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UPFRONT

THIS WEEK

LAST WEEK, OHIO ATTORNEY General Mike DeWine certified Grassroots Ohioans’ petition summary, which laid out the group’s intended Medical Marijuana and Industrial Hemp amendment. With that, the state suddenly has two medical marijuana proposals in the works — each with the stated goal of landing on the November ballot.

The Grassroots Ohioans amendment is fairly straightforward.

There is no regulatory structure prescribed for the state constitution, though the group will circulate a citizen-initiated statute to set up marijuana rules as laws. In short, the amendment asserts the rights of adults to grow and use marijuana for medical purposes. Notably, the proposal would also allow farmers to grow industrial hemp, which can be used to produce paper, textiles, plastics and many other common products.

Lastly, the Grassroots Ohioans amendment would prohibit law enforcement and the courts system from citing only the presence of marijuana metabolites in blood or urine to prove the impairment of a driver. The idea there is that metabolites may remain in the system weeks after marijuana use.

(Amendment language was posted in a Google Doc, which was shared and edited “by hundreds of citizens, local stakeholders, and experts prior to submission,” according to the group.)

Meanwhile, Ohioans for Medical Marijuana, with the backing of the Marijuana Policy Project, is collecting signatures for its own amendment.

Under that proposal, 15 commercial growing licenses would be issued to large-scale growers who pay a $500,000 application fee, and smallerscale growers would have access to an unlimited number of licenses across the state (that is to say, individual approved patients could grow up to six plants and possess up to 2.5 ounces of

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SHAKING OUT THE DIFFERENCES IN OHIO’S TWO MARIJUANA BALLOT PROPOSALS

Medical marijuana may be legal in Ohio by year’s end -- if voters can make a call between the two ballot proposals before the.

marijuana).

That amendment also seeks a Medical Marijuana Control Division, which would develop and oversee marijuana rules and issue business licenses.

The signature-gathering process will take up the bulk of the spring months ahead, and Ohio residents are sure to have various important decisions ahead of them. We’re not looking at a strange Issue 3 repeat — no mascots, yet — but this state does seem to turn timid when it comes to joining any sense of progress flowing across the rest of the U.S.

BED BUGS AND DUBIOUS MANAGEMENT AT GOLD COAST PROPERTY “If you’ll excuse me,” Linda Doll told Lakewood City Council on March 11, “I’m a little tired. I didn’t get any sleep last night because I am required to get my apartment ready for treatment, which means I have to take absolutely everything I own and put it in plastic bags. I might smell a little bit, because I’m required to put all my belongings in plastic bags in my bathtub, which is

filled from the tub all the way up to the ceiling.”

Doll was urging council members to get involved with the growing bed bug problem at Lake Shore Towers, a mixed-income, 178-unit apartment building in what is called the Gold Coast in Lakewood. She and others in the building are facing mounting costs for bed bug treatments — financial costs that tenants insist should be borne by Showe Management Corp. and psychological costs that are chipping away at an already depleted quality of life.

The life cycle of bed bugs is such that treatment must occur every two weeks. If a tenant gets skipped over, then the process begins anew.

That’s what’s happening to Doll; exterminators have shown up at her place only to tell her that her belongings are not properly stashed away from the walls. Last time, she said she begged the worker to stay for a moment while she remedied the situation — hustling to move heavy fixtures into tight corners — but the guy “took off.” That’s a $48 charge to Doll for nothing.

She has been charged $602 for treatment, or lack thereof, thus far. At her job, Doll has been making $8.50 an hour. “$602 is probably going to drive me back into homelessness, with the added proviso that I will lose everything I own,” Doll said during that council meeting.

The thing is, she’s not alone in her plight at Lake Shore Towers.

Linette Eady, the chair of the tenants’ organization, landed in a Lake Shore Towers efficiency after a stint on the streets. She was making $127 each month at the time, but soon enough a stream of income from the Veterans Administration opened up and moved her into a market-rate two-bedroom.

She’s paying $1,200 for 1,500 square feet now. Others in the building are paying $25 for a studio.

EVERY DAY I’M MUGGIN’

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The RNC Host Committee issues “casting call” for “everyday Clevelanders” to appear in welcoming banners around town. Diehard Republican J.G. Spooner can’t make photo shoot, but offered shirtless mug shot for consideration.

Four council members boycott Judge John O’Donnell’s meeting at City Hall.

O’Donnell, he of the Michael Brelo verdict, opted then to give hourlong analysis of whether it really was his presence they boycotted.

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FROM MELBOURNE WITH LOVE Cavs defeat the Atlanta Hawks to clinch No. 1 Eastern Conference seed in the NBA playoffs. But the bigger Cavs news: Delly released a logo. It’s the word “Delly” in the shape of Australia.

Eady doesn’t have a bed bug problem in her unit, but she’s been gathering stories from tenants who do. She’s taken her camera into apartments where clothing and furniture are stacked like totems in the bathroom, where bed bugs scamper across decades-old floorboards and wreak psychological and physical havoc.

“It’s breaking my heart, what they’re doing to other people,” Eady tells Scene.

A civil case is working its way through Lakewood Municipal Court, with an anticipated April 15 response date from the apartment’s management. The plaintiffs’ demands: Stop charging tenants for bed bug treatments, and refund the money that’s been paid so far.

CLEVELAND.COM DID NOT HAVE A VERY GOOD WEEK It’s been a rough recent stretch for the fine people over at 1801 Superior Ave. Things kicked off when the digital marketing outlet got fooled by a fake story claiming that NBA commissioner Adam Silver threatened to pull the 2017 All Star Game out of Charlotte if North Carolina didn’t repeal its harmful anti-LGBT bill that was recently passed amid national disgust. The problem, of course, was that it didn’t happen.

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UPFRONT and, with the authority of the AP and Cleveland.com behind it, was picked up by various outlets over the weekend.

Cleveland.com Vice President of Content Chris Quinn issued a lengthy apology on Monday — clunkily titled, “We made a big mistake over the weekend, and we should not have.”

(Thanks for admitting you should not have!) — detailing the false steps that led to the story’s publication.

“We did several things wrong involving this fake story, but before I get into that, I want to assure you that we are using this episode to re-educate our staff about some journalism basics,” Quinn wrote. “We value the trust you place in us when you visit our site, and we know better than to put that trust into jeopardy.”

So there was that. But Quinn’s public issuances weren’t done.

He also announced in a winding, weird editorial a new policy for commenting on crime stories on the site. Basically, comment sections on all crime stories are now shut off. To participate in a conversation, readers are instead directed toward a single page where all comments on all crime stories are made. Whew! If that makes you think of a forum instead of a comment section, you’re not alone.

Tuesday’s string included plenty of comments sans context, which begat followup comments like, “What story are you talking about?”

An easy solution to the cesspool that is the comment section on any news website probably doesn’t exist, but there are some best practices out there.

“We hope this change will break us away from a splintered conversation about individual crimes so that we can more intelligently talk about crime trends, ways to protect ourselves from becoming crime victims and what causes people to resort to crime,” Quinn wrote. “If we can involve more people in the discussion, maybe we can come up with some ideas for diverting would-be criminals into more beneficial activities.”

Yes, an internet comment section is going to be the place where finally — finally! — a solution is found for getting a gang member to play cricket and enroll in community college instead of robbing someone. We can’t wait for the results.

Then came news Monday that Tribe beat reporters Paul Hoynes and Zack Meisel didn’t make the trip to Chicago for the Indians’ abbreviated series against the White Sox. Kevin Kleps of Crain’s Cleveland Business

then pointed out that neither writer had made the trip to Tampa Bay for the series against the Rays. Later, we heard that the reporters will only be attending “select” road trips this season.

We get the need to save a few shekels here and there these days, and that the era of the game story as it was previously written and devoured is long over. That being said, game stories are often very good, capturing the atmosphere of the locker room or arena or stadium. To do that well, however, or to do your job well as a reporter in all the other ways you serve readers besides recapping what happened, it’s important for reporters to be, well, where the story they’re following is. In this case, it’d be with the team. (We think that’s called “journalism basics,” to borrow a phrase from our friend.) Sure, they can watch games on TV and call and text with sources, but keeping them bound to Northeast Ohio does nothing but put them at a disadvantage with other outlets at a time when the fight for eyeballs is as fierce as ever and give readers yet another reason to put a little less trust in Cleveland.com.

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FEATURE CURTAIN STALL? Historic Karamu Theater looks to regroup after layoffs and financial turmoil

By Afi Scruggs THE HISTORY OF KARAMU HOUSE is the stuff of legends. In 1915 Russell and Rowena Jelliffe took their newly minted Oberlin College diplomas and launched a settlement house that welcomed Cleveland’s African American migrants. The organization endured a century and gained vaunted status as the nation’s oldest AfricanAmerican cultural institution. It’s a glorious and celebrated past.

Karamu’s present, however, is a muddled tale of fiscal and administrative woes and its future is just as unclear. Just six months after coming onboard as CEO, Tony Sias closed the 70-year-old childcare center and laid off 15 employees. He also suspended the afterschool program.

But Sias’ most surprising move was firing Terrence Spivey, who’d been the artistic director of Karamu Theater for more than 10 years.

The problem was money, plain and simple, Sias said.

“What I’m committed to is operating this institution as a sound business. And one of the things we have to get to is a sustainable financial model,” he said.

In an interview with American Theater magazine, Sias said he’d found some “numbers that were breathtaking,” when he reviewed the organization’s books.

In fact, this latest situation is just another episode in Karamu’s cycle of waxing and waning. Its longevity notwithstanding, the organization has often staggered toward financial collapse — only to pull back at the edge of the precipice.

Sias sidestepped when the Plain Dealer’s theatre critic Andrea Simakis asked how much he’d saved by slashing staff. Karamu board president David Reynolds of Key Bank did not respond to the Scene’s request for interviews about Karamu’s finances and administration. But tax returns from 2013 and 2014 show how tenuous the organization’s finances were.

Like most non-profits, Karamu relies on grants from public and private entities.

The Cleveland Foundation has long been a bulwark. From 2013 to the present, the foundation has sent more than $1 million Karamu’s

way. About $350,000 went for audience development and operating support; the rest went to artistic and other programs, said foundation spokesperson Susan Christopher.

As a United Way agency, Karamu House could count on roughly $120,000 annually. But the money dried up when United Way decided to focus on preventing poverty in 2014 and dropped Karamu from its list of recipients.

Meanwhile, Karamu was spending heavily on salaries. In 2013 and 2014, roughly 50 people worked at Karamu.

That figured included full-time staffers, consultants and actors in the theater’s productions.

In 2013 and 2014, payroll for full-time employees hovered around $750,000 — close to half the organization’s total annual revenue of $1.6 million.

In 2014, the organization spent an additional $100,000 in “consultant’s fees” for Patricia Egan, who served as interim executive director. Her salary was significantly higher than her controversial predecessor’s, Gregory Ashe, who was making $58,000 when he left abruptly in 2012.

As incoming money dwindled, Karamu struggled. The organization’s 2014 tax return reported Karamu started the fiscal year with $50,000 in cash reserves; it ended the year with $2,000. Investment income was a meager $2,273, and the organization only cleared about $58,000 from its 100th anniversary gala. Karamu has no endowment, and its building was only worth $610,000.

To help bridge the gap, the CEO and founder of Family Heritage Life Insurance Company of America stepped in to help Karamu out.

Howard Lewis, a board member, loaned Karamu $150,000 for “operating expenses,” according to the 2014 tax return. Lewis’ office said he was traveling and could not be reached for comment.

Clearly, Karamu cannot live on its laurels. It has to evolve and transform and pivot.

Part of Sias’ vision for that future includes renovating the Jelliffe Theater starting in the fall.

“We’re able to get new seats, new

“I think that’s one of the important opportunities we have here … to develop a skill-based, rigorous arts education and training program that is mastery based.”

— Tony Sias

lighting, to make sure the facility is ADA compliant. We’re hoping to get a new screen. [The renovation] is going to give the theater the face-lift it needs for our patrons to be as comfortable as possible. “ While that’s happening, the theater will stage productions throughout the region.

“These will be partnerships that will be able to introduce Karamu to some new constituents,” he said. “We will be in different communities in the city. It’s a great opportunity to reach new populations and potential patrons.”

Karamu won’t replace departed artistic director Terrence Spivey, but will rely on guest directors for its season instead. Meanwhile, Sias and the organization’s staff will spend the summer creating programs that appeal to life-long learners and those who want to prepare for careers in the performing and fine arts.

“One of the strengths of Karamu,

historically, was it was a training ground,” Sias said, reciting the names of Karamu’s most famous alumni: Ron O’Neal, Bill Cobb, and Ruby Dee, a mural of whom decorates the side of the building.

“There were droves of people who left this institution and were trained for the industry or for college,” Sias said. “I think that’s one of the important opportunities we have here ... to develop a skill-based, rigorous arts education and training program that is mastery based.”

But all these plans will depend on the organization’s bottom line. Karamu needs cash and throwing good money after bad isn’t going to get Karamu on its feet, Sias insisted.

“We have to be strategic and look at every department ... each department has to get to a lean workforce.”

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FEATURE BALLOT BASH East Cleveland’s mayor wants Cleveland to annex his city. His plan isn’t going well

By Eric Sandy THE MUDDLED PATH TOWARD A merger between the cities of Cleveland and East Cleveland isn’t getting any clearer. Last week, a Cuyahoga County judge ruled against Michael Smedley, the East Cleveland mayoral aide who sued East Cleveland City Council over its refusal to begin the annexation process with the city of Cleveland.

Emboldened by the ruling, council is digging in its heels deeper and heading back to the drawing board.

The question remains, though: Is a merger the economically beleaguered city’s only salvation?

Smedley last year filed a lawsuit in which he sought to compel members of council to approve an ordinance that would declare intent to “enter into negotiations for annexation.” (Note that the current makeup of East Cleveland

City Council is somewhat different than the named defendants in Smedley’s suit.) Only council has the authority to formally begin the merger or annexation process when prompted by citizen petitions. Talk of the merger has been around for years but heated up recently as East Cleveland lingered in perpetual fiscal emergency status with the state of Ohio. It has cut staff and suffered through other moneyrelated embarrassments, like its website going offline and reports that the city couldn’t pay its bill for employee cell phones. It all led to the aforementioned petition. That’s where the trouble, as it tends to do in East Cleveland, continued.

The argument in Smedley’s lawsuit cited those certified signatures from East Cleveland voters — 827 of them in all — as a

basis for forcing council’s hand in the matter. Those signatures — and the certification process itself — didn’t pass the smell test, according to council members who were serving last summer. Judge Michael Russo didn’t think so, either.

The judge ruled against Smedley’s complaint last week, writing: “It appears beyond doubt that [Smedley] cannot prove any set of facts entitling [him] to the [court order]. Specifically, the certification from the board of elections required

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Signatures on a given petition must come from electors who voted in the most recent municipal election.

Many did in this case, but the judge insisted that certification language should confirm how many people voted in the last municipal election — and thus how many signatures are specifically needed for this petition.

There’s a bit more to it than that, though. Russo’s ruling touches on a small band of legal grounding in this case, placing the concern squarely at the feet of the board of elections and declining to opine on the petition circulators’ eyebrow-

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Tracy Udrija-Peters, the former clerk of East Cleveland City Council, tells Scene that she was shocked when she first started examining the petitions last summer. “There are problems with these petitions. There are some major flaws with these,” Udrija-Peters recalls telling council president Barbara Thomas. “It was a mess.”

For instance, the petitions featured what appeared to be the typical and mandatory legal disclaimer: “WHOEVER COMMITS ELECTION FALSIFICATION IS GUILTY OF A OF THE FIFTH DEGREE” (sic). Note the absence of the word “felony.”

On top of that, the circulator statements were inconsistent.

Circulators, which in this case included Mayor Gary Norton, Smedley, and a slew of allegedly paid workers, must oversee every signature and attest to its originality and accuracy. This is somewhat similar to the problems that caused the board of elections to toss mayoral recall petitions in Cleveland submitted in 2015.

Even with a cursory glance across the East Cleveland petitions, it’s quite clear based on handwriting alone that the same person is filling in many addresses and dates next to various electors’ signatures.

Circulators’ names are also written in different handwriting styles and forms (e.g., some printed names include the person’s middle initial, others don’t).

Under Ohio Revised Code chapter 3501.38(C), “Each signer shall place on the petition after the signer’s name the date of signing and the location of the signer’s voting residence, including the street and number if in a municipal corporation or the rural route number, post office address, or township if outside a municipal corporation.” The ORC violation and the election falsification noted on each page of the petition package are blatant, Udrija-Peters and others still working at City Hall have pointed out.

Udrija-Peters and Thomas met immediately with officials at the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections, who maintained that the certification was copacetic. That’s where the judge’s ruling comes in: Russo zeroed in on the board’s process, which he said is not sufficient to compel East Cleveland City Council to act.

The petition process was driven by a five-member annexation committee, which included Mayor Gary Norton and his right-hand man, Michael Smedley. Udrija-Peters says that law director Willa Hemmons helped actually draft the petitions — an overreach of duties that wasn’t disclosed publicly until late last year. By then, enough concern was roiling among the leaders of East Cleveland that the investigation into the petitions had fallen out of their hands.

In August 2015, East Cleveland City Council approved an ordinance that directed the law director “to immediately submit a written request to the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office to open a formal investigation into the creation, circulation, and submission of the Petition for Annexation for possible violations of law.” The investigation is pending; the Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Office currently possesses all copies of the original annexation petitions.

Scene is picking up rumors, though, that another petition is being circulated within East Cleveland.

As mentioned before, the discussion of an East ClevelandCleveland merger — or an annexation — has gone on for years.

But just two weeks ago, state auditor David Yost fired up the chatter yet again by proposing a $10-million state appropriation to pay for East Cleveland improvements — but only if the merger takes place.

For the umpteenth time, the city has returned to the drawing board.

In the wake of Russo’s ruling last week, council released a statement that forecast the path ahead: “City Council once again is turning its full attention to its initiative: To raise funds from third party donors with which to pay Conway MacKenzie, a nationally recognized turnaround consulting firm. Conway MacKenzie has indicated that it is willing to review East Cleveland’s situation and to prepare a full report explaining whether a path forward exists for East Cleveland to satisfactorily address its financial, service, and infrastructure shortcomings and once again to become a viable and productive community, or whether annexation is East Cleveland’s only option.”

Until then, there’s always the other option: political infighting and ballot chicanery.

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By Sam Allard THE RNC CHATTER PICKED UP considerable steam last week as Cleveland suddenly found itself within 100 days of the July convention. RNC honchos and local police brass assured city leaders in a security briefing at City Hall that the convention would last no longer than four days (July 18-21), allaying fears about the commitments of visiting police departments and the extended peril of civic unrest in the event of a brokered convention.

At that briefing, and at a press event Friday, specifics weren’t in what you’d call abundant supply: The downtown security perimeter remains a question mark (as it has in conventions past), and the conversion of Quicken Loans Arena from Wine and Gold Cavs’ Playoffs Mecca to Red, White and Blue Delegate City is still in the “planning stages.” That planning is of course complicated by the uncertainty of the length of the Cavs’ playoff run.

Steve King, chair of the committee on arrangements; Jeff Larson, the RNC CEO; and David Gilbert, the RNC host committee chair (also the Destination Cleveland/ Cleveland Sports Commission boss) were nonetheless generous in their praise of Cleveland. They couldn’t say enough about how pleased they’ve been with the proceedings thus far.

“We’re about 100 days out in what feels like a 26-mile sprint,” said Gilbert Friday, deploying one of his favorite metaphors, “and I feel extremely confident in where our community stands in planning for this convention.”

Gilbert said that the host committee had raised $55.5 million of its $64 million goal and considers itself “on track.” He also said that nearly 7,500 volunteers had been recruited for the convention thus far — they’re shooting for 8,000 — and that volunteers can expect to get their first email correspondence near the end of April for expected trainings in May. Finally, Gilbert expressed what

sure sounded like genuine sadness when he reported to Cleveland City Council that he’d been sent an oped from the Kansas City Star last Wednesday morning. Kansas City was a finalist destination for the RNC, and the op-ed suggested that the Missouri town had “dodged a bullet” when Cleveland was selected.

“What I didn’t like about it was that it made several knocks on our city,” Gilbert told council before departing for a media event at the Q. “It really, really got me. You all should read it; you’ll get angry as well.”

Gilbert offered a corrective: “It’s sour grapes. We are already reaping huge benefits from hosting this convention, and the eyes of the world are on us.”

The op-ed caused a minor dust-up in Cleveland, generating the same reaction from local media (outrage at real or imagined slights) as it did in its comments section. In our reading, other than the hackneyed “mistake by the lake” jab, the op-ed was much less about insulting Cleveland than it was about promoting Kansas City’s alternatives (Free Will Baptists Conference) while noting the volatility of any large-scale event at which Donald Trump is, or could be, the center of attention. But no matter. Local newscasters were “appalled”: “I don’t like another city badmouthing my town,” said Channel 5’s Leon Bibb in a solemn video editorial, “calling Cleveland something it is not while giving voice to events which have not, and may not, take place.”

But there is reason for concern, if not outright alarm. In one corner, Donald Trump wields ever-more ominous convention influence.

His adviser Roger Stone said in a radio interview last week that the campaign would disclose the hotels and room numbers of delegates who switched votes (from Trump to another candidate) and merrily encouraged supporters to “visit their hotel and find them.”

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FEATURE Evan Osnos, who writes about politics for the New Yorker, wrote in response that Trump may seek to shape the convention’s outcome by using “his most unwieldy weapon of all: the latent power of usually peaceful people.”

“It’s easy to mock Trump for his thin-skinned fixation on the size of his audiences, but that misses a deeper point,” Osnos wrote. “You can’t have a riot without a mob.

Even before he was a candidate, Trump displayed a rare gift for cultivating the dark power of a crowd.”

In the other corner, tasked with defusing that dark power, will stand all 1,500 of Cleveland’s finest, and as many as 3,500 additional officers on loan from suburban, county, state and other cities’ departments.

Cleveland’s safety department brass (safety director Michael McGrath, police chief Calvin Williams, deputy chief Ed Tomba, assistant safety director Ed Eckert, and brand-new EMS commissioner Nicole Carlton, the first woman to hold the job) took turns answering questions at the RNC city council

briefing. They provided updates related to equipment procurement and personnel.

McGrath stated once again that staffing in Cleveland’s neighborhoods during the convention would be at a 115-percent level. They’ll be operating at maximum capacity and have forbidden vacation days during the convention.

Williams said that he and Tomba traveled to Washington, D.C., the previous week to observe a nuclear summit attended by many of the world’s top leaders. It was a National Security Special Event (NSSE), with security protocols similar to the RNC, and seeing the event in action was important for the police leadership, he said.

Tomba said that he has personally undergone an extensive tabletop exercise that simulated a series of emergency events, and that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has trained 670plus officers on tactics related to crowd control, dignitary protection and traffic flow. Because the Secret Service is responsible for security inside the perimeter, Cleveland police’s primary obligations — its two “missions” — will be the safety

of residents and traffic flow.

Both Williams and Tomba took pains to assure council that the equipment Cleveland is purchasing with a $50 million federal grant will be used long after the convention itself. Though Tomba said the city will have “resources” at its disposal during the convention, the Cleveland police will not become a militarized force.

That’s heartening news. The Marshall Project, a new media outlet focused on the criminal justice system, noted in a report last week that Cleveland’s would be the first division of police to take on a major party convention while operating under federal oversight.

(It also noted that while Cleveland won’t purchase equipment to make its officers appear militarized, Cleveland is asking Illinois to loan three BearCats, military-style armored vehicles, and the trained officers needed to operate them. The Illinois Law Enforcement System has yet to decide if they will.)

Though the Consent Decree Monitoring Team, led by PARC’s Matthew Barge, isn’t assisting in RNC prep — its role is to monitor the division’s compliance over time — it will be on the ground, keeping

tabs during the convention.

“On a number of fronts,” Barge wrote Scene in an email, “the Division will — simply by virtue of the timing of the Convention — be operating according to policies and procedures that have not yet been addressed by the Consent Decree process.”

Barge noted that crowdmanagement environment can be “particularly challenging” to departments and that conventions of the RNC’s size and scope pose “unique operational realities, even among departments that routinely handle them.”

As such, he’ll be watching closely. He said that he and the members of the monitoring team will be “monitoring any situations that might unfold that implicate the use of force, internal and citizen’s complaint investigations, bias-free policing, supervision, or other Consent Decree issues.” Realtime feedback would be a welcome change from how the department had been allowed to operate before the decree.

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Cavs vs. Detroit Pistons In what could be a preview of the first round of the Eastern Conference playoffs, the Cavs take on the Detroit Pistons, a team that’s outperformed expectations this year under coach Stan Van Gundy. The Pistons, who have played .500 ball in a tough Eastern Conference, will have their hands full with a Cavs team that started off the month of April with wins against the playoff caliber Atlanta Hawks and Charlotte Hornets.

The game begins at 8 and tickets start at $20. (Jeff Niesel) 1 Center Ct., 216-420-2000, theqarena.com.

join him on stage so he can create his own boy band. Expect a lively, interactive show when Byrne performs tonight at 8 at the Improv, where he has performances scheduled through Sunday. Tickets are $23 to $30.

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

Boylesque comes to the Beachland.

See: Friday.

THEATER

The Good Peaches When a storm comes out of nowhere, young Aurora finds herself on “an adventure beyond her wildest imagination and on the brink of a whole new world.” That’s the premise of The Good Peaches, the latest offering from Cleveland Play House. Set to the music of Benjamin Britten and John Adams, The Good Peaches combines “a compelling drama of survival” with live music performed by members of the Cleveland Orchestra. Written by Pultizer Prize winner Quiara Alegría Hudes and directed by Cleveland Play House artistic director Laura Kepley, the play premieres tonight at 7:30 at the Allen Theatre. Tickets are $20 to $60, and performances also take place at 7:30 tomorrow night and Saturday night. (Niesel) 1407 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

MUSIC

Fanfare Cioca˘ rlia Having learned their craft from their fathers and grandfathers, the members of Fanfare Ciocarlia approach every concert as a challenge to “both entertain audiences and keep the true spirit of Gypsy music alive.” Hailing from the “hidden” village of Zece Prajini in northeastern Romania, the 12-piece brass band set out for Europe in 1997. Since then, it has become an international sensation and has appeared in several films.

(Ralf Marschalleck’s Iag Bari follows the band on tour across Europe while Fatih Akin’s Head On finds them playing Hamburg clubs.) The group debuted in Cleveland in 2013 to tremendous acclaim on the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Ohio City Stages summer series. It returns tonight at 7:30 for its first-ever appearance in the museum’s Gartner Auditorium. Tickets are $53 to $69, $48 to $62 for CMA members. (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.

COMEDY

Aaron Kleiber Voted class clown in high school, comedian Aaron Kleiber has built up quite the resume. He embarked on the #Deathsquad tour with Doug Benson, Tom Segura, Tony Hinchcliffe and Brian Redban and has appeared on the very funny podcast Doug Loves Movies with Doug Benson. An alum of Chicago’s Second City, Kleiber recently served as standup director for the Pittsburgh Comedy Festival. A frenetic comic, he likes to joke about personal things like marriage and kids.

The performance begins tonight at 8

MUSIC

at Hilarities. Tickets are $13 to $18.

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

SPOKEN WORD

Life, the Universe and Hotdogs A regular series at the Happy Dog — the Detroit Shoreway club and restaurant known for hosting underground rock bands and serving up hot dogs with an array of wonderful and weird toppings — Life, the Universe and Hotdogs provides local educators and lecturers with the opportunity to leave their ivory towers and mingle with the masses. Today at 7 p.m., Claudia De Rham delivers her lecture, “Modifications to Theories of Gravity.” Admission is free. (Niesel) 5801 Detroit Ave., 216-651-9474, happydogcleveland.com.

FILM

Three Colors: Blue Before his death 20 years ago,

Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski made some terrific movies. With the program “Kieslowski in France,” the Cleveland Museum of Art will show four of his flicks. The series continues tonight at 7 with a screening of Blue, the 1993 film that is part of the filmmaker’s Three Colors triology. The flick stars Juliette Binoche as a woman who retreats from the world after the accidental death of her child and her husband, a famous composer. Tickets are $10. (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.

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4/14

COMEDY

Steve Byrne Comedian Steve Byrne, the star and creator of Sullivan and Son, gets laughs by making fun of people based on the types of music they listen to; he also likes to have audience members

Mozart and Haydn Symphony No. 39, one of Mozart’s final three symphonies, epitomizes the beauty and eloquence for which the composer is known. Franz Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No. 6 is nicknamed “Le Matin” (“The Morning”) because it begins with the depiction of a sunrise.

Tonight at 7:30 at Severance Hall, British conductor Jane Glover leads the Cleveland Orchestra through both pieces, as well as Mozart’s Concerto for Flute and Harp; principal flutist Joshua Smith and guest harpist Yolanda Kondonassis are soloists.

Rose Breckenridge, administrator and lecturer for the Cleveland Orchestra’s music study groups, gives a preconcert talk at 6:30 in Severance Hall’s Reinberger Chamber Hall. The concert repeats at 7 tomorrow night (minus the Haydn symphony) and at 8 on Saturday night. Tickets start at $29.

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

FILM

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GET OUT documentary Proceed and Be Bold, about the letterpress printmaker Amos Paul Kennedy, tonight at 6:30 at the Happy Dog at the Euclid Tavern. Sign up for an annual membership to Zygote for $40, and your first beer is on them. An annual membership includes one hour of free one-to-one sessions, discounts on classes and workshops, exhibition and sale opportunities and more.

For more information on the film, visit proceedandbebold.com. Get your membership on the Zygote website.

(Josh Usmani) 11625 Euclid Ave., 216-621-2900, zygotepress.com.

Visual Arts Student Exhibition The Gallery at Lakeland Community College hosts an artist reception and awards ceremony tonight from 7 to 9 for its annual Visual Arts Student Exhibition. Featuring a diverse array of artwork, the student exhibition remains on view through May 5.

Admission is free. (Usmani) 7700 Clocktower Dr., Kirtland, 440-525-7029, lakelandcc.edu/gallery.

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Boylesque: A Royal Revue Le Femme Mystique Burlesque returns to the Beachland Ballroom tonight with A Royal Boylesque Revue, a show designed to celebrate some of burlesque’s leading male performers. The reigning king of boylesque, Matt Finish — winner of Golden Legend’s 2015 Championship Challenge, Burlesque Hall of Fame’s 2015 King of Burlesque and Burlypicks 2014 World Champion — will make his Ohio debut. Hank E. Panky, James and the Giant Pasty, Jesi Ringofire and some of Le Femme’s ladies join him on the bill.

Shari Turner, Dahlia D’Luxe, Bella Sin and Noella DeVille will also perform.

Tickets are $20 to $30 with limited VIP and reserved seating options available. Doors will open at 7:30 p.m. and the show begins at 8:30 p.m.

(Niesel) 15711 Waterloo Rd., 216-383-1124, beachlandballroom.com.

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Schwebel Lecture Series In 1992, Rick Doody, his brother Chris, and their executive chef Phil Yandolino opened their first restaurant, Bravo Cucina Italiana, in Columbus. Now, the Bravo | Brio Restaurant Group has grown to include more than 115 restaurants throughout the United States, with more than 11,000 employees and more than 17 million guests per year. A member of the Young President’s Organization and the International Council of Shopping Center Owners, Doody speaks today at 4 p.m. at Kent State University, as part of the 2016 Schwebel Lecture Series. You’ll find Doody in room 214 of Ritchie Hall. Admission is free. A reception follows the lecture. It’s all part of KSU’s Hospitality Management program. (Niesel) 225 Terrace Dr., Kent, 330-672-7314, kent.edu/ehhs/hm.

Duncan Trussell Known for his popular podcast, The Duncan Trussell Family Hour, comedian Duncan Trussell takes a narrative approach in his standup routines. In one skit, he jokes about going to a Grateful Dead concert as a teen just to take the LSD he knew he could find at the show. “Taking LSD in the morning when you’re in high school helps you forget that you’re at an internment camp for teenagers being run by the state.” You won’t get too many one-liners and punchlines from Trussell when he performs tonight at the Grog Shop. But you’ll get articulate, well-structured jokes that show just how perceptive he is.

The performance begins at 9 p.m.

Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door. (Niesel) 2785 Euclid Hts. Blvd., Cleveland Hts., 216-321-5588, grogshop.gs.

Prosperity Social Club celebrates that time-honored American tradition as the Cleveland pub travels back to the days of “classic cocktails and hearty dinner fare” served with flickering candlelight, white tablecloths and lively lounge music. Along with an array of signature cocktails and retro appetizers, Prosperity’s supper clubinspired menu will include lobster ravioli served in a bourbon cream sauce with arugula and roasted

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Amir ElSaffar’s Rivers of Sound Amir ElSaffar’s Rivers of Sound incorporates elements of Middle Eastern maqam modal music with jazz and other contemporary musical practices to create “a unique microtonal musical environment that moves beyond the notions of style and tradition into a realm of uninhibited musical communication.” The ensemble features musicians from all over the world and a broad spectrum of traditions, from maqam to American jazz. Tonight’s concert begins at 7:30 p.m. at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tickets are $33 to $45, $30 to $40 for CMA members. (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.

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April Supper Club Music Series Popularized in the 1930s and ’40s, supper clubs offered Midwesterners social, culinary and cultural stimulation. Tonight from 8 to 10 p.m.,

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tomatoes, saffron poached salmon served with tomoato cous cous and mirepoix vegetables, and choice sirloin encrusted with espresso and brown sugar served on a generous bed of rich brandy-and-peppercorn cream sauce, roasted asparagus and a side of caramelized onion mashed potatoes.

Reservations for the Supper Club series are strongly encouraged (seatings take

Heritage Concert Series Presented by the National Park Service and the Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park, the Heritage Concert Series aims to celebrate the cultural legacy of the Cuyahoga Valley with a series of folk and roots rock concerts at the Happy Days Lodge. Tonight’s concert features the bluegrass outfit the Barefoot Movement. Attendees can purchase soups, snacks and sweets prepared

by Conservancy Canteen. In addition to food, the venue offers alcoholic and non-alcoholic handcrafted beverages.

Single concert admission is $17 for adults, $12 for conservancy members

and $5 for children ages 3 to 12. Doors open at 7 p.m., and the concert begins at 8 p.m. (Niesel) 500 West Streetsboro Rd., Peninsula, 330-657-2909, ConservancyforCVNP.org.

SPORTS

Indians vs. New York Mets The Cleveland Indians get their first taste of inter-league play tonight at 7:30 as they kick off a three-game homestand against the New York Mets. Last year’s Mets made the playoffs and look competitive this year as well. It’s Jackie Robinson Day at Progressive Field, so the Tribe will commemorate the day the late Robinson, the first African American to play in the major leagues in the modern era, made his major league debut. Tickets start at $13. (Niesel) 2401 Ontario St., 216-420-4487, clevelandindians.com.

THEATER

Tyler Perry’s Madea on the Run Madea on the Run, a play from playwright and filmmaker Tyler Perry, centers on Madea’s attempts to escape the law. She volunteers to move in with her friend Bam who’s recovering from hip replacement surgery. Hijinks ensue. Perry stars as Madea and Cassi Davis as Aunt Bam. The play also features

brand new music written by Perry; it promises to deliver “a finger snapping and inspirational evening of theater.” Performances take place at 8 tonight and at noon, 4 and 8 p.m. tomorrow at the State Theatre.

Tickets are $48.75 to $78.75. (Niesel) 1519 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

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Sinbad Story-based comic Sinbad prides himself on finding the funny in even the toughest situations. His show’s interactive, but you may not want to participate. Sinbad flips the script on the audience and turns their troubles into comedic gold for everyone else.

The comic has also seen some screen time, though it’s nothing to brag about. He was the star of the holiday flop Jingle All the Way and has also acted in several pilots. It’s safe to say his forte is standup, but you can judge for yourself tonight at 8 at Hard Rock Live. Sinbad has shows scheduled through Sunday. Tickets are $25 to $63. (Brittany Rees) 10705 Northfield Rd., Northfield, 330-908-7793, hrrocksinonorthfieldpark.com.

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Third Friday It’s another busy Third Friday

this month at 78th Street Studios.

Stop by from 5 to 9 p.m. for all the festivities. April’s event includes opening receptions for ARTneo’s Fundamental Gestures: Figure from Life and Tregoning & Company’s A Thrilling Act: The Art of Anthony Eterovich (1916-2011). The evening also includes a number of closing receptions, including Forum’s Old Dirty Masters by Buzz Szilagyi, Threaded at Hedge Gallery, the pinup-themed Peek-A-Boo at E11even 2, Mike Meier and Christian Mickovic’s Eternal Return at Popeye Gallery/Survival Kit and more. At 9 p.m., Survival Kit co-founder Brian Straw presents live improvised performances by Lost Head and Magnetic West Double Quartet.

Admission is free; gallery hours may vary. (Usmani) 1300 West 78th St., 78thstreetstudios.com.

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Art-ini Art Auction Bidding continues at Harris Stanton Gallery’s second annual Art-ini Art Auction at its Cleveland location. The auction has been a 30-year tradition at the gallery’s Akron digs. Last year’s inaugural Cleveland event benefitted the Cleveland Arts Prize. This year, all proceeds will be used to create a Harris Stanton Scholarship Fund for a

senior at the Cleveland Institute of Art. More than 80 works by international and regional artists and craftspeople will be available for bid. Select works can be viewed on the gallery’s website.

Bidding culminates tonight with a martini tasting from 6 to 8:30. Your $15 admission goes straight to the scholarship fund. (Usmani) 1370 West Ninth St., 216-471-8882, harrisstantongallery.com.

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Dancing in the Streets Right outta London’s West End, Dancing in the Streets brings Motown music to the Akron Civic Theatre tonight at 8. A talented cast and live band will bring to life “the infectious, melodic, foot-tapping songs with a touch of soul and style guaranteed to have you signing along and dancing in the aisles.” Expect songs by the likes of the Four Tops, the Temptations, Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder. Tickets are $36.50 to $46.50.

(Niesel) 182 South Main St., Akron, 330-253-2488, akroncivic.com.

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GET OUT toward yet another season of rebuilding, why not get your football fix with the Cleveland Gladiators, our arena football team that has proven to be competitive: Back in 2014, they made it to the championship game. While the season got off to a rough start with a blowout loss to the Philadelphia Soul, the team will have a chance to get back on track with tonight’s game against the Los Angeles Kiss. It’s Cavaliers Night, so the team will wear special Cavs-themed helmets, jerseys and uniforms. There will also be a rally towel giveaway.

Tickets start at $10. (Niesel) 1 Center Ct., 216-420-2000, theqarena.com.

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Spring Night, Summer Night Director Joseph L. Anderson made Spring Night, Summer Night in 1967 when he was a film professor at Ohio University. The film centers on a halfbrother and -sister who have a love affair that results in an unwanted pregnancy. Anderson is bringing a big contingent with him to today’s 3:30 screening: Co-writer and co-producer Franklin Miller; female lead Larue Hall; male lead Ted Heimerdinger; second male lead John Crawford, from Columbus; Boston videographer and CWRU alum Glenn Litton, who used to work at WGBH with Anderson and is now making a documentary about him and this film; and the San Francisco multimedia artist who re-discovered the film a few years ago will all be on hand at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque. Tickets are $10. (Niesel) 11610 Euclid Ave., 216-421-7450, cia.edu.

Yoga & Music The Music Box Supper Club has had great success pairing music with yoga. That’s right: We said yoga. At tonight’s “workout,” your favorite Cleveland yogi Shari Carroll leads a vinyasa flow session while guitarist Thom Pope provides the tunes. The event starts at 5:30, and tickets are $15. (Niesel) 1148 Main Ave., 216-242-1250, musicboxcle.com.

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EarthFest 2016 Today from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds, you can take part in EarthFest 2016. The event claims to be “Ohio’s largest environmental education event and the longest-running Earth Day celebration in the nation.” More than 270 exhibitors will be on hand, hosting activities such as water and clean transportation workshops, chef demos and sheep dog herding demos. There will be biodiesel-powered amusement park rides and music on four stages.

You can park your bicycle at the designated bike valet parking area, or ride RTA’s Redline (for the regular fare) to the Brookpark rapid station and take the free shuttle to fairgrounds. Admission is $8. (Niesel) 19201 East Bagley Rd., Berea, 440- 243-0090, earthdaycoalition.org.

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of special events in honor of U.S.S.R. cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. There will be special Liftoff! Science Spectacular demonstrations, and a portable Star Lab planetarium will be set up in the Reinberger Auditorium for lessons in star gazing. Kids 7 and younger can rock out at a Cosmic Dance Party in the Polymer Funhouse Birthday Party Room where they can make a DIY space helmet out of cardboard and other ordinary objects. In addition to the interactive fun, today will feature the final showing of Star Wars: The Force Awakens in the Omnimax Theater (extra admission charges apply to Omnimax films). It takes place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and noon to 5 p.m. tomorrow. Regular admission rates apply. (Niesel) 601 Erieside Ave., 216-694-2000, greatscience.com.

THEATER

A Murder in the Park Named to Time magazine’s Top 15 True Crime Documentaries, A Murder in the Park centers on Anthony Porter, a guy who was sentenced to death until a Northwestern University journalism class intervened. Their re-investigation of the crime for which he was convicted, a double homicide in a Chicago park, led to the discovery of the real killer, whose confession exonerated Porter. Or did it?

Documentarian Shawn Rech discusses the film tonight at the Chagrin Valley Little Theatre. The $25 ticket includes the 6 p.m. film, and a “Meet the Directors” reception and casual dinner at 4:30 p.m. (Niesel) 40 River St., Chagrin Falls, chagrinfilmfest.org.

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Northeast Ohio Vinyl Swap & Spin Social While sales of compact discs continue to decline, sales of vinyl, the format once considered obsolete, are on the rise. Today at 1 p.m. at the Happy Dog’s Euclid Tavern, vinyl aficionados can potentially add to their collections as the Northeast Ohio Vinyl Club descends upon the place for a “social, swap, sell and spin.” Admission is free.

(Niesel) 11625 Euclid Ave., 216-231-5400, happydogcleveland.com.

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Free Admission Day at the Zoo Looking for a fun and free way to start your week? Head on over to the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, which offers free admission for all residents of Cuyahoga County and Hinckley Township on Mondays.

You can explore the zoo’s massive collection, which includes more than 3,000 animals and 600 distinct species, including the largest primate collection in the country. (Admission to the RainForest is not included.) Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. (Alaina Nutile) 3900 Wildlife Way, 216-661-6500, clemetzoo.com.

Classical Revolution Cleveland For many years, classical music wasn’t intended for the masses.

Seemingly reserved for quasiexclusive concert halls, classical music hid from the outside world.

Classical Revolution Cleveland helps tear down that wall and once again bring great chamber music to the people. Showcasing a variety of performers in bars, cafes and the like, it’s actually not that different from how people used to listen to chamber music. The third Tuesday of every month, CRC brings its wide array of chamber music to Happy Dog. Performers like the Trepanning Trio, Anime Duo, students of Cleveland Institute of Music and even Cleveland Orchestra members grace the stage in these exciting concerts. Full of immensely talented performers, CRC re-instills the relevancy of this vibrant art form.

Tonight’s free, all-ages performance starts at 8. (Patrick Stoops) 5801 Detroit Ave., 216-651-9474, happydogcleveland.com.

NIGHTLIFE

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beverages. This week, Original Sin Cider stops by with samples and giveaways, while discussing how (hard) cider is made and what to eat with it. The event includes free food and tasting notes. Additionally, the event is paired with a showcase of artwork by Lakewood-based artist and graphic designer Benji Diaz.

Diaz earned a B.A. in graphic design from Cleveland State University, where he won numerous awards in a variety of media in annual student art shows. His work often includes provocative imagery of childhood nostalgia — including Sesame Street, Rainbow Bright, Pokémon and more. Tonight’s event is free.

(Usmani) 11633 Clifton Blvd., 216-221-2333, facebook.com/twistsocialclub.

Wing Ding Doodle Blues icon Howlin’ Wolf famously covered “Wang Dang Doodle,” the old blues tune penned by Willie Dixon.

Prosperity Social Club in Tremont has adopted that slogan, calling its wing night Wing Ding Doodle. The weekly event features specials on Buffalo wings and cold brews. Prosperity will not only serve up substantial, $1 wings, but it’ll also offering meatless Monday “wing” baskets for vegans.

Discounted drafts and a special playlist of vintage-electric blues and soulful R&B curated by local musician Clint Holley will be on tap as well.

Wing Ding Doodle takes place every Monday from 6 p.m. to midnight.

(Niesel) 1109 Starkweather Ave., 216-937-1938, prosperitysocialclub.com.

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4/19

SPOKEN WORD

TechPint A regular series featuring regional entrepreneurs and investors, TechPint hosts a get-together today at 5 p.m. at the Beachland Ballroom.

The event will feature “local startup heroes sharing their stories and startups showcasing their latest work.” And, of course, plenty of pints will be served during the affair.

Admission is $15 to $18. (Niesel) 15711 Waterloo Rd., 216-383-1124, beachlandballroom.com.

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ART MONSTER MASH Annual drawing competition lights up Spaces this weekend

By Josh Usmani EVERYONE HAS A FAVORITE DAY of the year, something we look forward to with every fresh calendar.

For some, it’s Christmas or their birthday or even a sunny, warm opening day at Progressive Field (too soon?). For me, it’s Spaces’ Monster Drawing Rally. For one night only, more than 100 local and regional artists gather under one roof to

the word “drawing.” Spaces provides artists with basic materials and does its best to handle any specific requests.

Some artists create several works, but everyone makes at least one new work of art. Once completed, the works are hung on the gallery walls. A single guest may purchase the work outright at any time after

and the audience. With each work being priced at a flat rate, artists are put on an even playing field.

While the environment is extremely cooperative, this mutual price point inherently creates competition, with each artist striving to capture the attention and adoration of hundreds of potential buyers. Meanwhile, the audience competes to find and

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draw live in front of an enthusiastic audience of adoring fans, eager collectors and overwhelmed firsttime attendees who clearly had no idea what they were walking into.

Finally, it’s time once again for the annual Monster Drawing Rally. The sixth annual live drawing event takes place this Saturday, April 16, from 6 to 10 p.m. (Live drawing ends at 9 p.m.)

From 6 to 9 p.m., approximately 35 artists work independently at tables lining the gallery space in intervals of one hour at a time. At the top of each hour, a new batch of artists begins. This rotation makes for a fast-paced, exciting evening.

The Monster Drawing Rally, which originated with Southern Exposure (SoEx) in San Francisco, has become an annual fundraising event for Spaces. Despite its title, organizers are very lenient in their definition of

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the work is completed, but no one can claim any work before it is completed. However, if two or more individuals wish to purchase a particular work, they draw cards to determine a “winner.” While many works will be available throughout the evening, many more will be gone as soon as they go on the wall. All works are sold for a flat rate of $75,

purchase their favorite work each hour. It’s not unusual to see groups hovering around a particular artist or watching intently while circling the room.

It’s all in good fun, and all proceeds benefit Spaces and will contribute to its programming and its upcoming relocation to the Bidwells’ Van Rooy Coffee building.

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so artists, especially young and emerging artists, are encouraged to create works that stand out from the crowd.

In this way, Monster Drawing Rally is simultaneously cooperative and competitive for both the artists

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For audience members, the best part is being able to purchase work that was created in front of their eyes.

Any work bought at the MDR is a guaranteed conversation starter. Not only do you get a new, one-of-a-kind work of art, but you get a story to go

along with it. In this way, the work is a relic of the experience itself.

Additionally, the Monster Drawing Rally gives viewers a rare opportunity to interact with the artists during the creative process. Further, each artist gets the opportunity to perform in front of an audience. Normally, most artists produce their works alone like introverted hermits in their studio, only revealing the results after the process is complete. Spaces’ Monster Drawing Rally allows viewers to witness the whole process from beginning to end, and allows artists to feel like rock stars for a night.

“Monster Drawing Rally is a fundraiser that perfectly draws on our mission of supporting artists in the creation of new, experimental work,” Spaces executive director Christina Vassallo says. “Spaces focuses on the artistic process in everything we do, from our SWAP residency that invites artists to live in Cleveland while they develop a project, to the on-site art production facilities we’re planning in our future home. At Monster Drawing Rally guests can observe the entire dramatic arc of art-making, from beginning to end, and all the spilled paint and torn edges that go along with it.”

True to Spaces’ inclusive spirit, kids are invited to join in the fun in the Li’l Monster Drawing Rally and Teen Wolf sections. Kids can draw and display their work for the night.

Sorry, but kids’ work is not for sale.

Throughout the night, guests can enjoy food from the Touch Supper Truck and drinks from Spaces’ cash bar. The evening also features music from DJ McLovin, a chance to spin the Blick Art Materials Prize Wheel and raffle prizes from the small business communities of Cleveland and Akron.

I’ll be drawing at 6 p.m.

Admission is $5, or free for Spaces’ members/season pass holders and children age 17 and under. Any unsold work will remain on view and for sale on Sunday, April 17, from noon to 5 p.m.

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STAGE THE JERSEY BOYS GOT PREGNANT, AND IT’S A GIRL! Even the clone-like structure can’t stop the wonderful music in Beautiful at Playhouse Square

By Christine Howey WHEN IT COMES TO JUKEBOX musicals, Jersey Boys is the leader of the pack in terms of propulsive momentum (the Boys evolve from convicts to superstars) and addictive ’60s-era rock-pop sounds. So it makes sense that someone seeking another success like that would want to, um, emulate the show that got it all so right.

Such is the case with Beautiful, The Carole King Musical now at the Connor Palace Theater at Playhouse Square. The author of the book, Douglas McGrath, has seen the golden land where Frankie Valli reigns, and is clearly determined to mine those hills for every nugget. As a result, Beautiful is essentially Jersey Boys with a big ol’ estrogen patch that replaces the boys’ testosterone-driven drive and competitiveness. It then delves into the insecurities and traditional domestic desires of a young Jewish girl from Brooklyn who just happens to be a kickass songwriter.

The result is a bead-stringing process of covering a whole bunch of hits from the past while injecting some humanity into the proceedings. And even though you can see the show straining to touch all the bases, the music and some interesting performances win the day.

After opening with a glimpse of King’s debut at Carnegie Hall, the show operates in flashback mode as it traces the journey of this talented songwriter and singer. As is true with many of these rags-to-riches stories, it seems like King’s path was foreordained in many ways.

For example, as a teenager she just happened to date Neil Sedaka in high school and then started writing songs with Paul Simon.

While those contacts aren’t spelled out specifically in the play, and even without our 20/20 hindsight, it’s clear that Carole is on a different level. She and her songwriting partner (and soon-to-be husband) Gerry Goffin glom onto a tiny office at music producer Don Kirshner’s

song factory. It’s across the street from the famed Brill Building, where a flood of popular American tunes were first picked out on pianos by Johnny Mercer and Burt Bacharach.

To flesh out the story, two other songwriters are introduced in the persons of Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil (“We Gotta Get Out Of This Place,” “On Broadway”), and they

when you’re listening to Carole King classics such as “Will You Love Me Tomorrow,” “Pleasant Valley Sunday” and “It’s Too Late”?

Fortunately, this production is studded with fine performances that manage to inject some real emotion in the small gaps between blockbuster songs. As Carole, Abby Mueller captures a sound close to

become best friends with King and Goffin. Thus, we have a faux Four Seasons quartet that we can follow through their ups and ups and ups and a couple downs.

That’s the thing with musicals

King’s and handles her character’s vulnerabilities with honesty and charm. In fact, you almost wish this young woman could just settle down in the suburbs (her dream) and be happy there. Mueller comes

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such as Beautiful — you always know another big hit is minutes (or seconds) away, so there’s a serious lack of tension and an absence of any dramatic arc. But who cares,

by her talent honestly, since her younger sister Jessie won the 2014 Tony Award for the same role in the original Broadway production.

She is ably supported by Liam

Tobin as the young and impulsive Gerry. He and Mueller somehow fashion a relationship that feels real and flawed, and it forms the heart of the show. Most of the laugh lines are supplied by Ben Frankhauser as hypochondriac Barry, constantly complaining about his sinuses or this and that as he pounds out the hits. On this night, Betty Gulsvig was sharp and funny as Cynthia, but she has now left the run. Indeed, this cast has several roles that are being shuffled among various members of the company.

As directed and choreographed

by Marc Bruni and Josh Prince respectively, the chronology of King’s glorious career is mapped out with slick precision. This is aided by Derek McLane’s scenic design that utilizes tall sliding panels configured quickly to represent a multitude of locations.

Sure, it’s a pre-fab storyline and there are some clunky references to

a few points in the biography. For instance, the fact that King and Goffin wrote a hit song that was performed by their babysitter (!) is dropped in with forced casualness when they ask their nanny: “Who do you think this song ‘The Locomotion’ would be good for ... Little Eva?” Didn’t see that one coming.

But hey, if you love the music from the ’60s and ’70s and you’d like to see a take on that era from a female perspective, Beautiful is gorgeous in all the ways that matter.

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By Sam Allard YUCK YUCK YUCK. FOR adventurous late-night cinephiles and itinerant gore-fest fanatics, the 2015 Turkish horror film Baskin, screening at midnight at the Capitol Theatre on Saturday, April 16, and at 7:30 on Wednesday, April 20, might be a curiosity worth checking out. For most everyone else, this derivative hellscape barf-carnival will be a tough sit.

After a spooky prologue, five police officers trade barbs at a rural roadside diner. The atmosphere is actually assembled with great artistry and eye for tension: the foggy-night-forest setting, the scenery, the throwback score. Even if these cop bros weren’t regaling each other with tales of sexual exploits, it’d be clear something was up. One of their number has grown inexplicably ill. In the kitchen, a cook is slicing and grilling suspicious meats.

There’s a minor brouhaha, and the cops respond to a call for backup in a remote Turkish village nearby. Only one of the quintet, the sick one, has heard of the area, and he says it’s famous for unpleasant, if unsubstantiated, rumors. The police van hits something en route — a man? an animal? a demon? — and the cops must be escorted through the woods to their destination by some guy from a band of gypsy frog catchers.

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They arrive at an enormous former police station, built “in the Ottoman days,” inside of which (unbeknownst to them) lurks some really disgusting stuff. The officers are naturally frightful of the bloody eyeballs and rodent carcasses hanging from the ceilings, not to mention a deranged colleague banging his head to a pulp against a wall. But hearing the siren song of fate, perhaps, they descend to a dungeon. And there — good evening! — a cult of sackcloth zealots rape, amputate and cannibalize each other nonstop.

The film is not self-consciously ridiculous, along the lines of The Human Centipede, though it hails from the same U.S. distributor. Nor is the premise as imaginatively depraved as the 1987 seminal British horror flick Hellraiser. It’s

frankly unclear what the story even is. We know that the rookie cop was orphaned long ago (we saw him in the prologue) and has been under the guardianship of the police chief.

Both of them possess some degree of supernatural vision, but it’s unclear why or how or to what end.

A final twist fails to satisfy.

What is clear — pretty explicitly — is that the dungeon they’ve wandered into is meant to be hell.

But have the cops died to get there?

And if so, what have they done to deserve such misery? Was the explicit conversation in the diner meant to suggest that these are all irredeemably rotten dudes?

If so, what about the chief, who carries and constantly fingers a rosary? And why, moreover, is the disfigured dungeonmaster, “the Father” (played by Turkish non-

actor Mehmet Cerrahoglu who, like Michael Berryman in 1977’s The Hills Have Eyes, has leveraged a unique skin condition into a bankable horror-movie asset) rekilling them?

The movie’s primary scene and climax is the Father’s abstract philosophizing as he individually torments the policemen. His visual introduction is an homage to Kurtz in Apocalypse Now — a bowl of water, hands gently palpating a bald head — and awaiting the reveal of the Satan figure is indeed a thrill. But the Father’s ritual slaughters, much like the blood-and-poop practical effects writ large, despite being visually competent (and resourceful, given the budget) are gross without being all that original.

The performances are by and large strong. The opening diner scene, in particular, might have set the table for a top-notch movie, and bodes well for debut director Can Everol. But don’t go see this one with any expectation of meaningful character development.

And don’t go see it with children.

Only the stunted feral monsters of The Hills Have Eyes might call Baskin “fun for the whole family.”

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SPOTLIGHT: THE FIRST MONDAY IN MAY TO UNDERSTAND THE NEW DOCUMENTARY The First Monday in May, which opens on Friday at the Cedar Lee Theatre, it helps to have a little context. Back in 2011, Andrew Bolton, curator in charge of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, put together Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, one of the museum’s most popular exhibits. Staged shortly after the fashion designer’s death, it brought massive crowds to the museum.

That exhibit also became an albatross, as Andrew explains in the film, because it turned into the exhibit against which all others were measured. So Andrew, an articulate Brit who joined the Met in 2002 after working at the

Victoria and Albert Museum in London for nine years, set his sights on China.

Director Andrew Rossi (Page One: Inside the New York Times) captures the drama of organizing the exhibit and the opening night gala that drew A-list celebs such as Kate Hudson, George Clooney, Jennifer Lawrence, Kanye West and Justin Bieber. In fact, figuring out who sits where and how to accommodate the various entourages becomes a real problem for the party’s organizers.

As Andrew conceives the exhibit, he becomes hyper conscious about not exploiting Chinese art and culture. He enlists Wong Kar-Wai as the exhibit’s artistic director and really aims to portray “the influence of Chinese aesthetics

on Western fashion and the myriad ways in which China has fueled the West’s creative imagination.”

The resulting exhibit lives up to the hype and includes everything from antique vases to a glowing “bamboo forest” and Warhol portraits. It’s visually stunning — credit Rossi with capturing its striking beauty.

The film also raises the issue of what constitutes art and suggests the line between high and low art has become blurred. That concept is nothing new; while it gives the movie an academic edge, it’s the least compelling dimension. Rather, the film’s strength lies in providing viewers with a ticket to the hottest party in town. — Jeff Niesel | clevescene.com | April 13 - 19, 2016

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By Douglas Trattner THE LAST TIME I SIPPED A COLD beer in Barroco Grill, I did so only after purchasing it elsewhere and lugging it inside with me. This time around, all we had to do was ask.

After years of waiting patiently, this beloved Lakewood restaurant recently nabbed a liquor license, the latest in a long and continuous string of improvements that have completely reshaped the business.

“This used to be my apartment,” says owner Juan Vergara, pointing to various sections of the restaurant’s expanded dining room. “This would have been the living room, that was the bedroom, and that’s the kitchen.”

The best restaurants seem to evolve over time, gradually responding to the needs and desires of the community around it. That’s exactly what has taken place at Barroco, which just celebrated its fifth birthday. Over that stretch of time, the operation has progressed from a Pop-and-Son shop with a scant 12 seats to a colorful and exciting destination for 80 guests — 150 if you count the wrap-around patio.

In addition to steadily adding onto the physical space, Juan and his father, Carlos, increasingly expanded the menu. What started out as a small card — not even a pamphlet! — with one appetizer and a handful of sandwiches, including the much-loved

arepas, has grown into a creative catalogue of Pan-Latin offerings.

“We haven’t taken anything out, we’ve only added things,” Juan explains.

That means we can still split an order of that ridiculous cheesy corn ($9), a munchies-slaying melty cheese fondue dotted with corn, chicken and bacon and served with dunkable deepfried arepa fingers. A slightly more adult version is now available, this one ($9) blended with tomato-based sofrito, grilled chorizo and melted cheddarjack cheese.

Plantains — both the sweet and starchy varieties — play a significant role throughout the menu. A pair of appetizers illustrates the range of the

corn, shredded beef, chili beans and chewy chicharron.

An entire section of the menu is devoted to entrees built around plantains, with either the sweet or savory starch employed as bases for all sorts of concoctions starring braised beef, grilled chicken, ham and pineapple, and even beef Bolognese sauce. Another portion of the menu is dedicated to carnivores, with hearty Latin classics like ropa vieja, carne asada and Bandeja Paisa, a spread containing shredded beef, chorizo sausage, plantains, chicharrones, avocado, fried egg and white rice.

A few years back, Barroco switched from round arepas to square ones. The official explanation was that the shape worked better for sandwiches. In truth, it was to distinguish the Vergara’s handmade ones from the commercially available frozen ones.

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Long the main attraction at Barroco, the hot, crisp and corny arepa sandwiches now come in nearly 20 varieties, a far cry from the days when chorizo, steak or pork were pretty much the only options. I’ll forever be hooked on the chorizo, with onions, peppers and mozzarella ($12), but I could be persuaded to try an

open-face version topped with melted cheese, braised beef and a fried egg.

Of course, the arepa’s true calling is to serve as vessel for Barroco’s killer sauces, a half-dozen squeeze bottles filled with creamy blends like chimichurri, pineapple, ranchero and a killer spicy peanut.

And now, at long last, diners can wash it all down with a draft craft beer, a strawberry mojito, or a delicious piña colada for two ($15), served with a pair of straws in a hand-painted wide-rimmed bowl.

It’s the kind of attention to detail that has always been a component of this warm, welcoming eatery.

Everywhere you look, there’s another glimmer of colorful art, graffiti or sculpture that enriches the space to no end.

“I feel like I have so many cool ideas that I still want to do here,” says Juan. “Something as little as painting the bowls for the cocktails.

I’m just now getting around to doing them five years later.”

He’ll have even less time in the coming months. He and his father just purchased a building down the block, a large warehouse-style space next to the Bevy in Birdtown.

The plans for the space are still coming together, but Juan says that the operation will be “something cool and different, with a bar, live entertainment and Latin American food component.”

“It’s been a journey, for sure,” he says. “It’s been fun.”

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EAT THE 5 DISHES THAT MADE ME Eddie Zalar, chef-owner of Nora

By Nikki Delamotte EDDIE ZALAR’S CHILDHOOD WAS spent picking fresh ingredients from his parents’ garden and accompanying his grandmother to her catering job at the Slovenian National Home in the St. Clair-Superior neighborhood. When he took the leap last August to open Nora (2181 Murray Hill Rd., 216-231-5977, noracleveland.com) in Little Italy, it was a move long in the works.

“It’s what I wanted to do since I was young,” he says. “I never gave it a second thought.”

After graduating from the Culinary Institute of America, Zalar cooked in Cape Cod and Colorado. He returned to the Northeast where he worked at SoHo’s Rouge et Blanc and Tribeca’s Smith & Mills.

At Nora, he tries to balance his upscale Manhattan roots and the restaurant’s rustic, Old-World charm.

“I felt we could give a twist on Italian cuisine given my experience with French technique mixed with the farm-to-table movement,” says Zalar.

Mapping his journey, Zalar shares the five dishes that shape his work.

Mom’s pastries Being raised in Northeast Ohio with Slovenian roots, we ate a lot of Eastern European food. My mom loves to make strudel and there was never a shortage of breads, croissants and cookies in the house. Now she’s the pastry chef for Nora and makes gelato, tiramisu, and doughnuts made with lemon gelato, lemon curd, and rolled in cardamom sugar and served with blueberries. I ate those doughnuts all the time as a kid.

Bone marrow, John Palmer’s Bistro 44 It was my first job in the kitchen and I remember watching the cooks suck the marrow out. We ate bone marrow growing up, and when I saw it at the restaurant I thought they were using scraps. The chefs said, “No, this is the good stuff.” I thought, “This is a delicacy? Are you kidding me?” Now, whenever my wife and I go out, we try to get it and occasionally run it on our own menu.

Scallops, Wequassett Inn Resort (Cape Cod) I saw the scallops twitching in their shell and I thought, “That’s the

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freshest thing I’ve ever had.” I was working for Bill Brodsky and he had a signature dish, scallops in a potato basket. It was a really simple, but very refined, dish served with lobster risotto, baby greens, heirloom tomatoes and saffron aioli. It taught me that you shouldn’t mask the flavor of anything as perfect as that scallop.

You find the best ingredients you can and enhance it.

Baby kale salad, Smith & Mills When I was a sous chef here, I worked with Nick Korbee and he had a way of making things you’ve had a million times really, really great.

He made a baby kale salad with rosé sparkling pink champagne and black pepper vinaigrette. Even though it’s a salad, you still have to make it the best that you can. Give it the same attention you’d give your special of the day or your signature dish.

Fresh pasta, La Bottega (Colorado) I was cooking for Stephen Virion and he had worked at places around the world. I just wanted to do what he did: travel and learn as much as you can from people. He had an incredible work ethic and I loved his philosophy: Even though something’s going to take longer to do, do it right. He was making fresh pastas and making his own pizza doughs. His raviolis were always great. I think it’s ironic that, even though they’re very different, ravioli is now one of our most popular dishes.

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By Douglas Trattner LAST WEEK WAS ERIC ANDERSON’S last week as lead brewer for the Tremont Tap House and Butcher and the Brewer family. After two years in that post, he is leaving to pursue a business of his own.

“It’s exciting; every brewer wants to own their own brewery,” he says.

That brewery is called Saucy Brew Works, and it has been quietly taking shape for a year. Anderson’s partner in the project, Brent Zimmerman, recently purchased the Steelman Building in Ohio City’s Hingetown neighborhood, a 14,000-square-foot space at Detroit Avenue and West 29th Street that will become a fun, casual brewery and pizza concept.

“It’s actually my concept,” notes Anderson. “The concept is not new by any means, but it is unique to Cleveland. It’s a self-serve brewery and pizza place.”

By self-serve, Anderson means that customers will place their orders for beer and food at the counter and grab seats in the open, industrial space. Based on the popular West Coast chain Pizza Port, the concept employs pizza ovens with baking stone conveyor belts that bake pies in less than two minutes.

“They will be New Haven-style:

medium-thin crust with lots of sauce and toppings,” says Anderson.

The name obviously refers to pizza sauce, but it also is a reference to Anderson’s at-times unconventional brewing practices.

This is the man, after all, who concocted a white stout called Albino.

“It’s a double entendre.

Pizza is saucy, but it also refers to the way I approach beer with a little irreverence.”

— Eric Anderson “It’s a double entendre,” he says.

“Pizza is saucy, but it also refers to the way I approach beer with a little irreverence.”

Anderson’s brewery is in production now and is scheduled to arrive onsite in November, with brewing to follow in early 2017.

“It’s a little bit bigger than what I use at Butcher. It’s a 20-hectoliter, or just over 17 barrels. But what’s cool about it is it’s the Rolls Royce of

brewhouses. You can control it from your iPad. It’s a fully automated four-vessel system that takes out a lot of human error. We can start small and scale up from pub-size to production-size as we want to.”

The plan in Year 1, he adds, “is to set the roots and get the sour beer barrel program rolling because it takes 12 months of aging. Year 2, we plan on doubling production until we’re nearing 30,000 barrels.”

In addition to the sours and a full slate of classic styles, Anderson will push the boundaries when it comes to experimental beers and hybrids that straddle the line between beer and wine. He’s a graduate of the master brewing program at the Siebel Institute of Technology, the nation’s oldest brewing school.

“I’ll use my microbiology background to make some mixedyeast fermentations to create some new flavor profiles that just don’t exist with standard off-the-shelf yeasts,” he explains.

As for the space, the partners could not have found a building more conducive to lugging around heavy brewing equipment.

“The building is a former machine shop, so there are working cranes that run the full length of the building and boom cranes that

come off the walls that will hold our TVs and beer lists,” he says. “We have built-in rigging.”

When the dust finally settles, the space will have an open, industrial feel softened with wood and texture.

The entire west-facing wall will be replaced with glass and large garage doors that open up to the sun and a roomy patio. Solar panels on the roof will power much of the operation, while 44 on-site parking spots will provide easy access for visitors. Occupancy figures are in the 120-plus range, says Anderson.

Look for an early 2017 opening.

BATUQUI OWNERS TO OPEN BRAZILIAN FOODS MARKET ON LARCHMERE It’s been a year since Brazilianthemed restaurant Batuqui (12706 Larchmere Blvd., 216-801-0227) opened up on Larchmere Boulevard.

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Brazilian Market (12602 Larchmere Blvd.) will fill a gaping hole in the retail market, says GM Bruna Pinto.

“The reason we came up with having the market is because the only place where Brazilians can go shopping for products is in Columbus,” Pinto explains. “So for Northeast Ohio Brazilians, they have to drive two hours to get what they need. Since we already drive to New Jersey to pick up all our dried goods for the restaurant, we figured we might as well get bigger quantities and sell it, because people are always asking.”

The store will not be limited to Brazilian products, nor geared solely to Brazilian customers.

“We will focus on Brazilian products but we’ll have things from other Latin countries because our cultures are so similar,” she adds.

At the restaurant, says Pinto, customers are always asking where they can purchase the mix for the cheese bread, passion fruit juice, good coffee or palm oil for cooking. Now they will have a convenient location that sells them all in one place.

“The Brazilian community is growing very much, but it’s not only the Brazilians who are buying things from us. Most of our clientele at the restaurant are Americans, who also ask us where they can buy this stuff.

So we know we’ll have enough people to keep the store open and going.”

Items like fresh corn tortillas, tapioca flour, palm oil, linguiça sausages, and popular Brazilian cuts of meat like the picanha will all be on hand, as will fresh fruit juices along with frozen fruit pulp. A frozen foods section will offer fully prepared, heatand-eat foods.

“And there will be a small cafe so you can grab a good cup of Brazilian coffee,” adds Pinto.

As for the restaurant, says Pinto, “It’s doing fabulous. People are coming more and more regular and bringing new people with them. Larchmere is becoming a great location for shopping and entertainment.”

RAMP IT UP! AIMS TO CELEBRATE FOOD, SHOPS AND ARCHITECTURE OF CLEVELAND HEIGHTS Now entering its second year, We Are Cleveland Heights continues to find creative ways to show off the neighborhood and its unique assets. Last year, the philanthropic

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group hosted an elaborate fivecourse dinner in the historic Alcazar building.

This year, the setting promises to be equally impressive: the Heights’ Rockefeller Building on Mayfield Road. The 5,000-square-foot secondfloor space, originally John D. Rockefeller Jr.’s real estate offices, boasts 20-foot ceilings, oak-beam rafters, iron chandeliers, leadedglass windows, and slag-glass lamps — not to mention the stonework, archways and massive fireplace.

Most recently, the space was home to Rockefeller’s restaurant.

“We Are Cleveland Heights is a group of proud residents and business owners sharing our love and our stories of this beautiful, historic and exciting community,” explains member and local business owner Bridget Thibeault of Luna Bakery & Cafe. “This is our second annual pop-up event at a historic building showcasing the amazing talent who live and work right here in our city. All of the chefs, beverage providers and musicians live or work in this city.”

Given the amount of culinary talent in the community — and the propensity of that talent to step up and offer help — it’s no surprise that the menu for Ramp It Up! is a tantalizing read. And, given the name of the event, one might assume that ramps will play a supporting role.

Doug Katz of Fire Food & Drink will be serving creamy polenta with local goat cheese, ramps and mushroom ragout. Nighttown will be preparing homemade potato gnocchi with hot Italian sausage dipped in gorgonzola fondue. The Fairmount will be bringing skillet Brussels sprouts with crispy applewood smoked bacon. Culinary Occasions will be doing double duty, serving both lamb meatballs with saffron sauce and a tortilla Espanola with chorizo, manchego and roasted red peppers. Forest Hill Kitchen, the new tenant of the space, is serving country rabbit pate with violet mustard and pickled ramps on toast, and a vegan risotto cake with spring vegetable ragout.

Schmaltz Delicatessen & Bakery will make a debut, of sorts, with a dish of cured Ohio trout on rye with wild mustards, and pastrami-cured carrots with ramps.

FarmShare will supply the Ohio artisan cheese boards, Luna Bakery & Cafe the desserts, and Hummingbird Bake Shop the homemade caramels.

The event will feature live music and booze tastings courtesy of OYO

and Bulliet.

The dinner takes place Thursday, April 14, from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.

Tickets are $75 per person at eventbrite.com.

STOUT IT OUT LOUD FEST SAYS ‘GOODBYE, WINTER’ WITH STOUT AND OYSTERS As we prepare to say goodbye to our winter-friendly porters, stouts and strong ales, one local brewery has decided to host a last hurrah — and from the looks of things, Mother Nature is keen to cooperate.

On Saturday, April 23, Butcher and the Brewer (2043 East Fourth St., 216-331-0805) is putting on its inaugural Stout It Out Loud festival, a late-season celebration of dark beers and their most famous culinary partner: oysters.

“We’re getting to the end of what most people consider ‘dark beer season’ so we’re honoring it with a festival of specialty stouts and porters,” says owner Jason Workman. “Our brewer friends are bringing some of their most prized and rare wares, some of which you may never see again.”

Participating breweries include Fat Heads, Brew Kettle, Portside, Great Lakes, Willoughby, Thirsty Dog, Platform, Market Garden, JAFB, Rocky River, Brick and Barrel, Griffen and Buckeye.

For its part, Butcher and the Brewer will offer up their flagship Albino Stout, a deceiving looking brew with the flavor and mouthfeel of a stout but lacking the customary deep, dark hue. That beer also will be dished up in eight unique forms, infusions built around atypical flavors like Green Coffee & Cardamom, Creamsicle on Vanilla & Oranges, Spicy Mexican Mole and Tiramisu.

“We thought it would be a hell of a good time to take our beloved Albino Stout and infuse it with off-the-wallflavors,” adds Workman.

Approximately 14 local breweries will be on hand, each pouring two types of dark specialty beers. As for the food, there will be a dozen varieties of oysters on the half shell, plus oyster shooters, oyster Po’ Boys and Johnny Cake fried oysters.

Tickets are $40 and include a souvenir tasting glass, tasting tickets and food. A non-food ticket is available for $35 and designated drivers get in for $10. The event runs from noon to 4 p.m.

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MUSIC THIS TIME IT’S PERSONAL Singer-songwriter Andrew Bird enters a new phase with Are You Serious

By Jeff Niesel

SINGER-SONGWRITER ANDREW Bird learned to play the violin at a very young age while growing up in Chicago. Initially, his formal training had a strong influence on the type of music he played. His 1996 debut, Music of Hair, commences with a gentle waltz and keeps things on the traditional side of the folk-y spectrum.

Since then, Bird’s music has evolved; the songs on his new album, Are You Serious, come off as his most sonically dense to date.

“My mom had this notion of her kids playing classical music,” says Bird via phone from his Los Angeles home when asked about his upbringing in Chicago. “She actually learned violin with me, so I owe her a lot. I wasn’t a prodigy, but I took to it pretty well.

I learned by ear and had a good ear, and my mom kept it from getting too high pressure. It was always on the cusp of not being fun but was mostly fun. In high school, I got more serious about it. It’s a romantic time of your life. I was socially awkward, so I just stuck to the practice room and just practiced.”

Early on, he also learned to whistle.

While that might not sound like a

remarkable skill set, you haven’t heard whistling until you’ve heard Bird whistle. One YouTube video dubbed him the “whistling wonder.” Bird even wrote “The Whistling Caruso” for The Muppets.

“I saw my grandmother whistling, and she showed me as best she could how it worked,” he says. “I whistle all the time. If you were to hang out with me, it would drive you crazy. For the first couple of records, I avoided it. I thought that things that are on a record are supposed to be hard to do.

That was my attitude. I was whistling all the time but not on stage. That seemed strange. Also, in those early years, I was playing solo for crowded rooms in a bar. I learned that it got people to shut up and listen.”

Bird says Music of Hair, which he started to record and write while still in college, shows the extent to which he initially approached recording as if he were a student.

“I came from this trained background, and I saw how a bunch of friends from art school, who had more talent for design, could create this whole persona that worked better than some musicians,” he says. “I

watched that phenomena. It’s more like film directors. I liked the idea of going beyond the music, which I was almost unhealthily focused on while playing this difficult instrument. It helped broaden everything to think about the artwork and the lyrics and how things are presented and your stage persona, everything. That really turned me on.”

In 2003, his career took a turn as he unofficially disbanded his backing band, the Bowl of Fire.

“I didn’t mean to disband Bowl of Fire,” he explains. “I just moved out to the middle of nowhere and no one had cars. Out of necessity, I was living in this barn and having nobody in the room with me led me to experiment more and see what I had going on inside of me. I started working on [what would become 2005’s] The Mysterious Production of Eggs, and I kept failing at that, so I did [2003’s] Weather Systems, which didn’t sound like much else I had done. That was eight to 10 years of looping with the glockenspiel and the whistling and blending it all into my color palette. It was like I cleared the room so I could sing clearly and indulge in stuff. I did the looping thing for a long time but

was still thinking like a solo artist. I hadn’t exhausted that, but I felt like it was time to do something different.”

Weather Systems caught the attention of folk singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco, who reissued the album on her Righteous Babe Records and took Bird on tour with her. That tour included a Lakewood Civic Auditorium date. At the show, DiFranco’s audience clearly didn’t know Bird’s work but quickly warmed up to him.

“That was a period when no one was championing what I was doing,” says Bird. “I released Weather Systems independently, and she liked it and put it out. I toured with her, and she introduced me to her audiences. I never had anyone give me a leg up like that. I always like that phase when I do a lot of opening slots. I like the surprise attack. No one knows who you are, and I like that challenge, sometimes more like headlining. I like doing the hard things.”

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MUSIC “It’s probably the most autobiographical or obviously autobiographical record I’ve done,” says Bird, who recently married and had a child with his wife. “I never considered myself a confessional variety of songwriter. That’s sort of what happened. Life got intense and kind of scary for a period of time.

I guess I fell into that cliche. First, I repressed it, and then it all came flooding out of me. That’s happened a few times in the past but not so much with a whole body of songs. With every song I’ve written, I can tell you what the personal story is behind it, and they all have personal stories behind them.”

He says his songs have an autobiographical edge, but that aspect is “anything but obvious.”

“In the past, you had to dig pretty deep or have me tell you the story,” he says. “In the interest of creating a record and body of songs that’s useful to people, that was a challenge for me.

I had to find a way to really project them out of sitting on the couch with the guitar strumming late at night when everyone is asleep. To get them off the couch and out of yourself and vet the songs with the other people was a whole new process. I had never worked with a producer, and I wanted a serious get-in-my-business producer. Songwriters can get away with murder in this medium, and I’ve gotten away with murder sometimes.

That’s why I wanted to do a really tight record.”

The new approach comes across right from the opening notes of “Capsized,” a song that, with its

Bird says the tune “set the tone for the rest of the record,” even though it’s a bit of an anomaly.

“I’ve been doing that song for 12 or 13 years,” he says. “It started out as an old spiritual and then a tune I used to do with Jimbo Mathis. It’s a mix of these two spirituals. They morphed over the years, and I started writing these lyrics that were based on a personal experience and on the super deluxe edition of the album, there’s a 10-inch full of vastly different versions of the songs. Some are almost bluegrass and some are polyrhythmic and African. It doesn’t feel like you’re listening to a bunch of alt-takes or anything. They’re very different.”

Another highlight, “Left Handed Kisses,” pairs Bird with singer Fiona Apple, who brings a real intensity to the song with her woozy vocals.

“It was indeed intense,” Bird says.

“We went through a bunch of options of who we could get. I knew the voice had to have a real weight to it. Unless we’re going to somehow get PJ Harvey, it had to be Fiona. She completely threw herself into it. She brought a weight and heaviness and drama and performance.”

At a time when record labels don’t have huge budgets, Bird has made an album that sounds like a big-budget endeavor. And he did it without the support of a label.

“It seems like music is being devalued and there’s a fractioning of demographics and the way people consume it,” he says. “What I decided to do was to go lo-fi on the production on the previous records. We were just honest people in a room making music and working it out. I did that for a while. [With this album] I wanted to do everything top tier. I haven’t done that yet. I wanted to see what it

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“In the interest of making a useful record for people, I listened to groovy music,” says Bird. “I listened to Brazilian and African and Ethiopian music. It goes on and on. I like groovy polyrhythmic music with great bass lines. That’s the majority of my diet at home. It’s classic jazz and that stuff. I’ve always been obsessed with the sound of a rhythm section. I still wasn’t prepared for the first song we turned out. I wasn’t expecting it to sound so tight. It just sounded evil.”

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sounded like and one of the results is that it’s gotten really competitive — in a good way. Maybe like it was in the ’60s when bands were checking out what other bands were doing. I started noticing Alabama Shakes and Spoon.

They’re making outstanding records.

I thought, ‘Maybe I should do an epic process of a record,’ which it was. I didn’t want anything to fall through the cracks. It’s been thoroughly edited.”

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MUSIC THE STORYTELLER Actor-turned-musician Kiefer Sutherland enjoys the interactive experience of playing live SOME PEOPLE COLLECT BASEBALL cards. Actor Kiefer Sutherland collects guitars.

“I’ve collected guitars for a long time, mainly because I had a lot of friends who were really great musicians, and they’d be going out on their first tour, and they didn’t have a really good guitar to play with, so I’d lend them one,” Sutherland says during a recent phone conversation.

“And then they all did well, so the guitars started coming back and you’d have three Strats in a rack that were beautiful and all of the sudden, you go, ‘Oh, two more and I can finish that rack.’ So the collecting became almost kind of a disease for me.”

But he thinks of guitars as “works of art.”

“Different guitars inspire you to play different styles and inspire you to play more,” he says. “The collection got a little out of hand, but I’ve brought it way down to about 30 guitars and out of that, there’s at least 10 that I’m using regularly. And then a couple others that I’ll make a cup of tea and just look at for a while.”

Music has been a part of his world for a long time, going back to when he was 4 years old and began playing the violin, something that his mother made him stick with until he was 10.

At that point, he got his first guitar; he was in a band and writing his first songs by the time he was 12.

He later met singer-songwriter Jude Cole, who would become a good friend and, eventually, an important piece of Sutherland’s musical storyline.

“I met Jude and Jude was such an extraordinary guitar player that I kind of put my guitar under my bed for about six or seven years, because I was embarrassed to play around him,” he says. “I missed it, and I just started playing a lot again. When I started doing [the TV drama] 24, I had a guitar in the trailer; and obviously when you’re shooting something, there’s a lot of downtime. So, you know, I was playing four or five hours a day for a decade and I was writing a lot through that period and it would help me pass the time.”

Once 24 wrapped up, Sutherland found himself with a hefty stack of songs and he started to play some of them for Cole.

“I had a couple of songs that I

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Kiefer Sutherland plays one of the guitars from his extensive collection.

wanted to do demos with and get them to BMI and Sony and see if any other artists would like to record them,” he remembers. “We did two or three songs that way and, you know, Jude’s known me for a really long time and he knew what the songs were about. He really liked the songs and he liked the way that I played them, and he said, ‘You

four, and four songs became 10, and at some point I had to kind of come to terms with the fact that I really liked the way the songs had come out and I really liked the way [these] songs were recorded [by] Jude and I and Brian Macleod [Sheryl Crow, Toy Matinee, Wire Train] who played drums on the album.”

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Sutherland admits he had to first find confidence in his songs and his voice before he was comfortable with the idea of releasing an album. Even then, he knew that he wanted to tread carefully.

“I just had to come to that for myself, that, you know, this is something I can stand by, this is something I would be proud of. I mean, let’s face it, an actor releasing music is not a new thing, and it rarely ever goes over well,” he laughs. “I’m completely aware of that. So I had to take all of those things into consideration, and I still felt really strongly that not only did I want to put the record out, but really, my favorite part is playing the shows. I’m into storytelling. It’s what I love about acting and it’s what I love about playing music live, and it’s what I loved about writing this album. So for me, it’s really kind of an extension of that and, you know, we’ll see what happens.”

April and May will find the veteran actor playing club shows, including a Cleveland stop at the Grog Shop. He’s been playing shows in the California area recently and has been pleasantly surprised with his reception.

“Having never played these songs for anybody, there was nothing on the internet, and the first show was like 350 people. It wasn’t small. It was a bar down in Long Beach, and I was amazed,” he says. “I expected maybe a quarter of them to drift off or go out to the smoking patio or something, but they didn’t; they stayed with us for the whole show. So I was grateful. The graciousness of the audiences so far — you know, we’ve only played about 20 shows in California — I was really moved by that, to be honest with you.”

Sutherland says music fans can expect a diverse experience when they come to the show and when they finally hear Down in a Hole, which he’s hoping will be released in June.

“I think that the record is probably in the Americana singer/songwriter category, but there’s some rock stuff. [The first single] ‘Not Enough Whiskey’ is an aspect of the record and it’s kind of a slower tempo song, but it really kind of expresses more of the country feel of the record. But songs like ‘Going Home’ and ‘Down in a Hole’ and ‘All She Wrote,’ those are much more up tempo and kind of driving songs and they really play well in the show.”

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MUSIC BRANDED FOR LIFE Pop singer Santigold takes a playful approach on her eclectic new album

By Jeff Niesel POP/R&B/HIP-HOP SINGER Santigold (Santi White) developed her eclectic approach way back in college.

White, who studied music at Wesleyan, learned to play traditional hand drums while taking ethnomusicology classes that exposed her to a wide range of music.

“I would take classes on the music of Jamaica and on experimental music like John Cage and Phillip Glass,” she says via phone from a Colorado tour stop. “I took classical and jazz theory and composition and all that stuff.

Mostly, what I learned was about how to think about experimental music and how do we go about making it. I think the idea of challenging how we put music together informed my approach to making music. I listen to all these different types of music. Now, people always ask me, ‘Do you rap?’ I’m like, ‘No. Well, sort of.’”

She says she listened to various types of music since she was 11. And she knew even then that whatever music she ended up making would be an amalgamation of things.

“There was a journal entry that I wrote when I was 17 years old that I recently found,” she says. “It’s so cute. I wrote that I had no desire to be a performer or singer. That didn’t happen until my 20s. I wrote that I wanted to make the type of music that didn’t exist yet. It was something that I wasn’t hearing and when I tried to write for other people, it still didn’t sound like what was in my head. I just wanted to follow the art of the process.

Eventually, it came to life.”

While still in high school, she got a gig doing A&R at Epic Records. She worked for the company until she was 21.

“I was learning about the industry, and by the time I ended up in the A&R department, I kept trying to sign cool stuff but they wanted [rapper] Puff [Daddy] and all this stuff that was already out,” she says. “It was a perfect transition into what I wanted to do next. I learned so much when I was there, but it wasn’t a creative job, and it’s still not a creative job.”

A short stint in the punk band Stiffed made her realize she could perform on stage. She says she loved the visceral nature of the experience.

“It made me realize what it should be like to be on stage,” she says.

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“There’s just bass, guitar and drums and vocals. You can’t really fuck that up. It’s raw energy. It’s just free. You can’t fuck that up. The songs are so fast. It was just wonderful. I got to come into myself as a performer through that band, but it was limited.

It was only one type of music that I liked, and I wanted to play all the types of music that I liked.”

White made her solo debut as Santogold (which she later changed to Santigold) in 2008 with a self-titled album that featured singles “L.E.S.

took place primarily in New York City and Los Angeles. The opening track “Can’t Get Enough of Myself” features chirping backing vocals and a funky bass groove while White delivers soulful vocals. “Walking in Circles” alternates between rap and pop; percolating electronic noises turn into something that verges on Electronic Dance Music.

“I started writing the songs and halfway through I decided to take a look at what I was writing about,” she says when asked about the writing Photo courtesy of Girlie Action PR

Santigold pays homage to New Wave and 70s dance music on her new album.

Artistes” and “Creator.” Her followup, 2012’s Master of My Make-Believe, which featured the post-punk anthem “Disparate Youth,” secured her status as an underground star.

With her latest album, 99¢, Santigold again combines musical genres in a playful manner as she offers up a satire on postmodern life.

The album cover art offers a statement in and of itself; it features the shrinkwrapped artist among a cluttered mess of things, portraying her life in a bag.

process. “I realized I was writing about the conflict I see within artists and musicians in this era of consumption and being a product and narcissistic time. It’s a crazy place. As an artist, you become more aware of yourself as a brand and product. You put more into that than into the art you’re making. I was really conflicted about it.”

For the sake of the album, she decided to embrace the branding process and write songs that deal with

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its contradictions.

“I decided that I had to embrace that [side of the music business] because that’s the way to make a living in music these days,” she says. “No one buys music. You can take yourself out

of the game or participate in the game.

I was thinking about how I could do it in a way that made sense to me. I decided to turn the absurdity into the art and highlight all the things that are crazy about it. I made these songs that are really playful but are talking about real stuff and real dangers. It’s about how people are creating different software versions of themselves. It’s a really strange time, even with the presidential race. These are the issues I’m talking about.”

She says branding has become such a preoccupation for bands and labels that quality control has gone by the wayside.

“Nobody cares about good music anymore,” she says. “Well, some people do, obviously. The labels and corporations don’t care about the music. The music business now is all about marketing. It’s not about music.

In the past, you had people who were so excited about finding the new best music. Now, it’s about finding an artist with a built-in following. People who have come up in this new era, I don’t think they know the difference between real music and manufactured music.”

The album offers an homage to the New York underground of the ’70s and ’80s.

“Oh my God, that’s one of my favorite eras of music,” says White.

“I think all my favorite bands come out of that era. All the guitar sounds and drum sounds that I love come from that era. I love Blondie and the Pretenders. I love Siouxsie and the Banshees. I love Devo. I love Talking Heads. I love Kraut rock. I love all that stuff.”

She promises the current live show will be a colorful affair.

“I think my shows are always pretty theatrical, but on the level of the school play,” she says. “There are lots of props. It’s really conceptual. It’s high energy and enjoyable and engaging on so many evels, which is what I think a show should be. I think the art of showmanship has fallen by the wayside. I think the show should make you feel like you’re part of something really special.”

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Jimkata/ROAR!/Bliss Nova: Doubling down on an inclination toward electronic jams, Jimkata has been picking up some critical acclaim with their latest album, In Motion. (We’re thinking back to songs like “Electronic Stone” from a few years ago, when the band really began mixing various jam band subgenres into one machine.)

It’s a fun album, which has always been a hallmark of the band’s work, with an intriguing blend of danceable music and probing songwriting. Check out “Innocence” for the general flavor — thumping bass line grooves, casual chord progressions and head-nodding lyrical arrangements. They’re great live, too. (Eric Sandy) 8:30 p.m., $8 ADV, $10 DOS. Beachland Tavern.

John Waite & the Axemen-Wooden Heart Acoustic Tour/Leslie DiNicola: Whether it’s something like “Missing You” or “When I See You Smile,” a later hit from his time with the late ’80s supergroup Bad English, or tracks like “Every Time I Think of You” and “Back on My Feet Again,” from his earlier days in the Babys, singer John Waite has recorded a number of songs that his fans remain connected with.

His songs often function as musical mile markers for those fans, providing a nostalgic reminder when they come on the radio of where they were at that moment in time. Waite has his own stories and memories buried in each song, and he plans to share that information in an interactive way during tonight’s acoustic show. (Matt Wardlaw) 8 p.m., $30 ADV, $35 DOS. Music Box Supper Club.

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

The 10 X 3 Songwriter Band Showcase Hosted by Brent Kirby: 8 p.m., free. Musica.

Charles Kelley/Josh Kelley: 7 p.m.

House of Blues.

Austin Lucas/Joey Kneiser/Roger Hoover: 9 p.m., $5. Happy Dog. Pujol/Dirty Fences/Extra Medium Pony/The Village Bicycle: 9 p.m., $8. Now That’s Class.

Hiroya Tsukamoto: 8 p.m., $10. Bop Stop.

Underoath/Rebirth: 7:30 p.m., $25.

The Agora Theatre.

Xe La/Charlie Mosbrook/Cosmonaut Radio: 6 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern.

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Killswitch Engage/Memphis May Fire/36 Crazyfists/Toothgrinder: Fans who missed Killswitch Engage’s last tour will welcome the return of front man Jesse Leach, the original leader of the metalcore quintet who returned to the band in 2012 after a 10-year leave. With Incarnate, the band’s seventh studio record and second since his return, Leach has said he hopes audiences will embrace the album’s “soulfulness.” Although that message could seem muddled by Leach’s harsh screaming on songs like “Hate by Design,” the band’s latest isn’t as dark as it might seem.

How listeners draw inspiration from the album is up to them, but there’s plenty of colorful guitar riffing throughout to satisfy those just looking to rock out. (Jacob DeSmit) 6 p.m. House of Blues.

Nathan Bell and Rachel Brown/the Flavor Project/Wonky Tonk: 8 p.m.

Barking Spider Tavern.

Tommy Castro and the Painkillers/ Blues Deville: 8 p.m., $18 ADV, $22 DOS. Music Box Supper Club.

Erienauts/Psycho Men: 9 p.m., free.

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Fear Factory/Soilwork: 6:30 p.m., $20 ADV, $25 DOS. Agora Ballroom.

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

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

Keystone Laboratory (in the Supper Club): 7:30 p.m., $5 ADV, $8 DOS. Music Box Supper Club.

Shawn Mullins: 8 p.m., $30. Akron Civic Theatre.

New Soft Shoe: 8 p.m., free. Musica.

Northeast Ohio Drum & Music Jam: 9 p.m., free. Beachland Ballroom.

Parsonsfield: 8 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Beachland Tavern.

Matthew Shipp and Michael Bisio: 8 p.m. Bop Stop.

X-Ray Burns/Josh Jesty/Scoliosis Jones: 9 p.m., free. Happy Dog.

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4/15

Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) Farewell Tour (in the Locker Room): This is the curtain call for Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate), a band that released consistently touching examples of songwriting. “How to Make Love Stay,” from their debut album,

kicked off a brief career of heartrending tunes and impassioned musicianship. Empire! was always a simple — but very deep — band.

Comprising Michigan couple Keith and Cathy Latinen, Empire! taps the emotional indie vein of the late 1990s with sincerity. Conceived originally by Keith as a solo project to fly in the face of otherwise failed dreams, the band has since taken on something of a cult status among those still interested in the best flavors of the emo sound. (Sandy) 7 p.m., $10. Mahall’s 20 Lanes.

Sam Hooper Group: With four CDs released on the FBJoy Records label, singer-guitarist Sam Hooper, who grew up in Shaker Heights, has assembled a significant discography. His songs have been featured on the daytime TV dramas All My Children and The Young & the Restless. The guys in his band are no slouches either. Keyboardist Sakait N. Baksar plays with the local jazz-fusion band Horns and Things, and bassist Derrick James is the music director for the band.

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Arie producer/engineer Jim Lightman at JL Productions in Nashville. (Jeff Niesel) 8:30 p.m., $10. Nighttown.

Johnnie Clampett & the Walkers 35th Anniversary Show/Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Alright, Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Alright/Purple Knif: 8:30 p.m., $10. Musica.

Dead Buckeye Six: 9 p.m., free. The Euclid Tavern.

Falter/Grin & Bear It/Shitblimp/ Whipping Post (in Club Atlantis): 10 p.m., $5. Now Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Class.

Jamey Haddad/Bobby Selvaggio Quintet: 8 p.m., $15. Bop Stop.

Heaven is In You/v1984/Connor Musarra/Oedipus/Cleveland Vibrator Company: 9 p.m., $5.

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

Nighttown.

Tracy Marieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Concert Series Featuring Thor Platter: 8 p.m.

Brothers Lounge.

Moustache Yourself: 9 p.m., $5.

Happy Dog. Mystery Happy Hour Band: 6 p.m., free. Happy Dog. Old No. 55 (in the Supper Club): 8 p.m., $7. Music Box Supper Club.

Old Skool: 9:30 p.m., $5. Brothers Lounge.

Sarah Potenza: 8 p.m., $20. Akron Civic Theatre.

Tom Shaper/The Woodpeckers/ George Foley & Friends: 5:30 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern.

Surrounding Cities CD Release/ Burning River Ramblers/ Ohio Weather Band: 9 p.m., $8.

Beachland Tavern.

Tricky Dick and the Coverups: 9 p.m., $5. Vosh Club.

The Whiskey Hollow EP Release/ Midnight Passenger/Group/ Trios: 8:30 p.m., $8 ADV, $12 DOS. Grog Shop.

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Atlantic Thrills/Dasher/Real Regular: 9 p.m., free. Now Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Class.

The Big Show MMXVI: 12 p.m., free. The Agora Theatre.

Andrew Bird/Boogarins: 7 p.m.

House of Blues.

The Matty Blue Band/Eve Nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Stephen: 8 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern.

Johnnie Clampett & the Walkers 35th Anniversary Show/Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Alright, Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Alright/Purple Knif: 9 p.m., $10. Beachland Ballroom.

Come Wind: 6 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Mahallâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 20 Lanes.

East Meets West: Japanese Shakuhachi Flute: 8 p.m., $10.

Bop Stop.

Sam Fox/The Katy/Lexi Weege: 9 p.m., $5. The Euclid Tavern.

Carlos Jones: 10 p.m., $8. Brothers Lounge.

Key to the Mint/The Allies: 9 p.m., $5. Happy Dog. Love Affair: 8:30 p.m., $25-$40. The Tangier.

Melanie/Alex Bevan: 8 p.m., $35$60. Beachland Ballroom.

The Modern Electric/Jividen/The Waves: 9 p.m., $10. Musica.

Joyce Moreno & Kenny Warner: 8:30 p.m., $25. Nighttown.

Abby Normal and The Detroit Lean: 9 p.m., $5. Vosh Club.

Queens of the Iron Mic: 9 p.m., $8 ADV, $10 DOS. Grog Shop.

Saving Abel/Smile Empty Soul/The Veer Union: 7 p.m. Odeon.

Travelinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Johnsons: 8 p.m. Brothers Lounge.

Tropical Clevelandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Noche Tropical/Sammy DeLeon: 9:30 p.m., $10-$20. Music Box Supper Club.

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

Nighttown.

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Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals/Christopher Paul Stelling: Veteran singer-guitarist Ben Harper â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a fan of Delta blues legends like Elmore James and Muddy Waters and bands that derived their sound from the blues (think Led Zeppelin and the Allman Brothers) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; creates music rooted in blues-based classic rock. But from Day 1, Harper & Co. caught on with young fans, many of whom identify with punk and underground rock.

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(Niesel) 7 p.m. House of Blues.

Chil/Of Heart and Mind/So Last Year/Three Legged Chairs: 6 p.m., $10. Musica.

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LIVEWIRE Heart & Lung/Prince Daddy & the Hyena/Posture & the Grizzly/ Vacula: 9 p.m., free. Now That’s Class.

Irish Sundays: The Portersharks (in the Supper Club): 3 p.m., free.

Music Box Supper Club.

Loretta Lynn: 7:30 p.m. Hard Rock Rocksino.

MercyMe/Citizen Way: 6 p.m., $20$52. Akron Civic Theatre.

Nameless Frames/Obnox: 6 p.m., free. Now That’s Class.

Esme Patterson: 8 p.m., $10.

Beachland Tavern.

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

Potluck/Ronnie Blaze: 6 p.m., $12 ADV, $15 DOS. Agora Ballroom.

Revolution Brass Band (in the Supper Club): 7:30 p.m., $7.

Music Box Supper Club.

Storytime: A Storytelling Open Mic: 9 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern.

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Tagalogs/Pack Wolf: 8:30 p.m., $5. Grog Shop.

WordStage: Frederic Chopin and George Sands: 3 p.m., $10. Bop Stop.

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Protomen/Brit Brigade: If you’re old enough to have owned the original Nintendo Entertainment, chances are you’ve heard of

Mega Man. That game series has been the inspiration for the Protomen as the band has woven a two-act rock opus about a humanoid robot that saves mankind. Listen to the pulsing synth and drum machine that drive “Light Up the Night,” from Act II: The Father of Death, and you’ll think it was an ’80s hit lost in time. The Protomen’s most recent work has included a pair of cover albums, of Queen hits — which are surprisingly spot on — and other rock classics, so vintage video game geeks won’t be the only ones banging their heads when this group comes to town. (DeSmit) 8:30 p.m., $15.

Beachland Ballroom.

Skatch Anderssen Orchestra: 8 p.m., $10. Brothers Lounge.

Ghost Key / Church Tongue / Motives / Carev Dvor /The Language (in the Locker Room): 7 p.m., $10. Mahall’s 20 Lanes.

Loren & Mark: 7 p.m., $15.

Nighttown.

Scale the Summit/Everyn/Lower 13/Novallo: 6:30 p.m., $10 ADV, $18 DOS. Agora Ballroom.

Sem Hastro/Pessimists/Cruelster/ Orange Girls: 9 p.m., $5. Now That’s Class.

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

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DCTV/The Scuzzballs: 9 p.m., $5.

The Euclid Tavern.

Floetry/Kris Kelli: 8 p.m., $55.

Music Box Supper Club.

Michale Graves/Ancient Wisdom/ Sparrowmilk: 7 p.m., $10 ADV, $13 DOS. The Foundry.

Elliott Ingersoll’s Freethought Folk Music/Little Steve-O: 8:30 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern.

Outlab: Experiments in Improvised Music: 9 p.m., free.

Bop Stop.

Santigold/DonMonique: 7 p.m.

House of Blues.

Kiefer Sutherland: 8:30 p.m., $15 ADV, $18 DOS. Grog Shop.

Swing City Big Band: 7:30 p.m., $10. Vosh Club.

Tempest: 8 p.m., $20. Brothers Lounge.

Two-Set Tuesday Featuring Steve Masek (in the Wine Bar): 7 p.m.

Brothers Lounge.

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By Jeff Niesel MEET THE BAND: Paul Kalaani (vocals, guitar), Pat DiCaprio (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Jared Gold (bass), Joe Stefano (drums) SCHOOLED IN ROCK: DiCaprio has known Kalaani since high school when they played together in the local outfit Agave. They’ve written tunes together for eight or nine years. “It was always a hobby; even if we weren’t in a band together, we’d still be writing,” says DiCaprio. When they met up with Gold and Stefano, both of whom work at the School of Rock, they realized that they had the rhythm section they always wanted. “Joe and Jared are a solid rhythm section and so good musically, they quickly dug into the songs we had written,” says DiCaprio.

“It was like instant chemistry. We were trying to find a drummer and had gone through a few rotations. We just wanted to make music with friends and anything else that happens is icing on the cake.”

OLD AND NEW: The new self-titled record consists of “a mix of old songs and new ideas.” “It’s interesting blend,” says DiCaprio. The two recorded the 11 songs on the album on their own at School of Rock. Local producer du jour Jim Stewart mixed it and another local, Adam Boose, mastered it. “All the tracking was done ourselves,” says

DiCaprio. “The songs have a common theme coming from our personal experience.” The songs also reveal a diverse set of influences. “My first concert was the Beach Boys and we all love the Beatles,” says DiCaprio. “I love trying to bring in pop harmonies, and there’s a strong rock background. I love Butch Walker as well.”

WHY YOU SHOULD HEAR THEM: Exhibiting elements of Cheap Trick and the Posies, “Can’t Believe” serves up a perfect mix of power pop and indie rock as does “Rational,” a song with androgynous vocals and crunchy guitar riffs. “I Know a Girl” features snotty vocals and some great guitar riffs. The group has started to write new songs and has a slew of older songs it hasn’t fleshed out yet. “There are some songs that have some bones to them, but next time we want to do an EP,” says DiCaprio.

WHERE YOU CAN HEAR THEM: facebook. com/surroundingcities WHERE YOU CAN SEE THEM: Surrounding Cities performs with Burning River Ramblers and Ohio Weather at 9 p.m. on Friday, April 15, at the Beachland Tavern.

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Special guests slated to join them include David Loy (Ramrods), Marky Ray (Lyres, Jim Rose Curcus), Armstrong (Village Idiots) and, for the first time in 35 years, original frontman Lipski. Plus Chris Butler (Waitresses, Tin Huey, Half Cleveland), Harvey Gold (Tin Huey, Half Cleveland), George Cabaniss (Hammer Damage, Dead Boys) and others are slated to sing.

Teagle and Bob Basone (Wesley Brite & the Hi-Lites, Walking Clampetts, Human Tornados) also play in the guitar instrumental act Purple kniF, which shares the bill. And the show will mark the debut of Akron’s She’s Alright, She’s Alright, a band that features veteran local musicians Jack Kidney (Numbers Band, Bo Diddley) and Butler. Kidney and Butler played together in the Numbers Band during the ’70s. They even played together in Kidney’s high school band, City Lights.

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ROCK HALL OPENS NEW INDUCTEE EXHIBIT With a new class about to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the Rock Hall has opened a new exhibit that highlights the 2016 inductees (Cheap Trick, Chicago, Deep Purple, N.W.A, Steve Miller and Ahmet Ertegun Award for Lifetime Achievement recipient Bert Berns).

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Johnnie Clampett & the Walkers will be rocking once again this weekend.

1981 Hamer Custom guitar, which was created by sanding down and laminating five guitar bodies, is one of the many Cheap Trick items featured.

Chicago has contributed “Saturday in the Park” lyrics handwritten

by Robert Lamm in 1972. Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple’s 1961 Gibson ES-335 TDC he played on the first five Deep Purple albums will be on display as will MC Ren of N.W.A.’s jacket. Miller has contributed his 1974 Fender Stratocaster from his personal collection.

Local residents (with a valid ID showing zip codes beginning with 440, 441, 442 and 443) can take advantage of a special two ticketsfor-$20 offer at the Box Office through April 22.

LOCAL BLUESMAN HAWKS ‘RIOT’ SHIRTS Back in 2010 as the Cavs lost a tough playoff series to Boston and LeBron James turned in a subpar performance in the final game of the series, local bluesman Colin Dussault came up with the concept for a T-shirt.

He turned the LeBron James slogan “Witness” into “Quitness.”

The shirts sold by the truckloads.

Now, Dussault is at it again. In advance of the upcoming Republican National Convention, he’s hawking shirts that that read “Cleveland — It’s Gonna Be a Riot.”

“It’s like anything else; I was just thinking about [the RNC convention] and watching what’s going on,” says Dussault when asked about the

concept. “It’s amazing and laughable at the same time. On Facebook, you can see friendships falling apart. I’m in the middle. I can go either way. I’m not some zealot on either side. Watching this thing balloon, each day gets better.”

Initially, he asked a couple of different artists to sketch the Cleveland skyline for him. When they turned him down, he took matters into his own hands and drew an image that looks like a vintage postcard.

“I knocked it out in 20 minutes,” he says.

Within 45 minutes of putting the T-shirt for sale on his website, he had his first sale. Now, he’s fulfilling orders from Michigan, Florida, Maine, California and Wisconsin.

“It’s taking off,” says Dussault, who still performs around town three to five nights a week. “It’s lightning in a bottle. The ‘Quitness’ shirts were like that too. It’s so polarizing, I can’t keep them in stock. I just renegotiated my deal on the shirts because the demand is so high. It’s not pro-riot at all. I’m not promoting Trump or demeaning anyone. I refuse to be baited into a violent conversations on social media.

I’m P.T. Barnum to the circus. I’m selling the popcorn and program. The circus is coming to our city. I don’t want a riot. But like everybody else, I see the system is flawed. There’s going to be a revolt. Those people voted for [candidate Donald Trump], and you can’t move the goalposts at the end of the game.”

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