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Two fronts from the Wahoo protests make amends, City Council votes in new member, and more

Editorial Managing Editor Eric Sandy Music Editor Jeff Niesel Staff Writer Sam Allard Writer-at-large Kyle Swenson Web Editor Bliss Davis Dining Editor Douglas Trattner Contributing Dining Editor Nikki Delamotte Stage Editor Christine Howey Visual Arts Editor Josh Usmani

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As Ohio fumbles marijuana legalization, a benevolent weed operation ends in bloodshed and buried cash

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UPFRONT VIRAL RED FACE INDIANS FAN RECONCILES WITH CHIEF WAHOO PROTESTERS Photo courtesy of Tom Sullens

THIS WEEK

PEDRO RODRIGUEZ, THE Cleveland Indians fan who made national headlines in 2014 for confronting anti-Wahoo protesters in red face, confronted the anti-Wahoo protesters again Monday outside Progressive Field, before the home opener was postponed.

This time, he came to apologize.

He expressed remorse to the group for his cultural appropriation, and apologized directly to Robert Roche, the local leader of the American Indian Education Center and Rodriguez’s sparring partner back in 2014.

“He still likes the name,” said Chrissy Stonebraker-Martinez, from the InterReligious Task Force on Central America, who attended Monday’s protest in solidarity. “But he says he will never dress that way again. It was really moving and beautiful.”

The protesters applauded Mr. Rodriguez and recognized his courage and grace.

The reconciliation comes only a few days after Indians owner Paul Dolan sat down with the Plain Dealer’s Terry Pluto and said that the reduced usage of the popular red-face caricature is ongoing and intentional.

Though Dolan said there were no plans to scrap the Chief outright – “It is part of our history and legacy,” he said (and furthermore, a huge seller at the team shop) – he expressed empathy for “those who take issue with it” and said he’d continue to do “what [they] think is appropriate.”

Wahoo’s diminished presence is hardly breaking news, but Pluto’s interview nonetheless galvanized the pro-Wahoo crowd to respond with its recognizable brand of racist politicalcorrectness policing.

“I’m offended by the block C,”

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Pedro Rodriguez greets Robert Roche and makes amends for their 2014 showdown.

wrote Jim Alba in the comments section of ESPN’s report on the interview. “When I was in Jr. HS 37 years ago a kid wrote a nasty word on my book cover and he used block lettering so ever since then block letters have offended me. Therefore, no block lettering should ever be allowed anywhere. That’s what we do now right? We react and make sweeping changes whenever anyone is offended, right?”

Cory Collins, for the Sporting News, published an essay Monday

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calling for the Indians organization to “quit hedging” and ban the logo outright.

“The Indians (and by extension, MLB) can no longer make money from Chief Wahoo. Each day they do so is an insult. Not to political correctness, but to common decency,” he wrote. “To the Native American history they have perverted for profit. To the Native American children harmed, psychologically, by such caricatures. Set fire to the cartoon, Cleveland, completely, and

2BR, 1 HEAD IN FRIDGE RNC visitors may rent Jeffrey Dahmer’s childhood home during convention.

Howard Hanna rep: “The cannibalistic tie-in is sort of perfect. Also, have you seen the crown molding?”

perhaps you can be clean again.”

The city of Cleveland took a step in that direction. At a Monday night meeting, City Council passed legislation that will regulate the display of banners on downtown utility poles and require safety inspections of exterior facades on buildings.

The legislation will require a permit from the city’s Design Review Committee before banners may be hung downtown. (Since 1984 no permits have been required). It also

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UPFRONT requires that Committee to review the content of the banners.

Councilman Zack Reed has spearheaded the legislation in order lobby against the Cleveland Indians’ usage of Chief Wahoo imagery in their banners around Progressive Field.

“This moved us closer to ridding the landscape of Chief Wahoo,” Reed wrote Scene.

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In other council news: 28-yearold Kerry McCormack was officially appointed as Councilman Joe Cimperman’s successor in Ward 3 Monday. Ward 3 encompasses downtown and much of the near west side.

Cimperman, who received a standing ovation from his colleagues at Monday morning’s caucus, introduced McCormack as his choice using the same language that he’s used in recent weeks: McCormack has a “heart of service,” for instance; he is bilingual; he is as responsive to the needs of residents on Jay Avenue in $250,000 homes as he is to the needs of residents in public housing down the street.

“I had the opportunity to interview several dozen people,” Cimperman said, (a breath of fresh air, if true, given that as recently as 2015, the “tradition” of City Council members appointing their own successors has been seen as the stuff of shady backroom deals.

When Marty Sweeney selected Brian Kazy to replace him early last year, the Plain Dealer editorial board cried foul, and with good reason).

But Cimperman has been forthcoming about his interview process and about the merits of McCormack as heir.

“He is already doing the job that we’re all doing, in so many ways, in Ohio City,” said Cimperman. “He is a son of the east side and a resident of the west side, and as someone who knows that story (Cimperman was born to Slovenian parents on E. 74th and now lives in Ohio City, on W. 45th St.) you have to have that binary ability. My wife often says you have to recognize that Lakeview Tower and Terminal Tower are in the same ward, and both deserve your attention.”

McCormack briefly addressed the body, acknowledging Cimperman’s

“incredible compassion,” and “aweinspiring” desire to see people of all backgrounds take part in Cleveland’s growth.

“Today is an honor and privilege for me,” McCormack said, “to attempt to fill the huge shoes of Councilman Cimperman.”

The festive atmosphere was marked not only by McCormack’s admission of his middle name — it’s Potter, i.e. Kerry Potter McCormack, (#Gryffindor???) — but

by Councilman Mike Polensek’s endorsement of McCormack’s cred.

“Kerry comes from wonderful stock,” Polensek said. “His mom and dad are both neighborhood activists and care about this city. He’s a good Irishman from Collinwood.

He has good roots and he’ll do a wonderful job. And just to have a VA-St. Joe’s boy here — not from Ignatius, not from Ed’s — does wonders for the body. I support him overwhelmingly.”

Both Council President Kevin Kelley and Councilman Matt Zone said they were excited to have McCormack’s fresh perspective on important legislation.

“Joe was like our millennial on council,” Zone said, “even though he’s been here a long time. And I think now, having someone like Kerry on board will give us a unique perspective as we’re moving policy forward.”

NLRB vs. I CAN SCHOOLS In March, teachers and staff at University of Cleveland Preparatory School voted 18-4 in favor of forming a union, becoming the first charter school in Cleveland to do so.

Elsewhere, at Tremont’s Northeast Ohio College Preparatory School, teachers and staff have been meeting to discuss unionization efforts.

Currently, no vote is set.

Last week, however, the National Labor Relations Board filed a complaint against Northeast Ohio College Preparatory School (NOCP) and its umbrella organization, I Can schools. (I Can also runs University of Cleveland Preparatory School.) The complaint alleges that high-level administrators at NOCP conducted “surveillance” during the unionization efforts, constituting unfair labor practices.

Read the full complaint at clevescene.com.

“From January 20, 2016 through January 22, 2016...[Krista]

Mershimer and [Tim] McAtee, [deans of student learning and instruction at NOCP,] coercively increased the scrutiny of employees performing their work because of their union sympathies and activities,” according to the complaint. The filing lists specific instances last fall, when Mershimer allegedly interrupted two union meetings and “stood outside the door of the room where a union meeting was being held and made her presence known to employees in attendance.”

Teachers and staff at NOCP are awaiting the results of the NLRB involvement before proceeding with more formal unionization steps.

The genesis of the NLRB’s involvement here and the publicity of I Can’s internal matters can be traced back to parent concerns. Anecdotally, Scene learned this week, a shortage of textbooks and high teacher turnover at NOCP in particular led to a push among parents to hold the school accountable. These are wellliked schools among the community of parents — and they outperform many other charter schools in Northeast Ohio.

“This is the first one that we’ve heard about over efforts to crack down on organizing,” Sandy Theis, executive director of ProgressOhio,

tells Scene. ProgressOhio has been pulling records and publishing data relating to the successes and failures of charter schools across the state.

“It’s not common to try to organize a charter school, but I think the level of unfair labor practices has so irritated people that they have set the table for unionization.”

A hearing on these matters is scheduled for June 1.

SPACES ANNOUNCES MOVE TO HINGETOWN It’s finally official. SPACES has announced plans to relocate thanks to a purchase agreement through Fred and Laura Bidwell, local arts advocates and founders of Transformer Station. In a press release last week, SPACES announced plans to move into the the former Van Rooy coffee roasters building at 2900 Detroit Ave., which the Bidwells purchased last year.

The design of the interior and exterior of the building will be overseen by John Williams, principal of the award-winning architecture and design firm Process Creative Studios. SPACES will occupy the ground floor’s 9,300 sq. feet. The new space will allow the organization to increase its

programming spaces, art production areas and educational facilities, including a dedicated classroom space for engaging the community.

The space will also include artist workshop and studio areas, three galleries with 13 ft. ceilings and rooftop access.

To support the relocation, the Bidwells made a $150,000 donation toward the cost of the facility and are financing the mortgage at a below-market rate.

“Laura and I are thrilled to have SPACES in the neighborhood as an artistic resource and a catalyst for growth and innovation,” Fred Bidwell said in the press release. “We believe that the arrival of SPACES to Hingetown will complete the transformation of the neighborhood into a national model for successful creative place-making.”

Christina Vassallo, SPACES’ Executive Director added, “The accessibility of this iconic building enables SPACES to continue bringing Cleveland the level of experimental artistic activity that a city of this size and sophistication deserves.

It’s a dream space to showcase contemporary art.”

SPACES began very humbly with a rather plain-looking notice created on an average typewriter

by Ohio native James Rosenberger.

The document invited members of the arts community to a “gathering” on May 25, 1978 at 1375 Euclid Avenue. The letter read, “A space is an interdisciplinary arena for the visual and performing arts with an interest in creating and presenting new art including individual and collaborative works. The purpose of this first gathering is to introduce a space to area artists, and to discuss with them outlets for their creative energies during this first year.”

In the nearly 40 years since that initial gathering, SPACES has presented the work of more than 9,000 artists in its three venues – Playhouse Square (’78’81), Warehouse District (’81-’90) and Superior Viaduct (’90-present).

During its time on the Viaduct, SPACES has established itself as a sanctuary and laboratory for contemporary artists seeking safe places to experiment with new ideas and media. Their unique programming brings artists to Cleveland from throughout the US and around the world, and still allows local and regional artists an opportunity to showcase their talents as well.

“This move is an essential evolution of SPACES as we continue

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SPACES will close its doors at its current location at 2220 Superior Viaduct in November of this year, three years after it sold its 3-story warehouse building that it had owned since 1990. A target grand opening is set for January of 2017, and construction could begin as early as May. On April 16, SPACES hosts its Monster Drawing Rally, where 100+ artists will be drawing live in the gallery of its current location, and all works will be sold for $75.

PUCO AGREES TO FIRSTENERGY, AEP RATE GUARANTEES Tying a bow on a long-running debate in Columbus, the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio last week approved an â&#x20AC;&#x153;income guaranteeâ&#x20AC;? proposal for FirstEnergy and AEP â&#x20AC;&#x201D; two energy companies that sought rates that will keep certain power plants open through May 2024. (For FirstEnergy, those plants are the Davis-Besse nuclear power plant near Toledo and the coal-ďŹ red W.H. Sammis power plant [see photo] on the Ohio River.)

Columbus Business First published a great article on the decision. A brief excerpt on the ďŹ xed-rate factor for ratepayers: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The $16.5 billion AEP and $15 billion FirstEnergy described the plans as price hedges in case natural gas power prices go up. They said the plants are more reliable than gas, the fuel thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s increasingly replacing coal and nuclear because of its price and abundance in U.S. shale plays. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whatever costs might be needed to keep the companiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; six coalpowered plants and one nuclear plant in working condition for the next eight years will fall to ratepayers â&#x20AC;&#x201D; regardless of market ďŹ&#x201A;uctuations and the ongoing (if glacially paced) push for greater access to renewable energy in Ohio.â&#x20AC;?

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against the backdrop of the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s already-shaky relationship with renewable energy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For now, we can say that this decision by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio deals a hard blow to FirstEnergyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s customers and represents a step backward for Ohio at a time when other states are transitioning to cleaner, cheaper sources of energy,â&#x20AC;? Jen Miller, director of the Sierra Clubâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ohio Chapter. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Commissionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decision harms customers by forcing them to subsidize aging, costly coal and nuclear plants, while guaranteeing proďŹ ts for FirstEnergyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shareholders. This decision keeps Ohio tied to outdated, inefďŹ cient, energy sources that cost too much and negatively impact our health.â&#x20AC;?

DIGIT WIDGET $686 MILLION Approved money for 54 ODOT Projects in Cuyahoga County in 2016, including phases of the Opportunity Corridor and the West Shoreway project. Meanwhile...

$0.63 The stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spending, per capita, on public transit. (Michigan, Illinois and Pennsylvania spend more than $50 per capita.) RTA continues its soul-searching.

$10 MILLION Proposed money by State Auditor Dave Yost to facilitate a potential merger between Cleveland and East Cleveland.

Funds would cover capital costs, and are thought to be nowhere near sufďŹ cient.

4-1 Cleveland Planning Commission vote to allow FirstEnergy to demolish its historic Lake Shore power plant. Councilwoman Phyllis Cleveland, who sits on the CPC, cast the lone dissenting vote.

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MURDER AT THE HIPPIE HOUSE As Ohio fumbles marijuana legislation, a benevolent weed operation ends in bloodshed and buried cash

By Kyle Swenson

Tia didn’t think twice when Corey asked her to get him a gun. By then, he wasn’t eating much or going outside. He’d just pace the apartment in Green, a suburb just outside of Akron, every five minutes cracking the blinds to peer at the street down the hill, running the same thoughts on loop. Was that the same white van as before? Didn’t that guy with the dogs walk by an hour ago? Was someone in the woods again? “I feel they’re coming back,” Corey told Tia. “I feel it in my gut.” He asked her to get an AR-15.

Along with a friend, Tia went to a local gun show, buying both the rifle for Corey and a pistol for herself. The irony didn’t slip past her. Here was Tia — tiny at 23, bleached skin and kind eyes the color of light blue crayon — with zero firearms training. But buying military-grade ordnance? Sure: easy and legal. Yet the same law books would call her a criminal for possessing weed. And weed was why they were running for guns in the first place.

Tia took the new purchases

back. Home was an apartment, part of a triplex topping a hill fully dressed with dense woods, empty acres Corey and his friends would smash through on dirt bikes or zoom drones over. Technically, home now was apartments. By then Tia and their two kids were living in the middle unit while Corey ran the business and paced next door. He’d promised he’d give up his customers to his friends. Six months more, he’d told Tia. Now she wasn’t sure. Everything was spinning faster, as if someone was

pressing down on an accelerator.

Those two apartments: Tia didn’t miss the irony there, either.

The separate living arrangements were the physical embodiment of the separate lifestyles they were now living. Corey and Tia. Mustard and Titi. Weed dealer and mainstream marijuana activist.

Mom and dad. Sure, she thought about leaving. But those thoughts never stretched too far. “There was no Tia and Corey breaking up,” she says today. “We were ride or die. So I stayed with him. I was living in the separate house. I think we were living double lives.”

But now Tia was seeing a third iteration of the man she’d been with for seven years — and it scared her. Corey’s lanky frame, right arm swirled shoulder-towrist in tattoos, nervously paced the apartment again. His usual sly smile lit less and less from his scruffy beard. Some mornings he’d wake up missing his dead dad. He told Tia she couldn’t leave him with the kids because he was worried he couldn’t protect them then. “He

would just want to be held,” Tia says. “Corey was never like that.”

He was just waiting.

The next time you pack that bowl with good green or lip on the joint making the rounds at the party, think about where it’s coming from. “Do you guys understand what these kids are going through to get you your freaking pot?” Tia says now. “It’s insane.”

She’s sitting in a suburban mall coffee kiosk, her small hands wrapped around a steaming latte.

Despite shouldering through a stack of traumas — broken homes, drug overdose, child custody fights, a dead boyfriend — that would easily scramble the spirits of a lesser person, she’s remarkably upbeat. “Really, I think Corey and I were in a polyamorous relationship with marijuana,” she admits, halfkidding, blue eyes flashing regret.

“That was our girlfriend, and then we had each other. The side-piece was marijuana.”

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FEATURE in terms of marijuana reform.

A tug-of-war between various interests and resistance has left the state lagging behind the national trend that’s seen some form of legalization in 23 states and Washington, D.C. Last November, Ohio voters soundly knocked down Issue 3, a ballot initiative for both medicinal and recreational marijuana that placed the business firmly in the control of a set number of players. All this is happening while an opiate epidemic has smashed the state like a typhoon.

This year, another prolegalization group, Legalize Ohio 2016, has been busy collecting signatures for a followup November ballot option. Voters could again face the choice of greenlighting Buckeye State marijuana use. At the time same, last month a legislative task force tapped with hammering together a medicinal weed proposal announced that they’d come up with a bill to take to legislators.

Rep. Stephen Huffman, a Tripp City Republican on the task force, h in late told the Columbus Dispatch

“Every time I went over there, there would always be a group of kids, a lot of them were going through hardships. Corey would have his house open and he’d try to help people out. He had a good heart.”

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March the proposal could hit the legislature as early as this July.

“We need to do something to get it correct,” Huffman told the Dispatch. “If not, the ballot initiative will come and it will not be good for the people.”

The grassroots and legislative scrambles toward marijuana reform — any type of reform — shine a spotlight on the schizophrenic nature of the American pot scene. Although use has increasingly gained mainstream acceptance, in states still dragging ass when it comes

to clear policy — states like Ohio — the underground market is the only channel feeding demand. And Tia Gilbert knows more than most the cost of the underground. “I lost the love of my life because of a plant,” she says, sad eyes locked on her latte.

Tanya Seibel likes to tell an anecdote from Corey’s early days, one that’s a handy skeleton key for popping open who he’d later become. When her first-born was just trying to master the fundamentals of walking, Tanya

watched the baby mount the high stairs at the family’s home in Lake Township. Forecasting an ugly header or injury, she cooed over to the baby: “Corey. Get down. Corey, get down.” But Corey had other ideas, spinning around to ask his mother: “Or what?”

“By god, he was going to climb those stairs at any price,” Seibel says today with a laugh. “And this was someone who was under 2 saying, ‘Or what?’ That was the theme of his whole life. He was going to do what he was going to do.”

Corey would be the oldest of three boys. According to Tanya, their childhoods were standardissue suburbia. Their father, Scott, was a postman. “It was a good life,” she says. From an early age, Corey seemed less interested in material things — even clothes. “I don’t think he even liked the feel of clothing.”

Tanya’s oldest went where his compass pointed, no matter what. Often, in school, that meant fighting for other kids who were getting picked on or bullied. “I had mothers calling and thanking me because Corey stood up for their kid,” Tanya remembers.

When he was older, Corey began paying close attention to food, the chemicals and GMOs stuck in daily groceries. He filled his family’s ears with organic food gospel, and even went through Tanya’s cupboard with a pen marking products with skulls and crossbones.

Unfortunately, the family’s smooth life was upset when Corey’s dad was diagnosed with lung cancer. The family watched as Scott Seibel withered away.

“Corey was only 19 when their dad died,” Tanya explains. “It was a rough road. I think he was a little angry because his dad had been a smoker.”

Corey and Tia met at a poker game in a friend’s garage. She was 16. He was 20. Weed was there right from the start. “I remember Corey pulled out these huge, purple nuggets,” Tia says. From there, the two were inseparable.

On the surface, their experiences with marijuana were straight out of the suburbs: bored, aimless kids covertly killing empty hours in blasts of weed smoke. “Weed was a huge no-no in my house,” Tia says. “I remember the face my grandmother had when she found my first bowl: complete disgust. I felt ashamed.”

But both Corey and Tia were

also finding marijuana was an effective way to tunnel out from the complex feelings weighing them down. Corey was still dealing with the fallout from his dad’s death, Tia says; she admits she was still working through her feelings from growing up in a broken home. Weed opened different doors for each.

In 2009, the young couple was dealt a shocker when Tia became pregnant. Corey, desperate for money for his new family, got in a fight behind a bowling alley with a guy who owed him cash. Corey ended up catching a felonious assault charge due to the incident.

He was sentenced to two years in prison. Corey was locked up when Tia went into labor prematurely, giving birth to a 1-pound, 5-ounce daughter who immediately headed for the NICU. Corey eventually secured an early release from prison. But within a year, he’d offended the conditions of his release, landing back inside. This time around, Tia found herself trying to support a baby with endless shifts at Chipotle. Weed wasn’t enough to handle all the stress; after hopping through various substances — some prescribed by doctors, some not — she started shooting heroin. “He was in prison, and I was absolutely miserable, and I was using heroin to cope with my emotions about losing Corey.

I’d lost my best friend, and I was losing my mind.”

And almost her life. When Corey was in prison, she overdosed on a blast of herion. She was 19.

She would later think of them as cocoon moments – clichéd and corny, whatever. That’s what they were. You walked into a situation one way, walked out completely different.

After heroin almost gulped her down for good, Tia quit cold turkey. Marijuana, however, did play an integral part in getting clean, she says. When Corey came home from his second run in prison, he also returned transformed. According to Tia, inside Corey had come under the influence of a few fellow inmates who big-brothered him about being a responsible dad. Corey responded. Back home, he began to provide for his daughter and a son Tia had had in the meantime from another relationship. Still, there were limited options out there for a guy with his resume.

“His record prevented him from

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FEATURE working in some fields,” Corey’s mom, Tanya admits. “But working one crappy job after the next, I think he realized how much more could be made doing what he was doing.”

Corey went back to dealing marijuana. But he had his own cocoon moment coming. Around last March, Corey was involved in a deal that went bad. He was convinced law enforcement was looking for him, so he split town, leaving behind Tia and the kids.

Her situation nose-dived further when a friend fighting through opiate addiction overdosed and died.

It was a life-changer for Tia. Here, people were struggling, turning to medications and pharmaceuticals. “Let’s stop over-medicating,” she says. “Let’s introduce natural remedies.”

There was an obvious demand for marijuana. But in states without medicinal or recreational use, the underground was the only option.

That demand, Tia realized, wasn’t going to simply turn off.

Tia began reaching out to pro-legalization groups, like ComfyTree, an organization that trains people on setting up marijuana businesses in legal markets. The more conversations she had, the more Tia began volunteering her time to movements pushing forward with legalization efforts. She traveled with other activist groups to Washington, D.C. for pro-pot rallies, and also trekked out to Denver for High Times’ Cannabis Cup. The covert chutes and ladders necessary to score weed in the underground market were pointless, she realized, in a wellregulated state. “I just thought, ‘Fuck it, I’m going legal,’” Tia remembers.

When Corey turned back up, he’d had a similar moment. Corey had been hiding out for two months in Michigan. According to Tia, Corey had passed the time at a caregiver farm in the country where he helped a woman grow covert marijuana meant for people battling medical problems. Back in

Ohio now, Corey had a newfound sense of the power of the plant, Tia says, that synced with her own feelings about the need for sensible marijuana reform. Corey just wanted a farm where he could raise his family in peace.

Last spring, the couple and two kids moved into an apartment in a building topping a wooded rise in Green, south of Akron proper. The neighborhood was mostly suburban development curling around Appalachian hills. A gravel and dirt road wound up to the triplex.

After moving in, the drive was soon rutted from all the traffic pulling in and out.

The customers, Tia says, were more often than not using medicinally even though no doctor had cut them a script. But weed filled a need or opened some doors.

“I know this person needs it because her boyfriend cheated on her and now he’s off with her best friend and she’s stuck with the kid and super depressed,” Tia explains.

“Or I know this lady suffers from MS and can’t get out of bed without

her medicine. Or I know this guy is really bi-polar and him and his girl are going to get into it if he doesn’t get served.”

The apartment soon became a safe zone for an assortment of struggling kids drifting through hard knocks. More than weed dealer, Corey became something of a shirtless, shoeless swami walking the apartment in basketball shorts, offering advice mined from his own tough run of luck.

“Every time I went over there, there would always be a group of kids,” explains Dexter Cooley, a regular. “A lot of them were going through hardships. Some of them had been kicked out of their house or couldn’t get jobs. Corey would have his house open and he’d try to help people out. He had a good heart.”

Corey big-brothered the younger guys buying from him, urging them to give up cigarettes or eat better or think differently. “I’m not saying I’m some hippie now who’s going to go hug a tree, but he

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definitely got me more conscious of our world and what we’re doing to it,” Cooley adds. “I also used to be very judgmental, and Corey showed me not to take everything personally.”

Another apartment regular, Cody, was an aspiring model and actor with a grueling workout and fitness routine. Whenever he’d walk through the door, Corey would pop open his laptop, talking Cody through all-natural preworkout supplements he could use instead of the store-bought chemical juice. “He talk to me about how much better they were for me, the difference it would make, how it would help me in the long term,” Cody says. “I’m just stopping by to smoke and talk, and he’s surprising me with all this stuff. This dude was thinking about me even when I wasn’t here.”

Often Corey and Tia would cook up big meals for the houseguests.

Corey bought dirt bikes so the fam could buzz around the nearby woods. Friends would haul over their computers for a LAN party, 10 guys competing together in marathon sessions of computer games like RuneScape. “Corey made sure we always had the fastest internet connection,” Tia explains. Berner — the West Coast emcee who fills his songs with the highs and lows of drug slinging — was on repeat from the speakers.

I’m gonna keep pushing, where would I be without the cherries in the kush? ... A quarter ounce of candy on the plate, weighing up sacks.

“It was a hippie house,” she says. “It was not a trap house.”

Tia remembers a day last fall, before everything started wheeling out of control. The leaves were dropping off the trees spreading overhead. They could watch the outdoors from the security cameras lined up to check on outside traffic.

“Just enjoy it,” Corey told Tia. Idealistic notions aside, at the end of the day, Corey was slinging a controlled substance. Mr. Nice Guy didn’t always cut it. As more customers began rumbling up the driveway from Long Road, more strange faces were at the door: friends of friends, then friends of friends of friends. “You don’t want to be the dick who says, ‘Get out,’” Tia says.

Enter Mustard. In prison, inmates had complained to Corey his breath smelled like the condiment. The nickname

stuck, and now out on the street, when Corey flipped a switch from benevolent caregiver to stone-faced businessman, he was channeling Mustard, his gangster alter ego.

Corey couldn’t be Corey to the stream of new customers. “When he was Mustard, he had to be tough,” Tia explains. “He couldn’t show people he was scared or anxious or he didn’t want to do this anymore. Because he was the man, and he was feeding the whole town.”

“In this day and age, it’s very easy to mistake kindness for weakness,” Dexter Cooley admits.

“You can be nice and they’ll try to get one up on you.”

Tia found herself sliding into her own persona, one to match Mustard, another gangster ride-ordie tough-front for new business, a Bonnie to Corey’s Clyde. Titi. They would joke about it. Corey and Tia. Mustard and Titi. Their split personalities.

But more often they were having to climb inside the latter to do business. The carefree family atmosphere was gone from the apartment, out like an extinguished candle. Sitting there instead was something that even lungfuls of the kindest bud couldn’t muffle or shoo away.

“The bigger he got, the worse his anxiety got,” Tia recalls. “He didn’t want to be Mustard. He wanted to be Farmer Corey.” But the traffic kept grinding up the driveway. Suddenly those Berner lyrics started hitting different buttons. It all changed so fast, a lot of friends went missing ...

I cant fall asleep phone ringing off the hook everybody want a piece. Corey kept the hippie house front hammered in place for the regulars. The anxiety chewing through him only surfaced in rare moments. Once, Cody remembers Corey meditatively talking about people out there who would love to take him out. Behind the scene, everything was falling apart.

Tia is mum on the details, but at some point she believes something went wrong between Corey and a client. Paranoia started creeping into his tone of voice. He was expecting something to happen.

Neighbors were also noting all the traffic ripping up and down the driveway. One would later tell the newspaper that she regularly watched once a month as an Escalade drove up, dropped off a duffle bag, and left. That fall, someone placed handwritten notes in mailboxes of nearby neighbors

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Tia wanted him out. She’d had enough. Her heart was fixed on mainstream weed activism, pushing Ohioans to pass legislation so people could get their weed without guys like Corey having to chance strange cars and bad deals and shady custies. She’d beg. She’d tell Corey she’d take a straight nine-to-five for money.

He agreed. But give it time. Six more months. Then he’d pass the business off. He was worried he didn’t have enough saved to quit yet. Six more months. But Corey couldn’t deny they were too hot then. And that guy with the dogs?

Didn’t he walk by an hour ago?

Was that the same white van as before? Six months. It was Berner lyrics all over again. Where would I be Without the game, I probably wouldn’t be the same ... Looking for a way out, but me, I could never change.

“That was who I was going to

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spend the rest of my life with,” Tia explains. “No matter what, I was going to make it work because I saw my parents walk away from each other and not make it work, and I wasn’t going to do that to my kids.”

Despite her pleas to get out, some part of Tia couldn’t unplug the appeal the Mustard and Titi roller-coaster had for her.

“Goodfellas was my favorite movie growing up,” she says. “Half of me liked helping people. But half of me liked being the kingpin’s girlfriend.”

Days before the end, Corey took all the money he’d pocketed from dime bags and ounces, burying the cash out in the woods. He didn’t tell anyone or scribble out a map.

Tia first figured it was ballpark between $50,000 or $60,000. One of Corey’s friends, however, told her later that the bankroll was closer to $100,000.

The afternoon before it happened, Tia spun around town hitting up three different stores

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looking for the chocolate milk Corey wanted. “Why am I doing this?” she wondered.

In the evening, a couple hours shy of midnight, Cody stopped by to hang with Corey. As usual, he was sitting at his computer gaming away. They talked for a bit.

Corey, burnt out from housework, said he was getting ready to go to bed. “I’ve had such a long-ass day,” he told Cody as the friend was walking out the door.

That night, Tia had decided to turn in early. On a normal night, she’d put the kids down in the middle apartment, then head next door to spend some time with Corey. Or she’d stay up in the middle unit, plopped on the couch playing around with her computer.

Instead she climbed into bed, plunking down into a sleep so deep she didn’t hear anything next door ... didn’t catch two bullets zipping through the walls, punching into the part of the couch where she’d usually be sitting with her laptop, she says.

The official version is

tightlipped with details. The incident report from the Summit County Sheriff’s Office notes that law enforcement responded to a call for service to 2791 Long Road for a reported shooting. Corey was found shot and declared dead on the scene. The report also notes that six suspects “were present at the house when the shooting occurred and all fled the scene.”

“We had several leads, obviously,” Summit County Sheriff Office spokesman Bill Holland tells Scene. Two arrests have already been made. Shortly after the shooting, Spencer Sims was arrested and is currently facing charges of murder, aggravated robbery and aggravated burglary.

Last month, law enforcement grabbed Ty’Shawn Henderson for aggravated robbery. “Further charges may be pending with further investigation,” Holland says. A third suspect — the alleged shooter — has yet to be arrested.

Court documents indicate Sims, Henderson and the third suspect came to the apartment under the

guise of buying a pound of weed from Corey.

Holland declined to detail what drugs were found on the scene.

After the murder, neighbors told various media outlets that law enforcement had begun an investigation into activity at the apartment in the weeks leading up to the murder.

“I was shocked,” Dexter Cooley says of learning about the shooting. “My mind was blown.”

Tanya Seibel originally worried her son’s case would be dust-binned by law enforcement: just another dead drug dealer.

The opposite has been true, she says. The detectives have been forthcoming with all the elements of their investigation. So far, they have yet to arrest the actual shooter, Tanya says. “They want to have all their ducks in a row, so that’s why there’s been some delay.” She remains confident her son’s killers will be brought to justice. “I think it will give us all some closure, but it’s not going to heal the gapping wound we’ll carry with us for our whole lives.”

Tia Gilbert is filling that gaping hole with activism, going gung-ho on trying to infect other Ohioans with her optimism about

marijuana reform. She’s upped her participation in ComfyTree events, and has begun working other pro-legalization organizations like Weed Be Better Off. She’s started appearing in pot education web shows, and would like to do a documentary on the underground weed game.

Looking back on those frantic last weeks, she realizes, in Corey’s mind, he was stuck on a one-way track. “He was either going to jail or he was going to die.” All because of marijuana.

You could argue it either way: Mustard, a drug dealer who was looking to make money. Corey, a big-hearted guy who’d rolled his hard times and past mistakes into a deep spring of empathy for folks in similar spots. Whichever version of the story, marijuana played a starring role. Arguably, any form of Ohio legalization would have altered the supplyand-demand cycle powering the underground game Corey was in.

“Corey used to say, ‘Just because it’s the law doesn’t mean it’s right,’” Tia remembers.

“He was either going to jail or he was going to die.”

All because of marijuana.

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opera, it tells the story of an aging aristocrat and his young bride. The concert takes place tonight at 7:30 at Severance Hall. Performances repeat at 8 p.m. tomorrow and Saturday and at 3 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets start at $29.

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

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BLU-Prints to EX[L] Today at 5:30 p.m., the University of Akron Experiential Learning Center for Entrepreneurship & Civic Engagement – the EX[L] Center — brings its monthly community networking event, BLU-Prints to EX[L], back to the Akron jazz club BLU. EX[L] Center founding director and executive-in-residence Jeff Hoffman (co-founder of Priceline.com) joins special guest speakers Joanna Wilson from Crafty Mart and Sean Brauser from Romeo’s Pizza and Pizza Fire to discuss the theme “Building with Scale in Mind.” Appetizers and soft drinks will be served. It’s free. (Jeff Niesel) 47 East Market St., Akron, 330-252-1190, blujazzakron.com.

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CIM/CWRU Joint Music Program This monthly concert series places young musicians from the Cleveland Institute of Music and Case Western Reserve University in the galleries at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Now in its fifth season, the series features “mixed programs of chamber music” for “a unique and intimate experience.”

Tonight’s one-hour concert begins at 6 and features selections by Handel, Mozart and others. Admission is free.

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

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Declarations of Survival Tonight at 7 at the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage, Kent State University scholar Alexis Baker delivers her lecture, Declarations of Survival: Representations of Motherhood in Women’s Holocaust Art & Narrative, which explores the narratives produced by professional women artists during the Holocaust. A Ph.D. candidate finishing her dissertation on women’s Holocaust narratives, Baker explores “memory, image and the sustaining power of hope” and has written a chapter in the forthcoming book Food, Feminisms, and Rhetoric.

Admission is free, but reservations are suggested. (Niesel) 2929 Richmond Rd., Beachwood, 216-593-0575, maltzmuseum.org.

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Drink and Draw Social Club Twice each month, Great Lakes

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The Rock Hall Inductions will be telecast live at the Rock Hall. See: Friday.

Brewing Company hosts Cleveland’s Drink & Draw Social Club. Organized by the Rust Belt Monster Collective and sponsored by Carol and John’s Comic Book Shop, Drink & Draws are an opportunity for artists of all levels to drink, draw and socialize in a relaxed and welcoming environment. At the end of each Drink & Draw, prizes are awarded for various superlatives.

Events are set for the first and third Wednesday of each month. It’s free.

(Josh Usmani) 2516 Market Ave., 216-771-4404, greatlakesbrewing.com.

Orlando Consort Considered a cinematic marvel, Carl Theodor Dreyer’s silent film La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc uses the record of the trial of Joan of Arc for its plot. Tonight at 7:30 at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Orlando Consort, a British group that performs music from the years 1050 to 1550, will perform the soundtrack while the film screens.

Admission is $33 to $45, $30 to $40 for CMA members. (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.

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Indians vs. Boston Red Sox While the home opener sold out in record time, it should be easier to get tickets to tonight and tomorrow night’s games against the Boston Red Sox. A perennial powerhouse in the East that has retooled this season after a disappointing 2015, the Red Sox should prove to be a formidable opponent for the Indians, who’re also recovering from a disappointing 2015.

Games begin each night at 6:10 p.m., and tickets start at $13. (Niesel) 2401 Ontario St., 216-420-4487, clevelandindians.com.

Giada Valenti Tonight at 7:30 at the Ohio Theatre, singer Giada Valenti celebrates her Italian upbringing with From Venice with Love, a concert designed to “celebrate the romance and passion of Venice with soulful interpretations of love songs from the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s.” Giada’s own orchestra will back her and create “a setting that recalls her magical hometown.” Tickets are $25 to $100. (Niesel) 1501 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

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

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Bartók on Stage In partnership with the Joffrey Ballet, the Cleveland Orchestra takes on Bartók’s “The Miraculous Mandarin” and “Bluebeard’s Castle,” two “highly expressionistic thrillers” that focus on “the tragic, dark passions between men and women.” The “Miraculous Mandarin” centers on a girl forced to act as a decoy and lure a wealthy mandarin to his tragic fate. Based on folk legends, “Bluebeard’s Castle” features folk melodies. Bartók’s only

Blood Wedding Tonight at 7:30 at the Helen Rosenfeld Lewis Bialosky Lab Theatre, the Cleveland State University theater and dance department presents Blood Wedding, a “passionate tragedy” directed by Holly Holsinger and written by Federico García Lorca. The piece centers on a mother who plans the wedding of her son even though his bride has been having an affair with an married man. The brideto-be and married man run away, encountering a Beggar Woman (Death) and the Moon (A Young Woodcutter) in the process. Performances continue through April 17. Tickets are $10.

(Niesel) 1407 Euclid Ave, 216-771-8403, playhousesquare.org.

COMEDY

Sean Patton We’re surprised scruffy comic Sean Patton, a New York-based actor and comedian who was born and raised in New Orleans, has the nerve to come to town. In one skit he performed at the Laugh Factory, he revealed that he thinks of Cleveland as “a piece of shit city” before he led the audience through a “Fuck Cleveland” chant.

While dumping on Cleveland only made up one segment of the routine, it wasn’t particularly funny. Patton fared better when he turned his attention to his sexual interests (he’s a big fan of cunnilingus). He performs tonight at 7:30 at the Improv, where he has shows scheduled through Sunday.

Tickets are $17 to $20. (Niesel) 1148 Main Ave., 216-696-IMPROV, clevelandimprov.com.

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GET OUT (including “Stump the Breeder” and “Pumpo: Bingo for Breeders”), awesome prizes (wine!) and parental commiseration, created to give moms one of the best nights out they’ve had since before they had children.”

Whew! Sounds like a whole lotta pentup frustration packed into one witty show. It takes place tonight at 7:30 at Hilarities. (Niesel) 2035 East Fourth St., 216-241-7425, pickwickandfrolic.com.

The Bank Dick W.C. Fields stars as a hard-drinking, hen-pecked husband and father who becomes a security guard after accidentally apprehending a robber by way of tripping him. That’s the premise of The Bank Dick, a 1940 comedy directed by Edward F. Cline, who worked off a script written by Fields. Preserved in the United States Film Registry because of its cultural significance — and alleged to be one

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The Devils The Devils, director Ken Russell’s “most extreme and outrageous film,” stars Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave as a priest and the woman with whom he’s having an affair, respectively. The original cut of the film received an X rating and has

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Welcome to Night Vale A twice-monthly podcast in the style of community updates for the small desert town of Night Vale, Welcome to Night Vale features local weather, news and announcements from the Sheriff’s Secret Police. That’s not to mention references to mysterious lights in the night sky, dark hooded figures with unknowable powers and cultural events. Written by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor and narrated by Cecil Baldwin with music by Disparition, the show hit the road in 2013 and has toured ever since. It comes to Ohio Theatre tonight at 8. Tickets are $32.50. (Niesel) 1501 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

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Flanagan’s Wake No one knows grief and mourning like a Catholic, let alone an Irish Catholic.

In its fifth year running in Cleveland, Flanagan’s Wake transports the audience to a wake in Ireland where villagers tell tales and sing songs for their dearly departed Flanagan.

Finding the humor in life and death, the wake acts as a dark backdrop to an otherwise hilarious show in which alcohol fuels the humorous reminiscing. A sort of tragic Tony ’n’ Tina’s Wedding, the interactive and improvised show engages the entire audience as the guests are treated as the friends and family of the deceased.

The show starts at 8 tonight and plays again tomorrow night at 8 at Kennedy’s Theatre. Tickets are $26.

(Stoops) 1501 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

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Mike Gardner Comedian Mike Gardner likes to joke that to get some action from online dating sites, he describes himself as a “sultry Sagittarius who enjoys long walks on the beach.” His semi-autobiographical routines also generally include self-effacing jokes about his hardcore redneck mom. He also likes to joke about how broke he is and how he owes his cell phone carrier major amounts of money. He performs at 7:30 and 10 tonight and tomorrow night at Club Velvet at Hard Rock Rocksino Northfield Park. Tickets are $13 to $18. (Niesel) 10705 Northfield Rd., Northfield, 330-908-7793, hrrocksinonorthfieldpark.com.

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of Stanley Kubrick’s Top 10 movies of all time — the flick screens on 35-mm film tonight at 7:30 and tomorrow night at 7 at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque as part of the Cleveland Cult Film Festival 7. The Dentist, a 1932 surrealistic short starring Fields, will precede it. Tickets

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never before shown in the States.

That’s the version the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque will screen on 35-mm film tonight at 9:25 and tomorrow night at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10. (Niesel) 11610 Euclid Ave., 216-421-7450, cia.edu.

In the Mood A celebration of American popular music from the 1940s, In the Mood pays tribute to a bygone era. Featuring the In the Mood Singers & Dancers, the extravaganza features the fabulous String of Pearls Big Band Orchestra and includes costumes and choreography. You’ll hear “timeless melodies and rhythms of the Big Band era,” including “Tuxedo Junction,” “Sing, Sing, Sing,” “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” and “In the Mood.” A salute to veterans follows. Tonight’s show is at 7:30 p.m. at the Akron Civic Theatre.

Tickets are $36.50 and $46.50. (Niesel) 182 South Main St., Akron, 330-253-2488, akroncivic.com.

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Induction Simulcast Other than the Barclays Center, the Rock Hall will be the only place to watch the Induction Ceremony on the

night of the event. Doors for tonight’s simulcast open at 6:30 p.m., and the broadcast begins at 7 p.m. Special guests for this year’s Induction Ceremony include the Black Keys, Rob Thomas and Metallica’s Lars Ulrich. Cheap Trick, Chicago, Deep Purple, N.W.A. and Steve Miller will be inducted; and Bert Berns, who produced 51 chart records in seven years, will receive the Ahmet Ertegun Award for Lifetime Achievement.

The Beatles, Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin all recorded some of his songs, and Janis Joplin famously recorded a version of his “Piece of My Heart,” a song he wrote and produced for Erma Franklin, Aretha Franklin’s sister. Tickets to the simulcast are $23.50. (Niesel) 1100 Rock and Roll Blvd., 216-515-8444, rockhall.com.

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It’s Raining Catfish and Dogs The Greater Cleveland Aquarium will partner with the Cleveland Animal Protective League for tonight’s special wine tasting, It’s Raining Catfish and Dogs. Part of the GCA’s Adult Swim Tasting Series, the event takes place from 6 to 9 at the aquarium. In addition to featuring several types of wines, the event will provide patrons with the opportunity to meet and play with adoptable cats and dogs from the APL. Guests can also explore all aquarium exhibits including the 230,000-gallon shark tank and two interactive touch pools. The event has an educational component too, as special activities and information will center on the special cat- and dog-like fish that the aquarium has on exhibit.

Cleveland APL volunteers will provide guests with interaction time with the animals. If you meet a furry creature you wanna take home, you can even start the adoption process. Tickets are $30 for aquarium pass holders, $40 for non-pass holders. A designated driver ticket costs $20. (Niesel) 2000 Sycamore St., 216-862-8803, greaterclevelandaquarium.com.

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Love’s Labour’s Lost A series of “hysterical misadventures” ensue after a king and his three pals attempt to separate themselves from the company of women for three years so they can study and fast. That’s the premise of Shakespeare’s early comedy, Love’s Labour’s Lost. Presented

by Great Lakes Theater, tonight’s performance takes place at 7:30 at the Hanna, where performances continue through April 24. Tickets are $15 to $70. (Niesel) 2067 East 14th St., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

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New Works by Michael Chattem Despite recent efforts by a misguided individual, Canopy Collective continues its efforts to support emerging local artists. Although it currently can’t present “live entertainment,” Canopy can still host opening receptions for art exhibitions. There’s no better way to show your support for Canopy co-founder Erika Durham and company than being at these events.

Tonight, Canopy hosts a reception from 6 to 10 p.m. for new works by Michael Chattem. Now living and working in Cleveland, Chattem was born in Queens but spent most of his adolescence in Connecticut. He moved to Cleveland to attend the Cleveland Institute of Art, where he earned a BFA in 2010. The exhibition remains on view through Sunday, April 24. It’s free. (Usmani) 3910 Lorain Ave., 216-309-1090, canopy-collective.com.

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Open Studios Only a few times each year do the artists of the Screw Factory (aka Lake Erie Building) open their doors to the public. From 6 to 10 tonight, the Screw Factory hosts its Spring Artists’ Open Studios. The event features more than 40 artists and makers. Admission is free. (Usmani) 13000 Athens Ave., Lakewood, screwfactoryartists.com.

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Two New Exhibitions Stop by BAYarts’ beautiful campus on the Metroparks’ Huntington Reservation tonight from 7 to 9 for receptions celebrating the opening of two new exhibitions. The Sullivan Family Gallery hosts Jackson Koch’s Urban Elevation: Skyline to Street; the Diane Boldman Education Gallery hosts Susanne Dotson’s Poetic Landscapes: Real and Imagined.

Jackson Koch’s photography explores urban environments through abstract architectural studies, skylines, street scenes and more. In addition to traditional paper printing, he often prints on metal. A career as a representative for a multi-line manufacturer inspired Susanne Dotson’s landscape paintings. After 30 years of driving down I-71 from mile marker 186 to mile marker 150, she found her inspiration in the rolling fields and natural colors of her route.

The incredible views lead her to create both real and imagined visions of this tranquil landscape. Both exhibitions remain on view through April 30.

Admission is free. (Usmani) 28795 Lake Rd., Bay Village, 440-871-6543, bayarts.net.

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Casino Night At tonight’s Casino Night, which takes place from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Administration Building on the campus of Notre Dame College, the Mercury Theatre Company will take you back to the 1920s for a Prohibitionthemed and fun-filled night of games, hors d’oeuvres and entertainment.

All proceeds go toward Mercury Theatre Company and their many educational programs, such as the My First Musical program, which allows underserved youth in our community the chance to see the 2016 productions at Mercury Theatre Company free of charge. Each guest will receive $10 in play money for the casino games.

At the end of the night, winners can use their play money to participate in a raffle to win prizes such as Walt Disney World tickets, a Walden Inn and Spa stay, romantic excursions and family fun passes and gifts. Tickets are $50 per person and include startup money for games and raffles; get yours by phone at the number below.

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Facing Destiny and Mortality Facing Destiny and Mortality, the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center’s annual benefit concert, will feature Franklin Cohen, principal clarinet emeritus of the Cleveland Orchestra and co-founder of ChamberFest Cleveland; and Zsolt Bognár, an accomplished pianist. The two will perform several of the final works by famed composers such as Mozart and Schubert. The selected pieces were written to take patrons “on a musical journey that explores this creative expression of destiny and mortality.” Cohen has an impressive

resume: He’s the longest-serving principal clarinet in orchestra history.

The American Record Guide calls Mr. Bognár an “artist well-worth the attention of any serious music lover.”

The concert takes place tonight at 6 at the Near West Theatre. All proceeds benefit the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center and will support the center in providing mental health services and programming to the Northeast Ohio community. Tickets are $60 for the concert, or $75 for the concert and the reception; call the number below to order. (Niesel) 6702 Detroit Ave., 216-229-5959, psychoanalysiscleveland.org.

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Gladiators vs. Tampa Bay Storm With the Cleveland Browns headed toward yet another season of rebuilding, why not get your football fix with the Cleveland Gladiators? Our Arena Football team has proved to be competitive; back in 2014, they made it to the championship game. Tonight at 7, the team plays its second home game of the season against the Tampa Bay Storm. It’s ’90s night so we’re guessing you can expect to hear lots of Pearl Jam and maybe some Backstreet Boys on the house PA system. Tickets start at $10. (Niesel) 1 Center Ct., 216-420-2000, theqarena.com.

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7th Day Sweat The “seventh day” tends to be a day of rest for many folks. But not for the party hearty people who run B-Side Liquor Lounge, the popular dance club below the Grog Shop. Dubbed 7th Day Sweat, their weekly Sunday night soiree features DJ White Rims spinning “today’s hottest dance hits,” so you can “sweat it out” every Sunday.

Admission is free but you must be 21 or older. It all starts at 7 p.m. (Niesel) 2785 Euclid Hts. Blvd., Cleveland Heights, 216-932-1966, bsideliquorlounge.com.

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Cleveland Improv Jam The Angry Ladies of Improv has hosted the Cleveland Improv Jam for four years now. A few years back, Scene described the show as “fierce, formidable and very funny.” The women have some serious experience too. Katie White-Sonby is an actress who’s performed at Clague Playhouse, Karamu and Kennedy’s Cabaret.

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GET OUT Dionne Atchison is a theater artist with Cleveland Public Theatre, and Brenna “MC” Connor is an actress and improviser. The event begins with a short-form set of improv games, followed by a long-form improv set. It begins at 7:30 tonight at Coffee Phix.

Arrive at 7 if you want to sign up and perform. Admission is free. (Niesel) 4485 Mayfield Rd., South Euclid, 216-381-5706, coffeephixcafe.com.

Holmes in the series Sherlock, British actor Benedict Cumberbatch has recently received a number of awards for his acting prowess. Nominated for an Oscar for his role in The Imitation Game, he comes to acting from a true thespian’s point of view. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that he stars in the National Theatre production of Hamlet.

See the play as it’s broadcast today at 11 a.m. at the Cedar Lee Theatre.

Tickets are $20. (Niesel) 2163 Lee Rd., Heights, 216-321-5411, clevelandcinemas.com.

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Gospel Brunch The monthly Gospel Brunch has been a spiritual Sunday staple for years at the House of Blues, but it recently added a new choreographer. Created by famed gospel singer Kirk Franklin, the reinvigorated show puts a bit more emphasis on the music. Starting at 11 a.m., the all-you-can-eat musical extravaganza features Southern classics like chicken jambalaya, biscuits and gravy, and chicken and waffles. Tickets are $40. (Niesel) 308 Euclid Ave., 216-523-2583, houseofblues.com.

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Ethan Parker Band A non-profit organization that helps orphans and at-risk youth in local communities through music and mentorship, Project Primavera hosts a special benefit concert tonight at 8 at Wilbert’s. The Ethan Parker Band, an alternative rock band out of Tampa Bay, headlines the event. The blues rock act Memphis Hill joins them on the bill.

Project Primavera sends artists and musicians on tour to share with their audiences how they can get involved in the lives of kids through mentorship.

While on tour, the artists also host workshops at local children’s homes

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with the hope that the community will get involved in the lives of these children through mentorships or fiscal donations. Find details on the website.

(Niesel) 812 Huron Rd. East., 216-902-4663, wilbertsmusic.com.

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Science Cafe The second Monday of each month, Music Box Supper Club hosts Science Cafe, an informal lecture series that brings scientists from throughout the region to the club so they can talk about science topics. Tonight at 7, Dr. Geneviève Sauvé discusses how solar power can lead to a greener (and brighter) future, thanks to innovations like printable plastic solar cells, where organic semiconductors are used to convert sunlight into energy. Doors open at 5:30, and admission is free. A full bar and dinner menu is available.

(Niesel) 1148 Main Ave., 216-242-1250, musicboxcle.com.

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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 not only serves up substantial $1 wings, but it’ll also offering meatless “wing” baskets for vegans. Discounted drafts and a playlist of vintage-electric blues and soulful R&B 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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Trivia Tuesdays Nano Brew hosts weekly trivia nights from 8 to 10 p.m. Grab some friends and head on down for a little brainstimulating trivia, freshly brewed craft beer and some seriously stellar bar grub. Better yet, bike on over. The folks at Nano Brew love bikes almost as much as they love beer, and they’re happy to share that love by giving you half off your first drink when they see your bike helmet.

1859 West 25th St., 216-862-6631, nanobrewcleveland.com.

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ART LUCKY STRIKE Repurposed cigarette machine to dispense Cleveland artifacts this weekend

By Josh Usmani IF YOU’VE BEEN TO 78TH STREET Studios lately, you may have seen Rich Cihlar’s repurposed cigarette machine outside his gallery, E11even2, which he co-founded with fellow local artists Christina Sadowski and Billy Nainiger.

Instead of packs of cigarettes, the machine dispenses original artwork and prints by Cihlar, the size of a cigarette box. For a special exhibition opening this weekend at the Sandusky Cultural Center, Cihlar has built a second Cleveland Artifact Machine (CAM) and invited some of his friends and peers to join in on the fun.

“Guests are first pulled in by the light-up Monkey Marquee sign, while mesmerized by the fl ashing LED lights,” explains Cihlar. “Then one must select one of 22 slots, each represented by an artist. The guest gets to pull the handle and thrust it back in, like slot machine. The CAM lets out a moderately loud ‘kachunk,’ and out falls a beautifully wrapped gift. You open this small package and it reveals an original work of art and it feels special. The crowd cheers for you, and everyone wants to see what you got, and the fun becomes contagious. And that is what the show is about: art being fun, and that art is for everyone.”

The CAM is a restored National cigarette machine from the 1960s. Twenty-two local artists each created 20 pieces of original artwork for the machine. Each work will sell for $10 until the machine is empty, which probably won’t take long.

“The artist lineup for the show is exceptional,” promises Cihlar.

“Artists put a lot of work and time into these pieces. They hand cut boxes and created 20 original works to fit in the machine. I’ll say the works presented are well worth over $10 — some valued 10 times that amount — but that’s not the point of the exhibition. This show is a way to start a great collection even if our guests have a budget. The machine is meant to be interactive and create an experience for all of those around it.”

Participating artists include Ken Arthur, Marsha Gray Carrington,

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Rich Cihlar, Justin Delli Bovi, Eileen Dorsey, Matthew Gallagher, Mark Hagstrom, Josh Haplea, Jeff Hulligan, Nick Humez, Nina Vivian Huryn, George Kocar, Matt Kokoski, Patricia Krebs,

“One more fun element Charles (Mayer, director of the Sandusky Cultural Center) and I came up with was the commemorative coin,” Cihlar says. “We had a custom die cut, and produced

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Charles T. Mayer, Billy Nainiger, James Ward Peake and Anastasia Linger, Christina M. Sadowski, Lisa Schonberg, Andrew Shannon, Denise E. Stewart and Mark Yasenchack.

In addition to the machine, the gallery walls feature larger original works of art by each of the participating artists. Works in the CAM range from paintings, drawings and photography to prints and mixed media pieces.

Guests will also receive a commemorative CAM coin for their participation.

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an exclusive CAM coin. Each guest who purchases a pull from the CAM will get a brass coin featuring a monkey on it with the text ‘Cleveland Artifact Machine,’ in honor of the machine and the Year of the Monkey. The coin is roughly the size of a quarter. It’s just something else to make the event great.”

The Cleveland Artifact Machine will be the final art exhibition of the 2015-2016 season at the Sandusky Cultural Center. The next season will begin in the fall.

“We have had a particularly

strong season this year at Sandusky Cultural Center, but most of our themed shows have been rather serious,” says director Mayer. “This one promises the fun that may have been previously absent. While the focus for this exhibit has been on the Machine and the special works created for it, I should also mention that each of the 22 participating artists has been invited to exhibit a small group of their more usual works at regular prices so that guests may be able have a reference for their purchases from the Machine. All credit for the project must go to Rich Cihlar; he has done all of the heavy lifting. I have just been the coordinator.”

Mayer and Cihlar have worked together on several previous projects at the Sandusky Cultural Center. Their friendship and working relationship developed during an earlier exhibition at SCC. Mayer and his thoughtful programming inspired Cihlar’s 365 Days of Pez project.

“I’ve known Charles (Mayer) for about four or five years now, and I met him through the Sandusky Cultural Center and mutual friends,” Cihlar says. “He was the driving force behind my 365 Days of Pez project and the rest of our friendship is history. Charles is such a support system, not only to my work but to all of the artists who get involved with the Sandusky Cultural Center. We have become good friends, we shared creative ideas for exhibitions, we have introduced each other to new artists and have really worked on some great ideas together like this one featuring the CAM. Together I would say we have strengthened the bond between Sandusky and Cleveland by introducing new artists to each of those areas. It’s a beautiful thing.”

Be the first to use the machine during the opening reception this Sunday, April 10, from 1 to 4 p.m.

The machine and exhibition remain on view through May 15.

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STAGE A BALANCING ACT, SLIGHTLY BOBBLED Lonely people search for connection in Shining City at the Beck Center

By Christine Howey THERE’S A REASON YOU shouldn’t store apples next to onions in your fridge. The apples will soon take on the flavor of the onions, since apples have a lot of air space between the cells, space that is quickly occupied by the onions.

Lest you fear you’ve stumbled into a food-storage tutorial by mistake, note that there is one apple and three onions in the play Shining City by Conor McPherson, now at the Beck Center. This is a script that is a delicately — even fiendishly — balanced study of how Ian, an ex-priest turned therapist, gropes in the dark to find his way, even as he is surrounded by three other people with their own pressing issues.

Ian is the apple in this tidy little crisper, set in Dublin, Ireland, as he listens to and then unconsciously absorbs the behavior of others. It’s a fascinating construct in theory, but at the opening Saturday performance the balance was ever so slightly off-kilter, turning McPherson’s naturalistic dialogue into a procession of Pinteresque and Mamet-like truncated affectations and half-finished thoughts.

That’s a shame, because the writing itself has much to offer. The 90-minute one-act features 30-something Ian and his 54-year-old patient John, a man who has been seeing the ghost of his wife ever since she died in a car accident. John is so unnerved by this he has moved into a bed-and-breakfast to avoid the haunting specter.

Three of the five scenes in the play involve these two men, and their relationship is challenging to negotiate on stage. This is because, as you would expect in a therapy session, John does almost all of the talking with Ian often relegated to an encouraging “Yes” now and then and some random “Uh-huhs.” As John unloads his miseries in the first scene, we catch the drift of a man who was desperately lonely in his childless marriage.

Then, in the second scene, Ian has an encounter with Neasa (Ursula Cataan), a woman with whom he’s had a troubled personal relationship, along with a baby he insisted on bringing into the world. Neasa,

who has recently had sex with another man who communicates with her more effectively, has come to Ian’s office for what she thinks might be a reconciliation. But Ian, overloaded with empathy for John, has been influenced by the earlier

absorbing like a sponge the options he now has in his life.

Robert Hawkes, who plays John, is a veteran actor of prodigious talents.

But on this evening, the virtually one-person scene was quietly grinding rather than gripping as John hashes

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Ursula Cataan and Adam Hefferman

conversation and rejects her advances.

In McPherson’s script, there is just as much happening in the silences as there are in the words. One can sense Ian’s insecurity as he tries to negotiate a path in his new noncelibate world where he suddenly has different choices and compelling responsibilities.

In the third scene, John is back and

out even the tiniest actions in his past.

The glitch here, as in other parts of the production, is that we don’t feel there’s as much at stake as there actually is.

The fresh life options that Ian now has at his disposal are expressed in the penultimate scene, when Ian brings a young man named Laurence (Nicholas Chokan)

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launches a long monologue confessing to his attraction to another woman while married, sharing his guilt about that along with his visit to a brothel.

This is all fairly mundane stuff for the most part, but the events are cataclysmic for John. Not to mention for Ian, who is listening carefully and

most challenging role of all since he often has to communicate his yearnings wordlessly. The staging by director Bernadette Clemens doesn’t help him greatly, since the focus of the audience is often directed at John and the others.

to his office for an initial attempt at gay sex. Again, there are important elements that don’t register as powerfully as they should: Ian’s wrenching desire and the fact that Laurence is married, has a child and is hooking just to make money.

As Ian, Adam Heffernan has the

In order for us to experience the changes happening to Ian, we have to see him. But in the long middle scene with John, Ian is sitting far away from John with his back to most of the audience.

Also ringing a false note are the two major pieces of furniture in Ian’s office: a fairly lush tufted leather couch and matching chair. As a former young priest and neophyte therapist, his crib might logically look a bit less upscale.

In all likelihood, the precise balance that Shining City requires will develop and improve as the run continues, since all the players are proven talents. Good thing, since this deceptively intricate script deserves the best production possible.

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MOVIES TOGETHER AGAIN Gyllenhaal and Cooper are dynamite in Demolition

By Jeff Niesel AFTER DALLAS BUYERS CLUB AND Wild, director Jean-Marc Vallée was suddenly identifiable as a filmmaker with a recognizable look and feel, a dude with a sort of personalized Instagram filter. Not only were his movies rich in their character-driven stories (highlighted by the soulful performances of McConaughey, Leto, Witherspoon, Dern, et al.); they were also sharply edited and enjoyed the benefits of intentional color palettes: the dusty beiges and asphalt whites of Texas, the earth-tonal greens and luminescent yellow-browns of the Pacific Crest Trail at dawn.

In Demolition, which opens Friday in limited release, the film’s vision is once again unified along a color spectrum. Here, through the eyes of Davis Mitchell (Jake Gyllenhaal), an investment banker who loses his wife in a tragic car crash, the world is virtually without color — it’s all rainy and drab and cold. His White Plains home is polished concrete and stainless steel, geometric and without personality. His Manhattan office is full of white shirts and big windows. When Davis watches TV, it’s not people he sees. It’s financial charts.

At the hospital where his wife dies, Davis has a familiar mishap with

a vending machine. His M&Ms get stuck in the coils. Needing someplace to vent, he begins a correspondence with the vending company’s customer service rep, Karen Moreno (Naomi Watts), and through an unexpected blossoming friendship, Davis tries to cope with what he’s becoming in the wake of his wife’s death. What he’s becoming is a destruction savant.

He wants to “take thing apart to see what they’re made of,” he says, and buys a new wardrobe from the army surplus store so that he can join

demolition crews in his neighborhood and beat the daylights out of walls.

He disassembles his work computer, a bathroom stall, his refrigerator; he and Karen’s son Chris (Judah Lewis) go to town on Davis’ house with sledgehammers and a demo truck he buys on eBay. Watching, horrified, at Davis’ descent is his wife’s father, Phil (Chris Cooper), a principal at the investment firm and an old-school white-collar daddy if ever there was one. He’s trying to get Davis (whom he’s never

much liked) to sign away a portion of his wife’s insurance money to start a scholarship fund in her name.

Getting to see Cooper and Gyllenhaal on-screen together, in intense scenes about love and loss, will be a special treat for anyone who remembers their fraught father-son relationship in 1999’s October Sky. Bryan Sipe’s script is literary in ambition — the early letters to the vending company serve as a perfect expository tool — and awash in sometimes overt symbolism. Davis’ ultimate recognitions about his marriage (conveyed beautifully by Gyllenhaal) redeemed Demolition from my own idle speculation that it might have been more effective in a short-story format.

In each of Jean-Marc Vallee’s last two films, two actors were nominated for Academy Awards. Both Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto won for Dallas Buyers Club. Though Demolition’s April release date doesn’t bode well for awards season, both Gyllenhaal and Cooper are worthy of consideration.

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SPOTLIGHT: 5 FILMS NOT TO MISS AT CIFF 1) Coming Through the Rye (Thur. 4/7, 4:20 p.m. @Tower City) We figured we’d mention this one, seeing as it co-stars Chris Cooper (mentioned in Demolition’s review, above) as reclusive author J.D. Salinger. The film is about a young prep school kid (Alex Wolff, brother of Nat) who has adapted Catcher in the Rye at his school and goes off with an accomplice in search of Salinger. Though it’s set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, it is nonetheless steeped in the “humor, charm and angst” that made Salinger’s novel such a runaway success.

2) The Art of Burning (Sat. 4/9, 9:25 p.m. @Tower City) We alluded to this one on last week’s film page.

It’s the first CIFF film to be screened in 3-D, and why not? It’s a documentary about Burning Man, that monolith to experimental arts, hippie drugs and uninhibited sex. This film focuses less on the debauchery and more on the interactive artistic displays, spotlighting the work of the AfrikaBurn Fire Collective, Peter Hudson, Georgia Collard-

Watson and others who have made their mark at the festival.

3) A Good Wife (Sat. 4/9, 7:20 p.m., and Sun. 4/10, 12:10 p.m. @Tower City) This one’s part of the Central and Eastern European film competition, and it’s a relevant flick for anyone who’s been following the convictions and acquittals of Serb leaders at the International Criminal Tribunal in the Hague. The film revolves around Milena, a good wife with a happy life whose world is turned upside down by two events. One: A lump is discovered in her breast during a routine checkup. Two: She finds a videotape of her husband executing bound Bosnians during the Bosnian war.

This one’s as tightly wound as a rubber-band ball.

4) Akron (Fri. 4/8, 8 p.m. @Akron Public Library) This one’s part of a series on LGBTQ issues and takes place locally. Benny and Christopher are students at the University of Akron who meet during a football game and are soon inseparable.

Their families are cool with the relationship and everything seems peachy, but before a Spring break trip, Christopher makes a “shocking discovery” of a past tragedy involving their mothers. “The two young lovers are about to discover how the distance between loyalty to your family and to the one you love can be as deep and wide as the Cuyahoga River.”

5) Miles Ahead (Sun. 4/10, 6:55 p.m. @Tower City) Close the festival out in style with this behindthe-scenes look at legendary jazz saxophonist Miles Davis, as portrayed by the incomparable Don Cheadle. It’s a “no holds barred” portrait of Davis in the late 1970s, holed up in his home away from public view and haunted by his past.

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EAT GOLD STANDARD Inside the mind of Pulitzer Prize-winning restaurant critic Jonathan Gold

By Douglas Trattner

PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING restaurant critic Jonathan Gold was one of the first in his field to focus equal attention on trendy bistros and on small ethnic eateries in historically ignored communities. By doing so he invites his readers to explore and appreciate the “real” Los Angeles for the beautiful, delicious melting pot that it is.

The documentary City of Gold, which opens at Cedar Lee Theater April 8, offers viewers a compelling glimpse into Gold’s life and work.

A documentary about a writer’s work sounds about as appealing as watching somebody type. Did you have to be convinced to do the film?

I definitely had to be convinced. I’ve been approached for a lot of food stuff, primarily reality TV stuff, and I’ve always said no. I donated a meal with a critic to a silent auction and Laura Gabbert, the director, bought it. She brought up the idea of the film at the dinner and I said no. And then my kid ended up going to the same school as her kid the next year, and when you’re seeing somebody every day in the drop-off line it becomes much harder to say no. Plus, her first documentary, Sunset Story, was just a charming, wonderful, moving film and I thought she’d probably get it right.

So, would you give the film a good review?

Of course, I hated seeing myself on film. We become writers because we like being able to hide. But I thought she captured it well because it shows

my Los Angeles in a way that no film ever has. They’ll show Beverly Hills or gritty crime-scene Los Angeles, but the giant part of L.A., where people are just living their lives while incidentally eating totally delicious food, is a part that tends to get ignored in movies.

As a critic who enjoys the thrill of the hunt, I’ll admit I was disappointed that the film omitted your own process for unearthing new-to-you restaurants.

That would have probably been interesting. I find restaurants all kinds of different ways. My favorite one lately has been going into online chat forums in different languages, like Korean or Japanese, and using Google Translate to sort of figure what and where they are talking about. I can’t tell you the number of times I figure out that a restaurant that I thought specialized in one thing turned out to specialize in something different.

And before technology?

I would very deliberately eat at every restaurant along, say, a 2-mile stretch of road. You always find something that you don’t know about that you drive past, and sometimes those are the coolest places.

Most of the meals captured on film appeared to be pleasure as opposed to business. Is that correct?

The main ground rule I set out at the beginning was that she couldn’t see me in the process of actually reviewing a restaurant because there is no way to review a restaurant while having a film crew follow you. It’s the Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle at

work. You can measure something or you can observe something but you can’t do both at the same time.

An experience many American diners likely can relate to is when an ethnic restaurant serves us food they believe we want as opposed to what they do best. How do you break through and get the “real” experience?

That’s the great thing about a city as gigantic as Los Angeles. If you have 500,000 to a million Koreans in communities where the signs are only in Korean and the menus are only in Korean, they are cooking for one another. If you happen to go in there and crack the code and get a meal out of it, great, but that’s not what they’re in business for. It might be bad for business but it’s really good for food.

There’s a trend lately towards the fetishization of food, eating out not for enjoyment or nourishment but as sport. Are social media apps like Yelp and Instagram good for restaurants?

If someone is going to get in a car or get on a train and go 20 miles because they heard a place has great Burmese food, I don’t care if they Instagram it. They love food and it’s their way of documenting it. And there’s that thing on Yelp where you get a little blue ribbon when you’re first to review, and people will go to a random place and they will write their impressions. Maybe their impressions are wrong, and their opinions probably are certainly wrong, but it sort of puts the place on a larger map. It’s

democratic; it’s inclusive.

The whole formula behind dining for work with friends is not as straightforward as one might assume, is it?

Your best friends are the ones you take to the shitty restaurants because they’ll go and the people you don’t know as well tend to go to the better, more glamorous places. It’s not fair, really. And you also work up the restaurant equivalent of a girl in every port, right? People want to go to the geographically convenient places. And as I get older I have fewer friends who have all of Wednesday free to go to seven Vietnamese restaurants.

You must spend a ton of time behind the wheel of your pick-up truck.

It’s really hard because L.A. is so big and everything is 40 minutes by car from everything else. But you sort of develop a Zen appreciation of that time you spend in gridlock on the freeway by listening to great tunes playing and the light inching over the mountains. It can be beautiful if you let it be beautiful.

It’s a tough grind sometimes being a food critic, no?

I kind of like it. I always feel as if I’m behind in my eating, which is a concept that is almost entirely impossible to explain to a civilian, but ... it’s not a bad life.

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Luca began cooking in Albania, but it was after moving to Italy in 1994 that he entered the restaurant world.

In the U.S., he worked in restaurant kitchens by night and factories by day. He landed at Valerioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in Little Italy before helping to open Osteria downtown and eventually making his way back to Little Italy to work at Michaelangeloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. A stint in Spanish cooking added to his skill set.

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Lucaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most popular dishes: Sacchetti al Tartufo Bianco consists of fresh pasta purses stuffed with white trufďŹ&#x201A;e, 24-month aged pecorino Romano, 20-month aged Parmigiano Reggiano and ricotta cheeses. The dish is ďŹ nished with white trufďŹ&#x201A;e cream sauce and aged ďŹ g balsamic. The dish, says Lola, was a happy accident. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Luca was making a soup that was exactly like trufďŹ&#x201A;e cream sauce and he just threw it on the pasta. The aged balsamic adds a sweetness and the trufďŹ&#x201A;e adds a creaminess.â&#x20AC;?

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Lola suggests pairing the dish with a super Tuscan. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a lot of fruit and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re bold enough, but wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t overpower,â&#x20AC;? she says.

Ossobuco di Cinghiale, or wild boar osso buco, is slow-roasted for four and a half hours, with the tender meat served on top of fettuccine with a side of julienned carrots and onions. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People are open to wild boar because theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re experimenting more now; they like different,â&#x20AC;? Lola says.

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And when it comes to the right wine to pair with his favorite dish? â&#x20AC;&#x153;My favorite wine is whatever Lola tells me goes well with my dishes!â&#x20AC;? says Luca, a wise man indeed.

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million times. Shuffleboard?

“It’s one of those things that when you get people out there for the first time they really enjoy

the experience,” he explains. “And the more you play, the more you like it. What’s not to like? There’s really no physical exertion, there are low barriers to entry, and you’re able to have a few drinks while playing competitively against your friends.”

Miketo, a Cleveland native and graduate of St. Ed’s, lived in New York for eight years. While there he had the pleasure of visiting the Royal Palms Shuffleboard Club, inside a renovated 17,000-squarefoot warehouse in Brooklyn.

“When I went there I was like, what are kids in their 20s and 30s doing playing shuffleboard?

And there are two- to three-hour waits every Friday, Saturday and Sunday.”

While the Cleveland location of Erie Social won’t clock in at 17,000 square feet, it still will be quite spacious when all is said and done.

“Because the regulation courts are so long — they are 60 feet by 10 feet each — you’re limited in the number of areas you’re able to identify in Cleveland. Luckily, we were fortunate to find a building that has a large enough footprint and space to put on an addition that was able to house us.”

Formerly Supermercado Rico (4506 Lorain Ave.), the building will have a 7,500-square-foot main floor, plus additional second-floor office space. There will be five indoor courts plus two outdoor courts on the side patio, which connects both to the street and to the main space via garage doors.

“I’m pretty excited about the patio,” adds Miketo. “As the foot traffic and streetscape continues to come down Lorain, we’ll be in a position to really capitalize on that because we’ll have connectivity to the street so people can see the action; there’s a synergy to it.

And with the garage doors open to the indoor courts, it’s not like you’re in some dark and dank warehouse.”

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to create an entire experience as opposed to just a big bleak box with fresh wood courts. Cabanas outfitted with boldly striped fabric, lighting and other decorations combine to evoke images of a bygone era.

“What’s old is new, right?” he says. “We want to create that vibe of the ’50s and ’60s, to evoke that sense of nostalgia that adds to the allure of the game. We have people all the time who come in and say, ‘I remember playing this with my grandma.’”

There are more ways to while away an afternoon at Erie Social than by just propelling 8-inch round discs 60 feet down the court with a 6-foot-long cue, Miketo assures us. In addition to the indoor and outdoor regulationlength shuffleboard courts, the entertainment complex will have two 22-foot tabletop versions, the sort seen in bars. Real, steel-tip darts and bristle boards, cornhole boards and vintage tabletop board games will fill the time between matches, but also help to drive midweek traffic.

“Creating that midweek presence really enhances that neighborhood, community feel,” he says.

“Everybody is always looking for things to do during the week.”

Shuffleboard leagues and tournaments, cornhole matches,

both indoors and out, plus dart leagues and specials like a bucket of beers and an hour of shuffleboard all will help keep the Erie Social buzzing, hopes Miketo.

Keeping the patrons buzzed, however, will be the full bar serving craft cocktails and craft draft beer.

An on-site sandwich shop serving fresh, handcrafted sandwiches, salads and sides keep them well fed.

Miketo is counting down the days to Labor Day when he can raise high the garage doors and officially become part of the Ohio City community.

“It’s such a cool neighborhood down there. It has such a unique fabric, and as the community continues to grow and expand, I want to be a part of it.”

Miketo’s long-term goal is to open a few more of these before franchising them to like-minded business folks.

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JONATHON SAWYER JOINS MOD MEALS FAMILY OF CHEFS James Beard Award-winning chef Jonathon Sawyer of Greenhouse Tavern, Trentina and Noodlecat will be joining the Mod Meals team. Beginning this week, Clevelanders will be able to enjoy the creative chef’s food without ever leaving home.

Mod Meals, the local “farm-todoorstep” delivery service that launched in November, delivers restaurant-quality meals with a few clicks on a computer or smartphone. Local chefs like Karen

Small, Eric Williams, Brian Okin and Ben Bebenroth prepare a variety of meals in their restaurant kitchens, which are then chilled and kept that way until they land on your doorstep. Heat and eat the meals immediately if you want, or hold them in the fridge until later: The food will be exactly the same.

Sawyer will be debuting the brand new Kids & Family section of the Mod Meals menu, which features kid-friendly dishes and family-style meals.

“Our partnership with Chef Sawyer is focused on fundamentally changing the way busy parents put food on their table,” explains Mod Meals CEO Bruce Teicher. “Right now every parent wants to provide fresh, wholesome food for the family, but the pressures of our busy, modern lives conspire against us at every turn, and we succumb to pizza and fast food. We’re going to make it easy for families to eat well and give parents the opportunity to be heroes.”

Items that customers can look forward to from Sawyer’s kitchen include Grilled Ramen & Cheese, noodles in a cheddar and Parmesan cheese mixture that are grilled, Classic Lasagna with cheese and Italian sausage, Veggie Lasagna filled with locally sourced veggies, Whole Roasted Eggplant served with homemade marinara, and New England Clam Chowder with plenty of clams, corn and potatoes.

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LASER’S EDGE Dubstep DJ Datsik embraces sensory overload with his current tour

By Jeff Niesel

TROY BEETLES, A CANADIAN producer and DJ who records as both Datsik and Ephwurd, initially developed an interest in hip-hop. He then gravitated to bass music and started producing what’s commonly called dubstep.

“Ever since I was very young, I was always really obsessed with audio and the technical side of it rather than the musicianship side of it,” he explains in a phone interview from Los Angeles, where he was still recovering from a late-night session with his side project, Ephwurd, that yielded some tracks he describes as “’90s rave meets wobbly house music.”

During the course of a career that stretches back nearly 10 years, Beetles has collaborated with the likes of Excision, Diplo, Infected Mushroom and Korn. A major talent in the EDM world, he’s remixed songs from Kaskade & Skrillex, MGMT, Linkin Park, M83 and WuTang Clan.

He credits his dad with pointing him in the right direction.

“I never played any instruments

growing up, but my dad was an audiophile,” he says. “We had tube amps and high-end audio gear and wicked turntables around and hi-fi speakers. I took an interest in it when I was really young. For one of my birthdays, when I was 7 or 8, my dad put a nice sound system in my room. He said, ‘If you can set this up by the end of the day, you can have it.’ Obviously, there was trial and error, but I ended up figuring it out and I have been into the technical side of everything ever since.”

He acquired a copy of the digital audio workstation FruityLoops when he was 14 years old and started experimenting with it.

“I was into Wu-Tang and oldschool hip-hop — Dre and Snoop and Xzibit and all that kind of stuff — and it just evolved,” he says. “I started trying to copy those tunes.

Those old Wu-Tang tunes really inspired me, and I started throwing my music on the net and it got some traction, and I realized there was a whole culture behind dubstep, and I had no idea about it.”

Using a friend’s turntables, he

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started mixing drum and bass and breakbeats and would spin for hours. When Excision, another local dubstep artist based in Kelowna, British Columbia, started throwing parties at Elevation, a popular club night, Beetles sent him tapes in the attempt to get on the bill.

“I got so obsessed with it,” Beetles says. “I would show up early and watch all the DJs until the end of the night. I wanted to play one of those shows. I sent him some tunes. He thought they were whatever. I went back to the drawing board. I really wanted to send him something that he would play. A few weeks later, I sent him some more stuff and he

thought it was dope. He wanted me to come over so we could work on some music. When he gave me his address, I realized he was literally my neighbor. It’s kind of crazy how it all came together.”

The two became friends and collaborators, releasing several tracks together on Excision’s Rottun Recordings. Back in 2012, Beetles issued his first studio album, Vitamin D. It features guests such as the production duo Infected Mushroom and DJ Z-Trip.

“It was the first collection of tunes that I had put together,” says Beetles.

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MUSIC For the subsequent tour, he partnered with veteran DJ Steve Aoki, who showed him the ropes.

“We become good friends,” says Beetles. “It was really fun. He’s a super cool dude. We got to travel around. We did a lot of interviews.

It was the first time I had been in the spotlight. He’s good at handling himself in press situations. He was plugging his album. It was a great experience. I learned from [the record label] Dim Mak what makes a good record label, and that’s when I started Firepower Records. I wanted to do my own thing.”

He followed Vitamin D up with 2013’s Let It Burn, an album that departs from the tendency to turn up the beats per minute.

“It’s always tricky coming out with a new record because it’s like how many times can you flip a song at 140 bpm and have it still be different?” says Beetles. “There are tunes that I tracked at 110, which was like a Moombahton thing. I got my girlfriend on the track ‘Let It Burn’ and wanted to experiment and have fun with it.”

For his new EP, Darkstar, Beetles says he sought to embrace hip-hop.

The album opens with the punishing “Tantrum,” a song that features booming bass and aggressive vocals courtesy of guest Trinidad James, who freestyles on the track. “Get it moving, moving, moving,” he intones.

“It’s primarily a hip-hop record at 100 bmp and has tons of swag to it,” he says. “I was working with [the clothing and accessory line] Famous Stars and Straps. They sponsored me through [former Blink 182 drummer]

music, there’s got be a balance so it’s as punchy as anything else,” says Beetles when asked about the song. “Sometimes, you have to mix it perfectly or layer it to give it that depth. You can use the acoustic drums for a little bit of grit and then have the clean processed samples that you use as a layer and make it sound punchy when you mash it together.”

“No Mind” features all kinds of headphone candy, including metallicsounding percussion and woozy, demonic sounding vocals; guest Armanni Reign provides the vocals for “Let ’em Know,” a rousing number that works to rile up any audience at a sporting event.

“Whatever you throw at him, he can flip and turn into something amazing,” Beetles says of Reign.

“When I was writing the track, I had him in mind. I sent it to him and he thought it was sick. He did a good job with it. I got him to record all these other shout-outs for every major city.

When I play a live set, I can loop one of the cities and get everyone pumped up. It’s a super high-energy song.”

The current tour features a special light show designed to top the previous extravagant productions.

“This time around, we have this laser set up,” says Beetles. “I played this Red Rocks show last year with Krewella. We paid for our own production, and we brought these lasers to Red Rocks. They did a 3-D rendition of the rocks and contours that create the natural amphitheater.

They can project images with the lasers on the rocks. It was really cool. That’s how it started. I’ve toured with the Vortex [light show]

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Travis Barker. I went to the studio, which was not far from my house, and I met with Travis. He’s a super cool dude. He told me he was really into my stuff and wanted to do a track with me. He’s one of the best drummers in the world. I showed him ‘Darkstar,’ and he loved it and drummed over the whole thing. It goes from 100 bpm to dubstep at the end. It was fun.”

Even though the song features a dense array of electronic beats and crooning vocals courtesy of Liinks, Barker’s drumming manages to be discernable.

“Because it’s primarily electronic

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like four times. I wanted to switch it up. I want to keep it different.”

Beetles says the sound system will live up to expectations too.

“It’s going to be heavy as fuck,” he says. “We bring our system and if a club has a problem with it I just won’t play. It’s all about the presentation. It’s a body and visual experience as well. Kids go to have their rib cages rattled. That’s what we promote. When I perform, I want to give it my all.”

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MUSIC THE STORYTELLER Singer John Waite brings the stories behind his songs to Music Box

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By Matt Wardlaw

THE INSPIRATIONAL PATH TO A hit record usually has a few interesting twists and turns along the way, and that was certainly the case for singer John Waite when he was working on the song that the world would come to know as “Missing You.” “Well, I thought my life up to the end of the Babys was like a Russian novel,” Waite says during a recent phone conversation. “It was intense and it was over the top and it was way colorful and it wound up with me getting married and living in the Lake District [of England] in a cottage. And then I made another solo album in New York City and lived there and then I quit and went back to the countryside of England with no intention of ever returning. Some lawyers got me out of my contract and then bang, I had ‘Missing You’ and it was No. 1.”

According to Waite, there were several different storylines that helped to fuel the lyrical content of “Missing You,” which hit the top of the Billboard charts in September of 1984.

“I had a wife who I was still married to and my marriage was in trouble and I was living out of a suitcase,” he says. “I was living in New York, separated really, and I was seeing this girl, Patty, and we ended up being engaged years later, and me and [MTV VJ] Nina [Blackwood] were great friends. It’s a combination of three different personalities who were all blonde!”

Whether it’s a song like “Missing You,” or “When I See You Smile,” a later hit from his time with the late 1980s supergroup Bad English, or

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tracks like “Every Time I Think of You” and “Back On My Feet Again,” from his earlier days in the Babys, Waite has recorded a number of songs that his fans remain similarly connected with. When they play on the radio, his tunes often function as musical mile markers for those fans, providing a nostalgic reminder 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 his upcoming acoustic tour.

“I thought, ‘Well, wouldn’t that be cool if the audience could ask questions and I’d tell them the story of the song?’” he says. “The audience is always pretty friendly and interested

couple of rehearsals and the songs are interesting songs. Some of them have never been played before, so we’re going for it, really.”

The show will, of course, feature Waite’s best-known material, but he’s been having a lot of fun mining the more obscure parts of his catalog — and he says that fans can also expect that the evening will showcase his hits in a new light. “‘In God’s Shadow,’ that was a powerful song that we never played live much and it sounds great unplugged,” he reveals. “‘Price of My Tears’ [is another one that we are working on]. We’re having a crack at ‘You (Got It)’ from the Babys — we’ve never played that live anywhere at all.

You know, I think if we go out there with some obscure stuff mixed in

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and kind of chatty. They talk to you at these acoustic shows. We’ve done it before, you know, somebody will say something and we end up having a conversation. It’s all part of the show — it’s not like it’s planned.”

He says the goal is to keep the acoustic show “spontaneous and moving.”

“There’s two other guys on stage playing instruments apart from me, so it’s got a band feel, but in a very unplugged way,” he says. “The story will write itself — I know it’s going to be good. I can feel it. I’ve done a

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with some of the more popular stuff, it should fly really well. It’s surprising how soulful ‘When I See You Smile’ can be when it’s unplugged. And ‘Missing You.’ There’s songs that just kind of take over.”

As the tour progresses, Waite hints that there will be room to play pretty much anything.

“If there’s anything we haven’t played, we can rehearse it backstage.

It’s amazing what you can do when you take the drums out. We love our drummer — he’s great and we’re doing a lot of full band gigs this year — but

it’s an interesting concept to be able to throw a complete song together in like 15 minutes, walk out on stage and play it.”

Waite continues to remain creatively active as a songwriter, and Wooden Heart Acoustic — Volume 1, his most recent release, was recorded quickly with longtime collaborator Shane Fontayne (Graham Nash, Bruce Springsteen). “I tried to keep it to that honest performance and recording.

It’s not analog, but I was going for an analog sound,” he says.

It was an EP partly because of Fontayne’s busy schedule. “I was hoping to get him for a full week,” Waite says. “If I had, it would have been an album. But it turned into an EP and I kind of like the shape of it.”

He’s now charting out plans to make a second volume and says it could turn into a full album.

“That’s how it goes usually. You have one song that’s the cornerstone for a record, and then you put another song in there and if they seem to fit, those two songs, if you add a third one, you’ve got a record,” he says.

“Sometimes the hardest thing is to find that second song to go with the first one. But if you’re on a roll and you’re determined and you’re clear and you’re thinking and you’re inspired, that sort of stuff just happens. It’s like lighting a bonfire: You throw the match in and suddenly it’s a raging blaze and you can’t really leave it.”

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TRAVELING MAN A trip to Italy inspired Ian Anderson’s new Jethro Tull rock opera

By Jeff Niesel A RECENT TRIP TO ITALY inspired Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson to create Jethro Tull — The Rock Opera, a new show that features a “quasi-operatic structure” with virtual guests on video and some additional newly written songs.

“I was driving through Northern Italy in the summer of 2014 when it amused me to look out the window and see what forms of agriculture were being practiced and what different methods of cropping they were using,” says Anderson in a recent transatlantic phone call. “I found myself wondering what Jethro Tull, the 18th century agriculturalist, would have made of Italian agriculture. I looked him up and found that he too had traveled through Southern France and Northern Italy in his early years, trying to get a rest cure from the chest infections and ailments he suffered.

He also wanted to learn from them to incorporate into his ideas back home.”

As Anderson investigated the matter further, he realized that many of the songs he had written over the years with Jethro Tull had a connection to Tull’s life.

“It seemed a little uncanny,” he says.

“I started writing down songs and had a full setlist of songs that were either directly connected to his life or required little to rewrite them.”

Anderson realized he could write a narrative to accompany the songs and tie the concepts all together.

“I thought it would be more fun to reimagine his life if he were alive

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today and working and using his inventiveness facing today’s realities of bioengineering and cloning and the demands of feeding more people,” he says. “Maybe it’s not an everyday aspect of us Brits or you Americans, where we have plenty to eat and eat too much generally. But we’re struggling to feed 7 billion or so; by the end of the century, it will be between 11 and 13 billon, so let’s call it 12 billion people. It seems like we won’t be able to feed that many people, especially in the face of climate change. Mr. [Donald] Trump might do all he can to persuade us that it’s a hoax, but most of us feel it’s real.”

While “rock opera” might sound rather onerous, the band, which these days features bassist David Goodier,

probably rather valuable Fender Strat and they wouldn’t give me money for it. They would allow me to exchange it for something else. I picked the flute, which was hanging on the wall of the music store. I liked it because it was small and shiny and not the sort of thing that you saw everyday in the world of pop and rock music.”

At first, he wasn’t sure how his flute, which he purchased in 1967, would work in the context of a rock ’n’ roll band. Within the next year, he had figured it out and Jethro Tull became a sensation.

“I tried to give it a role that was equal to the guitar,” he says. “I didn’t want it to be a decorative addition in the way the flute sometimes did appear

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keyboardist John O’Hara, guitarist Florian Opahle and drummer Scott Hammond, will revisit Tull hits such as “Aqualung,” “Living in the Past,” “Wind-Up,” “A New Day Yesterday,” “The Witch’s Promise,” “Locomotive Breath” and other favorites.

Way back in the late ’60s, Anderson actually picked up the flute by “accident.”

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in pop music. I wanted it to be a more dominant and aggressive instrument.

It became a guitar substitute. I was thinking guitar, but playing the flute.”

With albums such as Aqualung and Thick as a Brick, the band provided a critique of organized religion and presented various other social issues too.

“I’m one of those songwriters who prefers to write about stuff,” says Anderson. “If I just write me and how my baby done left me, I think we’ve heard all that before by people who have done it far better than I could

ever do it. I tend to steer clear of the common subjects of song lyrics. It’s been done and done again. I chose, as I have done most of my life, subjects that though sometimes they’re told from a personal standpoint, ones that people can relate to from their own experiences and imaginations. I write about stuff. I write about difficult stuff sometimes.”

But Anderson says the current tour doesn’t require any knowledge of the real-life Tull or agricultural techniques to make sense.

“It’s got to work for the toe-tappers and those who want to hear the best of Jethro Tull,” he says. “There are five mercifully short songs that help to tell the story as well as the bulk of the set that are songs that are the most widely known of the Jethro Tull repertoire. In the sense that I’ve delivered songs with a big video screen and virtual guests, it has to work as a piece of entertainment. Just as you might go to the ballet, it might be good to know a bit about what you plan to see. Things can be less than obvious if you go to an opera or ballet. [There’s a synopsis of the concert on the Jethro Tull website] in a variety of languages, so you can read about it. You can do homework if you want. I’m not here to preach or tell people what they should believe. I present songs and give a little question mark here and there.”

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In2ative: This flute-cello duo has been bringing a unique sound to Northeast Ohio for the past year, gigging at arts festivals and various venues all over the region. “Trevor [Kazarian] and I are passionate about our band, and although we could easily fall into orchestral positions with our classical backgrounds from Cleveland Institute of Music, we chose to focus on In2ative, composing music and creating our own sound world to share with as many people as we can!” flautist Kimberly Zaleski tells Scene. “A fun fact: We were very close to getting on the show “America’s Got Talent” last year, as we were invited to perform for the executive producers.” Tonight, the duo will once again blend classical, jazz and beatbox into a special evening of music. (Eric Sandy) 7 p.m., $10. Nighttown.

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

Bombino/Last Good Tooth: 8:30 p.m., $18 ADV, $20 DOS. Beachland Ballroom.

Civil Youth/New Moon Rising/ MOSSUM/Golden Streets of Paradise: 7 p.m., $7. Mahall’s 20 Lanes.

The Dandy Warhols — Distortland Tour/Seratones: 8 p.m., $20.

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Joe Leaman: 7:30 p.m., free. BLU Jazz+.

Metal Church/Hatchet: 7 p.m., $15 ADV, $18 DOS. Agora Ballroom.

Bob Corlett/Ken Bindas/Stephen Lee Rich: 6:30 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern.

Ringo Deathstarr/The Stargazer Lilies/Desert Mountain Tribe: 8:30 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Beachland Tavern.

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The Mountain Goats: The inspiration for the Mountain Goats latest tour came on a whim, as the band was preparing to play a show at the City Winery in New York around this time last year. Without much of a plan about what to bring for the performance, the band opted to do it “quick and dirty, old-school style,” which meant using acoustic instruments and a basic drum

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Artsy L.A. rockers Autolux come to the Grog Shop.

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setup. For the current tour, the group chose venues with small rooms that encourage a more up-close-and-personal experience.

Songs such as “The Ballad of Bull Ramos” and “Get Lonely” sound great in their stripped-down forms and nicely complement John Darnielle’s distinctly harsh voice.

Although the cozy ambiance that the band hopes to create might be better achieved in Beachland’s tavern stage, Clevelanders should still be in for a good show. (Jacob DeSmit) 8:30 p.m., $22 ADV, $25 DOS. Beachland Ballroom.

Ayreheart: 8 p.m., $15. Bop Stop.

Blu Jazz Big Band Residency with the Sam Blakeslee Large Group and the Tri-C Jazzfest Prep Ensemble: 7 p.m., $15. BLU Jazz+.

Bongzilla/Black Cobra/Kings Destroy/Lo Pan: 8:30 p.m., $15ADV, $18 DOS. Grog Shop.

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

Hollow Earth: A Bent Crayon Records Curated DJ Night: 8 p.m., free. Happy Dog. Jam Night with the Bad Boys of Blues: 9 p.m., free. Brothers Lounge.

John McCutcheon: 8 p.m., $30.

Nighttown.

Nick Moss Band (in the Supper Club): 8 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Music Box Supper Club.

New Ghosts Rustbelt Improv Summit with Chatoyant/KBD(uo)/ Shadik-Kiroff Duo: 9 p.m., $10.

Now That’s Class.

One-Eyed Doll/Eyes Set to Kill: 6:30 p.m., $10 ADV, $13 DOS. Agora Ballroom.

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The Rat Pack Featuring Frank, Sammy and Dean: 7 p.m., $5. Vosh Club.

The Smith Street Band/Hard Girls/ Signals Midwest/Worship This: 6 p.m., $12 ADV, $15 DOS. Mahall’s 20 Lanes.

Sophistifunk and Brother Diggs: 8 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Music Box Supper Club.

Spyder Stompers/Blue Spruce Cat/ Meg Braun: 6 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern.

Zach Deputy: 8 p.m., $15. Musica.

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James McMurtry/Chris Allen: Produced by John Mellencamp, singer-songwriter James McMurtry’s 1989 debut, Too Long in the Wasteland, couldn’t be classified as bluegrass, but it did have a certain twang to it. And it announced

that McMurtry, the son of writer Larry McMurtry, had a knack for words. McMurtry has nurtured that sensibility ever since. His literary talents distinguish the songs on last year’s Complicated Game. The album commences with the twangy “Copper Canteen,” a song about hunting season that features McMurtry’s signature sneer and a plodding drumbeat. It sets the tone for the album, yet another solid effort from McMurtry, who has said the new album is mostly about relationships.

(Niesel) 8 p.m., $22 ADV, $25 DOS. Music Box Supper Club.

Tony Cuda’s Jazz Cats: 8:30 p.m., $10. Nighttown.

The Dan Band: 7:30 p.m., $22-$32.

House of Blues.

Disco Inferno: 9:30 p.m., $5. Brothers Lounge.

DJ Joe Yachanin: 6 p.m., free. Happy Dog. The Fab Four — The Ultimate Tribute: 8 p.m., $32.50-$47.50.

Hard Rock Rocksino.

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Travis Haddix Blues Band (in the Supper Club): 8 p.m., $7. Music Box Supper Club.

Inducing Panic/Hemingway Hammers/CJ Gunn: 9 p.m., $5.

Now That’s Class.

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

Nighttown.

Lucero/John Moreland: 8:30 p.m., $22 ADV, $25 DOS. Beachland Ballroom.

Tim Matson Trio/Take This Hammer/ George Foley & Friends: 5:30 p.m.

Barking Spider Tavern.

Joey Amato (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m.

Brothers Lounge.

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Timbara Band: 9 p.m., $5. The Euclid Tavern.

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Yonatan Gat/Sleepykid/Hiram Maxim: 9 p.m., $8. Happy Dog.

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Ralph Peterson Trio Featuring the Curtis Brothers: 8:30 p.m., $20.

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The Silver String Band/Triage: 8 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern.

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BAND OF THE WEEK NICK D AND THE BELIEVERS

By Jeff Niesel MEET THE BAND: Nick D’Andrea (vocals, keyboards), Kerry Henderson (guitar, vocals), Seth Bain (bass, vocals), Joseph Barker (keyboards, guitars), Cory Webb (drums) AN EXPANDED LINEUP: The band started in 2013, after drummer Joseph Barker moved to Columbus from Minneapolis and worked with guitarist Kerry Henderson, a member of the Floorwalkers, on a music video he was producing for singer-keyboardist Nick D’Andrea. “I had a revelation at a Dr. Dog concert to start the band,” says D’Andrea. “I got a beer with Joseph [Barker] and wanted to do it.

Kerry [Henderson] is an awesome guitar player. He walked into a session and never left.” Barker also plays in Bella Ruse, an indie rock duo that features his wife. The group recently expanded from a trio into a five-piece.

“It’s definitely been a scary thing,” says Henderson, “but it’s awesome to

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add a fuller sound. When the three of us were playing, we had so much fun. But we wanted the live show to resemble the record. As a three-piece, we were making a lot of noise, but it’s better now that we’re a five-piece. We have a blast playing everything. We always thought it could sound better when we were a three-piece.” Barker has shifted to become the on-stage producer and music director and “tries to capture how the record sounds.”

NATIONAL EXPOSURE: The Freeform (formerly ABC Family) television show Pretty Little Liars recently used one of the band’s songs in an episode, giving the group some well-deserved national exposure. Shows such as Chasing Life and Benched have also featured the band’s music. “We had a watch party for the first time it happened,” says Henderson. “Our mom was with us. It played for a second and we barely caught it. Sometimes, it’s

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so anticlimactic, but sometimes it’s great. We were on Blood and Oil and it was unexpected. It wasn’t just in the background. Sometimes, if it’s a better placement, you high-five each other.

That one played out a little longer.”

WHY YOU SHOULD HEAR THEM: The band travelled to Los Angeles this past February to record a new EP due out in September. “We holed up in the studio for several days in a row,” says D’Andrea. “Kerry lives out there and we got to detach ourselves from our day jobs and really concentrate on making the album. We got to bring in horns and throw everything at the tracks and get a bigger sonic sound than we’ve been able to get.

We had 12- and 15-hour days but the tunes benefited from being so immersed.” As a teaser, the band has released the EP’s single “Crown” this spring and will tour Ohio cities this month to promote it. The band

describes “Crown” as “a bit like a cross between MGMT and Foster the People.” The breezy horns brighten the tune and it features a complex mix of piano and synthesizers.

“We’ve had that song in the hopper for the last year or so and have just been adding things,” says D’Andrea.

“It’s about a relationship that’s ending. It’s a metaphor, like taking away someone’s happiness. It’s that bitter breakup song.”

WHERE YOU CAN HEAR THEM: nickdandthebelievers.com WHERE YOU CAN SEE THEM: Nick D and the Believers perform with Nonaphoenix, Melladramatics and the Rainbow Emergency at 9 p.m. on Saturday, April 9, at the Grog Shop.

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LOCAL MUSICIAN ADAM RICH IS currently in the recording process of his next album, and it’s a trip into both the past and the future that he’s been working on for years. One of the songs revisits Rich’s history as a concertgoing high school senior back in the early 1990s. In particular, his lyrics — and guest musicians — evoke early First Light shows at Peabody’s Cafe. It’s an interesting tale.

Back then, in that halcyon summer between high school and college, Rich caught the Janglers and First Light as often as he could in Cleveland.

“I actually wrote this song ‘Move My Soul’ around 2010 or 2011,” Rich says. “I was just remembering the fun times I had there that summer watching both bands and it evolved into a song. I thought it would be cool to get as many First Light members on it as possible, but figured getting any of them would be a long shot. I also knew it wouldn’t get done in time to make it onto the album I started recording in late 2011, so I set it aside, hoping to include it on my next one.”

A few years down the road, Rich was able to lasso the musicians he’d been following for years and bring them into the studio to work on this track.

“I knew I had to have Rod [Reisman] on drums,” Rich says. “I found out he worked at Stebal Drums in Eastlake. So around 2013, I started going up there every now and then just to talk to him. He introduced me

to Dave Smeltz from I-Tal. “Dave and I became friends. When I finally pitched the idea to Rod about playing on the song, he was up for it.

I got Dave involved as well. Rod was on drums, Dave on guitar and myself on bass. It took some time for our schedules to align, but the three of us jammed in mid-2015 at my house, then recorded a demo toward the end of the year. We recorded final tracks in early 2016, but found the first take we did was the best. So what was intended as the demo ended up being the keeper take.”

The guest spots continued into March 2016. Ed Marthey added a keyboard track, and Carlos Jones added percussion. Chopper tossed a guitar solo on top. Butchie from Outlaws I & I added vocals, too.

“It’s pretty cool to have most of the band you discovered as a teenager now playing on your album on a song you wrote about them almost 25 years later,” Rich says. “Most of the First Light guys slowly migrated over to Outlaws I & I. They just seem to gravitate toward each other. No matter what name they play under, I’ll never get tired of seeing them.”

Rich plans to release the album sometime this fall, likely in line with the annual Love Muffin Palooza event that he organizes.

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SAVAGE LOVE GERMANE

By Dan Savage Dear Dan, I am a twentysomething, straight, cis-female expat. How long do I have to wait to ask my German lover, who is übersensitive about the Holocaust, to indulge me in my greatest — and, until now, unrealized — fantasy: Nazi roleplay? He is very delicate around me because I am a secular Jew and the descendant of Holocaust survivors.

(Even though I’ve instructed him to watch The Believer, starring Ryan Gosling as a Jewish neoNazi, to get a better grasp on my relationship with Judaism. To be clear, I am not actually a neoNazi — just your garden-variety self-hating Jew.) This persists even though we’ve spoken about my anti-Zionist politics. Evidently he was indoctrinated from a young age with a hyperapologetic history curriculum. I appreciate that he thinks it was wrong for the SS to slaughter my family, but it’s not like he did it himself. I know it sounds really fucked up, but I promise this isn’t coming from a place of deep-seated self-loathing. Even if it were, it’s not like we’d be hurting anybody. We’re both in good psychological working condition, and neither of us is an actual bigot. I would try to get to know him better, but we are so different (there’s a big age difference) and I don’t really see our relationship being much more than ze sex.

— National Socialist Pretend Party “Sex writers get all the really good religion questions,” said Mark Oppenheimer. “Can we trade mailboxes sometime soon? I’m tired of dealing with all the questions about why evangelicals support a thrice-married misogynist realityTV star who never goes to church.”

Oppenheimer writes the Beliefs column for the New York Times and is cohost of Unorthodox, an “irreverent podcast about Jews and other people” (tabletmag.com/ unorthodox). I invited Oppenheimer to weigh in because I am, sadly, not Jewish myself. (Jewishness is conferred through matrilineal descent; your mom — or, if you’re Reform, either parent — has to be Jewish for you to be Jewish, so all those blowjobs I gave to my first Jewish boyfriend were for nothing.

No birthright trip for me.)

“First off, I think that Die Fraulein should make her kinky proposal ASAP,” said Oppenheimer.

“Given the ‘hyperapologetic’ curriculum that her Teutonic stud has absorbed, he is probably going to freak out no matter when she asks him to incinerate — er, tie her up and fuck her. On the other hand, if he’s open and kinkpositive, he’ll probably be down for whatever. But it’s all or nothing in a case like this. She can’t win him over by persuading him that she’s not one of those uptight, unforgiving Jewesses who is still hung up on the destruction of European Jewry.”

While your kink didn’t really faze Oppenheimer (it’s not exactly unheard of), NSPP, your discomfort with your own Judaism did.

“In her letter, she assures us that she is ‘secular,’ ‘anti-Zionist,’ and ‘garden-variety self-hating’ — then jokingly compares herself to the Jewish white supremacist (played by Ryan Gosling in that movie) who in real life killed himself after the New York Times outed him as a Jew,” said Oppenheimer. “Now, all of us (especially homos and Yids) know something about self-loathing, and I think Jews are entitled to any and all views on Israel, and — again — I am not troubled by her kink. That said, I do think she needs to get to a happier place about her own heritage. Just as it’s not good for black people to be uncomfortable with being black, or for queer people to wish they weren’t queer, it’s not healthy, or attractive, for Jews or Jewesses (we are taking back the term) to have such obvious discomfort with their Jewish heritage.”

And finally, NSPP, I shared your letter with a German friend of mine, just to see how it might play with someone who benefited from a hyperapologetic history curriculum. Would he do something like this?

“Not in six million years.”

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