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CONTENTS Upfront

Editor Vince Grzegorek

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The old Huntington Building downtown gets a $280-million revamp, the Metroparks get weird about water, and more

Editorial Managing Editor Eric Sandy Music Editor Jeff Niesel Staff Writers Sam Allard, Doug Brown Web Editor Alaina Nutile Contributing Writer Will Burge Dining Editor Douglas Trattner Contributing Dining Editor Nikki Delamotte Stage Editor Christine Howey Visual Arts Editor Josh Usmani Interns Hannah Wintucky, Brittany Rees, Jacob Gedetsis, Jason Meek, Maggie Sullivan Kimberly Jauregui,Tyler Singleton, Caitlin Summers

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Ja’Ovvoni Garrison is on a quest to give 100 free skateboards to Slavic Village kids

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Flavor, Scene’s annual review of the city’s dining highlights, will guide you through your Cleveland culinary adventures

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

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The grand bank lobby will be open for the public and for private functions.

One of the bank lock-boxes contained a signed check from Abraham Lincoln.

FLORIDA DEVELOPER PLANS MAJOR PROJECT AT HUNTINGTON BUILDING

THIS WEEK

THE OLD HUNTINGTON BANK building at Euclid and East 9th — a massive, 93-percent vacant structure in the heart of downtown Cleveland — was sold last week to Florida-based Hudson Holdings.

The company’s plan: a $280-million mixed-use renovation that combines residential space, hotel space, office space, party space and, in short, “that kind of lifestyle which we feel is going to bring more and more people downtown,” HH principal Avi Greenbaum said last week.

Here are the quick numbers: 550 high-end rental units, 400,000 square feet of office space, 300 highend hotel rooms and the world’s largest bank lobby (at 61,000 square feet, ca. 1926; see photos) open to the public and/or private functions.

“This is one of the grandest buildings in the portfolio of downtown Cleveland,” Tom Yablonsky, executive director of the Historic Gateway Neighborhood Corp., said.

With violin accompaniment and flashing photography all around, a small contingent of Cleveland’s press corps was led on a tour of the building — from the awe-inspiring lobby to the 21st floor, where the old Mid-Day Club was located, down to the metallic bank vaults, where a check signed by Abraham Lincoln was once found and where a torture

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scene from Captain America: The Winter Soldier was filmed.

The visuals alone were astounding. Even basic office space was transformed by rich oak walls and wide-open views of East 9th.

(White marble floors in the old Huntington offices were covered with carpet, to much chagrin.)

Greenbaum, who mentioned frequently the importance of “activating” various rooms and floors of the building, said that his vision is comparable to the Plaza Hotel in New York City. With plenty of room for incoming retail (currently there are only two retail tenants in the building), it’s not hard to imagine a bustling world blossoming within the massive structure, what with hotel guests flitting from shop to shop and tenants purchasing sundries on their way to and from their downtown offices.

Along with the impending Kimpton Hotel, the newly opened Heinen’s and the PNC Bank building, the corner of Euclid and East 9th is really going to be something else.

SHOWDOWN OVER PUBLIC BEACHES CRASHES ONTO SHORE Cleveland City Councilman Mike Polensek and a small battalion of

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eastside residents attended last week’s Metroparks board meeting to publicly register their outrage over a policy at Euclid Beach which prohibits all body contact with water. Assorted TV media personnel, who rarely bother to cover the Metroparks unless there’s a photo op at Merwin’s Wharf or negligent parenting at the zoo, arrived en masse to document the confrontation.

Upshot: Despite impassioned comments and pleas for partnership (or at least reason) from beach goers, CMP Commissioners Dan Moore and Debbie Berry voted to uphold the no-body-contact policy and grant CEO Brian Zimmerman sweeping authority to close any areas he deems unsafe for swimming. Later that day, the Metroparks amended their position to allow ankle-deep wading and splashing with the hands and feet.

After a few public comments, Board President Dan Moore dismissed Polensek and told residents that the meeting must go on. He emphasized the idea that in five or 10 years, Euclid Beach will be something that all residents can enjoy. He guaranteed that swimming would be available next summer.

Until then, he said, he’s really hoping CEO Brian Zimmerman might be able to organize some sort of wading pool or “wading experience”

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to “bridge the gap.”

Polensek’s pissed, though. He issued an angry press release Wednesday in the wake of an arrest at Euclid Beach the weekend before last.

A father and his daughter were strolling the beach when a park ranger confronted them and told the man he had to remove his daughter from the water. The Metroparks claimed the girl was “thigh deep.” The girl’s mother, who attended Thursday’s meeting, said her daughter was “ankle-deep,” and that when she came home immediately following the incident, her pants weren’t even wet.

Nonetheless, the father, William Carol Jr., who told the ranger to write him a ticket because he wasn’t going to “remove his daughter” from the Lake Erie shallows, was handcuffed and charged with allowing unauthorized swimming and failure to comply.

So then in the press release sent in the wake — COUNCILMAN POLENSEK STRONGLY DISAGREES WITH METROPARKS DECISION TO DENY “BODY CONTACT WITH THE WATER” AT EUCLID AND VILLA ANGELA BEACHS (sic) — the outspoken councilman took Metroparks leadership to task.

“This is outrageous,” Polensek said in the statement. “People and families have been enjoying the beach and lakefront in this

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community since 1796 and now in 2015 they are told they cannot even walk in the water! Get real!

Metroparks’ Commissioners need to reverse this ridiculous decision and come up with a reasonable plan to ensure safe swimming and beach activities before there is a major altercation along the lakefront with Park Rangers.”

Polensek echoed those sentiments in public comments at the meeting, calling the policy “Draconian” and, again, “outrageous.” He said that, especially given local tension between residents and law enforcement in recent months, the Metroparks was being downright irresponsible putting rangers in a position where they have to tell residents to stay out of the water on hot, humid days.

In one of the meeting’s more comically surreal moments, Polensek repeated how ludicrous it was that residents without pools or country club memberships weren’t permitted to touch the water at the only beach on the city’s east side.

CMP Law Director Rose Fini interjected that the policy didn’t say anything about “touching the water;” it prohibited “body contact with water.”

Polensek, who was visibly shaking his head through the proceedings, inquired what the difference was. He kept inquiring until Fini (unfamiliar, it would seem, with the tenor of many Cleveland City Council meetings, asked for order).

“This is the community, Mr. Chairman,” Polensek said to Dan Moore. “If you’re going to do this, you may as well put a barbed-wire fence around the lakefront.”

Moore did, in fact, say that the community should view the beach as a construction site for now.

A handful of residents spoke up, all of them arguing that they’ve been safely swimming at Euclid Beach and Villa Angela for years, and taking issue with media portrayals of the beaches as unsafe. One woman said that her elderly neighbor avidly

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collected beach glass and walked the shoreline three days per week — “You can’t take that away from her,” she said.

Polensek even implied that the only reason CMP found debris under the sand is because they went looking for it. He said that if he dug deep enough in his own backyard, he’d probably find some debris there as well.

From the Metroparks’ perspective, safety is the top priority. Though Zimmerman gave the conversation a wide berth, Dan Moore said that the parks’ primary mandate, like a doctor’s, is to “do no harm.”

Chief Planning and Design Officer Sean McDermott presented a slideshow that he presented at the last meeting which showed the evolving shoreline at Euclid Beach and Villa Angela. Because of the intermittent break wall, the beach has become “sloped and scalloped’ to create an environment that’s unsafe for swimming, he said. McDermott even played a video of himself, outfitted in yellow hazmattish suit that dive teams use, walking into the water to demonstrate a particularly steep drop-off.

McDermott said that the Metroparks has applied for a permit with the Army Corps of Engineers and estimated that once he’s been given the green light, putting together a temporary swimming area might only take two weeks.

Metroparks Chief Marketing Officer Sanaa Julien later wrote Scene in an email that the permit would grant permission to remediate hazardous conditions which may include excavating the lake floor. (At this point, they’re not sure how deep down the debris extends because they haven’t been granted the permit, Julien said.)

But Polensek’s not buying it. He feels like he and the community have been led around by the nose — “First we were promised beach ambassadors. Then we were promised lifeguards.” — and says it’s the Metroparks responsibility to find a reasonable solution. He said he and the community want to be partners, but haven’t felt like they’ve been included in any of the

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decisions related to Euclid Beach.

PLAINTIFFS WIN MAJOR SUIT AGAINST CHAGRIN FALLS NANNY SCHOOL A jury in the long-running case against the English Nanny and Governess School found for the plaintiffs last week, awarding $392,750 plus attorneys’ fees for Christina Cruz and Heidi Kaiser.

The ENGS is owned and operated by Sheilagh Roth and Bradford Gaylord The details of the case are grisly.

In short: The Chagrin Falls “nanny school” -- an institution that trains nannies before placing them with rich families -- was made to answer a former student’s allegation of a sexual abuse cover-up.

Roth and Gaylord stood accused of trying to suppress a report made

by Christina Cruz, an ENGS student, who said she witnessed a wealthy Philadelphia-area businessman sexually abuse his 9-year-old daughter while she was on a threeday “extended interview” with the family following her completion of the school’s three-month program.

Gaylord and Roth urged Cruz not to say anything — emphasizing that reporting child abuse “can ruin lives” and that her “her career prospects would suffer if she made the report, including by communicating that her access to job opportunities through their placement service would be contingent on whether she made the report or not,” Cruz’s lawyers say. They were worried about losing business of “high-caliber clientele” and the public image of the school if she went through with it.

“What is this mess?” Roth is accused of saying to Cruz. “You’re not going to be reporting anybody, you’re not a professional, you’re not going to report our client.”

After Cruz made the report, which she was likely required to make by state law and the school’s own teachings and policy, Gaylord and Roth were accused of engaging in a smear campaign to discredit her and limit her job prospects by saying that she was mentally “unstable” because she previously saw a therapist and her parents had divorced and remarried.

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“Mrs. Roth said that Christina’s parents had several marriages and of course that creates an unstable person,” a then-employee recorded in the following weeks. They stopped responding to Cruz’s inquiries and stopped attempting to place her with other clients, which they are contractually required to do for its students, the suit states.

The other plaintiff in the case is former ENGS placement director Heidi Kaiser, who was fired after she “refused to participate” in Gaylord and Roth’s “attempt to suppress Cruz’s report.” Just weeks before the incident Roth wrote to an acquaintance how glad she was to have her at the school (“I hired her immediately and she is a wonderful asset to [ENGS].”) When Kaiser didn’t play ball with them following the incident — and refused to place other nannies with the client whom Cruz said abused his daughter — the owners are accused of saying she had an alcohol problem and didn’t do a menial task as pretext to fire her.

A Chester County (PA) detective — a witness for the plaintiffs — wrote an affidavit saying he did not find anything in his investigation that was “inconsistent” with what Cruz reported. He also stated there was a previous complaint of child abuse against the man based on a cell phone video taken by his youngest daughter of him in bed with his naked older daughter.

Because of Cruz’s report and subsequent investigation by the detective and the Chester County Office of Children and Family Services, the two children were removed from his custody, and the case proceed until last week.

“The jury’s verdict affirms the importance of the strict standard for reporting child abuse,” said the plaintiffs’ attorney, Peter Pattakos. “If you see something, say something.

This case shows why we are called to such a high standard. As we’ve seen here, and in other high-profile cases across the country, it can be all too easy to look the other way when a child’s safety is at risk.”

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curriculum, I tell them, ‘I’m not here to make you pro skaters. I’m here to give you the basics and the basic elements to progress and whatever you do is up to you, you are taking this opportunity to push yourself.’

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How would you describe the skating culture in Cleveland when you first started the community programs?

Before, it was very sparse. There were skaters, I think the scene was here, but it was mainly in the suburbs, because there were parks there, there were spaces there. Growing up, even as a kid, I had noticed a lot of people black, white, whatever, skateboarding had this idea that part one it was a suburban sport but also only for white people and I had never experienced that. When I would go skating at the waterfront, there were Asian guys, black guys, my one friend was from the Ukraine. It was just different walks of life and I didn’t have those filters as far as race or identity. We are all related in some way because we all shared this experience with skateboarding.

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Ja’Ovvoni Garrison is on a quest to give 100 free skateboards to Slavic Village kids

By Jacob Gedetsis JA’OVVONI GARRISON’S LIFE was anything but stable growing up.

Moving from city to city and across state lines, skateboarding became his refuge. At 18, he started Skaters Next Door, a community program that typically runs 6 to 8 weeks during the fall at Stella Walsh Recreation Center, to share his passion for skating with kids in the community. During the program, he teaches skating basics and gives away free boards to kids who need them. Since 2008, Garrison, 25, has raised more than $40,000 through grant writing and working with organizations such as Neighborhood Connection and Slavic Village Development. He is currently running an online gofundme campaign to raise $4,500 to give away 100 free skateboards to kids in the area.

When did you start skating?

I started skating when I was 13, 14. I was staying in East Cleveland at the time. I didn’t get heavy into

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skateboarding until I was 16 and that’s when we moved to Cleveland, definitely a different atmosphere. For my 16th birthday was when I pretty much got my legit skateboard, a board with concave. The first board that I didn’t break every month, because I started off with Walmart boards like everyone does. I started learning and that’s kind of when the passion kicked in. I would skate all day in my basement during the winters, just stationary whatever.

What is a typical class during the program like?

We do lessons maybe two to three days a week when we run the programs. If you came in we would figure out if you needed a skateboard or have one. As far as the curriculum goes, we figure out your stance.

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How did you get the word out about the programs when you were first starting out with such a segmented culture?

I remember in the very beginning, some of the first lessons I did I wasn’t even sure. I was thinking I could start this program and nobody would come, because a lot of people do have those stereotypes. Where people might say, ‘Why would I do this? This isn’t my style, this isn’t what I am supposed to do.’ So I thought I could start it and if one kid comes that’s better than nothing. I lived in the neighborhood at the time and I would go around and look for kids who might just be starting to skateboard. ’Cause a lot of kids, when they are young, they probably tried it, but there’s no connection for getting them to keep up with it. So I would run into kids in the neighborhood, and be like ‘Yo, if you come to Stella I have a board for you.’ At that time, I would have 20 to 25 boards on hand and we would have about 10 or 15 kids per lesson.

So I would give them out to kind of reel them in, get them involved with the culture, get them involved with the guys that are already skating to connect those pieces together so they can grow with them.

Have you received pushback for your efforts?

Being young dealing with older folks, there was this one time where I applied for a grant and I went through the interview and we didn’t

get the grant, and later I ended up seeing one of the ladies that interviewed me. And she said, ‘Well, to be honest, I really didn’t feel like giving you the green light for it, because you were cocky.’

My mind was blown. How could she feel I was cocky because I believed in something so strong for my neighborhood and about skateboarding? But I guess that was our fifth or sixth year applying for a grant, I knew what I wanted.

We got the grant a season later, but honestly if I was new I honestly would have said f*ck this. Because you honestly don’t know what I am trying to do, I am not here to be cocky, I am here to make something happen for the kids that want it. So it was definitely interesting, to get that pushback.

Being young and people not really understanding what I was doing and who I was.

There’s often a stigma around skateboarding, that skateboarders are troublemakers. How do you respond to that criticism?

That’s definitely out there, but that’s just with cultures in general.

You know you have people that shoot guns that go to a range and love it. And then you have people that do it in a totally different light, on the negative side. So there’s definitely two ends, but you know these guys have a different mindset about skateboarding, and they know that skateboarding has an image, and that’s something that they want, in a sense, to protect.

For them being young, they aren’t doing what people who call hooligan or whatever. Because they know what I went through and why I’m giving them this opportunity to make it what it is.

What does this community mean to you and to the kids in it?

For me, I love it, man; it was what I wanted. I grew up and there were nine of us, so I was around a lot of people in general, but I didn’t have a lot of friends. And so to kind of build these bridges with guys from different areas, from different walks of life.

They understand what it’s like to help each other grow, and not just help yourself, but to help the community at large grow with each other. They are there for each other if they need it. I know what I didn’t have and just seeing these guys here working on it, loving it the same way I do.

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Because summer demands eating and drinking under the sun and stars

By Douglas Trattner NOW THAT SUMMER HAS arrived, you undoubtedly find yourself dealing with the feeling inside that you should only do things outside.

Embrace that feeling. Nurture it. And take a little bit of our advice. We’ve been on just about every patio in Northeast Ohio —and we love them all — but certain conditions call for certain settings, whether that’s the forecast, the meal, or the company.

So take our expert advice on where to plant your fanny, all run through our very scientific evaluation process in search of maximum pleasure.

When you feel like eating Brazilian fare in a secret garden: Batuqui (12706 Larchmere Blvd., 216-801-0277, batuquicleveland. com), a new Brazilian bistro concept, inherited the attractive Victorian on Larchmere that was home to Vine & Bean and Bon Vivant, which means it also inherited an enchanted garden patio. Enjoy skewers of grilled pork, garlicky Portuguese sausage, and feijoada, the celebratory dish of black beans, sausage, ham, rice and crispy farofa.

When you feel like slicing into a fat steak while teetering over a river: A fire destroyed Jekyll’s Kitchen (17 River St., 440-893-0797, jekyllskitchen.com) in Chagrin Falls awhile back, but the restaurant reopened with an all-new layout that ups its patio game by a mile. A new folding glass panel slides away, creating a lively and attractive indooroutdoor patio overlooking the Chagrin River where diners can enjoy solid American fare.

When you want to dine outdoors in iffy weather: Nighttown (12387 Cedar Rd., 216-795-0550, nighttowncleveland. com) at the top of Cedar Hill in Cleveland Heights seems to build new patios by the day, and many of them are covered, allowing guests to dine alfresco without the fear of being screwed by Cleveland’s fickle weather.

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nearly every night of the year at the Barking Spider Tavern (11310 Juniper Rd., 216-421-2863; barkingspidertavern. com) in University Circle. And throughout summer, the doors that separate the stage and the (dogfriendly) patio are flung wide open, allowing the acoustic tunes to fly right out.

When you feel like getting Porcoed outside for a change: We’re so used to getting “Porcoed” indoors like the rest of the gang at Porco Lounge & Tiki Bar (2527 West 25th St., 216-802-9222, porcolounge.com), the magical little tiki bar in Ohio City, that we tend to forget about the oasis-like patio out back. Then again, we tend to forget everything after a few Mai Tais or Pain Killers.

When you want to feel like a Parisian in your own backyard: The little patch of sidewalk fronting Le Petit Triangle Café (1881 Fulton Rd., 216-281-1881, lepetittrianglecafe.com) may be slender, but its quietly urban setting on an out-of-the-way block in Ohio City is hard to top. Share brunch here with a loved one and leave the rest of the world behind, much like a mini vacation from home.

When you want to dine alfresco at a local legend: For more than 35 years, Players on Madison (14523 Madison Ave., 216-226-5200, playersonmadison. com) in Lakewood has been satisfying its neighbors with creative Italian fare that began with pizza and pasta but has grown to include creative seasonal specials.

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Market Garden Brewery’s patio is a consistent favorite.

a few pretzels, and settle in for an authentic beer garden experience.

When you want to eat killer ’cue: with a sky view: The attractive beer garden at Sterle’s Country House (1401 East 55th St., 216-881-4181, sterlescountryhouse. com) has always been a sweet spot to pop in for a cold beer on a hot day. But now, Thursdays through Sundays, it also happens to serve the best barbecue in Cleveland proper. That’s when items like pork ribs, beef ribs, corned beef, and bratwurst roll off the grill and out of the smoker.

When you’ve had just about enough of West 25th Street: On some Saturdays (and we’re not complaining here), the main drag through Ohio City can get pretty congested with shoppers, tourists, and lookie-loos. That’s the perfect time to duck into the beer garden at Market Garden (1947 West 25th St., 216-6214000, marketgardenbrewery.com) for a quick refresher. After a few tall Pearl Street Wheats, the crowds don’t seem so bad.

When you want to remember that Cleveland has a Great Lake: It’s not always easy to get to enjoy that big, blue body of water to our north thanks to eons of horrendous city planning. One of the few enjoyable access points is Sunset Grille at Whiskey Island, which is now officially called Whiskey Island Still & Eatery (2800 Whiskey Island, 216-6311800). The beer selection has never been better, the music is always live and festive, and the sunset views are Instagram gold.

When you want to impress your snotty East Side pals: Let’s face it: Eastsiders can be a tad judgmental when it comes to the far-West Side dining scene.

But even the most jaded of urban explorers will leave Tartine Bistro (19110 Old Detroit Rd., 440-3310800, tartinebistro.com) in Rocky River with newfound respect. The compact brick-paved courtyard is the ideal spot to sip wine, snack on small plates, and make some new friends.

When you want to eat offal under moonlight: The food at Michael Symon’s Tremont bistro Lolita (900 Literary Rd., 216-771-5652, lolitarestaurant. com) always manages to be current and on point — even progressive.

Meals take on an added sense of delight when enjoyed on the svelte garden patio out back. There, dishes like crispy pig tails and ear, roasted bone marrow, and killer seasonal pizzas taste downright magical.

When you want the best spot for people watching in University Circle: University Circle is blowing up, and one of the best places to take in all the action is on the streetside patio at Ninja City (11311 Euclid Ave., 216-860-0510, ninjacity.com).

Where better to enjoy Asian street food than along one of the city’s busiest thoroughfares, where museum-goers, academics and new tenants savor the urban lifestyle?

When you just want to relax with a great cuppa joe: There’s no arguing that the best cups of coffee in Cleveland are being brewed and poured at Rising Star (1455 West 29th St., 216-2733573, risingstarcoffee.com). Grab a cup and a seat out front of this #hingetown staple to watch the steady stream of coffee fanatics who make daily pilgrimages to this seminal shop.

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Four ways to throw an easy backyard party with help from your favorite local restaurants

By Douglas Trattner

When planning a backyard get-together, it helps to have a theme to tie it all together. We’re not talking about grass skirts and coconut bras here, but rather a narrow culinary focus around which to organize a shopping list.

The best, like the following to-dos, require very little running around and almost no prep time.

Mexican Fiesta

snacks and starters:La Plaza sells some of the best housemade salsas in town, from bright and fresh pico de gallo and creamy guacamole to tangy salsa roja and fiery salsa verde. Grab one or two of each along with a few bags of restaurant-style tortilla chips and a half pound of the homemade chicharrones (fried pork rinds). If you’re feeling adventurous, grab some fresh jalapenos, stuff them with grated Chihuahua cheese, and pop them on the grill until warm and bubbly.

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Thanks to La Plaza Supermarket, throwing a Mexicanthemed fiesta is an easy one-stop affair. (Two, if you want to whip up Margaritas.) From produce and marinated meats to snacks

and bevvies, this Latin grocery in Lakewood has all bases covered.

Main course: Daily at its butcher counter, La Plaza cuts and marinates meat, making a Mexican-themed grill-out blissfully easy. Grab some skirt steak, flank steak or marinated chicken breast along with a few packages of corn tortillas, keeping in mind that each taco should contain two. While the meat is grilling, warm the tortillas in foil on the grill or wrapped in a towel in a microwave oven. For garnish, set out your salsas, pickled carrots, fresh chopped cilantro, diced white onion, and lime wedges. dessert: If you feel that no meal is complete without dessert, pick up some flan (caramel custard), arroz con leche (rice pudding), tembleque (coconut pudding), or strawberry filled churros. beverages: La Plaza has both soft and semi-soft beverages, including a rainbow of Jarritos sodas and tons of Mexican beers, including Tecate, Sol, Dos Equis, Modelo Especial, and the hard-to-find Corona Familiar. If you want to make a pitcher of margatitas, you’ll have to hit the liquor store for some tequila blanco.

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the tacos at la Plaza are among the region’s most beloved midday meals.

Burgers and dogs, for sure, but a person needs steak too. The biggest mistake home cooks make — apart from buying the wrong cut — is buying too much of it. Go for fat two-inch-thick bone-in ribeyes, porterhouses or Delmonicos. Not only are thick steaks easier to grill to an

appropriate temperature (mediumrare, obviously), but they can be sliced and shared, allowing guests to grab as much or as little as they’d like. Oh, and they should be USDA Prime, which means you’re shopping at Mr. Brisket in Cleveland Heights. the Main event: While Mr. B is the go-to guy for prime steaks, he’s also got the best quality burgers and dogs that money can buy. And the hits keep coming: heritage-breed pork chops, hormone and antibiotic free chicken breasts, turkey burgers, and homemade Italian and Thai sausages.

If we’ve learned anything from our chatty friends on the Food Network, it’s to buy and use a meat thermometer to prevent overcooking our chops (130 degrees for mediumrare). And here’s a top tip from chef Adam Perry Lang. When the steaks are about to come off the grill, make a “board sauce” by chopping up some fresh herbs (thyme, rosemary, sage and/or parsley), some fresh garlic, maybe some lemon zest, and a drizzle of olive oil. Flip the finished steaks into the board sauce and allow to rest for a few minutes before slicing. sides: Mr. Brisket makes potato salad, coleslaw and macaroni salad so you don’t have to. buns: If you’re doing burgers and dogs, you’ll need buns. Mr. Brisket only sells rye bread, which is not a bun. For those you’ll have to hit a bakery like On the Rise, Zoss or Stone Oven, all of which are in the neighborhood.

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FEATURE

Step back in time at Sweet Moses.

CHILL OUT

A Brief History of Cold Treats in Cleveland

By Nikki Delamotte AS THE ROARING ’20S CAME TO a close, freezers less adept for longterm chilling left the sixth most populous city in America ripe for the surplus of destination ice cream shops that catered to a dense body of downtown inhabitants. Advances may have changed the scene, but today’s ice cream makers, from small-batch artisan to large-scale producers, look back fondly on the golden age for their day-to-day inspiration.

From 1930 to 1990, fleets of cyclists chimed through the streets peddling Louie Kaleal’s Checker Bar Ice Cream. Though they halted production of their own blends in the ’60s, Checker Bar still sells novelty treats and dry ice from its whimsical

red-and-white-striped storefront on St. Clair Avenue.

Not far away on Euclid Avenue, Cleveland native Alexander “Pierre” Basset opened Pierre’s ice cream shop in 1932. But as home freezer technology improved, Pierre’s shifted its focus to large-scale production of ice cream for household consumption.

The current factory, still on Euclid albeit two miles away, now distributes nationwide.

“It’s really fun to establish customers in different parts of the country,” says current CEO Shelley Roth. “But we balance those opportunities with our most important market: our own backyard.”

Ah, the perfect scoop.

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Pierre’s wouldn’t be the last local ice cream maker with staying power.

As the population began spreading out thanks to electrified street cars, Frank and Marianne Page staked their claim on a small shoe store down the street from their Old Brooklyn home, which in 1974 they turned into the area’s first Honey Hut. “It’s great that Cleveland has become this huge ice cream connoisseur area recently because it’s really challenged us to up our game too,” says director of operations Jonathan Rosati. “Instead of having the same stuff as we did in 1974, which may very well have happened, it forces us to think, ‘What can we do that’s new?’ We have all these awesome competitors that are teaching the rest of Cleveland how great ice cream can really be.”

East Coast Custard would join the league of cold treats in 1985, when the company opened its original Parma Heights location (now one of five), adorned with neon signs and flashing lights that recalled the Coney Island carnival scene where custard originated. In keeping pace with the times, they’ve since added an ice cream-based food truck to their repertoire.

The late ’90s would introduce locals to Mitchell’s, which pioneered local sourcing, dedication to sustainability and small batch production now encompassing eight locations throughout Cleveland.

Mitchell’s commitment to quality

would resonate with another wave of artisan ice cream makers, who would emerge over the following decade.

The 2011 opening of the retroinspired soda fountain Sweet Moses in Gordon Square marked a reemergence of ice cream shops nearer to downtown, even more so now that there’s an outpost at Progressive Field. In 2012, Churned, an offshoot of the popular bakery A Cookie and a Cupcake, would follow suit in the already booming culinary destination of Tremont.

“People appreciate the old school-style handmade ice cream and really look forward not only to finding out how it’s made and the ingredients used, but they’re always surprised that we make it ourselves,” says Churned co-owner SynDee Bergen.

A year later, food incubator Cleveland Culinary Launch and Kitchen planted itself in Midtown and helped foster two of the city’s most beloved sweets businesses.

Mason’s Creamery and Chill Pop Shop shared workspaces only feet from each other and continued to stay in close proximity as they began infiltrating local farmer’s markets.

“Suddenly there are all these new outlets and places of gathering.

It was a whole movement at once,” says Elizabeth Pryor, who co-owns Chill Pop with Maggie Pryor.

Though they’ve made a name for themselves peddling popsicles, the Columbus natives originally were inspired by the gourmet flavors of hometown legend Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams. When they relocated to Cleveland, they spun their love of farm fresh, seasonal flavors into bestselling pops like sea salt strawberry crème, watermelon lime and roasted peach.

This year, after amassing a loyal following of market-goers, Mason’s Creamery took over the former Ohio City Ice Cream and Dari Delite storefront, where they offer 16 new flavors each week, 25 percent of which are vegan.

In 2014, Picadilly planted itself in the booming University Circle neighborhood. Using chilly liquid nitrogen, employees whip up organic-based ice cream to order in front of customers.

Across town on the westside, Marissa Flynn, who says she was inspired by Chill Pop and other makers, is the newest entrepreneur hoping to build on the chilled sweets momentum. Her shop, Ice Cream Joy, just opened in Lakewood and they’ve already begun scheming up concoctions.

“We’re all bringing back the oldfashioned spirit,” says Flynn. “But with a new twist.”

FEATURE BEVERAGES: The Wine Spot, just around the corner, carries one of the best selections of craft beer around, in cans, bottles and on tap for growler fills. Of course, if you’re having steak, you’ll want a few nice bottles of cabernet or Malbec, also available right here.

ICE CREAM SOCIAL Sometimes it makes sense to skip right to dessert. It doesn’t need to be somebody’s birthday to throw a sweets-themed bash complete with a make-your-own sundae bar. There’s nothing to cook and everything to gain.

BUILD-YOUR-OWN PIZZA PARTY A backyard pizza party takes a little extra planning, but the results are totally worth it. For starters, everybody gets exactly what they want or don’t want on their pie — no swimmers! — and second, all the mess stays outside of the kitchen.

THE GOODS: Go to Gallucci’s at least one day before the bash and load up on frozen pizza dough balls ($1 each), bags of shredded mozzarella, jars of pizza sauce, sliced pepperoni, banana peppers,

maybe some prosciutto, fresh basil, and anything else that looks delicious. Move the dough balls from the freezer to the fridge the night before the bash, and from the fridge to the counter the morning of.

The trick to a successful outdoor pizza party is converting your gas grill into a pizza oven. That’s easier than it sounds. If you have a pizza stone that you use in your oven, simply move it to the grill.

If you don’t, even better, because you’ll save a ton of money by going to Home Depot or Lowe’s and buying unglazed quarry tiles for a fraction of the price. Turn

the grill on medium heat an hour before cooking. Too high a heat from below nets a burnt crust and uncooked toppings.

THE SET UP: Set out all the doughs (covered), sauce, cheese and toppings. It’s best to have one person spin out the dough, place it on the floured pizza peel, and let the guest add the toppings. Cover and cook one or two pies at a time, depending on how big your stone or stones are. Add fresh herbs after the pies exit the grill, slice and serve.

BEVERAGES: You can handle it from here.

THE COLD STUFF: Hit up your favorite ice cream shop (Mitchell’s Homemade, Mason’s Creamery, A Cookie and a Cupcake, and Jeni’s come to mind) and pick up a few of your favorite flavors, being sure to grab at least some vanilla for those who like to focus on the toppings.

Maybe some non-dairy gelato or sorbet for the whiners.

HOT SIDE HOT, COLD SIDE COLD: Don’t sweat the small stuff, but don’t melt the ice cream. Grab a wide tub or cooler and fill the base with ice to keep the ice creams from going all soft on you. For warm toppings like hot fudge and caramel sauce, place them in heatproof containers on a gas grill (or side burner) set to low.

TOPPINGS: Everybody knows that the toppings make the sundae, but why not start from the bottom?

Set out plates of warm and fudgy brownies, chocolate chip cookies, or crushed waffle cones to give the sundaes a boost. When it comes to the rest of the toppings, the sky’s the limit, but you’ll want to consider chopped nuts, fresh fruit like strawberries, bananas and blueberries, and of course whipped cream.

FLOAT THIS!: Keep some oldfashioned root beer on ice so folks can make root beer floats. You’ll want tall glasses, tall spoons and tall straws. The maraschino cherry is optional.

ADULT BEVERAGES: You might as well throw some bubbles — prosecco, Champagne, or mini cans of Sofia Blanc de Blancs — on ice alongside that root beer for those who might be in need of a mood enhancer.

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Every year, the Cleveland Botanical Garden-run Green Corps employs and educates dozens of Cleveland area teens to work at one of six urban learning farms.

The beaming-proud students sell their fresh, organic produce (and now-famous Ripe from Downtown Salsa) at farmers’ markets in Tremont, Shaker and downtown.

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DIG IN For many, the growing season officially begins when Tom and Sue Woodworth of Middle Ridge Gardens set up for their big annual plant sale at Shaker Square. Racks and racks of plants are unloaded from trucks and set up near the end of Westbound Shaker Boulevard.

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The best of the bunch is Weaver’s Truck Patch from Eli and Irvin Miller, who split up so they can appear simultaneously on opposite side of town at Crocker and Shaker Square. Greenhouses kept warm with wood-burning stoves extend the growing season both early and late.

Say CheeSe! Yellow House farm in Seville, Ohio, is known for its pastureraised lamb, chicken and pork.

But the cheese coming out of this small-scale creamery quickly is eclipsing the other products, landing in fine restaurants all over NEO. All of the cheeses are handmade from raw cow’s or sheep’s milk and aged for at least 60 days. Try the award-winning sheep’s milk blue cheese or the signature farmstead.

Cleveland’s own Lake Erie Creamery can be found every other week at Shaker Square and every week at Crocker Park. The small-batch cheeses are made from local goat and cow milk, and products include bucheron, wine-soaked feta, and the popular Lake Erie Pearls, hand-

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Why buy cream cheese from Philadelphia when you could top your bialy with preservative-free cream cheese made using local, grass-fed cows’ milk? That’s what twin sisters Rachel and Sarah Gross from Clover Road Cream Cheese do. Stop by Crocker and Shaker to pick up any of their eight signature flavors, including traditional, dilly ranch, and Parmesan truffle.

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At Millgate Farm, Tod Mogren is doing all the right things when it comes to raising his beef and pork. He starts with Berkshire pigs and Maine-Anjou cattle and allows them to graze the fields and forage in the woods, none of which is poisoned by herbicides or pesticides. Of course, his animals are free of antibiotics, growth hormones and byproducts.

In addition to seasonal produce, lamb, maple syrup and cut flowers, Kevin and Sarah Swope of Heritage Lane Farms specialize in bison. Touted as “the healthier red meat,” bison is higher in protein and lower in fat and calories than beef. The Swopes sell the meat as steaks, burgers and roasts.

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travel well. Don’t tell George Goodman that. For five years he’s been lugging around his wood-fired pizza oven to farmers’ markets, seasonal events, and backyards everywhere. In Forno’s Neapolitan-style pies are a weekly hit at Crocker Park, where farm-fresh local ingredients find their way atop Goodman’s svelte pies.

If you’ve been to La Campagna in Westlake, then you already know about the love and care that the Fragassi family puts into every plate. That same attention is on weekly display at Shaker Square, where they dish up breakfast sandwiches, vegetable pancakes and piadinas, stuffed Italian flatbreads.

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Cleveland Pride returns to Voinovich Park. See: Saturday.

WED 06/24 OUTDOORS

All About the Gateway A program featuring free guided walking tours of five distinct neighborhoods in downtown Cleveland, Take a Hike explores the Gateway District, Warehouse District, Civic Center, Playhouse Square neighborhood and Canal Basin Park in the Flats. Each tour lasts approximately 90 minutes and features actors and actresses portraying historic figures from Cleveland’s past.

Today’s Gateway District Tour takes place at 6 p.m. Meet at the Arcade. (Jeff Niesel) 401 Euclid Ave., clevelandgatewaydistrict.com.

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Dynamic Duo Tonight at U.S. Bank Plaza, roots rocking Boy=Girl (Ohio couple Jen Maurer and Paul Kovac) will be special guests at the outdoor venue’s singer-songwriter series. These two bring natural vocals, multiinstrumental skills, and songwriting to the table to create traditional and contemporary sounds. Maurer plays the upright and electric bass and guitar. Kovac plays the five-string banjo and acoustic and electric guitars.

Songs like “Blue Model #2” draw from bluegrass and country. They perform from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. It’s free (Alexandra Hintz) East 14th St. and Euclid Ave., 216-771-4444, playhousesquare.org.

FOOD

Food Trucks Aplenty Walnut Wednesday, the unofficial holiday for Clevelanders who work or play downtown during lunchtime, is back, thanks to the people at Downtown Cleveland Alliance. Today from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., some 30 food trucks will gather at Perk Plaza at Chester Commons (East 12th and Walnut) to serve up delicious eats. Live entertainment, usually of the musical variety, is also expected. Follow the DowntownClevelandAllianceonFacebook for weekly updates on vendors, entertainment offerings and more.

(Alaina Nutile) East 12th and Walnut, facebook.com/DowntownCleveland Alliance.

NIGHTLIFE

Hoppin’ Rad Much like the Fat Head’s tasting room

in Middleburg Heights, the Hoppin’ Frog Tasting Room in Akron is in a non-descript strip of storage facilities and warehouses. But step inside and you’ll find a cozy tasting room with a huge array of the brewery’s wonderful libations. The place features “hoppy hour” every weekday from 3 to 7 p.m.

Tonight, the brewers visit the tasting room from 5 to 7 p.m. While they don’t fill growlers, you can drink bottles on site or take ’em to go. The place also offers a “Hoppin’ Frog Rare & Vintage” list as well as a guest bottle list. And you can order from a limited food menu too. (Niesel) 1680-F Waterloo Rd., Akron, 234-525-3764, hoppinfrog.com/tasting-room.

FILM

Immigrant Story Screened at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival in the ContemporaryWorldCinemacategory, the French drama Eastern Boys stars Kirill Emelyanov, Danil Vorobyev and Olivier Rabourdin, who’s best known for his work in the Taken movies. It follows a group of immigrant boys who loiter around a Paris train station after forming a fiercely loyal gang for their own support and protection, as they are afraid that they could be deported. However, the film focuses on a French man who invites one of the hustler boys from the train station to his home, unaware he’s fallen into a trap. According to the New York Times, it “explores interlocking themes of sexuality, immigration, and power dynamics with a clear sensitivity.” This absorbing film centers on the contrast between the hugely different circumstances of the

older man and the young boy who both live in the same city. It screens at 6:45 tonight at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tickets are $9. (Elizabeth Manno) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.

COMEDY

Miller Time Comedian T.J. Miller is probably as well known for his voice as for his face. He’s worked on several animated movies, including How to Train Your Dragon and Big Hero 6. His voice, which drips sarcasm, lends itself well to the screen, and in 2010, he co-starred in She’s Out of My League as Stainer, a loveable loser. He was a comic before he became an actor and usually has some good material he saves for the stage. Dubbed the Meticulously Ridiculous Tour, his current travels include tonight’s stop at Hilarities. The show starts at 8 p.m. and tickets are $25 to $35. (Niesel) 2035 East Fourth St., 216-241-7425, pickwickandfrolic.com.

MUSIC

Party on the Patio During the summer months, the folks at Luxe Kitchen & Lounge make use of their outdoor patio each Wednesday night to host Luxe Kitchen & Lounge Songwriters on the Patio. A casual affair that features some of the city’s best singer-songwriters, it’s a good chance to hear some great music in an intimate setting. Indie singersongwriters John Kalman & Ariel Clayton perform tonight from 7 to 9 p.m. In the event of rain, the music will be rescheduled; check out Luxe’s Facebook page for updates. Admission

is free. (Niesel) 6605 Detroit Ave., 216-920-0600, luxecleveland.com.

ART

Power Play AFRICOBRA was a socio-politically motivated art movement during the height of the Civil Rights Movement in and around Chicago. These African American artists united in an effort to affirm and uplift the black community, effecting positive change through imagery and artwork. In conjunction with MOCA Cleveland’s Summer 2015 Exhibitions, the museum hosts a special film screening and panel discussion at 7 p.m. today.

AFRICOBRA: Power, Politics + Pride begins with a screening of the documentary, AFRICOBRA: Art for the People, followed by a panel discussion moderated by Ideastream’s Dee Perry with Jae and Wadsworth Jarrell (two of the movement’s founders, who now reside in Cleveland), Gerald Williams (an AFRICOBRA founding member) and Carolyn Lawrence (an AFRICOBRA artist). A collection of Jae Jarrell’s work is featured in MOCA’s new exhibition, How to Remain Human. It’s free. (Josh Usmani) 11400 Euclid Ave., 216-421-8671, mocacleveland.org.

SPORTS

Taking on the Tigers The Indians wrap up an eight-game homestand today with a day game against the Detroit Tigers. The Tigers have proven to be a tough opponent — earlier this month, the Indians lost two of three against the team as they squared off in Detroit. So far, June has gotten off to a rocky start

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Today’s game begins at 12:10 p.m. and tickets start at $10. (Niesel) 2401 Ontario St., 216-420-4487, clevelandindians.com.

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Civic Pride Need another excuse to hit the city sidewalks? Today’s Take a Hike program explores downtown’s Civic Center. (Other free weekly tours explore the Gateway District, Warehouse District, Playhouse Square neighborhood and Canal Basin Park in the Flats.) Each tour lasts approximately 90 minutes and features actors and actresses portraying historic figures from Cleveland’s past. In 2014, the Take a Hike program received a Dominion Community Impact Award. Meet at 6 p.m. at the Old Stone Church. (Niesel) 91 Public Square, clevelandgatewaydistrict.com.

COMEDY

Everyday Problems Comedian Kevin Bozeman likes to joke about the mundane. “I got one thing out of college,” he likes to say.

“Bad credit.” With his high-pitched voice, Bozeman practically winces as he tells his narrative-based jokes. His problems are everyone’s problems. He has trouble with women and issues with his finances. Expect him to touch on social issues too as he’s made fun of the fact that there aren’t any “brothers” in auto racing. He performs tonight at 8 at Hilarities. Tickets are $22.

Additonal performances are scheduled through Saturday. (Niesel) 2035 East Fourth St., 216-241-7425, pickwickandfrolic.com.

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Eyes on the Prize The 2015 winners of the Cleveland Arts Prize have been announced and now it’s time to celebrate. Today at 6:15 p.m., the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Gartner Auditorium hosts the Cleveland Arts Prize 55th Annual Awards Event. The evening is hosted

by CMA director William Griswold; City Club of Cleveland’s CEO, Dan Moulthrop, serves as emcee. This year’s winners include Emerging

Artists Gianna Commito and Mary Weems; Mid-Career Artists Felise Bagley and Michaelangelo Lovelace; Lifetime Award winner H. Leslie Adams; Robert Bergman Prize winner William Gould; and Martha Joseph Prize winners Jules and Mike Belkin. Winners will be honored and performances will take place throughout the program. The VIP party starts at 5:15 p.m, and an after party runs from 8 to 9 p.m. Tickets range from $75 to $250. (Usmani) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.

FOOD

Fresh Food North Union Farmers Market returns to U.S. Bank Plaza at 10:30 a.m. for a regular Thursday morning stop that will continue all summer.

The market is an “urban desert oasis of fresh and sustainable local farm foods directly from the farm owner.”

There will also be live entertainment.

The weekly market continues through Sept. 17. (Niesel) East 14th Street and Euclid Avenue, 216-771-4444, playhousesquare.org.

COMEDY

Funny Lady From current events to the hilarity of her personal life, standup comic Alycia Cooper leaves no topic uncovered.

If you’re a fan of blunt delivery and unadulterated wit, you’ll like Cooper, who likes to joke about how broke she is (“I texted my cousin a picture of a gift,” she jokes in one routine). She performs tonight at 7:30 at the Improv and has shows scheduled through Sunday. Ticket prices range from $15 and $20. (Dana Hetrick) 1148 Main Ave., 216-696-IMPROV, clevelandimprov.com.

COMEDY

Greek Life Greek-Australian comic Jim Dailakis uses his expertise in multiple cultures for a standup show that appeals to the masses. His incorporation of impressions, musical parodies and, of course, punchlines make him one of the most diverse acts this side of the Land Down Under. He performs tonight at 7:30 at Club Velvet at the Hard Rock Rocksino Northfield Park.

Tickets are $13 to $18. (Hetrick) 10705 Northfield Rd., Northfield, 330-908-7793, hrrocksinonorthfieldpark.com.

COMEDY

Jam On The Angry Ladies of Improv has hosted the Cleveland Improv Jam for four years now. A few years back, Scene described the show as “fierce,

GET OUT formidable and very funny.” The event begins with a set of short-form improv games, followed by a long-form improv set. The event begins at 8 tonight at Sachsenheim Hall. Arrive at 7:30 if you want to sign up and perform.

Admission is free. (Niesel) 7001 Denison Ave., 216-651-0888.

NIGHTLIFE

Lucky Liquor Tonight from 5 to 9, as part of an event dubbed Shaken & Stirred, the Horseshoe Casino’s Vintage 51 offers 6-ounce martinis named after the slot machines for only $1. It might sound like a girly thing, but guys get the discount too. The drink specials will change from time to time; tonight a live band will play from 7 to 10.

(Niesel) 100 Public Square, 216-297-4777, horseshoecleveland.com.

FILM

An Opera for the Ages Tonight, Cedar Lee Theater will screen the National Theater’s encore presentation of The Audience, an opera which stars Helen Mirren as Elizabeth II. The plot chronicles a series of pivotal Buckingham Palace meetings between the queen and the country’s prime ministers. The performance is being broadcast live from London’s Gielgud Theatre as part of the National Theatre Live. It screens tonight at 7 and again on Saturday and Sunday. Tickets are $20. (Hintz) 2163 Lee Rd., Cleveland Heights, 440-717-4696, clevelandcinemas.com.

FRI 06/26 FILM

French Flick The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq is a French comedydrama that came out in 2014 and stars the author/filmmaker Michel Houellebecq as himself.

The movie premiered at last year’s Berlin International Film Festival and details the fictitious story of Houellebecq getting kidnapped and held for ransom during one of his promotional tours. The inspiration for the film came when Houellebecq was promoting his real-life book, The Map and the Territory and didn’t appear in public for a long time. That led French newspapers to falsely speculate that he had been kidnapped. In the movie, Houellebecq is held for ransom by three thugs determined to have an intellectual

debate about history and literature.

The funny yet serious nature of kidnapping makes the flick an intriguing blend of comedy and drama. It screens tonight at 7 at the Cleveland Museum of Art and again on Sunday at 1:30 p.m. Tickets are $9. (Manno) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.

MUSIC

Guitar Mania The Cleveland Classical Guitar Society has a very clear mission. It seeks to present “world-renowned performers and teaches hundreds of students each year through its education program.” This month, you can get to know the society at a series of outdoor concerts it’s presenting at U.S. Bank Plaza, the small plaza across the street from Playhouse Square. Today’s free noon performance is by the award-winning guitarist Stephen Fazio. You can find out more on the website. (Niesel) East 14th Street and Euclid Avenue, 216-905-9348, cleguitar.org.

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Lang Time The British Film Institute dubbed German director Fritz Lang the Master of Darkness. Tonight, the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque pays homage to the master with a four-film series. It commences with 1944’s The Woman in the Window, which follows a criminology professor who falls in love with a woman in an oil painting and ends up committing a murder with an elaborate coverup. It screens at 7 p.m.

Then, at 9 p.m., you can see Scarlet Street, which stars the same three actors as the first film and is about a man in a mid-life crisis who gets conned out of money his fiancé thinks she has a right to. The Big Heat and While the City Sleeps screen tomorrow at 7 and 8:50 p.m. respectively. Tickets are $10. (Manno) 11141 East Blvd., 216-421-7450, cia.edu.

ART

Price is Right Calling all Vincent Price fans!

Following a themed dinner at Luxe and a special private sneak preview earlier in the week, the Six Degrees of Vincent Art Show finally opens to the public from 1 to 9 p.m. today with a reception beginning at 6 p.m. The international artist line-up includes talent from France, Mexico, England and Italy as well as California, New York and Cleveland. Among the locals, you’ll find Jamilla Naji, Jeff Hulligan, Joyce Stahl, Joe Ayala, Martha Clark-Plank, Oliver App,

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GET OUT Patti Luna, Samantha Meyers, Scott Radke, Sean Burns, Sean Kelly and Vincent Packard. A portion of the proceeds will go toward the Vincent Price Scholarship Foundation. The exhibition is free and will remain on view through August 29. (Usmani) 17012 Madison Ave., Lakewood, 440-799-0675, thegoodgoatgallery.com.

Pride offers a daylong focus on that vast group and its myriad local allies.

Via a lively parade, rally and festival, the organization hopes to shine a bright spotlight on the people who make up the community and the rights for which they’re advocating.

based klezmer band that’s been around for as long as we can remember, plays the 37th annual Workmen’s Circle Concert in the Park today in Cain Park’s Evans Amphitheater. The guys plan to put a bit of a twist on the annual event.

NIGHTLIFE

Back in Business When Bounce Nightclub closed this past winter after 13 years of operation, Cleveland’s LGBT community (and those who loved partying with them) feared the worst while hopeing for the best. Rumors were circulating that a new owner might swoop in to save the day — and the club. Apparently, that’s precisely what happened. New owners Joe Jackson, Robert Jackson and Andrew Smith purchased the property, invested a couple hundred grand to spruce it up, and plan to have it open tonight just in time for this year’s Pride Weekend. Improvements include new flooring, an improved and expanded layout in the bar/restaurant and cosmetic changes to the lounge and theater space. (Douglas Trattner) 2814 Detroit Ave., 216-357-2997, bouncecleveland.com.

play from 6 to 7 p.m. in the Colonnade.

Steven Greenman, a virtuoso klezmer violinist, opens the main-stage show at 7 p.m., accompanied by Mark Freiman on piano. Greenman has played throughout the United States, as well as in Spain, Poland, Germany and Canada. Lori Cahan-Simon, a Yiddish-song researcher and singer of some stature, will follow Greenman.

Accordion player Walt Mahovlich and Greenman, who’ll play violin, will back her. Yiddishe Cup will play the second half of the show. It’s even a possibility that all the musicians will gather for an encore. Admission is free. (Niesel) 14591 Superior Rd., Cleveland Heights, 216-371-3000, cainpark.com.

NIGHTLIFE

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, hip-hop, 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. (Sandy) 2785 Euclid Hts. Blvd., Cleveland Heights, 216-932-1966, bsideliquorlounge.com.

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ART

Arts Fest The 13th annual Waterloo Arts Fest takes place from noon to 7 p.m. today. The day includes a full line-up of interactive programs, local and regional art, and music on stages throughout the neighborhood.

Additionally, you’ll have a chance to visit Waterloo’s newest residents: Brick Ceramic + Design Studio, Praxis Fiber Workshop and Zygote Press’ Ink House, which is hosting a grand opening celebration that includes printing demos, a live porch concert, giveaways and refreshments.

Stop by Waterloo Arts for the 2015 Waterloo Arts Fest Juried Exhibition, a national, juried show featuring a number of Cleveland-based artists. It’s free. (Usmani) 15605 Waterloo Rd., 216-692-9500, waterlooarts.org.

An Enveloping Experience If you experienced Ragnar Kjartansson’s The Visitors at MOCA Cleveland last season, you know firsthand the power of this Icelandic artist’s work.

Although The Visitors left months ago, the Cleveland Museum of Art has arranged to host a new work by Kjartansson. Opening today, Song features a single camera rotating around Kjartansson’s three nieces for a continuous six hours while they repeated the refrain of a gentle folk song by Allen Ginsberg. The setting of the video is the Carnegie Museum of Art’s Hall of Sculpture, commissioned in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie. Inspired by his surroundings, Kjartansson cast his nieces as classical muses. The walls of the CMA’s Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation Exhibition Hall will be draped in the same royal blue satin featured in the video, amplifying this enveloping experience. Ragnar Kjartansson: Song runs through August 16. (Usmani) 11150 East Blvd., 216-4321-7340, clevalandart.org.

FESTIVAL

A Pride-ful Moment The region’s gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community is indeed proud. Each year, Cleveland

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This year’s event will run from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. at Voinovich Park, just north of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. Cleveland Pride’s parade route begins at the holding pen at Superior and West Third Street. Pop singer Belinda Carlisle headlines.

(Eric Sandy) clevelandpride.org.

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Two years ago, they worked with soul singer Tamar Gray, a vocal music teacher at Fairfax Elementary School.

They had such a good time, they’ve decided to work with her again for tonight’s concert where they’ll debut a mash-up of “Tradition” from Fiddler on the Roof and the Temptations’ “Ball of Confusion.” The concert will also feature guest singer Shawn Fink, who’ll sing “Joe and Paul’s,” a Yiddish song about “a teenage boy with a fascination for smutty French post cards.” The Workmen’s Circle Klezmer Orchestra, under the direction of Norman Tischler, will

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Twilight

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OUTDOORS

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General Party 7:00 p.m. to midnight

All About Canal Basin Park Here’s a third Take a Hike opportunity for the week, this one featuring Canal Basin Park in the Flats. Each free tour lasts approximately 90 minutes and features actors and actresses portraying historic figures from Cleveland’s past. Meet at 10 a.m. at Settler’s Landing RTA Station.

(Niesel) 1075 West Superior Ave., clevelandgatewaydistrict.com.

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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, with 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.

FILM

Cheap Thrills Every Monday, Cleveland Cinemas hosts $6 Movie Mondays, where film fans can catch up on the latest Hollywood flicks for significantly reduced prices. Bring your friends and family and make Movie Mondays a weekly tradition — many theaters even offer discounted concession stand items. Participating theaters include Apollo Theatre, Capitol Theatre, Cedar Lee Theatre, Chagrin Cinemas, Shaker Square Cinemas and Tower City Cinemas. Unfortunately, additional charges apply for 3D movies. (Nutile) clevelandcinemas.com.

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dog lovers. It’s the Happy Dog Monday Night Trivia. Starting at 8 p.m., expect themed rounds — it’s a crapshoot — 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 fill up quickly. (Sam Allard) 5801 Detroit Ave., 216-651-9474, happydogcleveland.com FOOD

Vegan Mondays If you’re vegan, vegetarian, gluten free, or just plain interested in trying something new, head over to Townhall in Ohio City this evening from 5 to 10 p.m. for Vegan Night. Work your way through the delicious and healthy vegan menu, featuring hits like Veggie Vegan Flatbread (think fresh tomatoes, chiles, mushrooms and vegan cheese) and Tofu Etouffee (blackened tofu, onions, tomatoes and brown rice).Monday night is also Craft Beer Night and all 36 crafts are only $3 from 6 p.m. to close. Cheers!

(Nutile) 1909 West 25th St., 216-3449400, townhallohiocity.com.

TUES 06/30 SHOPPING

Stop and Shop The Nine Twelve Shop Stop offers downtowners a “new opportunity to buy local from area vendors.” Mobile retailers and food trucks will gather today from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on the corner of East 9th Street and St. Clair for this pop-up shop. Participants include fashion trucks the Wandering Wardrobe and the Round About as well as food trucks such as Boca Loca Burrito Factory, Off the Griddle and Sweet! Mobile Cupcakery. (Niesel) East 9th Street and St. Clair Avenue, downtowncleveland.com.

NIGHTLIFE

Trivia Tuesdays How do you spend your Tuesday nights? If you’re not at Nano Brew in Ohio City, you’re definitely missing out. This friendly neighborhood brewpub hosts weekly trivia nights from 8 to 10 p.m. Grab some friends and head on down for a little brainstimulating trivia, freshly brewed craft beer and some seriously stellar bar grub. Better yet, bike on over. The folks at Nano Brew will give you half off your first drink when they see your bike helmet. (Nutile) 1859 West 25th St., 216-862-6631, nanobrewcleveland.com.

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ART REALITY OF DEVASTATION

Crackle and Drag at Transformer Station underscores fleeting nature of life

By Josh Usmani

THESE FINAL, ABSTRACT LINES from one of Plath’s last poems inspired the title of T.R. Ericsson’s current solo exhibition at the Transformer Station in Hingetown. Crackle and Drag continues Ericsson’s ongoing exploration into his personal family history following the suicide of his mother, Susan Ericsson, at 57. Plath also took her own life, and “Edge” was one of the last works she completed before her death.

The exhibition takes effort on the part of the visitor; it is not necessarily an entertaining or passive viewing experience. Ericsson’s 45-minute film is sure to leave you feeling like someone punched you in the gut. It might even make you cry.

So why even go? Because it’s real — beautifully, devastatingly real.

Crackle and Drag is divided into two rooms. While there is no fixed starting point, we recommend you begin with the film. It gives the rest of the exhibition incredible context, and aids the viewer through some of the less immediately accessible work in the main gallery space.

The film’s audio includes Susan Ericsson’s own voice, through recordings and voicemails, enhanced with music, noises and sound effects.

The video’s imagery features family snapshots, home movies, letters and various recent black-and-white footage, including scenes of burning family photos, New York City and Willoughby (Yeah, that Willoughby) — described by Ericsson’s mother as “Hicksville, USA,” and where she tragically took her own life in 2003. It’s hard to argue with her description. After all, it’s 2015 and their mascot is a Confederate soldier. (I attended South High School from 1999 to 2003, before moving to Mentor prior to my senior year.)

The film’s footage of burning photos alludes to both the fleeting nature of life itself and the deteriorating condition of this multigenerational family archive.

The scenes of New York City create a

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“The moon has nothing to be sad about, Staring from her hood of bone, She is used to this sort of thing, Her blacks crackle and drag.”

— “Edge” by Sylvia Plath

T.R. Ericsson puts his family’s pain front and center in his new exhibition.

dynamic portrait of the iconic urban environment that Ericsson found himself immersed in during the end of his mother’s tragic life.

Through the imagery and Susan Ericsson’s own words, the film creates a personal connection between the viewer and the artist’s family. The film creates a mood more than a narrative. Despite this ambiguity, the film evokes clear emotions and establishes a sense of familiarity.

As the film progresses and his mother’s mental decline becomes more evident, the film itself becomes erratic as well. The cinematography rivals anything in theaters. It’s an emotional journey that both hurts and heals. By the end, Ericsson creates an atmosphere of emotions that manifest the feelings of the artist in the viewer.

When it’s over, you’ll probably be reaching for your phone to call your own mother.

As you continue through the exhibition, the various objects have an increased meaning. This is additionally emphasized through the enlargement of many family photos. Originally the size of standard snapshots, Ericsson has enlarged these images to bigger than the televisions in most middle class households. By enlarging these photographs and placing them in the “white cube” setting of the Transformer Station, Ericsson recontextualizes the imagery from mundane to extraordinary.

The exhibition’s signature image, used in promotion of the show, is a photo of Ericsson’s mother lying on a couch with two cats on her legs, an ashtray on her sternum, a cigarette in hand and a welcoming and engaging smile on her face. The “crackle and drag” of her cigarette is almost audible as the voice from the film continues to haunt the viewer through the exhibition.

Another highlight is the 150-issue boxed set of Ericsson’s ’zine Thirst.

Sitting inconspicuously atop a table in the middle of the exhibition space, the set may be easily looked over. However, the engaged viewer is rewarded with hundreds more images of family photos,lettersandsentimentalmaterial to supplement the rest of the exhibition.

Through these issues, the true scope of the family’s archive becomes much more apparent. Editions of the boxed set of Thirst are available at the Transformer Station and the Cleveland Museum of Art’s gift shop.

The exhibition also includes a section with a number of objects and images hung salon style. Individually andcollectively,theseobjectsencourage the viewer to create a narrative around their very existence. The eclectic nature of these works is a testament to the artist’s ability to select his material and process based on each work’s conceptual intention.

Two specific examples of this polarization in media and process are Ericsson’s nicotine “drawings”

and a 700-pound slab of black granite, titled “Thanksgiving Day.” The nicotine “drawings” are created using silkscreens to filter cigarette smoke onto paper. The results are haunting images resembling faded photographs. Since their creation in 2008, these works have and will continue to grow fainter, like the family archive and the artist’s own memories.

In contrast, “Thanksgiving Day” is capable of lasting for centuries.

The face of this monumental slab of granite is etched with a letter from Ericsson’s mother, recounting, in detail, the challenges of the family’s Thanksgiving dinner in 1992. The work is reminiscent of a national memorial, and adds a great deal of weight to a hastily written letter between mother and son. The note ends with a mother’s advice to her child: “Be happy and carefree forever. Do it your way and tell the rest to shut up.”

Happy and carefree may not be the best two words to describe Crackle and Drag, but it is clear that Ericsson has done things his own way. Stop by the Transformer Station before Sunday, August 23, to see for yourself.

Additional viewing hours are Wednesdays and Fridays, noon to 5 p.m.; Thursdays noon to 8 p.m.; Saturdays and Sundays 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free.

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WHAT WOULD JESUS SING?

If he’d been a waning hippie in 1970, it might have sounded like Godspell, now at Cain Park

By Christine Howey He’s pretty sad he doesn’t have any bracelets.

IF YOU WEREN’T AROUND IN 1970, you may not be aware that a couple college kids co-opted some Bible lessons, framed them in contrast to famous philosophers from Sartre to Buckminster Fuller, then wrote contemporary music to let it all slide down easily. They called it Godspell, and began a very durable theatrical franchise.

As conceived and originally directed by John-Michael Tebelak, this show consists of biblical parables and the lyrics of hymns set to rock and pop melodies.

And it never seems to wear out its welcome, since it’s been around for almost half a century. Many people never tire of it, probably because of the infectious energy with which it is usually presented.

Some naysayers might call it “spiritual Gruyere” (slightly pretentious cheese for the religiously inclined), or a cult training workshop (the wild-eyed devotion to a single individual’s every utterance, even Jesus Christ’s, can begin to feel a tad creepy at times). But naysayers be damned! (Not literally, of course.)

This staging of Godspell at Cain Park’s Alma Theatre offers plenty of enjoyment along with the bite-sized nuggets of behavior tips gleaned from the Gospels of Matthew and Luke.

It’s essentially a loose jumble of scenes that glide from one pearl of

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saintly wisdom (“If a man steals your shirt, give him your coat”) to another (“Whoever hits you on the cheek, offer him the other also”).

But once the simple lessons are put to the infectious music of Stephen Schwartz, it all takes on a patina of youthful innocence and universal love. We’ll leave our cynicism at the door, and pick it up again on our way out.

Co-directors Ian Wolfgang Hinz and Joanna May Hunkins throw

Brennan, the popular owner of Brennan’s Colony tavern in Cleveland Heights, who was murdered one year ago in a robbery.

Franklin is lean, limber and charming, with a warm singing voice. But his projection fades at times when speaking dialogue.

Each of the actors playing his apostles delivers stirring performances at times, even though they all wear pretty much the same Heaven’s Gate, true-believer grins

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from start to finish.

Among them, Douglas F. Bailey II generates some down-to-earth Jack Black-ish laughs; elegant Treva Offut nails the mellow “By My Side”; and Eric Fancher pumps a lot of zazz into several of his characterizations. Scott Esposito lends his powerful baritone voice to the role of Judas, and Colleen Longshaw and Fancher provide a reliable vocal foundation for showstopping numbers such as “Bless the Lord” and “We Beseech Thee.”

Jade McGee turns in a rousing version of “Day by Day,” and Ellis C. Dawson III (rounding out a cast heavy on generational suffi xes with Roman numerals) has fun with

“All Good Girls.” BJ Colangelo gets the second act off to a sultry start, slinking around with a white boa in “Turn Back, O Man,” while perky Ashley Bossard rounds out the ensemble.

True to all Godspell productions, this one features a lot of audience contact: touching shoulders, shaking hands, and dancing in the aisles. It’s all about bringing everyone together as a sharing community of equals. Of course, that is essentially impossible, since there is a definite difference in our participation in that space. To wit, some of us purchased tickets and others are being paid (even if minimally) to perform. You can chart out those power dynamics on your own, if you care to.

Still, it’s a sweet thought and it’s ultimately hard to resist the calories these actors are expending, supported by an able crew of musicians under the direction of keyboardist Jordan Cooper. And why bother trying to resist? After all, as some say, a religion is just a cult with a century or so of history behind it. So relax, take in the selfless and generous messaging (really, give him my coat too?), and ride the wave of these reliably enjoyable tunes.

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DARK STAR, A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE Swiss surrealist painter H.R. Giger known for his Oscar-winning designs in Alien, screens at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, June 24, at the Capitol Theatre. If the tattooed, heavy-metalloid disciples who caravanned to the Giger museum in the film are any indication, expect a lot of eyeliner and ear gauges in the Gordon Square Arts District.

Giger’s paintings are the stuff of nightmares.

He has said that their creation was a kind of catharsis or therapy for him, the method by which he countenanced his most gruesome, indomitable fears. Before Alien, Giger was best known for working in and revolutionizing the representation of “biomechanical” forms, vaguely homo sapien figures crossed with machines. He was equally fascinated by (and terrified of?) birth, sex and death and orchestrated intricate Dali-esque tableaus in which all three were represented with lots of inventive coital imagery.

The film, though, is less an artist-at-work doc (a la For No Good Reason, 2014’s JohnnyDepp-produced visit with gonzo painter Ralph Steadman) and more an “artist-wanderingaround-his-bizarro-house” doc. Dark Star was filmed shortly before Giger’s death — the poor guy fell — and though only 74, he waddles and throatily answers questions with about as much liveliness as a pit stain. He looks like he may keel over at any moment, has trouble speaking more than a few words at a time, and often looks confused and/or constipated (which makes the presence of the camera feel sort of invasive and

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Unlike Alejandro Jodorowsky, who narrated the travails of his failed cinematic opus in last year’s wonderful Jodorowsky’s Dune, Giger, to reiterate, is not much of an onscreen presence. And not only are his personality and energies depleted, he just doesn’t seem to have all that much to say about his work — beyond that he painted things he feared.

Thus, a cast of associates and romantic partners provides ongoing anecdotal testimony, which testimony is occasionally very sweet.

We do, in fact, see the “world” of H.R. Giger, as the film’s subtitle avers — the behind-the-scenes look at his business dealings with 20th Century Fox, his appearance at the H.R. Giger museum, house meetings with managers and agents — as opposed to simply his work.

But his work proves to be the only really interesting element of his world, on camera anyway. The slow pans of his massive airbrushed aliens, or the tour through his “paranatal” gardens at his home in Zurich, or the closeup shots of the grotesque skeletal sculptures littering his basement are all endlessly, sickeningly watchable in the way that gore or sex often is.

H.R. Giger was indeed an unusual and enigmatic artist, a man who was most comfortable among the uncanny. This film, directed by Belinda Sallin, though at times touching and at other times quite striking, seems a rather dry and descriptive sendoff.

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SPOTLIGHT WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY MUSIC video director Jay Martin, a guy who’s worked with acts such as Nas and Christina Perrir, 7 Minutes, which opens on Friday at the Capitol Theatre and becomes available for download on iTunes and On Demand on Friday as well, is loosely based on a true family story. The plot centers on three desperate men (Jason Ritter, Luke Mitchell and Zane Holtz) who commit a robbery.

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Sam, who’s just been laid off from the machine shop where he works, has been peddling drugs with his brother Mike (Jason Ritter), so robbing a bank isn’t outside the realm of possibility. And Sam’s friend Owen (Holtz) has already done hard time after a mall cop busted his ass for shoplifting. So Sam brings him into the mix when they meet up with Doug (Chris Soldevilla), a hard-nosed drug dealer who turns them on the designer drug Molly. The only thing is, Doug gives them thousands of dollars worth of drugs.

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Five restaurants explain why and how they’ve upgraded their spaces

By Douglas Trattner RESTAURANTS, LIKE HOMES and people, need an occasional makeover to keep them fresh, current and attractive. The best operators know that stale interiors and exteriors are about as appealing as a loaf of stale bread, so they open their wallets and invest on improvements. We checked in on some of the most interesting projects taking place in and around Cleveland.

NANO BREW When the Nano Brew crew took over the former Black Pig space next door, the goal all along was to retain the easy, comfortable charm of the place that guests had come to love. So when the time came to address the back patio, which expanded right along with the interior, management followed the same playbook.

“We approached this along the same line of thinking as the first expansion,” says partner Mike

enhance the use of each one. In the main patio area, the beer gardenstyle picnic tables were replaced with Amish-made tables and high-tops better suited to dining, which more and more people are doing. Custom-built furniture on the side patio was tailored to the trim footprint, making it easier for guests to move around. One set of narrow stairs made it difficult to access and enjoy the raised back bar, so new sets of entry/exit points were added at both ends. Another set of new stairs leads to the raised patio behind the old Black Pig space.

“There are so many cool nooks now to sit and people watch, be it the upstairs patio, the deck bar area, the main dining area right out the back door, the side patio…,” adds Foran. “And with the new set of stairs you’ll be able to do a big circuit of the whole space.”

The redesign, which should be completed by the time you read

Now, an expanded patio means greater access to great grub at Nano Brew.

Foran. “When we expanded into the old Black Pig space we said that the place needed to still feel like Nano. We are applying the same logic to the patio.”

The exterior spaces were looked at as distinct, diverse areas — or rooms — and treated accordingly, with improvements made to

this, netted a gain from 160 to 200 outdoor seats, each one coming with table service until 2 a.m.

FLYING FIG “When you come into the same space every day, you really need to take a step back every now and then to take a fresh look,” explains

The larger Nano Brew patio will be a backyard summer party.

Karen Small, chef-owner of Flying Fig in Ohio City. “We’re going into year 16, and I just want to stay current. You can’t just be the same place with the same energy after all that time.”

Not that she’s complaining.

“I’m privileged to have made it this far.”

It’s been eight or nine years since the last major overhaul, so Small knew it was time to pull out the checkbook and get to work.

Following the Fourth of July weekend, including the second annual vegetarian dinner that Sunday, the restaurant will close its doors for a week to facilitate the work.

“This is a wholesale cosmetic change to breathe some new energy into the place,” says Small.

Walk in on July 10 and you’ll see a much brighter restaurant thanks to a fresh coat of new paint, new light fi xtures, and new upholstery on the bar booths. In the dining room, all new tabletops and chairs will await guests. New art throughout the space will tie it all together.

Small is using the redesign as an opportunity to retool the menu as well. She will expand the small plates and tapas section while trimming the entree selections to just a handful of items that will change more frequently.

“All of the sudden it’s clicking and it’s making me really happy,” Small says of the small-plate trend, which she has been pushing for eons. “Small plates are where people put their heart, and you get

to taste so much more.”

FIRE FOOD & DRINK Despite its age, Fire Food & Drink on Shaker Square always feels fresh. Part of the credit for that goes to the initial design, which is classic and timeless. But credit also goes to chef-owner Doug Katz, who does frequent and consistent tweaks to keep the place in tip-top shape.

But the time had come, says Katz, to go above and beyond the typical skin-deep beautifications.

“We are 14 years old and we really needed to redo our wood floors,” he explains. “Unfortunately, they were 90 years old and we couldn’t rebuff them again. So we thought, since we’re getting all new wood floors, we should probably get new chairs too.”

Like pulling a loose a thread, the project didn’t stop there. Katz shuttered his bistro following the Easter rush to undertake the improvements. To go with the brand new maple floors, Katz purchased dark wood dining room chairs with neutral putty upholstery. That too-cool-for-school concrete bartop got a sanding and refinishing. Guests will be greeted by a new host stand and dine off new tableware, while the staff enjoys fresh-built service stations.

A fresh coat of paint throughout and – boom! – Fire is fresh as a daisy.

“I think when people come in they might not initially think, ‘Oh, what did they do?,’” says Katz.

“But they will see how great it

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EAT looks. That’s what I wanted. I feel that people go to a restaurant and expect a certain experience and if you change it too much, they feel like something is different.”

The chef picked up a new toy in the kitchen too: an Argentinian wood-fired grill. Now, grilled items like chicken with chimichurri, lamb sirloin and grass-fed cheeseburgers will taste all new.

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Things are going so well for Marc-Aurele Buholzer at Vero Pizza in Cleveland Heights that he recently signed a five-year lease extension. But that doesn’t mean that the restaurant can’t benefit from some improvements — and we’re not talking a fresh coat of Sherwin-Williams.

“There is an inefficiency in the way we seat people.”

–Marc-Aurele Buholzer “There is an inefficiency in the way we seat people,” Buholzer says diplomatically.

The truth is, while the pizzaiolo works his magic at the wood-fired pizza oven, the front of the house can get a little hairy. Given the trim dimensions of the two-level dining room, those who don’t get completely shut out on busy weekend nights often suffer long waits for a table. A hinky HVAC system doesn’t ease the tensions.

Hopefully, much of that will change when Vero shuts down for a brief mid-summer break. In addition to a new air conditioning system, Buholzer will introduce a fresh interior layout designed to increase seating flexibility, decrease wait times, and ease aforementioned tensions. Vero will adopt the time-tested banquette system along the length of the main dining room, with a string of deuces (two-seaters) allowing for tables to be pushed together to accommodate groups of any size.

“It’s more flexible,” he says. “We should turn away less people on weekends.”

The move that likely will prove more controversial, says

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Buholzer, is the removal of the sole remaining gelato cooler, a holdover from when the space was La Gelateria. Not only is the additional real estate needed for more seating, the walk-in service seems to gum up the entire operation.

Whether or not he follows through with his threat of his ice cream eviction, however, is left to be seen.

“Every summer I try to get it out and then it’s not out,” he says. “Its days are numbered. It’s going.”

MONCHO’S When Isabel Montoya and her father Moncho opened this cozy Brooklyn Centre spot last summer, it was mainly as a bar and grill where neighbors could grab a cold beer, watch some futbol and, perhaps, order some homespun Colombian-themed fare.

But as time went on, the business began to evolve, which motivated management to make some sweeping changes.

“After being open for a year now we realized that we are able to serve more people if we had more seating space. The large bar used to work out well when the place was an Irish bar,” Montoya says, referring to the previous tenant.

“But now, a lot more families are coming in and eating. It’s a completely different crowd.”

As implied, the large 20-seat bar that dominated much of the room was ripped out and replaced by a much smaller one (with colorful inlaid beer-cap bartop preserved).

That allowed the seating in the dining area to nearly double in capacity. All new walls — as in drywall — lighting and paint brightened up the interior. More TVs means even more soccer matches. A new wraparound patio extends from the front to the side of the building.

“You walk in and the restaurant looks completely different.”

Perhaps the best improvements come in food form. Thanks to a surprisingly warm reception, the Colombian menu will expand, with items that previously were specials-only affairs being promoted to permanent status.

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Peddler’s Noodle Soup

TAIWANESE FARE IN ASIATOWN

By Douglas Trattner ADD TAIWANESE FOOD TO THE wide variety of Asian offerings crammed into tiny Golden Plaza, home to the Vietnamese-themed Superior Pho and the Koreanbased Ha Ahn. A few months back, Phusion Café (3030 Superior Ave., 216-861-3399) opened up shop in the odd and underutilized space upfront that once was home to Just Like Mom’s.

While Asiatown is stocked with restaurants dispensing all matter of Asian cuisine, including those that specialize in Chinese styles like Cantonese, Hunan and Szechuan, few or none are devoted specifically to the foods of Taiwan. That no longer is the case thanks to the owners of Phusion, who combine the cuisine on the menu with more common Chinese foods.

While unconventional, the space has been reworked to make it feel less like a lobby and more like a dining room. All the restaurant equipment and display coolers were removed, freeing up space for about 32 diners. A short wall separates the dining room from the main passageway that people use to move through the small mall.

Flavorful Taiwanese-style beef noodle soup ($7.95), a version very different from Vietnamese bun bo hue and certainly pho, has been one of the main draws here. But the Tainan “Peddler” noodle soup ($6.95) also is remarkable. Dense, chewy noodles sit in a flavorful broth made from pork and shrimp.

The bowl also contains bright, crisp bok choy, poached shrimp, ground pork and crispy fried onions.

Three Cups chicken ($12.95), another Taiwanese classic, is named for the equal parts sesame oil, soy sauce and rice wine in the sauce. But the dish also has a nice ginger and garlic kick. This is hacked, skin-on, bone-in pieces of meat, but it’s so tender that eating it is a breeze.

If you’re eating soup or other dishes, add a plate of Taiwanese sausage fried rice ($6.95), which is light, fluffy and flavorful, studded with thin slices of sweet and salty sausage. Other dishes on the list include braised pork over rice, salt and pepper fried fish, and fried beef in hot chili oil.

To drink, try a milk tea made with Ten Ren tea, the premier tea brand from Taiwan.

A chalkboard ticks off daily specials, but unless you read Mandarin, you’re out of luck. No sweat; the owner would be happy to walk you through them if you ask.

As for the strange name: Phusion is a sister restaurant to Phuel Cafe, the health-focused eatery in Playhouse Square. The names serve to group them as a unit.

Look for Phusion to add both American and Taiwanese breakfast items to the mix soon.

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Trevor Hall seeks and finds.

THERE IS ONLY NOW

Trevor Hall has spent his life seeking something — and writing songs about his journey

By Eric Sandy TWO YEARS AGO, AMID a soaring and still-burgeoning music career in the States, Trevor Hall packed up and took off for India. He traveled the country for a long time under the tutelage of a classical Baul musician (a Bengali minstrel, to the uninitiated).

If they hadn’t been cemented already in his music, the cultural strains of Eastern thought sunk deep into Hall’s work. Baul culture, in particular, noted among UNESCO’s Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity, espouses a life lived in the present moment.

Their music is not written down, and their songs refract the nuanced meanings of life through proclamations about the heart, the soul, the Earth.

Hall learned a lot while on his pilgrimage and returned to remote posts in Vermont and Maine, where he inadvertently spilled the contents of his travels into Chapter of the Forest, a

breakthrough album released in June 2014.

“Before Chapter of the Forest, I had kind of reached a point where I was really burned out,” Hall says. “I just hit a wall. I had been touring since I was 16 years old; it was non-stop. That was the first time in my career where I stopped.

a true deep dive into selfexpression. He says now that he stumbled onto his own voice for the first time as these songs poured over the oceans and into the studio.

“As musicians we change constantly, but [my earlier albums were] just a foundation,” Hall

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I needed to be in one place for more than two weeks.”

India loomed. As he traveled the subcontinent, he wasn’t planning on writing a new album.

He was there to learn, to follow the Baul path laid out before him.

Regardless, the seeds had been sown.

What followed was what Hall calls “an act to heal” himself,

says, looking back at a career that began in 2003 or so. “With Chapter of the Forest, it grew into a space. I was like, this is the album that most feels like me.

That was so refreshing to me.”

The sounds on the album are very much in the vein of “world music” — tablas bouncing rhythms against sitars and Hall’s deep, airy vocals. There’s reggae in

there, sure, and a dose of hip-hop, but it’s a sound wholly crafted by Hall and his personal journey.

Sonically, his music would fit in as nicely on a summer porch in Cleveland as on the midday train from Kolkata to Dhaka.

Earlier this year, Hall released Unpack Your Memories..., a fivesong EP that serves as the bridge between Chapter of the Forest and his upcoming Kala. It’s gentler — and its roots are more varied than those of its predecessor album — but it still carries the growing sound of Hall’s present-day music.

“This album is totally different than everything that came before it,” Hall says. The songs span the course of the previous five or six years — stuff that was written in slow, meditative, intimate moments. This was the internal Trevor Hall, the music and messages that he hadn’t felt prepared to share with the world until now.

And the songs on Unpack Your

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MUSIC Memories… were, for the first time, recorded solo: just Hall in his bedroom with a mic and a guitar. The music that appears on the EP comes straight from Hall’s original demos.

“That’s why I love music so much,” Hall says. “It’s intimate to me.”

The title track on the EP, for instance, takes the same vibe of Chapter of the Forest and strips

our station in the universe.

Those messages are a major part of the trilogy under way and of his current summer tour.

For our part, Hall is looking forward to his two-night stand in Cleveland; he played the Music Box in October 2014 and loved it.

“When we arrived — that show, I remember, was one of the best shows we had on that tour,” Hall says. “That place and the energy and people that came were just so amazing. And also the space provided such a good platform for us to share stories and really have

“The magic that comes from a live show is the spontaneity of it.”

–Trevor Hall

it down to the barest essentials: strings, voice and raindrop percussion.

Nowadays, Hall sums up his music as a mix of acoustic rock, reggae and Sanskrit chanting, acknowledging his international and historic inspirations. It’s a blend that can be traced in some ways back to his childhood, where music was an early constant and where his family boosted his confidence.

He recalls a time when he found a harmonica in the drawers at his childhood home, an old instrument once played by his father. Almost immediately, Hall took a liking to playing the harp; his dad invited him to come down and play with him and his band. It was a momentous occasion and a good bout of foreshadowing.

But despite the thrills of the stage, Hall recognized that there was something more to music that was calling him.

“When I was growing up as a kid, I was always hungry for something,” Hall said. “I didn’t know what it was yet. I wasn’t sure. I think, you know, I was always spiritual, you could say, but I didn’t know what that meant or what that energy was until later on.”

His early songs revolved around the girls he liked or surfing. Now, more than a decade later, Hall spends his lyrical energy on questions about the human condition, on awareness of

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a good listening room. When we were kinda setting up this year’s tour, I said, hey, we really have to go back to that place.”

Among all of his travels, Hall has found that performing music on a simple stage in front of attentive people is one of the great joys in his life. He has stories he wants to share. Music, of course, is a great vehicle, and music is really just a form of storytelling.

“The magic that comes from a live show is the spontaneity of it,” Hall says. “Even though you may be playing the same songs — and you are playing the same song, right? — you’re never going to see the song the same way. You never meet the same right twice, right?”

Each show comes with a different stage, a different set of people, a different geographic and cultural backdrop.

One thing that Hall enjoys is calling audience members out and asking them how they’re doing. He does what he can to remove the space between the performer and the listeners. And so he talks and shares stories about how the songs were created or about the things that are happening around him.

The present moment, he says, is a lot of fun.

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MUSIC HAPPY DAYS

Local singer-songwriter Joshua Jesty lightens up on his new album

By Matt Wardlaw FOR AS LONG AS HE CAN remember, Cleveland-bred singersongwriter Joshua Jesty has been chasing songs. As he recalled during a recent conversation, he grew up in a house that was full of music and was “always creating little melodies” in his head. There were plenty of areas from which he was able to draw early inspiration — his mother was a vocalist, his father played trombone and guitar and “the radio was always on.”

At the age of 4, he wrote the first thing resembling a song that he describes as “a rip-off of a Gordon Lightfoot melody my dad was playing all of the time.” From there, things kept moving. He discovered his father’s “deep Devil’s rock music collection,” which strangely enough, was never played in the house. The radio brought a steady stream of pop and Top 40, and Jesty discovered quickly that he was a sucker for a good hook. Six years of piano lessons didn’t really light any creative fires, but one night while he slept, a spontaneous dream of being on stage and playing guitar did. And even though they had dumped a lot of money into the piano lessons that then seemed like wasted funds, his parents bought him that guitar, and, as he says, “I’ve been playing ever since.”

It was when he went to school at Berklee that the pieces really began to fall into place.

“I feel like I really hit my stride when I went to Boston, because even though I spent immense amounts of time writing at my house when I lived with my parents back in high school, there was always something social to do,” he says. “When I went to Boston, there was nothing to do — I didn’t know anybody, so I just went to these practice rooms that were down the hall from my dorm room and I would just sit every night [and write]. It was supposed to be me practicing guitar, but it always turned into me writing songs.

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That was months of just writing songs and that’s where I feel like I really started honing things a lot more and just paying a lot more attention.”

Jesty formed his first serious band, Love Scream, while he was at Berklee, and they made an album. For a moment, things looked promising. “Since we had some Berklee contacts, we were apparently having our record that we had made shopped to a bunch of high-profile managers and record people,” he recalls. “But when they didn’t bite immediately, the band fell apart.”

It was a wearing experience for the members of the group. “Five years into it, the payoff just didn’t seem that strong to the other guys; and to me, I could see that it was starting to get there, but to them, it was a tired, exhausting thing, so we just folded right around 2007,” he says.

Since then, he’s been working solo, an experience that he launched into nearly 10 years ago when he pressed up a batch of CDs of home recordings that had been collecting over the years, so he would have something to sell at gigs. He became a familiar

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He returned home to Cleveland, first forming the Feelbads, which evolved into a sketch comedy troupe, even spawning a pilot series idea that he submitted to Comedy Central — “I’ve got the rejection letter to prove it!” After that dissolved, he put together a new rock band called This Is Exploding, a project that he was quickly very committed to. He told the other band members that there would be a lot of hard work ahead and dove into the project full throttle.

“There’s never enough time to do everything you want to do with a band if you’re trying to make it big, you know,” he says. “So we were rehearsing multiple times a week, I was emailing clubs to book, I was emailing promoters and publicists and everything and just pushing the boulder up the mountain.”

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presence at area venues, playing solo acoustic and eventually also putting together a band to play electric shows in addition to his acoustic gigs.

Though the configuration of players surrounding Jesty has changed, one thing that has remained consistent is his output of quality songs that, lyrically, often mix humor with unfiltered honesty.

A prolific songwriter, he pushed out a regular series of albums, EPs and singles that would occasionally just show up on his Bandcamp page with little warning.

About a year and a half ago, he launched into a more structured plan and announced intentions to progressively release a series of four EPs. It’s Your Fault Everything’s Alright is the fourth release that

completes that cycle and the cover artwork features a pair of bunnies (an ongoing visual presence in Jesty’s world) sharing a smooch and raising a toast as a planet explodes in the distance. The music on the new EP, which will be officially released at an album release show this week at Mahall’s, captures the mixture of feelings and emotions that come along with the beginnings of a really good relationship. With song titles like “Time Gives Me the Screw” and “You’re the Worst,” one could easily assume that things aren’t 100 percent great on the surface, but the songs tell a different tale, starting with the guitar-driven poppy vibes on display with “I’m On High,” the opening track of the EP. Jesty himself says things are good, and he’s pretty happy about that.

“This fourth one kind of became pretty much a love song record. Which is nice to kind of get to. As the years progressed, you know, things happen. You lose people, you get hurt, so the songs get angrier and darker and I always wondered if I’d get back to that place where I could write honestly about feeling in love or feeling happy or hopeful, without it sounding forced,” he chuckles.

“I got to a place on this last EP, where I finally feel like I came back around, being able to write these upbeat, optimistic songs.

So that was pretty exciting for me personally. Even if it’s only one record, at least I got one record of happy stuff!”

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MUSIC NEW WAVE PIONEERS

Blondie celebrates its 40th anniversary by looking backwards and forwards

By Jeff Niesel

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PLENTY OF NEW WAVE BANDS haven’t been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum.

The Cars have been eligible for 11 years but never nominated. Duran Duran has been eligible for eight years but never nominated. The Eurythmics have been eligible for eight years but never nominated. The B-52s have been eligible for 10 years but never nominated. We could go on and on.

It’s a testament to Blondie’s farreaching impact that the group, a forward-thinking act that draws from punk, rock, reggae and hip-hop, was inducted way back in 2006, just a few years after it would have been eligible.

“That [Rock Hall induction] was great because it was just so weird,” says guitarist Chris Stein in a recent phone interview from his New York home where he had just returned from playing a private show for “some dude” in Italy. “I’m a little ambivalent about the Hall of Fame, but a lot of people think highly of it. I kind of was excited by other people’s reactions.

I got so many congratulations for it. If it was something that existed since the ’50s or ’60s I might have felt differently. But it’s kind of a corporate entity. And there’s so many damn people that should be in it that aren’t.

It was an interesting experience.”

Stein says he still gets a kick out of the drama that unfolded on stage as guitarist Frankie Infante expressed a desire to perform with the band during his acceptance speech. “[Guitarist] Frankie [Infante] deciding that was a good moment to complain in front of millions of people was great,” Stein laughs.

“People frequently asked me how much we paid him to do that.”

Prior to the band’s formation in 1974, singer Debbie Harry was in a folk rock group. She and Stein formed Blondie, and Stein says they didn’t exactly know what kind of music they would make when they first got together.

“She had done a record with the Wind and the Willows, which was a hippie folk band,” he says. “She had been at it for a while. I don’t think there was pre-thought to what we were doing. We were going forward.

There wasn’t much planning to any

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of it.”

A trip to the Bronx in the late ’70s proved to be significant.

“I heard [the Sugarhill Gang’s] ‘Rapper’s Delight’ and a couple of things around,” says Stein. “[Fab Five] Freddy who was later known for MTV took us up to this event in 1977

or 50 or 60 years of recorded music.

What’s going to be going on in 300 years, who knows?”

Blondie recently celebrated its 40th anniversary with a double-disc album Blondie 4(0) Ever and Stein’s acclaimed book of photography Chris Stein/Negative: Me, Blondie, and

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in the Bronx. It was really exciting. It was all going on at the same time so there was a connection.”

Blondie would invite Fab Five Freddy to rap on their funkinspired song “Rapture,” and the track would become the first No. 1 song to feature rapping. That song along with punky “Call Me” and the reggae-tinged “Tide is High” were staples on commercial radio in the ’80s and showed just how adroitly the band had picked up on underground sounds and made them into something palatable for the mainstream.

“When I listen to the old tracks, they hold up in the modern environment, that’s for sure,” says Stein. “It’s hard to say where all this is going to go. We’re talking about 40

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the Advent of Punk. The best-of disc includes newly recorded versions of songs from the band’s back catalog (Stein says the band doesn’t own the masters and wanted to re-cut its hits for “financial reasons”). It was also bundled with the band’s most recent studio album, last year’s Ghosts of Download, yet another forwardthinking project. Because of the way it was recorded, it took about two years to complete Ghosts.

“That record was done with a lot of file sharing and everyone being in different places,” says Stein. “It was very computer-driven. The next thing will be more of a band, organic thing and a little less electronic-y, though it will still have some of those elements because we all like that stuff. I like everything. I like all

kinds of music. I’ve been a big fan of modern Latin music and reggaeton.

I like modern cumbia and I think [the Puerto Rican reggaeton act] Plan B is touring around the States.

They just sold out the Garden here. I love Skrillex and Diplo and all those fucking guys.”

For the next studio album, Stein says the group is fielding songs from outside songwriters. He says the band has been collecting songs from “lots of different people.” The collaborative nature of Ghosts, which has a real Latin flavor to it as songs such as “I Want to Drag You Around” and “Sugar on the Side” mix Latin beats with modern electronica, and whatever the new project becomes suggest the way in which band leaders Stein and Harry have set aside their egos to explore new sounds.

“I’m less egomaniacal than I have been in the past,” says Stein, who adds that he has enough material for a second book of photography.

“Debbie is certainly like that. I don’t feel like I’m giving anything up by having other people do stuff with us.

We still get to put our two cents into everything.”

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06/24

Punk rockers Against Me! return to House of Blues. See: Sunday.

Pasadena/Stranger/Lungu Vybz: 8:30 p.m., $7 ADV, $10 DOS. Beachland Ballroom.

Tauk/Jahman Brahman: Tauk followed up their 2013 full-length debut, Homunculus, with the expansive Collisions, an album built to show off the band members’ individual and collective strengths. As ever, this young band is incredibly skilled at maneuvering contrasting time signatures and creating exciting sonic atmospheres. Album opener “Friction” puts A.C. Carter’s keys work on prominent display, shining a spotlight on some very interesting sounds. All of the band’s music is instrumental, but there’s never a sense that anything is missing. Guitarist Matt Jalbern, in particular, is capable of forming narratives through his strings. Throughout, Carter’s work on keys complements Jalbern excellently (“Hello Narwhal,” “Dirty Mouth” from the band’s previous album). 9 p.m., $10 ADV, $13 DOS. Beachland Ballroom.

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

Dead Record/Meet Me in Atlantis/The Polar Bears Upstairs: 9 p.m., $5. The Euclid Tavern.

Justin Furstenfeld/Ashleigh Stone: 8 p.m., $20-$30. House of Blues.

Hall & Oates: 8 p.m., $59.50-$87.50.

E.J. Thomas Hall.

The Katy/John’s Little Sister: 9 p.m., $5. Happy Dog.

Gil Landry: 8 p.m., $12 ADV, $15 DOS. Music Box Supper Club.

Like Tyrants/In Your Memory/ Backlashes and Bad Ideas/The Home Collective/Covariance: 6 p.m. The Foundry.

The Memphis Murder Men/Horror of 59/Wasted Society: 9 p.m., $5. Now That’s Class.

Old Friends Featuring Tom Shaper: 10 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern.

Pipe Dream/Clubhouse/ShiSho: 8:30 p.m., $6 ADV, $8 DOS. Grog Shop.

Hooper Quintet Featuring Mike Null: 7 p.m., $10. Nighttown.

Becca Stevens Band: 7 p.m., $20. BLU Jazz+.

Sudden Suspension/Bad Luck/Home For Fall/Rooted/Dead Fall (in the Locker Room): 7 p.m., $8 ADV, $10 DOS. Mahall’s 20 Lanes.

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Ballroom Thieves/Mason District: 8:30 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Beachland

Tavern.

The Black Black/Wolf Teeth/Failed Astronaut: 9 p.m., Free. Now That’s Class.

Clearance/Heavy Sweater/Ju Ju Shrine: 9 p.m., $5. Happy Dog. Dear Rouge: $8 ADV, $10 DOS. Mahall’s 20 Lanes.

Vicki Chew/Eric Everett Jazz Ensemble: 8 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern.

Extremely Rotten/Sodomized/Limb Splitter: 7 p.m. The Foundry.

Richie Furay/The Empty Pockets: 8 p.m., $30 ADV, $35 DOS. Music Box Supper Club.

Merle Haggard: 8 p.m., $58-$68.

Packard Music Hall.

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

Jessica Lea Mayfield/Shivering Timbers: 8 p.m., $10. Musica.

Melvins/Le Butcherettes: 9 p.m., $18 ADV, $20 DOS. Grog Shop.

Preservation Hall Jazz Band: 8 p.m., $20-$35 ADV/$23-$38 DOS. Cain Park.

Vince Robinson and the Jazz Poets: 8 p.m., $20. Nighttown.

Roots Rock with Cats on Holiday: 5 p.m. Music Box Supper Club.

Reed Simon Duo: 8 p.m., $8. BLU Jazz+.

Todd Snider/John Craigie: 8 p.m., $28 ADV, $30 DOS. Beachland Ballroom.

Tomato Dodgers/Shirts/Pants/Pizza Ghost: 9 p.m., $5. The Euclid Tavern.

Well Kept Things/Thick Winter Blud/ The Spectators/Sunnyvale/Backtalk/ Perfect Error (in the Locker Room): $8 ADV, $10 DOS. Mahall’s 20 Lanes.

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06/26

Cognitive/Placenta Powerfist/ Stillbirth/Domestic Terror/ Innoculation: 7 p.m. The Foundry.

Dead to Fall/Above This Fire/American Werewolves: 9 p.m., $10. Grog Shop.

Anne E. DeChant CD Preview (in the Supper Club): 9 p.m., $15. Music Box Supper Club.

Drop to Zero/Atlas Uncharted/ Visionaries/Flatts Field: 9 p.m., $10.

Musica.

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Barking Spider Tavern.

Fiddlefunk: 8 p.m., $12. BLU Jazz+.

Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn: 8 p.m., $25-$65 ADV/$28-$65 DOS. Cain Park.

George Foley: 10:30 p.m., free.

Nighttown.

Joshua Jesty: 8:30 p.m. Mahall’s 20 Lanes.

Maureen McGovern: 6 p.m., $80.

Nighttown.

Mr. California & His Mr. California Band/Bloody Show/Sex Tide/Nico Missile: 9 p.m., $5. Now That’s Class.

Outdated View/Hundred Hands Band: 9 p.m., Free. The Euclid Tavern.

Over the Rhine/Pete McDonald: 8 p.m., $20-$100. Beachland Ballroom.

R. Ring/Goldmines/Nights: 9 p.m., $5.

Happy Dog. The Schwartz Brothers: 8:30 p.m., $6.

Beachland Tavern.

Travelin’ Johnsons (in the Wine Bar):

8 p.m. Brothers Lounge.

Tropical Cleveland’s Latin Dance Party: 9:30 p.m., $5 ADV, $10 DOS. Music Box Supper Club.

Wild Horses: 9:30 p.m. Brothers Lounge.

World Beats with DJ Neil Chastain: 5 p.m., Free. Music Box Supper Club.

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06/27

Tanlines/Mas Ysa/Sammy Slims: 9 p.m., $12. Grog Shop.

Wanyama/Treehouse!/Essential Groove/Slap n Tickle: In Wanyama’s music, the funk of the ’70s meets roots rock reggae with a dollop of hip-hop.

Think if your average ’90s ska band had a rapper as its singer. The band’s most recent album, Cleveland Zoo, features songs like “Funk Sandwich,” a tune that features traditional funk guitar and west coast reggae. 9:30 p.m., $8 ADV, $11 DOS. Beachland Tavern.

(Hannah Wintucky) Harry Allen Quartet: 7 p.m., $30.

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Arabrot/Ghold/Ravenna Arsenal/ Space Funeral: 9 p.m., $10. Now That’s Class.

Battle of the Bands: 7 p.m., $12. Odeon.

Bwak Dwagon/Album/Rabbit Holes: 9 p.m., $5. Happy Dog. DJ Red-I: 3 p.m., Free. Now That’s Class.

Hatchet Job/Supercorrupter/ Enhailer: 9 p.m., Free. The Euclid Tavern.

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LIVEWIRE Noises/Unikove/v1984/Lucy & the Daze: 10 p.m., $5. Now That’s Class.

Adam Hill & CO.: 9 p.m., Free.

Mahall’s 20 Lanes.

The Modern Electric/Captain Kidd/ Jivviden: 9 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Beachland Ballroom.

Davey O/Luca Mundaca: 8 p.m.

Barking Spider Tavern.

Rachel & the Beatnik Playboys (in the Supper Club): 8:30 p.m., $7. Music Box Supper Club.

Sounds of Jazz (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m. Brothers Lounge.

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

Nighttown.

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Yacht Rock with Chris Hatton: 3 p.m., Free. Music Box Supper Club.

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06/28

Against Me!/Frank Iero and the Cellabration/Annie Girl and the Fight: While plenty of punk bands have succeeded purely because they bring the noise, other acts like the Ramones and the Clash have left their mark because of the great songs they write. Against Me! rests firmly between the two camps. Last year, when they played House of Blues to kick off the Alternative Press Music Awards, their performance was just raucous enough to get a good mosh pit going. But it wasn’t just about raising a ruckus. The guys also relied on good guitar hooks and harmony vocals. 7 p.m., $20. House of Blues. (Jeff Niesel) The Weepies/Lucy Wainwright Roche: After five years of quiet from one of indie rock’s already-very-quiet bands, The Weepies released their new album, Sirens, this past spring.

Here, singer-songwriter spouses Steve Tannen and Deb Talan are still deftly capable of spinning emotional yarns around catchy pop hooks and melodies.

The sound is a bit bigger here, with percussion layers becoming a more prominent feature — on top of the band’s always-enticing guitar work.

Looking back a bit, another delicious dose in the band’s canon arises in 2006’s Say I Am You, a distillation of the warm highs and lows in love and life and an album whose tracks picked up play on some really great picaresque TV shows over the years ( Scrubs, How I Met Your Mother, etc.). 8 p.m., $28. Beachland Ballroom. (Sandy) Blue Lunch (in the Supper Club): 7:30 p.m., $7. Music Box Supper Club.

Chil Summer Break Festival: 4:30 p.m., $10. The Kent Stage.

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Portersharks: 3 p.m., Free. Music Box Supper Club.

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

Lemur Fest with Aphiniti/LMNTL/ Tae Miles: 6:30 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Grog Shop.

Phineahas CD Release Tour/Silent Planet/Invent Animate: 6 p.m. The Foundry.

Shredded Nerve/Negation/Nyodene D/Blackfire: 9 p.m., $7. Now That’s Class.

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

MON 06/29 Morrissey: Widely known as one of the creators of the indie scene, Morrissey (aka Moz or Mozzer as diehard fans know him) loves dark humor, animals, Oscar Wilde and James Dean. Alternately, he hates meat, the British monarchy, and pretty much most living people. His most recent release, 2014’s World Peace is None of Your Business, continues to show his passion for writing songs, especially after recently receiving unspecified cancer treatments which caused him to cancel several shows.

8:30 p.m., $39.50-$59.50. Akron Civic Theatre. (Elizabeth Manno) Blondie: 7:30 p.m., $28-$59.50. Packard Music Hall.

The First Five Featuring Tom First with Ki Allen: 8 p.m., $5. Brothers Lounge.

Goatwhore/Black Breath/ Ringworm/Theories/Enhailer: 7 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Now That’s Class.

Neighborhood Night: Saints of Carbondale/Mike Uva/Bill Lestock: 8 p.m., Free. Beachland Tavern.

Demos Papadimas/Earnest Elshaw: 8 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern.

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

TUE

06/30

Adjy/To Northern Bridges/Portage/ Taken By Sleep/Like Tyrants (in the Locker Room): 7 p.m., $6. Mahall’s 20 Lanes.

AWOL Nation/Family of the Year/ Parade of Lights: 8 p.m., $25 ADV, $27 DOS. House of Blues.

Jon Bellion/Rhetorik: 8 p.m., $14 ADV, $16 DOS. Beachland Ballroom.

Downtown Boys/Perverts Again/ Meanderthal: 9 p.m., $5. Now That’s Class.

Dale Galgozy/Little Steve-o: 8 p.m.

Barking Spider Tavern.

Trevor Hall/Mike Love: 8 p.m., $20 ADV, $22 DOS. Music Box Supper Club.

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Shortly after, the group cut a live album from a warehouse concert in Ohio City. It’s been a staple around town, especially at P.J. McIntyre’s bar and restaurant in Kamms Corners.

SHORT STUFF : This July, the band will debut a short film that documents its long and arduous journey through Cleveland St. Patrick’s Day 2015.

The film will have two screenings at this year’s Cleveland Irish Cultural Festival. The digital release will be available in both widescreen HD and standard definition (SD).

The mini-rockumentary provides segments of “action-packed music, candid interviews filled with humor and words that come straight from the hearts of Marys Lane.” Ohiobased Zebulon Thomas Films will distribute it. “It’s a nice capturing of our St. Patrick’s Day,” says Mulloy. “We’re a hardworking local band and that day we played WJW Fox 8 News, Stone Mad, House of Blues and P.J. McIntyre’s until we basically fell down at 2 in the morning.”

WHERE YOU CAN HEAR THEM: The band has just released a new single called “I Once Crossed an Ocean” that’s available for download digitally via iTunes, Google Play, and Amazon. It’s an acoustic ballad about Mulloy’s grandfather, who passed away a few years back. He was born and raised in Achill Island and immigrated to the States in the 1950s. “People often asked him how the hell he had ended up in Cleveland, Ohio — and he always said this is ‘where the wheel fell off the wagon,’” says Mulloy. “Everyone laughed but always knew he was chasing my grandmother, who immigrated to Cleveland herself a few months to a year before him.”

Mulloy became a Union Laborer and managed to raise eight boys and two girls. He was also active in the Irish-American community. The band recorded the tune out at Suma Recording Studio in Painesville with Paul Hamann. They then mixed it downtown with James Kananen at Bad Racket. Billy Gilmore of the Florida-based group the Grass is Dead plays the pedal steel you hear on the tune. The group has plans for a full-length album as well.

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FABI REYNA STARTED THE magazine She Shreds back in 2012 after raising funds by organizing a 15-band festival in Portland, Oregon, called Shred Fest. From that point forward, events have been important for the magazine that profiles female guitarists.

“Ever since then, we’ve made it a priority to create memorable experiences by integrating events into our business model,” says Reyna, who’s sponsoring two shows (Jessica Lea Mayfield and the Shivering Timbers at Musica on June 25 and R. Ring, Nights and Goldmines at the Happy Dog on June 26) here in Northeast Ohio this week. “On average we organize about one to two events a month all over the country. Specifically, and a bit more relevant to these up coming showcases, we throw events around a new release to promote the magazine and our partnerships with companies and bands that make it happen.”

Kent-based indie rocker Jessica Lea Mayfield was featured in the magazine’s sixth issue alongside the R. Ring’s Kelley Deal (the Breeders).

The concerts are a co-production with EarthQuaker Devices, the local company that makes guitar pedals.

“There will be pedal giveaways throughout both nights as well,” says Reyna. “These will both be particularly special events not only because of our partnership with EarthQuaker Devices and our magazine release but also because these are artists we’ve featured in the magazine in the past. Now that we’ve been working together [with EarthQuaker] for about two years, I wanted to celebrate by organizing a couple of shows with some of our favorite Ohio bands.”

This isn’t a series specific to Ohio, but it’s a series that’s taking place throughout the country. “Our events are meant to encourage people of all ages, genders, races, etc. to shred, by highlighting women guitarists and bassists,” says Reyna.

Jessica Lea Mayfield, shredder extraordinaire.

A PINBALL PARTY The Who once wrote a song about a “pinball wizard.” That concept lives on and will be celebrated today from noon to 5 p.m. on June 27 when an outdoor pinball party is slated to take place on Coventry Road along the sidewalks throughout the Coventry Village Special Improvement District. Each game will be staffed with pinball experts from the Cleveland Pinball League, so if you’re an amateur player, you can pick up some tips on how to improve your game. Additionally, the B-Side Liquor Lounge & Arcade will be open to all ages and all their classic arcade games will be free to play.

From 1 to 3 p.m., School of Rock Cleveland will present “Rock Apocalypse,” a set of classic and contemporary rock and pop tunes.

They’ll play in the Coventry Outdoor Courtyard, located at the corner of Coventry Road and Euclid Heights Boulevard. Jason Haley, the Rock Hall’s director of education and author of We Rock! Music Lab for Kids, will be in the Mac’s BacksBooks On Coventry tent (located in the Coventry Outdoor Courtyard) to sign books and give a short talk between School of Rock sets. All events are free.

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Dear Dan, I am a male grad student who is technically engaged to a female grad student. She has numerous positive qualities, but she is repulsed by sex. She is very sensitive about her repulsion and becomes distraught when I broach the subject. She says that even the thought of doing anything sexual with me elicits a panic attack. She also insists that she is “broken” because, in the hopes of preventing me from leaving her, she forced herself to go further than she felt comfortable. We are both virgins, and the furthest that we ever went sexually was cunnilingus. She has never seen me completely naked or expressed any interest in making love to me. When she revealed that any form of sexual affection prompted panic attacks and psychological distress, I decided to call off our engagement. She proceeded to threaten to kill herself and blame me for her aversion to sex. I agreed to continue the relationship but insisted that we postpone marriage. She refuses to go to couples counseling. I love her and enjoy her companionship, but my sexual self-esteem is devastated. I feel rejected and bitter, and I am still with her mainly because of guilt. Although she denies that this contributes to the situation, she also holds strong religious convictions. She claims that she always had a weak libido and that bodily fluids (especially semen) disgust her. Finally, despite her use of oral contraceptives, she fears pregnancy. She also disapproves of my family and friends, my interest in science, my distrust of religion, and my use of antidepressants.

My questions: (1) If I did cause or contribute to her sexual aversion, do I have a lifelong obligation to remain with her? (2) Barring cheating, the impetus for her decision to break up with a previous boyfriend, what other options do I have? (3) Could her sexual aversion ever dissipate? (4) Could her sexual aversion stem from asexuality?

— Gradually Escalating Threats Obligate Unending Togetherness 1. You are not obligated to stay with this unpleasant woman for the next 50 years just because you made the mistake of proposing to her. And even if she started fucking you, GETOUT, do you really want to be with her?

2. Why bar cheating? If taking herself hostage is so intimidating that it prevents you from breaking up with

her (threatening to kill herself = taking herself hostage), then go ahead and cheat on her, or pretend to cheat on her, and let her break up with you.

3. Her sexual aversion may dissipate over time. Or it may not. But someone who doesn’t want to fuck someone — and she clearly doesn’t want to fuck you — rarely starts wanting to fuck that someone down the road. So she may get over her sexual aversion in time, but she’ll probably be fucking someone else when she does… even if she’s married to you.

4. Could be that, sure. But unless you’re willing to live a sexless life with a manipulative spouse who disapproves of your family, friends, meds, etc., the root cause of her sexual aversion is irrelevant.

Dear Dan, My boyfriend and I have been together almost two months. Lately, he doesn’t seem that interested in investing in our relationship, but when I talk to him, he says the opposite. We are a bit long-distance (he lives an hour away). Two weeks ago, he went home to visit his parents. I was going to see him when he got back, but he said he wasn’t feeling well. Then last week, he went to his best friend’s wedding. Now he tells me he’s got to go back home this weekend to get his laptop. Through all this, his texting responses have gone down to where I am lucky to get a reply.

If we are on the phone and the call drops, he doesn’t try to call me back, and he never answers when I call him back. I’m just trying to keep the lines of communication open, especially since we don’t see each other all the time, but he is making it difficult. What would be the best way to approach this? — Boyfriend’s Absences Worry Lonely & Invested New Girlfriend Don’t call or text your boyfriend for two weeks. If he doesn’t call or text you in that time — and he won’t — then you cancel your three-month anniversary party. My hunch is that this relationship has been over for a while, BAWLING, but your boyfriend lacks the decency to put you out of your misery. Looking on the bright side: You won’t have to waste any of your money on a traditional three-month anniversary present — a bag of Cool Ranch Doritos — or any more of your time on this guy.

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