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UPFRONT RTA VOTES ON NEW ‘ENERGETIC, INNOVATIVE, EXPERIENCED’ CEO Photo courtesy of Nashville MTA

THE GREATER CLEVELAND Regional Transit Authority (RTA) board of trustees voted last Wednesday morning to enter into contract negotiations with India Birdsong, currently the COO of Nashville’s Metropolitan Transit Authority, to become the next chief executive officer and general manager of RTA. Birdsong was selected after an “exhaustive and exhausting” search, per the board, one that stretched longer than initial timeline projections because of the quality of candidates and the importance of deliberation and public input. An initial pool of nine was whittled down to two finalists in a process coordinated by the executive search firm Krauthamer and Associates.

Details of the contract, including salary and start date, have not yet been finalized, but board chair Dennis Clough told reporters after the meeting that the negotiations are at this point merely a “formality.” He said he was hopeful the transition period would be brief and noted that Birdsong, like the other candidates, was enthusiastic about the position and about Cleveland itself.

Birdsong’s relevant transit experience in Chicago and Nashville were celebrated in comments by board members during and after the meeting. She had come up “from the garages,” board member Georgine Welo said.

And with a background in urban planning, she understood transit from both the administrative and community levels. Her personality was also a top selling point. She was described as “energetic,” “innovative,” “personable,” and “enthusiastic” in board comments.

“She’s wonderful!” said board member Karen Gabriel-Moss.

“Cleveland should embrace her.”

Board member Justin Bibb assured the public that the trustees had been rigorous in their vetting of candidates. He said they selected a leader who was excited to come to Cleveland and dedicated to public transit.

Dr. Floun’say Caver has been

serving as interim CEO since the board put Joe Calabrese out to pasture roughly one year ago.

He was assumed to have been in contention for the role, but he disclosed Wednesday that he had not applied for the CEO position and intended to resume his duties as director of operations. Dennis Clough thanked him for his service.

Clevelanders for Public Transit, the grassroots transit advocacy coalition, released a statement expressing gratitude to Dr. Caver and hope that Birdsong’s appointment would lead to positive changes at the agency.

“CPT is optimistic that Birdsong will help end this cycle [reduced

revenue > reduced service > increased fares] by seeking creative funding solutions and by leading RTA to a positive, rideroriented culture that increases the value of transit and makes transit an easier choice for more residents of Cuyahoga County.”

CPT said the board should have initiated its executive search earlier and should have provided “more robust” community engagement opportunities.

However, they said: “CPT is pleased to have been consulted

by Krauthamer and Associates during the executive search and appreciates that rider input was reflected in the final job description.” — Sam Allard

Federal Judge Blocks Ohio ‘Heartbeat’ Bill A federal judge has blocked the implementation of SB 23, otherwise known as Ohio’s “heartbeat” bill, saying that it violates a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion.

Judge Michael Barrett cited a variety of factors in his ruling, most notably that many women do not even know they are pregnant at the six-week mark when a fetal heartbeat can be detected, along with the various hoops, both logistical and lawful, that a woman must jump through to even have an abortion, and that the six-week cutoff amounts to a ban on almost 90 percent of abortions.

“This Court concludes that S.B. 23 places an ‘undue burden’ on a woman’s right to choose a previability abortion,” Barrett wrote.

“To the extent that the State of Ohio ‘is making a deliberate effort to overturn Roe [v. Wade] and established constitutional precedent ... those arguments must be made to a higher court.”

In a press release, Kersha Deibel, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio, said, “We’re pleased that the court saw through this blatant attempt to cut Ohioans off from access to reproductive health care and ban safe, legal abortion in the state.

At six weeks, most people don’t even know they’re pregnant. This law would effectively take away a person’s right to make their own medical decisions before they even know there’s a decision to make.

“When politicians attack health care, they disproportionately impact people of color, women, the LGBTQ community and young people. Access to health care should not depend on who you are, where you live, or how much money you make. Politicians have no right to dictate personal medical decisions and we will not stand for it.”

Proponents of the bill had expected the intervention, and as Ohio and other GOP-led states pass similar legislation, they eagerly await a battle in that higher court.

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Elizabeth Watson, staff attorney with the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project, said in the press release, “Let this victory for Ohio women stand as a reminder that these attacks on abortion access are illegal. We will continue to work within the courts to hold anti-abortion state legislators accountable as long as they abuse their power to push abortion out of reach.�

The law would have been one of the most restrictive in the country, making it a ďŹ fth-degree felony punishable by a year in prison for a physician to perform an abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detected.

The law contains no exceptions for rape or incest, though it does allow abortions when a mother’s life is in danger due to her pregnancy.

Middletown State Rep. Candice Keller sponsored the bill in the Ohio House. She says the aim of the legislation is simple: demonstrate that the laws can withstand legal scrutiny and protect the lives of the unborn.

“After nine years of waiting, it is time,� she told the House Health Committee, of which she is a member, in February.

Courts have struck down similar heartbeat laws in other states, including North Dakota and Iowa, as recently as January. Federal courts have declared the laws violate the constitution. “Ultimately, this will work its way up to the United States Supreme Court,� Gov. Mike DeWine told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt earlier this year. “And they’ll make that decision.� — Vince Grzegorek

Cuyahoga County Jail Inmate on Life Support Following Suicide Attempt A Cuyahoga County Jail inmate was on life support as of Monday afternoon following a suicide attempt on Friday, July 5, a source told Scene over the weekend.

Cleveland.com conďŹ rmed the news with three sources of its own.

The inmate, whose name has not been released, was in jail on a probation violation. He was taken to MetroHealth hospital.

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Further details are scarce, but the incident reinforces the troubling trends over the past year that brought a U.S. Marshal’s investigation, a cascade of resignations, and a handful of indictments. Nine inmates have died in the past year at the facility, with ďŹ ve of those being suicides.

There were 69 suicide attempts by inmates in the Cuyahoga County jail in 2018, according to numbers released by the county.

That’s a 64-percent increase from 2017, when there were 42 suicide attempts, which itself was a jump from 2016, when there were 23 attempts. — Grzegorek

Ohio House of Representatives Resolution Would Declare Pornography a Public Health Emergency When you think of emergency health concerns, things like infectious diseases or unsanitary conditions likely come to mind.

But some GOP state lawmakers have worries about something else: sexually explicit media, especially in the age of the internet.

A resolution before the

Ohio House of Representatives introduced by Republican State Rep. Jena Powell of Darke County would lead to a statewide declaration of a public health emergency due to the prevalence of pornography.

Powell’s proposed resolution wouldn’t make any changes to current Ohio law or spending policies. She says the move is about raising awareness. “Potential detrimental effects of pornography on the user are that it can negatively impact healthy brain development and functioning, contribute to emotional and physical illnesses, shape deviant sexual desires and arousal, promote problematic or harmful sexual behaviors and addiction, and lead to difďŹ culty in forming or maintaining positive, intimate relationships,â€? Powell’s legislation reads.

The legislation later says the state should issue the resolution to ďŹ ght against “a broad spectrum of individual and social harmsâ€? caused by pornography by investing in preventative education about pornography addiction and by urging “enforcement of obscenity laws and increased regulation of pornography on the

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Internet at the state and federal level in order to protect the state’s citizens, minors in particular, from such exposure.”

Legislatures in 15 states have considered similar resolutions, some patterned off of model legislation drafted by a group called the National Center on Sexual Exploitation. Utah first passed such legislation in 2016, and other states, including Tennessee and Montana, have followed suit since.

Porn critics like NCSE say that sexually explicit material is linked to human trafficking, sexual assault and teen sex and pregnancy.

Some researchers, however, say those links are tenuous or nonexistent. A 2009 study by researchers at Texas A&M and University of Texas San Antonio, for example, showed that even as access to pornography has increased, sexual assault and rape cases have decreased in the United States and other industrialized nations.

Another study published that same

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year in the journal Child Abuse Review, however, raised concerns about the effects of exposure to porn on youth, suggesting exposure to violent pornographic material increased sexually coercive behaviors in young men.

Organizations that fight human trafficking consider pornography a form of trafficking if those involved are not willing participants, but most don’t weigh in on whether the existence of pornography alone encourages trafficking.

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Forecasts had predicted one of the worst summer blooms in recent history on the lake thanks to historic spring rain levels.

The planktothrix bloom recently recorded in Sandusky Bay appeared first, with a microcystis bloom appearing the week after, the Toledo Blade reported.

“Satellite imagery from 6/28 shows cyanobacteria is present in Lake Erie’s western basin, touching the shoreline of Maumee State Park and extending 6 miles offshore from Maumee Bay,” NOAA’s bulletin noted.

“Recent sampling (6/17) indicates measured toxin concentrations are below detectable limits throughout the bloom extent. A cyanobacteria bloom of Planktothrix is present in and spilling out of Sandusky Bay. No other blooms are present in Lake Erie.”

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ONE NEIGHBORHOOD, 30 LANGUAGES BUILDING COMMUNITY IN AKRON’S NORTH HILL

By Noor Hindi

ALKING DOWN THE streets of North Hill, it’s possible to hear more than a dozen languages. Nepali men wear traditional Daura-Suruwals and Afghani women dress in burqas, maintaining their culture and identity through dress. From English to Vietnamese to Nepali and Arabic, North Hill is a multicultural neighborhood where people from all over the world now reside.

This has long been North Hill’s story. For more than a century, the neighborhood has been a home for waves of immigrants, refugees and

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African Americans. The city says North Hill is the most racially and ethnically diverse community in Akron.

“North Hill has always been a welcoming community,” says Sylvia Gage, who has lived in North Hill for more than 50 years. “We’ve always had different people come in here. I can’t think of any other neighborhood that’s as open and as a mixed as this community is.”

John Valle, assistant to Akron mayor Dan Horrigan and director of neighborhood assistance, remembers growing up in North Hill when it was

predominantly Italian and African American. He has distinct memories of attending Mass every Sunday and then going to Ninni’s Bakery to buy Italian bread “hot out of the oven.” There were four Catholic churches in a 1-mile radius, he says.

Valle says that although many of the descendents of Italian immigrants have left North Hill, many still attend spaghetti dinners at Carovillese Lodge & Club every Tuesday and the Italian Center every Thursday.

And in the past decade, North Hill has received a new wave of immigrants.

According to an Akron Beacon Journal report published in 2014, Akron welcomed its first family of Bhutanese refugees of Nepali descent in 2008. By 2014, the International Institute of Akron (IIA), a local nonprofit organization that welcomes new Americans to the U.S., had resettled more than 1,500 Bhutanese refugees.

“Our goal, and it’s connected to our mission, is always integration,” says IIA executive director Madhu Sharma.

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the bad. And I choose to focus on the good,� says the Rev. Carl Wallace, who is retired from Trinity United Church of Christ in North Hill. “There’s so many good things happening in North Hill, so many great things that continue to happen in North Hill, and that is the one place where I feel like one day somebody is going to realize that people will want to emulate this community,� he adds. “This is going to be a community that should be emulated throughout this great nation.�

Shanti Chapagi was 22 years old when he was forced to leave Bhutan.

He spent the next 22 years in a refugee camp in Nepal. “I was very sad and depressed because we left all behind. We had land, we had an orchard, cardamom, oranges, we had a cattle,� says Chapagi, who is now 47. “It was very much a miserable life we had in the camp.�

Many immigrants in North Hill are Bhutanese refugees of Nepali descent.

Almost all of them are Lhostampa, who are originally from Nepal but had been living in the neighboring Himalayan nation of Bhutan for decades. In the 1990s, Bhutan’s government — largely run by the Drupka ethnic majority — felt threatened by the growing population of Lhostampa and began deporting their families. “The government is saying we are

FEATURE According to 2017 estimates from the United States Census Bureau, roughly 46 percent of residents in the 44310 ZIP code identiďŹ ed as non-white, with 23 percent identifying as Black or African American and 20 percent identifying as Asian. About 23 percent of people over the age of 5 spoke a language other than English at home.

Signs at the neighborhood’s boundaries boast that North Hill is “Akron’s International District.� But not everyone embraces the “International District� label — particularly the neighborhood’s African American families, some of whom feel like their history has been forgotten.

And even those who like the label know that the mixing of cultures is never easy. New and longtime residents alike must overcome language barriers, cultural differences and competition for resources.

But despite these challenges, North Hill is one of the few neighborhoods in Akron that has been able to grow its population in recent years. People from many different backgrounds live side by side, and leaders are continually working to integrate newcomers. “The bottom line is, we can either focus on the good or we can focus on

anti-national, but we are not antinational. We are just ďŹ ghting for human rights. And justice,â€? says Mon Bahadur Kharka.

After eeing Bhutan, many refugees lost their homes and farmland. They were sent to refugee camps in Nepal and India where they faced extreme poverty, malnutrition and disease. “I used to cry all the time when I was in the camp because I was not getting enough to eat,â€? says 81-year-old Madhu Maya.

Prior to arriving in the camps, Maya remembers police threatening her family and forcing them to leave Bhutan. “Everybody left Bhutan and the police used to come to our house.

Everywhere police, police. So we were very much scared to stay,� she says.

The fear of police among the Bhutanese and Nepali communities is something Akron Police Department ofďŹ cer Jim Leadbetter has noticed in the last 12 years on the job. He says the department is actively trying to ease tension by attending community events and forging connections with the younger generation. “A lot of it falls on us to be out there, to go to these meetings, and be the liaisons that we’re supposed to be to the community,â€? Leadbetter says. “So if somebody’s scared of the police, well, they know [OfďŹ cer] Danny [Ullman], and they’re not going to be scared to

go up and talk to him.�

Chapagi and Maya say they are happy in Akron and that they feel welcome. Still, they often struggle with loneliness because they’re used to having their neighbors and friends around them. The IIA says this is a common experience in their community. “We used to stay almost 18 to 20 people together in the same house. But here I feel so lonely,� says Maya. “There is not much interaction between the people at all. I have a father, mother, sisters, brothers — all the siblings, we stayed together. We have a lot of socialization. We cooked in a big pot.

We eat together. I like that way. But here it’s so lonely.�

Four Bhutanese refugees of Nepali descent over the age of 40 told The Devil Strip they want more community spaces in North Hill where they can be among other people who share their culture.

As more and more families attempt to rebuild their lives in North Hill, organizations and neighbors in North Hill are helping them through the transition. Doug Wertz, for example, converted four baseball ďŹ elds into farmland and founded Akron Cooperative Farms. “The whole idea behind Akron Cooperative Farms is giving people access to land because many of the people are from an agrarian

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background and they haven’t had the ability to have a garden,� Wertz says.

Bhakta Rizal founded Shanti Community Farms to create a space for refugees and immigrants to farm and be in community with each other. “I like Shanti Community Farms the most in Akron because I can go out of the house, work in the farm and then come back home and bring some vegetables. So that is the part I like most about Akron right now,� says Kharka.

Rizal has lived in the U.S. for about 20 years and North Hill for four years. “What happened is when the people come from the poorest country to this country, they have a dream. Everybody has a dream,� Rizal says. “They want to build a house, they want to buy a car. That is the American dream to achieve.�

Rizal says the Bhutanese and Nepali families are very close and typically live in one house together. They often share their income until they can afford to buy a home and a car. He says they are usually hesitant to take out loans from banks and regularly loan each other money so they don’t have to pay interest. “Our community is so much united,� he says. “We work. For example, if you have a family of six people and they all work and they make $1,500 a month, they stay together in the same house.

So six times $1,500 is $9,000 coming a month. They will spend only $2,000 for expenditures. In a year, they buy a house.�

He adds, “So then they buy one house with one brother. They work again together, make that money, buy another house. By six years they’ll buy six houses. Easily. They don’t bother to [get a] loan from the bank.�

According to a report from New American Economy, the median refugee household earns an annual income of around $22,000 during their ďŹ rst ďŹ ve years in the U.S. But after 15 years, the median rises to $37,000.

The median refugee household reaches parity with the median U.S. household — $51,000 in annual income — after 16 to 25 years. “Refugees, by the nature of their experience, are often forced to become resourceful,â€? the report says. “Families from Bhutan or Burma — who often have spent years in refugee camps — frequently ďŹ nd creative ways to eke out a living in an informal economy.â€?

IIA executive director Madhu Sharma says that in more than 20 years working with refugees, she has often seen practices like this. “What I can tell you from my experience is yes, they’re taxpayers,�

Sharma says. “There’s a desire to get off of public beneďŹ ts as soon as they possibly can get off of public beneďŹ ts.

There’s a desire to be independent and self-sufďŹ cient.â€?

North Hill residents Gwen Wright and James Wright have helped the immigrant and refugee populations in North Hill since they moved into the neighborhood in 2015.

They’ve helped with resettlement efforts by doing family events through the YMCA, offering transportation services to new residents, and connecting their neighbors to local agencies that can help them integrate.

Over the years, however, the Wrights have noticed tension between refugees and immigrants and North Hill’s black residents. “I think there’s a big resentment in the black community that has never gone away,â€? James Wright says. “And as new people come in, they feel even less and less received. On the ip side of it, there is a lot of things that are available that they just don’t know how to take advantage of.â€?

Liddel Brown, a 1988 graduate of North High School who still lives in the neighborhood, owns a lawn mowing and snow removal business called God’s Lawn and Garden. His business employs local teenagers to help them develop work experience and teach them how to manage money.

Brown feels that there’s a disparity between the resources North Hill’s refugees and immigrants have received and those available to the neighborhood’s longtime black residents. “I look at it as a disadvantage to give one group of people ďŹ nancial support and kind of, like, leave the other one in the past. It’s almost like you’re trying to create tension without helping both parties,â€? Brown says. “It’s just like you’re slapping us in the face along with what you’ve already done to us in the past.â€?

Brown has been working on an Akron history project to bring awareness to notable black community members from North Hill. For example, Brown says many people don’t know about The Akron Informer, the ďŹ rst black newspaper in Akron. It was created in 1921 by Amos Forman, who felt that the African American community was being ignored by other papers in the city.

According to a 1975 dissertation titled “The Contributions of Blacks in Akron: 1825–1975� by Shirla Robinson McClain, The Akron Informer was a four-page weekly publication that attempted to “educate and improve the status of the city’s Negroes.� Robinson writes that, “Articles included church news and news items about coming events in the Black community, but Forman focused his attention on editorial comments about the conditions that prevented Akron’s

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FEATURE Negroes from advancing.”

“History gets lost and it doesn’t get exposed, so a lot of people are not aware of all the history that we have over here,” Brown says.

Rev. Wallace says a lot of African Americans in North Hill “don’t feel it’s appropriate” to label North Hill as Akron’s International District.

“It basically excludes the history that we have,” Wallace says. “That phrase created a lot of tension. If you continue to promote that as the international district, you will find out that’s going to alienate more and more African Americans.”

Wallace says he worked closely with Elaine Woloshyn, the previous director of IIA, to create the slogan, “One Community, Many Cultures,” to better represent North Hill residents.

“There’s no animosity toward people from anywhere,” Brown adds.

“Trust and believe, we love these people who moved over here, but they get resources that we should be able to have just as well, so it can be a melting pot of businesses.”

According to John Ughrin, executive director of the North Akron Community Development Corporation (CDC), North Hill’s diversity makes the neighborhood economy more likely to thrive — but there are still plenty of hurdles to overcome.

Ughrin says business districts typically thrive when there’s a diversity of people surrounding it, as well as an assortment of businesses located within the district.

“The research that I’ve done indicates that diversity is actually the hallmark of a successful business district,” he says. “In Akron, we tend to look at Highland Square. What a lot of people don’t understand about Highland Square is that in very close proximity to that location you have high-income neighborhoods, lowincome neighborhoods, large-family neighborhoods and small-family neighborhoods, as well as a bit of ethnic diversity. All of those things lead to a successful district.”

The North Akron CDC was founded in 2015 after the North Hill Better Block event. Right now, Ughrin says North Hill needs more space for new businesses.

Katie Beck manages the Exchange House, a cultural hub and public meeting place in North Hill. She says the community needs a unified vision for its business district as it moves forward.

“The resources are here. The organizations are here. The leaders

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are here. But I don’t feel like we’re working with an overall vision yet,” she says. “That’s difficult to do because there are so many voices and so many ideas. But overall in terms of driving economic opportunity and activating this business district, it’s just been at a standstill for a while.”

To address this challenge, Ughrin says the CDC has been trying to foster more communication between the businesses through an email list.

They’re also going to add signage around the business district with the tagline Rev. Wallace and Elaine Woloshyn proposed years ago: “One Community, Many Cultures.”

Ughrin is hopeful about the future of the business district.

“It’s hard to know there’s a renaissance until after it’s happened,” he says. “We’re on the verge of one here. I feel like if someone did pick up one of the vacant lots, say on Main Street, and build a commercial building from scratch, I think that … it would be rented very quickly, would probably encourage others to do it.”

In an effort to address intercommunity tension in North Hill, IIA’s then-director of New Initiatives, Susan Berg Herman, supervised the North Hill Listening Project. During the project, Kent State University graduates Liz Schmidt, Amanda Schwaben and Jenna Lada interviewed 37 community members about their lives in North Hill.

Schmidt and Schwaben then used data from the project, advised by KSU assistant professor Johanna Solomon, to do further research on language barriers and racial narratives through Kent State’s School of Peace and Conflict Studies.

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thesis, was to “open dialogue around race and ethnicity in response to community feedback about ethnic conflict.”

“So much of what the community needs is this deep sense of connection,” Schmidt says. “I don’t think you can say what the community has experienced is overwhelmingly negative or positive. A lot of the issues that the community deals with are just human.”

Fifty-six percent of the people researchers interviewed were born in the U.S., 32 percent were refugees, 7 percent were naturalized citizens and 5 percent were non-refugee green card holders. Broken down by ethnicity, 26 percent of participants were white Americans, 24 percent were South Asian, 18 percent were African American, 18 percent were Middle Eastern or Afghani and 8 percent were Latinx.

“Most [immigrants] said they learned to appreciate diversity and felt favorable towards people of other races or ethnicities,” researchers found. But they also reported that “in some cases, other community members reported negative views of racial differences being adopted. The most prominent of these involved anti-blackness.”

The report continues: “Immigrant communities contained examples of participants feeling afraid of African Americans and specifying their race when there was no clear connection to the behavior. This suggests that prominent stereotypes of African Americans engaging in criminal or dangerous behavior are appearing in both Hispanic and non-Hispanic immigrant communities.”

Additionally, Schmidt writes, “Many participants across

communities made positive statements about diversity, but only a portion of participants had strong relationships across communities.”

In other words, although North Hill’s residents have diverse neighbors, they seldom feel deep connections with neighbors who have different cultural backgrounds.

The Exchange House has identified the same problem. Since 2017, Exchange House has been hosting story circles, multilingual meals and dance classes in the community to encourage interaction between neighbors.

To address the findings from the North Hill Listening Project, organizers created monthly community meetings, along with a newsletter.

“Something we’re focusing on for this monthly gathering, ‘community network’ is what we’re calling it, is trying to strengthen those ties between organizations, neighbors, leaders,” says Beck.

At each meeting, Exchange House staff invite someone from the community to share resources. They also encourage community members to share personal stories in small group sessions at the beginning of each meeting, rather than doing general introductions. At the May meeting, residents were prompted to share a story about a time when they needed to escape a situation.

“Something we’ve realized is doing one-minute introductions of yourself, you can see the person and kind of know them, but there’s no personal connection made. And one of the primary goals is for everyone to be making new connections between people that don’t know each other,” Beck says.

Those connections are even more difficult to forge in a community where more than 30 languages are spoken. Older immigrant and refugee residents typically rely on younger people as “cultural brokers,” Beck says. Translators and interpreters are urgently needed.

Even at the Exchange House, Beck says, “there’s almost like a dance we do with gestures and body language” when attempting to communicate with English language learners.

“Our biggest asset in our community right now is the young people who are the language and cultural brokers,” Beck adds. “They’re the ones who are helping make decisions with medical bills or insurance or legal things.

They have to navigate a lot of that.

What I would like to see is a structure that supports more of that brokering.

Because it’s really important work, and it’s really difficult. And it takes a lot of time and a lot of relationship building.”

In Schmidt’s thesis project, when interviewing white residents about their relationships with immigrants, “nine participants brought up language barriers as a hindrance of forming relationships.” Among African American residents, “two said that some immigrants go as far as to feign language barriers to avoid contact” with others.

Bhutanese refugee Mon Bahadar Kharka has lived in North Hill for nine years, after spending more than 18 years in a refugee camp in Nepal. He says English has been challenging to learn.

“I went to learn the language, but I could not pick it up. It’s very difficult. I think it’s too old for me to go back and learn the language,” Kharka says.

Even Rizal, who has lived in the U.S. for two decades, says learning English hasn’t been easy.

“When people are like 40 years [old] or 45 years [old], they cannot go back to school or college and learn this language, you know? English is not easy. It has meaning after meaning after meaning. It is not easy at all.

It took me a long time to learn the language. And still I’m not good at all.

Still I’m learning. I can write better, but in speaking I get very nervous,” he says.

IIA’s Sharma says bridging the language barriers are key to helping develop stronger relationships among neighbors — but she stresses that it’s easier to do than some might think.

“While I know language access is always a concern, you’d be amazed at how much a neighbor and a neighbor’s attitude and a neighbor’s willingness to cross those language barriers can help an immigrant feel less lonely,” she says.

At North High School, which serves North Hill, counselor Brian Caperones says 47.9 percent of students have limited English proficiency. There are 19 languages spoken within the student body.

Caperones says the school works diligently with students to help them learn English through the help of translators and teachers who are TESOL certified, which means they specialize in teaching English to people who speak other languages.

The school also works to bridge cultural gaps between the students.

“We do try to do a lot of recognizing the cultures here. We do a culture fair once a year. And even if you go to the dances and stuff like that, we’ll play a mix of music depending on where the kids are from and we’ll get input from them,” Caperones says.

Like Beck and Caperones, Rev. Wallace believes the younger generation of North Hill residents is key to continuing dialogue within the community.

“All these stereotypes, all these things … some people will not be able to see past us, but then there are those of us who can. That’s why the future is with the young people,” Rev. Wallace says. “Because I’m looking at the young people embracing that. That’s the big difference. The young people are trying

to embrace this. The young people are recognizing the oneness that can exist and the opportunity to live in harmony.”

North Hill’s demographics are going to continue to change. According to Sharma, IIA has not resettled a Bhutanese refugee since September 2018, but it is continually helping resettle Congolese refugees to North Hill.

Since fiscal years 2017 and 2018, IIA and World Relief Akron have welcomed 202 African refugees, all but two from the Democratic Republic of Congo, and they’re expecting more in the coming years.

“I do feel that North Hill is a microcosm of the experience of the country,” Sharma says. “North Hill gets to be in its own petri dish. But that dialogue within North Hill really is a conversation that requires listening and sharing experiences. And I believe that North Hill residents are willing to do that.”

This article was originally published

by The Devil Strip. It is reprinted here with permission.

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Come From Away Part of the KeyBank Broadway series, Come From Away centers on the aftermath of 9/11, when air flights descended en masse in Gander, Newfoundland, stranding an international array of travelers in this tiny Canadian town. Written

by Tony nominees Irene Sankoff and David Hein and helmed by this year’s Tony-winning Best Director, Christopher Ashley, the musical has received rave reviews. Tonight’s performance takes place at 7:30 at Connor Palace, where performances continue through July 28. Tickets start at $10. (Jeff Niesel) 1615 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

FOOD

North Union Farmers Market North Union Farmers Market returns to U.S. Bank Plaza today with an urban-desert oasis of fresh and sustainable local farm foods.

Come and stock up on the season’s

best fruits and vegetables from 4 to 7 p.m. This NUFM location will be up and running each and every Wednesday through Sept. 4. Find out more on the website below.

(Niesel) East 14th Street and Euclid Avenue, 216-771-4444, playhousesquare.org.

MUSIC

Tal National The Cleveland Museum of Art’s City Stages, a free summer concert series that takes place in front of the Transformer Station, returns tonight with Tal National, a group that relies upon traditional arrangements of West African folk songs and incorporates themes of “love, tolerance, peace and beauty.” CMA Studio Go will be on hand to offer hands-on artmaking activities, pop-up drawing classes and other family-oriented art projects from 5 to 9 p.m.; the music begins at 7:30 p.m. Food and drinks will be available for purchase from on-site food trucks.

(Niesel) 1460 West 29th St., 216-938-5429, transformerstation.org.

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Uptown Out to Lunch Series At today’s Out to Lunch concert, on Toby’s Plaza in the Uptown district, you can grab lunch from your favorite Uptown eatery and have a seat at the great picnic table while listening to local bands.

Today, singer-songwriter Luca Mundaca performs from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The free concert series continues through Sept. 11. The schedule is on the website. (Niesel) 11440 Uptown Ave., universitycircle.org.

FOOD

Walnut Wednesday In one of summer’s great traditions, today from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Perk Plaza at Chester Commons — at East 12th and Walnut streets — food trucks once again gather to serve up lunch to area residents and employees. Follow the Downtown Cleveland Alliance on Facebook for weekly updates on vendors, entertainment offerings and more. The series continues through Sept. 4. Admission is free, but the food will cost you. (Niesel) downtowncleveland.com.

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Asian Lantern Festival Taking over parks and zoos across the country, the traveling Asian Lantern Festival shows off thousands of colorful handmade paper lanterns in open, green spaces. This year’s Cleveland edition, which runs through July 28 at the Metroparks Zoo, brings 40 brand new light-up displays. The event also includes authentic bites from local spots Li Wah, King Wah and Thai Thai, an interactive zone, open-air market and live performances. Hours are Thursday through Sunday only, from 6:30 to 10 p.m. Same-day tickets are $20.50, or you can score four for $60. (Kids age 2 and younger are free.) Those purchasing tickets early get a discount. (Laura Morrison) 3900 Wildlife Way, 216-661-6500, clemetzoo.com.

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GET OUT of The Cure’s Anniversary 19782018 Live in Hyde Park concert film, Cleveland Cinemas will host a series of screenings of concert films and rock documentaries. Tonight’s screening starts at 7 p.m. at the Capitol Theatre. It features a 5.1 audio mix by Cure frontman Robert Smith.

Tickets cost $15. (Niesel) 1390 West 65th St., 216-651-7295, clevelandcinemas.com.

Signups will be available at the club as well. Meanwhile, happy hour takes place from 5 to 7 p.m. Admission is free. (Niesel) 2217 East Ninth St., 216-272-3377, stellasmusic.com.

through Sunday. The vessels are set to be docked just north of where the Browns are prophesied to win big this fall. Tickets start at $15 for adults. More info is on the website.

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Tall Ships Festival Floating into our lakefront with 11 ships, the Cleveland Tall Ships

Edgewater Live Time again for Edgewater Live, the Cleveland Metroparks’ extremely popular series of Thursday-night happy-hour concerts held at Edgewater Beach. In addition to live musical performances, you’ll find yoga, standup paddleboarding and cornhole. Those ubiquitous food trucks will be on hand, of course, and the Beach House will sell drinks and food as well. Hours are 4:30 to 9 p.m.

Admission is free, but bring some bucks for food and drink. The fun continues weekly through August 1.

(Niesel) 6500 Cleveland Memorial Shoreway NW, 216-635-3200, clevelandmetroparks.com.

Open Mic Night/Live Band Karaoke Every Thursday, Stella’s Music hosts a night of music, poetry and comedy.

The club’s doors open at 5 p.m., and performances begin at 8 p.m. Artists can sign up at stellasmusic.com/openmic to secure a 15-minute time slot.

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Cain Park’s 42nd Annual Arts Festival A juried fine arts and crafts event featuring painting, photography, prints, jewelry, ceramics, glass, leather, sculpture and wood, Cain Park’s 42nd Annual Arts Festival returns this weekend. It’s open from 3 to 8 p.m. today, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. tomorrow and from noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday. Admission is free today and $5 per person tomorrow and Sunday.

A wine tasting takes place from 4 to 7 p.m. today. Those tickets cost $10. Check the website for a complete schedule of events and a list of the many food trucks that’ll be on site.

(Niesel) 14591 Superior Rd., Cleveland Heights, 216-371-3000, cainpark.com.

COMEDY

Earthquake Better known by his stage name Earthquake, Nathaniel Martin Stroman has worked as an actor, voice artist and comedian since the 1980s.

His jokes tend to steer clear of current events as he talks generally about the trials and tribulations of being in relationships. “I’ve been investing in women for 40 years and have yet to see a profit,” he jokes in one routine.

He performs tonight at 7:30 and 10 at the Improv, where he has shows scheduled through Sunday. Tickets are $25. (Niesel) 1148 Main Ave., 216-696-IMPROV, clevelandimprov.com.

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New Soft Shoe Nine years ago, on what local singersongwriter 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 “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 Flying Burrito Brothers.

It also plays songs from Parsons’ solo album GP/Grievous Angel.

Tonight at 8, the band performs in the Waldorf Hall at Forest City Brewery.

Admission is free, but a donation is requested. (Niesel) 2135 Columbus Rd., 216-228-9116, forestcitybrewery.com.

site for ticket prices. (Niesel) 2035 East Fourth St., 216-241-7425, pickwickandfrolic.com.

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she delivered at the 2018 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, the talented Michelle Wolf recently served as the executive producer, writer and host of the critically acclaimed variety sketch series The Break with Michelle Wolf. The squeaky-voiced comedian performs tonight at 7 at Hilarities, where she has shows scheduled through Saturday. Consult the Hilarities

Euclid Beach Live This live concert series offers great music, delicious food and fun for the whole family. The setting couldn’t be better either: The site overlooks the scenic Euclid Beach State Park on Lake Erie, and the 285-foot rebuilt pier gives the events a throwback feel and harkens back to the glory days of Euclid Beach amusement park. The fun takes place tonight from 6 to 9.

The series continues through Aug. 2.

(Niesel) 16301 Lake Shore Blvd., 216-635-3200, clevelandmetroparks.com.

SUMMER FUN

Flat Out Fridays The East Bank of the Flats features a slew of great bars and restaurants.

To take advantage of the terrific

riverfront location, the venues have partnered for Flat Out Fridays, a summer music series by the waterfront that includes sweet treats, beverages and other outdoor entertainment. Tonight’s Flat Out Friday runs from 6 to 11 p.m. and features local favorites Faction.

Admission is free; details are on the website. (Niesel) 1055 Old River Rd., 202-628-0123, flatseastbank.com.

to pick up some ground on the division-leading Minnesota Twins, who come to Progressive Field tonight for a three-game series. The Twins have played well all season, and the Indians have struggled to keep pace. Tonight’s game begins at 7:10; it features Rock N Blast fireworks after the game. Tickets start at $15. (Niesel) 2401 Ontario St., 216-420-4487, clevelandindians.com.

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Funk N Flow Devoted to all things Grateful Dead, Funk N Flow makes its debut this weekend at Nelson Ledges Quarry Park. Headliners include electro/ funk/jam band Spafford and funk/ soul/hip-hop outfit Lettuce. There will be hiking, biking, camping, swimming, cliff diving, sunbathing, sand volleyball, full-court basketball, fire spinning performances on the beach and beyond, food vending, free workshops and more. Check out the Nelson Ledges Quarry Park site for ticket prices. (Niesel) 12001 State Route 282, Garrettsville, 440-548-2716, nlqp.com.

INKcarceration More than 30 bands performed last year at the inaugural INKcarceration Music & Tattoo Festival that took place at the historic Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield. The festival returns for its second year this weekend, and the lineup includes headliners such as Shinedown, Godsmack and Five Finger Death Punch. Additionally, the festival will once again feature over 70 tattoo artists from across the country, a large variety of food trucks and a “terrifying” haunted house attraction.

Consult the website for ticket info.

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Indians vs. Minnesota Twins The Cleveland Indians get the chance

Satan & Adam Sterling “Mr. Satan” Magee, an

elderly, Mississippi-born black man and one-man band, and Adam Gussow, a young, white, Jewish Ivy Leaguer and harmonica player, become unlikely friends after meeting on a Harlem street corner in 1986.

The two become a musical sensation and even perform in front of 3,000 people at Central Park. Satan & Adam, a documentary film directed

by V. Scott Balcerek, chronicles the evolution of their friendship across 20 years. The film screens tonight at 7 at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tickets cost $10, or $7 for CMA members.

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

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

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Walkabout Tremont Walkabout Tremont, which takes place on the second Friday of every month from 5 to 10 p.m., showcases the best of this smart neighborhood, with art openings, extended hours at galleries and shops, restaurant and bar specials, street performers, live music, pop-up vendors, neighborhood walking tours, and much more.

This month, the theme is American Classics. See the event’s Facebook page for more info. (Niesel) facebook.com/WalkaboutTremont.

MUSIC

Summers@Severance: Songs of a Wayfarer Franz Welser-Möst conducts the Cleveland Orchestra tonight at Severance Hall as it takes on Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfayer, a song cycle inspired by the composer’s own tale of moving from town to town as he worked as an apprentice. The program also includes Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 15, which a string orchestra will perform. The concert begins at 7 and is followed by an after-party on Severance’s beautiful terrace. Check the orchestra website

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The Cleveland Flea A self-described “small business incubator” that draws thousands of locals hoping to snag some unique goods, the Cleveland Flea features items you won’t find at the typical retail store, including goods from “culinary all-stars” and “the most talented makers in the region.”

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GET OUT shopping experience, the Flea serves as an excellent hang, a place to meet and make friends. It runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. tomorrow. Find additional info on the website, including dates for the Fall and Winter/Holiday fleas.

Admission is free. (Niesel) 3602 St. Clair NE, theclevelandflea.com.

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Hellzapoppin Circus Sideshow Freak Show Named after one of the most successful Broadway musicals from the late ’30s, Hellzapoppin features live performers doing stunts that could result in serious bodily harm.

There will be fire eating, a machete walk, glass eating and sword swallowing. There’s even a “real-live half-man” who walks on his bare hands on broken shards of glass.

Tonight’s show takes place at 7 at the Winchester Music Tavern in Lakewood. Tickets cost $15. (Niesel) 12112 Madison Ave., Lakewood, 216-600-5338, facebook.com/ TheWinchesterMusicTavern.

COMEDY

Colin Jost A writer for Saturday Night Live since 2005 and Weekend Update co-anchor since 2014, Colin Jost is the thinking person’s comic. Jost, who was president of the Harvard Lampoon while he attended the Ivy League school, regularly makes astute observations about social and political issues. He performs at 8 tonight at MGM Northfield Park Center Stage.

Check the website for ticket prices.

(Niesel) 10705 Northfield Rd., Northfield, 330-908-7793, mgmnorthfieldpark. mgmresorts.com.

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Lakewood Summer Meltdown Now in its tenth year, Lakewood Summer Meltdown takes place today on Detroit Avenue between Marlowe and Mars. The street festival features all sorts of outdoor games and activities, including the Meltdown 5-K race, a 1-mile family fun run and walk, food vendors, live music and more. You’ll also find more than 100 vendor tents, many of which offer interactive activities. Then there’s the “Water Moose” sprinkler park, the Summer Meltdown Bike Raffle sponsored by Beat Cycles, and a skateboard park sponsored

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by West Side Skates. Local brews will be available in the Gary K. Bish Memorial Beer Garden, where the local band Front Porch Lights will perform. The fest takes place from 4 to 10 p.m. Admission is free. Find answers to all your other questions on the website. (Niesel) lakewoodalive.org.

dance about in silence while wearing wireless headphones. Tonight’s theme: Old School Mixtape. Admission is free, but you’ll need to have an ID to receive a pair of headphones. The disco takes place from 9 to midnight on U.S. Bank Plaza. (Niesel) East 14th Street and Euclid Avenue, 216-771-4444, playhousesquare.org.

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Patton Oswalt Comedian and actor Patton Oswalt’s lengthy resume includes a long list of TV and film credits. Over the course of his lengthy career, the diminutive Oswalt has lent his talents to everything from Seinfeld and The Simpsons to BoJack Horseman and Justified — and somehow he has still found time to hit the road for standup tours. He’s on the road again, and performs at 8 tonight at the State Theatre. Tickets cost $35 to $65.

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

Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony Tchaikovsky wrote his Fourth Symphony as he battled personal demons; the act of writing the piece reportedly helped him achieve some semblance of sanity. Tonight at 8 at Blossom Music Center, the Cleveland Orchestra performs the symphony; demons are optional. The program also includes Mussorgsky’s “Dawn on the Moskva River” and Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3. Consult the orchestra website for ticket prices.

(Niesel) 1145 West Steels Corners Rd., 216-231-1111, clevelandorchestra.com.

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Silent Disco Dance Party Attending a silent disco should be on everyone’s summer bucket list, and today is your chance to check it off.

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Lake View Cemetery offer locals yet another great opportunity to savor some free outdoor performances. The six-concert series takes place on the Garfield Monument lawn, making it one of the most unique settings in the city. Lake View Cemetery has partnered with Cleveland’s premier jazz venue, Nighttown and Jim Wadsworth Productions, to set the lineup. Concerts take place from 4 to 6 p.m.; the local zydeco band Mo Mojo performs this afternoon. Feel free to bring a lawn chair, blanket or picnic basket. Admission is free. (Niesel) 12316 Euclid Ave., 216-421-2665, lakeviewcemetery.com.

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Indians vs. Detroit Tigers The lowly Detroit Tigers return to town tonight for a four-game series against the Indians. The Tigers are one of the worst teams in the league, so the Tribe should be able to win this series as the once-dominant Tigers rebuild. The game begins at 7:10 p.m.

Tickets start at $15. (Niesel) 2401 Ontario St., 216-420-4487, clevelandindians.com.

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Iyengar: The Man, Yoga, and the Student’s Journey Iyengar: The Man, Yoga, and the Student’s Journey, a new documentary film, tells the story of the man who brought yoga to Britain. The film, which includes interviews with the reclusive B.K.S. Iyengar, shows today at 1:30 p.m. at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tickets cost $10, or $7 for CMA members. (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.

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Welcome to Night Vale A twice-monthly podcast in the style of community updates for the fictional small desert town of Night Vale, Welcome to Night Vale features local weather, news and announcements from the Sheriff’s Secret Police. The live performance of the podcast takes place at 8 tonight at the Ohio Theatre.

Tickets cost $35. (Niesel) 1501 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

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Cleveland Burger Week The popular Cleveland Burger Week is set to help bring on the meat sweats for the second year in a row. Rolling out today and continuing through July 21, the event features $5 burgers at 25-plus participating restaurants in the Cleveland area. Many of the burgers are concocted specifically for the event, while others are menu stalwarts. Vegetarian options are also available at some locations. Some of the participating restaurants include Bearden’s, Flip Side, The Fairmount, Grumpy’s Cafe, Merry Arts, Hodge’s the Rail, Thirsty Dog and Bar Louie.

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Dancing Under the Stars Time again for Dancing Under the Stars at U.S. Bank Plaza. Beginning at 6, staffers from Viva Dance will dish the salsa lessons; then it’s on to the dance party, with live music provided by Sammy de Leon y Su Orquestra. The dancing begins at 6:30 and continues until 9 p.m. Admission is free. The weekly dance party continues through August 27. (Niesel) East 14th Street and Euclid Avenue, 216-771-4444, playhousesquare.org.

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Leaving Home, Coming Home: A Portrait of Robert Frank “If you have a brain and some feeling for people, you’ll be a good photographer,” says Swiss-born photographer Robert Frank in Leaving Home, Coming Home: A Portrait of Robert Frank, a documentary about his career.

Originally shot in 2004, the film has come out only recently. It makes its Cleveland debut today at 1:45 p.m. at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tickets cost $10, or $7 for CMA members and students. (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.

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Tiki Tuesday To celebrate the warm weather, Music Box Supper Club launched a special Tiki Tuesday event earlier this summer. All tiki drinks are just $6 and some of the food specials are $6 too. There’s even a playlist of classic Caribbean music from the ’40s and ’50s. The party takes place from 4 to 8 p.m. (Niesel) 1148 Main Ave., 216-242-1250, musicboxcle.com.

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ART MOVING PIECES Three local artists on exhibiting outside of Northeast Ohio

By Dott von Schneider Photo courtesy of Bryon Miller

IN CHOOSING A CAREER AS A professional visual artist, the end goal is to get your artwork out in front of the public eye. It’s no mystery that hard work reaps rewards. We interviewed three Cleveland-based artists who have been exhibiting their work outside of the region for years and asked about their experiences regarding the same.

Bryon Miller, whose show “How We Used To Be” just opened at the Soap Gallery in Youngstown (through July 27, soapgalleryyo.com), says, “Getting the work into the hands of the galleries has always been the most stressful part. Making sure everything is properly packaged for shipment or travel is always a priority.

I think that’s what goes through my mind at least: not damaging the work before it gets on the wall.”

Emmy Award-winning artist Frank Oriti is currently in the traveling group exhibition “On Being” that will grace the public eye in Michigan (through July 28 at Robert Kidd Gallery; robertkiddgallery. com), Indiana and Ohio. “Some of the challenges I’ve experienced have mainly been the overall stress of sending work out and waiting for it to reach its destination on time and safely,” he says. “I spend so much time in the studio and give my work so much attention that after it leaves the studio it is literally and figuratively out of my hands, which is difficult seeing as most paintings take about a month, sometimes more, to make.”

Arabella Proffer has been showing her work outside of Cleveland for more than a decade and will open her solo exhibition “Soft Sugars” at the Boxheart Gallery in Pittsburgh (July 16 through Aug. 23, boxheartgallery. com). Having moved here in 2004 from Los Angeles, she already had been exhibiting her work around her home base and abroad. “I used to have a hard time with the expense and worry of shipping, especially if it is for a group show; but I think I’ve got that down to a science and I know what materials ship better. (Pro tip: Always use the UPS distribution center, and by the way, the UPS Store is not the same company as UPS.) I did have a painting come back to me from Art Basel Miami torn in the middle from a gallery. Luckily I had

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a good contract that stated they’d buy the painting because it clearly fell on a sharp object.”

Both Proffer and Oriti have had nightmare scenarios with shipping their work outside the country.

“I’ve had things held up in customs for months where no one really knew where it was and then it sort of reappeared,” says Oriti. “That specific piece had already sold, so I wasn’t quite sure how to have that conversation with the collector: ‘Hey, you know that painting you liked enough to buy? Yes it has apparently been erased from existence. It’s lost.’

Luckily, in the end it showed up and was returned safely.”

“I try to travel with my art if I am doing a larger show out of the country, and frame once I get there” Proffer says. “The only big problem I ever had was a gallery in Australia that not only switched out the frame I had custom built because they wanted a different color, but they actually scammed collectors and artists and ran off with the inventory and money. I found out about it through another artist who was in Los Angeles at the time. He sent me all of the local Melbourne press he found

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and interviews with disgruntled employees. This is why I’ll never ship a large or fabulous painting somewhere that I have not actually met the gallery owner. I’ve actually gone into galleries in other cities where I was interested in showing, and the way they handled themselves as salespeople or the way work was hung put me off.”

Do you generally attend the opening receptions, we asked?

“I try and attend all of the shows,” Oriti says, “but in recent years it has become more and more difficult. “On Being” opened on the same night as my show in New York at the RJD Gallery. So, while I couldn’t make it to Michigan, I am going to try and make it to the next city the show travels to.”

Proffer adds, “If I can’t be at an opening I usually know someone in whatever city it is and they send me pictures of the install and let me know if anything sold. Getting paid sometimes was an issue, because I have to strong arm them a lot more than I would if I were within driving distance.”

“Yes” says Miller. “I’m the one who looks stressed out in the corner.”

How does an artist cultivate outside gallery representation, we wondered?

“This is a tricky question,” says Proffer, “because there are a few markets I want to branch out into, but I don’t know but one or two people in the whole area, so I ask myself how do I get people interested there?

It has taken me years to cultivate collectors in Ohio. At the same time, I was fortunate enough to be with a few galleries that had connections and influence. One of my galleries in Germany not only did a few art fairs, but got me into a bunch of magazines and a drawing was featured next to a Jeff Koons sculpture! This was a gallery who invited me for a solo show because they had been watching me for years online and had a new year to plan things out. I knew no one in Germany and now I have two galleries there, so I would ask to be included in group shows if there is a gallery or space doing the kinds of shows you like. You can also respond to open calls by any of the many arts organizations, or residency open calls.

Try to pick a gallery that you can sense has a following. There’s no point in doing a show at a gallery show when you drove 200 miles to be there and no one shows up.”

Miller adds, “I’ve honestly never put much into gallery representation.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s great for artists and it’s definitely a good thing to have other people pushing your work and creating a want for it, but I also think it’s a lot easier these days for artists to reach a larger audience than it once was. Being able to independently market yourself has become exponentially easier than, say, 20 years ago.”

“I think it’s important to be able to show a gallery that your work can fit within their program,” says Oriti. “So being able to share well-documented images of your work as well as a list of recent shows, perhaps on a local level first, might let an outside gallery know you are ready to expand to a new market. But first things first: It’s the work!”

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STAGE STAR-SPANGLED FUN Porthouse Theatre captures a patriotic American era in Tintypes

by Roman Macharoni THE CREW AT THE PICTURESQUE Porthouse Theatre has delivered a big slice of Americana pie with Tintypes, a musical of equal parts patriotism, vaudeville, show tunes and slapstick comedy.

For those who aren’t photography buffs, a tintype is an old-fashioned style of photograph using a raw film positive on a strip of metal. It’s a fitting title, as the production is laid out as an anthology of short skits, musical numbers and vignettes, each capturing an event or moment of time typical of the period. The result is a show that’s as about as American as a bald eagle draped in the flag while flying over a Navy warship with a bacon cheeseburger in its mouth.

Written by Mary Kyte, Mel Marvin and Gary Pearle, Tintypes captures an often-overlooked period of American history between the Civil War and the First World War, when our nation made its share of strides in technology, politics, infrastructure and entertainment.

The ensemble cast takes on numerous roles throughout, but there are certain actors who tend to portray the same authority figure or character type. For example, Teddy (Mavis Jennings) is often seen as Theodore Roosevelt in his ascension from war hero to vice president and later the presidency, and Anna (Josy Soriano) often portrays singer Anna Held in her likeness on and off the stage.

Other characters are slated for similar roles with an overarching theme: Charlie (Devin Pfeiffer) as the new immigrant trying to fit in; Susannah (Shamara Costa) as a housemaid or humble worker craving respect and more out of life; and Emma (Samantha Kennett) as either the strong-willed, women’s rights advocate influenced by anarchist Emma Goldman or the femme comedy foil for the characters. These roles are usually confined within the pantomimed skits that act as the glue holding the narrative together.

The play is divided into multiple themed sections, each highlighting the extraordinary talent on stage.

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musical number before showing their incredible harmony together with songs like “Kentucky Babe” and “I’m Goin’ to Live Anyhow, ’Til I Die.” Soriano, making her debut at Porthouse, showcases her operatic falsetto in numbers such as “If I Were on the Stage” and “It’s Delightful to be Married,” the latter co-written by Held herself. Soriano’s sarcasm and wit as Held are equally appreciated.

Costa, in her seventh production with Porthouse, dominates the stage with an injection of soul and pain in songs such as “Nobody,” and often takes center stage as a narrator. Her

a keen balance of comedic and dramatic mastery. Her singing prowess is best showcased in her many duets, especially alongside Jennings in “What It Takes to Make Me Love You.” Jennings himself boasts a booming, commanding vocal range that instantly reels you in, both in his normal baritone in numbers like “When It’s All Goin’ Out and Nothin’ Comin’ In” and with a slight droop singing in Teddy Roosevelt’s toughguy inflection in “El Capitan.”

Director Eric van Baars tackles the play with full confidence, executing the show with boisterous,

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mesmerizing presence would make the late Lynne Thigpin — nominated for a Tony for the role in its original Broadway run — very proud.

Pfeiffer, one of the current Kent State students in the production, illustrates his strengths with a plethora of expressions and mannerisms that mimics Chaplin’s signature appeal. His singing voice is also top-notch in numbers like “Then I’d be Satisfied With Life.”

Another Kent State theater student, Kennett already possesses

unapologetic camp that retains an old-timey charm. The theater’s decision to produce this period piece is very much welcome in the grand scheme of the Cleveland theater scene, as it has seldom toured across the country since its initial 1980 run on Broadway.

Baars has also succeeded in keeping the production going at a fairly fast-paced clip, with musical numbers wonderfully strung together thanks to conductor Jennifer Korecki and her orchestra,

which match the pep and energy of the cast with bombastic show tunes and soft ballads.

The commitment to the look and feel of the surroundings is impressive, from the newspapers strung up on clotheslines to the soapboxes and old-fashioned carriages and bicycles utilized. The fake cobblestone center stage helps complete the backdrop of 1890s New York.

The set even transforms during the vaudeville portions, with fashionable red curtains drawn and sideshow attraction posters adorning the stage. The sketch and standup comedy in these scenes still finds a way to elicit a smile from the audience while being heavily outdated without context.

Tintypes appropriately concludes with “Smiles,” where the ensemble reminds each other that the smiles they have from their compatriots are the ones that “steal away the teardrops.” Similarly, one would find it a challenge to not find joy and a wide-eyed smile in even its schmaltziest moments. With incredible talent and timeless music, the folks at Porthouse earn a starspangled standing ovation for their execution.

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MOVIES MAY ALL YOUR HEARTBREAKS BE SONGS Wild Rose can’t take the country out of the girl

By Sam Allard Photo by NEON

THERE’S NOT MUCH TO CRITICIZE in the country-music-infused Scottish working-class drama Wild Rose. Nor, however, is there much to get overly enthused about.

Rose-Lynn (Jessie Buckley) is a young Glasgow woman longing to be a country singer. And she’s got the pipes to make it happen. After a 12-month stint in the slammer, she vows to pursue her dream of making it big in Nashville, but the realities of work and parenting complicate the vision she had for her life. This low-heat, ultimately uplifting drama opens Friday at Cedar Lee Theatre.

Buckley is a perfect fit for RoseLynn, a fearless and rough-talking woman who’s unable to fully take responsibility for the mistakes of her youth, mistakes she feels her mother (Julie Walters, of Molly Weasley fame) won’t let her forget, two young children chief among them. Buckley was herself the runner-up in the 2008 BBC American Idol-style talent show I’d Do Anything and thereafter appeared in a revival of Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music in the West End (London’s Broadway equivalent). American audiences will recognize her from her recent turn

as Lyudmilla Ignatenko in the HBO miniseries Chernobyl.

As a showcase for Buckley, an up-and-coming ginger from southeastern Ireland, Wild Rose is an enormous success. It not only shows off her husky, mezzo singing voice, but also her rage and sass and spunk. In an early scene, she chugs whiskey and belts country tunes while vacuuming the carpets of her new employer, Susannah (Sophie Okonedo). When Susannah’s two private-school kids arrive home, she jumps: “You look like something out of The Shining,” she tells them.

But the film is slow. And while not exactly low stakes — Rose-Lynn’s future and the most important relationships of her life frequently hang in the balance — it’s often low energy. The minor dramas that accrue in the buildup to Jessie’s climactic decision (In a nutshell: career or kids?) feel nonspecific. Her two children never fully materialize as characters. A Susannah-asbenefactor storyline fails to resolve convincingly. And for all Rose-Lynn’s country music fanaticism, we never hear her explain how she fell in love with it in the first place, or why, or

even which artists she likes!

When Susannah finances a trip to London so that Rose-Lynn can speak with the BBC host of a country music show, the host tells Rose-Lynn that she certainly has a voice; all she needs is just something to say. The presumption is that she’ll have to start writing her own songs if she wants to break out, but that’s not depicted.

While Wild Rose is a fresh fish-out-of-water narrative, and the performances of both Buckley and Walters are powerful and heartfelt,

the film lacks the grit of something like I, Daniel Blake, one of the best films of 2017, which also happens to be about working-class people and tough decisions in the U.K. But both Buckley and director Tom Harper are rising talents who we’ll be seeing lots more of. For starters, Harper will return later this year with The Aeronauts, starring Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones.

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SPOTLIGHT: SAVING ZOE MORE THAN A DECADE AGO, actresses Vanessa and Laura Marano, teenagers at the time, convinced their mother to option the rights to Alyson Noel’s award-winning young adult novel Saving Zoe. Now, years later, they’ve finally made a film based on the book. It opens on Friday at AMC Solon and arrives on Video on Demand that same day.

The film follows Echo (Laura Marano), a teenage girl, as she looks to discover the truth behind her sister’s (Vanessa Marano) murder. The movie aims to “bring to light how prevalent sex crimes and trafficking are online.”

“Our mom, my sister and I optioned the book 12 years ago, if you can believe it,” explains Laura Marano in a conference call with her sister. “It came from a point when we were frustrated with our acting careers. Our mom had the foresight to say, ‘Let’s take control of our careers and try to be in charge

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of our destinies.’ She got a bunch of books with teen girls on the covers and got me to read them. I liked a bunch of them, but Saving Zoe was just something special.”

Since the novel focuses on two sisters (one living and one dead), Vanessa Marano says she and her sister were naturally drawn to it. She says they also found the theme of the dangers presented by the internet to be intriguing.

“What it has that YA stories don’t usually delve into is the important message about the internet and the world we’re living in right now,” she says. “The story of what happens to my character and the dark world she winds up unwittingly involved in is more relevant today than it was 12 years ago. That’s something we connected with back then and kept up as we were going through with the film; we knew it was a story that

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needed to be told.”

Laura Marano agrees. “[The story] still has a Judy Blume aspect of coming from a teenage girl’s point of view,” she says. “She’s starting high school, but you have her sister’s murder. It dove into a world that you might not associate with teenagers.

Studios and production companies told us, ‘Teenagers don’t want this. They want lighter and happier stuff.’ Being teenage girls, we said, ‘We kinda know what teenage girls want.’ It was so scary for production companies at that point. Now, we live in a world where content for teenagers is a little darker.”

The Maranos recruited Jeffrey G. Hunt (Riverdale) to direct the movie, and asked comedian Ken Jeong, a friend of theirs, to take on a serious role and play a therapist.

“Ken is amazing,” says Vanessa Marano. “He’s the kindest, most wonderful human being in the world.

He was so excited to play a role that is a little darker.”

The movie functions as a thriller, but it also has a strong message.

“I think the more important thing when you have an issue is to tackle it in as realistic a way as possible,” says Laura Marano. “You don’t want to be preachy or give a lesson. [The movie] deals with online sexual exploitation.

We showed our movie to survivors of online sexual exploitation, and we were petrified. We were so beyond excited that they not only related to it but got emotional with it. At the end of the day, you have to make sure there is a heart to it and an emotionally delicate core that you’re dealing with.” — Jeff Niesel

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By Douglas Trattner FOR THOSE OF US NOT FORTUNATE enough to own a little slice of the heaven that is Catawba Island, the peninsula merely is the place one parks his or her car before embarking for Put-In-Bay via the Miller Ferry. But since Twin Oast Brewing opened its doors last year, many revelers are deciding to swap South Bass Island, where the beer is expensive, the crowds thick and the return ferry nauseating, for oncesleepy Catawba.

Like many of the best destination breweries, this one is set on a majestic sweep of land that provides guests with plenty of room to roam.

Some 60 acres of prime property are dotted with fruit orchards, flower gardens, percolating water features and enough green grass to host simultaneous baseball games.

On warm summer days, the estate is so populated by families that it more resembles a public park than a brewery. But then again, that was precisely the point.

“We decided that the only way to keep the interior of Catawba Island green was to make money on alcohol,” says owner Quintin Smith, who watched over the years as real estate developers raced to convert agrarian land to contemporary condos.

After assembling the various plats and parcels, Smith reintroduced stone-fruit trees like cherries, plums, peaches and apricots to the land.

Catawba has long been home to vineyards, orchards and vegetable farms and Smith was eager to revive and maintain that agricultural legacy. Adding a brewery, taproom and restaurant not only provided a source of income, it also gave folks a reason to visit and stick around.

Under the meticulous eye of head brewer John Novotny, the “farm-to-fermenter” brewery turns out fruit-laced beers like cherryvanilla IPA and apricot-infused ApriCatawba, crisp German-style brews like Kelleys Island Pilsner and Oasteweizen Hefeweizen, and modern American concoctions like Legitimate Swells IPA and Lava Monster Red Ale. Working on a 15-barrel system, Novotny strives to maintain a roster of five core beers plus another five seasonals.

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Those suds are served up in style-appropriate glassware in an attractive 100-seat taproom. But that room is just a small portion of the overall footprint. Garage doors open onto a spacious stone patio, picnic tables pepper the hillside and then there are those namesake oasts. The replica hop kilns, reminiscent of those one might see in Kent and Sussex, England, house a second small taproom in one and fire pit in the other.

day. That number can swell to 5,000 on event days, such as next week’s Apricot Fest, when the kitchen crew gets sweet relief from food trucks and other vendors.

Giant Bavarian pretzels ($10.50) dangling from metal racks roam the room with alarming frequency.

They are fat and fluffy, slick with a copper hue and dusted with salt.

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“We thought they were the perfect symbol for brewing and farming colliding,” Cory Smith says of the towering oasts.

Beer gets people to breweries; food keeps them from leaving. In typical taproom fashion, Twin Oast employs a system whereby guests order and pay at a counter and runners deliver the food. The kitchen here does a yeoman’s job of keeping up with crowds that can easily top 500 on a typical weekend

chips are thick, dark and crunchy and arrive with most burgers, sandwiches and tacos. Beer-friendly fare like spicy fried-perch tacos ($13) and zippy bratwurst sliders ($9) topped with caramelized onions and kraut hit the spot and provide a base for more sampling.

Margherita flatbreads ($10) do too if you request that the ubersweet balsamic glaze remain in the kitchen.

With one year in the books, Twin

Oast is cruising through summer under full sail, but that doesn’t mean Quintin Smith is coasting.

Last month he purchased Mon Ami, a historic property up the road with more ups and downs than the nearby Millennium Force roller coaster. The purchase nets Smith an additional 24 acres of land, 36,000 square feet of structure and what he labels “the largest wine cellars in America that nobody knows about.”

In addition to improving every facet of the antiquated operation, Smith intends to return vineyards and winemaking to the once-significant estate.

It’s another step in the Smith family’s master plan to help preserve the island while turning it into a four-season destination.

“If you’re looking for that big-city feel, you’re probably not coming to Catawba,” says Cory. “But if you’re trying to go somewhere quaint and fun, I feel Catawba has the potential to become something like Traverse City based on the agriculture, wineries and breweries.”

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If you missed the story earlier this year touting the old Ohio City favorite’s second life with a new mission, the short version: The new restaurant is reopening as a combined nonprofit effort by the Edwins’ team and the West Side Catholic Center. While Christopher Terry, the executive chef at Edwins, is leading the culinary side, the West Side Catholic Center will be benefiting with the restaurant hiring clients and serving its community.

“We recognized that we had a unique opportunity to reopen a popular eatery that will feed the local community, while supporting economic growth initiatives. In addition, Ohio City Pizzeria will help the West Side Catholic Center serve people in need of food, clothing, shelter, advocacy and a path to selfsufficiency,” said John Litten, executive director of the center, in a statement.

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Michael’s Genuine Head Chef is Leaving after Only Three Months After less than three months on the job, chef de cuisine Vinnie Cimino is parting ways with his employer, Michael’s Genuine (3427 Tuttle Rd., 216-230-8022). Since opening in April, the buzzy bistro at Van Aken District in Shaker Heights has been awash in both customers and positive reviews, including one from this magazine. But now, the search is on for another top chef as Cimino will be out the door in two weeks.

There is no doubt that chef-owner

Michael Schwartz will find a qualified replacement. But a real and pressing labor shortage in the hospitality industry is causing untold headaches for operators and diners alike.

Cimino called the move a “mutual separation,” but gave no clues as to his next move.

“We are grateful for Vinnie’s hard work and talent that helped us get off to such a great start in Cleveland and know he’ll go on to do great things,” Genuine Hospitality Group said in a statement.

It’s worth pointing out that Jonathon Sawyer, for whom Cimino worked at both Greenhouse Tavern and Trentina, is gearing up to open restaurants in Columbus and about 100 yards away from Michael’s Genuine at Van Aken District.

Sawyer’s, as the Van Aken District eatery will be called, is mere months from opening day.

The Newest Cleveland Brewery Passport Program Just Launched Last year, Destination Cleveland introduced a Cleveland Brewery Passport Program.

Participants could pick up a passport at one of 30 local breweries and then receive stamps from each participating brewery.

People who completed their passports received prizes.

The program was a huge success, and Destination Cleveland last week launched its 2019-2020 version.

Bookhouse Brewing, the Cornerstone Brewing Company, Southern Tier Brewing Company and Phunkenship (upon opening) will join the program for its second year, bringing the total number of breweries participating this year to 34.

New this year, there will be a prize at three tiers when using the passport. All rewards must be redeemed at the Cleveland Visitors Center (334 Euclid Ave.), not at the breweries.

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ARLIER THIS SUMMER, HEART Bones (Har Mar Superstar’s Sean Tillmann and A Giant Dog’s Sabrina Ellis) announced a run of summer tour dates in support of the singles “Disappearer,” “Little Dancer” and “This Time It’s Different.” Inspired by their favorite classic duos such as Nancy Sinatra/ Lee Hazelwood, Serge Gainsbourg/ Jane Birkin, Sonny & Cher, and Sam & Dave, the duo draws from m dooo wop, classic duets, musical th heeat ater, electro dance and mellanc ancchoolly y pop. They perform with Gooood Fuck ck at 8 p.m. ck m on Thursday at the Be Beac achland Tavern ac n.

The concert is parrt ooff In nd dep pen end deent n Venue Week, an n eve v nt ve n tha hat celebrates

indie venues around the country.

In a recent conference call, Tillmann, who’s based in Minneapolis, and Ellis, who’s based in Austin, spoke about the band and the current tour.

What were your first impressions of one another when you initially met?

Ellis: We met before ever touring toge to geth ge t er. Sean was at what he claims wass his hii fifth A Giant Dog show. I gott offf stag ge real real re ally ly swe ly weat aty at ty. I see e him w lt wa ltz back stage and walk right up to me. He said, “We need to talk.” I tth thou hou o gh g t, “Oh no. Am I be bein ing g serv r ed ed?

Wh ho iss thi hiis pe h pers rson??” rson ? ” He ask ked if if

my band could tour with Har Marr Superstar. I was stoked about it.

When we went on tour togetherr in i 2016, those were my first exper erie er i nces of seeing Sean on stage. I wass jus ust captivated.

Tillmann: Mine goes back a little further. I’ve been a fan of A Gi G ant Dog. I’ve seen them play y all l over Austin. I feel like every y ttiimee I wass there for a festival orr a sh show, they’d be playi y ng g dow o n th the sttreet. I’d be jeal je a ou al o s of their show an a d go. Sabrina is one of my favorite fr front people ever. When we were finally on tour together, we would sin ing a couple in off son ngs g tog o ether at the h end of my seet. Sab abri r naa would com om me up and the

energy gy y was a rea eallly fu ea fun and our voices fun soun un nde d d good od d tog oget ethe et theer. We realized wee had too trry too wri rit ite some songs.

You Yo u both share ree oveerr-tth he-top sh howmanshiip. p. Tallk a ab bout how you’ve achie ieeved th hat. at. at Ellis: Miinee is a defense mechanism.

Til illlm mann: an Mine is a reaction to seeing shows that could’ve been more exciting and entertaining myself. I try to put on a show I would want to see. And on tour is the only time I get any exercise, so I try to make the most of it.

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I did it was some non sequitur. I started realizing that if I could entertain people, it gave me an attimes false sense of acceptance. It just became second nature.

Tillmann: I’m from the same vein but more of an overt ham as a kid. Once I got one laugh, I would repeat the joke until it wasn’t funny anymore.

Ellis: I’ve been around Sean’s family a bit during my travels to Minneapolis, and he’s always cracking them up as well, so I can tell it goes way back.

Tillmann: We weird.

on ideas that are emotional and you’re excited. I’m not the best guitar player. When it’s time to show the framework of a new song, I often a have a panic attack. It’s been great to be with Sean and the musicians we’ve put together. It’s such a good working environment.

Tillmann: Sabrina is so good at coming with a formed idea that comes from her soul. I write songs like that too. I can envision where it’s going when she plays a snippet for me. We’re ridiculously fast at finishing a couple of verses and a chorus. When we sit down and focus, we get so much done.

Ellis: We had our first writing session in April of 2018, and we have a finished album we’re sitting on.

What kind of challenges did the physical distance between you present?

Tillman: I don’t think that’s affected it too much. We just set aside some time. I find myself in Austin a lot. Sabrina is considered a Minneapolitan at this point. If I’m going to make a record, I pick some dates and do it.

Ellis: Sean gets in hyper-focus.

We’re always traveling anyway

Your voices blend together really well in “This Time Is Different.”

Talk a bit about your approach to that song.

Tillmann: That’s the first song we wrote together.

Ellis: I started stretching through my phone recordings for some frameworks and found this snippet of a chord progression that sounded really dance-y. Sean closed his eyes and leaned back and this beautiful

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whether it’s together or separately.

It feels so natural.

Tillmann: Now, we can finally play some shows that pay for our airfare.

Ellis: We can stop busking in front of the airport.

Talk about your musical influences and the classic duos that you want to emulate.

Tillman: I’ve always liked two voices together. There’s something about two great voices combined that’s really magical. It was an exciting process to co-write with somebody who sings really well.

There’s something unbeatable about that. In making records, I feel like I end up focusing on this solo vision and it’s nice to have two points of view.

Ellis: Collaborating for me always feels like growth. It’s like crosstraining and it stretches my abilities. Sean is an incredible singer. He also has patience with me when we’re forming an idea.

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melody came out of his mouth. It sounded like everything mixed together. It sounded like Backstreet Boys meets Joni Mitchell. It was a beautiful coming together.

Tillmann: It was. It was obvious for me to go with gender role reversal right away. I wanted to do it now because I didn’t want to do it for every song. It was the obvious thing to address.

Ellis: I wasn’t surprised by that at all. Your performance style is very non-binary. As a person, you’re sensitive as well as extremely efficient.

Tillmann: I’ve written from that voice, and it just felt like the right place to go. It’s a classic “find the problem, fix the problem” thing. It’s a good song conceit, though I don’t think we were going that heavy.

“Little Dancer” features some great synthesizer riffs. Were you going for an ’80s feel on that one?

Ellis: We had a couple of songs that we had written before forming the band that we traded with each

other. That was one that turned out to have this ’80s vibe. It’s definitely a dance song. It doesn’t have any changes. It has this static beat that I hoped would make people want to dance. The lyrics are very personal and detailed about change and insecurity and escapism and we throw a bit of obsession compulsion in there. It’s very ’80s.

“Disappearer” is a great breakup tune. Talk about the inspiration for it.

Ellis: It’s based on a friendship.

It sounds like a breakup song but it’s based on a friendship that felt exciting but that person ghosted out.

It’s a common thing that happens when you have friendships with other artists who are really busy as well.

It feels like heartbreak when it goes.

This was a sassy little rant about it.

Tillmann: I was trying to write from both standpoints. Musically, I wanted to make a song that had elements of the Association. They’re one of my favorite bands, so I went for the big choral chorus.

Ellis: That song hops genres and I remember being excited about that.

Sometimes, we worry about genre and sometimes the excitement and the ADHD of new inspiration will take you into different territories and you think you have to rein it in.

That was a lesson for me. I wanted to start with this crazy rave hip-hop intro and it turns into a girl group thing and then gets psychedelic and beautiful.

Tillmann: I could see Destiny’s Child doing the verses and the Association doing the choruses.

What will the live show be like?

Tillmann: There’s a band. We have three amazing people in the back holding it down. They play in the Har Mar band too. They bring to life these crazy electronic- and rock-influenced things that become something bigger.

It’s all about energy.

Ellis: It’s like a dance off. It’s not competitive, but there’s a challenge element when I see Sean do something. To dance through these songs with the energy and as well as focus on hitting the notes, that’s all I can do. It becomes really meditative. It makes my mind clearer.

Tillmann: We have a full album’s worth of stuff now; it’s pretty much all originals but maybe a cover here and there. We do a throwback to our original tour idea which was to do the entire Dirty Dancing soundtrack.

We’ve held onto “Hungry Eyes.”

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MUSIC A CHAMPION OF CLASSIC COUNTRY A theme of restlessness pervades the latest offering from singer-songwriter Eilen Jewell

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SINGER-SONGWRITER EILEN JEWELL says she didn’t see many concerts while growing up in Boise, but her dad’s record collection that was hidden away in the garage attic helped expose her to a variety of musical acts.

“It was a lot of ’60s folk and blues revival stuff,” she says during a recent phone interview. As part of Independent Venue Week, she performs with local singer-songwriter Thor Platter at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, July 10, at the Beachland Tavern. Her forthcoming album, Gypsy, embraces a classic country sound while updating it for the modern era. It’s a terrific collection of finely crafted tunes.

“There was Howlin’ Wolf and Mississippi John Hurt and early Dylan records and some really good stuff,” she explains. “That was really influential for me. I grew up listening to the oldies station, which, at the time, only played ’50s and ’60s music.

Seventies music wasn’t considered vintage yet. That’s what I grew up listening to, and that’s still what I really love.”

She says she initially hated country music because she only heard “the stuff that people would play really loud in their pickup trucks.” Once she heard “classic country music,” she was hooked, and that influence comes across clearly in her music.

After moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico, Jewell began writing her own songs and performing on the city streets.

“I started playing in the farmers market there,” she explains. “If it weren’t for that, I’m not sure I would have ever performed. I had thought I hated performing. When I had to do a piano recital as a kid, you’d think the world was ending. I hated it so much.

I was just so nervous and had such bad stage fright.”

In 2006, she released her debut, Boundary County, and assembled a makeshift band to cut the album.

“We didn’t have a set band at that point,” she says. “Everyone who later became part of my band was on that record. It solidified us as a band and added a focus to what we were doing.

We had been gigging casually. It was released to a fair amount of praise

and gave us momentum to become a real band. We got our record label on board and the same thing with our booking agency. Everything clicked into place.”

For Gypsy, she used the theme of “restlessness” as a springboard for the songs.

“I often have this feeling of wanting to go somewhere,” she says.

“And there’s often inner conflict. In the song ‘Crawl,’ I feel torn in two different directions. I want everything to be turned on its head. I keep

have to stand on one side or the other.

Even if you stand on the line, that’s a stance. No one can call themselves apolitical anymore.”

She recorded the album at Audiolab in Garden City, Idaho, which she says is “just down the street” from where she lives.

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feeling that kind of restlessness.

I’ve been looking for the words for it for a long time. Of course, there’s political themes. I don’t like to call them political, because I think the political is personal, especially these days. I could not help but think about more political leanings and themes this time around. It feels like a line has been drawn in the sand, and you

not fun, especially with original material. I tend to get self-conscious in the studio; I think everyone does.

When you show the band the songs for the first time, you keep asking if it’s the way you want to say it and if it’ll come across correctly. This time, that wasn’t how it went. Maybe I’ve learned how to write songs and record them. You’d hope so by now. It just

went really smoothly, and each song was a revelation for me and the band.

The band didn’t even know I had been writing songs, and some of them were only ideas for songs. Rather than it being a painful process, it was really rewarding and actually fun.”

One album highlight, the twangy, slide guitar-driven “You Cared Enough to Lie,” is a cover of a song

by Pinto Bennett, a Boise musician that Jewell says is an underrated songwriter.

“His songwriting is similar to Loretta Lynn,” she says of Bennett.

“It’s classic country with words that manage to be simple and concise and poetic. I love that sensibility, and with classic country, there’s also a sense of humor, and I love his sense of humor. It comes across how much of a character he is. We got to know him. We don’t talk politics with him, but he’s such a great guy. Jason [Beek], my husband, produced what he’s saying is his last album. It’s called The Last Saturday Night. Jason drummed on it, and Jerry Miller, my guitarist, plays on it and I sing backup. I thought that to put one of his songs on my album would be a good way to get his name out there. I wanted to spotlight him as an artist who never got what he deserved.”

These days, the record business doesn’t offer much in terms of monetary rewards. So what keeps Jewell going?

“I’ve been at it for so long by now that it’s become part of me,” she says.

“It’s who I am now. I do have days when I fantasize about having benefits and always sleeping in your own bed, and some kind of financial stability would be nice. But when I think about what else I would do, there’s nothing else that comes to mind. I feel like what you do habitually in life becomes who you are and informs you and shapes you. At this point, there’s no turning back. It’s a hard life but it’s a good life. Our little girl comes with us. As long as she can hang in there with us, we’re going to keep doing it. Somehow, it works. We’re fed and that’s really all I ask.”

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Alice Cooper returns to Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica with a brand new show. See: Sunday.

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07/10

And the Kids/The Harmaleighs: 8 p.m., $10. Mahall’s 20 Lanes.

Conscious Pilot: 7 p.m., $8. The Winchester.

Keigo Hirakawa Trio: 7 p.m., $15.

Bop Stop.

Hop Along/Kississippi: 8:30 p.m.

Grog Shop.

Into The Blue: Grateful Dead Revival: 8 p.m., $11 ADV, $14 DOS. Beachland Ballroom.

Eilen Jewell/Thor Platter: 8 p.m., $16 ADV, $18 DOS. Beachland Tavern.

Susan Marie Project (in the Supper Club): 6 p.m., free. Music Box Supper Club.

Static-X/Devildriver: 6 p.m. Agora Theatre.

THU

07/11

Tiffany Baumann Band (in the Supper Club): 7 p.m., $15 ADV, $20 DOS. Music Box Supper Club.

Blue Coupe: 8 p.m., $15 ADV, $18 DOS. Beachland Ballroom.

Jacob Boarman: 8 p.m., $8. Mahall’s

20 Lanes.

The Fabulous Thunderbirds: 8 p.m.

Music Box Supper Club.

Heart Bones/Good Fuck: 8 p.m., $15.

Beachland Tavern.

Loverboy: 7:30 p.m., $39.50-$48.50.

MGM Northfield Park, Center Stage.

O-Town/Ryan Cabrera: 8 p.m., $25 ADV, $30 DOS. House of Blues Cambridge Room.

Edgar Red/Meg&TM/Apostle Jones/ Kiss Me Deadly/Balloon Knot: 7:30 p.m., $5. The Winchester.

Thelma & the Sleaze/The Beyonderers/The Venus Flytraps: 8:30 p.m., $7. Happy Dog. Therapy Thursday Featuring Malik X: 8 p.m., free. CODA.

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07/12

Dave Alvin with special guest Steve Forbert/Dead Rock West: 8 p.m., $25. Beachland Ballroom.

Bassel & the Supernaturals/Toobe Fresco & the Living Sound/Nick Wilkinson: Bassel Almadani, the singer who fronts the Chicagobased soul/funk/R&B group Bassel & the Supernaturals, has

deep ties to Northeast Ohio. Born and raised in Kent, he blossomed as a songwriter here, where he regularly attended shows at the Grog Shop. After moving to Chicago, he started listening to the music of Otis Redding, Al Green, Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder; their “emotionally saturated” music inspired him to put together his own damn band, the Supernaturals, who are cut from that same musical cloth. The band has a high-energy live show, which will be on display tonight at the Grog. (Jeff Niesel) 9 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Grog Shop.

Daddy Long Legs/The Torments: 9 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Now That’s Class.

Golden Vessel/Oston: 8:30 p.m., $15.

Beachland Tavern.

Grumpy Plum/Shelter Pup/Lone Thunder: 9 p.m., $6. Happy Dog. Carvin Jones Band/Erin Coburn (in the Supper Club): 8 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Music Box Supper Club.

Carol Leslie Quartet: 8:30 p.m., $20. Nighttown.

The Morning Bird EP Release/ Apostle Jones/Emily Keener: Morning Bird singer-guitarist

Jeremy Taylor says his first cassette tape was Green Day’s Dookie, and the punk rock album proved to be a major inspiration.

Latter-day Johnny Cash also proved to have a major influence.

Those influences come across on the band’s latest offering, Lonesome Leaving Sound, a fivesong EP that commences with the anthemic, Cash-like “Sober.” Terry Geer at Apparatus CLE recorded and mixed the album, and another local hero, Adam Boose, mastered it at his Cauliflower Audio.

Tonight’s show at Mahall’s serves as a release party. (Niesel) 8 p.m., $12. Mahall’s 20 Lanes.

Raelyn Nelson Band: 9 p.m., $12.

The Winchester.

Queensryche: 8 p.m. MGM Northfield Park, Center Stage.

Shadow of Doubt Tribute to Tom Petty/Across the Universe Tribute to John Lennon: 8 p.m., $12 ADV, $15 DOS. House of Blues.

Dave Thomas Quartet: Tribute To Nancy Wilson: 8 p.m., $15. Bop Stop.

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LIVEWIRE Wake Magnolia/Mild Animals/ Houses & Hotels: 8 p.m., $7.

CODA. Wanted, A Tribute to Bon Jovi/ Theatre of Crue, A Tribute to Motley Crue: 8 p.m., $12 ADV, $15 DOS. House of Blues.

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

Nighttown.

SAT

07/13

Duwayne Burnside: 8 p.m., $13 ADV, $15 DOS. The Kent Stage.

The Deep End featuring Bear Grillz + Zebbler Encanti Experience Bando/Dirty Red/ Dutty/Goofyfm/Hekate b2b Voto/ Jacob Bennett/Jon Soros/Mr. Yukk/Slave/Wolftown: 9 p.m., $20 ADV, $25 DOS. Beachland Ballroom.

Glow 9 with MaliPhresh/DJ Green/Downhill Collective: 9 p.m., $10 ADV, $15 DOS. Grog Shop.

The Angie Haze Project/Wave Magnetik/Dorianne: 8 p.m., $10.

CODA. Sam Hooper Group: 8:30 p.m., $15.

Nighttown.

LoveMuffinPalooza with Tracy Marie/Tom Adams/XLT 1000/ The Village Bicycle/Birdog Cats: 8 p.m., $10. Bop Stop.

Summer Chilled Featuring Sean 216/Konium/Jesse Trillet: 9:30 p.m., $12. House of Blues.

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

Nighttown.

Steve Wright Single Release Show/Bonnie Clydeman/Mr. Carnivore: 9 p.m., $8. Mahall’s 20 Lanes.

SUN

07/14

Jake Allen/M. Moody/Cody J Martin: 8 p.m., $10. The Winchester.

An Evening with Alice Cooper: Earlier this year, shock rocker Alice Cooper announced a handful of July shows premiering his all-new “Ol’ Black Eyes Is Back” show, which will have a very different look than recent tours.

In addition to recording and touring both on his own and with the Hollywood Vampires with Joe Perry and Johnny Depp, Cooper continues his long-running nightly syndicated radio show Nights With Alice Cooper, which

airs on over 100 radio stations.

Expect a highly theatrical performance tonight. (Niesel) 8 p.m., $25-$55. Jacobs Pavilion.

Bruce Hornsby: 8 p.m., $44.50$84.50. Goodyear Theater.

Carly Rae Jepsen/Mansionair: 8 p.m., $46. House of Blues.

Tim Lekan Quintet: 7 p.m., $15.

Bop Stop.

Reggae Sundays: Outlaws I & I (in the Supper Club): 4 p.m., free.

Music Box Supper Club.

Sebadoh/Eleanor Friedberger: 8:30 p.m., $20. Grog Shop.

TWRP + Protomen: 8 p.m., $20$65. Beachland Ballroom.

MON

07/15

Electric Six: 8 p.m., $15. The Winchester.

Jake La Botz: 8:30 p.m., $8 ADV, $12 DOS. Beachland Tavern.

Lord Huron/Bully: 7 p.m. Agora Theatre.

McQeen/Red Devil Ryders: 9 p.m., free. Now That’s Class.

TUE

07/16

blink-182 + Lil Wayne/Nick Deep: 7 p.m., $37.50-$102. Blossom.

SEPTEMBER 21 & 22 2019

Faster Pussycat/Bang Tango: 7:30 p.m., $20. CODA. The Marias/Paul Cherry: 8 p.m., $15 ADV, $18 DOS. Beachland Ballroom.

Michigan Rattlers/Oliver Hazard: 8 p.m., $17 ADV, $20 DOS. House of Blues Cambridge Room.

Mutts/Window Dogs/Apostle Jones/ Reginleif: 8 p.m., $6 ADV, $8 DOS. Grog Shop.

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

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BAND OF THE WEEK XLT 1000

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A COMBO DEAL: In 2016, Rich was recording his solo album Sunshine & Puppies and thought it would be fun to switch from bass to guitar and assemble a live band to play his songs at LoveMuffinPalooza, the annual benefit concert that he organizes. He liked playing guitar so much that he put together XLT 1000 with Terminal Blues drummer Bernardo, whom he met at the library where he works, Principe, who also plays in the local group Xtra Crispy, and Carter, who played in the local band 1000 Hours. “I didn’t want to get an ego and call it the Adam Rich Band — without them it wouldn’t be possible,” he says. “So, the band name, XLT 1000, is a combination of their current/ past bands. X for Xtra Crispy, L for Love Muffin Records, T for Terminal Blues and 1000 for 1000 Hours.”

A RANGE OF INFLUENCES : Rich says he listened to Top 40 music as a teen but then discovered hair metal, thrash, hard rock and punk.

“Aerosmith’s Permanent Vacation was the first hard-rock cassette I bought,” he says. “I also like Ben Harper and reggae. Kurt [Bernardo] grew up on 1960s radio which played all kinds of styles. James [Carter] is influenced

by Aerosmith, Elton John, Prince, Green Day and the Who. Jerry [Principe] likes the Beatles, Todd Rungren, Kansas and Kiss.”

FOR A GOOD CAUSE: LoveMuffinPalooza serves as a fundraiser for the Gathering Place, a cancer support center with locations in Beachwood and Westlake. The Gathering

Place, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, provides free programs and services for individuals and families coping with a cancer diagnosis. “At first, Palooza was purely to get bands I personally liked and make money,” says Rich.

“When my cousin passed from cancer in 2010, it took on a more serious meaning to me. I discovered the Gathering Place in 2012 and have partnered with them ever since.

It became my own way to remember my cousin.”

WHY YOU SHOULD HEAR THEM: The

band will probably never release an album; it exclusively plays songs from Rich’s solo albums and a few choice covers. “We aren’t this to be rock stars or anything — just to have fun,” says Rich. “The live show is a half-hour set, so that’s about six songs.” One song in the band’s repertoire is the title track to Rich’s 2006 album You Can’t Escape Life.

With its snarky vocals and thick guitar riffs, the song comes off as something that Cracker might’ve recorded in the ’90s. “My longtime friend Xela did the vocals for it, yet we have never played it live together.”

At the upcoming LoveMuffinPalooza concert, Rich plans to play it live with Xela for the first time.

WHERE YOU CAN HEAR THEM:

adamrichmusic.net WHERE YOU CAN SEE THEM: XLT 1000 performs with Tracy Marie, Tom Adams, the Village Bicycle and Birdog Cats as part of LoveMuffinPalooza at 8 p.m. on Saturday, July 13, at the Bop Stop.

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— Freaky Erotic Art Requires Serious Self-Scrutiny If you aren’t sexually attracted to children, FEARSSS, you aren’t a pedophile. Pedophilia is not something a non-pedophile drifts into after viewing a little squicky manga. Pedophilia, according to the best and most current research, is a hardwired sexual orientation — one that can never be acted on for moral and ethical reasons. That

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It’s illegal in the United States (and lots of other places) to possess drawings or computer-generated images of children that depict “a minor engaging in sexuallyexplicit conduct,” per federal law.

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I’m a 57-year-old man, and I have been in a relationship for 10 months. I have some erection problems that are helped by ED meds. The issue is I haven’t told my girlfriend I’m taking them. I take a pill when we are together “just in case,” but this is costly and the resulting lack of spontaneity makes me anxious. Also, I feel like I’m holding on to this secret.

— Please Send Advice Call your girlfriend. It’s time you had the talk. Give her your reasons. Tell her it’s not her fault — and, really, it’s not her fault or yours. Men don’t take boner pills because they aren’t attracted to (or horny for) their partners,

as some fear. The reality is quite the opposite: Horny men take ED meds. She may need to hear it a few times before it sinks in, PSA, but you have nothing to be ashamed of. And, if she enjoys the sex, she should be as grateful for these meds as you are — and she shouldn’t want you to waste them any more than you do.

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I’m a bi guy in my late 20s. I date women and occasionally hook up with guys. In between, I have toys. My question has to do with something that happens when I’m using a dildo and stimulating my prostate: During intense stimulation … I pee (I think)? My confusion lies in the fact that what comes out is clear and doesn’t smell like urine. I know there’s a debate about female squirting and whether it’s urine, but I’m still very confused. But is this normal for a man? Should I worry?

— Leaking Everywhere And Knowing It’s Not Good Your dildo isn’t just stimulating your prostate gland, which produces the milky fluid that comes flying out of your cock when you ejaculate, but your Cowper’s glands as well.

The Cowper’s glands are located just under your prostate and they produce a clear fluid, aka “precome,” that basically flushes out your urethra during arousal.

Urine is acidic, and acids can harm sperm cells. So pre-come neutralizes whatever acids might be lurking in your urethra — basically, pre-come makes sure your urethra is a safe space for your sperm cells. Some men produce very little pre-come, some men produce buckets of it, and some men produce more under particular circumstances.

Don’t worry, LEAKING, just enjoy.

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