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AUGUST 5 - 11, 2015 • VOL. 46 Issue 6

PLAYING GROWN-UP

Everything changed for Ohio State’s Cardale Jones in a year. Does he have to change too?

By Zac Jackson

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Editor Vince Grzegorek

Upfront

Editorial Managing Editor Eric Sandy Music Editor Jeff Niesel Staff Writer Sam Allard 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, Jason Meek, Maggie Sullivan, Kimberly Jauregui, Tyler Singleton, Caitlin Summers, Elizabeth Manno, Dana Hetrick, Alexandra Hintz

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A Concord Township murder becomes a national flashpoint, Black Lives Matter billboards go up, and more

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

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Advertising Senior Multimedia Account Executive John Crobar, Shayne Rose Multimedia Account Executive Kiara Hunter-Davis, Joseph Williamson, Savannah Drdek Classifi ed Account Executive Alice Leslie

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University of Akron Press chopped from school’s budget

Marketing and Events Jenna Conforti, Gina Scordos

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

Everything changed for Ohio State’s Cardale Jones in a year. Does he have to change too

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UPFRONT A NORTHEAST OHIO MURDER, A FLASHPOINT THE CRIMINAL CASE AGAINST Juan Emmanuel Razo is under way this week, with Razo facing an attempted murder charge for the death of 60-year-old Concord Township resident Margaret Kostelnik. Razo is an undocumented Mexican immigrant Photo courtesy of Lake County Sheriff’s Office

Razo has become a flashpoint in the national immigration debate.

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“I’ve had contact with Razo and it seems he has serious mental illness,” Razo’s attorney told Painesville Municipal Court Judge Michael Cicconetti on Monday, initiating the defense.

But there’s much more at play here in the context of an already very disturbing crime spree. Razo is an undocumented Mexican immigrant who has lived in the U.S. for years.

His father is a U.S. citizen. Prior to the Kostelnik murder, local and federal government agencies were aware that Razo was living here without documentation, without any link to his identity.

“I can’t set a bond high enough,” a visibly angry Cicconetti said during Razo’s arraignment. He then settled on $10 million. “Does

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he have a passport? Does he have a green card? Well, then how the hell do I know it’s even him?

“I have somebody -- we don’t even know who he is, why he’s in this country, why he’s here illegally, and why he allegedly committed a murder,” Cicconetti continued.

On the day Kostelnik was shot and killed, officials are alleging that Razo attempted to rape a 14-year-old girl and later shot a woman in the Lake Metroparks Greenway Corridor before winding up in a shootout with police. He was arrested near the park. Additional charges are expected in the Lake County Court of Common Pleas.

Amid the investigation and perfunctory press conferences has been little information as to a July 7 interaction between Lake County sheriff’s deputy and Razo.

Razo was stopped for “behaving suspiciously,” according to reports.

Though the deputy discovered that Razo was not a U.S. citizen, prompting him to report to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Razo was let go.

“We are looking into the facts of this case,” a spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection told local media outlets.

Zooming out a bit, the arrest of Razo three weeks later came in the wake of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s remarks on criminals entering the U.S. without citizen status and “raping” American women. Regardless of the woozy national opinion of Trump’s campaign, the remarks lodged themselves on cable news networks and filtered into the country’s ongoing debate over immigration policies.

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which he did 12 years ago -- Razo did not have any formal attachment to the U.S. It’s a patch of gray-area policy spread across the black-andwhite debate over what constitutes U.S. citizenship.

Joey Jackson, a legal analyst for CNN, summed up the resounding question: “Why should a family have to lose a loved one because there’s a policy or a lack of a policy in place that provides for a lack of coordination between the state government and the federal government?”

NEW BILLBOARD CAMPAIGN ENCOURAGES REPUBLICANS TO TALK ABOUT POLICE VIOLENCE The national black political organization Color of Change has

Planned kickball game between LeBron James and Drake gets rained out in Toronto. Former Mayor Rob Ford, game’s prospective umpire, relieved after learning hazards of officiating under the influence.

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COMMUNITY POLICE COMMISSION APPLICATIONS DUE THURSDAY Don’t forget! Applications for the Community Police Commission (available at clevelandcpc.org) are due by the end of the day Thursday. At the second of two public meetings Monday evening, members of the selection panel said they’d received about 50 applications so far, but still want more.

Cleveland Police Patrolmen’s Association President Steve Loomis, for his part, issued a statement asking for “law abiding Clevelanders” to apply.

“From grandmothers, grandfathers, and retired workers, to young professionals and moms and dads, a cross section of community and not just special interest groups, are desperately needed to ensure success,” he said in a statement.

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FACETIME PRESS TIME

University of Akron Press chopped from school’s budget

By Sam Allard AMONG THE SWEEPING financial cuts the University of Akron announced last week were all three full-time positions at the University of Akron Press, a small regional imprint primarily known for its poetry series and books on local culture and history. In the wake of its closure, its director has decried the move. National organizations have called the cut “short-sighted” and fans have mobilized online to save it. Scene spoke with 15-year UA Press employee Amy Freels about the merits of a university press and what exactly’s going on down in Akron.

So you were an employee of the press for a pretty long time.

I was there for 15 years, yes.

I was the editorial and design coordinator, which means it was my job basically to see the book from the manuscript stage to the finished product. I did a lot of the copy-editing personally, and did the cover design and interior design and layout for all our books either myself or by overseeing our student staff.

How many books did the press publish per year?

It depends. We do about 10 to 15, but we also do reprints and a couple of journals.

I gather it’s primarily Ohio history and culture books?

We also have a poetry series, which is two poetry books per year. But yes, we do Ohio history and culture. We also do a couple series that highlight departments at the university. We have an interdisciplinary series with the law school, a series with the psych archives and a series on politics. We really try to showcase different areas of the university.

You knew, of course, that there were serious budgetary conversations happening at the university. Did you have any inkling that the press might be on the chopping block?

No. We’ve all been really concerned about the layoffs. We

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knew that everything was in play, but we really hoped that we would survive. We had no idea what kind of cuts would be made. I think we all felt that we were at risk, but all felt and hoped that we could survive.

Did you have someone (a faculty member or otherwise) advocating on the press’ behalf in discussions with the higher-ups?

I don’t feel that way, but I’m not really sure what took place, so I can’t really speak to that.

How were you notified that your job was being cut?

In person.

Was it like a staff-wide announcement?

The head of HR came over, and that was myself and my co-worker.

There were three full-time employees of the press?

Yes, we have three full time, and then we have our poetry series editor, Mary Biddinger, who’s English faculty. We considered her .25, although it should be noted that she’s under contract as series editor but doesn’t receive much remuneration for her work at the press.

The university has stated that the press may be subsumed in library operations. Have you gotten any clearer word on that?

I really can’t comment on that.

I’m not sure what’s going on.

The American Association of University Presses has said that a university press really doesn’t exist if there’s no staff. Is it even feasible to have the press as a branch of the library without a devoted staff?

It’s my hope that the press will live on in some way. We have several books in the pipeline that really do deserve to see the light of day. And my heart goes out to our authors, but I don’t know what new form this new press may take.

We were under the library before.

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The University of Akron Press has lost its employees.

When the press was originally founded back in the ’80s, it was under the office of the provost, and then it was moved under the library, and we were moved out from the library and back under the provost in 2005. But we were actually physically located in the library until 2010.

You’ve had a great deal of support from other university presses and authors expressing their dismay online. A Facebook group to “Save the Press” has even sprouted up. Do you think that support could yield any results?

I don’t know. I’ve been tremendously grateful for the outpouring of support we’ve received and I’d like to think it’ll make a difference, but I really don’t know. It’s nice to know that your work is appreciated and books that you’ve produced mean something to people.

There were other cuts as well, something like 200 positions.

There were 215, 216 jobs cut. Of those, 161 positions were actually filled. Some of the eliminated positions, people had already left the university or retired. So 161 people were actually let go.

Any other offices that were cut outright? I know the multicultural center was also pretty much destroyed.

There have been several. The Institute for Teaching and Learning was closed. Student services had around 54 positions that were cut.

So help me put the press loss in context. It’s only three jobs, and it’s pretty much self-sustaining, isn’t it?

Well, to some extent. The

university pays our salaries and benefits [about $200,000, all told] and provides a very small amount for things like offices supplies.

But the money for printing and producing and marketing the books comes from sales of the books. So we didn’t have a huge budget, we didn’t cost the university a lot of money, and I like to think that we gave them a lot in return.

Like what? Your supporters have said that cutting a university press is short-sighted. What do they mean by that?

One thing is that we’ve provided so many jobs for students over the years, interns and graduate assistants. We’ve given them skills that have allowed them to get jobs after graduation. It does a lot for the students; they get actually career skills. I think that we also add to the brand of the University of Akron because of our reputation. Have you seen our book on the West Side Market?

I may have. I’m certainly familiar with your poetry series.

Well, we did a really nice book for the West Side Market’s 100th anniversary. And people, when they hear the University of Akron Press, that may be the only connection they have to the university.

Do you think it’s a trend, that universities view their presses as expendable?

I think it’s just higher education in general. I think it’s everybody.

State funding is down and everybody has to agitate for a piece of the pie.

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PLAYING GROWN-UP Everything changed for Ohio State’s Cardale Jones in a year.

Does he have to change too?

By Zac Jackson

Photo by Erik Drost/Flickr Background Illustration: Go Media Inc.

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FEATURE

Cardale Jones took off on another Twitter spree two weeks ago.

He does that. But this time, the guy once best known for famously tweeting that he didn’t come to Ohio State to “play school” was taking on social issues and incisively beating back condescending replies.

This particular late July day’s thoughts started with Jones sharing the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag. Then discussing the #AllLivesMatter responses he received. Then making national headlines with his retort to someone who told Jones to “worry about getting us fans another national championship…stay out of this bullshit.”

“Sorry Mr. master,” Jones replied. “I aints allow to tweet nothing but foolsball stuff I donts want you to think I more than a foots ball playa sir.”

Even Buckeye haters had to love it; many of them tweeted as much. The territorial lines are drawn hard and fast in college football, and in recent years many have looked at the Big Ten with a mix of hatred and pity. They found bogeymen in Terrelle Pryor and Jim Tressel, for different reasons. In Jones, champion of college football and Twitter and eating at Chipotle, even parochially inclined SEC diehards have found someone worth enjoying — and maybe even rooting for.

The Year of Cardale rolls on. Like he did with a first-drive touchdown pass in the Big Ten Championship, and later when Alabama’s Landon Collins tried to take him down in the open field in the Sugar Bowl, he’s crushed it.

From afterthought on the cusp of having to transfer to winning three trophy games and having to turn down the NFL, Jones has turned six weeks to savor into a seven-month run of success and fame. Since last Nov. 29, when he went from never having played a significant down to being thrust onto the national stage after J.T. Barrett broke his ankle against Michigan, the 22-year-old Cleveland native has grown up fast and in front of a growing audience and has shown no signs of slowing down or even needing a breather.

Once a frequent visitor to the office of Ohio State coach Urban Meyer to discuss questions of maturity and focus, Jones and his coach raised the national championship trophy together in Dallas last January, then huddled together in Cleveland 48 hours later to discuss whether Jones would immediately ride his momentum to the NFL. Those meetings were initially private but not much else has been for Jones, who’s become one of America’s most talked-about athletes while still convincing people that he’s actually a student-athlete, not a bored jock whose strongly worded, ill-timed tweets landed him a long-lasting place in Meyer’s doghouse his first year in Columbus.

For those keeping tabs: Jones went from an inner-city high school, to one year of military school, to one year as a redshirt, to two years mostly watching and then, finally, one of the most improbable, out-of-nowhere success stories anyone can remember — three starts, three trophies, three of the biggest wins in Buckeye history — to not even being guaranteed the starting spot when Ohio State begins its title defense on Sept. 7. Barrett is healthy again, and the pressure is high with a camp competition for the starting job looming.

In what might be the most talented and complicated quarterback room in college football history, Jones is the only one in the room with prototype

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The question is this: Now that so much has changed, does he need to change too?

Ask Jones for the best story about being recognized or the best part about being suddenly famous, as I did last month, and that smile that can light up a stadium lights up the room.

“I got a lot of Twitter followers,” Jones says.

The best guess of a couple people close to the Ohio State program is that Jones had around 17,000 Twitter followers when he entered that Michigan game in the fourth quarter. He had almost triple that the following week, more than 150,000 by March and at last count had 232,000.

Jones, lighthearted as always, was back to his normal dispatches by the weekend after the “Mr. Master”

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tweet, posting videos of himself performing pro wrestling-like maneuvers on a child at a swimming pool. He’ll post an occasional Bible verse, words of wisdom passed along by some coach or a book or even an Internet meme, or his banal

He’s still at least seven months away from being able to officially endorse Chipotle or anything else for money; for now, he can’t even accept a free burrito for fear of the NCAA’s highly anal and hypocritical eligibility police finding out. He’s

thoughts on what he plans to do — or not do — on a particular day. Jones ran the fella who told the QB to “stay out of this bullshit” right off Twitter altogether, and it wasn’t the first time the superstar engaged in a debate on social issues. He can be a Twitter activist. But mostly, he tweets about burritos.

What we most know about the Cardale Jones Experience is that it’s fueled by Chipotle, which conveniently has two locations on or adjacent to Ohio State’s campus.

famous without being rich, a social designation held mainly by college athletes.

And that fame has come quickly.

It’s all very new to Jones.

“Just being in airports and people are just clapping and freaking out … that’s pretty sweet,” he says. “But it’s pretty weird too.”

Not that long ago, he was a thirdstringer sitting in his apartment playing Call of Duty. Now he’s flying with Meyer to Los Angeles for the ESPY Awards and tweeting to

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UFC champion Ronda Rousey and famous-for-something Kylie Jenner about meeting up.

There’s a newfound sense of responsibility that comes with that territory, to sign every autograph, to smile for every selfie, to try and oblige every reasonable request.

(On that last front, Jones has plenty of his own. One example: He asked the Cleveland Indians — via Twitter, of course — to let him throw out a ceremonial first pitch; the team obliged.)

But there’s also a struggle to act responsibly in very real and basic ways.

An example: Before Jones spent 45 minutes in early July posing for pictures and shaking hands at a fundraising event at Sandusky’s Kalahari Resort and Waterpark, he was calling two of the most important men in his life to tell them he had just finished a workout and was running a little late.

Jones swears he called Meyer and Ted Ginn Sr., the event’s namesake, to let them know his situation. And, truth be told, there was construction on the Ohio turnpike and a smalltown funeral procession had clogged some of the back roads. Either way,

upon arrival, Jones tried to casually blend in near the entrance until he was waved to the stage.

Jones, of course, blends in nowhere these days, at least not in Ohio. He eventually received a prolonged standing ovation that was followed by Meyer taking the microphone.

“He’s either late because he was stuck in traffic,” Meyer said, “or he’s late because he’s Cardale.”

Chronic tardiness, as the stories go, was a staple for Jones in Meyer’s first two-plus seasons as Ohio State’s coach. That went for football meetings and activities.

When it came to class, he sometimes wouldn’t go at all. Though he was actually a better than 3.0 student at the time of his “classes are POINTLESS” and “we came to play football” tweets in 2012, they’re now characterized as the kind of lapse in judgment and lack of awareness that held Jones back — and almost pushed him out of Ohio State altogether.

“Coach Meyer never asked me to change who I am,” Jones said. “He just wanted me to take things more seriously. I’ll say it. I wasn’t living up to the standards.”

On the banquet circuit last spring, Meyer told the story of those first viral tweets — remember, kids, that the delete button is largely worthless — and how he wasn’t even sure at first what Twitter was and how they’d been so largely disseminated.

“I was just thinking I was going to jump his ass when I got ahold of him,” Meyer said.

Fast forward 30 months and Jones decided to play a Twitter prank that might have had Meyer wanting to jump his ass again. It was May 1.

He grabbed his phone and fired off a series of tweets saying he was transferring to the University of Akron. He thanked Buckeye Nation for everything and said he was ready for a new challenge. The immediate responses varied from calling him a liar, to disbelief, to Akron students telling him he’d love the new Chipotle that recently opened on the west end of campus.

Eventually, Jones came clean, calling it a “May Fool’s” joke. It was a Friday afternoon at a light football time of the year, so maybe his timing was good; Meyer didn’t find out about the Akron tweets until much later. Jones got plenty of response from inside the Ohio State football building though — “Cardale, quit being a dumbass,” basically — and it quickly faded away.

Asked this summer about those Akron tweets, Jones says he was pretty sure that Meyer didn’t know

about them and firm that “it will never happen again. The real, honest, true story is I really thought it was April 1. April Fool’s Day. Honestly.”

That’s his story, and he’s sticking to it.

Meyer wants it to be known that he never said Jones was a bad kid.

He’s been coaching — and winning — for a long time, and he’s seen lots of kids who need a push, who respond to different motivations, who initially think classes are pointless.

Some last. Some don’t. “[Cardale is] a very good person,” Meyer says. “His stuff is just stuff, he’s late for this … it’s stuff. It’s not the headline news. He’s got incredible leadership skills, but they’ve been hidden. We keep trying to pull them out.”

It’s probably not coincidence that Meyer has reinforced in recent public comments that leadership ability and “the whole package” will weigh heavily in the ultimate decision as to who starts at quarterback for the Buckeyes this season. It’s no coincidence either

that he’s mentioned the impressive leadership skills Jones has shown, even if they need some dusting.

He knows, after all, that Jones spends a lot of time on Twitter, where all things Buckeyes are discussed freely and openly. The two have had their own free and open discussions too, back when Meyer’s concerns ran deeper than what kind of salsa Jones prefers on his burritos.

At points in both 2012 and 2013, Meyer was unsure Jones would even remain at Ohio State. When the coaching staff pushed its priorities on Jones, he sometimes pushed

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back. Sometimes, he didn’t respond at all. Meyer didn’t recruit Jones, and in the college football world that’s often an easy way out for both parties. But Jones wasn’t making anything easy.

So well after the first round of tweets and a handful of other incidents, there was a meeting. It was in Meyer’s office, and it was

and when the meeting ends, it’s either Meyer’s way or Interstate 71.

And though Meyer admitted last spring that it was mostly “nonsense” that had left Jones “with one foot out the door” before the air was cleared, that meeting took place and no excuses were made.

Ginn, the former school security guard turned Ginn Academy namesake, is the longtime football coach at Cleveland’s Glenville High School. Ginn is in the business of changing and saving

about Jones, and his antics, and his decisions, and his future. His high school coach, Ted Ginn Sr., and his non-legal guardian, Michelle Nash, were there too.

Meyer has a policy for such meetings. Essentially, all who are close to and care about the player are welcome. They’re also welcome to bring their opinions, just not any excuses.

Both sides present their cases

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lives — winning football games is secondary, he’s long said. The Glenville program had produced 2006 Heisman Trophy winner Troy Smith, eventual first-round NFL picks Ted Ginn Jr. and Donte Whitner, and has sent as many as a dozen players to Division I college programs in a single year. That’s a credit to Ginn, who knew Cardale Jones before Jones was even in middle school, because Jones would

hang around Glenville football practices.

Florence Jones raised six children, working multiple jobs while trying to make ends meet.

Cardale, her youngest, has said he never knew his father. With Cardale struggling early in high school and in danger of falling in with the wrong crowd, Ginn contacted Nash, a longtime friend, and asked her to serve as a mentor of sorts to Jones, to provide meals and an ear and things his mother could not. Jones eventually moved in with Nash, who has no children of her own, and has referred to her as his guardian and surrogate mother.

Asked what he remembers about that meeting in Meyer’s office, Jones said: “Just the simple fact that Coach Meyer talks about how those meetings usually go, how the parents or what he calls ‘a third uncle’ ask why they kid is getting treated a certain way. [He says] they point the finger and play the blame game. My mom wasn’t like that at all. Coach Ginn wasn’t like that at all.

“My mom came away from that meeting knowing Coach Meyer had my best interest in mind, not just as a football player but as a person and a student at Ohio State.”

Said Meyer of the meeting: “It was real. There were hugs, tears, confessions — the whole deal. We came out okay.”

There was an understanding, and also conditions, and also some more bumps on the road. Tom Herman, Ohio State’s quarterbacks coach and offensive coordinator for the past three seasons, made Jones sign a contract stating he could miss only a certain number of classes and maintain a certain grade-point average or he would lose his scholarship. At one point last year, Herman made Jones wear a dunce cap in a quarterback meeting when he wasn’t meeting his responsibilities.

As recently as the week of that famous Michigan game last November, Jones was back in Meyer’s doghouse. Ohio State safety Tyvis Powell, a longtime friend and roommate of Jones, told reporters that Jones “got into it with the coaches about some [academic issue]. I think he didn’t go to tutoring or something like that and they were going to take his tickets.

And Cardale was like, ‘I don’t care because I’m not playing anyway, so I don’t care what you do. He said, ‘I think they forgot that I don’t play.’

“But after that day, I think that’s when I saw him change and be more

focused and watch more film and throw the ball more to receivers. All the way up to [that] game, Cardale was like, ‘For what? What am I going to do that for?’ And then, boom, he ended up playing.”

In the week leading up to his first start in the Big Ten Championship game vs. Wisconsin, Ginn told everyone who asked that “people will be surprised” and said that Jones was ready not only for Wisconsin and a week of preparation as a starter, but for everything that would come with success.

And now?

“A lot has changed, but the goals are the same,” Ginn says. “He was confident before. He was prepared before. People just didn’t know it.

Some of that was Cardale’s fault. He made some mistakes, sure. Those are in the past. Now that he really sees what’s in front of him, it’s all about going forward.”

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There was another meeting involving Jones, Urban Meyer, coach Ginn and his guardian Michelle Nash.

There were a few of them, actually.

Ohio State won the national title on a Monday night and flew home on Tuesday afternoon. Thursday at 4 p.m. was the NFL’s deadline for eligible underclassmen to announce their intentions to enter the 2015 NFL draft, and Jones had played well enough in those three magically improbable games that he had a decision to make.

He knew it. Meyer knew it. Ginn knew it.

None of them slept.

Jones drove from Columbus to Cleveland, to Nash’s house, to his old Glenville neighborhood, to his young daughter, Chloe, born last November.

He tried to process everything — not just the pending decision, but all that had happened in the prior six weeks — and stayed in contact with Ginn and Meyer, who worked the phones with their NFL contacts to get the most accurate information on how teams regarded Jones, a new and previously unknown commodity.

Their basic quest was to find out how much money Jones would be starting at — or pushing off. He’s listed at 6-foot-5, 250 pounds, and anybody standing next to him might question if that’s undershooting it a bit. In those three games he showed an NFL-type arm and athleticism

most 250-pounders don’t have, and it’s not a leap to think that in the quarterback-needy NFL, raw talent would outweigh relative inexperience and the occasional bout of immaturity.

Meyer had put off previously planned recruiting trips to work with Jones and Ginn on the decision.

On that Thursday morning, they met, again, and Jones told Meyer that he planned to return to school.

Meyer then flew out of Cleveland but nobody else knew a decision had been made. The planned announcement for that afternoon in the gymnasium at Ginn Academy would still go on and be carried live across Ohio and also on ESPN and NFL Network. This was the rarified air Cardale Jones had climbed to in the course of two months.

Generally, players hold formal, and fancy, press conferences only if they’re announcing that they’re headed to the NFL. That’s what the Twitter prognosticators believed, and an announcement that the press conference had been pushed back 45 minutes only built the drama.

When the time came for Jones to make his announcement, Ginn retreated to a corner of the stage, clicked a few buttons and cued up Drake’s “Started from the Bottom.”

At the podium, Cleveland Municipal School District director of athletics and master of ceremonies Leonard Jackson bellowed, “Oh, he started from the bottom, he did, he did.”

Escorted by uniformed security guards like he was headed to the ring for a prize fight, Jones emerged from an adjacent hallway to a standing ovation. He took the podium, quickly took stock of the dozen or so TV cameras, the faces of every age and color scattered across the gym, then asked for a moment to thank everyone for coming and to thank everyone who’d helped him prepare for the five weeks and three games that had changed his life. Jones then said he had an announcement to make, and that his “decision was very simple.”

He was coming back to school.

Jones talked about having time to chase his football dreams, the importance of education, how difficult it was to make such an important decision in such a short amount of time and how “it’s my life,” and it wouldn’t be affected by outside perceptions.

He was, quite frankly, the adult in the room.

He started at the bottom — he did, he did — and now he’s here.

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FEATURE thereafter, but the way things have gone for Jones to this point leads you to believe that he’ll be able to remain his fun-loving self. Imperfect but perfectly happy.

He scoffed at the notion (in person and later on Twitter) that he’s been a class clown in the past, but he very well knows his track record.

“I think I can still be myself and have major accomplishments.”

the hashmark and the imaginary boundary the coaching staff had given him.

On the next possession though, Jones either didn’t like or didn’t see his initial read. He moved around, scanned the field and eventually whizzed a fastball into the middle, where a group of defenders were waiting and another couple were closing fast. It fell incomplete but could have been intercepted, and Meyer was livid.

As the coach approached the new quarterback on the sideline, his face as red as the jersey Jones was wearing, Jones managed to get the

first word in.

“I’m sorry, Coach,” Jones said. “I know I’m not supposed to throw it there. It won’t happen again.”

Somewhere between then and the 52 other points Ohio State scored that night, that one mistake was forgiven.

But not forgotten.

Maybe it was just a brain freeze, a nervous guy in a new spot either caught in the moment or too confident in his arm. Or maybe it was just Jones testing Meyer, testing their level of trust and pushing back against a guy who almost always does the pushing. It

wasn’t the fi rst time.

A big kid who clearly relishes the big stage, Jones is on quite a run. Meyer has been watching, is still evaluating and holds the keys.

Whether or not he’s willing to hand them over on a full-time basis will be decided sometime between now and Labor Day. Buckle up, Buckeye fans. He might not always hop in the car on time, but neither a detour nor a posted speed limit has slowed Jones thus far.

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And he now knows more about the spotlight and standing ovations and expectations than he ever could have dreamed before too.

“I think I can still be myself and have major accomplishments,” Jones said.

With nothing won and everything on the table in a competition that will take place mostly behind locked gates, Jones in a sense will be starting from the bottom again. The coaches picked Barrett in a pinch last August after Braxton Miller’s shoulder injury, and Barrett led Ohio State to nine straight wins after a slow start.

Meyer has said the shock of Barrett’s injury wore off quickly because the Buckeyes were peaking and needed to beat Wisconsin the following week in Indianapolis to keep their quest for a berth in the first College Football Playoff alive. The way Meyer tells it now, coaches and players alike believed in Jones, and the game plan was in no way watered down or made more conservative based on his inexperience or any lack of trust.

There was one rule though, and that rule was drilled into Jones starting that Monday afternoon. He was free to use that big right arm and rip the ball down the sidelines, as he eventually did, but he was told not to make any throws between the hashes to the middle of the field, where the defense is often waiting and novice quarterbacks often go in a panic.

Ohio State scored less than two minutes into the game when Jones threw a 39-yard touchdown pass to the speedy Devin Smith down the right sideline, well outside

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everything you should do this week heavyweights Joss Whedon (director of the Avengers) and John Cassady (creator of Captain America), reintroduces classic X-Men characters like the previously killed-off Colossus.

The biweekly club meets at 4 p.m. on the second floor of the Cleveland Public Library to question the morality of the Astonishing X-Men and its surrounding characters. (Rees) 325 Superior Ave., 216-623-2800, ohiocenterforthebook.org/Blog/.

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Drawing Power Twice a month, Great Lakes Brewing Company hosts Cleveland’s Drink & Draw Social Club. The event is organized by the Rust Belt Monster Collective and sponsored by Carol and John’s Comic Book Shop. Drink & Draws are an opportunity for artists of all levels to drink, draw, socialize/ network and collaborate in very relaxed and welcoming environment.

Events take place monthly on the first and third Wednesday. At the end of each session, prizes are awarded. It’s free. (Josh Usmani) 2516 Market Ave., 216-771-4404, greatlakesbrewing.com.

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Morality Play Whether it’s to find the faith or to brush up on Renaissance literature, Everyman has fans covered. The 16th-century piece follows the titular character as Death comes to visit.

Much like the more well-known A Christmas Carol, Everyman is well established, with wealth and a grand mansion. However, when Death comes to take him, Everyman learns that it isn’t money that makes the man but his friends and good deeds. Heavyhanded on the moral front, Everyman screens tonight at 7 at the Cedar Lee; tickets are $20. (Brittany Rees) 2163 Lee Rd., Cleveland Heights, 440-717-4696, clevelandcinemas.com.

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the fix. Today, they’re broadcasting Rossini’s Guillaume Tell live from London at the Capitol Theatre. The opera itself is a classic, following the legend of William Tell and the cataclysmic storm that sends our characters awry. This new retelling has gotten some flack from critics, so take a chance or write your own review by stopping by the Capitol at 7 p.m. Tickets are $20. (Rees) 1390 West 65th St., 216-651-7295, clevelandcinemas.com.

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Nineties Nostalgia Get ready to go super Saiyan: Dragon Ball Z is back. Kind of. The second film supervised by showrunner Akira Toriyama is hitting theaters tonight at 7 p.m. as a Fathom event. The film, Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection of F, follows Goku and his band of brothers as they battle the newly resurrected Freeza, a familiar villain to those who followed the 1990s cartoon. The new installment of the franchise can be seen everywhere Fathom Events are shown. Another showing takes place August 12, so keep your eyes locked on your local movie listings. (Rees) fathomevents.com.

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Out of Italy Going to the opera sounds like a ton of fun, but dressing up, finding parking and paying for those fancy binoculars is arduous. Cleveland Cinemas has just

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Talking Heads Keep Talking is an exciting storytellers program where locals can share their real-life experiences on a theme. This month’s theme is “Surprise!” Stories range from the insightful and sad to the funny and bizarre. Held in the Happy Dog’s basement, the Underdog, the series is your chance to grab a drink and a dog while listening to some of your Cleveland neighbors amuse you with their tales. Tonight’s edition starts at 8 and costs $5. (Patrick Stoops) 5801 Detroit Ave., 216-651-9474, happydogcleveland.com.

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Cleveland after dark this summer, you’ve probably seen Jimmy Kuehnle’s 40-foot tall, 25-foot wide, pink, inflatable installation in the building’s front window. Soft and bright, the form intentionally contrasts MOCA Cleveland’s cutting-edge architecture.

The internal components include lights, fans and timers to regulate the air pressure. This causes the form to slowly expand and contract, as if it were alive and breathing. At night, the glowing work is visible far down Euclid Avenue. Kuehnle will discuss this site-specific installation at Happy Dog at Euclid Tavern in conjunction with MOCA Cleveland’s Summer 2015 exhibition, How to Remain Human.

Kuehnle’s talk begins at 6 p.m.

Following the presentation, guests will have the opportunity to venture down Euclid Ave. and explore How to Remain Human before the museum closes at 9 p.m. It’s free. (Usmani) 11625 Euclid Ave., 216-231-5400, mocacleveland.org.

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A Classic Case It’s difficult to keep up with a comic book’s history when it’s as old and convoluted as the X-Men series. The Ohio Center for the Book is here to help. Its “Trauma and Transformation” book club meets today to discuss the first book in the Astonishing X-Men’s most recent revival: Gifted. The graphic novel, written by superhero

Dead Ahead Regardless of your take on the Grateful Dead — the band to which Into the Blue, an ensemble of local musicians, pays tribute — the group maintains a damn important stature in the rock ’n’ roll canon. Into the Blue revives that spirit and lends it the respect Jerry & Co. rightfully deserve. Anyone interested in hearing — and seeing — great music flow from the stage should check out what these guys are doing.

Fellow musicians and artists will glean inspiration. The band plays at 5 p.m. today at U.S. Bank Plaza as part of the Labatt Blue Light Lime Concert Series.

Admission is free. (Eric Sandy) East 14th Street and Euclid Avenue, 216-771-4444, playhousesquare.org.

COMEDY

Red Handed If you can’t laugh at yourself, how are you supposed to laugh at someone else? That’s what’s been on Red Grant’s mind during his Caught RedHanded comedy tour. The television standup comic is at the Improv tonight to show Cleveland audiences how he makes fun of himself. Peppering in some celebrity impersonations (he does a mean Drake), the Showtime star knows how to win over an audience. Unlike other comics passing through, he doesn’t rely on audience participation or obscenities to be funny.

Instead, he delights on his talent alone.

He’s on at 7:30 p.m. and has additional shows scheduled through Sunday.

Tickets are $17. (Rees) 1148 Main Ave., 216-696-IMPROV, clevelandimprov.com.

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industry jargon, by the way), it’s showcased here, with talks and artists and panels and workshops and the list goes on and on and on, and so does our love for one of the best fests in Cleveland. Fourteen speakers, eight workshops, three panels and over 20 vendors will be on hand. It takes place from 7 to 9 tonight, and from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. tomorrow and Sunday. Ticket prices vary. (Vince Grzegorek) 1407 Euclid Ave., wmcfest.org.

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Celtic Pride St. Patrick’s Day is the day that makes everyone Irish, but that holiday is months down the road. If you feel like being Irish this weekend, come to Classic Park in Eastlake and check out the fourth annual Lake County Celtic Festival. The festival features more than 150 Irish musicians, singers, bagpipe players and dancers. The Willis Clan, a family of 14 musicians, artists, writers and dancers, headlines the event. Ciaran Sheehan, the acclaimed singer, actor and star of broadway’s Phantom of the Opera, will also make an appearance. Adult admission is $12, and kids 12 and under are free. If you are a senior or a current student with an I.D., ticket prices are only $8. Doors open today at 5 p.m. The festival continues through Sunday. (Alexandra Hintz) 35300 Vine St., Eastlake, ohiocelticfest.com.

COMEDY

Comedy Quest Huzzah! A live Dungeons and Dragons comedy show is coming to town.

Pittsburgh comedy troupe Knights of the Arcade are preparing their mana for tonight’s quest in Lakewood. A self-proclaimed geek haven, Side Quest Bar is hosting the Knights at 9 p.m. and 11 p.m. During the performance, the improv troupe will be playing D&D live on stage. Since each round of the dungeon-crawling game is different, each comedy show is unique and totally improvised. Tickets are $10, and seating is limited. (Rees) 17900 Detroit Ave., Lakewood, 216-228-1212, thesidequestbar.com.

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A Fan Favorite Here’s looking at you, kid. Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque cements the bonds of a beautiful friendship between itself and its public tonight as it honors the results of a recent poll that declared Casablanca should be the first “regular” film the venue

screens. And so it shows tonight at 7 p.m. There isn’t much else that needs to be said for Michael Curtiz’ beloved classic. If you haven’t seen the film, why not? And if you have, tonight’s the perfect chance to see it on the big screen. Tickets are $9. (Rees) 11610 Euclid Ave., 216-421-7450, cia.edu.

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Farm Fresh The Music Box Supper Club celebrates its one-year anniversary tonight with a special Farm to Table Rooftop Dinner put together by Chef Dennis Devies. The guy plans to gather some ingredients from local farms and put together a meal that’ll arrive on your table within 24 hours of being plucked from the field. Impressive. The meals will be paired with an assortment of wines from around the globe. Slated to take place on the riverside club/ restaurant’s rooftop, the dinner party will set you back $75. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.; the meal will be served at 7 p.m. (Jeff Niesel) 1148 Main Ave., 216-242-1250, musicboxcle.com.

MUSIC

Going Global The theme of this month’s MIX Happy Hour at the Cleveland Museum of Art is “global.” From 5 to 10 p.m. tonight, explore and celebrate art, music and culture from around the world. MIX: Global will be held outdoors on the museum’s south terrace. Enjoy a warm summer evening sipping a cocktail or craft beer and playing international games in the grass.

This month’s special musical guest is Todo Mundo, voted Best World Music at the 2012, 2013 and 2014 San Diego Music Awards. Todo Mundo combines elements of reggae and Spanish rumba with Balkan, Brazilian and Middle Eastern music. Tickets are $8, or free for CMA members. It happens rain or shine. (Usmani) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.

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Interns Get Their Day SPACES is proud to have some very talented interns. In an effort to promote these talents and reward the interns for their hard work and dedication, SPACES is letting these talented artists take over its exhibition space. Timeout is an exhibition curated by and showcasing work from SPACES 2015 interns. Participating artists include Toby Griffiths, Jordan Johnson, Heather Knotek-Black, Ellen Krantz, Kelsey McRill, Lindsey Poyar, Rhodes Rozman, Joey Strunk and Debbie Weidrick. Timeout opens with

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GET OUT a reception from 6 to 9 p.m. today. The show remains on view through the weekend. It’s free. (Usmani) 2220 Superior Viaduct, 216-621-2314, spacesgallery.org.

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A Man for All Mediums Artist Eric Leroy Alleman works in a variety of mediums: music, literature,poetry,performance,theater, printmaking, collage and painting. I’ll Be the One in the Mask is a collection of new works by the artist, who is also known as Eric Leroy. The Gallery One Sixty exhibition opens with a reception from 6 p.m. to midnight during tonight’s first-Friday Walk All Over Waterloo event. Waterloo’s other galleries, nonprofit organizations and small businesses will be open too. It’s free. (Usmani) 16008 Waterloo Rd., 440-715-0603, galleryonesixty.org.

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Out of India The courtroom drama Court follows the trial of an Indian folk singer accused of encouraging a nearby sewer work to commit suicide after the worker listened to one of his songs.

As the trial progresses, the personal lives of the lawyer and judge begin to unravel and are observed outside the court. The film puts the Indian legal system under a microscope and it also examines the class system, education, and power in India. The film is the directorial debut for Indian filmmaker, Chaitanya Tamhane, and also features many newcomers in the cast. It premiered at the 71st Venice International Film Festival in 2014, where it won several awards. It screens at 6:45 p.m. today and again at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tickets are $9.

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

MUSIC

Skrowaczewski Takes on Shostakovich Stanislaw Skrowaczewski conducts the Cleveland Orchestra tonight at Severance Hall as part of the Orchestra’s Summers@Severance series. Skrowaczewski leads the orchestra as it plays Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5. Skrowaczewski knew Shostakovich, who once described the piece as the sound of “forced rejoicing” and said it’s “as if someone were beating you with a stick and saying, ‘Your business is rejoicing, your

business is rejoicing … .’” The concert begins at 7 p.m. Tickets start at $25.

(Niesel) 11001 Euclid Ave., 216-231-1111, clevelandorchestra.com.

FESTIVAL

A Time for Wine Nothing beats a good glass of wine, amazing food, shopping and live entertainment. That’s what you get at the Vintage Ohio Wine Festival.

The Lake Metro Farm Parks event celebrates its 20th anniversary today and tomorrow from 1 to 10 p.m. Ticket prices range from $25 to $30.

(Hintz) 8800 Euclid Chardon Rd., Kirtland, 800-227-6972, visitvintageohio.com.

SPORTS

Twins Power One of MLB’s surprises this season, the Minnesota Twins have remained in the playoffs despite playing in a very tough division that includes the American League-leading Kansas City Royals. The Indians will take them on a handful of times this month, and tonight’s game marks the first of a three-game homestand against them.

Tonight’s game also marks the 10th anniversary of Rock ’N’ Blast, the popular fireworks show that puts most Fourth of July fireworks displays to shame. In addition, it’s $1-dog night.

Tickets start at $10. First pitch is at 7:10 p.m. (Niesel) 2401 Ontario St., 216-420-4487, clevelandindians.com.

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Bird Brained No one has quite captured absurdist comedy as well as Samuel Beckett.

But Roy Anderson is trying. His 2014 French film A Pigeon Sat On a Branch Reflecting on Existence shows the absurdity of humanity through physical humor and 37 fixed cameras. A parade of human oddities, the film is no Waiting for Godot, but it’s the best we’re going to get in the 21st century. The show starts at 9:30 p.m. at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque. Tickets are $9. (Rees) 11610 Euclid Ave., 216-421-7450, cia.edu.

SPORTS

Hoop Dreams In 2014, Red Bull Reign started in Chicago as host Anthony Davis invited 32 teams from around the city to see which one would “reign” on the court.

Regional competetion for this year’s installment comes to Cleveland today, as some of the city’s best basketball

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GET OUT squads will square off at Luke Easter Park. Round 1 and 2 games will be pool-play and each game will last eight minutes. The final round will be a bracketed tournament and will run 10-minute games, with the winning team earning their spot in the Red Bull Reign Finals in Chicago. The winner of that competition will get a slot at the FIBA North American Finals. Today’s competition begins at 10:30 a.m. (Neisel) 3090 Martin Luther King Jr. Dr., redbull.com/reign.

on the website. (Rees) 10270 Ravenna Rd., Twinsburg, 330-425-7280, twinsdays.org.

FILM

Fighting Fascism Who doesn’t love a good World War II flick? Cleveland Institute of Art

FILM

The First of Three With music from Ravi Shankar and a screenplay by Satyajit Ray, Pather Panchali (the first in a trilogy of films) is the simple yet poignant story of a young boy’s life. Filmed in 1955, the film shows the immense poverty

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FESTIVAL

Burger Mania More than 20 area restaurants will be serving up 50 different styles of hamburgers at the 10th Annual National Hamburger Festival, which takes place in Akron today and tomorrow. The festival is a benefit for Akron Children’s Hospital. In addition to the National Hamburger Cook-Off, in which participating restaurants compete for honors in categories such as best cheeseburger, most traditional burger, most creative burger, and the always-challenging toppings/ special sauce field, the event is filled with family fun activities. The Ohio Hamburger Eating Championship features eight competitive eaters trying to see how many one-pound burgers they can consume in 10 minutes. The face-stuffing event was the brainchild of former competitive eater and Akron residentDave“Coondog”O’Karma.The fest also features a Craft Beer Tasting fueled by local breweries like Thirsty Dog, Buckeye Brewing Company, Lagerheads Brewing, Canton Brewing Company, Ohio Brewing Company and others. There’s live music to.

Admission is $5; children under 8 are free. (Douglas Trattner) 200 South Main St., Akron, 330-375-2877, hamburgerfestival.com.

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The Piano Man Garrick Ohlsson is generally recognized as one of the finest pianists of his generation. He’ll be on hand tonight at Blossom as the Cleveland Orchestra plays a program that features Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto, a piece that critics have said provides “proof of the tenderness and beauty that runs throughout this great man’s music.” It’s a popular piece. The concert begins at 8 p.m. and tickets start at $24. (Niesel) 1145 West Steels Corners Rd., Cuyahoga Falls, 216-231-1111, clevelandorchestra.com.

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Double Vision Partner up. It’s time for the annual Twins Days Festival, which takes place this weekend at Twinsburg’s Chamberlin Park. Each year, hundreds of twins and even more curious onlookers come to town to attend the fest. From parades, pageants, talent shows and vendors to some serious medical research, the activities are dedicated to celebrating multiples.

This year, the group is celebrating its 40th anniversary and looking back at themes from past Twins Days. The festival runs today and tomorrow with general admission of $4. Find details

Tonight, the club hosts All Gold All the Time Night. Come to the venue wearing gold of any kind and you’ll get half-price drinks and pay only $1 for 12-ounce beers. In addition, the person with the best look will win a $50 gift certificate to My Mind’s Eye, one of the best record shops in town.

DJ Wedgie will be on hand to spin lounge records and Dr. Tim Bone Jones will give a special performance.

The event is free and runs from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. (Niesel) 11213 Detroit Ave., 216-221-8576, nowthatsclass.net.

1100 Rock and Roll Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44114 Cinematheque sure does. Tonight, it’s showing the 1945 Italian drama Rome Open City. Pieced together from salvaged stock, this gritty flick highlights the unpretty realities of fascism. In fact, many of the actors were non-professionals and the sets used were actual war locations. It follows the resistance to the Nazi occupation of Rome during the war. It shows tonight at 5 p.m. and tickets are $9. (Rees) 11610 Euclid Ave., 216-421-7450, cia.edu.

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that’s spread across India and the optimism that still lies within the impoverished. Showgoers can expect to leave appreciating their first-world lives a little more. It screens at 7:05 p.m. at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque. Tickets are $9. (Rees) 11610 Euclid Ave., 216-421-7450, cia.edu.

NIGHTLIFE

Good as Gold The punk/indie rock club Now That’s Class isn’t above a good gimmick.

Shoppers’ Delight Time again for the monthly Cleveland Flea, the local small-business and vintage-goods pop-up wonderland.

From 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. today, the Flea brings trendy merchandise and tasty eats to Tyler Village for all the antiquelovin’ and cool-find seekin’ Northeast Ohioans. Among the fun vendors, check out Una Biologicals, which offers hand crafted organic beauty and wellness products; Clear Blur Design and 1820 House of Candles, both known for their unique pottery pieces; and Object Apparel for screen-printed tees, tanks, neckties and more. If your style is more old-fashioned, Bolted Vintage has everything from vintage dresses to circa-1930s jewelry. Musical performanceswillincludeFakeSpecies at noon and Green Escalators at 2 p.m..

(Kimberly Jauregui) 3615 Superior Ave., 216-391-6900, clevelandflea.com.

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Confectionary Fun Do you suppose director Mel Stuart knew back in 1971 that his Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory would become a childhood classic?

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Time for Wine Plenty of places in town have wine tastings, but few have tastings as affordable as Prosperity Social Club’s Summer Tasting Series. “From Argentina to Oregon, this is a chance to learn a little something about different regions’ wines and taste a few varietals from each,” explains Prosperity’s general manager Kelli Graibus in a press release. “We’ll be pairing the wines with appetizers so that tasters can experience how they bring out particular flavors in food.”

Each $15 event includes five wines, appetizer pairings, tax and gratuity.

“I hope tasters learn something they didn’t know or are introduced to a new favorite wine,” says Graibus. (Niesel) 1109 Starkweather Ave., 216-937-1938, prosperitysocialclub.com.

IRVING BERLIN’S White Christmas: Dec. 4, 2015

Music and Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz Conceived and Originally Directed by John Tebelak | Based on The Gospell according to St. Matthew

A Morning Ritual Join your fellow local yogis for a morning of music, fitness and tranquility as YogiNation takes over Tremont’s Lincoln Park with its inspirational health-and-wellness summer festival. Whether you’re new to yoga or looking for a high-energy cardio workout, you’ll be sure to find Where a workshop that speaks to you. The Our Lake Awaits... event runs from 9 a.m. to noon today.

Tickets are $17 online presale or $22 on the day of the event. (Dana Hetrick) 1050 Starkweather Ave., 877-280-1646, yoginationevents.com.

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Trivia Pursuits Do you have tons of obscure music knowledge? Are you a student of fast food menus and their nuanced histories? What say you about the geographic evolution of Scotch whisky? Tonight’s your chance to wow your friends, make yourself instantly more desirable to someone you’re newly dating, and hang with Cleveland’s headiest hipsters and hot dog lovers. It’s the Happy Dog Monday Night Trivia. Starting at 8 p.m., expect themed rounds — 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) or Tofu Etouffee (blackened tofu, onions, tomatoes and brown rice).

Monday is also Craft Beer Night, and all 36 crafts are only $3 from 6 p.m. to close. Cheers! (Alaina Nutile) 1909 West 25th St., 216-344-9400, townhallohiocity.com.

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Damn Yankees The New York Yankees no longer have the highest payroll in baseball.

That distinction goes to the hated Los Angeles Dodgers. Yet there are still plenty of good reasons to hate the Yankees. They outspend most teams and they have one of baseball’s biggest cheaters — Alex Rodriguez — on the payroll. They come to town with one of baseball’s best records. The Tribe starts a three-game series against them tonight at Progressive Field.

The first 12,500 fans receive 1948 Bob Feller replica jerseys. First pitch is at 7:10 p.m. and tickets start at $10.

(Niesel) 2401 Ontario St., 216-420-4487, clevelandindians.com.

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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. 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. Details are on the website. (Niesel) downtowncleveland.com.

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Schedule of Events Cleveland Shakespeare Festival Saturday, August 1st, 7pm Sunday, August 2nd, 7pm

Cleveland Public Theatre’s STEP Friday, August 7th, 7pm

Arts Renaissance Tremont The Cleveland Jazz Orchestra with Paul Ferguson, Artistic Director and Evelyn Wright, Vocalist Saturday, August 8th, 7pm

Inlet Dance Theatre*

Thursday, August 13th, 8:30pm

GroundWorks DanceTheater* Friday, August 14th, 8:30pm

Verb Ballets*

Saturday, August 15th, 8:30pm

Harmonia

Friday, August 21st, 7pm

Cleveland Opera Theatre formerly Opera Per Tutti Saturday, August 22nd, 7pm Extras *7:45pm - OnStage* *A creative movement class with performance improvisation for kids of all ages will take place on the stage prior to the performance!

Members of Inlet Dance Theatre performing “Memoriate”, photo by Suzanne Sherbundy.

We would like to thank the residents of Cuyahoga County through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture, Ohio Arts Council, Forest City, Third Federal Savings and Loan, Clear Channel Outdoor, Ohio Savings Bank, John and Karen Moss, LAND Studio, State Alarm, Howard Hanna - Ted Theophylactos, Medical Mutual, Stein Inc., Howard Hanna - Carolyn Bentley, Independence Excavating and our Tuesdays in Tremont participants Dante, Ty Fun Thai Bistro, Fat Cats, Prosperity Social Club, Grumpy’s Café, Crust, Lava Lounge, Tremont Tap House, Flying Monkey Pub, The Clark Bar, Bourbon Street Barrel Room, The South Side, Press Wine Bar, Lucky’s Café, and The Rowley Inn.

All Arts in August events are FREE and are held in Tremont’s Lincoln Park.

Please visit www.tremontwest.org for up to date information, rain locations and program details, like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.

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The crowd’s energy is guaranteed to be blazing throughout WMC.

CREATIVE EXPLOSION

Weapons of Mass Creation highlights creative class in Cleveland

By Josh Usmani NOW IN ITS SIXTH YEAR, Weapons of Mass Creation Fest has become the region’s premier design industry-centered professional conference. Throughout the weekend, Playhouse Square’s Allen Theatre will host 14 speakers, three panels, eight workshops, 30-plus vendor tables, live artwork, interactive demonstrations, portfolio reviews and much more.

WMC Fest 6 is hosted by Aaron Sechrist of OkPants.

“WMC Fest is about helping to shape the ever-evolving new class of creatives by bringing together designers, artists and creative minds from all over the world and celebrating and inspiring each other,” Sechrist says.

The weekend-long conference was founded by local design firm Go Media as “three days that will change your life.” The festival centers on networking, sharing ideas and collaboration, as well as equality and embracing one other’s uniqueness.

Again this year, organizers are showcasing Cleveland’s revitalization, introducing (and re-introducing) the festival’s many out-of-town guests to the many positive changes taking place throughout Cleveland and Northeast Ohio.

“Weapons of Mass Creation is different than any design conference you’ll find out there,” explains WMC Fest co-organizer Heather Sakai. “It’s got soul and it’s got grit. It’s Cleveland through and through. It’s that one place where you can go, check in, lay all your cards on the table and, at the end, feel recharged and accepted

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by other authentic, hardworking creatives who are experiencing the same struggles and successes you are.”

Discussing this year’s changes, she continues, “We’re on board with the rest of our city, fighting the current stereotypes that exist. With this year’s move to Playhouse Square and with our Cleveland Studio Tour, we are aiming to show our attendees how breathtaking Cleveland really is and all it has to offer. We feel that all of this — the venue, the location, the line-up and the palpable intensity that WMC Fest is known for — will deliver a resounding message: Cleveland is to be respected and recognized.”

The weekend begins with a sold-out Cleveland Creative Studios Tour. The afternoon includes tours of Balance, Burkle Hagen, Go Media, JakPrints

Fest co-organizers Bryan Garvin and Heather Sakai discussing the event with speakers, vendors and attendees.

“I’m looking forward to meeting everyone in person who I’ve talked with on Google Hangouts during the last 8 months,” says Garvin. “So many new faces join the community this year. So many positive vibes coming out of everyone we’ve talked to. I’m looking forward to talking shop and sharing downtown Cleveland with awesome workingclass creatives.”

All day Saturday and Sunday, a Vendor Village and Maker Space will feature 30 tables, including designers, artists, merchandise distributors, agencies, shirt makers and printers.

Additionally, a number of interactive exhibits will feature 3-D printers, t-shirt presses, button makers

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and LeanDog. A VIP Mixer will take place from 5 to 7 p.m., and open to the public at 7 p.m. At 8 p.m., Ink Wars will showcase eight artists drawing live on 8-foot canvases with a special impromptu theme. Ink Wars is hosted

by Lenny Terenzi of Hey Monkey Design. The judges are Jenny Lee (Ideas of Jenny Lee), Alex Shyn (The Only Good Alex) and Blake Stevenson (Jetpacks & Rollerskates).

Saturday and Sunday begin at 9 a.m. with a Morning Hangout Over Rising Star Coffee. At lunch, Go Media will broadcast it’s podcast with WMC

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and a sketch space. This year’s participating vendors include Go Media, JakPrints, Real Thread, Brick Ceramic and Design Studio, Bunny Paige, Cheer Up Press, OkPants, ImageLab Media Services and many more.

At 10 a.m. Saturday and Sunday, aspiring designers, illustrators and motion graphics artists are invited to bring their portfolio to be reviewed by a panel of the industry’s leading professionals. On Saturday, portfolios will be reviewed by William Beachy (Go Media), Stephanie Burris

(Marcus Thomas) and Stacey Cooper (Barkley). Sunday’s reviewers will be James Hsu, Jon Stahl (LeanDog) and Jacinda Walker (AIGA Diversity & Inclusion Task Force).

The weekend includes a number of one-hour educational workshops.

This year’s workshops include (in chronological order) Food and Dimensional Tyopgraphy with Danielle Evans, How to Be a Girlboss! hosted by Kat Hanratty, The Creative Entrepreneur’s Workshop to Authentic Branding by Kimika Hudson, Dustin Lee’s How to Create a Passive Income for Your Design Business, Prototype as Pitch by Moonshot Lab, Boost Your YQ with Michael Cavotta and Jen Margolis, Networking a New Way hosted by Wesley Hoffman and a Minimalist Poster Design Wokshop hosted by Paolo Appley, Charlotte Chang and Will Kesling.

Speakers at WMC Fest 6 include Michael Rivette and Christina Sharp, Aaron Kaufman and Will Dages, Jude Goergen, Michael Bierut, Ludvik Hererra, Michael Cavotta, Debbie Millman, Wilfred Krenn and Mark Brickley. Panels include Viewing Cleveland’s Creative Process Through a Lens,” and “State of the Merch.”

Weekend passes and tickets for Saturday have sold out. As of Monday morning, a few tickets remain for Friday and Sunday. No ticket? In Cleveland, there’s always next year.

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HATED IT, LOVED IT

A personal reaction to American Idiot at Beck Center.

By Christine Howey I HAD A STRONG REACTION WHEN I first saw Green Day’s American Idiot at the Beck Center for the Arts. I was irritated, then angry, then actually furious. I was not pissed off because of the punk rock music, but because of the behavior of the characters.

Actually, it didn’t take me long to get my drawers in a bunch. The show begins with a series of hyper-cut images on five large video screens, showing various artifacts from the early 2000s including several of the luminaries from the George W. Bush administration. Once that concluded, our attention is drawn to three scruffy young men in their early 20s — Johnny, Will and Tunny — who are hanging out together with nowhere to go and no one to be.

Starting with the title song, the lyrics announce the tenor of the work quite clearly: “Welcome to a new kind of tension/All across the alienation/ Where everything isn’t meant to be okay.” And then in the next song, “Jesus of Suburbia,” when they sing, “There’s nothing wrong with me/This is how I’m supposed to be/In a land of make believe/That don’t believe in me.”

So, these young people are definitely upset and detached from their world. In the early 2000s? And I’m thinking … Really?! They’re disillusioned about the world then?

How about back in the 1960s when I

was their age, when you didn’t have time to mull over your free-floating ennui because there was a big war going on and if you were a guy in your 20s, as I was at the time, you were pretty likely to get your ass drafted and sent to Vietnam. Vietnam, the war that was covered every night on the TV news with daily “Kill Ratios” posted: Viet Cong, 235 killed; U.S., only 34 killed. Yay, we won today! Yes, it was those fevered 1960s days, when three of our leading political heroes were assassinated and we thought, well, that’s pretty much the end of our world.

And so that’s how I processed the show at that time, getting madder and

day, it doesn’t mean they’re not going through plenty of their own shit and they’re damn well entitled to all the disaffection they feel.

And you know what I discovered on my return visit? Green Day’s American Idiot is one hell of a good show. The Green Day music in this rock opera, with lyrics by lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong, is always engaging and popping in unexpected ways. And when the show takes time to develop a melody, songs such as “Boulevard of Broken Dreams,” “21 Guns” and “Wake Me Up When September Ends” are as powerful as any you’re likely to hear in any stage musical.

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madder as Johnny and his cohorts piss and moan and do drugs and have a baby and go to a much smaller war in Iraq.

But once I got home and calmed the fuck down, it occurred to me that I hadn’t really been able to absorb the show at all, due to some serious Baby Boomer baggage. So I decided to go back, see it again, and keep an open mind. Because you know what?

Even if kids 10 years ago, or kids today, aren’t going through what us old farts went through back in the

Director Scott Spence was clearly inspired by this material, and he’s filled the cast with talented young performers, led by Dan Folino as Johnny. Folino’s rich and nuanced singing voice is stretched loud and thin in this piece, but when he has time to act his way into a song, as in “Boulevard,” the results are tremendously affecting. When he shacks up with a girl named Whatsername (Olivia Kaufmann), Johnny grabs for some peace and connection. But soon, Jesus of

Suburbia’s demonic alter-ego St. Jimmy (an electric Joseph Virgo) leads Johnny into hard drugs and the spiral that triggers.

Riley Ewing is a fine Will, frustrated at being left behind with his pregnant girlfriend when Johnny and Tunny head off to see the world. And Jonathan Walker White as slackerturned-soldier Tunny is solid, losing his leg in an Iraq battle but finding his way back to his friends. Other key female roles are played by Annalise Griswold and Kristen Hoffman.

Performed on a set skeletonized with metal scaffolding, steps and ladders, and lit by bare light bulbs and red spotlights, the show feels as raw and immediate as the songs.

So hats off to the production team that includes scenic and lighting designer Trad A Burns, innovative choreographer Martin Cespedes, conductor and keyboardist Bryan Bird, sound designer Richard B. Ingraham, and co-projection designers Adam Zeek and Douglas Puskas.

Their individual talents come together and form a fist that feels like a punch to the gut.

And that’s true even if the battles you fought yourself seem long ago and far away.

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By Jeff Niesel IT’S SOMEHOW APPROPRIATE that when we meet up with Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque director John Ewing as he’s walking to the Cinematheque’s new high-tech home, he’s carrying a couple of 16-mm projectors. As much as Ewing is pleased to be moving to a “handsome” high-tech facility that features a 4 K projector, 7.1 Surround Sound (the folks at internationally renowned Boston Light & Sound installed the system) and plush seats, he can still look back fondly on the Cinematheque’s twentysomething-year run in Aitken Auditorium.

“We had a great run and that auditorium served us well,” says Ewing one afternoon from the confines of the plush new Peter B. Lewis Theatre where the Cinematheque will start screening films this weekend. “I can remember first discovering that auditorium sometime around 1983. I had to

convince Joe McCullough, who was the president of Institute at the time, to let us use it on weekends. I was charged with trying to find a location for the Cleveland Cinematheque which is something that George Gund thought the city should have and was willing to support. I looked at a theater on West 44th and Lorain.

I think it was an old porn theater. I probably should have gotten into the neighborhood. but back then, that was not a good neighborhood.”

As much as the theater represents a major upgrade — it’s the equivalent of trading in a Yugo for a Porsche — Ewing anticipates the programming won’t change much. The Cinematheque will continue to show an assortment of recently restored movies and firstrun features that wouldn’t come to Cleveland if the Cinematheque didn’t bring them here.

“The idea behind the Cinematheque is twofold,” Ewing

John Ewing

says. “We want to show new international films and independent films, just new films that would not play in the city otherwise. I want to have the capability to show touring film retrospectives that travel across the country. Those are some of the rarest and most interesting movies available. It killed me that I used to have to go to Chicago or New York to see them. I really want to bring those programs to Cleveland. We started doing that right off the bat.

We’re not trying to make money. We just want to break even.”

The Cinematheque will officially launch a new era on Aug. 7 with a screening of an old film:

a character-driven film and a film in which the story unfolded before me.”

The characters are actually real.

Heineman imbedded himself with two different groups, one in the States and one in Mexico. In Mexico, Dr. Mireles leads a group of armed Mexican citizens. In the States, war veteran Tim “Nailer” Foley leads a group of armed citizens. Heineman shot some 500 hours of footage and spent a year working on the movie.

The film starts with a clip of some guys making meth. Heineman says it wasn’t easy to get that footage.

“From the moment I stepped foot in Mexico, I wanted to get into a meth lab,” he says. “Meth is the cash cow of the cartel and it’s their lifeblood. Most of the meth we consume comes from Mexico and from the Templar cartel. It was important to get that. In almost every shoot, I would talk to people and ask if they knew someone. We kept getting teased and after four or

ALSO OPENING

Fantastic Four Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara, Jamie Bell, Toby Kebbell, Reg E. Cathey and Tim Blake Nelson star in this reboot of the Marvel comic. It opens areawide on Friday.

SPOTLIGHT: CARTEL LAND FOR HIS NEW DOCUMENTARY Cartel Land, a film about vigilante movements against the Mexican drug cartels, director Matthew Heineman knew he didn’t want to make a “policy film.” So he put himself into the middle of the action to make the compelling feature. It opens on Friday at the Cedar Lee Theatre.

“I was fascinated by what drives men and women to take up arms,” says Heineman in a phone interview.

“There’s been a lot of coverage of narco violence and narco wars in the headlines down in Mexico. I wanted to get beyond the headlines and put myself in the middle of the violence to see how narco violence is affecting everyday people. I wanted to see how they fight back, and I wanted to see the ramifications of taking the law into their own hands.

I didn’t want to make a film from the outside. I wanted to put myself right in the middle of the action. It’s

the Humphrey Bogart classic Casablanca, which was chosen by an audience vote. In fitting fashion, the movie will screen from 35 mm at 7 p.m.; at 9:15, it will show digitally in DCP, the new digital cinema standard.

five months, we gave up because it didn’t seem like it would happen. On our second to last shoot, we finally got a call to be in a town square at 6 a.m. We went to the square. A group of masked men drove us through small towns and then through some fields. I knew I wanted to start the fi lm there and eventually we decided to end it there as well.”

Without giving away the fi lm’s end, suffice it to say that the vigilantes start to lose the battle.

Heineman happened to be in the right spot at the right time to capture that moment.

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The Gift A run-in with an old friend alters a married couple’s (Jason Bateman, Rebecca Hall) life in this horror flick. It opens areawide on Friday.

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M Italian mails in standard Italian-American fare in Chagrin Falls

By Douglas Trattner I’M A BIT OF A CAR GUY, SO I was thrilled to watch — and listen — as some of the sweetest rides known to man thrummed on by. There was a cherry-red Ferrari F430 Spyder convertible, steel-blue Porsche 911 Carrera, and coal-black Maserati Quattropporte. You might assume that I was at some swanky motoring show, but I was merely trying to enjoy dinner at M Italian, the latest see-and-be-seen spot in Chagrin Falls.

More attention seemed to be focused on the valet station, which runs the length of the front patio like the red carpet from a Hollywood awards show, than on the meals directly in front of people’s noses. That’s fitting because the restaurant itself seems to place more importance on aesthetics than it does on food.

Over the course of two meals I found myself thinking: For a restaurant this attractive and crowds this thick, one would expect food with a little more personality. The locals have a nickname for the place — M’Olive Garden — but that doesn’t stop them from beating down the door to claim a table, even if it’s at 5:30 p.m. on a Tuesday, at which point the hostess suggests one take a seat at the bar to ride out the 40-minute wait.

The indoor-outdoor bar does make a great vantage point from which to take in the scene. Seated inside,

barflies can follow the red carpet action taking place out front. Seated outside, guests have great views of the highly stylized dining room, which looks like an Anthropologie store with waiters in place of sales attendants. The distressed, monochromatic views are broken up by an open kitchen, roaring pizza oven and imposing blown-glass chandeliers likely brought in from the highly visible glass-blowing studio in an adjacent space.

Owner Bret Adams has made a living selling common food in uncommon spaces. His ever-expanding Burntwood Tavern family of eateries is known more for its rustic and relaxed setting than cutting-edge cuisine, and M appears to follow the same tack.

Rosie’s wedding soup ($6) was thin, tepid and so sparsely populated by ingredients that it might have passed as consommé. We counted two fava bean-sized meatballs and a complete absence of chicken.

We had much better luck with a plate of prosciutto-wrapped shrimp, but at three for $14 they aren’t much of a bargain. The medium-size shrimp are crispy, salty and only a tad dry from the roast. They are perched atop a lovely white bean salad with greens, tomatoes, cheese and crostini. A few seconds longer in the deep fryer would have done wonders for our vegetable frites ($9), a pile of pale but wellseasoned veggies accompanied by two types of dip.

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Here, Italian-American staples like pizza, pasta and grilled meats populate a menu with few surprises. Order right and you can walk away with a decent meal. Choose wrong and you’re left scratching your head in bemusement.

Meals begin with warm, doughy bread served alongside a dish of seasoned olive oil. On one visit that bread was buoyant and poufy as a Bundt cake. On another it was flat as a johnnycake. Our bowl of Grandma

Pizzas, cooked in the wood-burning oven, arrive appropriately dark, crusty and undeniably tasty. All are priced at $14 and are topped with combos like sausage and spicy peppers, chicken pesto and artichokes, or four cheese.

Consider ordering a few as appetizers for the table as soon as you sit down to speed things along.

Pastas at M seem to be hit or miss.

A large and lovely meatball — flavorful and the opposite of dense — sits proudly

in a bowl of chewy cavatelli ($16), melty mozzarella blobs and bright marinara.

Undercooked penne sinks a second pasta ($17) that consists of little more than torn basil, crushed tomatoes and a few bland shrimp.

A thick-cut, bone-in pork chop ($19) is gilded by a fat cap of broiled gorgonzola cheese, making it exceedingly rich but also savory and satisfying. It, like all of the entrees, is paired with the same starch and veggie combo: sautéed broccolini and roasted fingerling potatoes. In addition to the chop, M offers salmon, steak and chicken.

We took the hostess up on her offer of bar seats one night just as happy hour was winding down. The bartenders could barely keep up, rushing to and fro like Lucy and Ethel in the chocolate factory. We counted three broken glasses in the first hour.

Those that didn’t break were filthy, but we drank wine out of them anyway to calm our nerves because the dining room gives the falls a run for its money in the noise department.

And this was with the garage door façade flung wide open. Come fall, things are bound to get much, much worse.

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Suzy Pacifico, server at Guarino’s for half of its 100 years

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ONCE A PROHIBITION-ERA speakeasy, the humble storefront of Guarino’s (12309 Mayfield Rd., 216-231-3100, guarinoscleveland.com) in Little Italy opens to a lush interior, its Victorian decor a reminder that you’ve arrived at one of Cleveland’s oldest dining institutions. Inside, next to the grand piano in the front window, Suzy Pacifico sits on a velvety loveseat positioned beneath a chandelier and surrounded by Guarino family photos.

For nearly half of the restaurant’s 97 years in business, diners have expected to see Pacifico greeting their tables, taking their orders and serving up plenty of good-natured sass.

After all, that’s what families do, and after 50 years, the venerable server’s regulars span generations.

“Last week, a couple came in on their anniversary,” she recounts, sitting toward the edge of her seat so her feet touch the ground. “I waited on them when they got engaged 20 years ago.

They brought all the kids and the kids’ families.”

At 18, Pacifico married an American man working at Case Western Reserve University, leaving her hometown of Ponza, Italy, for the first time to move to the States.

Knowing little English but determined not to let a language barrier get in the way of her new life, Pacifico walked from her new Little Italy home up the street to Guarino’s. Three days later she was on the floor.

“She’s feisty,” says manager Nancy Phillips, who’s worked with her since her earliest days at the restaurant.

“She always looks like she’s so quiet, but she’s strong. We couldn’t run this restaurant without her.”

Pacifico worked under Guarino’s original owners, Vincenzo Guarino and his wife “Mama” Guarino, gleaning the family recipes along with the family secrets, like illegally slipping liquor in coffee cups during the dry decades that preceded her. Tight-lipped, she conceals most stories under lock and key, but doesn’t hesitate to reminisce on Mama’s most invaluable role: keeping order in the restaurant.

“Ms. Guarino was an old-fashioned lady,” Pacifico remembers. “She’d see

someone kiss and go right up to them and say, ‘This is a family place.’ She would not let anyone talk bad to you.

She was like the captain of the ship.”

Guarino’s was, after all, a crown jewel of chic nights on the town. The code for attire might be more casual these days, but Pacifico looks back fondly on the glory years of elegant diners regularly streaming through the doors in their Sunday best.

“When I started working, people came in dress coats, always ties and suits,” she recalls. “We got a lot of people from the opera and famous people like Dean Martin and Shirley MacLaine.”

Tony Bennett was sophisticated and charming, she reports. But ever the Clevelander, native Tim Conway remains her favorite notable. Pointing to a corner table, she says, “He used to sit right over there and make jokes and tease everyone. He’s as funny in person as he was on TV.” As anyone who’s stepped out for an evening in Little Italy can attest, the neighborhood’s old-school charm remains against the backdrop of bustling modern bistros. Working in the heart of it all, Pacifico has seen the district through its evolution.

“When I started working here, it was strictly Italian; there were no art galleries,” she says. “Now it’s all mixed. It’s a big change. You gotta go with the times. Change is good.”

Some things, however, will never go out of style, like Guarino’s enduring sauce. Pacifico, who knows her own way around the kitchen, echoes that it’s the key to her Italian cuisine.

“A perfect sauce is everything,” she says with a smile.

Between her regular four shifts per week plus a Saturday double, Pacifico finds time to cook in the authentic style learned all those years ago in Ponza. And she has no intentions of slowing down.

“When I come here I feel like home,” she says. “It’s like being part of a family.”

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By Douglas Trattner THE AREA AROUND EAST 55TH and St. Clair might not feel much like a neighborhood, but Café 55 (1361 East 55th St., 216-600-5275) feels very much like a neighborhood asset. This chef-driven breakfast and lunch spot, the newest component of developer Rick Semersky’s Hub 55 project to open, puts a fresh spin on the corner bodega.

In place of soda, chips and 40-ouncers of malt liquor, Café 55 is stocked with locally sourced niceties like kombucha from Bearded Buch, cold-pressed juices from Anna in the Raw, fresh bagels from Cleveland Bagel and pastries from Bonbon Bakery. Early risers can grab a cup of fresh-brewed espresso and a croissant to go or place a breakfast order to enjoy in the bright and contemporary dining room.

Like most of the food served at Café 55, the breakfast options (served until close) are fast, fresh, flavorful and affordable. All are Breakfast Scrambles ($8), which build off the same chassis of scrambled eggs on a bed of roasted potatoes. The Rise ’n Shine, for example, adds cheddar cheese, scallions, roasted sweet onion, fresh basil and fat lardons of smoky bacon made on premises. Others feature avocado, red pepper and goat cheese, or a vegan version with tofu (in place of eggs), avocado, basil and spicy honey. Each is bountiful and delicious.

Lunch customers, too, have their pick between grab-and-go options or made-to-order bowls. In the cooler are packages of sushi from Sushi 86 and special lunch bowls prepared daily. The main items, for dinein or takeout, are build-your-own affairs, with diners selecting a base (flatbread, roasted spuds, greens

Cafe 55 has a nice interior.

Breakfast options are fast, fresh, flavorful and affordable.

or brown rice), a protein (pulled chicken, roast beef, pulled pork or tofu) and a style. The Americas ($11), for example, takes my chosen flatbread and beef and marries them with tangy chimichurri sauce, roasted onions, fresh salsa and chunks of fresh, mild cheese.

There are eight styles from which to choose Keen visitors to Café 55 will notice a pass-through window connecting the restaurant to the new Goldhorn Brewery, next up on the Hub 55 punchlist. That brewery will boast a roomy taproom with seating for up to 100, all of whom can order food from Café 55’s expanded menu.

Café 55 is easy to get to and has a private parking lot. It is open Monday through Friday from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. Find out more at cafe55cle.com.

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MUSIC

Honeybucket loves a good hootenanny.

THE TWANG GANG

Local newgrass act takes a fan-friendly approach with new EP

By Jeff Niesel THOUGH YOU WOULDN’T exactly call their music bluegrass, the guys in the local “newgrass” outfit Honeybucket managed to get a gig playing at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival earlier this summer. Now how the hell did that happen?

“They had this selection process where they don’t screen the bands and we just got in — it was kind of funny,” says singer-guitarist Adam Reifsnyder one afternoon as he and mandolin player and singer Brendan O’Malley sit in the Scene offices. “We got into it, so we said, ‘Screw it, let’s make a vacation out of it.’”

As it turned out, the competition itself came across as a much more traditional affair, and Honeybucket’s mix of pop and bluegrass didn’t result in any awards for our hometown heroes.

“The other bands fit a traditional model, but we think that’s why we didn’t progress,” says Reifsnyder.

“We were a little out of the box.

We got a great crowd reaction and played the rest of the weekend on the streets of Telluride. The audience was looking for a variety of music, but the bands that are on the fest included acts like Lake Street Dive, which isn’t even bluegrass.”

bluegrass fan, Honeybucket’s music is incredibly accessible. Since coming together on Halloween night four years ago, the band has quickly become a presence on the local scene. It celebrates the release of its new EP, Stompin’ Grounds, and an accompanying music video for the single with a show at Music Box on Aug. 8.

According to Reifsnyder, it was

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They also played in O’Malley’s aunt’s backyard and wound up with an evening gig at a restaurant after playing an impromptu show in front of the place.

Whether or not you’re a hardcore

simply a “coincidence” that the group initially formed. He and O’Malley had been doing coffeehouse gigs and they wanted to write music that had a “bluegrass-y feel.” They also wanted to add another singer to the

mix, so they recruited bassist Abie Klein-Stefanchik.

“It’s the longest relationship I’ve ever been in,” says O’Malley.

“We knew we had something good,” says Reifsnyder when asked about that first rehearsal. “We played our first shows a couple of weeks later at Brendan’s uncle’s house along with Dolfish, who’s on the bill with us for the upcoming CD release. After that show, which was mid-November, we had such a good reaction from people there, it felt so good to us. I remember grabbing a beer after we were done playing and going, ‘This is really good. This is something we should hang onto.’”

Prior to forming Honeybucket, members played in bands that have played different styles of music.

That’s why they prefer to think of their music as “newgrass” rather than traditional bluegrass. All three

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MUSIC of the band members have more of a pop-rock background and write “poppy bluegrass traditional rock songs.”

The band launched a $3,000 (and raised $4,000) Kickstarter campaign in 2013 and raised the money to record its debut, which it recorded locally at Dangerhouse. Songs such as the uptempo, vigorous “Ohio” feature terrific pop vocal harmonies.

“That was great,” says Reifsnyder of the recording experience for the band’s debut. “We took some songs that had been with us since that first Halloween night, including ‘Ohio,’ which become our first official single. It helped us solidify some of the songs we had been playing and figure out what our sound was. It was a great learning process. We came out with a good product and still get a good reaction from it.”

Right around that time, the band worked up a cover of Kid Cudi’s “Pursuit of Happiness.” The band half-drunkenly played the song for the first time at a party for its 2013 video release. It has become a fan favorite.

“I heard it at my old job on a Pandora station,” Reifsnyder says.

“It has that slow half-time beat. I wanted to speed it up. I heard it five or six times and had that same thought every time. I figured out an arrangement and took it to the guys and we fleshed out the vocals. It felt like a Honeybucket song. It didn’t feel like Kid Cudi. But when people know it’s a Kid Cudi song and we play it, you can see everyone’s face light up. It’s his same lyrics and melody.”

“It translates so well to a bluegrass song,” says O’Malley.

The guys do covers of songs by Hendrix and Guns N Roses too.

“It’s important to not be too gimmicky with the covers,” says Reifsnyder. “It has to be a good song.”

“Kid Cudi is a Cleveland guy so we assumed ownership of his song,” says O’Malley. “It’s like we’re all in this together. It’s a unifying thing.”

The video for the tune was shot on location at Spice Kitchen+Bar’s Spice Acres Farm in Brecksville, Market Garden Brewery and the Cleveland Hostel rooftop in Ohio City.

“It has that ‘work hard, play hard’ vibe that the song really embodies,” says Reifsnyder. “It feels like it’s a little warmer and more of an inspiration. It’s about enjoying our love for the city so we end with

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a shot from the rooftop of the Hostel with the city in the background. It’s an ode to Cleveland, both the song and the video.”

For the new EP, Reifsnyder and O’Malley say they “learned a ton.”

They recorded all the instruments and then all the vocals at another time. They split the recording sessions into instruments and vocals but tried to retain the energy of the live show.

“We got about half way through the process and realized we were looking for more of a pop production,” says Reifsnyder about the sessions for the first album.

This time, they did the same thing but isolated more and got more control over the sound so that the quality is “crisper.”

“It has a cool mix of a modern recording style as well as an homage to eight-track recording,” says Reifsnyder.

With the exception of the ballad “I Am Blind,” a beautiful ballad about death that features hushed vocals and gentle guitar riffs, the band has been playing the songs live.

“That song and ‘Back Porch’ both have elements that Brendan was messing around with in 2011 and 2012,” says Reifsnyder. “They were demos that we had recorded, and we pulled them out and dug them up and finished them.”

“We have boxes of unfinished songs,” says O’Malley. “They were half-finished songs and now we’ve been playing them a lot.”

The band’s built a good local following and Reifsnyder and O’Malley hope that can expand with the release of the new disc.

“It was always our goal to be well known in Cleveland,” says Reifsnyder. “We have other jobs and Honeybucket started out as a hobby but became a lot more than that. We enjoy playing in the city and have people recognize us and be excited to hear us. The payoff is having people really care about the music you’re making. We want to get out a little bit more in Ohio and play some festivals and stuff. In the immediate future, we just want to get our music out there.”

The band has a consumer friendly pay-what-you-can policy.

“This one we didn’t do as a Kickstarter,” says O’Malley. “We like to get our music to the fans. We invested our own money for this one.

If people don’t have any money, we’ll take a buck. It’s our gift back to the fans. It’s just important that people can hear it and get some enjoyment out of it.”

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MUSIC THE STEEL DEAL

Local company makes ‘rock hard’ guitar picks Jeff Niesel SCIENTIST AND ENTREPRENEUR Jerry Mearini works out of an office that looks like something from another time. A 1959 TV is hooked up to a VCR that plays old sci-fi flicks, and various gizmos and gadgets clutter the space.

Back in 2003, the Wall Street Journal ran a feature story about all the retro-looking electronics housed in his office. Some of the stuff is makeshift — the reproduction of a 1950s Grundig radio has a fruit basket on its top to make it look like an antenna. But Mearini, who has high hopes for his new company Rock Hard Guitar Picks, is all about looking to the future. He’s been selling his metal guitar picks online and in local guitar shops.

And he thinks the unique product is revolutionary.

Mearini, who grew up in Ashtabula, started playing guitar when he was in ninth grade. The summer of 1977 proved to be particularly inspirational.

“Foreigner’s first album came out and Boston’s first album came out. Somehow, that changed my whole life,” he says one afternoon from his office. “The next year, I got my guitar. I still have my SG in the office. I used to have my amp, but I’m in a band and my amp stays where I practice. There was something about the guitar that was calling me.”

He taught himself to play and took lessons with Tom Gwilt, a local instructor and classical guitarist who taught at Bowling Green and Akron.

“I was a self-taught flashy shredder type,” he says. “I needed to learn some theory. He gave me an intensive course over that summer. He taught me to sight read and I learned some jazz improvisational techniques. I took a scientific approach to music. I

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Jerry Mearini has high hopes for his steel guitar picks.

was knowledgeable about the theory behind the makeup of chords. Tom made me recite the circle of fifths.

I could rattle them off. It had some scientific basis to it. I needed more stylistic training in those days. To this day, I have less style than I should.”

Mearini was all set to go to Berklee College to pursue one of his passions, music, before he changed his mind to pursue another, physics, at Ohio State University and later Case Western Reserve University.

“I got in and auditioned and paid the dorm fees [to attend Berklee],” he says. “The day before I was supposed to leave, I thought about how I was going to play guitar for the rest of my life. Then I thought about how I should go to college to do something that could help me make a living. At that last second, I realized I needed to study physics and I needed to get a Ph.D.” Years later, he founded Genvac AeroSpace Inc. and Teraphysics, tech companies that produce products for the military. Mearini kept his passion alive playing guitar in a band. But when he became frustrated with so many of his plastic picks breaking, he created the Rock Hard Pick, a scientifically

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designed guitar pick that’s virtually indestructible.

“I made my first guitar picks out of a quarter toward the end of graduate school,” he says. “I had access to a machine shop. That was a disaster. A few years ago, I went in the back room here and made two stainless steel picks and stamped my initials into them. I loved them but they were breaking strings.”

Six months ago, his company started to coat metal. Mearini thought steel guitar picks could be sandblasted and coated to feel like nylon picks. It worked. He swears by the product.

“It’s the best guitar pick in the world,” he says. “I’ve been sending them out for six months to guitarists.

They’re laser-diced in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, and then they tumble them in gravel at Universal Grinding. The edge is nicely rounded and it feels like a regular pick. It has a cool metal-on-metal sound. I just like to play really fast and that’s why this thing with metal picks makes sense.

The one person I would love to get to evaluate it is [Queen’s] Brian May. He’s a physicist. He would make guitar picks out of coins. He used a British five-pence coin. There’s a man who understands the value of a

hard metal pick.”

Mearini says local shredder Neil Zaza is a fan of the picks. He also says business has slowly started to pick up. The guitar picks, which sell for $19.99, can be purchased locally at Guitar Riot, downtown’s high-end electric guitar store, and online at rockhardpicks.com.

“It started as a side-project hobby but as I look at the improvement of the metal I want to turn it into a real business,” says Mearini.

“Not just guitar picks; the real advantage is on the rest of the guitar. A guitar will benefit from a reduction in friction. I intend to coat everything, even the fret. I have an old 1985 Explorer. I made a pick guard out of aluminum and coated it. It’s beautiful. You can eliminate scratching and you can eliminate the guitar going out of tune. Anything that wears due to movement, you could substantially improve. The business here is the Rock Hard-ization of musical instruments. For now, everyone around here thinks I’m crazy, but I’m still pushing it forward.”

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Captain Kidd/Kid Runner/ Diverge/High Class Criminals: The guys in indie pop group Captain Kidd are no strangers to the Cleveland music scene.

These Ohio natives have been gaining popularity among local pop fans over the past two years and they’re showing no sign of stopping. Inspired by acts like MGMT, Captain Kidd employs synth driven melodies and danceable guitar riffs to keep audiences singing along.

(Hedrick) 8 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Grog Shop.

Jahman Brahman Phish After Party: After the Phish show, head into Akron proper for some late-night jams with Jahman Brahman (Columbus). The band has played a bunch of shows up here in recent years, always delivering the goods. Their 2010 debut is what we raved about last time we wrote them up in this humble rag (dig “Life (Give and Take)”!), but since then the guys in Jahman Brahman have cut an EP and several official live recordings. Last month’s Live at Family Roots is an exemplary offering, showcasing the psychedelic fields in which these musicians tend to romp during their concerts. Jam-wise, they’ve built a fi ne nest egg of majorkey riffs and sunshine effects (see “Sidecar Sundown,” etc.) to dazzle audiences and keep the dance floor hoppin’ all night.

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From the “Blaze On” > “Twist” > “Light” segment out in California to the incredibly tight and exploratory Dallas show, Phish is yet again hitting a thrilling stride. Tonight’s gonna be a heater too; they haven’t played Blossom since 2012. With a cache of new tunes, plus last fall’s Halloween jams, Phish 3.0 has never sounded more comfortable and commanding. Trey’s stint with the Grateful Dead certainly livened up his lead work, and his tone hasn’t sounded this fi ne in years. To the uninitiated, go.

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Now, who’s got my 20-minute “Tweezer”? (Sandy) 7 p.m., $45$65. Blossom.

Aerosmith: Concert for Legends at the Pro Football Hall of Fame: 8 p.m. Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Lou Armagno “Sinatra Selects”: 8:30 p.m., $15. Nighttown.

Cellar Door Rendezvous featuring Seafair and the Querencia Orchestra/The Modern Electric/ The Moxies/Ottawa: 7 p.m., $12.

House of Blues.

Peter Frampton: 8 p.m., $47.50-$75.

Hard Rock Rocksino.

Full Wave Rectifer Reunion/Go Go Hero: 8 p.m., $8. Musica.

International Orange: 8 p.m., $12.

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

Nighttown.

Alan Madej/Bwak Dwagon/Kill the Hippies: 9 p.m., $5. The Euclid Tavern.

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

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

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

Music Box Supper Club.

Sink Tapes/Herzog/Heavy Sweater: 9 p.m., $5. Happy Dog. Unknown Hinson/Bird Cloud: 9 p.m., $18 ADV, $20 DOS. Beachland Ballroom.

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

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Obnox/Nights/Goldmines/The Commonwealth/Nowhere/So Long Albatross/By Light We Loom/Ageless Males/Sammy Slims: 8 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Beachland Ballroom.

Tom Comferford (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m. Brothers Lounge.

D Fed/TBSis the Team/Red Rose Panic: 9 p.m., $7. Musica.

Andy Gabbard: 9 p.m., $5. Happy Dog. Honeybucket/The Whiskey Girls/ Dolfish: 8 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Music Box Supper Club.

Hybrid Shakedown/Universal Funk Mob: 9 p.m., $6. Grog Shop.

James Gaiters 4TET/Muvment: 8 p.m., $12. BLU Jazz+.

KMFD/Chant: 8 p.m., $23 ADV, $25 DOS. House of Blues.

Richard Marx and John Waite: 8 p.m., $20-$28. Cain Park.

Midnight Slander/Tom Evanchuck/Chris Milam: 9 p.m., $5. The Euclid Tavern.

Top of the World Music’s Artist Search Round Two: 6 p.m., $10.40. Agora Ballroom.

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

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Chris Duarte/The Alan Greene Band: 9 p.m., $15 ADV, $18 DOS. Beachland Tavern.

Irish Sundays Featuring the Portersharks: 3 p.m., free. Music Box Supper Club.

Toby Keith/Eli Young Band: 7 p.m., $32.50-$61.75. Blossom.

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

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08/10

Dinosaur Jr./Cobra Verde: Indie noise rock pioneers Dinosaur Jr. have maintained their stature in the genre for some 30 years now, and they’re not letting up.

Fronted by the ever-creative J Mascis, the band vaults madly between chest-thumping, bonecrushing punk structures and more laid-back, contemplative melodies. Word on the street is that these 2015 shows have been electrified with all of that classic energy that fans know and love and expect. The band’s most recent album, I Bet On the Sky, has plenty of really killer tunes, but we anticipate these guys will be rooting around their catalog for deep cuts throughout the set tonight. (Sandy) 8 p.m., $25.

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First Five featuring Tom First with Ki Allen: 8 p.m., $5.

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Die Antwoord: South African visual-artists-slash-shock-rappers are dropping into Cleveland tonight to a sold-out show at the House of Blues. In a word, the duo can only be described as weird. Blood, graffiti and pitbulls are things sure to pop up on stage during the performance as Ninja and Yolandi Visser aggress the audience. Even though Visser looks more like a doll than a person and Ninja is one of the least respectable people in the rap game (and that’s saying a lot), the two are somehow entrancing. The pair’s lyrics aren’t much to report on and neither one of them has a memorable voice. However, with dancey beats and an off-putting visual style, Die Antwoord sticks out. Fresh from their confusing

acting debut in Chappie (they played themselves in the futuristic robot dystopian flick), Ninja and Visser are back to music, recording the forthcoming Rats Rule while still touring for 2013’s underwhelming Donker Mag. (Brittany Rees) 8 p.m., $30 ADV, $35 DOS. House of Blues.

Todd Rundgren — Global: Singerguitarist Todd Rundgren has spent the past couple of years playing a series of tour dates billed as An Unpredictable Evening with Todd Rundgren, and it’s quite appropriate because “unpredictable” is a perfect summary of his career.

It’s all part of the “choose your own adventure” feeling that comes with being a Rundgren fan. More than four decades into his career, the veteran artist and producer continues to be driven to explore new challenges and ideas whenever the inspiration might strike. He’s keenly aware that his musical experiments can test the limits and patience of his fans; yet if there’s a line, it doesn’t seem like he’s afraid of driving over it. The past few years have found Rundgren in an interesting place, spending time taking stock and learning how his work has influenced new generations of artists, an experience that spawned the album State in 2013. He described the album at that time as “one that I would logically make, using a methodology that I had to a certain degree popularized.” It put the veteran artist into a creative headspace that bled into the recording process for his latest album Global, which came out earlier this year. (Matt Wardlaw) 8 p.m., $42-$52. The Kent Stage.

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Christian Lee Hutson/Angie Haze Project/David Mayfield/ Christopher Paul Stelling: 8 p.m., $10. Musica.

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By Jeff Niesel MEET THE BAND: Frances Quinlan (vocals, guitar), Mark Quinlan (drums), Tyler Long (bass), Joe Reinhart (guitar) IN THE BEGINNING: In 2004, Frances Quinlan started performing as Hop Along, Queen Ansleis, a solo effort that showcased her highly personal songs. “It was just me because when I was in high school, I used to perform with my oldest brother Andrew,” she says. “When I was going away to college, I knew I would have to play shows on my own. I started playing under that moniker and recorded [my debut] Freshman Year in my parents’ basement with the help of some friends. [Drummer] Mark [Quinlan] was in a hardcore band that was breaking up. We decided to start jamming together.” When Quinlan went to college, she didn’t devote as much time to the group.

But upon graduating, she put a formal band together and the band signed to the indie label Saddle Creek in 2014.

GET YOUR FREAK FOLK ON: Early on, Quinlan says she regularly listened to freak-folk acts like Kimya Dawson and Devendra Banhart. But now, the band downplays that side of its sound. “We get classified in so many different ways now, I don’t know where we fit,” she says. “Or if we should fit in.”

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its guitarist shares in Philly. It worked with producer John Agnello (Kurt Vile, Sonic Youth, Sweet Apple), whom Quinlan describes as a “punk,” and that’s meant as a compliment. “He stayed at my house on a blowup mattress,” she says of Agnello. “It was great to work with him. He wanted to help the songs be as much as they could.

He genuinely cared about what we were doing. Those are the things that matter more than a signature sound. We weren’t looking for that.”

The song “Happy to See Me” is a sparse tune that shows off Quinlan’s brittle vocals. It has the intensity of Nirvana’s unplugged session. “We had thrown that song around a little as a band and it didn’t seem to be happening and it didn’t seem to need anything so John set the mics up and I played and sang it live,” says Quinlan. “I loved doing that. It’s very daunting. I’m glad it managed to come across. John is very easy to work with and he doesn’t let you agonize. He did a great job of navigating me, because I was very nervous and I didn’t know how we would get it in one take.”

WHERE YOU CAN HEAR THEM: hopalong.bandcamp.com WHERE YOU CAN SEE THEM: Hop Along performs with GoldMINES and ShiSho at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 12, at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum.

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Seafair will team up with an orchestra for Cellar Door Rendezvous

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Third annual Cellar Door Rendezvous ups the ante

By Eric Sandy and Jeff Niesel THE THIRD ANNUAL CELLAR Door Rendezvous — which has quickly vaulted toward the top of our list of favorite music fests in town — is on the books. And listen: We often use “bigger and better” to characterize new annual incarnations of festivals, because that’s often very true. But this time: Whoa. Our friends at Cellar Door are blowin’ this up.

“From August 4 to 9 there will be events happening every night that highlight the incredible music being created right here in Cleveland,” says Justin Markert, co-owner of Cellar Door and Scene podcast contributor.

“Some highlights include our main event, an all-local bill at the House of Blues on Friday, headlined by the one and only Seafair with the Querencia Orchestra (a 30-piece orchestra created for this show), along with the Modern Electric, the Moxies and Ottawa.”

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ROCK SHOTS A singer and keyboardist, local rock photographer Mara Robinson started shooting bands in 1999 and has been published in various national and international music publications including Paste, Pitchfork and the Canadian Broadcast Corporation. She received some significant local attention when she shot the most recent Lottery League concert. She’s photographed

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acts such as the Flaming Lips, St. Vincent, Sean Lennon, Dinosaur Jr., Pixies, the Replacements, Sloan, Blondie, Guided by Voices, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Built to Spill, Lightning Bolt and Kurt Vile. This Friday at Space:ROCK, next to Beachland Ballroom, she will open a show featuring her photos from festivals like Riot Fest, Pitchfork and Nelsonville. Photos of acts such as Neko Case, Sean Lennon, Dinosaur Jr. and Ezra Furman will be featured.

A reception takes place from 6 to 10 p.m. on opening night. “She is a rock photographer possessing the prophetic sense of placement, the ability to command mutable lighting, and the engineer’s superior angle; Mara captures an entire album’s worth of sound, pain, life and sweat in an instant,” says local rocker Eric Michael Sebastian Schulte in a press release. “She sees those that are only heard. She has the tools, the respect, she commands the medium and the moment. Musicians love Mara because she can do what genetics failed to do ... make us look good.” Just this year, Robinson and her husband Jason, who plays in the local acts Bwak Dwagon, Banging Fragiles and Kong Sauce, started the music publication Blown Speakers.

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SAVAGE LOVE HIGH TIMES

By Dan Savage

Dear Dan, Does a person who acts loving only when high on weed really love you? My live-in boyfriend of three years acts sweet, loving, and caring when he’s high, but when the weed runs out, he’s mean, angry, hurtful, and horrible to be around. I’ve asked him when he’s stoned to still act like a loving person when the weed runs out, but of course that never happens. He just dismisses that he’s mean and hurtful, and he blames me for why he’s angry. I’m so confused! Without weed, he’s intolerable.

Should I just make sure he’s always well stocked with his drug? He’s a relatively functional stoner, even though technically it’s not allowed at his job. I’ve told all my friends he is no longer the mean asshole he was when I wanted to leave him (but didn’t), and now I’ve convinced everyone that he transformed back into the amazing catch I always knew he was. So basically, in order to save face over not leaving him (and now I can’t for financial reasons), I burned the bridges.

— Tensions Highlight Concerns That Relationships Aren’t Perfect Someone who can be nice only when he’s high isn’t someone you should be fucking, living with, or starting a grow-op on your roof for, THCTRAP, he’s someone you should be dumping, dumping, and dumping.

And to be clear: Your boyfriend’s problem isn’t weed, THCTRAP, your boyfriend’s problem is asshole. And the fact that you’re covering for him—the fact that you can’t go to your friends for help because you worked so hard to convince them he’s not an asshole—is a very, very bad sign. If being with someone isolates you from the support of your friends, that’s not someone you should be with.

Does he love you? Maybe he does, maybe he doesn’t—but even if he does, do you want to be loved by someone who treats you like shit when he isn’t fucked up? No, you don’t. My advice: DTMFA. But let’s get a second opinion, shall we?

“It’s not unusual for people to complain that they feel a little cranky when they run out of weed,” said Dan Skye, editor in chief of High Times magazine. “I know a lot of people who prefer to be high all the time— but if his personality is that different when he runs out of weed, this woman’s boyfriend has problems other than not being high.”

Now, there are people out there who self-medicate with pot—in good ways, not bad ways.

“I know many people who have dumped

their pharmaceuticals for pot,” said Skye, “because pot is a better substance for easing their pain and anxiety. There are no side effects, it’s good at easing pain, and it even eases some severe medical conditions.

There are people out there who are high all the time, I know hundreds of them, and they are perfectly functional, responsible human beings. We are hardwired as humans to hook up with this plant, and some people hook up with this plant in profound ways. It makes them feel better, it makes them more compassionate and more creative—it makes them better human beings.”

But Skye doesn’t think your boyfriend is one of those people, THCTRAP. “If this guy is such a prick when he’s not high, I’d get rid of him,” said Skye.

“Putting your girlfriend in a position where she feels like she has to become your dealer—that she has to supply you with pot—is not acceptable.”

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Don’t spend your “good guy” money on this girl, GGP, because she’s not going to fuck you. If she didn’t want to fuck you after she paid Dr. Moreau to turn you into her fat little friend, she doesn’t want to fuck you now. The odds of her wanting to take things “to the next level” once you get her alone for the weekend are worse than the odds of “President Rick Santorum.”

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