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JULY 25-31, 2018 • VOLUME 49 NO 4

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Publisher Andrew Zelman

A ghastly week for Cleveland police, plus redlining is alive and well

Associate Publisher Angela Nagal Editor Vince Grzegorek Editorial Music Editor Jeff Niesel Senior Writer Sam Allard Staff Writer BJ Colangelo Staff Writer Brett Zelman Web Editor Laura Morrison Dining Editor Douglas Trattner Stage Editor Christine Howey Visual Arts Writers Dott von Schneider Copy Editor Elaine Cicora Interns Rebecca Goldfarb, Sarah Parr

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7 local architects, planners and experts on how they’d fix Cleveland

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UPFRONT CLEVELAND REDLINING: ALIVE AND WELL Courtesy of Fair Housing Center for Rights & Research

A REPORT PUBLISHED THIS month by the local Fair Housing Center for Rights & Research examined mortgage lending data from the 10 largest lenders in Cuyahoga County between 2012 and 2016. The mortgages from these 10 banks account for more than half of all home loans originated during that time frame, and what they demonstrate, say the study’s authors, is that the local lending industry is perpetuating America’s historically racist housing policies. “Mortgage lenders are not making loans in majority-black neighborhoods,” said Michael Lepley, the Fair Housing Center’s senior research associate and the study’s co-author. “They aren’t advertising in majority-black neighborhoods. They don’t locate their branches in majority-black neighborhoods. They aren’t creating products that work in majority-black neighborhoods. And when people try to borrow money to buy a house in a majority-black neighborhood, they’re twice as likely to be denied by all the lenders we looked at.” Broadly speaking, Lepley said that Cuyahoga County lending patterns of today are “strikingly similar” to the region’s redlining maps of the 1940s and 1950s. Those maps, officially called “residential security maps,” were created by the Home Owner’s Loan Corporation (HOLC) and shaded red in those areas with (or near) African-American populations, excluding them from the loan program. The FHC report noted that modern lending practices like credit scores and minimum loan amounts, which appear to be racially neutral, are often discriminatory in their effects. And in Cuyahoga County, the shift to online banking has been particularly harmful for minority communities. Between 2016 and 2017, Cuyahoga County lost 22 bank branches (the fourth highest loss in the country) as lenders increasingly shifted their businesses online. But in the City of Cleveland, less than 40 percent of households have internet access in most majority-minority neighborhoods. In some census tracts, less than 20 percent have access. The numbers, though, largely speak for themselves. The following home loan origination data are

from 2012 to 2016. The full report is available at clevescene.com. — Sam Allard

HOWARD HANNA MORTGAGE SERVICES TOTAL ORIGINATIONS: 5,645 ORIGINATIONS IN MINORITY CENSUS TRACTS (PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL): 480

(10.2%) PERCENT OF APPLICATIONS DENIED IN WHITE CENSUS TRACTS: 11.5% PERCENT OF APPLICATIONS DENIED IN NONWHITE CENSUS TRACTS: 28.9%

THE HUNTINGTON NATIONAL BANK

(8.5%) PERCENT OF APPLICATIONS DENIED IN WHITE CENSUS TRACTS: 2.1% PERCENT OF APPLICATIONS DENIED IN NONWHITE CENSUS TRACTS: 4.2%

FIRST FEDERAL OF LAKEWOOD TOTAL ORIGINATIONS: 5,144 ORIGINATIONS IN MINORITY CENSUS TRACTS (PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL): 442

TOTAL ORIGINATIONS: 2,259 ORIGINATIONS IN MINORITY CENSUS TRACTS (PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL): 293

(13%) PERCENT OF APPLICATIONS DENIED IN WHITE CENSUS TRACTS: 15.3% PERCENT OF APPLICATIONS DENIED IN NONWHITE CENSUS TRACTS: 27.1%

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(8.6%) PERCENT OF APPLICATIONS DENIED IN WHITE CENSUS TRACTS: 4.6% PERCENT OF APPLICATIONS DENIED IN NONWHITE CENSUS TRACTS: 9.5%

THIRD FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN TOTAL ORIGINATIONS: 3,987 ORIGINATIONS IN MINORITY CENSUS TRACTS (PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL): 159

TOTAL ORIGINATIONS: 2,076 ORIGINATIONS IN MINORITY CENSUS TRACTS (PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL): 282

(13.6%) PERCENT OF APPLICATIONS DENIED IN WHITE CENSUS TRACTS: 19.8% PERCENT OF APPLICATIONS DENIED IN NONWHITE CENSUS TRACTS: 29.8%

PNC BANK

(4%) PERCENT OF APPLICATIONS DENIED IN WHITE CENSUS TRACTS: 5.9% PERCENT OF APPLICATIONS DENIED IN NONWHITE CENSUS TRACTS: 17.5%

FIFTH THIRD MORTGAGE COMPANY (and affiliates) TOTAL ORIGINATIONS: 3,673

WELLS FARGO BANK

ORIGINATIONS IN MINORITY CENSUS TRACTS (PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL): 375

TOTAL ORIGINATIONS: 1,608 ORIGINATIONS IN MINORITY CENSUS TRACTS (PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL): 321

(19.9%) PERCENT OF APPLICATIONS DENIED IN WHITE CENSUS TRACTS: 16.9% PERCENT OF APPLICATIONS DENIED IN NONWHITE CENSUS TRACTS: 32.8%

TOTAL ORIGINATIONS: 1,600 ORIGINATIONS IN MINORITY CENSUS TRACTS (PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL): 291

(18.2%) PERCENT OF APPLICATIONS DENIED IN WHITE CENSUS TRACTS: 15.9% PERCENT OF APPLICATIONS DENIED IN NONWHITE CENSUS TRACTS: 25.2%

CROSSCOUNTRY MORTGAGE INC. TOTAL ORIGINATIONS: 1,299 ORIGINATIONS IN MINORITY CENSUS TRACTS (PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL): 213

(16.4%) PERCENT OF APPLICATIONS DENIED IN WHITE CENSUS TRACTS: 4.7% PERCENT OF APPLICATIONS DENIED IN NONWHITE CENSUS TRACTS: 8.7%

JPMORGAN CHASE BANK TOTAL ORIGINATIONS: 1,137 ORIGINATIONS IN MINORITY CENSUS TRACTS (PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL): 118

(10.4%) PERCENT OF APPLICATIONS DENIED IN WHITE CENSUS TRACTS: 20.7% PERCENT OF APPLICATIONS DENIED IN NONWHITE CENSUS TRACTS: 30.0%

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a violent confrontation between Cleveland police and black militants that left seven dead and more than 15 wounded during a period of extreme racial tension. The Cleveland Police Department has seen ďŹ t to memorialize the occasion with a series of embarrassments and crimes that all broke last week, many of them demonstrating an ongoing tension between local law enforcement and communities of color. Take, for example, ofďŹ cer John Kraynik. Details of an internal report were released last week and showed Kraynik casually dropped the n-word in multiple texts to a retired cop in reference to Ohio State football games. “All that ‘n——r ash’, once again, losing out to good old-fashioned hardnosed football,â€? read one. (To be clear, he spelled out the word and did so in the following ones as well.) “Fucking n——-s can’t play qb,â€? read another. “Fucking n——-s!â€? read a third. You get the idea. If Kraynik used the language about college football players he was watching on TV, you can only imagine what sort of language he might be using when talking about the residents he serves, a large majority of whom are AfricanAmericans in the Fourth District, where he works. Kraynik was ordered to undergo sensitivity training. Kraynik and his then-partner Phillip Habeeb, if you’ll remember, shot and killed 15-year-old Brandon McCloud in 2005. A grand jury declined to indict them for the teen’s death. Cleveland police ofďŹ cer Aaron Petitt, who himself has a checkered history, was the other cop tangled up in the investigation. He sent texts to the same retired cop using a slur for Muslims, and he has since announced that he plans on suing the city over his six-day suspension. He told Channel 3 he wants his name back, “And not be known as ‘the racist police ofďŹ cer.’ I am just not.â€? Then there’s ofďŹ cer Thomas Tewell, who was indicted last week for sending a sexually explicit photograph to a 17-year-old girl from Rocky River. Tewell, 32, of Fairview Park, is set for a July 31 arraignment in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court for the incident, which was reported to Rocky River police by the girl’s father back in February.

Cleveland Police Sgt. Jennifer Ciaccia noted in March that Tewell’s supervisors in the Second District took him off patrol and placed him on restricted duty when the investigation began. Tewell met the victim online and then used the police database LEADS to track her down. Once he did so, prosecutors say, he then sent her a sexually explicit text message. This isn’t Tewell’s ďŹ rst time being a Grade-A creep. He was suspended for 25 days in 2014 and given a “lastchance agreementâ€? after he sent a lewd photo to a woman after giving her a trafďŹ c ticket. And we musn’t forget ofďŹ cer Frank Garmback. Remember him? He was the one who drove the cruiser in the shooting death of Tamir Rice in 2014. Garmback attempted to order an iced coffee at the Dunkin Donuts on West 117th last week but was denied by a worker who reportedly “didn’t serve cops.â€? “It’s pathetic [that] attitude is out there,â€? said union president Jeff Follmer, in reference to the Dunkin’ worker. “We’re grateful the manager handled it the way he did.â€? How the manager handled it was to promptly ďŹ re the worker and reach out to the nearby First District police station, presumably with an apology. Local investigator Ed Gallek, in his report for the Fox 8 I-Team, said the worker’s refusal to serve Garmback had nothing to do with Garmback’s role in the Tamir Rice shooting. The report was presented, however, as further evidence that Garmback and his family are “still dealing with the falloutâ€? from the shooting. That fallout included, ofďŹ cially, a 10-day suspension for Garmback. Loehmann was ďŹ red for an unrelated matter. Atmospherically, though, the fallout includes ongoing tensions between ofďŹ cers and the communities they police. The irony is the union’s satisfaction with the dismissal of a low-wage worker whose actions — whether for humor or on principle — resulted in the minor delay of a police ofďŹ cer’s cup of coffee. It’s worth noting that the news tip to Fox 8 in all likelihood originated from the cops themselves, so they can take credit for putting another young man out of work. It’s disingenuous for Fox 8 or the police, then, to bemoan the “falloutâ€? of the Tamir Rice shooting while demanding respect from historically abused populations on pain of termination. This is especially ironic when on-the-job infractions result in no meaningful consequences

for police ofďŹ cers (take a look at Kraynik’s slap on the wrist); or else the consequences are ďŹ ercely and blindly challenged by the union, with frequent success. The actions of Loehmann and Garmback, we recall — whether an outgrowth of poor tactical training or deeply embedded racism — resulted not in a delayed coffee order but in the death of a child.

DIGIT WIDGET 6.5 Hours of meetings per week on Ohio treasurer Josh Mandel’s public schedule since he dropped out of the Senate race earlier this year, according to the Columbus Dispatch, which examined the relative public absence of Mandel (salary: $110,000 a year) during that time period.

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The good news is that, in the wake of these actions, Cleveland City Council authorized the hiring of Hillard-Heintze, a Chicago-based security risk management and law enforcement consulting company, to begin working through nearly 380 complaints made to Cleveland’s OfďŹ ce of Professional Standards about police ofďŹ cers, dating back to 2014 in some cases. Even with the addition of six temporary investigators to the OfďŹ ce of Professional Standards back, in 2017, the backlog grows almost daily. Following an investigation in 2014, the U.S. Department of Justice found that there was reasonable cause to believe that there was a pattern and practice of excessive force in Cleveland that violated the U.S. Constitution and federal law. At that time, the City of Cleveland and DOJ entered into an agreement that requires the Cleveland Division of Police to make a number of fundamental changes to its policies, practices, procedures, training, use of data and more. The work is being undertaken as part of a settlement the city reached with the Justice Department to reform the police department. A Justice Department investigation said the ofďŹ ce, which is under the city’s Department of Public Safety but separate from the Division of Police, too often failed to properly investigate and handle citizen complaints of ofďŹ cer misconduct. The complaints in question are non-criminal offenses committed by police ofďŹ cers. Some of the complaints have been looked into but not completed, but many have never been touched. Records from 2016 show that most of these complaints involve “lack of serviceâ€? or “unprofessional behavior.â€? The hiring of Hillard-Heintze came in February to assist with the backlog, but city council rejected Mayor Frank Jackson’s original plan to pay the company up to $1.2 million to address all of the complaints. City council countered the offer with $700,000 to review the cases, evaluate the steps necessary to move forward and estimate further costs to complete the work. Realizing the situation is growing more and more dire by the day, last week’s ordinance approved Hillard-Heintze for a capped budget of $700,000. The fulďŹ llment of clearing this backlog is part of a 2015 agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice. — Vince Grzegorek,

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MAKE NO LITTLE PLANS Four architects, one planner, one environmental scientist, and a writer on how to fix Cleveland By Alex Baca IF YOU KNOW SOMEONE WITH an urban planning degree, it’s quite likely they have a line from the world’s most overquoted words on planning in their email signature. “Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with evergrowing insistency. Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us. Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.” This is a Daniel Burnham joint.

He’s the godfather of planning, and he rightfully belongs to Chicago, where he grew up and which he designed. Like many of the postIndustrial Revolution titans whose names adorn our institutions, he did lots of other stuff across the nation, mostly neoclassical and Beaux-Arts-y endeavors — New York’s Flatiron Building, Washington, D.C. (and Washington, D.C.’s Union Station), the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. But Clevelanders like to claim him too, for his involvement in our Group Plan (full title: “The Group Plan of the Public Buildings of the City of Cleveland”), the 1903 document that’s the reason why our civic buildings are arranged the

way they are — around downtown’s central malls. Our civic core is the most fully realized plan like this outside of Washington, D.C., and it’s City Beautiful through and through: It embodies, perhaps a little too well, the beautification and monumental grandeur that planners around the turn of the 20th century sought as a reform to disharmonious social order through the physical embodiment of civic virtue. Mayor Tom Johnsom made it happen. The Group Plan might sound familiar, because its name was revived by the private parties that wrangled a redesigned Public Square into existence just as the Republican National Convention

came to town in 2016. In between 1903 and 1916 and today, we’ve tried a whole bunch of big stuff just like this. Cleveland’s history is littered with the souls of those who tried to remake it in their vision, and there are two useful texts in that vein. Daniel Kerr’s Derelict Paradise: Homelessness and Urban Development in Cleveland, Ohio details repeated attempts to build and rebuild a convention center; in that context, it’s hard not to see the Global Center for Health and Innovation as a naked, pricey gamble. As was en vogue in midcentury America, city leaders solicited federal funding to rip out the “slums” that sprung up between downtown and the warehoused, | clevescene.com | July 25 - 31, 2018

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working waterfront. Mark Souther’s Believing In Cleveland: Managing Decline In the ‘Best Location In the Nation’ will tell you how Cleveland obtained more urban renewal dollars than any other city to clear out what it deemed undesirable and replace it with the much more orderly, I.M. Pei-designed Erieview Plan. As people ed the city for whiter, wealthier suburbs in the 1970s, leaders engaged Lawrence Halprin, noted festival-marketplace planner, to reconstitute San Francisco’s Ghiradelli Square in Cleveland to bring people back downtown with a conventional execution of walkable, manufactured, safe-seeming fun. Charmingly, amid all this, an ofďŹ cial of Dennis Kuchinich’s City Hall attempted to liven up the malls by putting out chairs for people to sit in during lunch, a refreshing attempt among all the bureaucratic emphasis on cataclysmic change that has ďŹ xed generations of civic leaders. Today, we’d call this tactical urbanism. Also, today, we’re watching a contemporary iteration of attempts toward cataclysmic change for purposes that aren’t particularly clear beyond making Cleveland something that it certainly isn’t: the unnecessary renovation of the Q, the laughably impossible Hyperloop, the absurd-sounding bid on a blockchain economy. All this has us thinking about Cleveland’s superlative imperative, its keen eye on success for a few, and our public unwillingness to look realistically at what’s actually taking place. Like how, for example, 14,365 black residents left Cleveland between 2011 and 2016, and how black households earning more than $50,000 out-migrated at three-and-ahalf times the rate of those making less. Or like how in 1960, 92.3

percent of residents worked in the city of Cleveland, but as of 2011, only 46.9 percent do. Despite our legacy of big plans, data tells us that people are getting the hell out. No wonder Jon Pinney has been able to successfully commandeer a conversation about that ever-exhausting topic of civic leadership in Northeast Ohio. We’ve barely got a center here, and the center that we’ve got certainly isn’t holding. But we’re pretty sure that the answer isn’t more commissions, or more collaboration, or more City Club forums. To wrap our own heads around all this, we asked any architect with an ofďŹ ce within Cleveland city limits — in case you’re wondering, architecture ďŹ rms cluster in downtown and Midtown, so take the advice contained herein on the city as a whole with as large a grain of Cargill-mined salt as you’d like — what they’d do with no constraints. And by no constraints, we mean no budget slashing, no value engineering, and absolutely no political quandaries, all of which usually combine to stymie good ideas before they’ve had a chance to take off. Those who responded to our inquiry oated design solutions that political insiders and plebes alike will recognize as variations on common themes: Our city is too divided; access to our waterfront, in a word, sucks; and we desperately need public spaces for our personal and social health. The designers and architects we talked to are a fantastically talented bunch, and gave us some incredible ideas — the thoughtful, deliberate kinds of ideas that can only come from a marrowdeep sense of responsibility toward and love for one’s hometown. It’s an honor to print them in our pages. Without further ado, here’s what we heard:

ALEX PESTA, CITY ARCHITECTURE City Architecture’s 25-year history has touched many a Cleveland neighborhood project: Hub 55, the West 25th Street Lofts, the West Shoreway. Alex Pesta leads City Architecture’s planning practice, and offered what amounts to a modern reworking of some of the long-held equity planning principles put forth by the grandfather of the concept, Cleveland State’s own Norm Krumholz: “Focus and cluster investments in projects on Cleveland’s east side with the sole focus of jumpstarting development and raising land values to better balance Cleveland across the Cuyahoga; figure out how to pull Lake Erie’s shoreline to the south — both metaphorically and, with creativity and aggression, physically; initial investments targeted and intended to narrow the equity gap as fast as possible must be done briskly but with a respect for heritage and cultural history/significance; once private development takes hold, and is determined to be authentic, subsidies should cease and city, county and other agencies need to get out of the way and let progress

occur without cumbersome process.” Pesta says that the east side could be a model for “refocusing Cleveland’s redevelopment aim” — a worthy moral undertaking that would extend far beyond a single project’s physical reach. But it won’t be easy. “Challenges, not the least is correcting decades of disinvestment and systematic racism, require leadership and steadfastness.”

JILL AKINS, VAN AUKEN AKINS Jill Akins leads Van Auken Akins, an architectural interior design firm with offices in Playhouse Square. The 25 employees at her 26-year-old firm have been on teams for the Hilton, the Global Center for Health and Innovation, and Hopkins International Airport. Akins endorses a plan that she and designers from Perkins Eastman collaborated on about four years back that tackles the siloing of the Browns stadium on the waterfront. “That,” she says, “was magnificent. I think so many people have been disappointed that the stadium is on the waterfront, but if you engage the

stadium with retail and office, it would be fabulous. There’s so much developable land north of the stadium, east and west, and we created neighborhoods — residential, commercial, and mixed-use. I think just starting with that and taking another hard look at financing it would be magical.” Perkins Eastman’s plans for urban waterfronts loom large in many cities; the same firm is behind the cataclysmic development of Washington, D.C.’s Wharf, which has dramatically reshaped that city’s southwest waterfront while providing a critical infusion of housing in a city that’s strapped for it. In addition to the “long process” that the two firms engaged in to create what she calls “a beautiful plan,” Akins also worked on conceptualizations of how to get from the Global Center and the surrounding plazas to the waterfront. “That’s really important, too,” she says. “East Ninth is a wind tunnel, so we had a covered pedestrian bridge concept that could be heated or keep people dry in inclement weather.” “Our lakefront is so beautiful,” she says, “and it’s not being used.”

MATT HILS, OHM ADVISORS “No surprise: I would spend money on parks and public open spaces,” says Matt Hils, a landscape architect with OHM Advisors. “There are a lot of great ideas out there currently, and there’s no need to invent more.” Hils says to doubledown on the proposed Gordon Park expansion, the Irishtown Bend redevelopment, and neighborhood parks throughout the city generally. “I’d like to distribute the wealth if you will, between downtown expenditure at Irishtown Bend and an eastside version of Edgewater Park, and spread the money out into the neighborhood so that there’s a relatively equal distribution of public spaces for local neighborhoods. You need places for families to gather, reunions to take place, anything that’s a memory-maker, anything that enhances family and community relationships. There’s so much value to parks from that standpoint, the health standpoint, social and mental health — especially for kids.” And for Gordon Park, in particular, which alongside a thoughtful reuse of the Cleveland Public Power site could be not just an eastside counterpart to Edgewater but perhaps even

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Van Auken Akins lakefront plan.

upstage it? “It should be a slice of a new neighborhood, a self-sustaining neighborhood with housing and commercial space that meets residents’ and visitors’ needs — it should be more than just open green space.” Hils pitches that every Clevelander should be within a 10-minute walk of green space, and notes that the city has already inventoried and assessed its 170 parks to prioritize their renovations. Each of those parks should have basic necessities: shelter, drinking water, heating, and places for kids to play. “Anything that encourages engagement between people, anything that fosters interaction between different socioeconomic groups or races, anything that encourages integration of different social classes,” he says, “because when you can get a wide variety of people together, that ultimately is where society is going to benefit from a greater understanding of people who are different from yourself.”

RICHARD FLEISCHMAN, FLEISCHMAN + PARTNERS Dick Fleischman has been dreaming big on this particular

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topic for, perhaps, most of his life. The founder of Richard Fleischman + Partners — which worked notably on the initial master plan for Gateway — was born and raised in Northeast Ohio. He spent formative years in New York and Rome, where he became convinced that Cleveland could be a crown jewel in a Riviera-like network of residential, recreational, and commercial areas along Lake Erie. “What cities would you like to repeat?” he posed to us rhetorically. “Because the sunsets here are as good as anywhere in the whole world.” Fleischman has worked up two substantial documents. One is his vision for an Ohio Riviera — what he calls the Lake Erie necklace — from Toledo to Ashtabula, a “continuous urban concept” that would run along “unrestrained urban shoreline with continuous beachfront.” The other is a collection of Fleischman + Partners’ civic work, and civic dreams, created over the years, including the old Cuyahoga County administration building, 515 Euclid, Gateway Plaza, the BuckeyeWoodhill RTA, and a fanciful lakefront horse racetrack on top of a parking garage. The introductory text to that

second document says, “I invite you to rediscover the sense of space, the thing that puts the fire in your eyes. Within and around this issue, you can experience this most fantastic of voyages, the trip from your heart to your mind, from intuition to intention, from dream to reality. There is one destination: the quest to be. Every new generation should search for its own understanding of nature, man, art, and architecture through profound observations and reflections, and thus create a basis for their own creative activity. While the understanding of nature and esthetics are the key areas of philosophy, they are traditionally considered in historic terms, so we must look for our own ethics if we don’t want to become guilty.” Which, in practice, means what? That we should do better than touting projects like East Fourth Street, which, while certainly important to the lateaughts downtown revitalization much-heralded by civic boosters, is, in Fleischman’s words, “cute. A street of restaurants. That’s not significant. That’s cute.” Instead, he asks, “What’s going to happen in 2040? 2050? Whatever it is, it can’t just happen by gravity. We have philosophers that talk about beauty and ideals. What happened to that?”

BIALOSKY + PARTNERS Bialosky + Partners has undertaken a number of projects that instantly feel well-loved upon their execution. Most notable is the new Edgewater Beach House, but Bialosky has also drawn out the charms of the Schofield Building; the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority headquarters; suburban hotspots Crocker Park and the emerging Van Aken District; and the yet-unbuilt Midway, which proposes centerrunning, physically protected bike lanes along the old streetcar corridors on Cleveland’s radial arterials. Fittingly, director of business development Theodore Ferringer, who led the initial conceptual planning for the Midway and is a board member of the Green Ribbon Coalition, sent us a response full of vim and wit that we couldn’t bear to edit it down. “The number one thing I would do is to build/implement the Cleveland Midway. The value proposition of this is so painfully clear. While many people at the city and other groups are working on pushing parts of the proposed network ahead, this project is still not receiving the prioritization

it needs from both political and philanthropic leadership in Cleveland to happen as anything close to proposed on a reasonable timeline. In simple terms, the Midway is not a bike infrastructure project. It is an urban transit, streetscape, economic development, and social equity building project that increases Clevelanders access to jobs, school, each other, and green space that happens to provide, per every available metric, the best and safest urban cycling infrastructure possible. “The second project I would do is the Green Ribbon Coalition’s proposal to move I90 and reconnect Gordon Park with the lakefront. The long story short is that there is a once in a century opportunity to repair a key part of our lakefront. Since the closure of the First Energy coal power plant on the lake to reroute I90 and reconnect a massive area piece of otherwise junk real estate with the lakefront. The only reason I90 is routed where it is along the lake near East 72nd is due to the power plant being built first. Over 100 years ago the east side had a park every bit the equal to Edgewater — it is time to heal this scar and provide near east side Clevelanders a premier lakefront park. This isn’t just a park — its an issue of environmental justice. “After doing those two projects, I would then move onto finally following through the true vision of Daniel Burnham’s Group Plan and connect Cleveland’s downtown to the lakefront through a land bridge over the Shoreway as it passes through downtown. Bury a multimodal transit station for Amtrak, Greyhound (and other bus systems), and regional rail under the bridge and flank it with mixed towers a la Frank Gehry’s never built downtown HQ tower for Progressive. “After solving all that, I’d go back in the archives and cherrypick from some of the proposals for this very thing from an exhibition I co-curated in 2009 with colleagues Jeremy Smith and Michael Abrahamson (of Fuck Yeah Brutalism fame and still the best idea ever hatched at the Happy Dog) called All You Can Eat: A Buffet of Architectural Ideas for Cleveland. “Cleveland being Cleveland, we should probably be done with it and build LeBronze James. Since time is a flat circle, given that LeBron has now left a second time, we might be better off revisiting how we should have dealt with it the first time — bulldoze the whole place, making Cleveland a third-

wave social network, and funding it all by selling our physical assets to the highest bidder and calling it Cleveland 3.1.” But can design alone heal us? Of course not! Sure, we promised our sources a hypothetical situation that didn’t involve constraints. But the realities of Cleveland — a continually flat or slightly declining population that results in an ever-weakening core, a region that favors greenfield sprawl, and a corps of elected officials that refuses to acknowledge any of this — necessitate an examination of external factors, and we don’t mean the kind offered by talking-head technocrats when they themselves are asked to offer “big, bold ideas.” So we pinged some experts in governance and environmental affairs to ask them to contextualize our built-environment fantasies. One of those experts, if I may break from the royal Scene “we” I’ve been using thus far, is me. I’m a freelance writer, yes, but for a year and a half I managed UHBikes, Cuyahoga County’s bikeshare network, which involved a nonstop effort to build up ridership, expand the system, and get Clevelanders to feel like they could get around their city via something other than a car. I’ve worked in business development for global architecture and construction firms, and I’ve written at length for national publications — Slate, CityLab, Strong Towns, and the American Conservative — about the cultural and economic impacts of mega projects, planning decisions, transportation, access, equity and governance on Northeast Ohio’s built environment. If my scattershot resume hasn’t convinced you that I have some decent ideas about how cities work some of the time, might I also offer my half-finished master’s degrees in historic preservation and public administration? Free from the shackles of political and financal constraints, I’d echo Alex, Matt, and Theodore’s insistence that public spaces are social, racial, and environmental justice concerns, and that the ones that we have should be far, far better. We should be using our pockets of green outside of downtown — which means getting away from all the focus on Public Square — for open forums, community engagement and just being outside. Per Jill’s expertise, I’d find a way to responsibly engage our waterfront, hopefully in a way that respects all those great things that

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Aerial view of proposed land bridge connecting downtown and the lakefront.

Another thing I don’t know much about is the environment on which we actually build and plan and do all of the above. So I asked Christina Znidarsic, associate director of Chagrin Watershed Partners, to tell me more — not about buildings, but about what determines how and why we put them where we do.

CHRISTINA ZNIDARSIC, CHAGRIN WATERSHED PARTNERS “I’m an environmental scientist by profession, and while I do spend time out in the field, I spend even more time working with local elected officials, zoning inspectors, planning directors, municipal engineers, and law directors because how communities choose to develop is one of the biggest factors in the health of our streams, rivers, and lakes. For me, being able to work with a community on review of their zoning and adoption of local regulations like compact and conservation development, riparian and wetland setbacks, and consideration of higher standards in their erosion and sediment control and stormwater management regulations is every bit as critical as completing a stream restoration project. Stream health and water quality are directly tied to the amount of impervious cover in a watershed, and it doesn’t take much to tip the scale. The Center for Watershed Protection as far back as 2003 completed extensive research that shows streams begin to decline in health with as little as 10% impervious cover in their watershed, and after only 25% or more impervious cover they begin to fall into levels of impairment that cannot support healthy stream ecology. “I want communities to

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understand that development doesn’t have to occur at the expense of the environment; rather, it’s far more cost-effective to protect the environment during development. Communities need to take a watershed-wide, regional approach to their planning, zoning, and development. Planning and policy that promotes sprawl means additional impervious surfaces creating more polluted runoff to already overtaxed storm infrastructure, causing expensive and destructive local flooding and stream erosion. Loss of natural greenspace, particularly forests, wetlands, and floodplains, to development means a loss of those ready-made, self-managing free storage areas for stormwater flow and requires costly infrastructure be built and maintained at the community’s expense to restore that lost function. Protection of these natural flood-control areas through riparian and wetland setback zoning is a valuable, cost-effective tool local communities can use to help futureproof further development. It is common-sense zoning and should be as much of an accepted practice as side, front, and rear setbacks.” Phew. We found it striking that amid a restless civic discourse about leadership; a growing acknowledgement that our public officials prefer the comfort of being steered by a business community rather than the risk-and-reward of actually undertaking governance; and the feverish promotion of notterribly-smart stuff, those that we spoke to for this piece emphasized tangible, human-scale improvements to Cleveland that, frankly, should already exist. Our waterfront is criminally under-used, our green space isn’t super-fun to hang out in, and we crave neighborhoods within

Cleveland’s boundaries, not outside of them, that meet the needs of their residents first and visitors too. And all this exists within the wider scope of a painfully, continually segregated region that’s long careened toward a grossly unsustainable future, aided and abetted by government policies, like single-family zoning that okays greenfield development, that most people deem too wonky to care about. Kerr’s Derelict Paradise is a testament to Cleveland’s continual ability to screw itself over in pursuit of a higher, fancier and more elitefriendly economy, but perhaps we’ve arrived at a breaking point. While we were writing this, Cleveland celebrated its 222nd birthday. July 22 is Cleveland Day, as decreed by city council in 1906. That’s the day that Moses Cleaveland pulled up to Settler’s Landing, looked around and, in short, founded the city that we live in. “The flats on the west side, and the densely wooded bluffs on the east, did not present a cheerful prospect for a city,” wrote geologist Charles Whittlesey of Cleaveland’s arrival in his 1867 Early History of Cleveland. “While the boat was being unloaded, the agent had an opportunity to mount the bluff, and scan the surrounding land. This view must have revived his enthusiasm, more than the swamps along the river had depressed it. A young growth of oaks, with low bushy tops, covered the ground. Beneath them were thrifty bushes, rooted in a lean, but dry and pleasant soil, highly favorable to the object in view. A smooth and even field sloped gently toward the lake, whose blue waters could be seen extended to the horizon. His imagination doubtless took a pardonable flight into the future, when a great commercial town should take the place of the stinted forest growth, which the northern tempests had nearly destroyed.” Whittlesey’s superimposed ruminations of Cleaveland and his discovery party sound not unlike how our interviewees described the city, and its incredible potential. That’s what makes these suggestions something we can stand behind. Daniel Burnham’s edict to “make no little plans” doesn’t even need to be considered. Instead, maybe a repeated insistence that all Clevelanders deserve the kind of access and quality of life promoted by the future imagined herein is simply doing the right thing.

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Hamilton Since making its Broadway debut three years ago, Hamilton, the hip-hop musical that tells the story of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, has been a smash hit. It traces the life story of Hamilton, referred to in the play as “a bastard, orphan, son of a whore,” as he joins the Revolutionary War and then plays a key role in writing The Federalist Papers and serving in President George Washington’s Cabinet. There’s plenty of drama in Hamilton’s life, which ends in a duel, and the play exploits every bit of it with a superb soundtrack of catchy songs that tell his remarkable story. Tonight’s show takes place at 7:30 at the State Theatre, where performances run through Aug. 26. A few tickets still remain. (Jeff Niesel) 1519 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

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Indians vs. Pittsburgh Pirates After making the playoffs two years in a row, the Pittsburgh Pirates went into rebuilding mode after last year’s losing season. That said, the team has performed better than expected this year and has hovered around the .500 mark for most of the season. Today, the two teams wrap up a three-game interleague series at Progressive Field. The game begins at 1:10 p.m., and tickets start at $15. (Niesel) 2401 Ontario St., 216-420-4487, clevelandindians.com. MUSIC

Orquesta el Macabeo Earlier this summer, the Cleveland Museum of Art and Front Internationalannouncedtheschedule for City Stages, CMA’s summer concert series that takes place in Ohio City. This year, some shows will still take place outside the Transformer Station in Ohio City on Wednesdays throughout the month of July; but they’ll also migrate to other parts of

the city. Tonight’s concert features Orquesta el Macabeo, a group that’s part of the burgeoning Puerto Rican salsa scene. The all-ages show takes place at 7:30 p.m. at the Transformer Station. Admission is free. And while you’re in the neighborhood, check out the nearby Front art exhibitions inside the Transformer Station, Spaces Gallery and St. John’s Church; they’ll be open till 9 p.m. (Niesel) 1460 West 29th St., 216-938-5429, transformerstation.org. FAMILY FUN

Wade Oval Wednesdays A summer tradition continues tonight from 6 to 9 at Wade Oval in University Circle. It’s Wade Oval Wednesday, and there will be local food vendors, a beer and wine tent, a farmers market and free kids’ activities — all laid out on the Wade Oval lawn, adjacent to Cleveland Botanical Garden, the Cleveland Art Museum, and the Cleveland Natural History Museum. Some museums will stay open late too. Otis & the Shoreway Saints perform. A Coco

screening takes place at 9 p.m.. Details are on the website. (Niesel) universitycircle.org. FOOD

Walnut Wednesday Walnut Wednesday is one of summer’s great traditions. Today it continues, from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Perk Plaza at Chester Commons — at East 12th and Walnut streets — as 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. The series continues through Sept. 26. Admission is free, but the food will cost you. (Niesel) downtowncleveland.org.

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GET OUT popular Edgewater Live series of Thursday-night happy-hour concerts. The fun returns this year, with musical performances from 4:30 to 9 p.m. every Thursday through Aug. 2. In addition to a local band, activities include 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. It’s free. (Niesel) 6500 Cleveland Memorial Shoreway NW, clevelandmetroparks.com.

that takes place at Edgewater Park, the Euclid Beach 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. The fun takes place from 6 to 9 p.m. every Friday through Aug. 3. This evening’s musical entertainment comes from the doo-wop/oldies

Grateful Dead. This may not be the only Dead-related tribute event in Northeast Ohio this year (seriously, there are a whole bunch), but it’s surely the most comprehensive. John Kadlecik, David Gans & Old Shoe, Terrapin Flyer, the Blurry Pickers, Dead Roses and Terrapin Moon will all perform, through Sunday. Wear flowers in your hair, and be sure to pack your sleeping

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Adam Ferrara The host of the BBC America’s car show, Top Gear US, Adam Ferrara worked as a comedian well before he started talking about automobiles. He has performed standup several times on the usual late-night outlets and had a role in the FX series Rescue Me. He regularly shares stories from his personal life, and in one funny bit about his girlfriend moving into his house, he jokes that it was a “hostile takeover” and that he hardly knew what happened. He performs tonight at 8 at Hilarities Comedy Club, where he has shows scheduled through Sunday. Tickets start at $18. (Niesel) 2035 East Fourth St., 216-241-7425, pickwickandfrolic.com.

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DEVOtional 2018 An annual event designed to acknowledge the genius of the Akron new-wave group Devo, DEVOtional 2018 commences tonight at the Beachland Tavern. It kicks off with a donation-based DeVoke (Devolved Karoake) event that features the Fantastic Plastics and 3 O’Clock Rock Showcase. The doors open at 6. Tomorrow, Devo’s Jerry Casale will be on hand for a meetand-greet and autograph session, and tribute acts such as Spudboys, DEVO-tion and DEVOmatix will perform. The doors open at 2 p.m. on Saturday, and tickets are $35. (Niesel) 15711 Waterloo Rd., 216-383-1124, beachlandballroom.com.

families and couples look forward to each summer. The concerts, which take place on the Legacy Village lawn at 6:30 each Friday and Saturday night throughout the summer, feature local bands that play everything from blues to jazz and rock. Tonight’s entertainment comes from No Moss Band; tomorrow, catch a performance from Nos Band. Admission is free; the series continues through Aug. 31. (Niesel) 25333 Cedar Rd., Lyndhurst, 216-382-3871, legacy-village.com.

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Drumplay Since 1988, the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless has aspired to “break the cycle of homelessness in Northeast Ohio.” “We organize and empower homeless and at-risk men, women, and children through public education, advocacy, and the creation of nurturing environments,” reads the description on the organization’s website. As part of the Lakewood Alive Front Porch Concert series, the local world-music ensemble Drumplay and special guest Ray McNiece will play a fundraiser for the organization and specifically for the Cleveland Street Chronicle (formerly Homeless Grapevine ), to which the late Daniel Thompson, one of Drumplay’s many collaborators, contributed poems and for which he raised awareness and funds to sustain the paper. Admission to the concert, which takes place at 7 tonight at the Lakewood Public Library, is free; all CD sales and donations will go to NEOCH. (Niesel) 15425 Detroit Ave., Lakewood, 216-226-8275, lakewoodpubliclibrary.org. COMEDY

Sommore From countless film and television appearances to a successful national standup career that spans the course of 20 years, comedian Sommore has surely earned her title as one of the “Queens of Comedy.” In her standup act, Sommore regularly speaks to the masses by criticizing what it means to be a man and woman in a modern relationship (something I’m sure we can all relate to). She performs tonight at 7:30 and 10 at the Improv, on the East Bank of the Flats, and has shows scheduled through Sunday. Tickets are $25. (Niesel) 1148 Main Ave., 216-696-IMPROV, clevelandimprov.com.

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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-akind collaborations, porters, stouts, pilsners, ales, wheats, Belgians, and lagers. Patrons can also sample wines and ciders, and 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 $40, or $65 for VIP (which allows entry at 11 a.m.). The prices at the door are $50 and $70, respectively. (Niesel) clevescenetickets.com. FAMILY FUN

Fam Jam Today’s Fam Jam, a day of free family fun at the Rock Hall, will feature games and giveaways in partnership with the Children’s Museum of Cleveland, a bubble show with Dr. Awesome, rock ’n’ roll-themed face painting, balloon twisting and crafts. There will also be a rock ’n’ roll coloring station where the kids (and — why not? — you too) can design original album covers. Live musical performances will take place from noon to 4 p.m. on the Rock Hall’s outdoor plaza and PNC Stage. A separate admission ticket must be purchased to tour the Rock Hall exhibits. (Niesel) 1100 Rock and Roll Blvd., 216-515-8444, rockhall.com.

everyone’s summer bucket list, and today — National Dance Day — is your chance to check it off. Grab your friends and head down to Playhouse Square today at 9 p.m. to dance around in silence while wearing wireless headphones. You can choose from three different channels that will be playing music from the ’70s, ’80s or ’90s. Because it’s a “silent” disco, you can turn up the volume as much as you want. Admission is free, but you’ll need to have an ID to receive a pair of headphones. The disco takes place on U.S. Bank Plaza. (Niesel) East 14th St. and Euclid Ave., 216-771-4444, playhousesquare.org.

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Sunday Beat As part of a Sunday Beat promotion at Visible Voice Books, if you purchase a New York Times at the store, you’ll receive a free cup of coffee or tea and a Jim Alesci’s Place pastry. An added bonus: A jazz, Americana, samba or bossa nova band will perform from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Anyone who shows a Sunday receipt from Music Box, Prosperity Social Club or any of the Tremont restaurants that offer brunch can enter a same-day drawing for a $30 Visible Voice gift certificate and a $25 Visible Voice Loyalty Card. They’ll also receive 10 percent off any Visible Voice book purchase. The bookstore is open today from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Niesel) 2258 Professor Ave., 216-961-0084, visiblevoicebooks.com.

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Lunch Hour Live Trivia Last Call Trivia, a live hosted trivia game during which teams compete for prizes by answering oddball questions, takes place every Monday throughout the summer at 12:30 p.m., at U.S. Bank Plaza on Playhouse Square. Designed to be “a spirited competition,” the contest lasts an hour. The games also include a point wagering system that gives teams the ability to choose their own strategy. Admission is free. (Niesel) East 14th St. and Euclid Ave., 216-771-4444, playhousesquare.org. NIGHTLIFE

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place every Monday from 6 p.m. to midnight. (Niesel) 1109 Starkweather Ave., 216-937-1938, prosperitysocialclub.com.

GET OUT 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. FOOD

Wing Dang Doodle Blues icon Howlin’ Wolf famously covered “Wang Dang Doodle,” the old blues tune penned by Willie Dixon. Prosperity Social Club in Tremont has adopted that slogan, calling its wing night Wing Dang Doodle. The weekly event features specials on Buffalo wings and cold brews. Prosperity will not only serve up substantial, $1 whole wings, but it’ll also offer meatless Monday “wing” baskets for vegans. Discounted drafts and a playlist of vintage-electric blues and soulful R&B curated by local musician Clint Holley will be on tap as well. Wing Dang Doodle takes

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Dan & Phil World Tour 2018 The hosts of a British radio show, Dan Howell and Phil Lester explore their insecurities with their live show, dubbed Interactive Introverts. The night promises to deliver “rants, roasts, battles, stories” and a variety of non-specific surprises. Expect these self-described “insecure nerds” to make you “laugh, cry and cringe.” The event begins at 8 at Connor Palace. Tickets are $38.50 to $152.50. (Niesel) 1615 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

Menopause the Musical A musical parody set to songs from the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s, Menopause the Musical tells the story of four women at a lingerie sale with nothing in common but a black lace bra and the perils of menopause (you know, hot flashes, night sweats, etc.). A perennial favorite, the play is back at the Hanna Theatre tonight at 7:30, where performances continue through Aug. 12. Tickets start at $10. (Niesel) 2067 East 14th St., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

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Dancing Under the Stars As a part of the 13-week outdoor dance series at Playhouse Square, local dance instructors lead Dancing Under the Stars tonight, and every Tuesday night through Aug. 28, at U.S. Bank Plaza. Tonight at 6, teachers from Viva Dance Studio will teach the salsa; Orquesta T’umbao provides the music. The dancing

Retro Tuesdays Sometimes, there are experiences worth going the extra mile for, like the Aut-O-Rama Twin DriveIn Theatre in North Ridgeville. As audiences grow increasingly frustrated with people talking, texting or bringing their young children to movie theaters with $15 popcorn, the drive-in is a perfect way

to catch a new film without having to worry about any of the hubbub brought on by other people ... or yourself. Visiting the Aut-O-Rama is a magical experience. Built in 1965 by the Sherman family, the drivein is still owned and operated by the family’s third generation. You can catch the latest films on the weekends, but the Aut-O-Rama also offers classic double features for Retro Tuesday. Tonight’s features: Full Metal Jacket and Platoon. Check the website for times and ticket prices. (BJ Colangelo) 33395 Lorain Rd., North Ridgeville, 440-734-1786, autoramadrivein.com. FOOD

Truck Stop Tuesday As if to provide a westside counterpart to Walnut Wednesdays, Crocker Park in Westlake has launched Truck Stop Tuesday, a weekly food truck gathering that takes place from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Needless to say, admission is free, but the food will cost you. Truck Stop Tuesday continues through Sept. 25. (Niesel) 189 Crocker Park Blvd., Westlake, crockerpark.com.

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STAGE THE FIGHT FOR DEMOCRACY As Hamilton demonstrates, our country’s founders had their turn to fight. It’s our turn now By Christine Howey YOU DON’T NEED ME TO TELL you that Hamilton is an awesome show. And that you should do anything legal (and possibly even illegal) to get a ticket. And that your life as a human being at this moment in the 21st century will not be entirely fulfilled if you don’t witness this extraordinary work of art written by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Let’s put it this way: If you were alive back when Mozart and Beethoven were scribbling their music, you would have felt enormously blessed if you could hear those concerts while the composer was alive. They would have been your contemporaries, and that would have been a rush. Well, it’s not too big a stretch to say that Miranda — who wrote the book, music and lyrics for Hamilton — will one day be considered on that same level. All he’s done is re-imagine the entirety of an art form in a way that is thoroughly engrossing, blissfully entertaining and emotionally accessible. Not only that, it comes at you in a continuous wave that, if you’re not already tuned in to the pace of the music, can be challenging. It’s not like drinking from a fire hose or a fire hydrant; at times, in this almost three-hour production, it’s like drinking while standing under Niagara Falls. The 46 (yes, 46) songs come at you with such intensity that it would be exhausting if it all weren’t so damn interesting, musically and intellectually. Miranda has taken the autobiography of Alexander Hamilton, written by historian Ron Chernow, and turned it into a story that has powerful and immediate resonance to what is happening today in our country. To wit: How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore And a Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot in the Caribbean by providence, impoverished, In squalor grow up to be a hero and a scholar? The show is performed by mostly non-white actors and is sung-through brilliantly utilizing rap, soul and more traditional song styles to spin the story of Hamilton, his frenemy Aaron Burr

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(Nik Walker) and the beginnings of our country. Does it matter that Hamilton (Joseph Morales) was a mixed race immigrant back then, especially now when immigrants are being pushed away from our shores and separated from their families? Of course it matters, just like everything does in this gargantuan production. Just drop down into any song in Hamilton and you’re likely to find a surprising connection to contemporary life. For instance in the second act, Hamilton walks into a room with James Madison and Thomas Jefferson — just the three of them — and comes out with a compromise that no one thought possible. The catchy, propulsive song is titled “The Room Where It Happens,” and if it doesn’t trigger thoughts of the room in Helsinki where Russian president Putin and U.S. president Trump met — just the two of them, with translators — and came out with god-knows-what agreements, then you’re not paying attention to the destruction of our democracy. Indeed, democracy was much on the minds of Hamilton and his fellow revolutionaries as they fought against the British (they really were our foe, back then). As lawyer Hamilton sings in “Non-Stop,” I practiced the law, I practic’ly perfected it. I’ve seen injustice in the world and I’ve corrected it. Now for a strong central democracy, If not, then I’ll be Socrates, Throwing verbal rocks at these mediocrities. Hamilton displays many glorious

country. And if you find yourself agreeing with Socrates a bit now, in the world of Trump, that’s just one of many epiphanies awaiting you. You will discover the close yet contentious relationship between Hamilton and Burr that led to their fatal encounter on the dueling field. You will experience the love that Hamilton had for his wife Eliza (Shoba Narayan), from the upscale Schuyler family, and the tragic fate of his son Phillip (Elijah Malcomb, who also plays John Laurens). You

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will learn what an arrogant prick Jefferson (Kyle Scatliffe, who also plays Marquis de Lafayette) was, at least in this telling. And you will be amused by the clueless and venal King George (Jon Patrick Walker). And there’s so much more, because there are at least two full musicals stuffed into this production, since they sing and talk at a hyper pace

that would cause My Fair Lady to pass out from the vapors. There are actors and designers too numerous to praise individually, so we bow to their talents in the same way the performers take their curtain call: as a group. But let’s not lose track of the importance of this incredible creation. As they sing in “Washington On Your Side,” If there’s a fire you’re trying to douse, You can’t put it out from inside the house. Our country is on fire, again. And since the people inside the House (and Senate) won’t put it out, it’s imperative that the rest of us step up and douse the flames of authoritarianism and fascism that are flaring all around us. We need to vote, prove Socrates wrong, and protect our democracy. The immigrant Alexander Hamilton, whose love for the ideals of America burned in his soul, would have expected no less.

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MOVIES BLINDSPOTTING IS A PAINFULLY POETIC LOVE LETTER TO OAKLAND By BJ Colangelo DAVEED DIGGS IS BEST KNOWN for originating the roles of Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson in the smash hit Hamilton : An American Musical, but his nearly decade-long process to deliver Blindspotting, his leading feature film debut co-written with his best friend Rafael Casal (who also stars) proves that he is so much more than the voice behind “Guns and Ships.” Blindspotting tells the story of Collin (Diggs) a black man out on probation after serving time for an altercation outside a bar where he used to be a bouncer, three days before his probation ends. Collin spends a majority of his time with his best friend Miles (Casal), a white man desperately looking for his identity, having grown up alongside Collin in Oakland’s predominately

black suburb. The two work together to find their way in an increasingly gentrifying city, with hilarious moments like realizing the local bodega where they buy $1 loose cigarettes has started selling fancy cold-pressed juices for $10; that their favorite fast-food joint has defaulted to vegan items and asking for beef is a special accommodation; or attempting to sell a small sailboat by calling it “artisan.” Things take a stark turn, however, when Collin witnesses a white cop shoot a black man in the street. Collin does and says nothing, even joking the next day about how it would go down if a black convicted felon called to report witnessing a white cop shoot a black man while he was waiting at a stoplight, breaking his probationary set curfew. This

moment stays with him throughout the film, often appearing in mindaltering nightmares with imagery as powerful as Childish Gambino’s “This Is America.” The juxtaposition between Collin and Miles’ life experiences, despite having grown up in the same neighborhood, is frequently used for laughs and highlights a traditional “black guy/white guy buddy comedy” trope. It’s when the reality of these experiences are pointed out — like how they differ in their fear of a police presence — that Blindspotting truly shines. Miles and Collin bond over class and circumstance, but they are forever separated by race and the privilege that comes with it. As Diggs and Casal are both poetic wordsmiths, there are frequent bursts of freestyle rhyming,

and the most gripping moment of the entire film is paired alongside Diggs’ devastating rhyming intensity. There isn’t a single moment of this film that follows a traditional convention, but rather it takes inspiration from what came before and presents it in an entirely new form. Two minutes after a scene completely guts you from its harsh realism, you’ll find yourself laughing at the banter between Diggs and Casal. This slice of life showcases all of the moments that make a life worth living, and does so with expertly crafted comedy and criticism. Blindspotting opens at the Cedar Lee on July 27.

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DIRECTED BY GUS VAN SANT (Good Will Hunting, Milk) and starring Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill and Rooney Mara, Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot is an alternately raw and sentimental journey through the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous.PerformancesbyPhoenix and Hill rescue the film from its frequent gooey-ness, but Van Sant’s chronological tampering and formal experimentation don’t do a whole lot to enliven a plodding script. Still, this heartfelt drama, which opens Friday at the Cedar Lee, has several searing scenes that compensate for a good deal of muddiness in the middle. It’s more or less a standard biopic of John Callahan, the Portland cartoonist who died in 2010, which takes as its central focus Callahan’s recovery from a savage car crash that left him a quadriplegic, and his alcoholism. Callahan’s cartooning is a means of therapy on his path to sobriety — he draws by gripping a

marker with both hands, producing his distinctive primitive style — but the movie is much more about AA than about art. The day of the crash is conveyed via flashback early on, as an older Callahan repeats the story to both his AA group and to a hall full of people there to appreciate him — he’s either accepting an award or giving a public talk — and it’s a successful narrative device. The sequence is gripping because we know tragedy awaits, and we watch as Callahan and a new boozy friend, Dexter (Jack Black), get unthinkably loaded on a bar-hopping bender. After a heart-rending introductory appointment with a hospital therapist (Rooney Mara), the film loses steam during its girthy middle. Apart from the fact that the chronology is often wildly unclear — there are moments when Callahan begins drinking and we don’t know if it’s before he gave up alcohol or after (in which case,

taking the drink would be a more pivotal moment) — the action itself is repetitive. As I say, it’s a pretty exhaustive tour through the stages of AA, and few are left unexplored: Callahan admitting that he is powerless; Callahan believing that a personal higher power can restore him to sanity; Callahan turning his life over to his personal higher power (fleetingly, the genitals of Raquel Welch — the film takes place in the 70s); Callahan making a list of all those he has wronged; Callahan making amends face to face ... and so on. Much of the AA small-group material, led by the gay trust-fund kid Donnie Green (Jonah Hill), is heartfelt stuff. But these scenes are often tangents. And at times, the film seems as if it has been concocted solely as an AA commercial. The element that I, as a viewer, may have appreciated most was pretty meta: the degree to which both

Phoenix and Hill play versions of themselves — people who struggle mightily with addiction and who have lost those close to them from the same. Jonah Hill’s brother, music producer Jordan Feldstein, was found dead earlier this year in a room scattered with canisters of nitrous oxide. Joaquin Phoenix made the famous 911 call to summon police to his ODing brother, River Phoenix, in 1993. Both have struggled with alcoholism personally. Their performances are understated. I was worried about Hill’s at the start — he has never looked more like the mid-aughts rom-com heart throb, Josh Lucas — but he quickly became my favorite character, in large part because the sincerity of his commitment to his sponsorees, whom he calls his “piglets,” was so unexpected. — Sam Allard

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EAT COOKING WITH GAS Prepare to feast at Rising Grill, the newest Korean barbecue joint in Asia Town By Douglas Trattner THERE’S THE INTIMIDATION that comes from encountering an unfamiliar menu, and then there’s the intimidation that arrives in the form of a wobbly stainless steel cart that gets wheeled right up to your table and is absolutely laden — on two separate levels — with food, both raw and prepared. By the time our server finishes the task of unloading the goods, not one square inch of tabletop remained visible. It was at that moment we knew we had our work cut out for us. Sure, it takes a bit of effort to get settled into a groove at a Korean barbecue joint, but once you do, there are few more exhilarating dining experiences. Bring the right tablemates and you’re in for a boisterous, delicious and, at times, chaotic meat-filled ride. Paired with plenty of ice-cold OB beer ($4.75) or fiery Chamisul soju ($14.95), dinner doubles as the night’s entertainment. Our lively group was arranged around a table at Rising Grill, the latest business to occupy this onagain, off-again Asian eatery on Payne Avenue. For nearly 30 years, this bland wrapper was home to Seoul Hot Pot — until it closed, and then reopened, and then closed for good. A short-lived replacement popped in for a bit before vanishing like a puff of smoke in the breeze. The collective sadness of local Korean BBQ fans, however, was quickly ameliorated by this latest tenant. At the heart of any great Korean barbecue joint is the grills, which can range from janky tabletop skillets to sleek infrared-powered cookers. Rising Grill owner Byung Im invested in all-new gas grills for each of the four barbecue tables up front. What’s more, he improved the exhaust system, the second most important part of the setup. The cooktops are hot, responsive to adjustments, and roomy enough to accommodate sufficient meat for the whole crew. If you’re new to the game, it’s wise to hop online, check out the menu, and do a little research. The options are a bit daunting given that there are various meats, cuts,

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treatments and portion sizes. Items range from marinated boneless chicken breast and the ever-popular bulgogi on up to a $120 combination platter with a variety of meats and seafood. Our S2 ($97) included boneless beef short rib, ribeye, pork and chicken. If that sounds like a lot of money, try dividing it by five and still banking on leftovers. To get us started, the server (often the owner) snipped some

A stack of cold, crisp lettuce leaves are on hand for making little bundles of meat, sauce, and garnishes. Rising Grill’s banchan game is strong, and our table received no less than a dozen sides of raw, pickled, fermented, dried and/or cooked veggies, hard-cooked eggs, even seafood. Most barbecue combos also include bowls of soondubu jjigae, a savory soft tofu stew.

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It would take weeks to work through the non-barbecue portion of the menu. Familiar starters are here, like mandu ($6.99), addictive Korean dumplings that arrive deep fried rather than the typical steamed or pan fried. The restaurant’s version of seafood pancake ($13.99) arrives crispedged and fluffy, loaded with bits of squid, shrimp, clam and scallions. There are rice dishes like the textbook dolsot bibimbop ($12.99), a version of the classic shredded veggie, egg and rice

bowl served in a molten-hot crock that transforms the rice on the bottom into deliriously crunchy bits. There are noodle dishes like the summer-appropriate bibim naengmyeon ($14.99), a refreshing but spicy serving of cold buckwheat noodles and thin-sliced beef. And there are soups, stews, hot pots and casseroles too numerous to count, including the rare-aroundhere sullongtang ($14.99). This restorative beef bone broth arrives milk white, with a few glass noodles, some lean beef and a sprinkle of scallions. It is utterly unseasoned, sided by a dish of coarse salt for the diner to do so at will. Unfortunately, Rising Grill doesn’t take reservations for its grill tables, instead relying on a firstcome, first-served system. Waits for those tables are common, but the kitchen does have tabletop cookers for those seated in the dining room, a fine alternative. Speaking of waits: I now bring cash here, not because Rising Grill doesn’t accept credit cards, but because I once waited 25 minutes for the check.

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steakhouse sides like Delmonico potatoes, whipped potatoes, charred broccoli and creamed kale. At the newly configured bar, which connects to the covered front patio, guests can enjoy beer, wines by the glass and signature cocktails. The restaurant will be open for dinner Monday through Saturday nights.

Aurelia, an American-Style Bistro, Now Open Aurelia opened its doors last Friday in Chagrin Falls in the former North Main Diner spot (16 North Main St.). Chef James Balchak is focusing on locally sourced foods with a tailored, rotating menu that features appetizers, four entrees and some desserts. Aurelia is open for lunch Monday through Friday, dinner Tuesday through Saturday, and brunch on Saturday and Sunday.

Merchant Street in Tremont to Close Owner John McDonnell announced Sunday night on Facebook that Merchant Street will be closing “at the end of the next week.” The Tremont bistro across from Lincoln Park opened in December 2016 at an address that had previously been home to a long line of operators including Bistro on Lincoln Park and Sage Bistro. “I appreciate all those who came to love our restaurant, our creative menu and new chef, but it was just not enough to keep going,” he wrote. “It was a good run and anyone who knows me understands I would never sacrifice quality over anything. Please come in this week and say hello. Love you all.”

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DREAM COME TRUE Snail Mail transitions from opening act to headliner By Elizabeth Manno SNAIL MAIL’S LINDSEY JORDAN isn’t your typical 19-year-old. Sure, she grew up in the suburbs, played sports, went to parties, graduated from high school and plays in a band, but she couldn’t be further from your average American teen. Her full-length debut, Lush, is one of the strongest indie rock debuts in quite a while, and she was profiled by every publication from Rolling Stone to The New York Times. The album recently debuted at No. 46 on the Billboard Top 200 chart. During our phone interview, I have the pleasure of informing Jordan for the first time of the latter accolade, while she and her band were driving through Iowa in their tour van. “That is so cool! Jesus! Wow … Okay cool! Wow! That’s really exciting,” she says. “I can’t wait to text my dad and mom about

that!” Her response was one of the rare cases in which she actually sounds like a normal teenager, and much like her songwriting style, her pure, emotional reaction is anything but vain. Jordan will bring Snail Mail’s raw, astute indie rock musings, melodic guitar know-how and

5 years old and later played under the guidance of one of the ’90s most influential guitarists, Mary Timony (Helium, Ex Hex). In 2016, Jordan put out her first release under the name Snail Mail in the form of a sixtrack EP called Habit. The EP began to draw attention, and soon enough, Jordan had record labels competing to sign her and she

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MUSIC on Habit.” Guitarists and songwriters such as Kurt Vile, Steve Gunn, Liz Phair, Mark Kozelek, Marnie Stern and, of course, Timony inspired her, but she was keen on developing her own distinct songwriting style rather than emulating her heroes. “All I knew was that songwriting had to be something that could only come from a place of wanting to create rather than wanting to copy someone else,” she says. Her debut EP and her album certainly share some commonalities, but Lush displays clear improvements as well as the inevitable maturation that comes from getting older. For one thing, Habit was recorded in one or two takes on what Jordan describes as a “really bad sound system,” which resulted in the EP’s rougher, lo-fi sound. Jordan still plays some cuts from Habit live, though she feels a slight disconnect from the song’s narrator. “Halfway through the song, I’ll be like, ‘I don’t even know what I’m talking about here,’” says Jordan. “I was feeling something so distinct and specific. I remember being like, ‘This is a feeling I’m feeling so hard and that will never leave me,’ but all of the songs still mean something to me in some way.” However, Jordan had no ambitions to make a bedroom lo-fi album; instead, she aimed to make a perfect album with the best songs possible. The result is a flawless 10-track collection with vulnerable lyrics, painstaking hooks, apparent melodic sensibilities and unforgettable choruses. Talk about all killer and no filler. Though Jordan is immensely proud of her record, she’s well aware that you only get one shot at a debut album, and her meticulous perfectionism made the recording process tense at times. “There were times when other brains came in with super good ideas, and I would just not go with their ideas because I [thought], ‘No, that goes outside of my first vision.’” Jordan protects her art in a caring, motherly fashion, knowing full well the potential of her songs, so it’s no wonder that “authenticity” is one of the first words that comes to mind after listening to her album. One of the undeniable strengths of Lush is Jordan’s skillful vocal inflection that leaves you hanging on her every word as she pours her heart out.

“With Lush, it was a really jam-packed studio with all these different microphone options,” says Jordan. “I found the microphone that I felt really did my voice the most justice. We did like a billion takes before I found the take that I liked, and I kind of perfected the style on each song. I like to think all of them really have a different energy and emotion.” The album’s three singles, “Pristine,” “Heat Wave” and Let’s Find an Out,” not only display her incredibly engaging vocal style, they also reveal her unusually articulate and emotionally intelligent lyrical chops. Though Jordan describes herself as a “100 percent hopeless romantic” (“It’s just like my jam!”), and she exudes unshakable emotions, she doesn’t naively follow them to the ends of the earth. In her songs, she stops, acknowledges those feelings and ensures that she doesn’t lose part of herself, even if that spells heartbreak or pain in the end. One could casually listen to these songs and think of them as angsty teenage indie rock songs, but careful listeners will discover them to be vastly human songs and particularly affecting ones at that. Snail Mail has definitely earned its stripes as an opening act, touring with the likes of Belle and Sebastian, Ought, Beach Fossils, Shame and Japanese Breakfast, just to name a few. Describing Snail Mail live shows as “earnest, emotional and pure,” Jordan’s happy to finally take the reins as a headliner, even though it feels a bit foreign. “I still feel like we’re the openers, and we’re just metaphorically wearing big adult shoes that we stepped in,” she says. She gushes about the response and energy from the crowds so far on their current Lush tour as they’ve played several sold-out shows. Her upcoming show in Cleveland was even upgraded from the Beachland Tavern to the venue’s larger ballroom due to the demand for tickets. “We played Chicago the other night and the crowd was so energetic and there were little kids there, which was like my dream,” she says. “I just love playing for little kids. It was so sick. This tour has just been big Snail Mail fans and no one looking at us with blank expressions. Sometimes I can’t even hear my own voice because people are screaming so loud.”

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MUSIC THE EVOLUTION OF AN ARTIST Lucy Dacus’s new album switches between sweet ballads and fuzzy indie rock By Bethany Kaufman TRAINED NOT BY PROFESSORS but through a lifetime of introspection, singer-songwriter Lucy Dacus has a keen understanding not just of self, but of the way self evolves. Charles Darwin would correct me, saying that evolution occurs at the population level, not the individual level. But identity is different. It’s not a physical form bound by ligaments and supported by bone. Identity is amorphous, and changing identity doesn’t require altering genetics. Identity is susceptible to almost instantaneous change, sometimes even at the hands of fickle forces like human suggestion. “I have kind of always been at peace with who I am, and I think that’s why there’s such a stark difference now knowing that other people think they know who I am, or there’s this version of me going out that doesn’t necessarily coincide with who I am,” says Dacus via phone from the road, headed to Montreal for a break from touring. She performs with Deau Eyes and Holden Laurence at 9 p.m. on Saturday at the Grog Shop. “It’s not that the media portrays me much differently than how I really am. It’s because I have a strong idea of who I am that I can tell the difference.” Dacus attributes her strong sense of self to being adopted. In that way, she was nebulous, free to develop as she would, not bound by genetic ties to anyone around her. She also credits her adoptive parents with enforcing her individualism from the time she was young. “I think that my parents were really good about not telling me that I was childish when I was a kid,” she says. “They weren’t like, ‘You’re a kid, you’re dumb.’ They always let me speak. Whenever I made something, they really took it in as something worthwhile. If I ever wanted to try something, they let me try it. I think my parents did a good job of not standing in the

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way of who I just always was.” Artists create small records of themselves with each work they create, which serve as rare glimpses into their identity at a single point in time. As fans, we stitch individual works together in an attempt to understand the artist, but we can never truly know them. “If you write something and release it, whether it’s music or fiction or a personal essay, that is something you made in a particular moment, and it’s hard to remember that people are dynamic, and they change, like all the time,” Dacus says. “And I have this problem with my favorite creators as well, I can hardly conceptualize the fact that they were only the person who wrote the book that I love in that moment and [now] they might be a totally different person. Meanwhile, I’ve never known them, I just know the book. Making that separation between the work and the creator is kind of disorienting. It’s a constant question of how to figure out that dynamic.” Dacus has always kept a close record of her own identity in the form of a journal. If it hadn’t been for a strange whirlwind of events in 2016, it’s quite possible that her songs never would have been heard outside of a few casual shows in her hometown of Richmond, Virginia. Although she had been writing since age 10, Dacus had never recorded any of her songs until her friend Jacob Blizard requested her help with a college project. The

of Yo La Tengo, one of her personal favorite artists. Her second album, Historian, was released this past March. Dacus’ sumptuous, mature contralto switches between sweet ballads and fuzzy yet tame indie rock with ease, and Historian has the extra boost of a full backing band. Dacus continues to ride the growing wave of her success (she plays Chicago’s Pitchfork Music Festival this year), but the tide has changed: Rather than being the fan who dissects the identities of artists she looks up to, she’s the subject of others’ dissection. Previously accustomed to being the only one taking a pen to her own life, now she faces the analyses of others. “I think that part of the issue at hand is that people are viewing me, taking pictures of me, writing about me, and that’s a really easy identity to take on, the identity that other people have made for me,” she says. “And I have to remember to not do that, and just stay in touch with who I am. But the evidence is

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overwhelming that I am the person that is documented through all these other avenues. That’s part of why I still journal, because I feel like I need to document who I am truly, in the moment, just to keep a handle on my identity.”

If an artist’s works are just snapshots in time, increasingly disconnected from their creator with each passing second, how will Dacus feel about her own songs five years from now, or 10? It’s far too soon to tell, as her first album has only been out for two short years. But she seems to address the issue in “Night Shift,” a track from Historians about avoiding an ex: “You got a 9 to 5, so I’ll take the night shift/And I’ll never see you again if I can help it/In five years I hope the songs feel like covers/ dedicated to new lovers.” Dacus developed an awareness and understanding of mortality at a young age, due in large part to her Christian upbringing. Although she no longer ascribes to any religious belief, she thinks that the sooner one comes to terms with death, the better, because it frees you up to live. She seems to understand the short life of her own words in the same way. “Earlier, I was talking about how it’s hard to conceptualize that people change,” she says. “I guess in this situation I can’t conceptualize how I will change. I know that if I say something now and people will read it, this might be the only interview they ever read with me, so maybe next time I will say something different. I guess that is my answer, I could tell you anything right now, but the fact that I will change, that’s kind of the answer. Anything I say is, you know, silly.”

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Bad Boys of Blues Jam: 9 p.m., free. Smedley’s. Rayland Baxter/Okey Dokey: 8 p.m., $15 ADV, $17 DOS. Beachland Tavern. Diana Chittester (in the Supper Club): Last year, in the attempt to emulate the WMMS Coffee Break Concerts that were so popular here in the 1970s and 1980s, the Music Box Supper Club teamed up with locally based oWOW Radio for a new, summer-long Happy Hour Concert series. The series continues today with local singer-songwriter Diana Chittester. The radio station will broadcast the hour-long concert live. (Jeff Niesel) 6 p.m., free. Music Box Supper Club. Foo Fighters/The Struts: 7 p.m., Sold Out. Blossom. Dillon J. Freeman/DJ Poizon: 8:30 p.m., $10. Grog Shop. He Is We/City in the Clouds/The Willow Tree/Sarah Arafat: 7 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Mahall’s 20 Lanes. Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit: 8 p.m., $36. Jacobs Pavilion. Jay-Z and Beyonce: 7:30 p.m., $49.50-$391. First Energy Stadium.

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’80s Night with the Sunrise Jones (in the Supper Club): 8 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Music Box Supper Club. Atlanta Rhythm Section: 8 p.m., $30-$40. The Kent Stage. Castlecomer/The Vindys: 9 p.m., $12 ADV, $15 DOS. House of

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Blues Cambridge Room. The Clash Tribute by the Boys from the County Hell: 8 p.m., $15. Music Box Supper Club. Hexum/Northcoast Shakedown/ Vollstin/Divorce Horse: 9 p.m., $8 ADV, $10 DOS. Musica. Highly Suspect/DJ Redbees: 7 p.m., $29.50 ADV, $35 DOS. Agora Theatre. Lord Huron/Cherry Glazerr: 8 p.m., $26.50 ADV, $31.50 DOS. House of Blues. Lynyrd Skynyrd/Blackberry Smoke/The Marshall Tucker Band/Tom Hambridge: When Lynyrd Skynyrd performed at Blossom a few years ago, we wrote that singer Johnny Van Zant, younger brother of late Skynyrd vocalist Ronnie, vocally continued to capably carry the torch for the group, which includes guitarist Gary Rossington as the band’s lone remaining original member. Now, the veteran Southern rock band has decided to call it a day. Tonight’s show comes as part of a farewell tour. With openers Blackberry Smoke, the Marshall Tucker Band and Tom Hambridge sharing the bill, this blowout concert should have a party vibe to it. Consider it your chance to hear the band deliver “Free Bird”

one last time. (Niesel) 6 p.m., $39.50-$209.50. Blossom. The O’Jays: 8 p.m., $40 ADV, $43 DOS. Cain Park. Oregon Space Trail of Doom/Arms & Armour/Istvan Medgyesi: 9 p.m., $7. Beachland Ballroom. Pelican/Cloakroom/Axioma: 9 p.m., $14. Grog Shop.

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A NEW TARGET: When Otep first

formed in Los Angeles in 2000, Shamaya took aim at George W. Bush, during the time he was in office. On the band’s new album, Kult 45, she’s now directed her attention to President Trump. “He’s just a wannabe bully,” says Shamaya. “He’s one of those people who talks a bunch of shit. He’s a trust fund baby. He’s never been in a fight. His hands are softer than a baby’s foot. He never served in the military. He got deferrals. He was okay with allowing someone else to defend his country on his behalf. It shows you what kind of a hideous character this person is. I don’t called him President Trump. I call him Resident Trump. He just resides in the White House. He wasn’t elected. He lost the popular vote.” RAW POWER: For Kult 45, the band uses several of the instruments it used on its very first album. The group also self-produced the album. “For this album, it’s personal,” says Shamaya. “Our guitarist is the son of an immigrant. Under the Trump administration, his father would’ve probably never made it here, and we probably wouldn’t have made all this wonderful music together. We

wanted to keep the overall sound organic and warm.” WHY YOU SHOULD HEAR THEM: “We play

a mixture of old and new songs on this tour,” Shamaya says, adding that Kult 45 comes out the day of the Cleveland show. She effectively raps on Rage Against the Machine tracks such as “Halt Right” and “Molotov,” tunes that feature beefy guitar riffs and heavy percussion. “Fans have only heard the two singles we’ve released, but they really respond well when I ask them if they want to hear more songs from the new album.” Shamaya says the fans who have been coming to the shows seem “very empowered.” “Four million young people will be able to vote in November,” she says. “Since Congress can’t control that orange colostomy bag who daily commits treason against the country, it’s up to the American people to do that. Protecting our democracy and exercising our right to vote is very important.” WHERE YOU CAN HEAR THEM:

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