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Editorial Music Editor Jeff Niesel Senior Writer Sam Allard Staff Writer Brett Zelman Web Editor Laura Morrison Dining Editor Douglas Trattner Visual Arts Writer Dott von Schneider Copy Editor Elaine Cicora Interns Alexandra Sobczak , Evey Weisblat

ICE’s reign of terror in Northeast Ohio; McClatchy and Google come to Youngstown with eyes on the Vindy vacuum; strange rumblings in Cleveland Heights

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A Solon Klansman — just as irredeemably racist as you’d expect

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UPFRONT NORTHEAST OHIO MUST STAND AGAINST ICE’S REIGN OF TERROR ON THE NORTHERN BORDER

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EVERY DAY, HUNDREDS OF undocumented immigrant farm laborers in Ohio make the sign of the cross as they venture out to work, said Veronica Dahlberg, executive director of the Latino organization HOLA Ohio, not knowing if they’ll return to their homes and families. Such is the reign of terror imposed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and their recent targeted assault on the Latino community across the United States. In a demonstration at the Willard Park Free Stamp on Monday, held after a weekend of raids reminiscent of Fascist ethno-states, Dahlberg stood with dozens of representatives from the region’s Latinx communities, sounding the alarm that they had reached “a breaking point.” “The jails are filled, here and at the southern border, with cages that are holding countless children in overcrowded, unsanitary conditions,” she said. “I don’t know why — or maybe I do know why — we have been targeted. There is an effort to destabilize whatever fragile power our community has due to our growing numbers.” Dahlberg cited a recent article in the Detroit Free Press, which said that Ohio was home to the thirdhighest rate of immigration arrests in the nation. Ninety percent of those arrests are of Latinos. “They aren’t deporting Canadians,” Dahlberg said. “They aren’t deporting immigrants from Poland or Russia.” The rally was organized, in part, because an Akron father of four was one of those arrested during the weekend roundups. He is likely to be deported soon, after 30 years living in the United States. He’ll leave behind a wife and U.S. citizen children. His wife spoke at the rally, saying that she and her husband had lived in fear for 20 years because of bogus asylum paperwork filed by an attorney whom Dahlberg said was later criminalized. It was on the basis of the asylum denial that the Akron man was arrested this weekend. Dahlberg described a community under constant surveillance, where

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Veronica Dahlberg (in white jacket) and members of HOLA protesting at the Free Stamp on Monday.

parents are afraid to let their children play outside, where the slightest error on a piece of paperwork can result in an arrest and deportation. Selina Pagan, president of the Young Latino Network in Cleveland, said she stood in solidarity with HOLA and all those under attack. She called on all allies to stand in support of undocumented immigrants and in defiance of ICE. “I hope that we gather our allies in Northeast Ohio to rally around this cause and to support organizations like HOLA that are doing boots-on-the-ground work,” she said. “This does not begin and end with the undocumented community, so I want to put the call out to all allies, because we are all Americans.” — Sam Allard

Google and McClatchy to Launch Digital Newsroom in Youngstown Youngstown, Ohio, has been selected as the pilot city for the Compass Experiment, a joint project of the McClatchy newspaper chain and Google aimed at creating sustainable digital newsrooms in

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areas with limited resources. After the announcement last month of the The Youngstown Vindicator’s forthcoming closure, the Compass Experiment’s GM, Mandy Jenkins, said she instantly recognized the Mahoning Valley as an optimal laboratory for their project. She said in a press release last week that her team was already on the ground in Youngstown, working to assemble a small full-time staff with the hopes of launching in the fall. Available positions, including an editor and a reporter, have been posted by McClatchy. (Jenkins wrote that they would only consider applications from “those working in or with strong background in Youngstown or the surrounding region.”) Google, too, is delighted to be chipping in with the reconstruction of the industry it helped dismantle. “There has been much impassioned commentary about the closure of The Vindy after 150 years, and we are pleased to play our part alongside McClatchy in helping local journalism develop new approaches for the future,” said Google’s VP of

news, Richard Gingras. “Through the Google News Initiative’s Local Experiments Project, we want to explore evolving business models in local news that can benefit not only the people of Youngstown, but communities across the country.” The Compass Experiment will be selecting two other communities in which it will launch similar digitalonly newsrooms in the coming months. This development arrives shortly after ProPublica announced that it would expand its local reporting network to Youngstown. Applications for that position, which will provide a year’s salary and ProPublica’s national editorial resources for a reporter working at or publishing in a Youngstownarea outlet, were due this week. A recipient will be announced in the coming weeks. “What’s going on in Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley cries out for solid investigative reporting,” said Stephen Engelberg, ProPublica’s editor in chief, in that announcement. “We created the Local Reporting Network to fill that critically important need.” — Allard

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UPFRONT Council-Backed Cleveland Heights PAC Forms to Keep Government Exactly the Same A group of Cleveland Heights citizens have created a political action committee to push a ballot referendum. No, not the group advocating for an elected mayor. This new PAC has formed to encourage residents to retain the city manager form of government. Cleveland Heights is one of only two municipalities in the county that has a city manager form of government. The appointed manager is the city’s chief executive while the legislative efforts of the city fall to the part-time city council members, including a president of council who retains the title of mayor. Several years ago, a citizens group formed to attempt a ballot initiative to change the form of government so that residents could elect their city leader. When the city heard about these efforts, they responded with

a comprehensive charter review effort run by 15 appointed residents and a facilitator. The charter review lasted more than a year and the commission members voted to retain the city manager form of government. In response, residents went through with the ballot initiative, forming a grassroots campaign titled “Citizens for an Elected Mayor� (CEM). However, it seems several members of the charter review commission and the city council are so dedicated to maintaining the city manager that they’ve created their own PAC. In just one month, this second PAC has raised more than $12,000 for the effort. Cleveland Heights vice mayor Melissa Yasinow told Scene that the Cleveland Heights Citizens for Good Government (CHCGG) PAC is an attempt to, “ensure the councilmanager form of government continues to serve our community well, as it has for nearly a century.� Yasinow said that the manager is in charge of daily operations and maintenance and does the job based on, “expertise and experience, not based on partisan politics and personal agendas.� Yasinow felt the effort was important because, “We cannot

used to convince residents to vote to retain the city manager form of government. Ostensibly, this means that the funds will likely pay for campaign materials for an alternative ballot measure. At last week’s city council meeting, residents noted that while Citizens for an Elected Mayor have already proposed ballot language, they are unaware of the wording of the referendum that will be proposed by Cleveland Heights Citizens for Good Government. — Hannah Lebovits

risk putting a partisan politician in charge that can be inuenced by contributors and election supporters.â€? According to a donation list that was leaked to Scene, Yasinow has donated $2,500 to this effort to keep politics out of the business of running government. The donor list also includes four other city council members: mayor Carol Roe, councilwoman Mary Dunbar, councilman Michael Ungar and councilman Craig Cobb, the newly appointed councilman who recently served on the charter review commission. In response to Scene’s request for comment, Roe and Ungar said they echo Yasinow’s comments. Roe and Dunbar, who donated $500 and $1,000, respectively, are up for re-election this year. Cobb is up for his ďŹ rst election. His contribution to the PAC was $200. Councilman Kahlil Seren is also up for re-election this year and is not listed as a contributor. Several charter review commission members have donated to the PAC as well, including Katie Solender, Jack Newman, Vince Reddy and Mike Gaynier, who is also the deputy treasurer of the PAC. According to Yasinow, the money raised by the PAC will be

Cleveland Consent Decree Gets New Monitor City ofďŹ cials and the Cleveland Consent Decree monitoring team announced last week that lead monitor Matthew Barge will be assuming a smaller role in overseeing local police reform. Deputy monitor Hassan Aden will be taking over the top position. He also currently serves as deputy monitor for a consent decree in Baltimore. At a city hall press conference, Barge said that he would be moving to California with his husband and could no longer pledge to be in Cleveland as often as the position demanded. He will continue on the

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team as a subject matter expert. He thanked the city of Cleveland and its stakeholders for their cooperation and commitment to reform. “There’s still a tremendous amount of work to be done, but there’s been a tremendous amount of progress,” he said. “It’s been an honor and a privilege to serve at the helm of a team that remains second to none. Many people have asked and will continue to ask: ‘Why are we doing this?’ ‘Isn’t this done yet?’ What I’ve said before is, we are not consigned to be as we always have been. Together we can make Cleveland a better place to live, a safer community with a police department that works better for everyone.” Hassan Aden was celebrated by both Barge and Mayor Frank Jackson as a seasoned law enforcement professional who is intimate with the Cleveland settlement agreement. He has been deputy monitor since 2017. Aden himself said he wanted to

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assure residents that Wednesday’s announcement was merely a change in leadership. Nothing about the Consent Decree process would change. “This change won’t slow anything down,” he said. “Quite the opposite. I think this has recharged the team. We’re going to get back to work as soon as we’re done with this press conference.” Aden said the Consent Decree is now at a pivotal moment, where most of the “in-the-weeds” policy creation has been completed. The next steps will be training and execution. He referenced police officer training in both search and seizure policies and implicit bias. “We’re keenly aware of the work still ahead of us,” he said. “There will be no interruption.” While the monitoring team was initially given a five-year timeline and a $4.95 million budget, Aden could not say with certainty when the work would be completed. “When we’re in compliance,” he said, “we’re done.” — Allard

Kim Kardashian West Puts Spotlight on Case of Ohio’s Kevin Keith

1,500 New jobs coming to Akron when Amazon opens a fulfillment center at the former Rolling Acres mall site.

21 New required minimum age for the purchase of tobacco and vaping products in Ohio, per the state budget signed into law last week.

13 Percentage of adults in the Cleveland-Elyria Metropolitan Statistical Area who say they have “paid for news” in the past year. (Pew Research Center)

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Kevin Keith, currently incarcerated in the Marion Correction Institute for a 1994 triple murder he has maintained he had nothing to do with, received an unexpected publicity boost last week when Kim Kardashian West shared a 2017 Scene cover story about his case across her social media platforms. Kardashian West has recently been involved in helping to commute the life sentences of 17 first-time, nonviolent drug offenders. She has now put the bat signal up on Keith’s case to her tens of millions of followers. “I heard about Kevin Keith’s case last year,” she wrote on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, “and the more I learn about it, the more I believe the world needs to hear what happened to him! He was on death row and came within days of execution before the governor of Ohio commuted his sentence to life without parole.” You can read Scene alum Eric Sandy’s detailed investigation of the Kevin Keith case at clevescene.com.

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Discovering an-ex KKK member in my childhood hometown of Solon By Zachary Schwartz HERE ARE, APPARENTLY, LOGISTICS to consider when burning crosses, especially when burning them on seven separate black and Jewish families’ lawns in one night. “You don’t just have crosses lying around, see,” says Tim, a 68-year-old man from Solon. “You got to build the crosses, put the wood together, keep off your fingerprints, get the chemicals … . You get chlorine and brake fluid, put them in a sock, mix them just right. If one guy screws up and the cross doesn’t burn, it makes everyone look stupid. So we had cross-burning classes for that.” Tim knows because he was there that night in Florida in 1984, four years after he first pulled on the white hood and became a high-ranking Ku Klux Klan member. A year later, he would be indicted for plotting to blow up property owned by blacks and Jews, terroristic intentions in violation

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of the Florida Anti-Paramilitary Act. Tim lights a cigarette. It’s 25 years later, in 2019. We’re sitting in his modest, white-painted home off Aurora Road. The flame illuminates his piercing blue eyes. A tuft of white hair shoots from his nose like a dragon’s breath. I’ve known Tim for over a year now. Over time, we’ve had numerous conversations and built what could be described as a good rapport, an odd amiability considering that I’m a mixedrace Taiwanese-Jewish writer and he’s a former Klansman — though we are both from Solon. So, I get questions from friends. Two in particular: One, what is Tim like? Tim is short-fused but authentic, likable in the way that I imagine Donald Trump is likable, even to his enemies. Two, how does he feel about me?

“I don’t care about that,” he says in regards to my race. He tells me that he’s friends with Jews, blacks, Koreans, Mexicans, Arabs. He relishes his contradictions — bragging to me in the same breath that his daughter would never date a black man, but that her first play-boyfriend at 12 was black, and if the kid showed up at his door today, he’d gladly let him stay on the couch, but the kid is a drug addict, and, “Of course he is — he went back to his roots.” So he contradicts himself, and is still quite racist. Every wisp of redemption that rises from his stories, he just as quickly extinguishes with the N-word or some other epithet. “Listen,” he tells me. “I still have these views. Some guy’s not going to walk in here after all these years, after all the things I’ve seen and done, and make me change.” | clevescene.com | July 24 - 30, 2019

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Solon will celebrate its bicentennial next year. One needs only to gaze at pictures from the 150th anniversary celebration in 1970 to see how much the leafy suburb has changed: The sea of white faces from 50 years ago has been replaced with a significant number of minorities, including an Asian-American population five times the percentage of Ohio’s overall average makeup. It’s a demographic shift that parallels the changing face of America, a country that will likely tilt white-minority by the year 2050. Ellis Island is synonymous with immigration, but that era pales in comparison to the immigration wave of the late 20th century after Congress abolished racial quotas. By the turn of the century, 85 percent of immigrants were non-Europeans. They were Africans, Arabs, Indians, Hispanics, East Asians and others, including my Taiwanese mother, who stayed and bore children. As a Solon High School student

in the early 2010s, there was a specific definition of the town in Urban Dictionary that we hunched over and laughed at in the computer lab: “Solon — a town (suburb of Cleveland) where the white majority tries to take credit for the sports achievements of the blacks and the academic achievements of the Asians.” We laughed because, in our eyes, it was true. Nearly 30 percent of our graduating class was black, Asian, or Hispanic, and a good chunk of the white majority was Jewish. Of the 21 National Merit Semi-Finalists in the district in 2011, 18 were AsianAmerican, two were Jewish, one was black, and one was white. Growing up in Solon, we never really felt a pushback on our presence. Political correctness was doctrinaire by then, and the liberal conception of a colorblind society hadn’t been challenged by the identity politics of both sides of the past few years. One had the idyllic impression that a town that was all white just a few decades prior would embrace its new immigrants. And for the most part — other than a few grumblings about Jews here, or blacks there, or too many Asians — it did. The 2016 presidential election

brought to light the fact that some did not want to accept this new reality. These people were our family members, friends, coworkers and neighbors. And they included the exKlansman I discovered living right down the street, relatively speaking, from my childhood home in Solon.

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Tim was born in Solon in 1951. His schoolteachers included names legendary to any Solonite, including Miss Roxbury, the namesake of Roxbury Elementary. Growing up, Tim never heard his father, who employed black laborers, use the N-word, but his mother, who was more educated, did often. According to Tim, the town held the racial biases of most all-white suburbs in America — in sports, they didn’t want to play schools with blacks, and “you’d never hear about a white girl dating a black guy.” But ensconced in the suburbs, surrounded only by other whites, there was no appetite for more savage forms of racism. In 1974, Tim moved to Pinellas County, near Tampa, Florida. He owned a few businesses, including a landscaping company and a topless bar in Madura Beach. For one landscaping job, he recalls

being outbid by a penny per acre by a contractor employing Cubans. “I couldn’t go any lower,” he grumbles now. He learned the government was subsidizing Cuban labor, which infuriated him, as he employed and advertised an all-white crew. His other gripes — billboards that displayed relationships between black men and white women, the rise of affirmative action — are familiar refrains to any budding white nationalist today. One night at his topless bar, he got to talking with Brad Russian, whom Tim recalls as a vicious racist, even by his standards. Brad was part of the United Klansmen of America, then considered to be the most violent and dangerous Ku Klux Klan organization in the country. Tim was apprehensive of Brad, but more Klansmen showed up to talk to him. “We got guys like Brad that are a little more extreme, but we could use your help with the other stuff,” they told him. Tim claims that he didn’t believe in some of the stuff the Klan was doing, such as the indiscriminate assaults of blacks, but was more interested in the vigilante punishment of child molesters and drug dealers. “That’s what I was in charge of,” he says. According to Tim, his “unit,” as

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it was called, was as concerned with the policing of white families as it was in enacting racial terror. “There were rules for us,” Tim says. “We weren’t allowed to fight, we couldn’t get drunk or do drugs, we weren’t allowed to be alone with each other’s wives.” The Klan acted as a hotline of sorts: When a black or Jewish family moved into the neighborhood, white neighbors or the police would call the Klan to take action. “A lot of the time we were only allowed to burn a cross at a Jewish or black guy’s home,” he recalls. “But people like Brad Russian, he’d be the kind of guy to shoot the house up.” Because he could hold meetings at his bar, Tim was, in just a few months, made a Kleagle, a highranking officer responsible for recruiting new members and enforcing Klan principles. In one particularly gruesome anecdote, Tim recalls the torture of an alleged white child molester. “We had quite a few sheriffs in the Klan,” Tim says. “So they called us to take care of this guy.” “I’m still proud of this one,” he says, a crooked grin spreading across his face. “He got caught with a 7-year-old boy. So we put our hoods on and got him down. I found the rustiest piece of barbed wire I could and stuck it into a garden hose. And then I shoved it up his ass. I pulled the hose out and the barbed wire stayed up there. He didn’t die, but he went to the hospital for many, many months. We never heard from him again.” Every year, Tim would visit the Alabama property of Robert Shelton, the Grand Wizard and leader of the UKA. “It was like a gymnasium — we’d go up there, and that’s how we initiated people and did stuff like that,” Tim says. A few years earlier, in 1981, UKA members James Knowles and Henry Hays had brutally killed Michael Donald, one of the last documented lynchings in the United States. “They gathered us together and said, ‘We’re in big trouble guys,’” Tim recalls. “‘They’re tapping all the lines, they’re following everybody.’ And it went downhill from there.” “It was dumb what those two guys did,” Tim says. “Hanging that boy. They didn’t have a reason to kill him. I never understood that senseless stuff. I’d ask them: ‘What’s the reason to hurt him?’ ‘Because he’s black.’ But he didn’t do anything. So I’d tell them, ‘I’ll watch you but I don’t understand it.’” On April 9, 1985, federal agents arrested four of Tim’s fellow Klansmen, including Brad Russian, and charged them with plotting to

blow up property owned by blacks and Jews. Tim was drinking at a bar. “The TV said they were looking for one more, and my picture showed up,” he says. “Everyone asked, ‘Should we call the cops?’ And someone said, ‘Would you want to call the cops on a Klansman?’ So they bought me a few drinks and I left.” Later that day, Tim was arrested in his girlfriend’s neighborhood. At the jail, “they thought it’d be funny to put the Klansman in with all the blacks. ‘I think these honkeys are wanting us to whip your ass,’” his cellmates told him. “You have family out there, I have family out there,” Tim replied. “If I don’t come out looking as pretty as I did when I came in, someone’s going to get hurt.” His cellmates looked at each other, looked at him, then at each other again. They shrugged. A few minutes later, they were all playing cards.

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The judge read the verdict: Not guilty. Tim sat back in relief. The wiretaps had saved him: He had been lucky, and reticent enough, to avoid being recorded. Every one of his codefendants had been convicted, but Tim would be going home. After the trial, in 1990, Tim moved back up to Solon. The UKA gave him the names of other units to contact — he remembers some being in Elyria and Mansfield — but he had been discouraged by the lack of financial support during the trial from the UKA, which was itself collapsing under lawsuits and indictments. Tim’s life was changing in other ways. In the early 1990s, he joined Alcoholics Anonymous and got sober. “We went to a retreat, there was a cabin, and I got roomed with a black guy, he was a Black Panther,” he recalls. “We looked each other and said, ‘Can you believe this?’ But we got to talking and became the best of friends.” In the years following, Tim fraternized with other minorities. As a delivery driver, he was invited to eat dinner in the homes of Arab shop owners — “They’re good people,” he says — and worked for Koreans who he says he admired. He relentlessly pursued AA meetings and often found himself in areas of Cleveland where he would be the only white man present and, of course, the butt of jokes. “This guy used to be in the Klan,” they’d say. “Should we let him out alive?” He grinned back: He didn’t feel out of place. Tim’s friendships helped to

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disassemble his racism, but it never truly disappeared. What remains today is a neutered but still prejudiced version of the extreme views baked into him by his mid-30s: a protectiveness over what he still believes to be the dignity and purity of the white race, and a crass racism that’s spoken, but not acted upon. “If you read the Bible,â€? he says, “Each people is separate — Jews here, Christians there. It’s a better world that way. And you see that that’s proved by the way that prisons are. They separate themselves: whites here, Asians here, blacks there.â€? It wasn’t until the election of 2016 that Tim saw mainstream validation of his current beliefs. “I love what Trump did,â€? he says. “And I see the results of it.â€? He crows about no longer seeing gas stations “full of Mexicansâ€? — harbingers of lower wages, in his eyes, for working-class whites. “Trump is not letting them here,â€? he says. “And you know what? They’re paying the white guys $18 an hour now.â€? “That’s what they should do with the Klan,â€? he says, “They need to make sure whites are working their jobs. Don’t let them get cut out because of someone else’s race or [afďŹ rmative action]. You just can’t do it with a hood and all that stuff, because right away it’s gonna be a big ďŹ ght if someone sees that.â€? When I bring up Solon, a diverse place that’s friendly enough, he demurs. “You go down Aurora Road, down to places like Mantua,â€? he says. “Everyone says, ‘Hey, how you doing?’ to each other. Everyone knows each other. You go to a place like Solon, there’s so many different races there ... everyone’s always in a rush, no one wants to say, ‘Hey.’ It’s not a community. You lose something when you have everyone together like that.â€?

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Tim isn’t totally wrong about Solon. My parents and their friends, at least when I was growing up, frequently complained about Solon’s scant neighborliness. The town’s lack of community is a perennial complaint in its local journalism. And I know how some AsianAmerican families can be inclined to stick to themselves. Regardless, the town continues to diversify: In 2017, Solon city council approved Solon’s ďŹ rst mosque, to the chagrin of over

1,300 residents who signed a petition against it. “I think it really challenged some of the Solon residents at ďŹ rst,â€? says Jeffrey Aker, a former Solon High School teacher who taught from 1978 to 2014, of the town’s changing diversity. “But as younger couples moved in, it was seen as a much more positive thing to have your kids, whatever race they are, exposed to different people.â€? My parents were one of those couples. They worried that on the farwestside of Cleveland — where I had begun to ďŹ eld questions asking why the Jews killed Jesus, or was laughed at for the way my lunch smelled — I would be ostracized or alienated. We moved to Solon when I was 10. When I think of growing up in Solon, I think of mild selfsegregation, especially at middle school lunch tables: There were the rich whites, the poor whites, the cool Asians, the nerdy Asians, the Jews, the blacks, and so forth. But as we trickled into high school, we mingled and bonded in groups like marching band, Model United Nations, and track team. The breadth of perspective I gained from my friends and all the families — Punjabi Indian, single-parent black, Jewish, chaotic latchkey homes, Filipino, well-off Republicans — who welcomed us into their homes proved invaluable as I left Solon and entered the real world. It’s a beautiful summer day and we’re watching Tim’s granddaughters play softball. A few black and brown kids are on the team, and their parents sit in the bleachers and cheer them on. A parade of Tim’s family members arrive to greet him — sons, daughters, ex-wives, children-in-law, freshly born babies. He gestures toward his granddaughter. “She don’t know nothing about the Klan stuff,â€? he says. “None of my kids are racist,â€? he tells me. A hint of pride surfaces in his voice, as if he’s pleasantly surprised. “I ‌ guess I’m more racist than most people, but none of them are. They were brought up around AA people, they had different friends in the school, so they got to meet all kinds of people, every color.â€? He reects for a while. “That’s probably what did it.â€? His granddaughter steps up to bat. Tim looks at her, then at me, then at her again. He smiles. “World’s changed a lot,â€? he says.

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BorderLight International Theatre + Fringe Festival As part of the BorderLight International Theatre + Fringe Festival that kicks off today in downtown Cleveland, there will be 40 unique productions on 14 stages across multiple indoor and outdoor venues. More than 100 artists from nine countries will be on hand. Founded as a nonprofit in 2016 by Clevelandarea theater artists Dale Heinen and Jeffrey Pence, the festival’s core international programming features three touring productions: Creatures, a free, public procession of life-size animal puppets; the Davai Theatre Group’s Under Construction; and Silent, a “devastating and redemptive solo performance” by Olivier Awardwinning actor-playwright Pat Kinevane. The local vaudeville duo Pinch & Squeal will be on hand as well. Check the website for a complete list of performances. (Jeff Niesel) borderlightcle.org. THEATER

Come From Away There’s still time to catch a

performance of Come From Away, the funny, moving, and hope-filled musical that centers on the aftermath of 9/11, when air flights descended en masse in Gander, Newfoundland, stranding an international array of travelers in this tiny Canadian town. Part of the KeyBank Broadway series, the musical — written by Tony nominees Irene Sankoff and David Hein, and helmed by this year’s Tony-winning Best Director, Christopher Ashley — has received rave reviews, including from this mag in last week’s issue. Tonight’s performance takes place at 7:30 at Connor Palace, where performances continue through July 28. Tickets start at $10. (Niesel) 1615 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org. MUSIC

Garifuna Collective The Cleveland Museum of Art’s City Stages, a free summer concert series that takes place in front of the Transformer Station, returns tonight with Garifuna Collective, a group that combines contemporary Garifuna roots music with dance performed by composers and musicians who “push the boundaries of this Central American musical tradition.” CMA Studio Go will be on hand to offer hands-on art-making activities, pop-up

drawing classes and other familyoriented art projects from 5 to 9 p.m.; the music begins at 7:30 p.m. Food and drinks will be available for purchase from on-site food trucks. (Niesel) 1460 West 29th St., 216-938-5429, transformerstation.org.

captures Talking Heads in their prime and shows just how capably the band could choreograph its concerts. A remixed and remastered version of the movie shows at 7:30. Check the website for ticket prices. (Niesel) 1390 West 65th St., 216-651-7295, clevelandcinemas.com.

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Open Mike Eagle You can now head to the Rock Hall Plaza on Wednesday nights to see the “bands you need to hear right now.” Part of the Rock Hall’s Summer in the City series, the free concerts begin at 7 p.m. on the PNC Stage. There will be an onsite All-Access Cafe, a bar and food trucks, and if the weather turns, portions (or the entirety) of the event may be moved inside, delayed, and/ or canceled at the discretion of the Rock Hall. Today, rapper Open Mike Eagle performs along with locals FreshProduce, who’ll open the concert. (Niesel) 1100 Rock and Roll Blvd., 216-515-8444, rockhall.com. FILM

Stop Making Sense One of the greatest concert films of alltime, Jonathan Demme’s Stop Making Sense comes to the Capitol Theatre tonight as part of the Cleveland Cinemas Rock Doc series. The movie

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Uptown Out to Lunch Series At today’s Out to Lunch concert, on Toby’s Plaza in the Uptown District, you can grab lunch from your favorite Uptown eatery and have a seat at the great picnic table while listening to local bands. Today, Mourning [A] BLKstar performs from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The free concert series continues through Sept. 11. The schedule is on the website. (Niesel) 11440 Uptown Ave., universitycircle.org. FOOD

Walnut Wednesday Walnut Wednesday is one of summer’s great traditions. Today from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Perk Plaza at Chester Commons — at East 12th and Walnut streets — food trucks once again gather to serve up lunch to area residents and employees. Follow the Downtown Cleveland Alliance on Facebook for weekly updates on | clevescene.com | July 24 - 30, 2019

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vendors, entertainment offerings and more. The series continues through Sept. 4. Admission is free, but the food will cost you. (Niesel) downtowncleveland.com.

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GlamGore Monthly Drag Show Each month, GlamGore, a drag show at the Grog Shop, features a variety of performance artists under one roof. The shows feature everything from

holders, the doors open at 8:30 p.m. DJ Zoë Lapin will attend to the turntables. (Niesel) 2785 Euclid Hts. Blvd., Cleveland Heights, 216-321-5588, grogshop.gs. COMEDY

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

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Open Mic Night/Live Band Karaoke Every Thursday, Stella’s Music hosts a night of music, poetry and comedy. The club’s doors open at 5 p.m., and performances begin at 8 p.m. Artists can sign up at stellasmusic.com/openmic to secure a 15-minute time slot. Signups will be available at the club as well. Meanwhile, happy hour takes place from 5 to 7 p.m. Admission is free. (Niesel) 2217 East Ninth St., 216-272-3377, stellasmusic.com.

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DEVOtional 2019 DEVOtional, the annual two-day tribute to Akron’s new-wave pioneers DEVO, returns to the Beachland this weekend. Tonight at 7 in the Tavern, there’s a musical tribute to the band featuring Jimmy Psycho Experiment, Eric Nassau and Lt. Dance. Tomorrow’s event takes place at 2 p.m. in the larger Ballroom and includes musical performances and lectures. Consult the website for ticket prices. (Niesel) 15711 Waterloo Rd., 216-383-1124, beachlandballroom.com.

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Bike Night with Vini Lopez Vini “Maddog” Lopez started playing the drums in the 1960s and has gone on to perform with the likes of Sonny Kenn, Bill Chinnock, Danny Federici, Garry Tallent and many more. He headlines Bike Night, a free event that takes place at 5 p.m. at the Rock Hall’s outdoor Plaza and PNC Stage. The concert is free, but a separate ticket must be purchased to tour the Rock Hall exhibits. The event will not take place during bad weather. (Niesel) 1100 Rock and Roll Blvd., 216-515-8444, rockhall.com.

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Euclid Beach Live This live concert series offers great music, delicious food and fun for the whole family. The setting couldn’t be better either: The site overlooks the scenic Euclid Beach State Park on Lake Erie, and the 285-foot rebuilt pier gives the events a throwback feel and harkens back to the glory days of Euclid Beach amusement park. The fun takes place tonight from 6 to 9. The series continues through Aug. 2. (Niesel) 16301 Lake Shore Blvd., 216-635-3200, clevelandmetroparks.com.

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

Night Market Cleveland Taking place on the last Friday of each month during the summer, Night Market Cleveland is part farmers market, part art/makers’ market, part concert series and part food festival. Occurring only four times a year, the market includes more than 200 retail and food vendors and numerous bands and performers. Located on Rockwell Avenue near the heart of Cleveland’s Asia Town district, Night Market Cleveland was inspired by a tradition in several Asian cultures, and

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“beauty queens” to “drag monsters.” Anhedonia Delight hosts, and performers include Rhett Corvette, Lexi Pro, Natasshja Norielle and Beverly Knuckles. The theme of tonight’s show is the Future of Drag, and tickets cost $10, or $12 for VIP tickets that give you early bird access to the Grog starting at 8 p.m. and a special photo opportunity/meet-and-greet with the cast. For general admission ticket

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“Window Shopper,” he called upon TK Kirkland, a guy who’s known as the “gangsta of comedy.” Kirkland has worked as a host on BET’s Mad Sports and appeared numerous times on Comicview. Given the breadth of his work, Kirkland is clearly comfortable on stage and has a natural ability to sustain a conversation. He performs tonight at 7:30 at the Improv, where he has shows scheduled through Sunday.

designed to connect the diverse people of Cleveland’s Asia Town, St. Clair Superior and Campus districts while “energizing an often-overlooked corner of Cleveland.” It goes down tonight from 5 to 11 p.m. Admission is free. (Niesel) nightmarketcle.com. COMEDY

Daniel Sloss Scottish comedian Daniel Sloss brings his critically acclaimed new show Daniel Sloss: X to the Ohio Theatre tonight. Daniel Sloss: X is his exploration of modern masculinity. Last year, Netflix premiered two live shows, Daniel Sloss: Dark and Daniel Sloss: Jigsaw worldwide in 190 countries. A regular on Conan, Sloss has given his own Tedx Talk and made numerous television appearances. The show begins at 7:30 p.m., and tickets cost $38. (Niesel) 1501 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

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Ale Fest An annual tradition that takes place each summer at Lincoln Park in Tremont, Scene’s Ale Fest features more than 100 beers, along with food and live music. This year’s iteration highlights unique casks, one-of-a-kind collaborations, porters, stouts, pilsners, ales, wheats, Belgians, and lagers. A variety of food and retail vendors will be on hand as well. Feel free to bring lawn chairs or blankets. The event will be held rain or shine, and all guests must be at least 21 years of age and possess a valid ID. It all starts at noon. Advance tickets are $45, or $65 for VIP (which allows entry at 11 a.m.). The prices at the door are $50 and $70, respectively. (Niesel) scenealefestival.com. DANCE

BalletX The dance troupe BalletX makes its Cleveland debut with a performance at 7:30 p.m. tonight at the Ohio Theatre. Founded nearly 15 years ago, BalletX is known for its athletic, emotionally charged performances. Tonight’s show will celebrate National Dance Day and include pieces by cutting-edge choreographers. Tickets start at $20. (Niesel) 1501 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org. MUSIC

Elgar’s Enigma Edward Elgar’s Enigma features 14 variations on an original theme —

each a separate musical portrayal of a friend or family member. His ninth variation, called “Nimrod,” has been widely adapted for films such as Dunkirk and Elizabeth. It’s the centerpiece of tonight’s Blossom Music Center performance which will feature the Cleveland Orchestra performing alongside the Kent Blossom Chamber Orchestra. The concert begins at 7. Check the website for ticket prices. (Niesel) 1145 West Steels Corners Rd., Cuyahoga Falls, 216-231-1111, clevelandorchestra.com.

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Silent Disco Dance Party Attending a silent disco should be on everyone’s summer bucket list, and today is your chance to check it off. Grab your friends and head down to Playhouse Square this evening to dance about in silence while wearing wireless headphones. Tonight’s theme: Glow in the Dark Disco. Admission is free, but you’ll need to have an ID to receive a pair of headphones. The disco takes place from 9 to midnight on U.S. Bank Plaza. (Niesel) East 14th St. and Euclid Ave., 216-771-4444, playhousesquare.org.

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Aretha: Queen of Soul With a little help from guest singers Capathia Jenkins and Ryan Shaw, the Cleveland Orchestra pays tribute to the late Aretha Franklin with a program that’ll feature the Queen of Soul’s hits. Expect to hear “Respect,” “Chain of Fools” and “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman” at this show, which begins at 7 at Blossom. Check the Cleveland Orchestra website for ticket prices. (Niesel) 1145 West Steels Corners Rd., Cuyahoga Falls, 216-231-1111, clevelandorchestra.com.

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Fin Fest You can learn about sharks, the misunderstood masters of the deep, at Fin Fest, at the Greater Cleveland Aquarium, today through Sunday, Aug. 4. There will be scavenger hunts, crafts, photo ops, storytelling, a shark tooth identification game and interactive art throughout the weeklong celebration. Check the website for hours and ticket prices. (Niesel) 2000 Sycamore St., 216-862-8803, greaterclevelandaquarium.com.

equal chance to compete. Teams can range from 1 to 8 players and prizes are awarded to the top teams at the event’s conclusion. (Niesel) East 14th Street and Euclid Avenue, 216-771-4444, playhousesquare.org. MUSIC

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

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The Price of Everything Nathaniel Kahn, the director of My Architect, returns with The Price of Everything, a documentary about the high price of contemporary art. “There’s a lot of people who know the price of everything and the value of nothing,” says one artist interviewed in the film. It screens at 1:30 p.m. today at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tickets cost $10, or $7 for CMA members. (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.

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Dancing Under the Stars Time again for Dancing Under the Stars at U.S. Bank Plaza. Beginning at 6, staffers from Viva Dance will dish the salsa lessons; then it’s on to the dance party, with live music provided by Orquestra T’umbao. The dancing begins at 6:30 and continues until 9 p.m. Admission is free. The weekly dance party continues through August 27. (Niesel) East 14th Street and Euclid Avenue, 216-771-4444, playhousesquare.org.

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Sloppy Sundays in the Sun On select Sundays throughout the summer, Now That’s Class will host Sloppy Sundays in the Sun, an event that appeals to day drinkers. Bartender Juliet will serve up her special Aperol Spritz and Pimms cocktails, and both patios will be open. The club will even set up an outdoor basketball hoop. The bar opens at 3 p.m., and happy hour takes place from 5 to 8 p.m. It’s free. (Niesel) 11213 Detroit Ave., 216-221-8576, nowthatsclass.net.

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Indians vs. Houston Astros The Cleveland Indians get a good test tonight as the Houston Astros, one of baseball’s best teams, come to town for a three-game series. The Astros, as you recall, swept the Tribe out of the playoffs last year and have played really well in the first half of this season. The game begins at 7:10 p.m., and tickets start at $15. (Niesel) 2401 Ontario St., 216-420-4487, clevelandindians.com. FILM

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Lunchtime Trivia Today from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. on U.S. Bank Plaza, Last Call Trivia hosts a live show that allows teams to compete for prizes by answering trivia questions. Last Call games also incorporate a distinctive point wagering system, giving teams the ability to choose their own strategy which ensures every team has an

Lost & Found Today at 1:45 p.m., the Cleveland Museum of Art screens Lost & Found, an Irish dramedy that tells the story of seven people who live near a train station in a small town. A real lost-andfound story inspired each one of the narratives. Tickets cost $10, or $7 for CMA members. (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.

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ART BEAUTIFUL MESS Liz Maugans at HEDGE Gallery By Dott von Schneider Photo courtesy of HEDGE Gallery

THERE HASN’T BEEN, IN RECENT memory, an exhibition title more fitting than Beautiful Mess, within which artist Liz Maugans delivers a dynamic collection of serene chaos. At the HEDGE Gallery entrance, there’s a sculpture of a yellow lighthouse, a cardboard beacon that hopes to guide us safely into the harbor of Maugans’ mind. A sign that shouts “rough road” keeps us in check as we examine the contents. Many of the works are dedicated to the artist’s late mother, Fern, whose presence is most definitely felt within the space, not just because of the many live fern plants placed about the gallery, but also because of the pieces themselves. The achingly beautiful “Mother (Fern)” is an homage to the many-layered woman pushing forward from the background and spilling out from the frame with delicate fronds, as if to embrace whomever stands before it. “The Last Handhold” is another collage that spills out from its frame. Four sets of hands are clenched in what could be perceived as prayer, with ghostlike lines connecting them. Yellow, gray, white and peach tears might have us cascading toward the floor or else lead us upward into infinity. The nautical theme is deep with “Double Lighthouse.” Along with waves, ropes, hands and anchors, the lighthouse theme repeats often throughout the exhibition. Maugans displays this screen print and print media collage with a neon and Plexiglas sign that reads “Beautiful Mess” and furthers the installation with ferns. Speaking of installations, how the print collages are presented is new to our eyes. The artworks are floated within wooden frames atop a backsplash of color painted directly onto the gallery wall. It is a marvelous installation that busts open the seams of how to present two-dimensional work. “Same Old” is one of these pieces. Paired with “Midlife Rodeo,” a series of ceramic tablets that Maugans created weekly, “Same Old” becomes bolder than if it were in a conventional frame. The shapes within this vast support resemble stepping stones

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A pairing of two works, “Midlife Rodeo” and “Same Old,” are part of Liz Maugans’ current exhibit at HEDGE Gallery.

peeping out from water. Says Maugans about this work in her statement: “Routine and habit scare the hell out of people, especially when you hit 50. Routine plateaus as an uncomfortable normalcy takes over. We have a love/hate relationship with sameness, constancy, schedules and instead we seek transition, newness and things we want to fill our lives with, particularly things

We had the privilege of seeing the original collage that lies underneath “Girl-nica”, the large print collage on display in the smaller gallery room. The black, white and umber drawing is loose and highly gestural compared to the multi-layered, very tight artwork it has become. There are so many things going on in this particular artwork that it’s impossible not to compare it with Maugans’

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that are gone …” “The Last Bikini” repeats these stepping stones, although more of them contain words such as “circus,” “time” and “rut”. This piece tells the story of getting older, and society dictating that perhaps it’s best to cover ourselves up. Our less-thantaut bodies and imperfections are no longer accepted.

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favorite painting, “Guernica” by Pablo Picasso. The eye travels throughout this work so much that we need to take a moment to get our bearings. “To everyone who sees this,” states Maugans about “Girl-nica,” “those that are anchors and lighthouses, the ones that parachute into lives of others, the people holding the rope or the others barely hanging on, this work was for

me, the (optical) illusion of both me as a girl and now as an older woman. This work is about how we clutch our hands together, praying we see another day, another moment that can be shared with those that we love.” One of the quieter works is “Audra Ascending.” It’s a tall and quiet piece, with clouds and tears evaporating from the multifaceted vessels below. Although all of the works are contemplative, “Audra Ascending” is particularly moving with its audible silence. We were also fond of the grouping of four rope prints that are sumptuous, dark and almost gothic. Beautiful Mess has Maugans’ powerful visual lexicon at the helm, guiding us through loss, laughter and liability for our past and future. We’ve gone back to see this exhibition several times and there are details that surprise us each time — much like life.

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STAGE A GLORIOUSLY TOXIC AFFAIR Blank Canvas re-imagines B-movie nostalgia with Toxic Avenger By Roman Macharoni Photo by Andy Dudik

IN PERHAPS BLANK CANVAS’ BEST production so far in its current season, the wildly funny and wholeheartedly campy Toxic Avenger has crawled out of the contaminated contents of B-movie bliss and onto Cleveland’s theater scene. Based on the Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz-helmed flick that rode the line between superhero parody and shoddy exploitation, this relatively new musical adaptation written by David Bryan and Joe DiPietro has already received some acclaim for following the tone of the film while dialing up every aspect of it to 11. The play takes some creative liberties with its source material as Melvin Ferd the Third (Pat Miller), a scrawny, foolhardy nerd, faces an uphill battle against corrupt mayor Babs Belgoody (Leslie Andrews), as he confronts the overwhelming pollution in his quiet New Jersey town. In an attempt to impress his crush Sarah (Madeline Krucek), a ditzy blind librarian, he gets hold of the city records and threatens to expose the mayor. Dumped into toxic waste by accident in response to his brashness, Melvin arises from the waste a new man ... or in this case, mutant. Now renamed the Toxic Avenger (Patrick Ciamacco), and affectionately nicknamed Toxie by Sarah and the town, he ensures the fight for a cleaner town then becomes a battle of wits, torn appendages, broken promises and deception. The crew at Blank Canvas is aware of the zaniness of the script and follows it with vigor and an infectious energy. With its previous productions including adaptations of Debbie Does Dallas and a Texas Chainsaw Massacre musical, the theater staff thrives when dealing with and bringing life to schlocky yet charming concepts, and Toxic Avenger is no exception. Director Molly Claassen has embraced the cheese of the source material and gives her audience something that manages to balance between cartoonish, gory, hilarious and racy without being overtly offensive — save to those hailing from New Jersey. Apologies in advance. Ciamacco portrays the titular

Patrick Ciamacco as the Toxic Avenger at Blank Canvas Theatre.

Toxie as morally and physically conflicted, cocky and posturing as his alter ego while still meek when channeling Melvin, and that conflict translates very well. The prosthetics and makeup, while not on the level of the film or other stage adaptations, don’t hinder his performance or singing. Costume designer Jenniver Sparano has crafted a haunting yet functional outfit for our gruesome

Toxic Love.” A frequent Blank Canvas player, Andrews plays Melvin’s mother as well as the aforementioned mayor, and — without spoiling one of the high points of the show — let’s just say Andrews does an amazing job balancing these characters. She projects her voice in numbers like “Evil Is Hot” and “Jersey Girl” with an unabashed roar.

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protagonist, and Ciamacco’s menacing bellows are complemented by some impressive voice alteration by sound designer Richard B. Ingraham. Krucek possesses an incredible sense of comedic timing in her bumbling blind antics, as well as a wonderful singing voice in numbers like “My Big French Boyfriend,” and when paired with Ciamacco in “Hot

Miller works well as the precocious yet cartoonish dweeb, in the same vein as a character like SpongeBob SquarePants, and is on stage long enough to not have his childish antics be outwardly abrasive. The bit players of the production, plainly credited as White Dude and Black Dudette (Noah Hrbek and Sydney Smith, respectively), wear many hats as Sarah’s valley girl-

esque friends, the town bullies, prostitutes, a folk singer and a redneck hunter pair, just to name a few. Both of them impress with their ability to quickly dive into each role with professional grace and lightning-fast costume changes, and both provide some great backup vocals to the songs. They also supply many laughs with their exaggerated mannerisms. The set — also designed by Ciamacco — makes the most of the venue, bridging steps amongst heaps of trash and recyclables along a junkyard backdrop overlooking a luminous Jersey skyline. The space utilizes the central drum of toxic waste as an additional stage entrance rather than a simple hole in the floor, which makes for some very cinematic moments, especially in Toxic Avenger’s reveal. Speaking of, those wearing dressy clothes to the show should be cautioned about the “splatter zone,” which is within range of the various liquids spurting out of various props. The liquids aren’t the only interactive part, as the show becomes quite collaborative with its audience, breaking the ever-elusive fourth wall for comedic effect at almost every turn. Save for jokes at the expense of Sarah’s blindness, the most memorable instances come from this self-awareness. As far as structure is concerned, there are a lot of plates spinning in this script. Between Toxie’s misadventures, his mother’s apparent rivalry with the mayor, and Sarah’s lust for fame and fortune with her memoir, there are a lot of transitions that the crew at Blank Canvas try to make as seamlessly as possible, but there are some unavoidable and jarring tonal shifts throughout. Some are even addressed as jokes in the production. Those looking for some left-of-thedial laughs will find that missing out on this sidesplitting romp would be hazardous to their health. Almost as hazardous as polluting in front of ol’ Toxie if you prefer your arm to remain in its socket.

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EAT BEWARE, THOSE WHO ENTER For bright spots at Palazzo, look at the … uh … well … By Douglas Trattner Photo by Emanuel Wallace

LIKE THAT ONE GUY ON YELP, I really wanted to like Palazzo. I have been captivated by the curious, but vacant, building throughout my entire tenure as a restaurant critic. Vacillating between dilapidated eyesore and Lilliputian castle, depending on the light, the fieldstone-clad restaurant held so much history, intrigue and promise that all one could do is hope that some intrepid chef would rescue it before it was too late. The last restaurant to occupy the structure closed in 2002, the very year that I began covering food in Cleveland. But that didn’t prevent me from digging into its past. Oddly enough, the building used to reside on the opposite side of the road, until the land beneath its foundation was appropriated for a new rapid transit station. On both sides of the street, proprietress Palmina DiFilippo lured hungry diners with her fresh-baked breads, steamy cups of minestrone and mile-high lasagne al forno, all lovingly made from scratch in the back of the house. Palmina’s, as the popular redsauce joint was called, rolled merrily along until about 1993, when the grandchildren of the original owner took possession, reworked the interior and unveiled Palazzo, a ritzy Italian restaurant. Through ups and downs, sisters Carla and Gilda graciously operated the “palace” for about a decade, leaving behind many of the restaurant’s iconic fixtures for the next caretaker of the quirky spot. That white knight would not materialize for another 17 years, when Rafael Zaloshnja purchased the building, thus sparing it from the wrecking ball. The Albanianborn chef had long been an admirer of the structure and dreamt about opening a restaurant of his own in that very spot. That’s precisely what occurred in late May when Palazzo, an upscale Italian eatery, opened its doors. While I am absolutely thrilled to see the building full of life, I am less enthusiastic about the unprofessional service, uneven food and laundry list of faux pas that we experienced over the course of two meals and a

boatload of cash. Our first contact with an employee, apart from the host, took place literally seconds after taking our seats, when a server ran up to the table just long enough to announce that the special of the day was some type of fish. She was gone in a flash, without so much as a greeting, a drink order or an offer of bread. Throughout the entire meal, she dashed about the dining

return visit to the kitchen for some attention. High notes include an appetizer of crispy cheese-stuffed artichoke hearts ($14) in a truffle-scented cream sauce, hot and tasty wedding soup ($7), a Margherita pizza ($14) with an excellent crust, and a pair of pastas, neither of which are made in house. The bucatini Bolognese ($22) featured noodles from Flour Pasta Company and

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room as though her hair was aflame, pausing just long enough to drop off a dish, before racing away to what I can only imagine was a life-or-death emergency out of our line of sight. We ordered a nice bottle of Barolo ($60) and it arrived very warm to the touch, as if stored near a pizza oven or on the surface of the sun. That bread never did arrive, so we flagged down a busser, who promised to see to it. When it finally appeared, well into the meal, it did so in the form of a large, unsliced loaf, requiring a

a straightforward meat sauce, while the lobster ravioli ($24) came straight from Ohio City Pasta and was gilded with large shrimp and a blush cream sauce. Freshly grated cheese had to be requested and half orders are not available. Low notes include a bowl of steamed mussels ($11) with bivalves the size of a fingernail, a bowl of shrimp bisque ($9) that was essentially truffle oil-infused cream and a Caesar salad ($7) that did not resemble those of the diners all

around me, given that it had waited somewhere warm until it wilted. Toss-ups range from a prosciuttofree veal saltimbocca ($28) with limp asparagus and undercooked potatoes to an impressive-looking grilled pork chop ($22) served atop a melange of tepid vegetables. Those seated in the dining room have an unobstructed view of a salad and dessert station that is positioned on this side of the kitchen door. We watched as the staffer sliced open plastic-wrapped balls of commercial mozzarella, grabbed berries straight from plastic clamshells, and squeezed grocery store chocolate sauce from a plastic bottle. Nearby, a server cleared every last plate from a couple’s table except for the woman’s entree, while over there, a manager tugged on the jacket of a server in the midst of discussing specials just to say that a diner requested his check. There’s always room for another great Italian restaurant, especially in this neighborhood. Here’s hoping that Palazzo will become that place.

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SHENG LONG YU, OWNER of Shinto Japanese Steakhouse in Strongsville and Kenko in University Circle and Kent, is just days away from opening his fourth restaurant. When it opens this week in the former home of Koko Cafe in Asia Town, Dagu Rice Noodle (3710 Payne Ave.) will be one of the first locations of that international sensation in the U.S. Dagu Rice Noodle has hundreds of locations throughout China, where the Shanghai-based restaurant began, a handful in Canada, and only one or two in the States. The house specialty is “crossing the bridge noodles,” a noodle soupbased meal that is similar, but not identical, to hot pot. The star of the show, not surprisingly, are the rice noodles, which come from Dagu’s own facility in China. Crocks of still-boiling broth are delivered to the table in earthenware bowls that are heated to 300 degrees Fahrenheit, so even after the noodles and garnishes are introduced, the soup remains hot. “In our culture, soup is supposed to be served boiling hot,” explains Yu. Broths are pork or vegetable based, spicy or not spicy, and served alongside those noodles and add-ons like quail eggs, tofu skin, bamboo shoots, kimchi, preserved vegetables, corn, Spam, beef, shrimp and various

sauces and pastes. While “crossing the bridge” often refers to a romantic fable about a man and wife, it also represents the movement of food to bowl while eating. Dagu shops also serve a selection of street food-style appetizers like Sichuan cucumbers, spicy duck tongue, braised lotus root, crispy chicken and sticky rice balls. To drink, there are fruit teas and cheese teas, which might soon edge out bubble tea as the next hot beverage trend. Those who adore it swear it tastes better than it sounds, thanks to its sweet flavor, silky texture and frothy cream cheesebased topping. Yu was first introduced to the concept in Canada, where Dagu is spreading like wildfire. “The last time I went to Canada, I went to one of the stores and thought, ‘This is great stuff. Why not bring it to Cleveland?’” notes Yu. “If there’s one thing that Cleveland needs, especially when it comes to noodle soup, it is diversity.” Yu sent his main crew over to Shanghai to train at an existing Dagu shop that sees 800 customers in a day. He doesn’t expect to handle crowds that large at this 30-seat spot, but he does expect it to be busy. “First of all, it’s between CSU and Case, and both have a lot of Asian population,” explains Yu. “Number two, Chinatown already has a decent

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Meadville, PA-Based Voodoo Brewery to Open Taproom in Cleveland Heights When it opens this fall in Cleveland Heights, Voodoo Brewery will offer a unique twist to the local beer brewing scene. Despite the moniker, the business actually will not brew any beer, but instead will function as a satellite taproom for the Meadville, Pennsylvaniabased brewery of the same name. The locally owned franchise will be operated by partners Don Trivisonno and Cathy Zalocki. “We discussed opening a brewery and eventually said, why reinvent the wheel,” Trivisonno explains. “I’m a beer nerd, I’ve brewed for some

years, and I ran a couple different retail and restaurant beer programs. I know just from myself and my friends the amount of people who travel out to get their beers, so it makes sense to bring it to them right in their own neighborhood.” Since launching in 2005, Voodoo has added Pennsylvania locations in Erie, Homestead, Grove City, Lancaster and State College. The franchise arm of the business is new,

with upcoming pubs in Washington, D.C. and Cleveland Heights being early adopters. Each is unique in look, feel and location, but all are bound together by the diverse but consistent roster of ales and lagers brewed at the production facility in Western PA. “The model is all about controlling the product in the absolute best way at our brewery back home,” says Jake Voelker,

chief operating officer. “I can’t tell you the amount of people who have been asking us over the years to do something here. I’m a little bit of a data nerd, and if you pull customer data from our Meadville and Erie pubs to see where they’re coming from, I can tell that we have a loyal following here already.” Those folks invariably are fans of the brewery’s higher-ABV offerings like Good Vibes IPA, Quadfather Belgian quadrupel and Cowbell double chocolate imperial stout. Those core beers and about a dozen others will be on tap at the new Cleveland Height location. Formerly home to Bill’s Dry Cleaning, the 3,000-square-foot double storefront (2279 Lee Rd.) has been gutted to the original shell, a wall separating the two spaces has been removed and a beam has been added to open up the entire space. A new kitchen and restrooms are being installed. In addition to the house beer, Voodoo will offer wine, cider, cocktails and pub grub like pretzels, pizzas and tacos. A small patio will be added out back. Look for Voodoo Brewery to open in the next few months.

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Local guitar hero Neil Zaza teams up with Verb Ballets BY J EF F N I E SEL

LOCALLY BASED VERB BALLETS has commissioned the Adagio Reimagined Project with local rock guitarist Neil Zaza. The Adagio Reimagined Project will honor the legacy of Heinz Poll, a German-born dancer who developed Ohio Ballet into one of America’s most respected chamber dance troupes, while presenting a “bold new reinterpretation of the work.” This week, the company will remount Poll’s Adagio for Two Dancers. The idea for the project came about when festival director Jane Startzman heard Zaza performing a musical interpretation of Albinoni’s Adagio in G Minor at the Akron Civic Theatre. She found the reconstructed score breathtaking and was reminded of her time dancing Poll’s Adagio for Two Dancers. Startzman is the regisseur for the work and brought together Zaza and the producing artistic director of Verb Ballets, Dr. Margaret Carlson, to bring the work and music back to

the stage. “This past October, I did this orchestral project, One Dark Night, at the Akron Civic, and it went really great,” explains Zaza in a phone interview. “We do a few pieces that piqued the interest of Jane [Startzman]. She said, ‘Have you ever thought that people could dance to your music?’ She asked if I would be interested in working with them, and I said, ‘Of course.’” Choreographer Sabatino Verlezza will create the new work to Zaza’s rock score of Albinoni’s Adagio in G Minor. A soloist with the May O’Donnell Dance Company, Verlezza has danced with many other prominent artists. He served as co-artistic director/choreographer of Dancing Wheels and founder/artistic director of Verlezza Dance. “The piece is one that I’ve done before,” says Zaza. “It’s one of my favorite pieces. We had a meeting with the choreographer. It’s so weird that a rock guy like me is meeting with a choreographer for a concept meeting. I’m excited.”

Verb Ballets is the company with the largest repository of Poll’s works and the second company to ever perform the original duet (since the days Ohio Ballet associate artistic director Richard Dickinson danced it under Poll) and is helping with the restaging of the work. The Adagio Reimagined Project will be featured on the program at the Heinz Poll Summer Dance Festival that takes place on Friday and Saturday at Forest Lodge Park in Akron. “I just said no tights and no dancing, but I’m in, and I’ll be there performing with them,” says Zaza. “They’re doing the standard dance that Heinz Poll had choreographed. Immediately after, it goes into this heavy rock, big-drum version. They call it a reimagined version, so that’s why there’s choreography for it. It should be really cool.” Zaza also thinks the rock element will widen the piece’s appeal. “Sometimes, you think the

interest level will just be bluehaired old ladies, but when you add a modern-day energy and element, it then stretches across different demographics. I saw that with One Dark Night, and I think we’ll see that at the Heinz Poll summer dance show.” The event will represent the first of what Zaza hopes is many collaborations with Verb Ballets. They’ll perform with him when he restages One Dark Night in the fall. “That’ll be great because we have some really dark pieces, and that’ll add to the production of it, and there’s something else coming next year that is bigger than anything I’ve done yet,” he says. “I can’t announce the details yet, but Verb Ballets will be involved. This upcoming festival will be the first step in our collaborative life.”

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this music stuff. It was in such an abundance, there hasn’t been time to take a deep breath. Now, I’ve had completely different experiences so it’s like a different person wrote it.” At tonight’s show, you can expect to hear songs such as the droning “Thinning” and whatever new songs Jordan feels like playing. (Niesel) 8 p.m., $16 ADV, $18 DOS. Beachland Ballroom. The Suede Brothers/Bro Dylan: 9 p.m., $10 ADV $12 DOS. Grog Shop. Sugar Mountain: The Ultimate Neil Young Tribute: 8:30 p.m., $25. Nighttown. Jackie Warren: 10:30 p.m., free. Nighttown.

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Blue Lunch (in the Supper Club): 6 p.m., free. Music Box Supper Club. The Buttertones/King Buu/The Venus Flytraps: 8:30 p.m., $12. Grog Shop. Pete Cavano and Joe Hunter: 7 p.m., $15. Bop Stop. Eminence Ensemble: 8 p.m., $10$15. The Winchester. An Evening with Lyle Lovett and His Large Band: 8 p.m., $40-$75 ADV/$43-$78 DOS. Cain Park. Durand Jones & The Indications/ Major Murphy: $16 ADV, $18 DOS. Beachland Ballroom. Planet Booty/Mayor Wertz: 8:30 p.m., $10. Beachland Tavern. Louis Prima Jr.: 7:30 p.m., $25 ADV, $35 DOS. Music Box Supper Club.

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The Aristocrats/Travis Larson Band: 8 p.m., $25 ADV, $30 DOS. Beachland Ballroom. Dierks Bentley/Jon Pardi/Tenille Townes/Hot Country Knights: Three years ago during a rocking, high-energy 90-minute set at Blossom Music Center, singerguitarist Dierks Bentley, who looked like an alt-rocker in skinny black jeans and a vintage T-shirt from U2’s Unforgettable Fire tour, brought some arena rock swagger to the stage. Bentley performed from atop a massive three-tiered stage that featured a giant drum riser so tall that it looked like something from a Motley Crue tour. Expect a similarly highenergy performance when Bentley returns to Blossom tonight in support of his latest album, last year’s The Mountain. (Jeff Niesel) 7:30 p.m., $30-$99.75. Blossom. Boulevards: 8:30 p.m., $7. Mahall’s 20 Lanes. Esto Jazz: 7 p.m., $5. Bop Stop. The Lighthouse and the Whaler/ The Catching: 8 p.m., $12-$37. Beachland Tavern. Pale Blue Dot/The Foogazies/Kiss Me Deadly: 8 p.m., $7. CODA.

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Blue Lunch Featuring Dave Keller: 8 p.m., $20. Bop Stop. Compactor/Murderous Vision/ THX1312/C***ing Daughters: 9

The jam band Blues Traveler comes to Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica. See: Saturday.

p.m., $6. Happy Dog. Davila 666: 8 p.m., $13 ADV, $15 DOS. Now That’s Class. Dana Fuchs (in the Supper Club): 8 p.m., $20 ADV, $25 DOS. Music Box Supper Club. Guster/Mikaela Davis: While often lumped in with the late-90s alt-rock scene (thanks to breakout hit “Fa Fa”), Guster has actually spent most of its career firmly entrenched in the far more amorphous postY2K indie world. With 2015’s Evermotion, the band stretched its legs even further, drifting away from more straightforward rock riffs and into open-air chord progressions and, as at least one song titles hinted, lazy, loving songwriting. The same can be said about the recent Look Alive, which came out earlier this year. (Eric Sandy) 8 p.m., $26 ADV, $31 DOS. House of Blues. The High Definitions/Bonnie Clydeman/Dibs on Mars: 8 p.m., $8. CODA. Hootie & the Blowfish/Barenaked Ladies: Famous for delivering one of the top-selling debut albums of all time, the pop-rock act Hootie & the Blowfish reunited last year and announced the dates of its anticipated Group Therapy tour with support from special guests Barenaked Ladies. Mark Bryan, Dean Felber, Darius Rucker and

Jim “Soni” Sonefeld formed Hootie years ago when they were students at the University of South Carolina. They had a hit right out of the gates with 1994’s Cracked Rear View, and frontman Rucker has had a successful solo career too, so expect to hear a song or two from Rucker’s solo work as well. (Niesel) 7:30 p.m., $29.50-$129.50. Blossom. Brian Newman Electric Band: 8 p.m. Music Box Supper Club. Snail Mail/Sasami: Singer-guitarist Lindsey Jordan formed the indie slowcore band Snail Mail when she was just 16. The group has slowly picked up steam. In the wake of the band’s last release, the Liz Phair-meets-the Breeders EP Habit, Jordan has inked a deal with Matador Records. She’s been hard at work on that album, which will come out later this year. “We’ve spent an insane amount of time working on it in the studio,” she says. “We had real resources to do this one. It’s a proper release, and the songs are more mature. They’re more guitar-oriented. I spent a lot of time listening to inspiring guitar-type records and that’s what I’ve been more into lately. There’s a lot of growth. It feels like I’m a completely different person. I’ve been writing during transitional times in my life because I just graduated and I’ve been doing all

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3rd World Leader/Something Involving A Monkey/The Rick Ray Band: 8:30 p.m., $10. Beachland Tavern. Anne E. DeChant (in the Supper Club): 7:30 p.m., $20 ADV, $22 DOS. Music Box Supper Club. Ted Marengos: 8 p.m., $8. CODA. moe./Blues Traveler/G Love: Just over 30 years ago, the four original members of Blues Traveler, who have known each other since their early teens, gathered in the basement of their drummer’s parents’ home in Princeton, and launched a jam band that has now recorded a total of 13 studio albums, four of which have gone gold, three platinum and one six-times platinum. Thirty years into its career, the jam band moe. has delivered 11 studio albums and has a slew of live releases under its belt. The band has shared the stage with a wide range of acts, including Allman Brothers, the Who and Robert Plant. For the first time ever, the two bands have embarked on a co-headlining tour that comes to Nautica tonight. Expect each band to play a lengthy set and then collaborate on a 45-minute jam with opener G. Love. (Niesel) 5:30 p.m., $25-$59.50. Jacobs Pavilion. Princemas in July with DJ Darrick Grant: 9 p.m., $10. Grog Shop. Sugar Mountain: The Ultimate Neil Young Tribute: 8:30 p.m., $25. Nighttown. Mike Wade & BOSEDE: 8 p.m., $15. Bop Stop. Jackie Warren: 10:30 p.m., free. Nighttown. | clevescene.com | July 24 - 30, 2019

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Air Supply: Air Supply’s pop ballad “Lost in Love” had been a hit in Australia in 1978 and began to break in America in 1980. Legendary record maestro Clive Davis had heard the Australian version and got in touch with the band’s record company — without the band being aware of it — to license the track for other markets. Davis made a few slight modifications, adding additional female background vocals, but the resulting hit was very close to the original version. The success sustained the band’s career, and it’s still going strong forty-some years later. (Matt Wardlaw) 7 p.m., $30$75 ADV/$33-$78 DOS. Cain Park. Billy Don Burns/GS Harper: 8 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Beachland Tavern. Goodnight, TX/The Bones of J.R. Jones/Jason Patrick Meyers: 8:30 p.m., $12 ADV, $15 DOS. Grog Shop. Reggae Sundays: Carlos Jones & P.L.U.S. (in the Supper Club): 4 p.m., free. Music Box Supper Club. Summer Salt/Dante Elephante/Motel Radio: 8 p.m., $17 ADV, $20 DOS. Beachland Ballroom.

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12 and immediately fell in love with the instrument. “I wanted to learn it for a long time,” she says. “I loved to write songs. Up until that point, I had only written songs in my head prior to that. I wanted to write songs for guitar. It was like a dream I had. To do that, I had to learn guitar first.” ALBUM TIME: After issuing a series of EPs, Yanya signed a record deal and says the folks at the label immediately told her it was “album time.” “It was very difficult to write the songs and be pushing live stuff and promo,” she says. “My life had gone from music being something like a side thing to the only thing I was doing. I was just like, ‘What?!’ It had become my job. I had never seen it like that before. I had never seen music as working, but now I was working.” She recorded the album,

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SAVAGE LOVE FINGERING IT OUT by Dan Savage I’m a 36-year-old straight guy, happily married for more than 10 years, and a longtime reader. My wife and I are monogamous. We’re good communicators, well matched in terms of libido, and slightly kinky (light bondage, Dom/ sub play in the bedroom). For the last few months, I’ve been thinking about trying prostate play, and I have a couple of questions. A lot of bloggers and other writers in the sex-advice complex tout the health benefits of regular prostate massage, but I haven’t found any academic research to back up some of the lofty claims that are being made. Does prostate massage reduce the risk of prostate cancer and prostatitis? Now the relationship question: I’ve brought partnered prostate play up with my wife, and it’s a hard pass for her. Hygiene is an issue, but that’s easy to take care of (shower, enema, gloves, towels on the bed, etc.). The other part deals with our power dynamics. Typically, I’m the Dom, and, based on the limited conversations we’ve had about this, there is something about penetrating me that she finds deeply uncomfortable. What should I do? How do I frame this conversation in a way that may make her more comfortable and gets her finger(s) in my ass? We’ve shared so much — she’s an incredible partner who has helped me realize so many of my fantasies, and I’d like her to be a part of this one, too. — Partner Protests Prostate Play If there were any legit studies out there that documented the health benefits of regular prostate massage, PPPP, Richard Wassersug, Ph.D, would know about it. Wassersug is a research scientist at the University of British Columbia, where he studies ways to help prostate cancer patients manage the side effects of their treatments. “I’d like to believe that I’m knowledgeable on this topic,” Wassersug said, “[but] I checked PubMed to see if I’d missed anything in the relevant and recent peer-reviewed medical literature. As I expected, there are no objective data supporting the claim that ‘regular prostate

massage’ reduces the risk of prostate cancer and prostatitis. [And while] prostate massage can be used to express prostatic fluid for diagnostic purposes, that’s not the same as using it for the treatment of any prostatic diseases.” But that doesn’t mean that prostate massage isn’t beneficial; absence of evidence, as they say, isn’t evidence of absence. “We [just] don’t know,” said Wassersug, and finding out “would, in fact, take a very large sample and many years to collect enough data to provide a definitive answer.” But there definitely is something you can do right now to decrease your risk of prostate cancer, PPPP: Two large studies found that men who ejaculate frequently — more than 21 times per month — are roughly 35 percent less likely to develop prostate cancer than men who blow fewer loads. So if sticking things up your butt makes you come more often, then science says sticking things up your butt will reduce your risk of prostate cancer. Researchers don’t know exactly why coming a lot may reduce a man’s risk for prostate cancer. There’s no data to support one frequently mentioned theory — that ejaculation may flush out “irritating or harmful substances” that could be gathering in the prostate along with the fluids that make up roughly 30 percent of a man’s seminal fluids — so, again, more research is needed. And until those studies are done, men and other prostate-having people should err on the side of ejaculating as often as (safely and consensually) possible. As for convincing your otherwise submissive wife to finger your ass, PPPP, you could search for “power bottoms” on the gay section of Pornhub — assuming your wife enjoys gay porn — and familiarize her with the concept of dominant penetratees. You could also add female condoms to your list of hygiene hacks — put one of these trash-can liners in your ass, and the only thing your wife will get on her fingers is lube. But if

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I am a poly nonbinary person, and I’ve been seeing this guy in a BDSM context for about six months. About two times a month, he canes me and destroys my ass, I get to call him “daddy,” and I get fucked in mind-blowing ways. In the beginning, I expressed interest in dating (with more emotional investment), and he said he didn’t have the mental space for it but he’d be interested in trying to develop something eventually. So we’ve played and had fun, and I’m starting to get feels for this guy … buuuuut … he’s given me no indication he’s interested in anything beyond our current arrangement. I’ve said, “Hey, let’s schedule a date,” something like dinner, coffee, a walk around the fucking block, but he just wants to fuck, no talking. What he wants isn’t what I’m looking for, so I decided to take my business elsewhere and focus my energy on my other relationships. Well, his mom just got diagnosed with cancer and has a couple months to live. He’s devastated. What are the ethics of breaking up here? I dislike just ghosting, but he’s got other friends and lovers to support him. He doesn’t really need me. But he does on occasion send little “thinking of you” texts. So am I able to ghost him? Do I owe him a conversation about wants and needs? I’d like to be friends — I am part of a small kinky community, I’m friends with some of his fuck buddies, and I’m going to run into him again — but this isn’t a time in his life when he should be worrying about the feelings of a now-and-then spanking partner. — Ghosting Has Obvious Shortcomings That Suck You’ve constructed a false choice for yourself, GHOSTS:

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