fan base and it’s a great thing that he got in this year.” Year after year, acts that should be inducted don’t get inducted. The website futurerocklegends.com even has a section devoted to “The Biggest Rock Hall Snubs.” It’s a long list of bands that includes acts ranging from the influential New York post-punk act Television to classic rock acts such as War and the Zombies, both of whom have been nominated but not inducted. “A lot of people talk about missing artists,” says a voter who wished to remain anonymous. “There are major ones. They’re pretty cult oriented. Roxy Music should be in and if they made it to a ballot, they would definitely get in. They’re influential and popular but not as popular as Green Day. And they haven’t made as much money for the industry as Stevie Ray Vaughan. You have no idea how the nominating committee goes in. Some acts show up year after year. Chic keeps showing up and there’s a contingent that supports them. Yes has shown up once. I have strong feelings about who could make it onto a ballot as does everyone else, but we have no say.” Another controversy centers on how all-encompassing the Rock Hall should be. A few country acts (Johnny Cash, Hank Williams) are in, as are a few hiphop acts (Public Enemy, Beastie Boys). Jazz trumpeter Miles Davis is in but John Coltrane and Charlie Parker aren’t. Harris says that the diverse nature of rock ’n’ roll makes it important to induct acts that aren’t strictly rock, whatever that designation has come to mean. “I believe that rock ’n’ roll isn’t solely four skinny guys with long hair and guitars,” he says. “It’s always been diverse. When we talk about the roots, it’s gospel, blues, country and R&B. From the beginning, Chuck Berry’s ‘Maybellene’ charted on the country charts, the R&B charts and I think the pop charts. This is an art form in the ’60s that included Jimi Hendrix and Simon and Garfunkel and Leslie Gore and Janis Joplin and the MC5. Because of that definition, it includes metal, hip-hop and dance. It’s more an attitude and spirit than it is guitar-driven music.”

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FEATURE nomination process has become more cordial in recent years. “It’s very civil,” he says. “At one time, it wasn’t. I don’t know how the makeup of the nominating committee comes to be. I’m happy I’m on it. But there are people who were on it years ago but are no longer on it. I don’t know why. There’s definitely diversity. When it started, it was, for the most part, record business functionaries. Now, it’s a little more diverse with journalists and scholars.” Harris, who just participated in the voting process for the first time in 2013, can’t speak to nominating committees of the past, but he says he found the discussions to be rather amicable. “It was definitely lots of open communication,” he says. “It was invigorating. Everyone was advocating for the acts they care about. It was exciting to see how seriously everyone took the process and how much dialogue was involved. The process has been handled this way for close to 30 years.” The nominating committee, which recently added Rage Against the Machine/Audioslave guitarist Tom Morello and Roots drummer Questlove to the fold, has diversified too. It’s not just a group of old white dudes. Harris says the nominating committee does change membership from year to year. And it has started to include younger members. One particularly vocal critic of that shift is Joel Selvin. A long-time rock critic, he was dismissed from the committee in 2007 and didn’t receive a ballot that year either. “I was on the nominating committee but was thrown off in a discriminatory purge of older members,” he says. “They said so in dismissing me. They were looking for younger members. If they ever covered a dime of my expenses, they would have been in violation of anti-discriminatory legislation. That was the specific directions of [Rolling Stone publisher] Jann Wenner, who has been singled out for manipulating the process That’s how Grandmaster Flash got in. This year he did that with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. The system is corrupt. It’s an elitist group of critics that represent the viewpoint of that group. After they’re done with the elitist section, they send it to a non-elitist voting body that elects people like Eric Clapton for his solo career. It’s worse than the Republican nomination process.” Selvin maintains the Rock Hall Inductions don’t have the same “level of integrity” as something like the Oscars. “A couple of inductions have been highly suspect,” he says. “My least favorite is Miles Davis. I know he got in

by a high-pressure telegram campaign by Quincy Jones and Diana Ross and highly placed African American musicians. Not only does Miles for all his artistry not belong, but he would have laughed and been scornful of such an induction. Once I saw that happen, I figured this is an institution that cares nothing about integrity. It’s strictly political.”

This Year’s Class When the inductions were in Cleveland three years ago, Guns N Roses frontman Axl Rose stirred up a shit storm of drama by refusing to attend. GNR still performed but with

a replacement singer. Rose’s stunt came in a long line of no-shows. Even Paul McCartney, a presenter at this year’s ceremony, was a no-show when the Beatles were inducted. Harris says the absence of any drama concerning this year’s class (the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, the “5” Royales, Green Day, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, Lou Reed, Ringo Starr, Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, Bill Withers) suggests the extent to which the inductions are merited. “How do you argue with Bill Withers and Lou Reed and Paul Butterfield Blues Band?” he says. “It’s an incredible class. This year, in the absence of drama, I’ve

seen a ton of coverage on who these people are.” In the end, it’s hard to say if troublemaking Johnny Rotten was on point with his tirade about the Rock Hall. But Harris points out that the Rock Hall embraced his criticism, which he said is “true to form.” That fact suggests the powers that be at the Rock Hall have a good grasp of the volatility that usually surrounds the artists who make rock ’n’ roll. “We exhibit that Sex Pistols letter,” he says. “[Rotten] stood by his guns.”

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Crowd Control Columbus comedian Jake Iannarino takes no prisoners. No one is safe at one of his shows, as he constantly brings the crowd into his act. Iannarino demos his improvisational chops by joking around with the crowd. Don’t be surprised if you end up the butt of one of them! He performs tonight at the Improv at 7:30. Tickets are $17. (Martin Harp) 1148 Main Ave., 216-696-IMPROV, clevelandimprov.com. comedy

Cynical Stuff A 20-year-plus stage vet, comedian Jim Holder just loves to make people laugh with his “cynical descriptions of everyday subjects.” In one bit, he talks about how his ex-wife is a “psycho bitch, able to leap a restraining order in a single bound.” Whether his humor is spontaneous and interactive or fast and hardhitting, Holder always aims for non-stop hilarity. He performs tonight at 7:30 at the Hard Rock Rocksino’s Club Velvet. Tickets are $13 to $18 and performances are scheduled through Sunday. (Harp) 10705 Northfield Rd., Northfield, 330-908-7793, hrrocksinonorthfieldpark.com. dance

Desire and Desperation An annual program designed to showcase the best in dance, Cleveland Public Theatre’s DanceWorks ’15 returns this weekend with Verb Ballets production of Carmen: The Story of Passion. Utilizing Bizet’s famous music for percussion and string, in an arrangement by Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin, the music drives this tale of obsession involving multiple storylines. This new rendition of the original 19th-century opera premiered at Cleveland Public Theatre in 2012. Also scheduled is a special revival of Laura’s Women by Ian Horvath; inspired by the music and life of blues singer Laura Nyro, it received its world premiere in 1974, by Cleveland Ballet. The performances take place tonight, tomorrow night and Saturday night at 7:30 in the Gordon Square Theatre. Tickets are $12 to $28. (Jeff Niesel) 6415 Detroit Ave., 216-631-2727, cptonline.org.

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Drawing Power Did you know that on the third Thursday of each month you can hang out at a bar and draw with artists you voted “Best of Cleveland” in Scene’s readers’ poll for the past two years? It’s true: Each month, the Rust Belt Monster Collective hosts a Drink-nDraw at Lava Lounge at 7 p.m. Bring your sketchbooks and favorite art supplies, grab a beer and take a seat next to your favorite monsters. These monthly hangouts are very informal, and anyone is welcome to attend (21+ to drink, of course). A number of the “regulars” are cartoonists and illustrators, which makes for a fun night, even if you’re just a spectator. The best part is, admission is free! Can’t make the third Thursdays at Lava Lounge? Check out RBMC’s website for info on their first Wednesday Drink-n-Draws. (Josh Usmani) 1307 Auburn Ave., rustbeltmonster.com.

The Puck Stops Here At press time, the Lake Erie Monsters were making one last desperate push for the American Hockey League playoffs. The Monsters, who had been playing slightly-above-.500 hockey this season, start their final homestand of the season tonight at the Q. The game pits the team against the Grand Rapids Griffins. It begins at 7 p.m., and tickets start at $10. It’s also college ID night, so students with a valid college ID can snag tickets for only $6. In addition, select 14-oz. beers cost only $2 and “Monster” margaritas are $5. (Niesel) 1 Center Ct., 216-420-2000, theqarena.com.

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A Dry Guy Orny Adams’ dry optimism and seeming preference for the things most people would hate (he likes nightmares more than good dreams) are good fodder for his standup. His past work includes writing jokes for Jay Leno and Gary Shandling, and he currently plays the character of Coach Finstock on MTV’s Teen Wolf. He performs tonight at 8 at Hilarities and has shows scheduled through Sunday. Tickets start at $20. (Liz Trenholme) 2035 East Fourth St., 216-241-7425, pickwickandfrolic.com.

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A Sci-Fi Spectacle The final film from influential Russian director Aleksei German, Hard to Be a God is a sci-fi spectacle based on a novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. The film follows a group of scientists as they are sent to Earth-like planet Arkanar, during its Dark Ages, to study the civilization. One scientist, Don Rumata (Leonid Yarmolnik), is disgusted by the cruelties he sees everyday, but is forbidden from interfering and possibly altering the civilization’s natural course of history. As he witnesses this world’s best minds being silenced by barbarism, he finds it hard to sit idly by. A dark and gritty film, Hard to Be a God screens tonight at 6:45 at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque. Tickets are $9 and there will be a second showing on Sunday at 7 p.m. (Harp) 11141 East Blvd., 216-421-7450, cia.edu.

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In Perfect Harmony Back in 2010, the duo Dala won the Canadian Folk Music Award for Vocal Group of the Year. Listen to their version of “Dream a Little Dream,” and it’s readily apparent they deserved the honor. The voices harmonize perfectly and the two sing with a real elegance. They come to the Happy Days Lodge in Peninsula tonight at 8 as part of the Cuyahoga Valley Heritage Series. The Conservancy Canteen will be serving up the grub: fresh, locallysourced cuisine like Cuban sandwiches, antipasto skewers and spiced beer nuts. Tickets are $17 for non-members, $12 for Conservancy members. (Niesel) 500 West Streetsboro Rd., Peninsula, 330-657-2909, ConservancyforCVNP.org. comedy

Laugh It Off It’s only human to make mistakes. Join four great comedic acts tonight as they celebrate everything that makes us human, including our blunders. Bill Squire, of the Alan Cox Show on 100.7 WMMS, will share stories about his uptight Mormon upbringing, and Adam Richard, the host and co-producer of the monthly Keep Talking: A Storytelling Show, will be on hand as well. Mary Santora will be bringing some femininity into the male-dominated comedy scene. She has worked with famous comedians in clubs all across the country and has quickly become a favorite of many comedian junkies. Last but not least is Stewart Huff, an award-winning comedian who

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hails from Atlanta, Georgia. Comedy Night begins at 5 p.m. at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Parking will be available in the museum lot for $6. Tickets are $25 to $35. (Paige Margulies) 1 Wade Oval Dr., 216-231-4600, cmnh.org. art

An Open House April’s Third Friday open studio event at 78th Street Studios is as actionpacked as ever. Stop by today from 5 to 9 p.m. On the first floor, be sure to check out E11even 2’s Don’t Panic! — featuring collaborations by Rich Cihlar and Bob Peck. Also, Cleveland West Art League hosts the closing reception for their annual communal art experiment, Six in Studio. Stop by to see the results of this monthlong shared studio experience. On the second floor, HEDGE gallery hosts an opening reception for a juried exhibition of work by current Cleveland Institute of Art students. The third floor’s Survival Kit has new work by local artists Justin Brennan and Joshua Rex. Gallery hours may vary slightly. It’s free. (Usmani) 1300 West 78th St., 78thstreetstudios.com. Music

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Vodkalicious From 6 to 8:30 p.m. today, Harris Stanton Gallery’s Cleveland location hosts Art-ini, an art auction and vodka tasting party to benefit the Cleveland Arts Prize. More than 80 art items will be available, with opening bids set at 20-percent below retail. The $10 admission includes a signature martini and appetizers. The Cleveland Arts

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Wake for It No one knows grief and mourning like a Catholic, let alone an Irish Catholic. In its fifth year running in Cleveland, Flanagan’s Wake transports the audience to a wake in Ireland where villagers tell tales and sing songs for their dearly departed Flanagan. Finding the humor in life and death, the wake acts as a dark backdrop to an otherwise hilarious show in which alcohol fuels the humorous reminiscing. A sort of tragic Tony ’n’ Tina’s Wedding, the interactive and improvised show engages the entire audience as the guests are treated as the friends and family of the deceased. The show starts at 8 tonight and plays again tomorrow night at 8 at Kennedy’s Theatre. If you can’t make it this weekend, performances continue Fridays and Saturdays through April 26. Tickets are $25. (Patrick Stoops) 1501 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org. coMedy

Wake Up Call A Cleveland native, comic Tammy Pescatelli takes her experiences growing up in a huge Italian family and turns them into hilarious and sometimes outrageous jokes. Since making her national debut on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in 2003, Pescatelli has been busy touring. When asked where she finds the inspiration for her jokes, Pescatelli likes to say, “I wake up.” She performs at 7:30 and 10:15 tonight at the Improv and has shows scheduled through Sunday. Tickets are $20. (Lisa Hammond) 148 Main Ave., 216-696-IMPROV, clevelandimprov.com.

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with the same man, German poet Friedrich Schiller (Florian Stetter). An unconventional love affair ensues, as sisters and poet carry on a menage a trois. What begins carefree and playfully eventually becomes serious as a pact is broken. Beloved Sisters is a beautifully crafted depiction of the complicated relationship between Schiller and the two sisters. The film show tonight at 6:50 at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque. Tickets are $9 and there will be a second showing Sunday at 3:30 p.m. (Harp) 11141 East Blvd., 216-421-7450, cia. edu/cinematheque.

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Real Steel The University of Akron Steel Drum Band was formed in 1980, an era when only a handful of colleges had such ensembles. The group, which features both undergraduate and graduate students, plays on drums that local Cliff Alexis builds and maintains. For today’s performance at E.J. Thomas Hall, the group will play Caribbean music designed to make you get up and dance. The show starts at 8 p.m. and tickets are $29.50. (Niesel) 198 Hill St., Akron, uaevents.com.

A Vinyl Solution The timing for this year’s Record Store Day couldn’t possibly be better. The event, which encourages music fans to hit up their local record shop where they’ll find exclusive new releases (most of which will be on vinyl), coincides with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductions. It’ll be quite the super Saturday as you hunt down those exclusive releases during the day (while supplies last, check the Record Store Day website for a list of titles) at places like Music Saves, Blue Arrow Records and My Mind’s Eye, and then check out the Inductions later tonight. The Inductions are sold out but the Rock Hall will host a viewing party. (Niesel) recordstoreday.com.

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A New Challenge An off-the-beaten-path park in Wooster, Vultures Knob Mountain Bike Park has a new challenge today for runners: the Dirty Bird Trail Run, an off-road running experience with distances designed for the whole family. That includes a 15K, a 5K and a 1-mile run; or combine the 5K and the 15K for a challenging 20K run. The action starts today at 7 a.m.; race times and registration fees vary with the run chosen. Check out the website for full details. (Margulies) 4300 Mechanicsburg Rd., Wooster, westernreserveracing.com.

A Studio Tour In conjunction with its current exhibition, Majority Rising, the Artists Archives of the Western Reserve hosts its latest studio tour with participating artist Kathleen McKenna. McKenna studied at Cleveland’s Cooper School of Art before heading to New York City’s Art Students League. You’ll receive the address of her studio after your tickets are purchased. McKenna’s studio tour begins at 1 p.m. today. Tickets are $20, $15 for members. (Usmani) 1834 East 123rd St., 216-721-9020, artistsarchives.org.

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Watch Party Tickets to the 30th Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony sold out as soon as they went on sale. But if you want to see the ceremony, you still have a chance. The Rock Hall will simulcast the proceedings tonight at 6:30 on a giant screen on its Klipsch Audio main stage and on several other large screens throughout the space. Other than Public Hall, the Rock Hall will be

the only place to watch the induction ceremony on the night of the event. Tickets are $24.50. (Niesel) 100 Rock and Roll Blvd., 216-515-8444, rockhall.com. Drink

We’ll Drink to That Let out your inner beast while supporting a good cause today at the second annual Cleveland Animals Bar Crawl, during which you will visit five animal-named bars in one night. When you buy a T-shirt for the event, all the proceeds go to the Cleveland APL. Wearing your shirt gives you access to drink specials at each stop on the crawl. The shirts can be purchased online or at the first stop on the tour — Flying Monkey Pub in Tremont — where the event begins at 4 p.m. Buying a T-shirt also gives you free access to the event’s personal shuttle. Email any questions to clevelandanimals@gmail.com or check out the Facebook page. (Margulies) facebook.com/clevelandanimals. coMeDy

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Today’s curtains are at 3 and 7 p.m. Tickets are $40 to $75. (Siegel) 1501 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

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A Crisis in Faith Joshua Harmon’s savage comedy Bad Jews is all about family, faith and legacy. Young Jewish woman Diana, who prefers to be called her Hebrew name Daphna, is relentlessly fighting to obtain a religious heirloom left behind by her late grandfather. The problem is her atheist cousin Liam also wants their grandfather’s gold medal, which he kept for years under his tongue at a concentration camp. When Liam misses their grandfather’s funeral because he dropped his iPhone off a ski-lift in Aspen, Daphna is beyond infuriated. In the middle is Liam’s brother, Jonah, who tries his best to stay out of the fray. Harmon’s debut play has received massive critical acclaim, hailed as razor-sharp smart and devastatingly funny. Bad Jews opens tonight at 8 at Actors’ Summit in Akron; performances continue through May 5. (Siegel) 103 High St., Akron, 330-374-7568, actorssummit.org.

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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 McConnell) 1909 West 25th St., 216-344-9400, townhallohiocity.com.

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Electronic Ecstasy Probably the best way to kick-start the week is by shaking your ass uncontrollably at B-Side Sundays, B-Side’s bitchin’ Sunday night electronic show. DJs Eso and Corey Grand join forces to spin anything and everything: Funk, soul, hiphop, trap, drum and bass, and all sorts of similarly ill shit. Grand’s cred speaks for itself: “Sucka Free Since ’88.” And that same sentiment goes for the Sunday-night throwdown as a whole. Work your way across Coventry all weekend and wrap up the party at B-Side. The DJs start spinning at 10 p.m. (Eric Sandy) 2785 Euclid Heights Blvd., Cleveland Heights, 216-932-1966, bsideliquorlounge.com.

Trivia Pursuits Do you have tons of obscure music knowledge? Are you a student of fast food menus and their nuanced histories? What say you about the geographic evolution of Scotch whisky? Tonight’s your chance to wow your friends, make yourself instantly more desirable to someone you’re newly dating, and hang with Cleveland’s headiest hipsters and hot dog lovers. It’s the Happy Dog Monday Night Trivia. Starting at 8 p.m., expect themed rounds and general knowledge questions that seem considerably trickier than some of the other live trivia locales in town. Obviously, have a hot dog and a craft brew while you’re at it. And arrive early. The tables are known to fill up quickly. (Sam Allard) 5801 Detroit Ave., 216-651-9474, happydogcleveland.com.

only referred to as “the Patient.” During their correspondence, Screwtape gives Wormwood advice on how to promote sin and undermine faith in God. The role of Screwtape is played by Brent Harris, who previously starred in The Lion King on Broadway as Scar.

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session that takes place every Monday night at Hofbräuhaus. The weekly series features local comics as well as special guests from the region. Shows are free if you make a reservation in advance (simply email accidentalcomedyclub@gmail.com);

Double Feature In a one-night-only double feature, the Grog Shop will screen two rock ’n’ roll documentaries. Rye Coalition — The Story of the Hard Luck 5 will screen first at 7:30 and a short Q&A with the director will follow. The documentary is about New Jersey band Rye Coalition and their journey through the music industry, from their roots as one of the first bands to develop the “emo” sound, to their signing with Dreamworks Records and work with Dave Grohl, to the band’s sudden implosion. Using home videos, director Jenni Matz has been chronicling the band for years. The second film, Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington D.C. (1980-90), examines the DIY punk scene. It was a time when bands like Minor Threat, Bad Brains

and more booked their own shows and released their own records without major record label constraints. Doors open at 7 with the first film starting at 7:30. Tickets are $12. (Harp) 2785 Euclid Heights Blvd., 216-321-5588, grogshop.gs. OutdOOrs

Get Wild 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 inter-dependent 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. (McConnell) 3900 Wildlife Way, 216-661-6500, clemetzoo.com. FOOd

Industry Brunch Brunch isn’t just a Saturday/Sunday thing. Over at Mahall’s, you can grab a great brunch on Mondays as the club caters to industry folks who have the day off. Not that you have to work in the restaurant industry to indulge. The menu features items such as Chicken and Donuts, a dish that features three pieces of fried chicken along with two Old Hushers doughnuts. Other staples include the Everything Pretzel and the Creamy Egg Sandwich. A live DJ from WCSB will be on hand to spin cool tunes too. It runs from noon to 4. (Niesel) 13200 Madison Ave., Lakewood, 216-521-3280, mahalls20lanes.com. Music

Music Mondays Every third Monday of the month, Great Lakes Brewing Company in Ohio City kicks off its week with an open mic night, along with craft brews and delicious pub eats (we recommend the housemade pizzas, which are half off during their 4 to 7 p.m. happy hour). Guests can grab a beer and meander down to the Beer Cellar on the basement floor to enjoy the laid back tunes of local musicians who take the mic from 6 to 8 p.m., and there’s no cover

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

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It’s a Revolution For many years, classical music wasn’t intended for the masses. Seemingly reserved for quasi-exclusive concert halls, classical music hid from the outside world. Classical Revolution Cleveland helps tear down that wall and once again bring great chamber music to the people. Showcasing a variety of performers in bars, cafes and the like, it’s actually not that different from how people used to listen to chamber music. The third Tuesday of every month, CRC brings its wide array of chamber music to Happy Dog. Performers like the Trepanning Trio, Anime Duo, students of Cleveland Institute of Music and even Cleveland Orchestra members grace the stage in these exciting concerts. Full of immensely talented performers, CRC re-instills the relevancy of this vibrant art form. Tonight’s free, all-ages performance starts at 8. (Stoops) 5801 Detroit Ave., 216-651-9474, happydogcleveland.com. NightliFe

The Vinyl Answer While sales of CDs continue to decline, vinyl has seen a resurgence. In fact, the recent Jack White album became the fastest-selling vinyl album since Nielsen Soundscan began compiling vinyl sales figures in 1991. Jukebox owner Alex Budin has described his 1,350-square-foot music-focused bar in the Hingetown ’hood as “a place where people can expect to hear and learn about music of multiple genres, all of which is concentrated in a constantly evolving jukebox.” In keeping with that spirit and recognizing the burgeoning popularity of vinyl, the club hosts a vinyl night every Tuesday that serves as a listening party for new releases. The place has partnered with Loop in Tremont so that patrons can hear a new album on vinyl. You can bring your own vinyl and spin it too. We love the concept. It all starts at 7 p.m. (Niesel) 1404 West 29th St., 216-206-7699, jukeboxcle.com.

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ART

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Cleveland West Art League’s collaborative project closes this weekend By Josh Usmani Six in Studio iS an annual, month-long project organized by the Cleveland West Art League (CWAL). Each year, CWAL invites a guest curator to select six member artists of CWAL to share its gallery space at 78th Street Studios as a communal studio. At March’s opening reception, this year’s artists presented the initial stage of their creative process. This Friday’s closing reception takes place from 6 to 10 p.m., as part of this month’s Third Friday open studios event. During the reception, the artists will reveal the results of their residency. “Six in Studio is one of the founding shows of CWAL and is designed to foster collaboration between the artists selected,” says CWAL gallery director and programming committee chair Daniel Neforos. “The diverse work and themes created are always a surprise each year, and I could not be more pleased with this year’s showing. The organic nature of the works created communicates with each other and the architecture of 78th Street Studios itself.” This year’s guest curator is Cleveland-based artist Arabella Proffer. She selected Abbey Blake, Marissa Bona, Gabe Kenney, Carmen Romine, Catherine Spencer and Theresa Yondo. “All of the artists I selected I find do something relating to the word or notion of ‘organic,’ or organisms,” explains Proffer. “I wasn’t sure there would be a cohesive theme in who I picked, but when we met, each artist mentioned the word ‘organic’ when describing their work, so that was a relief I wasn’t just imagining it. Almost all women too! That was not intentional when I looked at the

submissions of images, but everyone has commented on it and seems glad it worked out that way since it is, sadly, unusual in most art shows.” Entering the gallery, Gabe Kenney’s light box (X-ray viewer) and projections are sure to draw you in. Kenney captivated viewers last month when he “quarantined” his section of the gallery in semitransparent plastic and (somewhat ritualistically) cleansed the space while wearing a hazmat suit. This Friday, Kenney will present work exploring fractal (aka sacred) geometry. Fractal geometry is the fundamental pattern of division found at every level throughout

a retail clothing store, had a major influence on her project. Bona’s portion of the wall is lined with strips of printed register tape of varying lengths. These paper strips document sales at her job. Some strips are only about a foot long, but some are so long that they spiral to the floor. All the receipts were collected during the month-long residency, and each chronicles a different day of her life. Through this visual representation, it’s clear that some days are much longer than others — both literally and symbolically. Bona will graduate from CIA next spring. The back “wall” of the gallery is filled with windows. In previous

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nature. Kenney’s installation is influenced by the work of brilliant minds like Buckminster Fuller, Terrence McKenna and Nassim Haramein. He studied printmaking at Pennsylvania State University. To the right of Kenney’s projections is a larger wall shared by Carmen Romine and Marissa Bona. Last month, Romine presented three empty frames to symbolize the work she will be presenting this Friday. Romine’s work is created by repurposing, or upcycling, discarded materials. Through her process, Romine gives new life to obsolete objects. Romine’s background in fiber & material studies at Cleveland Institute of Art continues to play a role in her work. Marissa Bona is a current junior at Cleveland Institute of Art, majoring in printmaking. Her education, as well as her current occupation in

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years, resident artists have been very inspired by these windows. This year, Abbey Blake’s cut paper installation takes full advantage of the benefits of this space. The work resembles a fungus spreading throughout the gallery. It might sound off-putting, but it’s actually a beautiful and captivating installation. The work extends across the windows and over part of the ceiling. As the day turns to night, the light coming through the windows directly affects the work. Be sure to get to CWAL before dusk to see for yourself. Blake is another recent graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art — which is clearly well represented in this year’s Six in Studio. Additionally, HEDGE Gallery (Suite 200) will host WIRED and Ready to Hang, a juried exhibition of work by current CIA students on the second floor from 5 to 9 p.m.

Continuing around the room, the last wall is shared by Catherine Spencer and Theresa Yondo. Last month, Spencer displayed a few blank canvases — similarly alluding to her final project as Romine did with her empty frames. Spencer has created a series of nine colorful abstract paintings. CWAL’s exhibition space and her studio-mates inspired her to create larger work. She’ll be presenting three larger paintings and six smaller works. Spencer was born in Cortland, New York, and studied fine arts and art history at NYSCC at Alfred University, as well as the Santa Reparata International School of Art in Florence, Italy, in 2012. After receiving her BFA, Spencer relocated to Cleveland. Theresa Yondo’s portion of the gallery will be filled with small, ceramic windows. The overall composition of her installation was inspired by the aforementioned studio windows and the industrial architecture of 78th Street Studios, which was once an electric car factory, before serving as the world headquarters for American Greetings. Through holes in the windows, viewers see different imagery placed behind the ceramic material. The use of ceramics is ambitious for a month-long project. She hopes to have about 16 windows for this Friday’s reception. Yondo studied ceramics at Kent State University. The closing reception for Six in Studio — along with the rest of Third Friday at 78th Street Studios — is free.

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stage review

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Not to mention prancing, strutting and belting in the colorful Kinky Boots By Christine Howey Broadway choreographers must be kicking themselves for not insisting their shows take place in a factory environment. Because once you see the dance moves that happen on the shoe factory’s conveyor belts in Kinky Boots, now at Playhouse Square, you’ll want them to be included in every musical. (Okay, maybe not Oklahoma!) This bold, brassy and sassy musical spares no wattage as it flashes a galaxy of shiny, thigh-high leg holsters, in service to a story that is not nearly as inventive as the footwear. Indeed, the book by Harvey Fierstein and the music and lyrics by Cyndi Lauper sometimes feel like they were put together on a rolling production-line belt — then drenched in a shower of thumping light and sound effects. As a result, KB is the kind of Broadway orgasm that often satisfies in the moment but leaves you wondering what it was all about shortly thereafter. Sure, it’s about Charlie, the son of a man who owns a shoe company and dedicates his life to crafting men’s shoes. Until, that is, the old man’s wing tips go toes up early in the show. Charlie takes over the enterprise but doesn’t have a clue how to help the floundering shoe outfit, um, last. Until, that is, he breaks up a fight on the rough streets of Northhampton, England. That’s when he meets Lola, a drag queen with a thing for stiletto boots that extend all the way up

north to Berwick-upon-Tweed (if you know what I mean). In a trice, Charlie is offering Lola a job as head shoe designer because his shoes supposedly aren’t strong enough to support a man’s weight. News flash: Generously sized women also wear high heels! But never mind, we’ve got a musical to assemble here. Apparently in a rush to launch Lauper’s stylish and slick pop anthems, Fierstein and director-choreographer Jerry Mitchell skate past a very interesting but unexplored subplot involving Lola’s new career. How

a failure in his father’s eyes (Simon’s father trained him to be a boxer). This comes across tellingly in “Not My Father’s Son,” a tender ballad that gives the production its one real moment of honest emotion. At other times, Lauper and company reach for deep feeling that just isn’t there. In Act 2 when Steven Booth as Charlie sings “Soul of a Man,” he’s trying to struggle with the legacy (no pun intended) left to him by his father. But Booth, who is affable and rather endearing throughout, strains over this song until it starts to whimper.

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were her designs created? What were her mistakes? How happy was the accountant that every pair of boots leaving the factory now used 10 times more leather as the old shoes, no doubt with a price tag to match? Instead, Lola walks in as her shy male self, Simon, and magically the boots start appearing. And this is where the show gets everything right, especially in numbers such as “Sex Is in the Heel” when Lauper’s words spill out in a tribute to the towering creations: “Jack it up ’cause I’m no flat tire/Mack it up six inches higher.” Soon, Charlie and Simon are sharing daddy stories, each seeing himself as

In the star-making role of Simon/ Lola, slim and sensuous Darius Harper pumps plenty of vocal energy into his songs. Early on, he and his six beauteous drag queen Angels rock out to “Land of Lola,” as they trill, “I’ve got a lacy silken feel/With arms as hard as steel.” While Harper’s guns are more silk than steel, he struts his “dragitude” with a fierceness that eventually convinces the other factory workers to work with him. Among those workers are the foreman Don (a believably hefty and coarse Joe Coots), who mocks Lola before his inevitable conversion. And assembly line drone Lauren

(the amusing and down-to-earth Lindsay Nicole Chambers) catches the imagination of Charlie by suggesting the factory start chunking out boots for the “under-served niche market” of men who love wearing women’s sky-high footwear. Along the way, amidst all the glorious fun in this kick-ass, um, bootenanny, there are moments that land with a dull thud. Charlie’s early duet with pal Harry, “Take What You Got,” is a needless bit of exposition. And the second-act scene where Simon toys with Don in a boxing match (to prove who is the better man) fails to convince. Even with some boxing training, this Simon with the pipe cleaner arms would be mashed to a pulp by this Don. Nevertheless, this ain’t Raging Bull, so verisimilitude be damned. Kinky Boots is actually a lot more like The Full Monty, which Mitchell also directed on Broadway. Just replace laid-off English working guys as male strippers with about-to-be-laidoff English working guys in patent leather, over-the-knee skyscrapers — as they are in the finale — and you’ve got yourself a show. And thanks to Fierstein’s witty oneliners and Lauper’s often infectiously catchy tunes, this production will send you off rebooted and quite happy.

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Michael DouglaS anD waR hoRSe’S Jeremy Irvine star in the Mojave thriller Beyond the Reach, opening Friday exclusively at Tower City. It’s a must-see for fans of the 1924 short story The Most Dangerous Game and doubles as a grotesque PSA to apply ample sunscreen whenever possible, and certainly when cavorting in regions with limited cloud coverage. The film also features a $500,000 Mercedes Benz SUV/Safari Truck: So, German auto enthusiasts assemble — Komm! Along with a custom-made Australian rifle, the Mercedes, complete with a built-in espresso machine, signifies the wealth of one John Madux (Douglas), an insurance mogul from Los Angeles who identifies as a big-game hunter and master marksman. “Rhinos, elephants,” he tells his young guide Ben (Irvine), as they set out toward the buttes and tumbleweed and scorching sun of the desert for the first day of a bighorn hunt. “So it’s about trophies for you, huh?” Ben asks, incredulous. ’Tis indeed. And after the trigger-happy Madux accidentally kills a man on a distant ridge, the trophies become less and less traditional. Madux, awkwardly, happens to be negotiating some sort of major deal with a Chinese client via satellite phone. And he’s convinced — again, somewhat awkwardly — that the hunting accident will damage his reputation and thereby ruin his business relationship. Worried that Ben will go blabbing to the authorities, he conspires to kill him indirectly. He makes him strip down to his underpants and follows him through the sun-bleached wasteland in his

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executively equipped vehicle while Ben, barefoot and sizzling, tries to hump it 50 miles to the highway before dropping dead from heat stroke. But fear not (or at least, fear less): Ben is “the best tracker in the county, if not the state,” and so, heatinduced delirium notwithstanding, he endeavors to use the terrain to his advantage and turn the tables on his tormentor. No one’s going to confuse the contents of the script for “crisp” or “naturalistic” dialogue: There’s a stilted, almost archaic way Ben and Madux communicate (excluding, of course, the extended Wall-E reference) and, more broadly, an unsatisfying engine for narrative development. The problem, at its root, is the depiction of the characters themselves. It’s unclear whether that problem originates in the source material, the novel Deathwatch by Robb White, or in this screen adaptation, directed by Frenchman Jean-Baptiste Leonetti. But unlike the diabolical hunter General Zaroff from The Most Dangerous Game, Douglas’ John Madux is merely a weekend-hunting tycoon who’s accustomed to getting what he wants because he pays for it. He’s only hunting the Mojave’s coveted bighorn in the first place because he skirted the permitting process via lavish bribes. He’s an excellent marksman, sure, and an unrepentant sadist, but despite his truck and his weapon and his occasional taunting over a loudspeaker, he never seems to firmly establish the upper hand. Still, there are moments of wonderful tension and suspense, amplified by the potential for carnage by sun and stones. Beyond the Reach often fulfills its mission as a thriller, even if it rarely inspires much compassion in its audience. — Sam Allard

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Spotlight wRiteR-DiRectoR victoR levin’S new film 5 to 7 begins with a series of shots of the inscriptions on the park benches in New York City. “Read the benches and you realize enormous things happen in every life,” says Brian (Anton Yelchin), the film’s central character and narrator. It’s a clever framing device for the film, a romantic comedy with indie sensibilities. The movie opens on Friday at the Cedar Lee Theatre. A struggling 24-year-old writer who plasters his rejection letters on a wall in his apartment, Brian meets 33-year-old Arielle (Skyfall Bond girl Bérénice Marlohe) one afternoon on the streets of New York and instantly falls for her. The problem is, she’s married with kids and can only meet between the hours of 5 and 7. It’s an arrangement she has with her husband (Lambert Wilson), who also limits his affair with publishing assistant Jane (Olivia Thirlby) to that time frame. Initially, Brian tells her he can’t see her for ethical reasons. But Arielle is so beautiful and glamorous, he can’t resist her and it’s not long before they begin meeting up at hotel rooms to get it on. When she tells him that he’s a “natural lover,” he becomes completely smitten. Brian eventually meets Arielle’s husband and kids and introduces Arielle to his parents (Frank Langella and Glenn Close). His father doesn’t like the fact that Arielle is married, but his mother is more accepting. Arielle works to make Brian part of her life, inviting him to dinner and attending a reception at which he receives an award for his writing. But she adheres to the rules — she will only see him between 5 and 7 p.m. and she won’t kiss him in public (though she does hold his arm while they walk). Predictably enough, Brian tries to take the relationship to another level and becomes frustrated with the parameters that Arielle has set, creating the conflict that’s telegraphed from the movie’s start. The movie’s ultimately a little too clever for its own good: Characters says things such as “life is a collection of moments” and “the future has a way of arriving whether you want it to or not.” And Yelchin’s charm runs out pretty quickly. But it makes for a pleasantenough distraction and deserves credit for putting a spin on the rom-com formula. — Jeff Niesel

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A massive 27,000-square-foot adult playground comes to the Flats in August By Douglas Trattner There was a Time when Cleveland was at the back of the line when it came to hot new national concepts. Our lot in life seemed relegated to the same bland brands that peppered every other suburban mall and lifestyle center — the Bravos, Brios, California Pizza Kitchens and Cheesecake Factories of the world. That’s no longer the case as outside investors increasingly place Cleveland — as in downtown Cleveland — on their short list of planned locations. That certainly was the case with Punch Bowl Social, chosen by Nation’s Restaurant News as a Breakout Brand of 2015. When it opens this summer, the Flats East Bank location will be only the fifth for the red-hot Denverbased concept, ahead of forthcoming spots in Seattle, Pittsburgh and San Francisco. Punch Bowl Social combines under one very big roof a restaurant, bar, bowling alley, and pinball and video game arcade along with other social activities like shuffleboard, Ping-Pong and private karaoke rooms. At first blush, the 27,000-square-foot complex might sound like a Dave & Buster’s retread, but in terms of execution and experience, the two concepts are night and day. “We’re the antitheses of Dave & Buster’s in every way imaginable,” says Punch Bowl Social founder Robert Thompson. “We’re very much (Photos by Douglas Trattner)

an urban concept. We’re a designforward company, and we are very good at making 25,000 square feet feel cozy.” The contemporary “dirty modern” aesthetic combines industrial, Victorian and modern design elements. Well-defined zones for various activities help to reduce the overall scale of the space. In addition to the sprawling street-level facility, Punch Bowl will boast a 4,000-square-foot rooftop bar and patio overlooking the Cuyahoga River and Lake Erie. These high-concept “eatertainment” venues — large-scale developments built around social activities like bowling, arcade games or bocce ball — are popping up in cities everywhere. Part of the appeal is driven by a healthy dose of nostalgia; what’s old is new. But the biggest driver, says Thompson, is the millennial generation. “I think the gaming trend is being driven by millennials,” he says. “Millennials are social animals. We’ve never seen a generation that is as interested in sharing their social activities with their peers, and then sharing those activities with strangers on social media, than this one.” The idea, of course, is to lure guests in the door by offering a wide range of attractions, be it food, drink or fun, and keeping them pleasantly distracted for long stretches of time. “One of the concepts I talk about

is the ‘sticky factor,’” Thompson explains. “You don’t just pop into Punch Bowl Social, grab a quick beer and leave. You end up drinking, eating and playing for hours. It’s sticky; it’s hard to get out, there’s always something else to do.” The weak link in many of these modern-day fun zones is often the food and drink. The destinations typically are run by large management groups with little tolerance for high food and labor costs. What visitors get is a predictable menu of pub food prepared by an unremarkable staff. Thompson says that Punch Bowl Social is different because of him. “I’ve been doing separate versions of this forever,” notes Thompson. “I’ve run high-volume bars with entertainment for years. I’ve also opened award-winning boutique restaurants. I really wanted to bring all those concepts together in one package.” Heading up the food portion of the package is company culinary director Sergio Romero. Prior to joining PBS, Romero worked at the well-regarded Taos restaurant Joseph’s Table. He later teamed up with Thompson to open Argyll gastropub in Denver, which went on to snag a “Best New Restaurant” award. He’ll partner with his Cleveland-based executive chef to craft a “gastro-diner” menu similar but not identical to other locations. “Gastro-diner, to me, means

preparing elevated comfort food in a way that appeals to the foodie, the peasant and the prince,” Romero explains. “We cast a wide net at Punch Bowl Social, which helps me to make a broad spectrum of guests happy.” Come in for breakfast (served until 3 p.m.) and you might choose between smoked brisket hash, huevos rancheros or biscuits and gravy. The lunch and dinner menu might offer cauliflower nachos, vegetarian entree salads, chicken and waffles, and halfpound, build-your-own burgers built from locally sourced grass-fed beef. Family friendly weekend brunches are a large component of the operation as well. Thompson says that Cleveland has been on his radar for almost three years, and the urban-based Flats East Bank location was particularly appealing. “We like to be part of these neighborhood resurrections,” he says. “There is really something happening here. There’s a lot of energy and development taking place.” Look for Punch Bowl Social to open the first week of August.

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Chili-glazeD wilD salmOn, COrDOva Centennial Cerino and I had the honor to travel to Alaska together to cook for the centennial of Cordova, a city at the mouth of the Copper River. We had to make a six-course dinner, each required to have salmon in it. One of our entrees, which became my favorite way to prepare salmon, was a chiliglazed wild salmon over a Szechuan lo mein mixed with noodles and vegetables that were fried in sesame oil. We tried 101 different ways of cooking salmon, but that was the one that resonated.

COD anD asparagus, alain DuCasse at the essex hOuse I was in New York for the first time as a tourist and it was the new Michelinstarred place in town. I decided that I really wanted to work there and it took about nine months, but I did an unpaid stage there for a summer. Ducasse’s main philosophy is he wants you to taste exactly what the ingredient is in many different ways. You may have just a piece of cod paired with asparagus, only two ingredients, but there’s going to be asparagus on top of the seafood, an asparagus puree around, and sautéed asparagus tips. The way they did seafood was such perfection that when I came back to Ohio, it stayed with me.

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But management knows that many of its loyal customers don’t have the time or money to make frequent visits to their favorite suburban Japanese restaurant. So Shinto is bringing the restaurant to them, so to speak. When it opens in early May, Kenko (11310 Euclid Ave.) will act as a fastcasual version of the Shinto sushi and hibachi experience, says GM Jay Saleh. “We’re taking the best elements of Strongsville and streamlining it for the students and commuters because nobody in that area really has time for a full sit-down meal,” he says. “Kenko will be the same high quality with a lower price and quicker time.” Guests will place their order at the counter and watch as their food is prepared in front of them. Many of the most popular rolls from Shinto will be available, including the Little Delicious, which is rolled with avocado, crab, spicy tuna and cream cheese and then deep fried. Also on the menu are Spider Rolls and Shrimp Tempura Rolls. Guests can also design their own rolls from a list of cooked and raw fish or vegetables. Diners can choose between white or brown rice. To streamline the hibachi process, chefs will swap the traditional teppanyaki grills for woks. The meals are built around chicken, beef or shrimp and include veggies and rice. Everybody’s favorite Yum Yum sauce is served on the side. There will be seating for 100 guests with more to come when a rear patio is unveiled. A limited beer and wine list will be available. “We’re all very excited for it,” says Saleh.

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Green Day is the rare band that gets inducted in its first year of eligibility.

power pop perfection Green Day’s studio albums, ranked By Dan Miraldi For last year’s rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, Scene gave me the opportunity to talk about KISS by listing their best and worst makeupera studio albums. This year, Green Day is getting into the Rock Hall, and I’m back to evaluate their studio catalog (I’ve omitted rarities compilations like Shenanigans and Demolicious). It’s hard for me to rank Green Day’s discography, because it is, for the most part, consistently excellent. Although some albums are definitely better than others, the band has never made a flat-out bad record. So, without further ceremony:

1. Dookie (1994) From the opening snare hits of “Burnout,” 1994’s Dookie plays like a bratty punk-rock manifesto. It was Green Day’s breakthrough album and bridged underground punk with mainstream rock. Dookie is packed with great songs that are still rock radio staples. You can focus on hits like “Welcome to Paradise,” “Basket Case,” “Longview” and “When I Come Around,” but Dookie holds a treasure

trove of great deep cuts like “Pulling Teeth” and “Coming Clean.” As of 2014, Dookie has sold over 20 million copies worldwide, and its continued influence on modern music can’t be overlooked. It’s simply one of the greatest albums of all time.

2. American Idiot (2004) Ten years after Dookie, it looked like Green Day’s best years were behind them, but then the band came back in a big way with American Idiot. Forget the fact that the album was turned into a Broadway musical. American Idiot has so much fight to it. You’ve got the hits like the title track, “Boulevard of Broken Dreams,” “Holiday,” “Wake Me Up When September Ends” and “Jesus of Suburbia.” Meanwhile, album tracks like “St. Jimmy,” “She’s A Rebel,” “Letterbomb” and “Homecoming” are absolutely electric. There’s not a clunker on this record. It was a bold album that reinvigorated Green Day’s career. American Idiot made sure that the group would not go down simply as a “’90s band” and paved the way for its HOF induction in its first year

of eligibility.

3. Nimrod (1997) Nimrod has Green Day’s first explorations beyond the simple three-chord alternative-punk sound of their previous albums. Of Nimrod’s 18 songs, plenty of them fall into the aforementioned category, but the band experiments with other genres like ska (“King For A Day”), 1960s surf (“The Last Ride”) and, of course, they gave us the folksy ballad “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life).” Yes, “Good Riddance” was overplayed on TV and radio, but, at its core, it is a great song. Nimrod was an excellent balance of punk fierceness, artistic exploration and commerciality.

4. Insomniac (1995) Green Day was clearly feeling self-conscious about the commercial success of Dookie when it recorded Insomniac. It’s the band’s harshest and darkest record, but its intensity makes it one of the best. Emotional conflicts drive this album. “86” captures the band’s feeling of not being able to return to their

underground roots after being deemed “sell outs” by the punk crowd. “Walking Contradiction” expresses a similar feeling and, although not a huge hit, it is one of the band’s finest songs. Ironically, made outcasts by the underground scene, Green Day fired back with one of the greatest punk albums ever.

5. Kerplunk (1992) Kerplunk is Green Day at its underground punk best. Looking back now, the album foreshadows so much. It showcases lead singer and songwriter Billie Joe Armstrong’s ability to blend punk brashness with pop sensibility and shows why the band would start a major label bidding war before making their next album, Dookie. The album flows from start to finish, but the real standouts are “2000 Light Years Away,” “Christie Road” and “Who Wrote Holden Caulfield?”

6. 21st Century Breakdown (2009) Five years after American Idiot, the world waited to see what Green Day would do next. In some ways,

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21st Century Breakdown can be accused of rehashing the political themes from American Idiot. It is a rock opera divided into three acts. However, it further grandly combines the punk spirit of what makes Green Day into Green Day, with elements of Who-infused classic rock. The album has a number of hit singles like “21 Guns” and “Know Your Enemy,” but there are some exceptionally great album cuts like the ferocious “Horseshoes and Handgrenades,” “Murder City” and “Before the Lobotomy.”

7. ¡Uno! (2012) The year 2012 was filled with highs and lows for Green Day. Musically, it was one of their most ambitious years. The band released three albums in three months. However, a lot more press went to Billie Joe Armstrong’s meltdown at the iHeartRadio Festival and the alcohol rehab stint that followed. In the midst of this chaos, Green Day released ¡Uno! The record is lots of fun. In many respects, it’s a salute to earlier albums, but it also shows the band being influenced by lo-fi rockers like Cloud Nothings and Best

releases in the Green Day canon.

9. ¡Dos! (2012) ¡Dos! is easy to overlook because it was released so shortly after ¡Uno! The album is both a continuation of its predecessor as well as its own distinctive sonic entity. The lyrical themes of ¡Uno! are present, but musically this record stays more garage-rock driven. ¡Dos! flows nicely, but it is guilty of staying mostly in the same gear. “Stray Heart,” the album’s only single, is a fun rock song with a swinging beat, but it is not exceptional. “Fuck Time” is a highlight, as is the danceflavored “Nightlife,” but the album’s hands-down standout is “Amy,” Billie Joe’s mellow bossa nova-infused tribute to Amy Winehouse. Its subdued vulnerability makes it shine.

10. 39/Smooth (1990) You can’t be too critical of Green Day’s debut. It marks the start of something great. There is plenty to appreciate; “Disappearing Boy” and “Going to Pasalacqua” are definitely worth checking out. 39/Smooth has plenty of punk spirit and energy, but when compared to the other albums,

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Coast. The band steps away from the political material and instead fixates on themes of youthful rebellion, love and partying. ¡Uno! is a strong album, featuring the singles “Oh Love!” and the excellent “Kill the DJ.” Don’t miss out on adrenalinepumping jams like “Fell for You” and “Stay the Night.” Also, the song “Loss of Control” finds the band channeling the bratty wit of Dookie and Insomniac with lines like, “I’d rather go to a funeral than to this high school reunion.”

8. Warning (2000) Warning found Green Day in a state of transition. The album was a musical shift from the band’s preceding works, as acoustic guitars and folk elements were brought into the arrangements with greater frequency. The record was not as commercially successful as Green Day’s previous three albums, but it should not be ignored. Hits like “Waiting” and “Minority” as well as under-rated gems like “Macy’s Day Parade,” “Cast Away” and “Deadbeat Holiday” anchor Warning. However, it lacks the fire of many of the other

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it’s just not as good. The production is more lo-fi and papery sounding. Also, this was recorded before Tré Cool joined the band. His distinctive drumming is essential to Green Day’s sound, so 39/Smooth lacks in that department.

11. ¡Tré! (2012) Green Day’s final album of their 2012 trilogy is the most inconsistent. There are cool moments like the Sam Cooke-flavored “Brutal Love,” “Walk Away,” “99 Revolutions” and the Beatle-y “The Forgotten.” Yet songs like “A Little Boy Named Train” and “Missing You” simply fall flat. On a harsher note, the puberty-themed “Drama Queen” is downright cringeworthy, probably the worst song the band ever released. Overall, ¡Tré! is a mixed bag. In 2012, Green Day’s decision to release three albums in three months was an ambitious move. They just ran out of gas on parts of ¡Tré!

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Most people Mellow with age. Not singer Max Cavalera. The former guitarist in Sepultura, Cavalera fronts Soulfly and Cavalera Conspiracy, a band he formed with his brother Igor, also a Sepultura alum. His music has only gotten heavier as he’s grown older. Cavalera Conspiracy’s new album, the aptly titled Pandemonium, features blistering guitar riffs and parched vocals. It’s heavy stuff, even by heavy metal standards. “I’m an extreme person,” Cavalera says via phone from his Phoenix home. “I never liked beer. I liked vodka. I don’t like weed. I like cocaine. It’s always the hardest, most extreme thing with me. I just like the extreme thing. I get crazier and heavier as I get older.” Unlike some of his older peers who are content to champion the same old-school metal acts from year to year, Cavalera tries to promote up-and-coming metal acts and says that contributes to his arrested development — not that he wants to “grow up.” “I love the fact that as I grow old I get in touch with the new bands and I wear their shirts,” he says. “It’s great to be connected to the underground metal world like that. A lot of musicians lose that contact. They don’t know anything about metal. I

never want to be like that. For me, it’s important to be in contact and know about those bands. I search for new bands all the time. I support them and

rhythms. “It becomes a little bit ‘been there, done it before’ thing. When I formed Cavalera Conspiracy, I wanted to get back to the fun of it. It’s the

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maybe work with them. I was invited to sing on the last Melechesh album and the last Acacia Strain album. It was fun doing that. I’m proud to be a metal head. I have never grown up from that. I have the spirit of a 15-year-old even though I’m a 44-yearold man. There’s no rule that says you have to grow up and stop listening to that metal music. That’s bullshit.” Way back in the 1980s, when they were just teenagers, the Brazilianborn Cavalera and his brother Igor started Sepultura. That band left an incredible legacy — and the group still exists, but without the Cavaleras. Cavalera explored his heritage with Sepultura and then with Soulfly, but Cavalera Conspiracy lacks anything resembling a Latin sound. Cavalera says that’s intentional. “You can’t just keep doing it,” Cavalera says when asked about why he stopped exploring Brazilian

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brothers playing metal. It’s pure enjoyment. It can be as simple as hell — like the first song on the new record. That’s one of the most simple songs I’ve ever written, but it’s one of my favorite songs. I get such a joy of playing that song. I love the tribal stuff. Roots was a great record for Sepultura. I might do something like that again someday. For Cavalera, it was better to get back to basics.” Getting “back to basics” also involved reuniting with his brother. The two had a bitter falling out and didn’t speak to one another for years. “Well, the 10-year silence was really almost like a necessary evil,” says Cavalera. “It might sound weird saying it like that. It might be the best thing that happened to us. It made us appreciate our brotherhood and the friendship we had. Even in music, we now understand that we want to really

enjoy the music and have fun with it and not let the politics of music ruin it. The idea behind Cavalera is the brothers playing metal. We don’t let anything else come into the Cavalera Conspiracy world. We don’t welcome other types of music. Soulfly embraces other types of music and throws other things in the pot. Cavalera does not. It’s metal only. It’s metal and grindcore. I love that. I think we focus on the Arise phase of Sepultura. That’s the era we try to recreate with Cavalera.” Cavalera is particularly excited about the upcoming tour, and not just because it’s a chance for him to escape the Phoenix heat (when we spoke to him last month, temperatures had already soared into the 90s). “I’m excited to be on tour with COC and Death Angel,” he says. “It’s an awesome package, like the old days. I think it’s going to draw a big, great crowd. We get to play stuff from our whole life. We’ll play Cavalera Conspiracy stuff but we’ll also play classic Sepultura stuff that people love to hear.”

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Your music draws from different genres. describe your style of music. Danielle Verderese: We make a lot of different music and we play different genres, from trap to electro house and deep house. Our original tracks do the same so it works out with our set. Gabrielle Verderese: We switch it up and go super hard and then chill it out and play some house and some deep house. We get back to the hard stuff. I feel like our fans get us because it’s our personalities. We take a break and then get back to the hard stuff. Our fans just get it and the music matches our personalities. We’re sweet, but we can also be fiery. Tommy Cooperman: We originally started drawing from rock and pop.

It was always electronic, and we moved toward progressive house. We have some future house stuff coming out. We play progressive house, trap and progressive house. Anything we write a vocal melody over has a unique sound to it because we write in a certain type of style.

What’s the music scene like in the respective cities you call home? DV: It’s crazy. It’s grown a lot. We grew up in Jacksonville, but we live in Miami. It’s two worlds. There’s a huge EDM scene and there’s a huge hip-hop scene. We’ve taken influence from both worlds. That’s how our style has molded over the years. We caught up in both worlds and

a chair, and he kicked it because he didn’t give a fuck about the chair and all the power went out. It was pretty fuckin’ weird. DV: Milwaukee is weird. The people are off. We played a place called Dick. Right there, that tells you. There was a piazza place on the bottom floor. The middle floor was a fancy bar. The top floor was a rave.

talk about the stage show. Are your shows pretty theatrical? DV: We’re getting there. We’re dancers. The bigger our live show keeps getting, the more we’ll incorporate crazy costumes. We don’t want to freak people out too much. We do start off wearing ski masks

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incorporated that into our music, which is why we not only sing but we rap too. That’s what’s cool about Miami. TC: Most of the guys are from Denver, but I’m from L.A. We all live in L.A. now. It’s pretty crazy. Everyone comes here for music or acting. It brings a huge eclectic mix to town. There’s no country scene here. It pisses me off.

What’s the strangest venue you’ve played? TC: We played the Rave in Milwaukee which is haunted and has an abandoned pool that’s terrifying. Our drummer was told not to move

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because we’re Italian mobsters in our intro when we rob a house in the hills in L.A. We steal their diamonds. GV: We get to wear capes and it’s pretty cool. TC: We play all of our shows naked. I’m not kidding. We have two live shows. We have the big production live show where we bring in our lights and have a drummer and live vocals and all that kind of stuff. We have the EDM show, which is DJs. Dave [Schmitt] sings on a bunch of songs at all the shows. It’s a big party on stage. We don’t sit around and press play. We played a festival over the summer, and we brought 7-foot beachballs and rafts

and waterguns and had “guest appearances.”

You recorded a song together. What was the experience like? TC: We randomly reach out to them on Twitter. They had the a cappella and we had the tracks and we threw it together and it sounded good. There wasn’t a big Cinderella story to it. I think they’re a lot of fun. They’re very nice. They’re wholesome. They pretend to be Italian. They get our jokes. DV: We have a love/hate relationship. A lot of people are on their high horse for no reason. They’re really down-to-earth guys. They have a huge fan base, and they’re super humble. What’s your best memory of cleveland? David Schmitt: Cleveland was on our very first tour. Our first album came out and we did our first in-store signing. It was snowy and cold and it was at a Hot Topic. It was one of the first or second tours we ever did, and it was a long time ago. GV: For us, it was a blizzard the day we played in Cleveland. We were born in New York, but we’re not used to the snow. We looked out the window and just wanted to stay in bed. Everything was closed down. It ended up being a decent show. We’re looking forward to coming back now when the weather is better.

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A very sharp-dressed David Mayfield. See: Thursday.

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Brian Auger’s Oblivion Express: Widely recognized as a pioneer in the jazz-rock and acid-jazz movements, keyboardist Brian Auger started his career on a different track. He began performing at jazz piano bars in his native England in the early ’60s and even won a Melody Maker award for his playing in 1964. But then he discovered the organ and started dressing differently. Once he began wearing Carnaby Street clothes, he fit in more with rock crowds. After playing with guys like Sonny Boy Williamson and Jimmy Page, Auger formed Oblivion Express to further break down the boundaries between rock and jazz. He eventually disbanded the group and planned to support Eric Burdon on a tour, but that didn’t last long. Auger re-launched Oblivion Express in the mid-’90s with son Karma on drums and daughter Savannah on vocals. He makes frequent appearances in Cleveland, which has always supported him, and enjoys sharing stories from his classicrock past. For tonight’s show, former Santana singer Alex Ligertwood joins him. 8:30 p.m. The Tangier. (Jeff Niesel) Das Fin: 9 p.m., Free. Grog Shop.

Symphonic metal masters Nightwish, ready to rock like it’s 1865. See: Friday.

DJ Red I: 10 p.m., Free. Now That’s Class. The Fab Four: The Beatles remain one of the greatest and influential rock bands of all time and are the best-selling band in history. The Fab Four experimented with a variety of different genres like psychedelia, hard rock, and Indian music during their monumental 10 year run. Throughout the mid-to-late 1960s they continuously churned out hit albums like Rubber Soul, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, The White Album and their final studio album Abbey Road. After breaking up in 1970 John, Paul, George and Ringo each went on to have very successful solo careers as well. Tonight, the Fab Four, a solid tribute act, will pay homage to the Liverpool group. 8 p.m. Hard Rock Rocksino. (Kaitlin Siegel) George Foley: 10:30 p.m., free. Nighttown. The Angie Haze Project: 8 p.m. Akron Civic Theatre. Maria Jacobs: 8 p.m., $12. BLU Jazz+. The Jimmy Jack Band: 9:30 p.m. Brothers Lounge. Jivveden/The Pistolettes/Bad Hounds: 9 p.m., $5. The Euclid Tavern. Lightning Bolt/Metz/Chomp: 9 p.m., $12. Beachland Ballroom. Mark McGuire/Watchword/Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman: 9 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Beachland Tavern. Pat Martino Organ Trio: 8:30 p.m., $30.

Nighttown. Master of Destruction Tour: GNR and Metallica Tribute with Appetite for Destruction and Ride the Lightning: 7 p.m., $12-$20. House of Blues. The Modern Electric/Nonaphoenix/ Bobbipin: 9 p.m., $10. Musica. The Modern Ruins/Pop Goes the Evil/Half an Animal: 9 p.m., $5. Happy Dog. Nightwish/Sabaton/Delain: This symphonic metal band out of Finland was formed nearly 20 years and has persevered despite numerous lineup changes. The band’s newest album, Endless Forms Most Beautiful, finds the band on familiar musical ground. Album opener, “Shudder Before the Beautiful” starts with a bit of spooky spoken word before the strings (or synthesizers that sound like strings) kick in. The soaring vocals sound like something you might hear at a church but songs such as “Weak Fantasy” and “Yours is an Empty Wish” are heavy enough to keep the band’s metalhead fans happy. Be sure to arrive early enough to see Sweden’s SABATON, a hard rock band that sings almost exclusively about historical wars and battles. 7 p.m., $30. Agora. (Niesel) Paperhead/New Planet Trampoline/The Stereo Workers Union (in the Locker Room): 9 p.m., $6 ADV, $8 DOS. Mahall’s 20 Lanes. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees’ Greatest Hits: Music from Lou Reed, The

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piano ballad that finds Malin singing in a tense whisper. The tempo quickly picks up with “Addicted,” a catchy tune that sounds a bit like something that Elvis Costello might have penned back in the ‘70s. Several songs here — the rowdy rocker “Turn Up the Mains” — have a real swagger to them. The gnarly sax solo in “Turn Up the Mains” certainly helps give that impression. Malin has described the album as “metaphor for surviving in an ever-changing, rapidly desensitized world.” It’s an apt description of a truly solid album. 8:30 p.m., $15. Beachland Tavern. (Niesel) Christine Marie (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m. Brothers Lounge. Pat Martino Organ Trio: 8:30 p.m., $30. Nighttown. The Monday Sound/Blaire Alise & the Bombshells: 9 p.m., $5. Happy Dog. Ralf’s Night of the Rats: 9 p.m., Free. Now That’s Class. The Sidewinder Quintet: 8 p.m., $12. BLU Jazz+. Spazmatics: 9:30 p.m. Brothers Lounge. Spring Fling Showcase: 6:30 p.m., $10. Mahall’s 20 Lanes. Tom Stahl/Amanda Walsh and G.B.: 8 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern. Sweetwater 420 Party with Big Leg Emma/Tropidelic: With a handful of top-notch shows in Northeast Ohio over the past few years, we’ve come to know and love Big Leg Emma’s sound. The band’s latest album, 2012’s Revival, showcases a talented group of musicians filtering a traditional roots-rock vibe through contemporary production and composition structures. The harmonies are wonderful throughout the album, and album opener “Back to NY” gives the listener a terrific starting point. The instrumental breakdown during “Rain’s Gonna Fall” will have anyone with ears and a couple of feet hitting the dance floor and getting down all night. The whole album, in fact, carries that sense of motion. It’s a great collection of tunes to toss in the center console for a road trip out west. And if you’ve got a co-pilot, cue up “The Two of Us” for a happy little love tune for the outstretched freeway. 8 p.m., $12-$15. The Kent Stage. (Sandy) Jackie Warren: 10:30 p.m., free. Nighttown. Why Isn’t Cheap Trick in the Hall of Fame/ Teenage Fan Club Fan Club: 1:30 p.m., Free. Beachland Tavern.

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mon 04/20 Autumn Electric/Crystal Ball Band: Psychedelic rockers Autumn Electric call their new album Star Being Earth Child their “most ambitious project” to date. The concept album chronicling the story of “an extraterrestrial being and the plight of the environment” features the usual stuff — over-thetop guitar solos and dramatic vocals. The live show will come complete with projections, costumes, and full stage lighting. 8 p.m. Wilbert’s. (Niesel) Jonathan Edwards/Brewer & Shipley: 8 p.m., $20-$24. The Kent Stage. Hank Green/Driftless Pony Club/Harry and the Potters/Rob Scallon/Andrew Huang: 7 p.m., $20 ADV, $23 DOS. Agora. Hellgoat/Vulvar Myiasis/Morgatory (Club Atlantis): 9 p.m., $5. Now That’s Class. Into the Blue: Grateful Dead Revival Night: 8 p.m., $12. Beachland Ballroom. Tony Lucca/Anna Rose/Castle Creek: 8 p.m., $15 ADV, $17 DOS. Beachland Tavern. Peggy and Brad/Jerry and Bob: 7 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern. Velvet Voyage (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m. Brothers Lounge.

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Soul”) and the obscure (“Fingertips,” a 21-song suite of short songs from their 1992 album Apollo 18). Expect that to be the case tonight when the group returns to the Beachland for a sold out show. 8 p.m., $30. Beachland Ballroom. (Niesel) Freak Vibe/Cruelster/Rubber Mate: 9 p.m., $5. Now That’s Class. Anthony Moser (in the Wine Bar): 7 p.m. Brothers Lounge. Joe Rollin’ Porter: 7 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern. Swing City Big Band: 7:30 p.m. Vosh Club.

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band of the week RESTLESS HABS By Jeff Niesel

Meet the Band: Peter Woodward (guitar, vocals), Ken Blaze (bass, vocals) and Tim Babcock (drums) dIFFeRent dRUMMeRS: The band initially got together in 2009 and wrote a few songs, but hit a hurdle when the original drummer moved away. The group replaced him in 2010 and has been going strong ever since, even after recently changing drummers again. “We’ve been grinding it out,” says Woodward. OLd SChOOL: Woodward says the band is influenced by the punk bands that group members spent their youth absorbing. “For me, there’s not a trick [singer-guitarist] Bob Mould has that I haven’t tried to replicate. An apt comparison would be Sugar-era Husker Du. There are worse things to be compared to. Ken and I came out of a punk pop background. We really liked SST Records and DC hardcore. [The D.C. hardcore band] Dag Nasty was a big influence. Loud and melodic. That pulls out into Foo Fighters, a giant rock band out of that same tradition.” the eP’S the thInG: The band’s new EP is its fifth. It has yet to release a full-length. “A lot of that is that if you start getting into a full-length, you’re not putting anything out for a year or longer,” says Woodward. “We try not to get too precious about it. We’re not writing masterpieces. These are our songs right now. We’ll have more in six months.” VIdeO daZe: Last month, the band released a video for the song

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“B-Ware.” The video was done in collaboration with LESS Productions and features members of the Burning River Roller Derby team and local comedians Chad Weaver and Adam Rittersbach. “That was fantastic,” says Woodward. “By doing everything in-house, there aren’t people talking about what you’re doing. We were excited about the EP and wanted to do something to help promote it. We kicked around the idea of doing a video. Everyone who contributed was game and put in a solid effort and had a lot of fun. More people saw and heard us than had in the past five years. It was such a positive experience.”

WhY YOU ShOULd heaR theM: Recorded in the band’s practice space above the Spitfire Saloon, the new EP No Way to Hide Your Tracks features three songs that have melodic hooks and parched vocals that recall the aforementioned Husker Du. Expect another EP before the year’s end. “We’re writing new stuff that we’re really happy with,” says Woodward. “Tim is a great addition on drums and really excited and that’s bleeding into us. We have some grandiose ideas for the next album.” WheRe YOU Can heaR theM: facebook.com/restlesshabs. WheRe YOU Can See theM: Restless Habs performs with Leaveland and the Long Knives on Friday, April 17, at the Spitfire Saloon.

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that being with a trans woman is innately shameful. But take out all of the conditioned negative associations that some have with trans people, and what are you left with? At worst, we have a young lady who got jealous and acted immaturely.” Let’s pause for a moment to think about why Connie behaved immaturely and tried to screw up your (already DOA) relationship with the new girl. “STUNG seems to feel that it’s a given that Connie should know better than to talk openly about their relationship,” said Jay, “because trans women are an embarrassment and Connie should know enough to keep quiet.” So you treated Connie like she was an embarrassing secret for four long years, STUNG, and that caused her pain. You caused her pain. Then you go on a couple dates with another woman—a cis woman—and it’s instantly all over Facebook. Connie was understandably upset, and not just by the fact that you were seeing someone else. All the hurt and anger that built up over the last four years— hurt at the way you treated her, anger with herself for putting up with it— overwhelmed her, and she lashed out. Connie isn’t a bad person, STUNG, she was just angry and upset. “And I don’t think STUNG is a bad guy,” said Jay. “His attitude toward trans women was shaped by a culture that treats trans women as either fetishes or punch lines. I am a transgender woman, and I have my own internalized transphobia that I’ve had to navigate around. So while I can dissect and analyze STUNG, I can hardly vilify him.” So what do I think you should do about Connie? You should call her and apologize. You should tell her that you treated her badly and you can understand why she lashed out. And you should tell her that, while you aren’t “in love” with her, you do love her. Then you should tell her you’re open to meeting up and talking things out. And what does Jay think you should do going forward? “I think STUNG should try to see every woman he sleeps with as fully human, regardless of their genitals.” Follow Bailey Jay on Twitter @ BaileyJayTweets.

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