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UPFRONT COUNCILMAN BLAINE GRIFFIN SAYS LEAD LEGISLATION STILL “A WORK IN PROGRESS,” DENIES MAYORAL IMPLICATIONS OF DELAY Photo by Stu_spivackFlickrCC

CITY COUNCILMAN BLAINE Griffin said in May 2018 that he would pass a wide-ranging ordinance to combat lead poisoning before the end of the year. It is now 2019, and the ordinance is nowhere to be found.

After multiple stories in Sunday’s Plain Dealer highlighting the endurance of the lead crisis, Scene reached out to Griffin to inquire about the status of his legislation. He said that he was “wrestling with a huge beast” and that the legislation was still a “work in progress,” part of a broader effort to build a coalition around the lead crisis, which he said will include local philanthropic organizations and activists.

“I know people are impatient,” he said. “And I know they might think there’s not a sense of urgency.

I won’t duck that. But I will tell you that I do have a sense of urgency and [the Health and Human Services Committee] spent most of 2018 on this issue. We’re working on it.”

He admitted, however, that there was no explicit timeline or estimate for when an ordinance might be passed. He stressed that legislation was only one piece of a complicated puzzle with “many moving parts” and said he would continue to meet with local academics and philanthropic organizations to build an “intentional” and “comprehensive” strategy.

Much of this engagement work was mentioned last spring as well, in virtually identical terms, but Griffin stressed that the issue is extremely complicated and has required extensive research. He said he doesn’t want to push out a piece of legislation “just so it’s out there, that won’t accomplish what it’s supposed to accomplish.”

And yet, residents have reason to be impatient. Former councilman Jeff Johnson had crafted legislation with the help of community activists and Legal Aid in 2017 that would have held landlords accountable for certifying their properties were lead-safe, but that ordinance (990-17) never received a hearing. Johnson was running for mayor at the time, and the likely explanation for the

stalled momentum was political: Johnson’s opponents didn’t want him to get credit for an important piece of legislation.

And while a variation on this calculus could explain Griffin’s current stalling, he flatly rejected the notion that he was waiting to push the legislation until a more opportune political moment — i.e., in 2020, when he’d be able to use it as a key campaign plank for a 2021 mayoral run.

“That’s the farthest thing from the truth,” Griffin said. “I don’t know anything about a mayoral campaign.

Right now, I’m the councilman of Ward 6 and chair of the Health and Human Services Committee. This has nothing to do with any kind of political ambition that I may or may not have, and everything — everything — to do with my commitment to children.”

But the delay, whatever the cause,

has come at the expense of Cleveland children, including those at the three CMSD elementary schools in Griffin’s Ward 6: Bolton, Sunbeam and Harvey Rice. Based on the PD’s reporting, 34 percent, 27 percent, and 26 percent, respectively, of kindergartners at those three schools had a history of lead poisoning.

The Plain Dealer reported that as leaders have debated how best to tackle the lead issue — community stakeholders have not been able to “coalesce” around a remediation strategy, concluded a Cleveland Foundation-funded report — more than 4,400 children have been poisoned at or above the Center for Disease Control’s lead threshold (5 micrograms per deciliter) and will enter kindergarten at a potential disadvantage.

“The seriousness of this problem cannot be overstated, especially when

we understand the consequences of lead exposure for a child’s well-being and success in later years,” said associate professor Rob Fischer, from CWRU, who led a study, published Monday, showing that elevated lead levels are indeed associated with ongoing academic problems.

Moreover, councilman Griffin’s statements about the complicated nature of a lead remediation plan stand in stark contrast to those by members of council’s Health and Human Services Committee in May 2018. At a committee hearing, many expressed surprise at how straightforward the proposed legislation was.

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UPFRONT lead-safe certificate, which will be on file with the City of Cleveland.”

In a conversation with Scene Monday, Wells said he was “shocked” that the ordinance has “run into a brick wall” the way it has and speculated that landlords and real estate interests may be “maneuvering behind the scenes” so they don’t have to defend themselves in public.

He said CLSN spoke with

councilman Anthony Brancatelli in December and that the Ward 12 councilman had expressed eagerness to hold additional hearings. But the ordinance “wasn’t in his box.”

Meaning, the legislation was not currently under the purview of the Development, Planning and Sustainability Committee which Brancatelli chairs. The ball, then, is still in Griffin’s court, and Griffin is still engaging with stakeholders.

Wells said he has extended an invitation to Griffin three times to attend one of two CLSN membership meetings this week to provide an update on the ordinance. Griffin told

Scene that he intended to meet with activists, though he did not reference CLSN specifically.

“Let me underscore again that I know people want a sense of urgency and they have a right to be disappointed,” Griffin said. “But I’m not sitting on my hands. We’ve made a lot of headway, and, quite frankly, no one is as impatient as me.”

— Sam Allard

129 Cleveland Homicides in 2018, One Fewer than 2017 After tallying the three shooting

deaths at a New Year’s Eve party on Cleveland’s west side — (11:45 p.m., Dec. 31) — the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner has ruled that Cleveland officially saw 129 homicides in 2018, one fewer than in 2017.

As in years’ past, most of the deaths were the result of gun violence: 114 of this year’s 129 victims died from gunshot wounds, nearly 90 percent.

While the total represents a very slight decrease from 2017, meaning that homicides have gone down for two straight years for the first time in more than a decade, the total is still well above 100. The city has now eclipsed 100 homicides for seven consecutive years, the first time that’s happened since the 1990s.

Cleveland.com reported that the triple-homicide on New Year’s Eve, in which an uninvited group of men showed up at a rented AirBnB on Cleveland’s west side, was 2018’s deadliest incident. There were six double homicides.

City Club Hosts Washington Post Reporter and Scene Alum Kyle Swenson for Discussion on New Criminal Justice Book Grab your tickets now for the City Club’s event on Feb. 20, when former Scene staff writer and current Washington Post reporter Kyle Swenson discusses his new book, Good Kids, Bad City: A Story of Race and Wrongful Conviction in America.

The subject matter will be familiar to Scene readers, as the book, which has already earned stellar reviews, recounts the wrongful convictions and eventual exonerations of Ricky Jackson, Wiley Bridgeman and Kwame Ajamu in the framework of politics, race and criminal justice in Cleveland from the 1970s through today. Swenson’s investigative story on the case was pivotal in securing the freedom of the three men.

It’s a stunning narrative achievement that delivers an incisive history of the city alongside a compelling and compassionate portrait of their lives.

The book comes out on Feb. 13, so pre-order it now and devour it before the event. — Vince Grzegorek

Recent Cuyahoga County Jail Death is ‘Inconceivable,’ Says Lawyer for Family A lawyer representing the family

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of 27-year-old Brendan Kiekisz, who died Sunday night after a suicide attempt at the Cuyahoga County Jail, has voiced what many observers are thinking: After seven deaths at the jail and a scathing report by the U.S. Marshals documenting inhumane conditions there, how could the county let this happen? “It is inconceivable,� wrote Paul J. Cristallo in a press statement, “that a young man such as Brendan could have lost his life in the Cuyahoga County Jail considering the scrutiny the County is under. Cuyahoga County has clearly been on notice that they were not operating a facility in compliance with the United States Constitution, yet they failed to take the steps necessary which could have saved Brendan’s life.�

While the press statement makes no mention of a lawsuit, Cristallo is preparing to ďŹ le one on behalf of the Kiekisz family.

Brendan Kiekisz’ death is the eighth at the county jail since June, and the 56th suicide attempt at the facility in 2018. The death is indeed alarming, given the recent scrutiny.

But it’s especially tragic because Kiekisz should not have been there at all.

Cleveland.com reported that

Kiekisz had been booked into jail on Christmas Day “on suspicion of violating the terms of his courtordered drug intervention program.�

But at a hearing last week, Judge Michael Donnelly ruled that Kiekisz actually hadn’t violated the terms of the program. He had been arrested at a hospital, after ODing on heroin, because he’d failed to report to his probation ofďŹ cer — presumably because he was at the hospital Donnelly said that Kiekisz should have been sent to a treatment facility instead of the jail. After his court appearance, he was taken back to jail to await transfer to a medical facility in Highland Hills. And a few hours later, he was found hanging in his cell.

The chronically understaffed jail was yet again understaffed that night. A single corrections ofďŹ cer was responsible for watching about 100 inmates, a “double-podâ€? situation which ofďŹ cers have repeatedly argued against and ďŹ led grievances over.

Kiekisz had reportedly attempted suicide two days before he was booked into the jail and suffered from bipolar disorder and depression. — Allard

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T THE BEGINNING OF LAST YEAR, we presented a conceptual outlook on 2018 with the hope of corralling even more good music into our annual preview of what to expect to see and hear in Cleveland music in the coming year.

This year, we continue that tradition with this overview of what’s to come in 2019. Given the way that national concert promoters Live Nation and AEG are going head to head in the market (Live Nation books concerts at Blossom, Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica, House of Blues and the Masonic Auditorium, and AEG books concerts at the Agora), it will likely be a busy year and more touring acts than ever should be swinging into town.

There’s also an anticipated new Rock Hall exhibit on the horizon, and the storied Cleveland International Records label has just announced its rebirth too.

Here’s a rundown of what to expect from the year ahead.

1. The Annual Tri-C High School Rock Off Returns to the Rock Hall in January When the annual Tri-C High School Rock Off launched some 20 years ago at the Odeon, the promoters at locally based Belkin Productions (now Live Nation) saw it as a way to reach out to area high schools and provide the kind of outlet that students might not have. Two decades later, the event, now held at the Rock Hall, continues to thrive. This year, 36 bands will participate in the annual competition. A total of 147 band members, including six solo artists, will represent 64 schools. Three performance rounds will take place at the Rock Hall,

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leading up to the Final Exam that takes place on Saturday, Feb. 16. At that event, the 2019 Best Band in the Land will be awarded by music and entertainment industry judges.

Prizes include three scholarships to study at the Creative Arts program at Cuyahoga Community College. PNC Bank will help high school seniors launch their careers in music by providing the scholarships. During the three performance rounds, each act will play a 15-minute set. Four bands from each round will move on to the Final Exam. All finalists will record one original song at Tri-C’s Gill and Tommy LiPuma Center for Creative Arts. Jim Stewart Recording and students from Tri-C’s Recording Arts and Technology program will handle production duties. The first round takes place on Jan. 19.

2. Brite Winter Takes Place on the West Bank of the Flats in February Late last year, the organizers of Brite Winter, the annual winter music and arts festival that takes place on the west bank of the Flats, announced the lineup for this year’s event, which takes place on Saturday, Feb. 23. The L.A.-based indie rock act Smallpools will headline the event, and some of the city’s best local bands, including Ezri, Mourning [A] BLKstar, the Vindys, Uptowne Buddha, Ray Flanagan & the Authorities, Muamin Collective, Ottawa, Front Porch Lights, AJ & the Woods, Tim Moon, Case Barge and Red Rose Panic, are scheduled to perform. This year will mark the 10th installment of the popular winter music and arts festival. Admission, as always, is free.

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3. Cleveland International Records Will Be Active Again Back in the 1970s when Cleveland became synonymous with rock ’n’ roll, the late Steve Popovich formed Cleveland International Records.

The label had a huge hit right out of the gates with Meat Loaf’s 1977 album Bat Out of Hell and would go on to garner Grammy nods and other accolades. While Popovich still ran the label, it filed a lawsuit against Sony Music, which had produced copies of Bat Out of Hell without the Cleveland International logo on them. Now that the suit has been settled, Popovich’s son, Steve Popovich Jr., has relaunched the label. Currently, the label has some

apparel for sale. It also announced it’ll reissue the 1995 Cleveland Rocks compilation that features tracks by Ronnie Spector, Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes, Euclid Beach Band and Ian Hunter. The label will also reissue titles from the back catalog from 1995 to 2002, including albums

by David Allan Coe and Roger Martin and a number of the polka titles the label owned. Popovich Jr. is also working on a documentary film about his father.

4. Creative Fusion: Composers Series Launches in January Since 2008, Creative Fusion has brought to Cleveland more than 80

international artists-in-residence.

Last year, the Cleveland Foundation launched Creative Fusion: The Madison Residencies, which provided support for 18 local, national and international artists participating in Front International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art. This year they’re launching Creative Fusion: Composers, a new series that will feature original works from a group of international composers who’ll “draw inspiration for original compositions to be performed in Cleveland over the next two years.”

The series launches with a performance by composer Henry Threadgill, at the Cleveland Museum of Art, on Friday, Jan. 11. Luciano Chessa, Cenk Ergün, Aya Nishina, Sophie Nzayisenga and Aleksandra Vrebalov have all signed on to participate, and conversations with curators and potential collaborators will guide the process of creating the commissioned works. Three performances will premiere this year, and three will debut during the 2019 – 2020 concert season.

5. Gotta Groove Will Continue Its Ohio Reissue Series Last year, locally based Gotta

Groove Records kicked off its new OH Wax Series, which is dedicated to reissuing “lost” albums that are collectible and have a high demand in the used market due to the limited number that were originally pressed.

The first release was a reissue of Salem’s Rise, a 1985 album by the Dayton hard-rock band Witch. The album came out on Eargasm Records, and the original pressing from 1985 has long been sold out and sought after by heavy metal collectors. The Gotta Groove folks tracked down the original label’s founder to re-release the disc, and the black vinyl reissue edition was limited to 500 copies worldwide.

Eargasm originally released the band’s first single, “Chained Heat”/“Rock-NRoll Dreams,” in 1984. While the label hasn’t announced the second release of the series yet, it plans to continue with the program and will likely add another title this year.

6. Kent State University Press Will Release Jason Prufer’s Book About the Kent Music Scene For the past eight years, Jason Prufer has worked on Small Town, Big Music: The Outsized Influence

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of Kent, Ohio, a book about Kent’s music scene. He’s just completed the book, which is due out this month.

It includes a forward written by James Gang guitarist Joe Walsh.

Drawing on previously published concert reviews and firsthand accounts, Prufer shows how Kent embraced acts such as Pink Floyd, the Clash, the Replacements and Bruce Springsteen early in their careers. “From back stages, hotel rooms, and the saloons of Kent, readers will travel back in time to the great rockin’ nights hosted in this small town,” reads a press release

announcing that the 216-page book is finally in production. Prufer, who holds a bachelor’s degree in art history from Kent State, has worked at the Kent State University Library for nearly 20 years. He’s also written for the Free Times, Kent Patch, and numerous blogs and has spent the last several years as the publicist and social media manager for the Numbers Band.

7. LaureLive Returns in June to Laurel School’s Butler Campus A few years ago, the locally based Elevation Group launched LaureLive,

a two-day music festival held at Laurel School, an all-girls (K-12) independent school. Last year’s event featured “the biggest lineup in the three-year history of the festival” as the artists cumulatively have over 60 million monthly listeners on Spotify and nearly 10 million likes on Facebook. The lineup featured the alternative band Foster the People, singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile, retro rockers Fitz & the Tantrums and indie rockers Cold War Kids.

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8. Live Nation Will Continue Booking the Masonic Auditorium Last year, the same week that its rival promoter AEG Presents revealed millions of dollars of improvements to the Agora Theatre, Live Nation Club & Theatre, a division of Live Nation, announced that it will start booking shows at the Masonic Auditorium.

Located in Midtown, the Masonic is literally walking distance from the Agora Theatre and will ratchet up the competition for bands that could fill either venue (both places feature rooms with capacities of approximately 2,000). The Masonic has become part of Live Nation “portfolio” of venues that includes House of Blues, Jacobs Pavilion and Blossom Music Center.

Live Nation Club & Theatre operates and books “landmark clubs and theaters” throughout the country. The company produces more than 15,000 events (concerts, special events, private event rentals, club nights and more) in 100 venues nationwide. Built in 1921, the Masonic Temple Auditorium was originally home to the Cleveland Orchestra. Within the past five or so years, the venue has hosted concerts by acts such as MGMT, Bastille, Fitz and the Tantrums, the 1975, Pixies, Kirk Franklin, Ghost, Leon Bridges and Sturgill Simpson. Last year, it hosted concerts by acts such as Hanson, In This Moment and the Breeders.

9. New Soft Shoe Will Hold Down a Monthly Residency at Forest City Brewery Nine years ago, on what local singer-songwriter Brent Kirby calls a drunken dare, a group of Cleveland friends and musicians showed up at the Happy Dog to play a couple sets of tunes by the late, great Gram Parsons.

Dubbed the New Soft Shoe, the group has been at it ever since, spreading the gospel of what it refers to as “Gram’s Cosmic American Music.” Anything that Parsons played, the New Soft Shoe covers. As a result, the group plays tunes from the International Submarine Band, the Byrds and the Flying Burrito Brothers. It also plays songs from Parsons’ solo records GP and Grievous Angel. The band has performed at the Gram Parsons Guitar Pull in Waycross, Georgia, and at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame here in Cleveland. For the past couple years, the group has performed monthly gigs at various venues around town. On Thursday, Jan. 10, it celebrates its 9-year anniversary with a special show in the Waldorf Hall at

Forest City Brewery. That show will also kick off a residency at the Tremont brewery, and the band will perform at the venue on the second Thursday of every month.

10. Play It Loud: The Instruments of Rock & Roll Comes to the Rock Hall in November The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame collaborated back in 1999 on the exhibit Rock Style, and the two organizations will team up again this year to present Play It Loud: Instruments of Rock & Roll. Billed as “the first major loan exhibition in an art museum dedicated entirely to the iconic instruments of rock and roll,” it will go on view at the Met in April and then come to the Rock Hall in November. Featuring items from 70 private and public collections, it will include more than 130 instruments that were played by artists such as Chuck Berry, the Beatles, Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell, Jimmy Page, Steve Miller, St. Vincent, Metallica and the Rolling Stones. Notable items include Eric Clapton’s “Blackie,” Eddie Van Halen’s “Frankenstein” and Jerry Garcia’s “Wolf,” as well as Keith Emerson’s Moog synthesizer and Hammond organ, and drums from Keith Moon’s “Pictures of Lily” drum set. Other notable artifacts include Chuck Berry’s electric guitar, Jimi Hendrix’s electric guitar, Motown star James Jamerson’s upright bass, Keith Emerson’s keyboard rig and Jimmy Page’s dragon-embroidered costume that he wore during Led Zeppelin’s live performances in the mid-’70s.

11. Riffs on Riffs Will Launch 24 New Episodes When Joe Watson heard the folks at the local media design company Evergreen Podcasts were interested in launching a music-related podcast, he realized it was the perfect time to pitch an idea that had been percolating in his head. Watson recruited Toby Brazwell, a local musician he had met at a networking event, to host the program with him. The resulting podcast, Riffs on Riffs, will study the use of sampling in popular music. Initially, Watson and Brazwell had multiple pre-production meetings to create a format. At that point, they decided which songs would become the focus of the eight-episode first season. They’ll dissect popular songs by Jay-Z, Wu-Tang Clan and Stevie Nicks. Brazwell says the show’s template makes the duo stay focused on the music and keeps them from rambling on about other matters.

Released last year, the first episode focuses on Tupac’s “California Love,” which features a Joe Cocker sample and includes interpolations of Zapp’s “Dance Floor” and Ronnie Hudson & the Street

People’s “West Coast Poplock� that come courtesy of Zapp’s Roger Troutman.

Much of a song’s history could be uncovered with a simple Google search, but Watson and Brazwell maintain their show offers something unique. They’ll return with 24 new episodes this year.

12. Smog Veil Records Will Release a Boxed Set of Music by the Late Peter Laughner For years now, the folks at Smog Veil Records, the record label that specializes in reissuing old Cleveland punk releases, has worked on putting together a retrospective of music by the late Peter Laughner. Though a release date hasn’t been set, the ďŹ ve LP/CD boxed set is currently in production. Focusing on the music that Laughner made between 1972 and 1977, Peter Laughner will feature previously unreleased performances by his various groups, including Rocket From the Tombs, Cinderella Backstreet, Cinderella’s Revenge, Fins, Friction and the Original Wolverines.

It will also include “sonic upgradesâ€? of his solo and collaborative efforts. The compilation will come with a 100-page book featuring previously unpublished photos and a collection of Laughner’s writings, reviews and poetry. Best known for being a co-founder of Pere Ubu as well as a signiďŹ cant member of proto-punk trailblazers Rocket From the Tombs, Laughner had a musical career that stretched back to the mid1960s and continued until his untimely death at age 24 in 1977. Even after his death, Laughner, who once famously said, “I want to do for Cleveland what Brian Wilson did for California and Lou Reed did for New York,â€? serves as an inspiration for the local punk scene.

13. Stella’s Records Will Release Its First Album Last year, Stella’s Music Club announced that it would launch a record label. While the label won’t exclusively release local artists, all of the artists who sign with Stella’s Records will have their music produced by locally based Jim Wirt (Incubus).

During the course of his lengthy career, Wirt has won numerous awards, and his productions have sold more than 17 million records. Locally based sound engineer Jim Stewart will assist Wirt, and Warner Music will distribute the label’s releases. The ďŹ rst band that signed with the label, New York-based Birds in the Boneyard, played a record release at the club last year and will release its new album in the spring of this year.

14. Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland Will Celebrate Its 40th Anniversary One of the largest music festivals in Ohio — and reportedly the largest

educational jazz festival in the U.S. — Tri-C JazzFest continues to evolve. In the past, it’s featured performances by a range of acts that only loosely ďŹ t into the jazz genre. Last year’s lineup featured Tony Award-winner Dee Dee Bridgewater and saxophonist Joshua Redman. It also included rapper Common, who headlined the event; Common gave a rousing performance that included inviting a woman from the crowd up on the stage to sing with him as he ended up freestyling and giving a shoutout to several native Clevelanders. You can expect a similarly eclectic lineup when JazzFest, now in its 40th year, takes place from June 27 to June 29 at Playhouse Square. Though the lineup hasn’t been announced yet, there will be nine ticketed concerts and an opening night party. Passes are currently on sale.

15. Warped Tour Will Return to Northeast Ohio This Summer Last year, after Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman announced that he was bringing the popular punk festival to an end, he talked to us about his reasons for the decision. “A lot of it has come to the physical side of things,â€? said Lyman, who has also appeared in and produced multiple TV series, movies and documentaries during the course of his career. “I’ve always worked in a different kind of way than other people. When I was 30 years old, it was a lot different. Also, artists used to come on Warped Tour because they were part of a community, and they wanted to support the younger bands. They thought it would help their career down the road. Times have changed. Bands have to tour all the time now. That’s their main source of income. For what I do, that sense of community isn’t as strong as it used to be.â€? Lyman has shifted gears and recently spent more time on the lecture circuit. He gave the keynote speech at an annual National Association of Music Merchants conference, and he came to Cleveland this year to speak to students who participated in the annual Tri-C High School Rock Off. And yet, late last year, Lyman announced that Warped Tour, which apparently has fallen victim to the Fake Farewell Tour Syndrome (you know, when an artist announces a ďŹ nal tour only to begin touring again after a short hiatus), will return in 2019 to celebrate its 25th anniversary with concerts on the West Coast and East Coast. There will also be an event in Cleveland on June 8 — no word yet on the venue. Expect a lineup to be announced in March.

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Cleveland Stories Dinner Parties Cleveland Stories Dinner Party is a weekly series that pairs fine food with storytelling. Through it, the folks at Music Box Supper Club hope to raise awareness of the mission of the Western Reserve Historical Society’s Cleveland History Center. The goal of the Cleveland Stories Dinner Party is to “bring to life some of the fun, interesting stories about Cleveland’s past — from sports, to rock ’n’ roll, to Millionaires’ Row,” as it’s put in a press release. Admission is free, with no cover charge, although a prix fixe dinner, designed to complement the night’s theme, is $20. Tonight, lifelong Cleveland historian, author and master storyteller Dennis R. Sutcliffe will discuss the “fascinating and often fatal tales” of rival gangs and mob bosses in Cleveland. Doors open at 5 p.m., dinner is served at 6, and the storytelling starts at 7. (Jeff Niesel) 1148 Main Ave., 216-242-1250, musicboxcle.com.

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THEATER

Hairspray! The Musical Based on earlier movie versions of the same story, Hairspray! The Musical revolves around “pleasantly plump” teenager Tracy Turnblad and is set in racially segregated Baltimore in 1962. Despite ambiguous integration laws, the local culture sticks to a separatebut-equal mentality. We all know, however, that things are far from equal. When Tracy befriends a couple of African-American dancers and lands a spot on a TV dance show, the town turns upside down. Millennial Theatre Project presents the play tonight at 8 at the Akron Civic Theatre in a cabaret-style performance that finds the audience on stage with the performers. Tickets cost $20, and performances also take place at 8 tomorrow night and at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. on Saturday. There’s also a performance at 6:30 on Sunday night. (Niesel) 182 South Main St., Akron, 330-253-2488, akroncivic.com.

Composer Henry Threadgill performs at the Cleveland Museum of Art. See: Friday.

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Brad Williams At 4-foot-4, diminutive comic Brad Williams hasn’t let his height become an obstacle. He prefers to think of his height (or lack thereof) as a disability that’s become the basis for all his jokes. Carlos Mencia reportedly discovered him one night and made him his opening act.

Williams has also made countless appearances on shows like Jimmy Kimmel Live, Jackass and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. His high energy, combined with his raw skits about relationships and sex, translates well to the stage. Williams performs tonight at 8 at Hilarities, where he has shows scheduled through Sunday. Tickets start at $23. (Niesel) 2035 East Fourth St., 216-241-7425, pickwickandfrolic.com.

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FAMILY FUN

Disney on Ice Presents Mickey’s Search Party In what’s become a tradition for this time of year, Disney on Ice storms into town to take over Quicken Loans Arena for a 10-day period, sending the Cavs and Lake Erie Monsters out on long road trips so parents can bring their toddlers and

’tweens to the arena for some family entertainment. This year, a cast of over 50 will be on hand. Expect to see familiar figures such as Mickey Mouse along with scenes from Aladdin, Toy Story and The Little Mermaid. Tonight’s performance begins at 7; shows run through Jan. 20. Check the Q website for times.

Tickets start at $15. (Niesel) 1 Center Court, 216-420-2200, theqarena.com.

classics and originals. Tomorrow night’s program, dubbed Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell: David Bowie’s Deep Cuts, will feature “his very best material, the overlooked sweet spot where Bowie’s true artistry shines.”

Vanity Crash will again close out the evening. Each program begins at 8 p.m.; tickets are $25 per. (Niesel) 2920 Detroit Ave., 216-771-6551, themusicsettlement.org.

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An Evening With(out) David Bowie Since local music aficionado Thomas Mulready gave his first David Bowie presentation over five years ago, he’s expanded the show, dubbed An Evening With(out) David Bowie, to encompass “a bewildering array of new releases while at the same time narrowing the focus on particular eras (The Berlin Era, Ziggy Stardust).” The show returns to the Bop Stop this weekend, a day after the anniversary of his death, to celebrate Bowie’s legacy. Mulready will present an “updated and expanded” version of the program, tracing the ground-breaking artist’s entire life from birth to his final album, Blackstar, and beyond. There will be highly researched back stories, trivia, “needle drops,” rare video, contests and giveaways. Local heroes Vanity Crash will cap off the evening with a live music set of

Flanagan’s Wake Flanagan’s Wake transports the audience to an Irish wake 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. Sort of like a tragic Tony ’n’ Tina’s Wedding, the interactive and improvised show engages the entire audience.

Tonight’s show starts at 8 and repeats tomorrow night at 8 at Kennedy’s Theatre. Performances continue weekends through April 27.

Tickets are $26. (Patrick Stoops) 1501 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

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GET OUT presents i Cellisti, its annual fundraiser. This year’s theme is “Of Nature,” and the event will feature solo cellist Darrett Adkins, a cello professor at Oberlin College; the Oberlin College Choir; and conductor Gregory Ristow performing Soviet composer Sofia Gubaidulina’s “Canticle of the Sun.” The program also includes Paul Desenne’s cello quartet, “Glass Bamboo Frog Consort,” performed by members of Ensemble 207 (students of Mark Kosower, principal cellist for the Cleveland Orchestra) and a 24-cello choir in surround-sound formation playing John Luther Adams’ “Sky with Four Suns” and “Sky with Four Moons.” Proceeds support the CCS scholarship. Tickets (suggested donation): $25 general admission, $10 student, $100 patron. (Niesel) 2747 Fairmount Blvd., Cleveland Heights, 216-231-7300, clevelandcello.com.

of Art will pay tribute to Mexican directors this month with several special screenings. Tonight at 7, it will screen Alfonso Cuaron’s Y Tu Mama Tambien, a coming-of-age story about two teenagers who take a road trip with an older married woman. The movie screens again at 1:45 p.m. on Tuesday. Tickets cost $10, or $7 for CMA members. (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.

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FEBRUARY 13 ROCK & ROLL VALENTINE

Groove to some classic slow jams, test your knowledge of rock’s most notorious couples and take on the Love Hurts Scavenger Hunt.

Henry Threadgill Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Music, composer Henry Threadgill has been called “perhaps the most important jazz composer of his generation.” As part of the Creative Fusion-sponsored commissioning series, Threadgill and his ensemble Zooid will team up with the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble tonight at 7:30 at the Cleveland Museum of Art for a world-premiere performance of an “expanded and improvising” chamber ensemble.

Tickets cost $25, or $22 for CMA members. (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.

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Y Tu Mama También Because Mexican directors have won four of the past five Oscars for Best Director, the Cleveland Museum

Benjamin Orr and the Cars Book Release Party Tonight’s release party, at Music Box Supper Club, is for Joe Milliken’s new

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FILM

The Room Thanks to The Disaster Artist, the James Franco movie about the making of this cult classic, The Room’s popularity has soared. The film that features writer, director and star Tommy Wiseau screens at 10 tonight at the Cedar Lee Theatre.

Tickets are $6. (Niesel) 2163 Lee Rd., Cleveland Heights, 440-528-0355, clevelandcinemas.com.

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Elvis Birthday Tribute Elvis Aaron Presley was born on Jan. 8, 1935, under rather benign circumstances. His family was dirt poor, yet Presley would go on to become one of rock’s biggest stars.

The guy would’ve been 82 this year, and to celebrate his birthday, several of the world’s best Elvis impersonators will be on hand for a gala concert at 7 p.m. at the State Theatre. The Elvis Birthday Tribute will cover the four main eras of Presley’s musical history: the rockabilly years, the military/movie years, the ’68 comeback special and even the Las Vegas jumpsuit years.

This year’s show will feature Shawn Klush, Cody Ray Slaughter and Ryan Pelton. Tickets start at $10.

(Niesel) 1519 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

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heroes, and empires clash in a quest for vengeance and glory.” Tonight’s show takes place at 7:30 p.m. at the Outcalt Theatre, where performances continue through Feb. 3. Tickets start at $25. (Niesel) 1407 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

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Step inside the exhibits with the Rock Hall crew, grab a drink and bring out your musical fandom.

MUSIC

Walkabout Tremont During this month’s Walkabout Tremont, you can stop by any of the Tremont art galleries to see their current and/or new exhibits, drop in at the plentiful bars, restaurants and specialty shops that participate in the art stroll, and even nab a free ride on Lolly the Trolley. The walk takes place from 5 to 10 tonight.

Check out the website for a schedule, maps and a listing of entertainment and food and drink specials. (Niesel) walkabouttremont.com.

book about the late Benjamin Orr, of the Boston band, the Cars. Millikin will chronicle the time Orr spent with the band. A 90-minute performance

by Ohio’s Moving In Stereo, a Cars tribute act that incorporates “the sleek, innovative, new-wave sound that put the Cars on the map,” will follow. The event begins at 7, and tickets are $12 in advance, or $15 at the door. (Niesel) 1148 Main Ave., 216-242-1250, musicboxcle.com.

THEATER

An Iliad With An Iliad, the Cleveland Play House takes on Homer’s classic story, and the theatrical rendition of the epic narrative will feature “vivid storytelling” and live cello as two women transform a bare stage into a “raging battlefield where gods,

Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf Thomas Piper directs Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf, a documentary film about the landscape designer who designed the gardens along New York’s High Line and the Lurie Garden in Chicago’s Millennium Park. The film shows at 1:30 p.m. today at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tickets cost $10, or $7 for CMA members. (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.

FOOD + MUSIC

Gospel Brunch The monthly Gospel Brunch has been a spiritual Sunday staple for years at the House of Blues. The recently reinvigorated show puts

a bit more emphasis on the music.

As for the food, the all-you-caneat musical extravaganza features Southern classics like chicken jambalaya, biscuits and gravy, and chicken and waffles. Seatings are offered at 11 a.m. Tickets are $40 and are available online, by phone or at the box office. (Niesel) 308 Euclid Ave., 216-523-2583, houseofblues.com.

BOOKS

Sunday Beat As part of a Sunday Beat promotion at Visible Voice Books, if you purchase a New York Times at the store, you’ll receive a free cup of coffee or tea and a Jim Alesci’s Place pastry. An added bonus: A jazz, Americana, samba or bossa nova band will perform from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Anyone who shows a Sunday receipt from Music Box, Prosperity Social Club or any of the Tremont restaurants that offer brunch can enter a same-day drawing for a $30 Visible Voice gift certificate and a $25 Visible Voice Loyalty Card.

They’ll also receive 10 percent off any Visible Voice book purchase. Today’s hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Niesel) 2258 Professor Ave., 216-961-0084, visiblevoicebooks.com.

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FILM

Movie Mondays Every Monday, Cleveland Cinemas hosts $5 Movie Mondays, where film fans can catch up on the latest Hollywood flicks for significantly reduced prices. Many theaters even offer discounted concession stand items. Participating theaters include Apollo Theatre, Capitol Theatre, Cedar Lee Theatre, Chagrin Cinemas, Shaker Square Cinemas and Tower City Cinemas.

Unfortunately, additional charges apply for 3-D movies. (Alaina Nutile) clevelandcinemas.com.

NIGHTLIFE

Shit Show Karaoke Local rapper/promoter Dirty Jones and Scene’s own Manny Wallace host Shit Show Karaoke, a weekly event at the B-Side Liquor Lounge wherein patrons choose from “an unlimited selection of jams from hip-hop to hard rock,” and are encouraged to “be as bad as you want.” Fueled by drink and shot specials, it all goes down tonight at 10 p.m. (Niesel) 2785 Euclid Hts. Blvd., Cleveland Heights, 216-932-1966, bsideliquorlounge.com.

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01/15

MUSIC

Open Turntable Tuesday Tonight from 6 to 9 at the Winchester, DJ Kris Koch offers 20-minute slots to people who want to bring their own vinyl and spin their favorite songs or deep tracks. Turntables are provided; you can play three to five songs during your time slot; and a mic is available to talk about the selections. (Niesel) 12112 Madison Ave., Lakewood, 216-600-5338, facebook.com/ TheWinchesterMusicTavern.

THEATER

Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella A Tony Award-winning Broadway musical from the creators of The King & I and The Sound of Music, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella comes to Connor Palace tonight for a week-long run. The musical offers a “fresh new take” on the tale of a young woman transformed from a chambermaid into a princess, and features such songs as “In My Own Little Corner,” “Ten Minutes Ago” and “Do I Love You Because You’re Beautiful?” Tonight’s performance takes place at 7:30, and shows continue through Jan. 20.

Tickets start at $10. (Niesel) 615 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

FOOD + DRINK

SPOKEN WORD

Science Cafe Tonight, and the second Monday of every month, Music Box Supper Club hosts Science Cafe, an informal lecture series that brings scientists from throughout the region to the club to talk about science topics.

Tonight at 7, John Sobolewski, deputy director for the Cuyahoga County Board of Health, will discuss the costs of eliminating childhood lead poisoning. The talk is free, but bring some money for the bar and the restaurant. (Niesel) 1148 Main Ave., 216-242-1250, musicboxcle.com.

Wine and Dine Event Distill Table has teamed up with Cle Urban Winery to present a special Wine and Dine event tonight at 7 at Distill Table. The five-course dinner, paired with wine, will include items such as grape terrine, paprika dusted goat cheese, and red wine-braised short ribs. Tickets cost $65; get them on eventbrite. (Niesel) 14221 Madison Ave., Lakewood, 216-505-5188, distilltable.com.

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ART ME, AND YOU Justin Brennan flays the ego at BAYarts

By Dott von Schneider JUSTIN BRENNAN SEEMS TO melt right into the floor of his studio.

His pants and studio shoes are riddled with every color imaginable, just like the protective cardboard on the ground. The workspace smells of linseed oil and prolific productivity. We are impressed by the sheer chaos.

The artist has just laid out 30 paintings that need honing down to 20 for his latest solo exhibition at BAYarts. They are all singular portraits that span the time from July 2017 to the present, and a move away from the pure abstract work we are used to seeing from him — although they aren’t that far removed.

The title of the exhibition is Ego, from the Latin, meaning ‘I.’ Of course, the leap toward the Freudian is not difficult to make. Brennan exposes the underneath of the individual, adding and subtracting layers to find the essence of his subjects. “I started the collage pieces using photos from the web. I have always been up front about that.”

We are standing before a portrait that started with a photo of a Civil War soldier. Its ghostly facade has a macabre beauty. We ponder the life of this man — sunken-eyed and tightlipped — being trailed by a gray-green cloud. Then there are the two dandies, gentlemen from the 1800s who inspired more than one presidential portrait. Here Brennan matures and tightens up his blurred visions with solid background color.

As the collages advanced, Brennan started taking his own photographs, self-portraits and those of people he knows. There’s Bobby, the guy he works with, for example. The cheeky black-and-white photo lays atop a Pepto Bismol pink color field. “He’s a cook,” Brennan says. “He’s got a history, has spent time in prison, but he’s a super nice guy.” Brennan has painted a black sports coat over Bobby’s T-shirt. Bobby looks grizzled yet serene.

It’s easy to see the parallel between Brennan’s current portraiture and that of Francis Bacon, with a little Gerhard Richter thrown in. “I was showing some of these pieces at an art fair and people didn’t know how to take the work,” he says. “They would call me a serial killer and say I was copying Bacon. It was funny at first but, coming back to Cleveland, people

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A portrait of Bobby, one of the pieces in Justin Brennan’s upcoming show.

are still talking like that and it kind of sucks. The Pope portrait didn’t start out as copying Bacon. It’s more of homage. In fact, the title is ‘Homage.’

This was painted during the latest Catholic Church scandal. Twelve years of Catholic school, the discussion

It’s easy to dismiss an artist’s work when one doesn’t understand the process. “I don’t need to do this, it just happens. I don’t know why it happens,” he continues. “I’m not copying anyone, I’m just painting.” That’s what Brennan does: He paints. Nothing is

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affects me whether I want it to or not.” The bright white hat, collar and liturgical stole pop out over brick red.

The Pope seems to smirk at us with its smug, rosy smile.

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laid out first, there are no preliminary drawings. He’s mostly self-taught, which is impressive when you see the trajectory his art has followed.

There’s a portrait of the great

Mexican wrestler, El Gordo, his mouth blurred out with charcoal under his white luchador mask. The eyes tell all. Further down the wall, Brennan shows us a self portrait, with a fleshy, pinkish latex-like impasto mask. “This painting speaks about the facade we wear when trying to hang with younger people,” the artist laughs.

“The portraits are kind of unsettling and over-the-top,” Brennan admits. “I don’t want to scare the more conservative audiences.”

Sometimes an artist’s audience needs an ego check.

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MOVIES THE TOP 10 MOVIES OF 2018 According to Scene

By Sam Allard Photo courtesy of A24

AS I DO ANNUALLY, I’VE assembled my 10 favorite films of the year, a task that’s extremely laborintensive, but which I nevertheless enjoy.

My rating system is based on a 25-point scale: 5 points for script; 5 for acting; 5 for technical elements (visual effects, editing, sound/score); 5 for aesthetic elements (cinematography, production design, costumes, etc.); and 5 that I reserve for myself, a personal bonus that often correlates with how much I like a movie, irrespective of its perceived quality.

The following films scored a 21 out of 25 and are virtually interchangeable with Nos. 10 to 6, below: Thoroughbreds, Can You Ever Forgive Me, First Man, Widows.

10. FREE SOLO (21/25) dir. by Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi; starring Alex Honnold The year’s best documentary is about one of the greatest athletic achievements in human history: Alex Honnold’s scaling, without ropes, of the 3,000-foot El Capitan rock face at Yosemite National Park. It not only features some of the year’s best cinematography, which might have been expected from peerless alpine documentarian Jimmy Chin. But it also offers one of the year’s best characters and most urgent narrative question: Why risk so much — one’s life, obviously, but also others’ pain — to achieve an outlandish personal goal? Is it worth it?

9. ANNIHILATION (21/25) dir. by Alex Garland; starring Natalie Portman, Tessa Thompson Adapted from the sci-fi novel by Jeff Vandermeer, Alex Garland’s followup to 2016’s masterful Ex Machina follows a team of women who venture beyond a gasoline-slick membrane into a metastasizing zone called the “shimmer,” from which no one has safely returned.

This endlessly curious, endlessly verdant zone functions as a metaphor, among other things, for ungovernable depression. Points for stupefying visuals and the craziest climax of the year.

among the most uncomfortable and the most vital.

3. BAD TIMES AT THE EL ROYALE (23/25) dir. by Drew Goddard; starring Jeff Bridges, Cynthia Erivo Disparaged as a Tarantino knockoff, no doubt for its chaptered structure, this stylish noir mystery, from Cabin in the Woods’ Drew Goddard, was a shotgun blast of fresh air. Set at a hotel on the border of California and Nevada, this one never ceases to surprise, delight and exhilarate as it unfolds, perspective by perspective.

Hereditary

bloodiest movie of 2018. It is demented.

It is unpleasant, even. There were times I felt almost physically ill. It was too intimate. Too out-there. Too sick.

But somewhere along in the second act, and throughout a vengeful third — a straight nightmare rampage — it becomes mesmerizing. Beautiful, even! It’s a descent into something primal and phantasmagoric and dark.

And despite the gore’s pervasiveness, it is a creative gore, an attentive gore. These aren’t the mindless headshots of John Wick, for example; these are choreographed dances of death.

7. SORRY TO BOTHER YOU (21/25) dir. by Boots Riley; starring LaKeith Stanfield, Tessa Thompson It’s easy to think of Sorry to Bother You as “this year’s Get Out.” And seeing as both are high-concept films that deal explicitly with race, the comparison is apt. But Boots Riley’s telemarketing satire is wackier and more adventurous — though no less thematically explosive — than Jordan Peele’s hugely acclaimed debut last year. The story barely dangles from its hinges, but it nevertheless sparkles with zaniness and an almost improvisational unpredictability.

Among its rarest accomplishments: favorably depicting a union-organizing story line.

8. MANDY (21/25) dir. by Panos Cosmatos; starring Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough Hated it. Then loved it. Hands down the trippiest and probably the second-

6. HEREDITARY (21/25) dir. by Ari Aster; starring Toni Collette, Alex Wolff There at least three indelible

images, plus two supremely disturbing scenes, that I still can’t shake, having seen this gemstone of terror back in June. It’s a horror masterpiece that’s just as emotionally devastating as it is “scary” in a conventional sense. Indeed, therein lies the horror. Toni Collette better get an Oscar nomination for her singular turn as an artist who loses her mother, and then a whole lot more.

Goodness me.

5. FIRST REFORMED (22/25) dir. by Paul Schrader; starring Ethan Hawke, Amanda Seyfried From the very first, patient shot, Paul Schrader’s probing and ultimately shocking film had me hooked. It’s a moral inquiry, which more directly explores contemporary spirituality and politics than almost any movie I’ve ever seen. It’s also a profound character study that benefits from a script and lead actor that both absolutely go for broke.

4. BLACKKKLANSMAN (23/25) dir. by Spike Lee; starring John David Washington, Adam Driver While it’s the year’s most explicit commentary on the racism of the Trump era, it’s also the most effective.

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2. THE FAVOURITE (24/25) dir. by Yorgos Lanthimos; starring Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz Lanthimos has taken a period piece about two women feuding for the Queen of England’s favor, and suffused it with dark and sometimes rollicking satire. Olivia Colman delivers one of the strongest performances of the year, but a decadently costumed ensemble upholster this devilishly dark comedy, in which the surfaces are as exquisite and complex as the substances beneath.

1. THE RIDER (25/25) dir. By Chloe Zhao; starring Brady Jandreau, Cat Clifford An elegiac masterpiece unlike anything I’ve ever seen. It’s about a teenage rodeo rider in South Dakota who, after sustaining a head injury, understands that the future he envisioned for himself has been foreclosed. But the characters are portrayed by the real-life humans they’re based upon, so the emotional power derives (during and long after the viewing) from the recognition that it’s all real. Not a single scene feels simulated or “written.” Zhao not only limns a quadrant of the American West we rarely see, but does so while mapping bold new territory between documentary and narrative filmmaking. It absolutely blew me away.

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EAT HITS AND MISSES Blue Habanero brings category-spanning Mexican to Gordon Square

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ON OUR INAUGURAL VISIT TO Blue Habanero, one particular appetizer caught our eye: the Jalapeños Norteños. Gluttons for punishment, we yearned to get the party started with a bang, and what could be more explosive than cream cheese-stuffed hot peppers swaddled in crispy bacon. Of course, barbecue fanatics know this classic backyard delicacy by its nickname, Atomic Buffalo Turds (ABTs for short), and this version ($10) sang all the right notes: crunchy, creamy, smoky and spicy.

Diners have gotten pretty good at identifying the various genres of Mexican restaurants. There are the authentic joints that stick to tradition, the soul-soothing but timeworn temples of Tex-Mex, and the spiffy chef-driven mod-Mex bistros that blur the lines to delicious results. As evidenced by those ABTs, Blue Habanero, for better and for worse, doesn’t neatly fit into any of those categories.

For starters, there’s the setting, an architectural showpiece with a sad, sordid backstory. The building in Gordon Square is a regal relic of a restaurant that lasted one-tenth of the time it took to build the damn thing. Oddly, despite the myriad physical quirks of the space — back cushions mysteriously appear and vanish along the banquettes; seats at the bar diminish in leg room and, thus, comfort, the closer one sits to the door; the back slider leaks cold air like a sieve — a Mexican restaurant in the former home of Arcadian is not as incongruous a fit as one might assume.

Within the custom of dining out, the only transgression more invidious than charging for bread is putting a price tag on chips and salsa at a Mexican eatery. I’m less opposed to either practice when the product on the other side of that expense is exceptional, but the chips served here ($4) are thick, cold and off-the-shelf. They are strewn unceremoniously on a sheet pan with two salsas — one tomato-based, the other cream — that are fine but forgettable To brighten up those leaden chips, consider tacking on an order of the

guacamole ($5), a citrusy spread that is neither too salty nor too garlicky, allowing the tropical fruit to shine. Also worth the calories is the queso ($5), which is smooth, nutty and as satisfying as a hot bath.

The next time I cross the milliondollar threshold, I intend to jazz that queso up with the chorizo add-on.

Two appetizers illustrate the challenge of affixing a label to Blue Habanero, one that leans traditional and succeeds and another that leads

roughly 15 varieties of taco sold by the trio. Prices range from $12 to $15, mixing and matching of fillings is not permitted, and the portions are on the small side (much like the typical Mexican taco). The good news is that they star housemade corn shells that are warm, pliant and fragrant. Options are built around veggies like zucchini and squash blossoms, seafood such as salmon and shrimp, and meats like barbacoa, al pastor and grilled

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diners to wonder what’s what. In the taquitos Mexicanos ($10), six slender tubes are filled half with shredded chicken and half with chorizo and tender potato. The addictive, crispyfried cigars are garnished with pickled vegetables, drizzled with cool crema and served with guacamole.

On the other end of the spectrum are chorizo fireballs ($10), essentially deep-fried balls of bland goo.

A full third of Blue Habanero’s menu is devoted to “street tacos,”

chicken. Salsa and a choice of side (rice, black beans, refried beans, veggies) are included.

Some of the best bargains in the house are the burritos, hulking flour tortilla-wrapped bundles stuffed with rice, beans and a choice of meats. The Melting Chimichanga ($13) arrives completely enrobed in a slick of thin, creamy cheese sauce, lubricating every bite with its sweet, salty kiss. Not to be left out of the rice bowl craze, Blue Habanero

lets diners pick a protein topper for a deep bowl ($12) of white rice, black beans, pickled veggies and greens (essentially all the sides and garnishes).

Local beer snobs are out of luck when it comes to suds, with choices limited strictly to macros and Mexican cervesas. But margarita ($14) fans are sitting pretty because most of the cocktails fashioned here feature good tequila, fresh juice, and no sticky sour mix. A handful of fine cocktails like the Paloma ($10), a straightforward blend of tequila, grapefruit and agave, are appreciated for their balance and restraint.

Blue Habanero is well run, with swift, gracious and enthusiastic service. It’s operated by the folks behind Tres Potrillos, which has locations in Akron, Medina and Beachwood. By the time you read this review, the restaurant will have been open nearly as long as Arcadian, which doesn’t account for much, but also could herald a long and prosperous life.

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EAT BITES Chef Dante Boccuzzi to open Japanese fusion concept Goma at Pinecrest

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BY THIS COMING SUMMER, Dante Boccuzzi fans will have one more reason to leave the house. The popular chef behind Ginko, Next Door, DC Pasta Company and the eponymous Dante in Tremont will open Goma, a new Japanese fusion concept, at Pinecrest.

“Goma will be a modern Japanese, energetic, engaging experience,” explains Boccuzzi. “This will be represented within the cuisine, the decor and the service. I am very excited to launch my new sushi concept at Pinecrest.”

Japanese for “sesame,” Goma will feature an extensive selection of sushi rolls and shareable plates along with a diverse sake menu populated by sake-based cocktails. Boccuzzi comes by his sushi cred honestly having worked for and with famed fish chef Nobu Matsuhisa while serving as executive chef at Nobu Milan.

When the restaurant opens this summer, it will have seating for approximately 180, plus more on a patio. Goma will be open daily for lunch and dinner.

Eric Louttit, project executive/chief investment officer for Fairmount Properties, said this about the project: “We are thrilled to welcome a new venture from such a highly regarded chef as Dante Boccuzzi, Dante has a wealth of experience working in renowned restaurants worldwide and has accrued a sterling track record of success as a business owner.”

Located in Orange Village, Pinecrest is home to independent eateries like 3 Palms, Condado Tacos and Graeter’s Ice Cream, as well as national brands like City Works, Firebirds and Next Door (not to be confused with Dante Next Door). Around the corner, hometown favorites like Red Steakhouse and Oak and Embers BBQ will join them.

Rick Doody to Open New Concept in Lakewood Rick Doody has been a restaurant guy ever since he stopped being a restaurant boy. His mother Sue

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opened the iconic restaurant Lindey’s in 1981, in Columbus’ German Village. While 40 years is quite the achievement in this ruthless industry, Rick and brother Chris managed to top Mom by launching the Bravo and Brio restaurant group, which they sold after 25 years to a private equity firm for $100 million.

More recently, Doody opened Cedar Creek Grille in Beachwood, Coastal Taco in the Flats, and Lindey’s Lake House, which opened in November adjacent to Cedar Creek.

Next up will be Lindey’s Lake Bar, a more casual spin-off that will open in the former Jammy Buggars space (15625 Detroit Ave.) in Lakewood.

Describing the concept, Doody compared it to Coastal Taco in terms of its cool, casual vibe, but the menu will be considerably more diverse.

“If we can broaden the menu to include wood-fired pizzas, burgers, small plates, salads … I think it has more sustaining power, but still has the same cool, hip vibe,” Doody said.

Even before the first one opens its doors — likely not before the snow has long melted — there are tentative plans to seed the landscape with future units.

“We might do three or four of those in town,” he adds.

Chef Jonathon Sawyer’s Trentina to Close on Jan. 13 On the first day of 2019, chef Jonathon Sawyer announced via Instagram that Trentina (1903 Ford Dr.) would be calling it quits on Jan. 13, after five years in University Circle. One year after opening the ambitious tasting-menu restaurant in the former Sergio’s space near Glidden House, Sawyer won the James Beard Award for Best Chef Great Lakes.

The announcement, penned by Sawyer, seems to place partial blame for the closure on external factors like the influx of chain restaurants in University Circle and restaurant saturation in Northeast Ohio.

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UNIQUE SONGWRITER IN the round tour featuring three terrific singer-songwriters, Three Women and the Truth comes to the Beachland Ballroom on Wednesday, Jan. 9.

The tour features Gretchen Peters, Eliza Gilkyson and Mary Gauthier. Peters has penned hits for many performers, including Martina McBride, Shania Twain and Etta James, Gilkyson has had her songs recorded by the likes of Joan Baez, Tom Rush and Roseanne Cash. And Gauthier has been touring in support of her latest release, the critically acclaimed Rifles & Rosary Beads, which was recently nominated as the Americana Music Association’s Album of the Year.

In separate phone interviews, they each spoke about their careers and about the tour.

Talk about your background a bit.

Peters: I grew up not in a family of musicians but in a family of music lovers. My father was into jazz, and I had older siblings who brought rock ’n’ roll and folk music into the house. I discovered country on my own. In my teens, I came at it through the back door. I was living in Boulder and the hippie country bands were just

emerging and that was a hotbed for that. I had been a folkie when I picked up the guitar at age 7.

When I heard this country-rock hippie thing, I knew that was what I wanted to do. I always felt that country music and folk music were cousins. I was attracted to the same things in country music that I was attracted to in folk music — storytelling and simplicity.

Gilkyson: It certainly got me hooked to living outside the lines.

I grew up in the ’50s and ’60s, and it was quite unusual to have a dad in the music business and musicians hanging around the house at the odd hours that they kept. It was fun and spontaneous and musical. It was mostly really good for me.

Did you have a moment when you knew you wanted to become a songwriter?

Peters: I spent all of my childhood and teenage years learning other people’s songs. In retrospect, that was great. It was a great education into learning the DNA of a good song. I didn’t realize I was doing it at the time, but I was absorbing what makes a song great. I used a lot of that once I really got serious about writing my own songs. It wasn’t an emphasis for me. I didn’t

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to me. I wanted to step outside of the bounds of religion and write about these things. How can you express your gratitude and sense of wonder and the feelings you have for this great mystery without falling into religious ideology. It was important for me to not mention God or our belief system on the entire record.

We see today that the time is over for the idea of a male god. We’re all digging deep in ourselves to see how the male as god paradigm has affected our culture for so many years and how we see ourselves in the world. We knew these things intellectually, but we’re really deconstructing them now in a way that’s really healthy.

Gauthier: I’m working with members of the military, a lot of them wounded with PTSD. I’m listening to their stories and turning their stories into songs through a nonprofit called Songwriting with Soldiers. One of the beautiful things about this project is that it’s not about me.

My blessed gift right now is that I get to use what I’ve learned as a songwriter over the last nine records and 25 years to be of service to those who’ve served. That’s my big focus. What I believe about songs is that they can have transformative powers to help people who have been traumatized if we are willing to apply the emotional

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with me is that I was writing the songs in the aftermath of the election of 2016 and everything that was going on. It’s no surprise that the voices of the characters that emerged were all women and girls.

The songs are informed by that, but it has to come from an intuitive place. I can’t superimpose a theme on myself. On the surface, a lot of the people in the songs are characters. You could say that isn’t personal, but what I find is that I’m constantly trying to get closer to the bone and tell the scariest truths I can. I think those are the ones that penetrate with people. It’s always a fraught situation when you try to answer what a song is about because it operates on so many different levels. The character “Truck Stop Angel” isn’t me, but there’s a part of her in me. I write stories and on some level those are fictitious characters, but it all feels very personal to me.

Gilkyson: These are these spiritual songs I had been writing over the last few records. I would sneak one or two onto each record. But I wanted to come out as someone asking these questions about mortality and the existence of a greater power and how does that play out in our lives. I wanted to make a spiritual record that wasn’t religious. That was important

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truth. The theme of the record, if there were to be a theme, is that telling a truth in a song can literally be lifesaving. I think I kind of fell in love with the veterans and their stories and their plights. I believe their songs are very, very good. I think people care about them, but they just don’t know what to do.

We don’t know how to talk to people who serve. There’s a civilian/military gap, and it’s the size of the Grand Canyon. As a songwriter, I’ve tried to build a little bridge to close that gap, at least to the best of my ability.

Talk about how this tour came together.

Peters: We’re all good friends. We love and admire each other’s works. Mary and I had done some touring together, and Eliza and I had done some dates together.

We shared a booking agent, and when we started talking about it, we said we wanted to team up with the three of us.

We enjoyed the format of it. People seem to love it. We had to come up with a title for it. We did that based on the old Harlan Howard quote about country music being three chords and the truth.

Gilkyson: I think all three of us really decided to be more out in the world with

our careers late in life. We were all over 50 when we made that decision. I didn’t start touring until then. That’s very unusual. That’s when women are supposed to not be seen or heard. We felt the calling to be out there. We confirm it in each other in a really respectful way.

We’re all really respectful of each other’s artistry. One of the things we see again and again is that once you have become famous you can break the rules about your place in society. But for every famous woman, there are thousands of not-famous women being told that they can’t do this. Most people deal with a lot of prejudice.

What will the setlist be like?

Peters: We try to collaborate as much as possible. It makes it more fun. That’s one of the great joys of collaboration. It’s singing harmonies and playing on someone else’s songs. I find that to be one of the most fun things about touring. I bore myself if it’s just me. I love to collaborate.

Gilkyson: We never write a setlist unless we’re in a situation where we can each only do one or two songs. We play around a lot. I never do the same songs every night. I like to keep myself on edge. It brings some energy to the show.

Gauthier: One of the beautiful things is that these story songs, while they’re written with and about members of the military, their experiences are universal.

They transcend the particulars of the war trauma and reach out to people who have not served and help us to understand what it must be like to be in the position that so many of our veterans and their families are in. Their experiences are very similar to ours but it’s just a different specific. If you’ve been in a hard trauma and get stuck, you can understand these stories. Playing them in Cleveland with Gretchen and Eliza is such a powerful thing. They can add harmonies and add their magic to the story. One of the most important parts of the process is to get a simple melody that sounds like what the veterans feel. You pair the melody to the emotion being expressed and that helps the listener understand and experience empathy.

Eliza and Gretchen’s songs operate in the same realm. They’re not working with members of the military but they’re up to the same thing as songwriters. This is where we have a similar mission statement.

I love the title of the tour, Three Women and the Truth.

Gauthier: It works, and it works more and more each day in this time of non-truth.

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Ja Rule: 8 p.m., $27 ADV, $32 DOS. House of Blues.

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

Open Mic Night (in the Supper Club): 7 p.m., free. Music Box Supper Club.

Therapy Thursday Hosted by Braxton Taylor: 8 p.m., free. CODA. Two-Vibe Thursday featuring Chris Hatton (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m., free. Brothers Lounge.

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’80s Dance Night Live ft. DJ Dr. Quinn: 9 p.m., $8 ADV, $10 DOS. Grog Shop.

Harry Bacharach Trio: 7 p.m., $12.

Bop Stop.

Book Of Love/Metrolight: Ted Ottaviano, one of the art-studentsturned-musician in the new-wave electronic Book of Love, has a long history with “the perfect pop song.” Book of Love formed in the early ’80s in New York when, as Ottaviano once put it, “the postpunk thing was in full-fledged formation.” One underground venue, the Pyramid Club, became the band’s “local watering hole.” A DJ there had played a demo of “Boy,” a tune that starts with a simple keyboard riff and hushed vocals before distinctive “tubular bells” kick in. Sire Records’ Seymour Stein took notice and signed the band to a record deal; the group went on to became a successful dance act before breaking up in

The country act Brothers Osborne comes to the Agora. See: Saturday.

1993. In the wake of the release of 2016’s MMXVI – Book of Love – The 30th Anniversary Collection, which features re-mastered versions of their greatest hits and never-before released demos, the band played an anniversary show in New York; it’s been on the road ever since. (Jeff Niesel) 8 p.m., $25-$50. Beachland Ballroom.

Mary Bridget Davies with special guests Cats on Holiday: 7 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Brothers Lounge.

Sean Geil of the Tillers/Austin Stambaugh: 8:30 p.m., $7 ADV, $10 DOS. Beachland Tavern.

The Hollywood Slim Band (in the Wine Bar): 9 p.m. Brothers Lounge.

Billy Joel Tribute by the Stranger (in the Supper Club): 8 p.m., $30.

Music Box Supper Club.

Lowly the Tree Ghost/Apostle Jones: 9 p.m., $6. Happy Dog. Daniel Rylander (in the Wine Bar): 6 p.m. Brothers Lounge.

SMRTTRAVELLED: 8 p.m., $10-$12.

The Winchester.

Subtype Zero/The Trades/Skitter/ The Avondales (in the Locker Room): 8:30 p.m., $10. Mahall’s 20 Lanes.

David Thomas Trio: 8:30 p.m., $10.

Nighttown.

Twin Atomic/Heavy Chest/Idolos: 8 p.m., $5. CODA. Vittna/Spike Pit: 9 p.m., $5. Now That’s Class.

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

Nighttown.

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01/12

Action Pants/Half Knocked Out: 8 p.m., $5. Now That’s Class.

Brothers Osborne/The Wild Feathers: John and TJ Osborne grew up writing and playing songs for friends and family. After moving from Maryland to Nashville, they launched Brothers Osborne, a selfdescribed “twang-and-crunch duo” that blends country and rock. The band’s been a huge success and recently won back-to-back American County Music Vocal Duo of the Year awards. Last year, they released their sophomore album, Port Saint Joe, and the current tour supports the disc. Album opener “Slow Your Roll” features slurred vocals and has almost a jam band feel, thanks to a noodle-y guitar solo. (Niesel) 8 p.m., $39.50-$59.50. Agora Theatre.

Capricorn Party Featuring Terry Lee Goffee/Breakfast Club: 9 p.m., $11 ADV, $13 DOS. House of Blues.

Harmony for Hunger: A Fundraiser for the Cleveland Food Bank: 8 p.m. Happy Dog. JiMiller Band (in the Supper Club): 8 p.m., $12 ADV, $15 DOS. Music Box Supper Club.

Let’s Go! Benjamin Orr and The Cars – Book Release Party with Joe Milliken and Moving In Stereo: 7 p.m., $12 ADV, $15 DOS. Music Box Supper Club.

Miller & the Hunks/Black Roads/ Steve Wright: 8 p.m., $7. CODA. Pompous Ass (in the Wine Bar): 6 p.m. Brothers Lounge.

ProgNation/The Rick Ray Band: Formed in 2015 as a protest against the exclusion of prog rock bands in the Rock Hall, Prog Nation plays music inspired by the prog acts of the late ’60s and early ’70s.

The group features locals Tony and Chris Cuda, the bassist and

guitarist from the local prog/jazz group, CuDa, KrishNa & CuDa. In addition, it also includes singer Steve Kolesar (Rockin Ravers, exChampion), drummer Marty Zlocki (Time Traveler, ex-Fayerweather) and keyboardist Dan Maier (exPhillip Glass). Expect to hear tracks from Yes, King Crimson, ELP, the Moody Blues, Genesis and a handful of other prog acts at tonight’s show.

Local guitar hero Rick Ray opens.

(Niesel) 8 p.m., $10-$15. Beachland Ballroom.

Rule of Young (in the Wine Bar): 9 p.m. Brothers Lounge.

School of Rock: 12 p.m., free.

Beachland Ballroom.

Shadow of Doubt: 9:30 p.m., $5.

Brothers Lounge.

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

Nighttown.

Alex Williams/Thor Platter: 8:30 p.m., $12 ADV, $15 DOS. Beachland Tavern.

Evelyn Wright: A Tribute to Nancy Wilson: 8:30 p.m., $15. Nighttown.

YOID (Matt Cassidy, Ben Gmetro, TJ Duke, Joe Boyer, Ron Kretsch, Paul Ryan, Steve Lull, Ken Wendt, + more): 9 p.m., $8. Grog Shop.

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Archie McElrath: 7 p.m., $15.

Nighttown.

Mike Petrone (Piano Sing-a-Long): 5:30 p.m., free. Brothers Lounge.

School of Rock: 12:30 p.m., free.

Beachland Ballroom.

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01/14

Skatch Anderssen Orchestra: 8 p.m., $7. Brothers Lounge.

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

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01/15

Atomic: 7 p.m., $15. Bop Stop.

Jonathan Brown / Easy Living Culture: 8:30 p.m., $5 ADV, $10 DOS. Grog Shop.

Cold City Sol: 8 p.m., $15. Bop Stop.

Outlab Session: 9 p.m., free. Bop Stop.

Tuesday at Twilight (in the Wine Bar): 7 p.m., $5. Brothers Lounge.

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The young kids today are even into them. Some of my students I have had who are 8 and 9 are big Beatles fans.” Miller first played with Oroboros and then formed the JiMiller Band in 1988. The band played its first gig, opening for the Grateful Dead tribute act Sugar Magnolia, in August of that year.

“It was rough at the beginning,” says Miller, who has seen the band’s lineup shift over the years. “For the last 10 years, it’s just started happening with this lineup.”

ON BECOMING A DEADHEAD: An avid fan of the Grateful Dead, Miller says he was initially attracted to some of the covers that the band would play. “They played songs by Johnny Cash and Howlin’ Wolf,” he says.

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twice and talked to him between shows at the old Peabody’s Down Under. Our influences separate from the music were the same. We liked [novelist] James Joyce and [psychologist] Karl Jung. [Hunter] was a fascinating man. What a treat.”

WHY YOU SHOULD HEAR THEM: The

JiMiller band has released four albums over the course of the 20 years and regularly posts original music on its website. Live, the band plays covers and includes Orobos songs in its set as well. Songs such as “Weather the Storm” have an epic feel to them and feature improvisational segments and noodle-y guitar solos. For the upcoming Music Box show that will celebrate the band’s 20th anniversary, former band members such as Steve Zevesky, Fred Perez Stable, Mike Rotman and Brett Miller will join the group. The first set will be all JiMiller and Orobors originals, and the second set with be covers of songs by the Dead and other roots rock acts.

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WHERE YOU CAN SEE THEM: The JiMiller Band’s 20th Anniversary Show takes place at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 12, at the Music Box Supper Club.

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This girl comes after two minutes of stimulation, be it manual, oral, or penile. As someone who takes pride in my foreplay/pussy-eating abilities, this is a bummer. She gets wet to the point where all friction is lost during PIV and my boners don’t last. It’s like fucking a bowlful of jelly. Part of me is flattered that I get her off, but damnit I miss a tight fit! (Her oral skills aren’t great, either, so that’s not an option, and anal is a no-go.) I love to fuck hard, and that’s difficult when I’m sticking my dick into a frictionless void. Is there a way to decrease wetness? Help, please.

— Can’t Last Inside Tonight First things first: She’s not doing anything wrong, CLIT, and neither are you — at least you’re not doing anything wrong during sex. (When you sit down to write letters to advice columnists, on the other hand…) She can’t help how much vaginal mucus she produces or how much vaginal sweating your foreplay/pussy-eating skills induce, any more than you can help how much pre-ejaculate you pump out. (Her wetness is a combo of vaginal mucus and vaginal sweating — not a derogatory expression, that’s just the term for it.) And all that moisture is there for a good reason: It preps the vagina for penetration. In its absence, PIV can be extremely painful for the fuckee. So the last thing you want to do is dry your girlfriend up somehow.

Now here’s something you are doing wrong: “It’s like fucking a bowlful of jelly,” “I miss a tight fit,” “Her oral skills aren’t great, either,” “I’m sticking my dick into a frictionless void.” You’re going to need to have a conversation with your girlfriend about this, CLIT, but you can’t have a constructive one until you can find some less denigrating, resentful, shame-heaping words.

Again, she’s doing nothing wrong.

She gets very wet when she’s turned on. That’s just how her body works.

Too much lubrication makes it harder for you to get off. That’s how your body works. And this presents a problem that you two need to work on together, but insults like “bowlful of jelly” are going to shut the conversation down

and/or end the relationship. So try this instead: “I love how turned on you get, honey, and I love how wet you get. But it can make it difficult for me to come during PIV.” If you don’t make her feel like shit about her pussy, you might be able to have a constructive conversation and come up with some possible PIV hacks.

If there’s a move (clitoral stimulation) or an event (her first orgasm) that really opens up the tap, save that move or delay that event until after you’ve climaxed or until after you’ve reached the point of orgasmic inevitability — if PIV isn’t painful for her when she’s a little less wet.

You can also experiment with positions to find one that provides you with a little more friction and doesn’t hit her clit just so — perhaps doggy style — and then shift into a position that engages her clit when you’re going to come. And there’s no shame in pulling out and stroking yourself during intercourse before diving back in. Be constructive, get creative, and never again speak of her pussy like it’s a defective home appliance, and you might be able to solve this (pretty good) problem (to have).

I’m a woman in an open relationship of four years. I adore my partner. When we were first dating, it was casual and there were no ground rules. During that time, I slept with a guy without condoms after he cornered me in a motel room.

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— Burdensome Unbearable Guilt Sucks Cut yourself some slack, BUGS: You had unprotected sex under a sadly common form of duress. You’re under no obligation to tell your current partner about that night, as it took place before you established your ground rules, so it’s not really any of his fucking business.

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