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J U LY 20 - 26, 2016 Dedicated to Free Times founder Richard H. Siegel (1935-1993) and Scene founder Richard Kabat Publisher Chris Keating

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Cleveland hosts the Republican National Convention, which has been weird as hell so far

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Lessons for Cleveland on the 50th anniversary of the Hough riots, and more

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Dozens of events spanning the next week in Cleveland

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POLITICS, PEACE, POLICE AND PROTESTS A Cleveland like we’ve never seen before, and another we’re all so familiar with

By Scene Staff (EDITOR’S NOTE: THIS ISSUE was sent to the printer the morning of day two of the Republican National Convention. Between then and now, whenever now is for you, 37 different scandals have most likely erupted and been forgotten already, and there’s a good chance everyone has already packed up and mercifully left town. Do check clevescene.com for more, um, current coverage of the Trump monster truck rally and/ or gleeful essays on the return of normalcy.)

The Republican National Convention got off to a weird enough start in Cleveland, with emotional spurts and brief media frenzies popping up around downtown. For anyone tasked with braving the road closures and the maze of fencing, and for the few voluntarily taking in the madness, there was plenty to see, though not all that much of it interesting, which we mean in the best way possible.

Pro and anti-Trump rallies fought for the attention of the approximately 15,000 media members in attendance.

From conspiracy theory wingnuts like Alex Jones to open carry

advocates, those seeking the spotlight didn’t have a hard time finding it. It’s the simple byproduct of the presence of thousands of cameras trained on Cleveland’s public spaces and sent here with the expectation that something was going to happen. Nothing did, at least as of publication, save for the helpful juxtaposition of opposing viewpoints and costumes, signs, gimmicks, placards, buttons and hats, all of which have been dutifully photographed and distributed on social media en masse in replicate by a media bastion that may outnumber the police presence.

Like the man from Kentucky who walked another man on a leash -- his dog, he said, “Lil Trump” -asking passersby to kick the poor guy. (Some did, and others argued about the ethics of treating another human being like that. “It’s not politically correct, because life isn’t politically correct,” he said often. It was exceptionally bizarre.)

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void about Jesus and hell. The louder and crazier people are out there, the more reporters you saw standing in a circle around them. On the streets, at least, it was weird in the most boring way possible with few strays from the beaten path -- which was quite literal, as reporters idly circled from Public Square to Settlers Landing to the malls and back.

There was just one arrest on day one, that being of community activist Kathy Wray Coleman who was handcuffed on Public Square and arrested on an outstanding warrant dating back to last year for an incident in which she allegedly broke into a house she used to own, which had been foreclosed on, and nearly hit responding officers with her car as she sped away. Early Tuesday morning, three anti-Trump protesters were arrested after scaling flagpoles at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and hanging a banner. Firefighters arrived on scene to remove it. The Rock Hall responded promptly with a statement promoting safe and legal speech “that doesn’t stress our first responders.”

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a minor floor rebellion among some delegates seeking to “dump Trump” and the plagiarism-tastic speech from Melania Trump later in the evening.

What news did emerge came from the podium and from commentators, like GOP Rep. Steve King who, during an interview on MSNBC, asserted the white Christians had done more for civilization than any “subgroup” ever had.

There were, of course, hordes of reporters to digest and report those snippets, with frollicking followups including interviews with delegates and assorted talking heads. The rest of the media? They were outside at the bars wondering aloud what the hell they were going to write, if anything at all.

Meanwhile, as downtown Cleveland itself became a photo op for bike cops and protesters amidst almost perfect safety, the east side of Cleveland was once again dealing with anything but safety. Four were arrested downtown, but during the weekend before the event, five were killed, making it the deadliest weekend of 2016. Cleveland.com

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reported that at least 20 people were shot over the weekend, and one of the victims was a two-year-old girl.

She’s not the first innocent baby to find herself in the crossfire of Cleveland’s violence: Three-year-old Major Howard was killed in a driveby shooting in September 2015, and five-month old Aavielle Wakefield was shot and killed two weeks later, in another drive-by, prompting police chief Calvin Williams to tearfully plead with Clevelanders: “Enough is enough.”

Four of Cleveland’s five weekend homicides took place Sunday: Two

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women, 28 and 36, were fatally shot while sitting in their car on E. 101st and Colonial; a 30-year-old man was shot and killed at his home on E. 40th and Woodland; a 19-yearold man was shot and killed on the corner of Earle and Lakeview, in Glenville. These all occurred before noon.

Later on Sunday, three people were shot at a Stop the Violence Beach Party and Rally at Sims Park in Euclid, an inner-ring suburb on the city’s northeast side. One of the victims, 19-year-old Phillip Banks, was shot in the head and died.

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Another was only 12 years old.

The weekend violence, coming so close on the heels of police shootings in Dallas and Baton Rouge — not to mention the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile preceding them — so thoroughly rattled Cleveland City Councilman Jeff Johnson that he canceled the Glenville Festival and Parade, an annual summer tradition on the east side. It’s only the second time in 39 years that that festival won’t take place.

Johnson, who called the cancellation a “very difficult decision,” wrote in a statement to his Ward 10 residents that this was

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the first time in his seven years as councilman that he’s been this worried about safety: “I feel that the boldness and randomness of gun violence occurring weekly in Cleveland, including our area, creates too much uncertainty for the safety of citizens and for law enforcement officers and others working to protect us,” he wrote.

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UPFRONT LESSONS FOR CLEVELAND ON 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF HOUGH RIOTS

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THE HOUGH RIOTS CRATERED the city’s image like no other event in Cleveland’s history. On July 18, 1966, rocks began flying on the city’s predominantly east side, a neighborhood that had been a pressure-cooker of low-income stress factors like terrible housing, bad schools, and police brutality. For the next five days, the city burned as 2,200 National Guardsmen arrived to quell the violence. Four Hough residents died. The city saw millions in property damage — and the lasting legacy of racial strife that we’re picking up and examining again now that that the riot’s 50th anniversary has arrived.

What’s less remembered, however, is the attempt to patch the city back together following the violence – an effort that face-planted completely and set the stage for the Cleveland’s racial tension for decades to come.

After the fires were out, a Cuyahoga County grand jury was called on July 26 to investigate the source of the violence. Chaired by Louis B. Seltzer, the powerful editor of the Cleveland Press, the paper of choice among Cleveland’s working class.

When the jury came back on August 9th with their report, the results were almost laughable.

Instead of scratching at the deep economic and political grievances that led to a mass group of people to express their frustrations through violence, the official Cuyahoga County explanation was that the commies did it. Seriously.

The report explained the riots were the work of “a relatively small group of trained and disciplined professionals at this business . . . aided and abetted, wittingly or otherwise, by misguided people of all ages and colors, many of whom

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are avowed believers in violence and extremism, and some of who also are either members of or officers in the Communist Party.”

City Hall gave this explanation their stamp of approval. Mayor Ralph Locher praised the group for having “the guys to fix the approximate cause which has been hinted at for a long time, that subversive and Communist elements in our community were behind the rioting.”

But the black community was not going to let such a tone-deaf response from the city’s power brokers stand. On August 22,

black political leaders – including future mayor Carl Stokes – held a community forum on the east side to address both what happened during the riots and the conditions that caused the explosive violence. The transcripts – officially known as the Cleveland Citizens Committee on the Hough Disturbances – are a peek into the mindset of Cleveland’s black community, and also eye-poppingly relevant to what’s happening in the city today.

Hough residents spoke about their lives inside the neighborhood – a cycle of harassment by police, bad

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“I know one family, which always comes to my mind, a husband, wife, four children sleeping in one bed with rats and mice regularly crossing the children’s faces at night,” one community activist told the committee. Another resident explained how the neighborhood felt about the white business owners.

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One young black man told the committee about a run in with police he had with his wife. Not only were couple roughed up, but the young man was shot in the eye. Others reported having the police kick down their doors and haul off everyone inside. “I have seen police brutality.

I would say that this happens all the time,” one woman reported. “This was outrageous. This was a little different.”

“You don’t need anything to incite people when they know they’re being mistreated,” a woman said. The same witness was asked about what she would like to see from the police department. “Someone that would know that they are servants and not Gestapos,” she replied. “Someone that would be able to talk with people and not reach for his gun every time he saw two or three colored kids standing on the corner.”

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Eight of those 91 overdoses have been fatal.

“It’s an incredibly dangerous drug,” Kimberly Cook, director of animal health and conservation at the Akron Zoo, told WEWS last week. “We’re concerned that even a

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Akron police are all-hands-ondeck now, with two arrests thus far on the books in this case. (No information about those suspects has been released publicly, and no carfentanil has been seized by police.)

“This is a public health crisis,” Akron Mayor Dan Horrigan said when the overdose spike first broke earlier this month. “We cannot arrest our way to sobriety.”

TASK FORCE RECOMMENDS USE OF FORCE CASES SENT TO ATTORNEY GENERAL In a report released last week, a task force that has spent the past six months investigating grand jury procedures in the state of Ohio recommended that all police lethal use of force (PLUF) cases be handed over to the state attorney general.

Prosecuting attorneys, like Timothy McGinty in Cuyahoga County, simply have too close a working relationship with the police departments they are called upon to investigate and prosecute, the report concluded. The attorney general has the advantage of distance.

“This ‘step removed’ from local law enforcement would serve to increase public confidence that decisions on the investigation and, if needed, presentation of a PLUF case to a grand jury are being made objectively, impartially, and with great deliberation,” the report said.

The one disadvantage, the report noted, is that this would be the first type of case in which the attorney general would be given exclusive authority without local prosecutors first getting the right of first refusal.

“This ‘first’ could be viewed as an encroachment by the state government into areas traditionally reserved for local government,” the report said.

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DIGIT WIDGET 2,000 Approximate number of people who joined hands during Circle The City With Love rally on Lorain-Carnegie bridge Sunday.

300 Number of bicycles purchased for Cleveland Division of Police ahead of RNC.

1,700 Approximate number of riot police quartered in student dorms at Case Western Reserve University.

2,472 Number of Republican delegates here for the convention.

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reported that the grand jury in the Tamir Rice case never actually took a vote on whether or not to indict Cleveland Police officers Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback; they merely declined to indict, in Prosecutor McGinty’s words via an unknown, super-secret mechanism.

Trust in the grand jury system was at an all-time low.

And though details of the Tamir Rice grand jury proceedings were fleeting and flimsy at the time, a scorching story in GQ published online last week reveals new details.

It includes interviews with expert witnesses called to testify who said not only that the grand jury was unlike anything they’d ever seen; the prosecuting attorneys behaved as if they were defense lawyers for the police officers.

The story recounted how Roger Clark, an expert hired by the Rice family, was treated on the witness stand. He had a gun waved in his face by Assistant Prosecutor Matthew Meyer — rather the villain in the story — and was forced to defend his credentials on the stand.

From the GQ piece: “If a prosecutor presenting his own experts to a grand jury is uncommon, bringing in experts

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hired by the victim of a shooting is unprecedented. ‘It puts the victim in the unusual position of having to be the advocate,’ says Earl Ward, one of the lawyers for Tamir’s family. ‘No, unusual is too light: I’ve never heard of it. In my 30 years of experience, this is the first time.’”

So the task force’s assembly was welcome. In addition to recommending that local prosecutors be stripped of their abilities to “prosecute” PLUF cases, the task force also recommended multiple strategies to improve the orientation and education of Grand Juries.

It didn’t take long, however, for officials around the state to react to the recommendation.

AG Mike DeWine told the Dispatch that they have more than enough work to do already, for instance, but that, “It’s something, if the legislature wants us to do, we will. We’re not looking for more things to do, frankly.”

And John Murphy, the executive director of the Ohio Prosecuting Attorneys Association, noted that, “We think the prosecutor is perfectly capable of dealing with these cases,” and opposed any notion of relinquishing that power to the AG.

CORY BARRON’S FAMILY FILES SUIT OVER PROGRESSIVE FIELD DEATH The family of Cory Barron has filed suit against the Cleveland Indians, Live Nation and Minute Men Staffing. They contend that the door to the chute down which Barron fell to his death during a Jason Aldean concert should have been locked.

Previously, all parties involved passed the buck on security issues that night. An inquiry by International Research Group on behalf of the family concluded Barron’s death might have involved foul play.

Shortly after Barron’s body was found at an Oberlin landfill, the Lorain County Coroner ruled the cause of death as “undetermined” but noted multiple blunt force impacts from his fall. Toxicology results showed alcohol in his system could not be “accurately measured due to the state of the body.” No drugs were found in his system. Publicly, the coroner stated at that time that no evidence of foul play was discovered.

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GET OUT

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FOOD

Veteran comic Louie Anderson comes to the Kent Stage.

See: Thursday.

THEATER

The Audience At 7 p.m. today and at 11 a.m. on Sunday, Cedar Lee Theater will screen the National Theater’s encore presentation of The Audience, an opera which stars Helen Mirren as Elizabeth II. The plot chronicles a series of pivotal Buckingham Palace meetings between the queen and the country’s prime ministers. The performance comes from London’s Gielgud Theatre as part of the National Theatre Live. Tickets are $20. (Jeff Niesel) 2163 Lee Rd., Cleveland Heights, 216-321-5411, clevelandcinemas.com.

Walnut Wednesday You know it’s summer when Walnut Wednesday returns. Today from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Perk Plaza at Chester Commons — at East 12th and Walnut Streets — food trucks 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. Admission is free, but the food will cost you. (Niesel) downtowncleveland.com.

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Best of Marilyn Bianchi Kids’ Playwriting Festival Five to six adult actors will perform three plays submitted for the 2016 Festival and three plays selected from 38 years of the Playwriting Festival. This event will benefit the Dobama Theatre’s Educational Programs. Catch the performance at Alma Theater at Cain Park from noon to 2:30 p.m. today. Tickets are $5 to $8. (Danielle Immerman) 14591 Superior Rd., Cleveland Heights, 216-371-3000, cainpark. com.

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Drawing Power Twice every month, Great Lakes Brewing Company hosts Cleveland’s Drink and Draw Social Club. The event is organized by the Rust Belt Monster Collective and sponsored

by Carol and John’s Comic Book Shop. Drink and Draws are an opportunity for artists of all levels of experience to drink, draw, socialize/network and collaborate in very relaxed and welcoming environment. Events take place at 7 p.m. on the first and third Wednesdays of each month. At the end of each Drink and Draw, prizes are awarded for various superlatives. Free. (Josh Usmani) 2516 Market Ave., 216-771-4404, greatlakesbrewing.com.

FOOD

Pig + Whiskey Wednesdays The patio season is in full swing in Northeast Ohio and chefs like Ben Bebenroth over at Spice Kitchen are finding every excuse in the book to move culinary operations out of

the restaurant and under the clear blue skies. He and his crew have created Pig + Whiskey Wednesdays; Bebenroth and his chef Josh Woo fire up the smoker and cook up a mess of barbecue. The items vary based on whim and weather. There’s always a seasonal whiskey cocktail or two to wash it all down. The events run from 5 to 10 p.m. and there will be live music at some dates. No reservations are required.

(Douglas Trattner) 5800 Detroit Ave., 216-961-9637, www.spicekitchenandbar.com.

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The Set Up One of the Cleveland Museum of Art’s current exhibits, Stag at Sharkey’s: George Bellows and the Art of Sports, showcases the famous painting Stag at Sharkey’s along with two dozen other paintings, drawings and lithographs from Bellows. Lords of the Ring: Boxing Films before Rocky and Raging Bull, a series designed to accompany the exhibit, aims to focus on some of the greatest boxing movies ever made. Tonight,

the series features The Set-Up, a 1949 film about an aging boxer who can’t turn down the opportunity to get one more victory in the ring.

The film shows tonight at 7 and on Friday night at 7 at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tickets are $10, $8 for CMA members. (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.

MUSIC

Wade Oval Wednesdays A summer tradition, Wade Oval Wednesday, which takes place every Wednesday from 6 to 9 p.m. at Wade Oval in University Circle, provides the opportunity to catch a free concert — jazz, swing, world music, and more. Between sets, check out the local food vendors, the beer and wine tent, the farmers’ market, and free kid activities — all laid out on the Wade Oval lawn that’s adjacent to Cleveland Botanical Garden, the Cleveland Art Museum, and the Cleveland Natural History Museum. The series continues every Wednesday through August 31.

(Niesel) universitycircle.org.

Louie Anderson A twotime Emmy award winner, Louie Anderson has worked as a comic for more than 30 years now., Comedy Central calls him “One of 100 Greatest StandUp Comedians of All Time.” A best selling author, he has starred in his own standup specials and, sitcoms. Last year, the squeaky-voiced comic co-starred along, with Zach Galifianakis and Martha Kelly in the hit FX series, Baskets. Showing his range as an actor, he played the family matriarch. Anderson performs tonight at 8 at the Kent Stage. Mike Polk Jr. opens. Tickets are $30 in advance, $35 at the door. (Niesel) 175 E. Main St., Kent, 330-677-5005, kentstage.org.

MUSIC

Edgewater Live Two years ago, the Cleveland Metroparks launched its extremely popular Edgewater LIVE Thursday night happy hour concert series.

The event returns this year; the concerts take place from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. every Thursday night. In addition to featuring a performance by a local band, the events feature yoga, stand-up paddleboarding and cornhole. And those ubiquitous food trucks will be on hand as well. It’s free. (Niesel) 6500 Cleveland Memorial Shoreway NW, clevelandmetroparks.com.

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MYOPIAWESOME In conjunction with Mark Mothersbaugh’s Myopia exhibition at MOCA Cleveland, the Cleveland Institute of Art’s Cinematheque hosts The Life Artistic, a series of | clevescene.com | July 20 - 26, 2016

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GET OUT screenings of Wes Anderson films, each scored by Mothersbaugh between 1996 and 2004. At 6:45 tonight, MOCA and CIA present The Royal Tenenbaums. Tickets are $8 for members and ages 25 and under and $10 for non-members.

Beforehand, MOCA hosts Summer Thursdays: MYOPIAWESOME Art Studio, an afternoon of experimental creativity inspired

by Myopia. The museum will also provide guided tours of the exhibition. Drop in between noon and 3 p.m. MYOPIAWESOME is free with museum admission. (Usmani) 11400 Euclid Ave., 216-421-8671, mocacleveland.org.

Slurricane Trump Are you anti-Trump and procomedy? We have the perfect RNC event for you. Hosted by NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio and The Daily Show co-creator, Lizz Winstead, “Slurricane Trump is Touching Down in Cleveland” offers a night of laughs at a time when we could probably all use some. You can join Winstead’s comedy team, Lady Parts Justice, Last Comic Standing

even a Trump pinata. The event begins with a VIP reception at 7 tonight at the Bohemian National Hall at Sokol Greater., Doors open to public at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $75 for VIP, $50 for general admission. All proceeds from this event benefit NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio and Lady Parts Justice.

(Cecilia Ellis) 4939 Broadway Ave., 216-361-3262.

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Cardio Hoop Dance It’s like Zumba, but better. That’s the tagline advertising Cardio Hoop Dance, a hula hoop workout that takes place at 11 a.m. on Fridays at U.S. Bank Plaza. If you don’t own a hoop, it’s no big deal. The event’s organizers will have a few you can use free of charge. New hoopers should arrive early to receive lessons. The event is free. (Niesel) East 14th St. and Euclid Ave., 216771-4444, playhousesquare.org.

MUSIC

Open a New Window — The Songs of Jerry Herman Composer-lyricist Jerry Herman wrote the scores for three of the biggest successes in Broadway history: Hello, Dolly!, Mame and La Cage Aux Folles. This concert charts the career of a man who says he’s had “a lifelong romance with the show tune” - songs that are unashamedly optimistic and irresistibly catchy. Hosted by The Musical Theater Project’s Bill Rudman and Nancy Maier, catch this performance at 7 p.m. at the Alma Theater at Cain Park. Tickets are $28 to $31. (Immerman) 14591 Superior Rd., Heights, 216371-3000, cainpark.com.

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FILM

Outdoor Movies at Crocker Park Seeing a film indoors, cooped up with hordes of sweating, texting teenagers, is hardly an optimal way to be entertained, especially given the lovely breezes and picnic-able lawns of Northeast Ohio in June, July and August. Watching a movie outside’s the way to go. Drive-ins no longer have the cachet, nor the presence, that they enjoyed in the soda-fountain 1950s, and while they’re thoroughly enjoyable, plenty of local cities and organizations are helping to fill the void by getting the silver screen under the starry sky. For instance, every Thursday evening at 9 p.m. through August 25, Crocker Park screens a film behind the GameStop store.

Tonight’s feature is the kids’ flick Hugo. It’s free. (Sam Allard) 143 Crocker Park Blvd., Westlake, crockerpark.com.

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performances, he jokes about current affairs and takes aim at celebs such as Kim Kardashian and Michael Jordan; however, he also focuses on more serious topics such as race, his love for America and his African descent. He performs tonight at 7:30 and 10 at the Improv, where he has shows scheduled through Sunday, Tickets cost $25.

(Hannah Borison) 1148 Main Ave., 216-696-IMPROV, clevelandimprov.com.

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Dadapunk Cabaret Party MOCA Cleveland celebrates the centennial anniversary of the Dada movement with tonight’s Dadapunk Cabaret Party. Pinch and Squeal’s Wizbang neo-vaudeville cabaret extravaganza features singers, comedy, circus-style acrobatics and more. The cabaret show begins at 8 p.m., with a party following from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. The party includes a DJ set with an immersive combination of video and vintage film, dancing, “outlandish fashion,” cash bar and more. Dada and punkinspired costumes are encouraged.

Tickets to the cabaret show and party are $35 ($25 for members); show only, $25 ($20); party only $15 ($10). (Usmani) 11400 Euclid Ave., 216-421-8671, mocacleveland.org.

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SHOWCASE UMOJAH NATION

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winner Alonzo Bodden, and Emmy Award-winning comedian Frank Conniff (known for being the star of Mystery Science Theater 3000) as they watch Trump’s acceptance speech and rip it to comedic shreds.

You can stay home with a stomach ache fretting for the future of our country, or head out for a night of catharsis with jokes, drinks, and

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FRI

7/22

COMEDY

Michael Blackson Known as the “African King of Comedy,” Michael Blackson developed his comedic skills by using original humor and being fearless onstage. During his

Rich Guzzi Comedian Rich Guzzi sets himself apart from every other comedian because he also brings up 15 audience members during his show and hypnotizes them before asking them to do hilarious and insane acts. During the performance, Guzzi shows his entire process of hypnotizing, yet it still seems unreal because he does it so well.

He can even convince patrons that they are different celebrities like Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson and Madonna. He performs tonight and tomorrow night at 7:30 and 10 at Club Velvet at the Hard Rock

THE BARS

Willoughby brewing company 1899 pub • frank & tony’s ballantine • the moorehouse mullarkey’s • nickleby’s sol • the wild goose burgers-n-beer

Guests receive drink specialls, light apps during check in and a present from Santta

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Rocksino at Northfield Park. Tickets are $13 and $18. (Borison) 10705 Northfield Road, Northfield, 330-908-7771, www.hrrocksinonorthfieldpark.com.

THEATER

Heathers the Musical High school can be hell, and Laurence O’Keefe and Kevin Murphy, conceivers of Heathers: The Musical, now in production at Akron Civic Theatre, have found the key to making bullying a fun, but often sadistic, form of entertainment. Performances of the play take place at 7 tonight and at 8 tomorrow night. Tickets are $15.

(Roy Berko) 182 South Main St., Akron, 330253-2488, akroncivic.com.

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Tony Hinchcliffe Known for roasting famous friends as well as audience members, comedian Hinchcliffe pushes the boundaries with his performances.

He switches between fast-paced jokes and poking fun at the audience; nothing is off limits for him. In one improvised bit on YouTube, he takes suggestions from an audience and makes a joke out of “coffee, carrots, Jews and juice.”

He performs tonight at 7:30 and 10 at Hilarities, where he has shows scheduled through Sunday. Tickets are $20 and $25. (Borison) 2035 East Fourth St., 216-241-7425, pickwickandfrolic.com.

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Midwest Mardi Gras 2016 Craving the sights and sounds of N’awlins but stuck up north?

Midwest Mardi Gras is a fest designed especially for such a phenomenon. Featuring performers from the real Mardi Gras, including Dumpstaphunk, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band and The Wild Magnolias, this weekend of music and partying provides the full down-south experience one hour outside of Cleveland. Tickets start at $45 presale and $55 at the gate, and ages 4-14 get in for just $10. Kids under 3 are free. (Eli Shively) 12001 State Route 282, Garrettsville, 440-548-2716, nlqp. com.

ART

Stars of Tomorrow Stars of Tomorrow, the latest Summers@Severance event, features the three finalists of the 2016 Thomas and Evon Cooper International Piano Competition.

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THEATER

SummerSlam In this week’s edition of “Only in Cleveland”, we get a pro wrestling themed gallery exhibition. From 7 to 11 p.m. today, 3204 Studios presents SummerSlam, a group exhibition featuring new work by local artists Grace Frank, Jason Look and Mike Sobeck. Perhaps it shouldn’t be surprising considering the WWE roster currently includes Cleveland natives Dolph Ziggler, “The Miz,” and NXT standout Johnny Gargano (not to mention Cincinnati native and current WWE Champion Dean Ambrose).

Cleveland hosted the ninth incarnation of SummerSlam, WWE’s second biggest annual Pay-PerView, in 1996. The event included the legendary Undertaker vs.

Mankind Boiler Room match, which ultimately split the Undertaker from his longtime manager Paul Bearer.

This unique exhibition is timed as a 20th anniversary celebration of Cleveland’s only SummerSlam. Free.

(Usmani).

3204 Studios, 3204 Lorain Ave..

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with the Cleveland Orchestra before a panel of judges. They’ll compete for a total of $40,000 in cash prizes.

The judges will announce the winner at the concert’s conclusion.

The event takes place at 7 p.m. and tickets start at $35. WCLV will broadcast the competition as well.

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

ART

Victor Melaragno’s Cartoon Monsters Canopy Collective hosts an opening reception for a collection of Victor Melaragno’s cartoon monsters from 6 to 10 tonight. Melaragno’s monsters, what he refers to as “SoonMoon people,” are inspired by his more than 40 years as a graphic artist in the sign business.

Throughout his career, he’s incorporated new skills, such as pattern-making, sign painting and neon-based work. This exhibition of new and recent work incorporates his acquired techniques. Free.

(Usmani) 3910 Lorain Ave., 216-309-1090, canopy-collective.com.

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FILM

30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story For just two nights only, Gordon Square’s Capitol Theatre presents

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ʪʧʮʧʰ ʹʧʮʥʪ ͒ʤˇ˃˖ˎˇ˕ʎʎʎʣ ʮˋ˖˖ˎˇ ʤ˔ˋ˖ ʦˋˈˈˇ˔ˇː˖͓ ʙʑʔʔ ʬ˃ˍˇ ʵˊˋˏ˃˄˗ˍ˗˔ˑ

ʅʓʚ ˃ˆ˘˃ː˅ˇʏ ʣˎˏ˃ ʶˊˇ˃˖ˇ˔ʏ ʙ˒ˏ

ʵʷʯʯʧʴ ʱʨ ʮʱʸʧ ʥʱʰʥʧʴʶ ʙʑʔʕ

GET OUT screenings of 30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story.

Originally a simple parody of the Cabbage Patch Kids, the Garbage Pail Kids has developed a following all its own. This new documentary discusses the hilariously grotesque collectible cards with the artists who created them, as well as some of the fans who collected them.

Screenings are at 9:50 tonight and at 7:10 p.m. on Wednesday, July 27.

Tickets are $9.50 for adults, $8.50 for students and military (with ID) and $6.50 for children and seniors.

The film is not rated. (Usmani) 1390 West 65th St., 216-651-7295, clevelandcinemas.com.

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SCIENCE

ʴʫʥʭ ʵʲʴʫʰʩʨʫʧʮʦ ͒ʵ˖˔ˋ˒˒ˇˆ ʦˑ˙ː͓ ʙʑʔʖ

Dark Universe Narrated by renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, Dark Universe explores the mysteries of our solar system and beyond. The immersive and visually stunning planetarium show features “exquisite renderings of enigmatic cosmic phenomena, seminal scientific instruments, and spectacular scenes in deep space.”

Although only 24 minutes long, the film captures the fascinating vastness of the universe. It screens today at noon and 4 p.m. at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History’s Nathan and Fannye Shafran Planetarium. There’s another show on Sunday, at 4 p.m. General admission is $5, but members get in free. (Elizabeth Bullock) 1 Wade Oval Dr., 216-231-4600, cmnh.org.

ʅʙʗʑʗʒʑʖʒʑʔʗ ˃ˆ˘˃ː˅ˇʏ ʙ˒ˏʎ ʨ˔ˇˇ ʲ˃˔ˍˋːˉ ʵˊ˗˖˖ˎˇʎ ʵ˗˒˒ˑ˔˖ˇˆ ˄˛ ʹʦʱʭʏ ʹʪʮʭ ʶˊˇ ʮ˃ˍˇʏ ˑʹʱʹːˑ˙ʎ˅ˑˏ ʬˋˏ ʤ˔ˋ˅ˍˏ˃ː

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ʬʣʭʧ ʵʪʫʯʣʤʷʭʷʴʱ ʙʑʔʛ ʅʕʒʑʔʗʑʔʒ ˃ˆ˘˃ː˅ˇʏ ʚ˒ˏʎ ʹˋːˇ ʶ˃˕˖ˋːˉ ʅʓʒʏ ʘʜʕʒʐʙʜʖʗ˒ˏ ʨ˔ˇˇ ʲ˃˔ˍˋːˉ ʵˊ˗˖˖ˎˇʎ ʵ˗˒˒ˑ˔˖ˇˆ ˄˛ ʹʥʲʰ

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MUSIC

Summer of Love The Summer of Love Concert focuses on iconic rock music from the period of time between the 1967 release of The Beatles’ revolutionary album, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, and Woodstock in 1969. All arrangements are played live and note-for-note by the highest caliber of musicians. Hear some of the best music ever produced live at Evans Amphitheater at Cain Park at 8 p.m.

Tickets are $20-$35. (Immerman) 14591 Superior Rd., Cleveland Heights, 216-371-3000, cainpark. com.

symphonic orchestras, including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Orchestre National de France.

Tonight at 8 at Blossom, he performs pieces from Stravinsky, Grieg and Sibelius with the Cleveland Orchestra. Tickets start at $24.

(Niesel) 1145 W. Steels Corners Rd., Cuyahoga Falls, 216-231-1111, clevelandorchestra.com.

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

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

COMEDY

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

Marjorie Preston is an alumna of Something Dada and Rockwell 9 improvisational comedy troupes.

Dionne Atchison is a theater artist with Cleveland Public Theatre, and Brenna “MC” Connor is an actress and improviser. The event begins with a short-form set of improv games, followed by a longform improv set. It begins at 5 p.m. at Coffee Phix. Arrive early if you want to sign up and perform.

Admission is free. (Niesel) 4485 Mayfield Rd., South Euclid, 216-381-5706, coffeephixcafe.com.

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Thibaudet Plays Grieg Throughout his career, pianist JeanYves Thibaudet has performed with some of the world’s most acclaimed

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The Last Man on the Moon The Last Man on the Moon, a 2014 documentary directed by Mark Craig, profiles Apollo astronaut Gene Cernan, the last American to walk

GET OUT on the moon. The film “celebrates heroism while also calculating the personal cost of celebrity.” It makes its theatrical debut today at 1:30 p.m. at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tickets are $10, $8 for CMA members. (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.

and exclusive Tropical Sunday cocktails including Pimms, Paulito’s Puerto Rican Punch, Mi’Monsters, Cucumber Bloody Marys and Bloody Tooth. The club promises “many more surprises and activities” too. The event starts at 3 today.

Admission is free. (Niesel) 11213 Detroit Ave., 216-221-8576, nowthatsclass.net.

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which teams compete for prizes by answering trivia questions, Last Call Trivia takes place every Monday at U.S. Bank Plaza throughout the summer. Designed to be “a spirited competition,” the event lasts an hour. The games also include a point wagering system that gives teams the ability to choose their own strategy.

The event takes place at noon.

Admission is free. (Niesel) East 14th St. and Euclid Ave., 216771-4444, playhousesquare.org.

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Magic of the Movies Blockbuster Hollywood films such as Star Wars, Titanic and Forrest Gump feature popular scores written by esteemed composers. Tonight at 7 at Blossom, the Cleveland Orchestra performs some of those scores at an event dubbed Magic of the Movies.

Michael Krajewski conducts. Tickets start at $35. (Niesel) 1145 W. Steels Corners Rd., Cuyahoga Falls, 216-231-1111, clevelandorchestra.com.

Food Trucks at Legacy Village Food Truck Monday at Legacy Village is a fun experience that features a wide variety of food and music. Today and every other Monday throughout the summer, it is a perfect opportunity to take a break from work and forget about the Monday blues. Today’s food trucks include Slyman’s, Fired Up and Betty’s Bomb Ass Burgers, and more. Takes place from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Check the website for details. (Borison) 25333 Cedar Rd., Lyndhurst, 216382-3871, legacy-village.com.

BlueWater Brass Quintet Led by trumpeter David Duro, the locally based BlueWater Brass Quintet regularly plays traditional selections for brass quintet. Tonight’s concert takes place at 7 p.m. at the Alma Theatre at Cain Park. Admission is free. (Niesel) 14591 Superior Rd., Cleveland Heights, 216-371-3000, cainpark. com.

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Lunch Hour Live Trivia A live hosted trivia event during

Indians vs. Washington Nationals In the wake of the All-Star break

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the Cleveland Indians took a long 9-game road trip (probably scheduled to avoid any conflicts with the Republican National Convention). They’ll get a good test tonight as they return home to face the Washington Nationals, one of the best teams in the National League. The two teams square off tonight at 7:10 for the first of a two-game interleague battle. Tickets start at $13.

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

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Interested? Old Brooklyn’s Loew Park has dibs on Tuesdays, in its second annual “Cleveland Summer Cinema” series that runs through August 9. The screenings begin at dusk. Tonight’s film is the animated flick Aladdin. (Allard) 4711 West 32nd St., 216-664-2561.

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ART BIRD UP Dana Depew is building and installing hundreds of handmade birdhouses around Northeast Ohio, for free

By Josh Usmani A PROLIFIC AND TIRELESS renaissance man, Dana Depew has proven his ability to effortlessly shift between projects and mediums to suit each new idea. Throughout the past six years, Depew has produced more than 1,000 handmade birdhouses, including the permanent installation of large scale collections of as many as 100 houses to a specific tree in places like the Grove Court Sculpture Garden that overlooks the downtown skyline, as well as private residences from Cleveland Hts. to North Ridgeville, with six more scheduled for just the next month. He aims to create 50 to 100 new birdhouses per week, and like a modern day folk hero, drives around with a ladder and small stockpile ready to install them anywhere at any time.

As a recipient of a 2016 Creative Workforce Fellowship, it was clear

Literally hundreds of birdhouses.

this would be an especially busy year for him. Thanks to generous funding from Cuyahoga Arts and Culture and the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture, Depew has ramped up his massive birdhouse installation spanning all of Northeast Ohio, as well as cities throughout the Midwest.

Depew’s Urban Aviary Project began six years ago. Originally making individual birdhouses painted in bright pastel hues, he installed them on vacant and abandoned buildings and houses in depressed neighborhoods. “I produce the birdhouses entirely from woods and lumber gleaned from abandoned and foreclosed homes located throughout

Cleveland,” Depew explains.

Since the beginning, Depew has been carefully documenting and archiving each birdhouse’s location.

“I would go back and check up on them periodically and either the house was torn down or it remained standing and the birdhouse was still present,” Depew says. “On some occasions aluminum siding was taken from the house but the birdhouse remained. It was almost as if the vandals respected or appreciated the bright object, or maybe they thought it had no value and didn’t take it.”

Depew’s Urban Aviary Factory is an on-site workshop at local arts festivals.

Depew elaborates, “At a designated

MOCA DaDaPunk A hundred years ago, avant-garde artists changed the narrative of art history forever. On July 14, 1916 Hugo Ball recited the DaDa Manifesto at the movement’s first organized event at Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, Switzerland. The mainstream atmosphere and culture that spawned the absurdist movement is eerily similar to the values of the GOP. Fittingly, therefore, MOCA’s DADAPUNK Cabaret Party serves as much needed relief from the anxiety of the RNC during the past week. MOCA Cleveland celebrates the centennial anniversary of the DaDa movement with a DADAPUNK Cabaret Party on Friday, July 22.

The DaDa movement and its concepts continue to influence generations of artists, such as Mark Mothersbaugh, co-founder of DEVO, whose Myopia is currently on view at MOCA Cleveland. All of the museum’s Summer 2016 exhibitions will be on view throughout the evening.

Pinch and Squeal’s Wizbang!

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neo-vaudeville cabaret extravaganza features singers, comedy, circus-style acrobatics and more inside a small, mobile circus tent. Pinch and Squeal (a.k.a. Jason and Danielle Tilk) will be joined by performers such as Will “Will Juggle” Oltman and Detroit’s Satori Circus.

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“We will be presenting a WIZBANG! show that is unlike any we have put on to date,” promises “Pinch” (a.k.a. Jason Tilk), co-founder of WIZBANG!. “Presenting theatrical behavior that verges on madness that reflects the 100th anniversary of the DaDa movement and Mark Mothersbaugh’s Myopia exhibit.

Deconstructed circus, obscure cabaret, haunting silliness, all rejecting realism. All in the name of DaDa. Remember DaDa means nothing!

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dismantled political protest and curious music Cabaret Voltaire lives again!”

“Pinch and Squeal’s WIZBANG! will deliver a grand show on MOCA’s indoor stage called the DADAPUNK Cabaret,“ promises “Squeal” (a.k.a.

Danielle Tilk). “WIZBANG! is an entertainment venue and company created in Cleveland. It is an imaginarium of neo-vaudeville, musical extravaganza, circus arts, comedy theatre in a small, mobile circus tent. Professional entertainers from all over the U.S., and of course Cleveland, make our shows unique in our venue and others.”

The cabaret show begins at 8 p.m., with a party following from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. The party includes a DJ set with an immersive combination of video and vintage film, dancing, “outlandish fashion,” cash bar and more. DaDa and punk-inspired costumes are encouraged, but not required – because what kind of DaDa party has a dress code?

time or during a scheduled event such Waterloo Arts Fest or FireFish Festival, I would fabricate on-site birdhouses and give them away to people with the stipulation that they have seven days to hang it up and post a picture of it on social media.

The birdhouses are numbered and I document where the participants hang them in a log.”

Branching outside of Northeast Ohio, Depew began randomly selecting people from White Pages in cities such as Cincinnati and Chicago. Mailing each of these randomly selected people a surprise birdhouse, Depew explains, “I send them a note to hang it up and post a picture on social media and most have done it.”

Earlier on, the project was amplified by what Depew describes as the “John Main Bird Bomb.” After retiring, John Main spent years building hundreds of birdhouses from the basement of his small house in North Olmsted, but never hung any outside. After passing away in 1990, his wife left everything intact until her passing two years ago.

“The family had an estate sale and I acquired hundreds of his houses, wood, his tools, his bandsaw,” Depew says. “I hung up all the houses around Cleveland and used all the wood and his tools to exactly replicate the houses he made. I viewed it as a collaboration between myself and this individual who never got to see or enjoy his work out in the public.”

Dana Depew studied sculpture at Kent State University. His repurposed signage and light-based work can be seen all over town; including 78th Street Studios, Melt Bar & Grilled and Big Fun. Earlier this year, you voted him Best Local Artist in Scene’s Best of Cleveland.

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Married couple Kevin (Gideon-Patrick Lorete) and Ted (Patrick Gladish).

OFF KILTER “Harbor” examines what makes a family with mixed results at convergence-continuum

By Roy Berko WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A HAPPILY married gay couple’s home is invaded by one of the duo’s pot-headed, manipulating sister with her teen daughter in-tow? According to Chad Beguelin, the author of the play Harbor, which is now on stage at convergence-continuum, the answer is angst, frustration, revelations and a surprising, if less than expected, conclusion.

Ted, a successful architect and his younger husband Kevin, an unproductive writer who has been working on a novel for ten years, are living a comfortable life in the upscale community of affluent Sag Harbor, New York. The spouses appear to be in a loving and caring relationship, with Ted as the breadwinner and decisionmaker and Kevin as the passive partner.

One evening, with no notice, Donna, Kevin’s sister, and Lottie, her precocious daughter, appear on the doorstep, expecting to stay for “the night.” That night stretches out to many months as Donna reveals she is pregnant, wants the “boys” to become the child’s father, and pay her for her “services” as the surrogate mother.

The goings on center on manipulation,

a power struggle, discovery of self values, and a path toward the future that few would expect.

Beguelin has a background in writing light-weight musicals such as Elf and The Wedding Singer. This background seems to have imbued him with a writing style that centers on speeches that don’t sound like words a person would say in a realistic play. His script is full of stereotypes of gays and the less affluent.

The writer goes for one-line yuks.

Donna, who has little education but lots of street smarts, states, “I thought the word misogynist meant someone who gives massages” and

script. Yes, the concept is interesting, while the development somewhat weak. For the show to have a chance of working, there must be a clear development of the characters, as was done in NY. The con-con production, under the direction of Cory Molner, isn’t terrible, but doesn’t fare as well as its offBroadway counterpart.

Talented Maya Jones gives a very strong performance, portraying the 15year old Lottie in a totally believable, well-textured manner as a bright, polite and creative young lady.

Patrick Gladish, as Ted, has some nice moments. Especially effective is

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in describing the men she has dated relates, “I’ve seen so many assholes I could be a proctologist.” That kind of humor may work in escapist musicals, but aren’t as effective in what is supposed to be a message show.

The 2013 off-Broadway production of Harbor received a positive reception, more for the production than for the

his outburst about hating children, entitled parents and double-wide strollers. He states, in one of Beguelin’s stereotyping speeches, “One of the best benefits of being gay, aside from the really great taste in window treatments, is that kids aren’t expected to be part of the equation.” His rant about Ted’s pampered, idle life was also

effective.

Gideon-Patrick Lorete (Kevin) and Cat Kenney (Donna) unfortunately create caricatures rather than living, breathing people. Pre-planned, unnatural gestures, rolling eyes and pouts often accompany over-done speeches.

Molner needed to work to create realism, not representationalism. He does add an interesting dimension by using ethnic-blind casting, resulting in a gay white/Asian couple, a mother with an African American daughter and an Asian/white brother/sister.

Clyde Simon’s set design works well. Working in a bandage-sized stage, he has wrangled the multiple spaces needed to visually realize the show within the theatre’s small budget.

Yes, con-con works on a petite budget, but when a whole segment of the script raves about the birthday cake that is about to appear, and when what comes out is five cupcakes with some plastic flowers, the result, like the over-all effect of the play, is disappointing.

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By Sam Allard VISITORS: YOU’VE NOW LIKELY been in Cleveland for several days.

And if you’re the swashbuckling movie-going type, odds are you’ve already scrolled through Moviefone or Fandango to apprise yourself of the Cineplex nearest your hotel or AirBnB. Odds are you’ve also figured out that in Cleveland, literally everything is “15 or 20 minutes” away from your current location. The same GPS logic obtains on the movie theater front, so don’t let us discourage you from seeing whatever you want whenever works for you, but allow us to paint the picture of the scene with a more locally-tinctured brush. And do rest assured that, come Thursday evening, Star Trek: Beyond will be playing at roughly 5-minute intervals across the region: If you’re downtown and in need of a two-hour-ish reprieve from the RNC madness, repair to Tower City Cinemas (230 W. Huron Rd).

It’s the jewel of the locally owned and operated Cleveland Cinemas’ portfolio. Not because it’s particularly well attended — quite the opposite, in fact, which ought to enhance its sanctuarial appeal — but because it hosts the annual Cleveland International Film Festival. You can enter via Public Square. Then walk past the mall’s central fountain and through what remains of the food court, a sad-sack lunchtime destination as depleted and depressing as Sarajevo c. 1995. The (potentially) heartening Tower City news is that the mall has been lately purchased

by Cleveland’s downtown mogul, Dan Gilbert (of Cavaliers and Quicken Loans notoriety), so the food court’s future is necessarily much brighter than its present. The movies at Tower City are your standard mainstream fare, with the occasional limitedrelease horror offering. Seats, screens, and refreshments are all run-of-themill in terms of quality, but you can’t beat the convenience.

Cleveland Cinemas also owns the best theaters on Cleveland’s east and west sides. The beloved Cedar Lee, out in Cleveland Heights (2163 Lee Road) is your destination for indie, foreign and mainstream arthouse fare. The blue hairs and the grad students merrily convene to enjoy movies like The Blackout Experience, a documentary about immersive horror obsessions (whatever that means), opening Friday. The Cedar Lee’s something of a local institution, and the Cleveland Heights dining scene furnishes ample opportunities for dinner-and-a-movie-type outings.

On the west side, in the booming Detroit-Shoreway Neighborhood (which neighborhood’s commercial nexus is known as Gordon Square), the three-screen Capitol Theatre (1390 W. 65th St.) is known for its occasionally schizophrenic mix of mainstream and truly offbeat stuff. It was fully renovated in 2009 to due acclaim and is, for our money, the region’s loveliest theater. Itty-bitty urinal though.

This summer, the Capitol began a regular series that screens kooky indies and docs on a devoted screen

— Starting Friday, it’s Lucha Mexico, a documentary about the world of Mexican wrestling.

Valley View (6001 Canal Road) is Northeast Ohio’s biggest and glitziest Cineplex, featuring an in-house cafe and an arcade for the kiddies. Recently re-carpeted in a color that looks like actual bronze, luxuriously foyered, etc. If you nerd out on insanely highdef screens — XD, in fact — D-Box motion seats, and, moreover, enjoy popcorn so buttery it may as well be classified as soup, you have no choice but to answer Cinemark’s siren call.

(Friday nights, it’s awash in teens — a massive brawl broke out in 2014 — and weekday summer mornings, it’s awash in families seeing Zootopia for the third or fourth time.) It’s accessible by raft or steamship down the Cuyahoga River, but I-77 South is, let’s face it, the much more conventional route.

Hey, you’re a Republican, right?

You probably incline toward the seas of white people and pre-packaged “urban living” of outdoor malls like Crocker Park, right? Wouldn’t you know it?

This fake city is so complete that it’s got a movie theater, a Regal. Crocker Park Stadium 16 (30147 Detroit Rd.) does boast the area’s dopest IMAX screen, but it’s otherwise your standard suburban theater. Arrive 1520 minutes early to withstand a poorly configured refreshment line and the battalions of high-schoolers in the throes of Snapchat. Hit up Barnes & Noble afterwards.

We must hasten to acknowledge the successful revamping of both of

the area’s AMC Theaters, at Ridge Park Square (4788 Ridge Rd.) and at Westwood Town Center (21653 Center Ridge Rd.). These were bottom-feeding, non-destination theaters — formerly branded as General Cinemas, which is about as descriptive as brands come; and also formerly home to $4 movies every Tuesday, which discount came with a gratis small popcorn — until last year, when enormous La-Z-Boys were installed and full-service bars, dubiously christened “MacGuffins Bar & Lounge,” were added to the refreshment offerings. You’ll still get your rambunctious high school crews here, but there’s no better place around for a sanctioned public snooze.

Last but not least: The Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque (11610 Euclid Ave.), Cleveland’s only legitimate repertory theater, executively directed by Cleveland film legend John Ewing, who moonlights as a knight of the French realm.

In a magnificent new home in Cleveland’s Uptown neighborhood, the Cinematheque — RNC guests will be pleased to know — has been screening films directed by or starring prominent Hollywood Republicans.

This week: A Wes Anderson series, presented in conjunction with the Mark Mothersbaugh exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art down the street.

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SPOTLIGHT: YARN WITH EVERY SEASON COMES A NEW TREND in fashion, and this summer gave rise to crochet.

From tops to swimsuits, yarn is on the hot list, so it would seem like an apt time to release a film about the trendiest material of the moment.

Opening July 23rd at Akron’s Nightlight Cinema, Yarn beautifully educates viewers on an art form most probably still associate with their grandmothers. Following three artists and an avant-garde circus troupe, director Una Lorenzen artfully weaves these different narratives into a broader tapestry -- wink wink -- that challenges preconceived notions about yarn, crochet and needlework.

We see an Icelandic crochet artist decorate the streets with her work, often making political and social statements. We see another artist demonstrate how her crochet is used to create playgrounds for children around the world. The hanging colorful jungles of yarn are mesmerizing to watch — they might even inspire you to hunt them down in real life.

Improbably though it may seem, Lorenzen literally brings yarn to life: the camera captures the artwork in all its vivid color and richness, and unique animation and gorgeous landscapes enhance the film’s substantial visual appeal.

Content-wise, Yarn gets it right as well. All

too often, documentaries are packed with new information, making the films feel more like lectures than entertainment. Yarn, however, balances new information with narrative and visuals in a way that makes it an easy, enjoyable watch. Though it seemed silly to be watching a film about yarn at times, overall, the film has an important message, articulated at one point in the film by an Icelandic crochet artist: Needlework is one of the few art forms that originated with women. The underlying importance of bringing awareness to crochet and this female art form is echoed throughout the film. — Danielle Immerman | clevescene.com | July 20 - 26, 2016

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One of 10 quick-casual ramen options at Otani

DOUBLE THE HAPPINESS Two new reasons to leave the house: Ramen in Uptown, sushi in Mentor-on-the-Lake

By Douglas Trattner THE YEE FAMILY HAS BEEN on the leading edge of culinary trends since 1978, when they opened Otani Japanese Restaurant in Mayfield Heights. Back then, sushi was about as exotic as food could get in Cleveland, and Otani was where many local foodies had their first taste of raw fish.

So it comes as no surprise that the Yees, once again, are taking a chance on a budding food trend: the fast-casual ramen shop. It’s the way people like to eat these days, notes Janet Yee, pointing out that speedy but high-quality shops like Otani Noodle are poised for growth.

Tucked among a strip of forgettable chain eateries, Otani Noodle is one of the newest businesses to join the Uptown family.

The slim slurp shop, which opened in June, is elegant in its simplicity.

In place of the now-ubiquitous quickserve process that finds diners faced with countless choices and infinite permutations, Otani proffers a perfect 10-item roster.

The straightforward pictorial menu consists exclusively of predesigned bowls numbered one through 10. The most prevalent broth here is tonkotsu, a rich and opaque brew made from long-simmered pork bones. It’s the star of roughly half the choices. Rounding out the broths are miso, made from fermented bean paste, shoyu, a soybased broth, and the odd man out, tom yum goong, the popular Thai hot and

sour soup.

Most bowls come with bouncy ramen noodles, which have the consistency of al dente egg noodles.

Since they continue to cook in the hot broth, the quicker you eat them, the better they are. The tom yum goong swaps the ramen for rice noodles, and one of the shoyu bowls contains udon.

Each bowl is topped with a different main event, from sliced char siu roast pork or simmered pork belly to crispy tempura-fried shrimp or thin and crisp chicken or pork cutlets, which are fried to order, sliced and laid on top of the soups. Most also contain a soy-marinated soft (though closer to hard) boiled egg, scallions, seaweed, veggies and mushrooms.

a decade. Mentor-on-the-Lake might seem an odd place to settle down and open a sushi restaurant, but that’s precisely where you’ll find the wonderful Ninja Sushi. Chen explains, through a translator at the restaurant, that his older brother owns a Chinese restaurant in the area and he wanted to be near family.

What the place lacks in size and panache, it more than makes up for in quality and presentation. When I order the omakse ($60), a sort of chef’s choice, Chen’s eyes light up with excitement. Before long I’m staring down the length of a twofoot platter filled with gorgeous pieces of fish and seafood. There’s

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Guests order and pay at the open kitchen, grab a seat at one of the communal high tops, and wait until their name is called. When it’s not too busy, staffers often bring the food to you. Prices range from $7.95 to $11.95 per bowl.

Yee says that plans are in the works to open additional shops in town.

a fatty tuna and sea urchin hand roll, leg of king crab meat, two types of mackerel, two types of snapper, sliced raw scallop topped with sea urchin, sweet shrimp, raw oyster on the half shell topped with sea urchin, and a chewy salad of chopped scallop mantle, an oft-discarded part of a whole, live scallop. Had we been seated at the tiny two-seat sushi bar, those items would have come out one or two at a time.

Chen flies his fish in daily and

Ken Chen made his way from China to Cleveland via New York City, where he worked in various Japanese restaurants for more than

weekly and his nigiri, sashimi and specials menus are built around what’s available. He almost always stocks fresh uni, scallops and oysters, he says, but the rest is seasonal and unpredictable.

“They give us a fish box full of surprises,” he explains.

Sashimi is sold three fat triangular flanks per order at the ridiculous price of $5 to $8 depending on the fish. Most customers at this two-year-old restaurant go the roll route, with items like the spicy tuna ($5.95), shrimp tempura ($5.95) and California roll ($5.50) doing brisk business. We sampled the seductively named Pink Lady ($12.95), a satisfying twist up of salmon, tuna and yellow tail in a pink soy-based nori wrapper.

Diners will find usual starters like miso soup ($2), gyoza ($5.50) and tuna tataki ($8.50). For dessert, there’s a million-layer handmade crepe pie based on the famous version found at Lady M in New York.

Ninja will soon have a beer and wine license and after that, Chen plans to heighten and expand the sushi bar.

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WALK INTO GERACI’S (2266 Warrensville Ctr. Rd., 216-371-5643) and it might feel like time stands still.

The old school cash-only register, the dimly lit dining room, the Old World Italian décor. As it celebrates its 60th anniversary this month, little has changed, including the generations of both the family running the show and the families that pass through the doors.

Food, and a bit of fate, brought together the son and daughter of two Sicilian natives, planting the seed for what would become one of the most beloved Italian restaurants in town.

Michael Geraci’s family owned a produce business at the Northern Ohio Food Terminal, while the family of his future wife Frances owned stands at the West Side Market. The late couple’s crossing was inevitable.

Michael had always been fascinated by the pizza business. Frances, her aunts and uncles helped develop the recipes for Geraci’s when it opened in a small shopping center on Cedar near Green. They moved to their current University Heights location half a decade later Frances was elegant, a hostess by all means, remembers her daughter and current owner, Francesca Geraci, who was two when her parents opened the restaurant. She remembers Michael as a hard worker who went down to the market for fresh produce every morning until he was in his late 70s.

“They were complete opposites,” says Francesca. “He was just a fireball and she was reserved. But it worked.”

Guests are greeted with balls of fresh dough, large deck ovens and the aroma of Italian cooking. It’s no surprise that Michael’s love of pizza led to the pies that Geraci’s would become famous for. The eatery continues to churn out pies topped with perfectly crisped imported pepperoni with just the kick of spice needed to balance the sweet, homemade tomato sauce.

“I can’t tell,” Francesca responds slyly when pressed for the secret to

their recipe. She’s quick to note that their recipes, many passed down through the family, have seldom changed.

But more than just the pies, people come to Geraci’s for the atmosphere. If ever there was a place to share a slice, it’s the narrow room of communal dining tables that make up the majority of the restaurant.

“It’s a gathering place,” notes Francesca. “People sit next to complete strangers and all of the sudden they’re having dinner together. They consider this a place to reunite and remember the past.”

The menu grew alongside Frances’ passion for cooking, and the restaurant eventually began offering chicken, veal and seafood dishes alongside traditional pastas.

But while lines formed out the doors—especially after big Cain Park shows—and crowds swelled until closing time.

Today, the legacy lives on through daughters, grandchildren, grandnieces and nephews, all who have worked in the restaurant.

“It’s always been a family affair,” says Francesca. “I’ve watched young adults become parents and then become grandparents and now great grandparents, and they continue to be faithful customers. My favorite memory will always be families sharing our own family’s experience.

It’s like eating at someone’s house.”

Francesca has watched as many of Geraci’s earliest customers aged and moved east to the suburbs. But now she is seeing that play out in reverse, with children moving back to the old neighborhoods. To her, they’re recreating the Geraci legacy all over again.

“I think my parents planned on just opening a little pizzeria,” Francesca says. “And then it just got bigger and bigger.”

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By Douglas Trattner IF 2016 FEELS LIKE ITâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BEEN the year of barbecue, just wait: there are at least two more spots that will open before the end of summer. The ďŹ rst one is Barabicu Smokehouse, and it should begin serving smoked meats this August from its retail spot in Parma, near the intersection of Ridge and Snow roads. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Barabicu is the Taino word for secret ďŹ re pit,â&#x20AC;? explains owner Jon Ashton, referring to the indigenous people of the Caribbean. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They were the ďŹ rst to barbecue. When they came over and met the Seminole Indians for the ďŹ rst time, I imagine they had one hell of a party.â&#x20AC;?

Ashton and his partner Danny Cassano originally started this project three year ago when they attempted to open Nanaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Southside BBQ in the old Rodeo Bar spot in Tremont. That restaurant stalled and, ultimately, ďŹ&#x201A;amed out. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was deďŹ nitely an obstacle we

had to overcome,â&#x20AC;? Ashton says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We decided to wait until we had the money to do it ourselves. For the amount of money we were messing with we had to go with something smaller to start.â&#x20AC;?

The building is at 5767 Ridge Road and parked out back is a beefy trailer-mounted Southern Pride offset smoker â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a stick-burner fueled by hickory, mesquite and fruitwood.

As for the style of barbecue that customers can look forward to, Ashton says to expect a variety. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When we did the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Great Food Truck Race,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; the whole line of the show went down along the southern part of the United States,â&#x20AC;?

Ashton, then a part of the Let There Be Bacon truck, explains. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were fortunate to stop in Austin, Oklahoma City, and St. Louis, so we got exposed to a whole bunch of different barbecue in different places really fast.â&#x20AC;?

Ashton says that their favorite stops and styles invariably were the ones that did things simply, allowing the meat to shine. Meaty St. Louis-style ribs with a stickysweet sauce; Texas-style beef brisket with burnt ends; Southernstyle pulled pork. Whole smoked, jerk-style chickens will be on the menu, as will a variety of sausages ďŹ lled with lamb, pork, beef or chicken depending on the day.

Guests can also look forward to special â&#x20AC;&#x153;competition-styleâ&#x20AC;? chicken thighs, a labor-intensive procedure that involves deboning the meat, defatting the skin, and blasting the ďŹ nished product with a blowtorch to crisp it up. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kind of like picking up a piece of chicken candy,â&#x20AC;? he says.

Barabicu will begin life mostly as a carry-out joint, but will add seating down the road. As the business matures, Ashton, a veteran

cook, hopes to concoct his own vinegar-based sauces, break down his own animals, and grind his own sausages.

Look for Barabicu to open in early August.

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you went to a barbecue restaurant.

And if you heard of a restaurant that served both sushi and barbecue, you wouldn’t want to go,” explains chef Bennett. “But today’s diner wants options.”

And options they will have at 811, the contemporary American bar and grill currently coming together at the corner of Prospect and E. 8th downtown. The open, bright and airy restaurant is such a departure for the guys from Moxie and Red that it feels a bit like vacation, says Bennett.

“We’ve been mentally captive about what we can and can’t do for so long,” he says. “It’s been fun to free ourselves. The challenge with doing a lot of different stuff is how do you do it all well. And there’s a stigma attached to that type of cooking. So we picked a few categories that we liked and have been working and working and working them.”

Those categories on the single, all-day menu might sound familiar – sushi, salads, sandwiches, big plates – but the ingredients, preparation and execution will be anything but.

“We’re still cooking the same way we’ve always cooked,” says the chef.

Along with executive chef Andrew Bower, a familiar face to anybody who’s dined at Market Garden Brewery in recent years, Bennett has crafted a menu that attempts to accomplish an impossible task: please everybody.

“It’s always the fifth diner who makes the decision on where to eat,” Bennett jokes. “Everybody’s okay with sushi – except for that guy. Everybody’s okay with steak – except for that guy.”

“And that’s the person who always says, ‘I don’t care where we eat!’” quips Friedlander.

At the far end of the long bar sits a small sushi bar. Next to that is the Robata station, where a custombuilt infrared grill will blast nearly a dozen different skewered items meant to be paired and passed. The lineup confirms the chef’s statement that cultural boundaries have been relegated to the rear view mirror.

“We have Old Bay shrimp from North Carolina, there’s kalbi short ribs from Korea, there are pork pinchitos out of Spain. Every culture has meat on a steak,” he says.

That short rib is cooked sous vide first to tenderize the meat before it goes on the blazing hot grill.

Other items to come off the Robata

include pork belly, shishito peppers, fresh baby corn, and a daily fish rib selection. Yes, fish ribs.

The sushi bar will turn out a dozen different rolls starring spicy tuna, shrimp tempura, salmon belly and King crab.

An entire section of the broadsheet menu is devoted to hummus, which is paired with house-baked pita and any number of toppings. One features chickpea curry and raisin compote, while another has pickled onions, harissa and chiles.

Bennett is particularly excited about the starter section, which is global, playful and delicioussounding. Tempura-fried shrimp are served with a Sriracha-spiked tartar sauce. Bao buns are filled with hoisin pork belly and pickles. Korean fried chicken “nuggets” are made using marinated boneless chicken thighs.

“The rice flour batter we use keep them crunchy-crispy for 20 minutes!” says Bennett.

Sandwiches range from a light and healthy tuna salad starring tuna tartar and greens in a pita to a diner-style “smashed” burger.

The “big plates” top out at $19 and they, too, run roughshod around the globe. There’s Korean short ribs with jasmine rice, Ohio pork belly ramen in tonkotsu broth, fried chicken in mumbo sauce, and a vegetarian roasted cauliflower and lentil dish.

811 seats 180 guests but it doesn’t look or feel that way. Up front, a casual lounge area with soft seating arranged around a suspended fireplace gobbles up some of the space. High tops by the bar offer a “less formal casual” option. That bar stretches for a country mile, with seating for at least 25. Even the leather booths, which run down the center of the space, are open on each end, giving the impression of fancy beer garden. Flexible spaces with pocket doors or chain curtains break up the space and provide semiprivate dining when needed.

811 has no patio, but it does boast a façade of hydraulic garage door panels that combine the joys of dining al fresco with the comfort of dining indoors.

Look for 811 to open right after the Republicans pack up and leave town, says Bennett.

“It’s not worth risking a successful opening – which is very important – for three or four days of money,” he says.

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By Eli Shively and Danielle Immerman TO THE CASUAL CONCERT-GOER, the Vans Warped Tour can seem like a sensory overload. Seven different stages, way too many bands to keep track of — and really, who has enough time on their hands to figure out which ones are even worth seeing? Well fear not, casual concert-goer, because we’ve got you covered. We’ve studied the schedule for the tour’s stop at Blossom, and handpicked 14 acts that we think are the worthiest of your attention. Don’t forget to mosh responsibly, folks.

CHUNK! NO, CAPTAIN CHUNK! While their nonsensical name and obvious foreignness may leave a bit of an odd first impression, French pop punkers Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! put on what may be the most fun live experience out of any band you’ll see all day at this year’s Warped. Constant guitar chugging, sugary hooks, and (of course) a lot of jumping up and down in unison will make their set a bit of a cheese-fest, but even the most jaded punk purist can admit they certainly know how to work a crowd. Song titles like “Haters Gonna Hate” and “In Friends We Trust” indicate that this isn’t a band that takes itself completely seriously, and in order to enjoy them to the fullest extent, you shouldn’t either. No one is too cool to enjoy a good breakdown every once in awhile. (Shively) COLDRAIN Not only is coldrain the only Japanese band on the 2016 Warped lineup, but the tour also marks the band’s first-ever trip to the United States. Not that stateside audiences won’t know who they are, though: The band has gained a massive following in its home country over the years with their unique blend of metal and post-hardcore, and have been releasing music internationally since 2014. It doesn’t hurt that the band’s past two records, VENA and The Revelation, were distributed in the U.S. by Hopeless Records, a label with plenty of Warped cred.

Expect them to be the big surprise of the day, winning over new fans with their extensive talent and experience during their cushy time slot between major draws Chelsea Grin and Cruel Hand. (Shively) Sum 41 will provide one of the highlights on this year’s Warped Tour.

CROWN THE EMPIRE Formed in 2010, Crown the Empire is one of the leading bands in the post-hardcore scene. Routinely praised by Alternative Press for having a unique sound and style, the band is no doubt noteworthy and worthwhile to see at Warped Tour.

By blending classic guitar riffs with unique synths and vocals, Crown the Empire unleashes a cascading waterfall of loud, energizing sound one minute while juxtaposing it with a more melodic, toned and stripped down sound. This seamless blend of style is tricky to perfect, but Crown the Empire routinely proves that it has mastered this art.

(Immerman) EMAROSA Lexington, Kentucky-based post-hardcore four-piece Emarosa plays its third Warped Tour this year; the show comes in the wake of the release of the new record, 131. The band’s style accentuates the mellower aspects of the genre — unlike many similar bands, Emarosa doesn’t feature a screaming vocalist — and takes sonic cues from peers like Dance Gavin Dance and Chiodos. What they lack in aggression, however, they make up for in progressive and powerful song structure that’s sure to captivate the crowd from start to finish. Recent singles “Cloud 9” and “Helpless” showcase the band’s ability to weave poppier vocal melodies with prog rock-oriented guitar. (Shively) EVERY TIME I DIE On paper, the term “Southernfried metalcore” doesn’t seem like it’d produce anything objectively good — but then again, Every Time I Die is a band of action, not promise. This summer marks its seventh time playing Warped,

and the guys certainly live up to their level of experience with a live show that pulls zero punches.

Combining blistering riffage with a pedal-to-the-metal rhythm section, each of their seven fulllength records is worth its weight in aggression and energy. This, of course, all translates well to a live setting, but the real highlight here though is frontman Keith Buckley and his dynamic vocal range. Catch him later in the day on the Monster Energy stage as his twangy yell-singing on fan favorites “Wanderlust” and “Decayin’ With the Boys” descends into a full bodied scream when the band breaks into “Underwater Bimbos From Outer Space” or “Floater.” (Shively) FALLING IN REVERSE Known for its monstrous onstage presence, Falling in Reverse is hard to ignore. Led by the boisterous, outspoken Ronnie Radke, Falling in Reverse blends post-hard core, punk, glam metal and rap in its statement-making songs like “The Drug in Me is You,” “I’m Not a Vampire” and “Good Girls Bad Guys,” all of which showcase Radke’s innate songwriting ability, his ferocious vocal range and the band’s unique style. Guitar chords breathe fire into the already scorching vocals that Radke provides, making Falling in Reverse a band not to be missed; Radke’s entertaining persona is something worth seeing as well. (Immerman) FOUR YEAR STRONG From the fast tempos and moshable breakdowns to the positive, feel good lyrical themes (the most recognizable song even has the words “Eternal Summer” in the title), Four Year Strong is a band that seems built for Warped

Tour. They’ve made a name for themselves in the pop punk circuit penning anthems like “Heroes Get Remembered, Legends Never Die” and “Find My Way Back,” their music equal parts sing-along camaraderie and circle pit-inducing aggression. Find them on the mainstage as the day winds down, encouraging what will surely be one of the most energetic crowds of the afternoon to “Show us what you’ve fucking got!” as their guitars all chug in unison. (Shively) GOOD CHARLOTTE With high profile acts such as Sum 41, New Found Glory and Reel Big Fish on the bill, this year’s Warped will be just as much about taking a trip down memory lane for some as it is about seeing bands that are currently at the top of their game. Recently-reunited D.C. pop punkers Good Charlotte are a solid addition to that star studded list, and will be bringing nostalgic hits like “The Anthem,” “Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous,” and “Little Things” to the main stage all summer long. Twin brothers/ frontmen Benji and Joel Madden, now in their late thirties, still know how to work a crowd — bringing out the long-forgotten high school angst in some of the tour’s older attendees, which will at the very least be entertaining to watch.

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MUSIC dropped off one by one, NFG will play its sixth Warped this year, a feat that in itself shows just how passionate the guys are about what they do even as some members near their forties. Expect to see members of other bands watch the band perform — most of the bands on Warped this year are young enough to have grown up listening to influential albums like Sticks and Stones and Catalyst. Still not sold on their importance? Observe the crowd’s reaction as the group launches into “My Friends Over You” or “Hit Or Miss.” There’s a reason why they’ve been around for this long. (Shively)

SET IT OFF For those of us who like to take the less post-hardcore path, Set It Off is a Warped Tour band not to be missed. Formed in 2008, Set It Off has rapidly rose to prominence in the alternative world with its unique spin on the classic pop-punk sound we know all too well. Lead vocalist Cody Carson takes his vocals to new heights with every note that he hits while the frequent use of the trumpet provides an unusual background for Carson’s vocals.

Jams like “Why Worry,” “Partners in Crime” and “Kill the Lights” are all exemplary songs that will undoubtedly get you hooked on Set It Off if you aren’t already a fan.

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REAL FRIENDS Pop-punk at its finest, Real Friends are one of the most unusual pop-punk bands churning out music today. With honest and relatable lyrics at the forefront of their music, their instrumentation equally matches their lyrics in terms of uniqueness. For the lyrics to jump out and remain at the center stage in all of their songs, Real Friends have mastered the ability to create music that never overpowers the vocals; the guitar, bass and drums all serve their purpose and no doubt have their own stand-out moments, but the gritty, raw vocals that set Real Friends apart from other poppunk bands of today. (Immerman)

SLEEPING WITH SIRENS Making girls swoon since 2009, Sleeping with Sirens is a five-piece rock, post-hardcore band led by charismatic vocalist Kellin Quinn.

Though the music as a whole is great, the highlight of Sleeping with Sirens is no doubt Quinn. Known for the versatility of his tenor vocal range, it’s easy to get swept up in his mesmerizing performance. One minute, his voice is piercingly high, to the point that you momentarily think a female pop vocalist is crooning before you, but then in the blink of an eye Quinn will just as easily emit deep notes. His unreal vocal performance is not to be missed, so be prepared to make a stop at Warped Tour for Sleeping with Sirens. (Immerman)

REEL BIG FISH “When are they gonna put ska bands back on Warped Tour?” was a question often heard from the mouths of punk rock purists over the past few years. This year, they finally got their wish.

SUM 41 Most popular in the early 2000s, Sum 41 makes it impossible to create a 2000s playlist without including some of their classics like “In Too Deep,” “Still Waiting” and “With Me.” Between their Green

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Ska superstars Reel Big Fish are playing their first Warped since 2013, bringing copious amounts of brass and an attitude that still feels like it hasn’t aged since 1999 in tow. They haven’t released any new material since 2012’s Candy Coated Fury, so expect them to litter their set with classics like “Beer,” “She Has A Girlfriend Now,” and, of course, “Sell Out.” Skankin’ it up with your buds to some rad tunes in the summer heat — what could be better? (Shively)

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Day-esque rock undertones and ‘70s punk edge, Sum 41 continues to churn out some of the best music in the pop-punk, punk-rock world, as demonstrated by their headlining performance at the 2015 Alternative Press Music Awards. You won’t want to miss a chance to witness one of the hallmark bands of the 2000s perform live. (Immerman)

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MUSIC Living Colour and Dinosaur Jr. team up for Lollapalooza-like tour

by Jeff Niesel

When the band first formed in the ’80s, what was the alternative rock scene like?

Glover: There was an alternative scene; there’s always been an alternative scene. But how it was represented was different. There was always a scene. And there was even a black rock scene. It didn’t see the light of day, but it was out there. CBGB’s was always a bastion for it. There was always a place you could go hear this kind of stuff. It just never poked its head above ground.

Murph: We formed in 1985. There was a lot of punk that was happening.

There was the Boston scene and D.C. and New York. It was a different time.

It was transitioning. Drum machines were coming in. Radio was Top 40 and all classic rock. You didn’t hear Nirvana or Alice in Chains. It was Steve Miller, Allman Brothers, Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd on every station.

Is today’s alternative rock fan more fickle?

Glover: I don’t think so. The live music scene is still thriving, which is a testament to some of these bands.

We did Lollapalooza 25 years ago. We did the first one. It’s still going strong, albeit it’s not traveling around the country although this tour hearkens back to that idea. There’s Coachella and Bonnaroo. These things are huge.

There are people willing to travel long distances to see bands they like or even bands they don’t know. There’s an openness now.

Murph: It’s weird. Because of the

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Internet, there is so much more out there, and you have to weed through the good and bad bands. There are the kids who are market fed everything.

And then, there are the kids who know everything about the bands they like. It’s a different thing. You didn’t have all those options. It’s more quantity over quality. Now, with iTunes and all that stuff, labels want to sign artists for one year deals and drop them because they can make x amount of money. When we were doing it, there were still labels and the attitude was leftover from the ‘70s. You grow with a band and sign a five or six year record deal. You help nurture a band. It’s transformed into this product world. It’s good and bad. It gives people who wouldn’t have a voice a chance to get out there but it’s quantity over quality. It’s like Walmart. You can find everything you need, but it’s fricking Walmart.

Is the shredding guitar hero becoming a dying breed?

Glover: You’d be surprised. There are a bunch of kids — and I’m not saying that because I’m an old man — who are 10 or 12 years old who are amazing guitar players. That gives me some hope but it also makes me see that there are people out there who want to hear music and real expressions from people, whether it be a band or a singer or a songwriter or a guitar player.

Murph: Guitar heroes today incorporate other kinds of technology, or they interface different kinds of sounds. You find

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VERY FEW ALTERNATIVE/INDIE bands survived the ’80s (and then the ’90s) intact. Three survivors – Jane’s Addiction, Dinosaur Jr. and Living Colour — have teamed up to play five shows this month, including a stop here at Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica on Saturday, July 23. Each act has experienced its ups and downs but after breaking up and subsequently reforming, the bands have embarked on yet another phase of their careers.

In separate phone interviews, we spoke to Living Colour singer Corey Glover and Dinosaur Jr. drummer Murph about their respective bands.

Dinosaur Jr.

Talk about the new material that you’re working on.

Glover: Several years ago, we did a show at the Apollo for the 100th anniversary of [blues guitarist] Robert Johnson. We were playing all this blues music. There hasn’t been a modern, urban blues guitar record in the past few year, so we wanted to do that. We wanted to take that idea and run with it. As we were in the studio working on it, certain ideas came up from the idea and run with it. As we were in the studio working, ideas blossomed out of the idea of taking urban blues and deconstructing it and then reconstructing it in our own image. There are lots of things that are left of center [on the forthcoming

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guitar players doing innovative stuff but it isn’t traditional. Their guitar playing has morphed into a Midi/synth thing. Robert Fripp was one of the early pioneers. He used Frippertronics and would interface that. It’s progressed. With the DJ thing, it’s morphed into all that. It’s a mix of everything. But you still find guys out there who are pioneers doing their thing.

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album] and other things that are strictly in our wheelhouse. There are some blues tunes in there and some hip-hop stuff with our own interpretation of that kind of thing.

Murph: We hadn’t done a record in almost three years [prior to the forthcoming Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not]. We just set a recording date. J. didn’t have a lot of songs but he works better under pressure. We

started reworking an old Witch tune he had and that started the process.

Then, he just started churning out ideas. Lou and I would be learning or tracking parts of one song while J. was in the other room tracking the next song and then it was done after two months. We’re not the traditional band where we sit around and jam out ideas. J. disappears and then comes back with a demo. You’re like, “Oh wow. What’s this?” It’s up to the three of us to interpret that demo or track.

Talk about what the three bands on the tour have in common?

Glover: We’re sole survivors. You’re talking about people having loyalty to bands. These three bands have had real loyalty to what they’ve done.

Jane’s has got that and Dinosaur Jr. Thanks to perseverance and a little bit of luck, we are all still around. That’s a testament to something.

Murph: Mainly, we were from that era. Perry Farrell started Lollapalooza. That was his baby. This is like a reunion. We were one of the early bands. Living Colour was part of that era too. All three bands put on a really good show, but we’re all kind of different too.

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MUSIC PURE MUSIC Femi Kuti and the Positive Force bring truth on the final night of the RNC

By Eric Sandy FEMI KUTI HASN’T LISTENED TO music in 15 years or so. He’s been on a journey to capture the essence of his own voice, and the distractions of other artists’ music is too much of a liability for him. “I’m trying to find purity in my music,” the Nigerian musician tells Scene.

Being the son of 20th-century icon Fela Kuti, there’s a lot of talk about “legacy” that swirls around his career.

With six solo albums and countless appearances on other compilations, Kuti has certainly built a dynamic catalog separate from his father. That meditative approach has allowed him to extend the realm of Afrobeat into this century.

Kuti’s latest album, No Place for My Dreams, lays a discourse on the impoverished of the world over polyrhythms and a lively cast of musical instruments.

“My vision was to speak truth and expose corruption, so that people will understand that poverty is global,” Kuti says. “I think it was a very global album, talking about not just the African problem.”

Tunes like “No Work No Job No Money” showcase what Kuti does best; it’s a tightly wound song that wraps its message in under six minutes.

With a repeating melody dancing on the keyboard, it’s easy to see how Kuti and his band might enter something of a trance-like state, massaging the song in as many ways as possible while journeying deep into an improvisational comfort zone on the stage or in the studio. The lyrics, of course, keep Kuti’s message front and center.

“It’s right in my face in Nigeria, right outside my doorstep,” he says of the problems plaguing his home country. “I don’t think there’s anything more important than something I see.

I don’t see what personal issues I have that are more important than people not being able to afford health or their families. I live it on a daily basis.”

For the Africans in need of hope and change, Kuti says: “Afrobeat will

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always be there for them.”

That’s the genre that Kuti’s father helped pioneer in the late 1960s and beyond. As a member of his band, Kuti watched his father develop a hybrid world of jazz, funk, traditional Nigerian music and so much more.

(Kuti defines Afrobeat as “music from the perspective of an African.”)

It’s often quite complex, and many aspects of Afrobeat sound very different from how we typically conceptualize songwriting here in the West.

“If you have not been trained to accept — or if your mind has not been trained to that frequency — you’ll never understand jazz or classical music,” Kuti says. “Your mind has to be ready to absorb very intellectual or very complicated pieces like that.

Young people, because their minds are not ready, will go for easier kinds of music. As you get older, you start to understand life. Many complications come into one’s life, and you want something probably more serious in life — or something that relates more to the truth of life.”

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Enter Afrobeat, which, while certainly danceable, tends to deal with quite heavy issues.

And Kuti has used that genre as a tool to both honor his father and put some distance between the two of them. He’s come into his own at this point, leaving an indelible mark on contemporary pop music here in the U.S. and offering something wholly unique to fans of daring, honest songwriting. (Beyonce and Jay-Z, among many others, have notably begun incorporating Afrobeat traits into their music.)

For years now, Kuti has been achieving those goals by avoiding others’ music altogether. He says he used to listen to a lot of jazz, which worked its way into his own songwriting when he was starting out and when he was performing in Egypt 80, Fela’s band. But now he’s focused on the tranquility of confronting new melodies in his own head.

Kuti writes everything by himself — no interruptions — and, in fact, he often writes in his sleep. He dreams in melody, and he latches onto messages

he receives as soon as he can. “I quickly try to wake up, because the melody is very strong,” he says. “If I do wake up and keep this melody in my head, I build on it like a puzzle. I try to remember where I was at, which takes a lot of concentration.”

His approach to writing melodies also comes from live performances.

At The New Afrika Shrine in Nigeria, Kuti performs for about four hours. Two or three hours into that, he’ll start picking up on profound melodies coming through the ether of improvisation. With a book nearby, Kuti will write down the organic structures that come to him and stick with him.

Of course, Kuti has no plans to slow down. He says his next album is coming together now — and that with the world’s problems becoming more and more glaring, the need for his wisdom and creativity is stronger than ever.

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By Jeff Niesel WHEN NASHVILLE-BASED psychedelic rockers All Them Witches set out to record their ďŹ rst album, Our Mother Electricity, they did so with little in terms of funding. Even by indie rock standards, the sessions were a low budget affair. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We tracked ten songs the ďŹ rst day,â&#x20AC;? says singer-bassist Charles Michael Parks Jr. in a phone interview from his Nashville home. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We tracked it in a day, and it took a week to put it together. We mastered it for a case of beer. My buddy who lives in Florida is an awesome engineer. He mastered our stuff on the cheap.â&#x20AC;?

Along with sophomore effort Lightning at the Door, the album created enough of a buzz that the group inked a deal with New West Records, a prominent indie imprint.

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melancholy vibe to them. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Some of the songs are three or four years old at this point,â&#x20AC;? explains Parks. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wrote the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Open Passageways,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Talismanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Call Me Starâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; when I was living in Louisiana over the winter. I had nothing to do.

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Corey Kendrick Trio: 9:30 p.m., $15.

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Roy King Trio/Joe Hunter/Marty Block: 8 p.m., $10. Nighttown.

Mark Russo Quintet: The Music Of Kenny Dorham And Blue Mitchell: 7 p.m., $15. Bop Stop.

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School of Rock Allstars: 7:30 p.m., $10. Grog Shop.

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David Wax Museum/Austin Wolfe/ The Comatose Afterlife: 8 p.m., $12. Musica.

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The Peach Kings/Mobley/The Vital Organs: 8:30 p.m., $8 ADV, $10 DOS. Beachland Tavern.

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By Jeff Niesel MEET THE BAND: Mike Murray (keyboard, guitars), Dave Hamilton (vocals, piano), Matt Vance (guitar), Adam Christian (bass), Dan Jankowski (drums) GETTING THEIR KIXX: The group’s members came from different bands, including the long-running local group Copperfoot. “The other guys had started the Sunrise Jones and were looking for some new players,” says Murray. “We jammed one night on a whim and decided we just wanted to play some covers that we were passionate about. It grew from there.” The group put together a setlist of covers that Murray says are songs “you just don’t hear.”

The group’s first show was at Kixx Lounge in Geneva in 2014. “It was sparsely populated,” he says. “It was a dive bar in the sleepy part of Geneva. We just wanted to get our feet wet. It was pretty low, with all due respect to Kixx.” But then, the band started playing weddings and other events and expanded its repertoire. “We want to be as eclectic as a jukebox,” says Murray, adding that the group now has 100 songs at its disposal.

BEATLES MANIA: One night, the guys were at a jam night at the now shuttered Westside bar Stampers, and Hamilton launched into a cover of “Hey Jude.” Murray says he “did a classic head turn” as he heard Hamilton because he sounded so much like Paul McCartney. “I’ll never forget remember hearing someone crush a cover like that,” he says. “We’ve agreed on the Beatles.

It’s the one thing we all like the most. We dedicated ourselves to

learning the parts as faithfully as possible. You hear a lot of Beatles covers but you don’t get the attention to detail. We want to bring that to the forefront. It’s more of an appreciation than a tribute. We don’t want to dress up in the outfits. We respect that, but we want to have the fans feel like they’re part of it, and we tell stories about the songs.”

The band currently knows about 30 Beatles’ tunes. “They had like 100 hits, but we’re still learning more.

We want to rip out as many as we can at will.”

WHY YOU SHOULD HEAR THEM: Their rendition of the Kenny Loggins’ tune “Footloose” sounds just like the original, and they play “Uptown Funk” with some serious swagger.

Hamilton’s voice gets all raspy for “Stay with Me,” making it sound as if Rod Stewart is really singing the tune. Band members also play in the local group Uptight Sugar.

That group is currently working on an album of original material. “It’s inspired by all the stuff we cover,” says Murray. “We’re not virtuoso players but we learned parts that are a bit of a reach. There are songs we couldn’t have covered two years ago.

It’s been a nice evolution.”

WHERE YOU CAN HEAR THEM: thesunrisejones.com WHERE YOU CAN SEE THEM: The Sunrise Jones performs a Beatles Brunch at noon on Sunday, July 24.

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That’s probably not what you wanted or expected to hear, HELPME, and you’ll find some more hopeful/less cynical advice further down, I promise. But when a guy with “commitment issues” tells you he’s struggling with the emotional fallout of a relationship that ended five years ago and still hopelessly in love with someone he hasn’t seen for a year… you have to entertain the possibility that he could be lying to you.

When someone tells us they have “commitment issues,” we’re primed to hear this: “This boy is incapable of committing until healed (by a therapist, by a new love, by the passage of time).”

But sometimes what they mean is this: “I have no interest in committing—not to you, not to anyone, not now, not ever.” But instead of owning up to that (because people who want to remain single are viewed as damaged?) or telling you he’s not seeking anything serious (because you might leave him, and he’s not done with your ass?), Peter invents/ inflates a pair of past loves that render him incapable of loving you the way you

deserve to be loved and blah blah blah and off the hook. Not a child-man who won’t commit, but a victim who would commit if he could commit but—sob!—he can’t commit.

But, hey, maybe he’s telling you the truth. Maybe he’s in love with Mr. One Year Ago. So tell him he can love you and love the other guy at the same time.

Established gay throuples, stable straight poly quads, bi men with GFs and BFs, married lesbians who U-Hauled an adorable baby dyke—there are examples everywhere you look these days of people in love with more than one romantic partner. I don’t see why a person can’t be in love with someone and still in love with an ex—think of it as a sort of semi-posthumous/semi-poly relationship.

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Give Peter permission to love his ex (pathetically and abstractly) while loving you too (intimately and tactilely), HELPME, and you might be able to love a commitment out of him.

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