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UPFRONT DEWINE: STATE WILL INSPECT CUYAHOGA COUNTY JAIL EVERY 30 DAYS Photo courtesy Ohio state government
OHIO GOVERNOR MIKE DeWine has proposed a series of substantive changes at the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections (ODRC) in response to the assorted catastrophes at the Cuyahoga County Jail, including nine inmate deaths since last June. While these changes are designed to improve the inspection and reporting processes at ODRC’s Bureau of Adult Detention, which is responsible for the annual inspection of all 300 jail facilities in the state, DeWine didn’t disguise the fact that these improvements were urgently needed because of the situation in Cuyahoga County. He was spurred to review state policies after a scathing U.S. Marshals Report documented inhumane conditions at the county jail last year. The changes include a significant boost to ODRC’s inspection staff (an increase from six to 15 employees), new requirements for reporting incidents at jail facilities and disseminating inspection reports, and the permitting of unplanned inspections. Until now, all annual inspections were coordinated in advance. With additional staff, the inspections will be more thorough as well. Currently, jail inspectors only examine “essential standards” on an annual basis and review the others on a biennial rotating inspection schedule. Now, all standards will be inspected every year. DeWine said extra attention would be paid to the Cuyahoga County Jail. Inspectors will be checking the facility not every year but “at least every 30 days.” “If they need to inspect it more often, they will,’’ DeWine told Cleveland.com. ‘’If they need to live there, they’ll live there.’’ And if the jail fails to make “significant improvements,” DeWine said, legal action may be taken. As of its most recent inspection last week, the county jail remains non-compliant in 66 out of 135 state standards. That’s
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an improvement from last year, when after the U.S. Marshals report the facility was deemed to be non-compliant in 84 standards. There’s still a long way to go. Lakewood State Sen. Nickie Antonio and Parma State Rep. Jeff Crossman issued a joint statement applauding DeWine on the changes. “We are pleased Governor DeWine has heard our pleas
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for improved state oversight, transparency and accountability at the Cuyahoga County Jail,” said Antonio. “We look forward to reviewing the changes, and remain committed to dedicating the resources necessary to provide humane conditions in our corrections institutions.” Said Crossman: “Every person detained must be treated fairly and humanely and employees should
have the necessary resources to perform their duties to the best of their abilities.” — Sam Allard
MetroHealth’s Akram Boutros: Big Fancy Hospitals Don’t Matter In a speech Friday afternoon at the City Club of Cleveland,
MetroHealth CEO Akram Boutros called on city leaders and residents to hold one another accountable in improving what he called a “health outcomes crisis” in Northeast Ohio. He called on business leaders to pay their employees $15 per hour; invited churches and “any business with more than 100 employees” to start their own Open Table, a program which matches small groups of adult volunteers with young people in need; and pleaded with hospitals and the wider society to begin investing more in health care as opposed to medical care. These interventions are required, he said, in a city like Cleveland, one with such catastrophic outcomes and such poor social determinants of health: among them, black infant mortality, childhood poverty and the opioid crisis. “We continue to think that excellent healthcare is defined by the size of our hospitals and the quality of the people who work within them,” he said. “We hospitals keep confusing the public by focusing on hightechnology medical care and equating it to better healthcare.” That’s the wrong approach, per Boutros. He said what happens in hospitals is basically irrelevant if the society in which the hospital operates is conspiring against the population. “The stress of a tough life doesn’t just make you anxious,” he said. “It changes the biology of your brain and beats the hell out of your body.” This was Boutros’ recurring theme: elevating the importance of preventative healthcare and stressing that a healthy society produces healthier people. “If I have offended you, I am not sorry,” Boutros told the audience at the conclusion of his speech, though if the standing ovation was any indication, no one took offense — and why would they? “I hope I have offended you into action. I hope every person who listens to this goes out there and proves me wrong. If you or your organization are doing your part to end this health outcomes crisis, I beg you to yell it from the rooftops.” During the audience Q&A, Boutros was asked what MetroHealth would do in the face of laws laying siege to women’s reproductive rights. Boutros said that reproductive
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out the carnage with a legally obtained 9-mm pistol. The city has also seen other mass shootings, including a horrific outbreak of violence at Cameo Nightclub in 2017. That shooting killed two people and injured more than a dozen. The legal challenge to HB 228 could further be relevant to Cincinnati because city council last May passed a ban on bump stocks, or accessories that can make assault rifles fire at a faster rate. A Franklin County judge ruled last summer that a similar Columbus bump stock ban was unenforceable under Ohio law in
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Can Ohio cities pass gun control laws stricter than the state’s? That will be up to courts to decide. The city of Cincinnati fi led a lawsuit against the state of Ohio in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court last week alleging that Ohio’s House Bill 228 violates the so-called “home rule” rights of municipalities. Those rights, spelled out in the Ohio Constitution, guarantee that towns, cities and other local governments can pass laws as they see fit. The city’s complaint alleges that HB 228 also violates separation of powers spelled out in the state constitution and that the state “acted unconstitutionally and illegally by enacting a punitive firearms preemption law.” HB 228, which Ohio lawmakers passed last December, expressly prohibits cities from passing gun-related regulations. Cincinnati mayor John Cranley says that keeps cities from passing meaningful laws that could help reduce gun violence. The city’s legal fi ling cites last fall’s mass shooting at Fountain Square as an example. Three people were killed in that attack before police fatally shot the gunman, who carried
33 Percent of Ohio’s corn acreage that has been planted this year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, as opposed to the usual 90 percent, due to record spring rain. Many farmers won’t plant at all, and the nationwide impact could be billions of dollars in losses as farmers point to the federal government’s recent National Climate Assessment report as evidence of the looming economic repercussions of climate change.
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place prior to the passage of HB 228. Other Ohio cities including Columbus have also sued the state over HB 228. The Ohio Supreme Court in 2018 sided with an earlier decision by the Ohio 8th District Court of Appeals that struck down the city of Cleveland’s attempts at local gun legislation, including a gun offender registry, in a ruling that advocates said weakened local rule in the state. “I disagree with the Ohio Supreme Court’s decision not to hear the city of Cleveland’s appeal to uphold its own gun laws,” mayor Frank Jackson said at the time. “The laws the city proposed and that were enacted by our City Council are reasonable and do not conflict with any state gun regulations.”
Liberties Union lobbyist Gary Daniels during a committee hearing on the bill yesterday. Other critics, including Ohio Planned Parenthood, say the statements that would be required under the bill are scientifically inaccurate. “Our children deserve an inclusive, developmentally appropriate and honest education,” Ohio Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio board chair Jennifer McNally said during the hearing. “We have a societal responsibility
to help them learn to protect themselves, to navigate healthy relationships and to reinforce family communications. Offering anything less is not only ineffective, it is unethical.” Antani says the criticism about scientific accuracy is precisely why he would tap the Department of Health to develop the specific material taught. A prior point in the bill, since dropped, would have required signage in the restrooms of public buildings like schools advocating for “an abortion-free
society.” Currently, there are no set standards in Ohio for K-12 health and education classes. The Buckeye State is the only one in the nation without those standards. State Reps. John Becker and Craig Riedel, both Republicans, are co-sponsoring the bill. — Swartsell
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Ohio House Bill Would Require Public Schools to Teach About ‘Humanity of the Unborn’ A bill in the Ohio House of Representatives would require public school science and health teachers to teach students about pregnancy, fetal development and abortion. Some parts of House Bill 90, introduced by Republican State Rep. Niraj Antani, have raised ire from critics, however. Specifically, they’re upset about language that says students should be taught about “the humanity of the unborn,” a nod to pro-life beliefs espoused by many Republican lawmakers. Another part of the bill would create prohibitions keeping school employees from telling students about abortion providers. Students in Grades 3-12 would take the classes under Antani’s proposal. The materials for the segments about pregnancy and fetal development would be provided by the Ohio Department of Health under the proposed law. The provisions dealing with abortion have civil liberties and pro-choice groups crying foul. “They want to commandeer multiple state agencies and all public schools to deliver slanted, incorrect, harmful and unscientific information across the state,” said American Civil
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Or did he know? That’s the question that rattled around my skull. “Hey, Junkyard,� Beard said. “We need to talk.� “About what?� “There’s something I need to show you.� “What is it?� “Not on the phone,� he said. “I had my car swept for bugs. It’s clean.� Beard told me to meet him at the McDonald’s on Interstate 90 and Route 534 and asked if I could be there in 30 minutes — except he wasn’t asking. I said, “Yeah, sure,� hung up, and looked over at my fellow undercover
addressed to the Lake East chapter of the Hells Angels — Beard’s chapter. He handed it to me and said, “Take a look.â€? It had photocopies of two pictures. Next to one picture, someone had written, “Nazi Jim — ATF Agent.â€? Next to the other one: “Bailey — ATF Agent.â€? I did my best to play it cool. Beard looked at me and said, “Are these dudes in your club? Is that Nazi Jim? Is that Bailey?â€? I studied the picture like I meant it. That was Nazi Jim alright, and yeah, he was an ATF agent and a member of the Order of Blood Motorcycle Club. The guy labeled as Bailey was actually a different ATF agent with a similar look and build; the picture was so grainy that he’d been misidentiďŹ ed. After a few seconds of looking at
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agents, Shorty, Brian, and Bailey. “This. Cannot. Be good.â€? They agreed. We slapped together a quick plan: They’d change out of their Nazithemed biker gear — nothing’s more conspicuous than guys wearing SS lightning bolts and swastikas — and watch us from the lot across from McDonald’s, where they’d act as my cover team. I’d carry a gun, but I wouldn’t wear a wire; for all I knew, Beard would start our little meeting by patting me down. We all agreed that if I got in the car and Beard drove off, then I was getting out whether he stopped the car or not. I found Beard standing inside the main door, sipping coffee. He was a big guy, ďŹ t from kickboxing, though you couldn’t see it beneath the winter jacket. I don’t even think we shook hands. He just said, “Let’s go to my car,â€? so I followed him to the parking lot, and we got into his small SUV. When the doors were closed, Beard reached into his coat pocket. I thought to myself, Is this guy about to off me in a Mickey D’s parking lot? My pistol was tucked into the right-side waistband of my jeans and covered by my old Carhartt work coat. I watched Beard’s hands and leaned toward him a bit in case I needed to draw my gun. But I didn’t. Beard pulled out a small envelope that I noticed was
the pictures, I turned to Beard and shook my head. I said, “I’ve never seen these guys before.� Then I waited for him to make his next move.
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How exactly did I become the co-leader of a motorcycle gang sanctioned by the Aryan Brotherhood? To be honest, it kind of happened by accident. The agency never said, “Hey, Frank, go out and befriend a bunch of Aryan Brotherhood members and help start their motorcycle gang.â€? I was never told I’d be palling around with some of the Ohio Aryan Brotherhood’s most notorious members. But things never go as expected when you work undercover. By that point in my career, I’d spent the better part of 18 years working undercover for the ATF. My specialty was outlaw biker-gang inďŹ ltrations. I should mention here that they call themselves “motorcycle clubs.â€? But these aren’t groups of Sunday cruisers. They have track records as criminal enterprises, which is why law enforcement (and respectable humans) refer to them as gangs. By 2004, I’d inďŹ ltrated the Brothers Motorcycle Club in Columbus, Ohio, and the Vagos club out in Las Vegas.
I’d been in a couple armed standoffs and heard a major gang leader order a hit on another undercover ATF agent who happened to be my best friend, Darrin Kozlowski. I’d also played undercover support roles in cases targeting the Outlaws, the Mongols, and the Warlocks. All told, a handful of guys and I, who collectively dedicated hundreds of years on these cases, put hundreds of seriously bad people behind bars for armed violent crimes, attempted murder, weapons sales, and countless other charges. And I picked up a lot of tattoos along the way. In 2001, when I got to the ATF field office in Youngstown, Ohio, I wasn’t supposed to be undercover; I was supposed to be running my group and spending some much-needed time with my wife and our newly adopted daughters. I was still getting adjusted to normal life after an 18-month undercover case. I was happy for the break, but also miserable; even though I was glad to be living without the 24/7 paranoia, something was missing — that rush of living the life and catching these bad guys and beating them at their own game. A year into my time in Youngstown, I got a call from Lieutenant Tom Doyle of the Eastlake Police Department, near Cleveland.
Growing up Italian-American in a gritty Rust Belt city, I was exposed to a rough crowd.
my dad used to go to bars and wrestle bears.” He said it like wrestling bears was a normal thing to do. And just like that, I went from being a family man, to being Junkyard, a guy who wrestles wild animals in public.
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He said, “Would you be interested in taking a look at the Hells Angels with us?” Doyle explained that there was a big Hells Angels presence up there; the Lake East and Cleveland chapters ran a lot of drugs and weapons, but law enforcement just couldn’t get the evidence they needed. Doyle said he had a confidential informant — a member of the Aryan Brotherhood who’d nearly beat a guy to death in a bar was facing hard time and hoping to knock a few years off his sentence. So ATF formed a task force with the Eastlake police, the Lake County Sheriff’s Office, and the Ohio State Adult Parole Authority. When we met the confidential informant — we call them CIs — he told us about another Aryan Brotherhood member, James “Aryan Jim” Blomquist, who went by AJ. AJ knew how to build machine
guns. The plan was for our CI to introduce AJ to an undercover agent whose street name was Nazi Jim, have the agent buy some machine guns from him, and shut him down. I’d run things from the field office. But when the meet day came, I asked the CI what he’d told AJ about my undercover guy. The CI looked right at me and said, “I gave him your description.” “My description?” “Yeah.” The CI was a young guy, and I was about 40. He said, “I told AJ that your name was Junkyard and that you know my dad from county jail.” “Why Junkyard’?” “I dunno.” “What else did you tell him about me?” The CI said, “I told him you and
Growing up Italian-American in a gritty Rust Belt city, I was exposed to a rough crowd. I was comfortable around bad guys and vice versa. At the intro, Nazi Jim and AJ and I spent two or three hours drinking beers and whatnot. I dropped little hints of some of my criminal business — enough to let him know I was looking for opportunities. AJ was way more forthright. He told me straight up, “I’m a captain in the Aryan Brotherhood,” and pulled down his shirt collar to show me the tattoo on his chest indicating his rank. Soon enough he told me that if I could get all the parts for machine guns, then he could build them for me. No serial numbers. Totally untraceable. Later, I went online and ordered all the parts, then dropped them with AJ a couple days later. A few days after that, Nazi Jim and I met him in a parking lot outside
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We sat around drinking beer and bullshitting until we all felt comfortable enough to talk about starting a motorcycle club network. From there, he proposed, they’d take it nationwide. The way AJ saw it, if he was gonna go head-tohead with a motorcycle club, he had to be part of one, and that organization had to have serious power. Up to that point, there hadn’t been an Aryan Brotherhood-sanctioned motorcycle club that I or any of the other ATF agents had heard about. By most accounts, it was founded in the early 1960s in California’s San Quentin State Prison and kept growing on both sides of the bars. Some Aryan Brotherhood members believed in the whole white-power cause; some just rolled with it to stay safe in prison — not that burying your head in the sand makes it okay to be a white supremacist. On the phone, I listened patiently as AJ told me about his visions
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of criminal greatness, and I told him how brilliant he was. Then he surprised me. AJ said, “Let’s make this happen, Junkyard. I’ll bring five guys, and you bring five guys, and we’ll start a club.” Neither of us had a clue how big this would get.
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On Saint Patrick’s Day 2004, I brought five guys to a bar in Eastlake, Ohio. Four of them were fellow ATF agents: Ivan, Nazi Jim, JT, and Brian. The fifth, Shorty, was a deputy with the Ashtabula County Sheriff’s Department. AJ brought four guys, including John “JB” Beason, a convicted murderer on parole. JB was covered in prison tats and was a member of the Aryan Brotherhood
in Ohio. David Snow was there; he was recognized as the founding Aryan Brotherhood member in the Ohio prison system. A soft-spoken redhead, Snow spent most of his life behind bars. He shot a guy while locked up, and had orchestrated an 11-day prison riot from 23-hour-a-day solitary lockdown in a max-security facility in Youngstown. Legend had it that when he got released, Snow was so accustomed to being in confined spaces that he spent six months living under — not in — his mother’s trailer. Also at the bar was AJ’s other guy, Paul “Paulie” Geiger, who had done 10 years in a federal prison for muling dope in Oklahoma, and his friend Neil Ashley, who went by “Motor.” We sat around drinking beer and bullshitting until we all felt comfortable enough to talk about starting a motorcycle club and getting a piece of the Hells Angels’ action. The plan was to ease in, not start a war, but eventually take over. Everyone was on board. Shorty took the opportunity to establish his role as a madman. He put one of those plastic leprechaun hats on his shaved head, jumped on the bar, and shouted, “Listen up, you Irish fucks! The Nazis are in charge now, so if you got a problem, fuck off or talk to us!” The fact that AJ brought this
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Our inaugural club meeting was on April 20 — Hitler’s birthday — and AJ told us he’d already come up with the name: Order of Blood Motorcycle Club. It was based on the führer’s Blood Order, a medal of honor given to certain Nazi soldiers for the work they did in the 1923 uprising of the National Socialist German Workers Party. We moved on to the next order of business: a patch. Every biker gang has a patch that members wear on their vests or jackets. For some reason, AJ and his crew were a little
started coming by. It turned into the kind of house that every respectable homeowner on the block must’ve hated. There was an indoor hot tub at the place, so, late at night, when we knew we were alone, we’d unwind and debrief, knowing that the jets muffled our voices in case anyone showed up unannounced. We lived there in shifts and had our stories straight, so if JB and David Snow and AJ or any of their Aryan Brotherhood pals asked, we could say, “Shorty’s visiting his baby mama over in Warren,” or what have you. My story was that I had some criminal business in Virginia and a couple kids who lived with their mom down in Florida. A bar in town served as our main hangout. The owner liked us and said, “Hey man, I’ve got a vacant lot down the street free of charge if you guys want to sell your stuff.” We’d set up tables and sell Nazi paraphernalia, along with our own T-shirts, to anyone who’d buy them. It’s called “support gear.” All outlaw motorcycle gangs sell it. For example, if you see a shirt saying “Support your Local 81,” the “81” means Hells Angels. (H is the eighth letter in the alphabet; A is the first.) To this day, I’m stunned at the people who bought our stuff — just regular folks, tourists basically. It was eye-opening to me, because you know racism exists but not to the extent
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cool on the whole swastika thing, so we settled on the SS lightning bolts. My guys and I kept up appearances by renting a house in Saybrook, just outside Geneva-on-the-Lake, about an hour east of Cleveland. I won’t call Geneva-on-the-Lake a resort town, but it’s packed with tourists in summer. I lived there with Shorty, Ivan, Brian, and JT. We also had female agents come around; I can’t name them, because they’re still active. They played the vital role of befriending the wives and girlfriends of the Aryan Brotherhood guys and gathering info. We flew our colors right outside the house. There were always a lot of bikes in the driveway, which is kind of a magnet for other bikers. Next thing we knew, random riders
that Joe Six-Pack strolling by wants to give you money for Nazi gear. No one challenged us; they were probably too afraid. There were some weird interactions, though, like when some old guys in WWII Veteran hats stared daggers at me. Those were the hardest times to stay in role. You’re standing there looking like the most despicable creature on earth, and you wanna tell them, “Hey, I have family who got shot fighting the Nazis. I even have my godfather’s Purple Heart.” But you can’t talk. One time, there was a little kid who wanted his dad to buy him one of our support shirts. The father kept saying no, but the kid wouldn’t let up. Finally, the kid said, “Come on, Dad, why not?” And father got
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where’s AJ? We’re gonna beat his ass.” JB piped up: “You guys ain’t touching none of our guys.” JB and I walked over to Snow, who, in his man-of-few-words way, told us to walk back over and let the Hells Angels know that if they touched one of our members, we’d “greenlight everybody in the Ohio prison system who wears the HA patch.” Green-lighting means ordering them killed. Now, as you might have heard, the Hells Angels didn’t get their reputation by taking a lot of shit, especially from the Aryan Brotherhood. But these dudes knew about Snow’s legendary prison riot. If he could pull that off from solitary, he could have a few Hells Angels whacked. We went back over and spent a few minutes hashing things out, and then Merchant reluctantly agreed. “Okay, we’re good,” he said. “But seriously, you guys have to do something about AJ.” So afterward, Snow walked over to AJ and said, “Gimme your patch. You’re out.” AJ tried to argue, but all Snow had to say was, “Are we going to have a problem?” That was code for, “Am I going to have to kill you here and now?” AJ handed over his patch. He was out. The way we handled the incident earned the respect of the Hells Angels. But they tested us again a few hours later, after the other clubs had cleared out. The Hells Angels wanted us to hang back and talk some more. One of their guys took out a shotgun and put it on the bench seat of a parked pickup with an open door so it was pointing in our direction. Then he started putting
on black leather gloves. I said to my guys, “If that son of a bitch picks that thing up and aims at us, we’re killing everybody who doesn’t have our patch.” There were more of us in that area of the speedway than there were Hells Angels. We surrounded three of them to let the would-be shooter know that if one of us got shot, his three guys would die immediately. I guess they respected that maneuver, too, because Face and Merchant called off their goon. What felt like a near-death experience turned out to be a game changer. Right after that event, all of us agreed it was time to grow the Order of Blood Motorcycle Club. The Aryan Brotherhood liked the idea because they wanted power and money from the weapons and drug trades. My guys and I were onboard because it’d get us more access to more violent felons who were buying, selling, carrying, and maybe even using firearms and explosives. The plan was to split the club in two. Snow and Paulie would start a new chapter over in Akron; JB would be president, and they’d recruit more Aryan Brotherhood guys. I’d stay at our home chapter near Geneva-on-theLake with my guys. We’d also recruit new members — meaning other undercovers.
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And I’d be president. Nothing attracts criminals and lowlifes more than other criminals and lowlifes. One of the people who was most drawn to us was Willie Beard, the Lake East Hells Angels member who told me about the stunt that got AJ kicked out of the Order of Blood. Beard’s big thing was poisonous snakes. I’m talking hundreds of snakes. The first time I saw them was when he’d invited Shorty, Nazi Jim, and me to shoot guns on his property. Beard said, “Come to the basement. I wanna show you something.” That’s not what an undercover agent ever wants to hear. We got down there, and no kidding, the floor was covered in plastic. Shorty and I looked at each other like, “I guess this is it.” I never thought I’d be so relieved to see a cobra. Beard seemed as committed to us as he was to his own club. It got to the point where he didn’t just want to befriend us, he wanted us to be to the “charter” of the Hells Angels — basically a chapter in Erie, Pennsylvania. I said, “Why would we wanna be Hells Angels when there’s nothing better than being an AB?” He just looked at me and smiled. As we built our reputation, we were growing, recruiting new
Aryan Brotherhood members, and bringing in even more undercovers from our task force. We were doing criminal business with more and more biker-underworld guys each week. Our main target was the Hells Angels, but over the course of the case, we bought more than 60 firearms, including 13 machine guns, 35 handguns, four shotguns, and eight rifles from various motorcycle gangs and members. We had a female associate of the Aryan Brotherhood make straw purchases for us from a federally licensed firearms dealer who knowingly broke federal law. My guys even bought a gun from David Snow. JB provided me a firearm when I told him I needed to “do some dirt” and didn’t bat an eye when I told him I may have to get rid of it “because it may have body on it.” Besides the weapons, we also bought significant amounts of meth, cocaine, crack, and prescription drugs from a range of outlaw biker gang members.
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Our network grew. Word spread among Northeast Ohio and Western Pennsylvania chapters of the Pagans, a major East Coast outlaw club, that we knew how to handle ourselves. Soon enough, Ivan, one of our original undercovers, bought cocaine from a high-ranking member of the their Youngstown chapter. As their relationship solidified, I was befriending the Youngstown chapter president, a dude named Snake. Over in western Pennsylvania, two more ATF agents and two Pennsylvania state troopers had officially started the third chapter of the Order of Blood, in the town of Sharon. We were less than a year into the case, but we now had 18 undercovers in two states. Every now and then, a non-biker would show up on the scene, usually by way of the Aryan Brotherhood. One was a buddy of David Snow’s named William “Wild Bill” Millsaps Jr., a violent guy, late thirties or early forties, who’d recently gotten out of the joint. He was a heavy drug user, always armed. The first time I met him was at a strip club in Alliance, Ohio. We were all sitting around, talking about the wonderful world of crime, and Wild Bill asked us the question every undercover wants to hear: “What are you guys lookin’ for?” Two hours later, I was riding shotgun in Wild Bill’s truck, while Shorty, another undercover named Roach, and Ivan were following us in an old Cadillac. We pulled up to a nice house in suburban Akron. I was thinking, There ain’t no motherfucking way Wild Bill lives here. But we walked in, and Wild Bill looked at an older
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with motorcycle parts. He told us to hang out while he went and scored us some meth. He left his gun on a table; Wild Bill knew if he got caught with it, he’d get serious time. When he pulled away from the house, we took down the serial numbers on the gun, scoured his whole place, then sat back down and hung out till he came back with the dope. A few minutes after he got home
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and sold us the meth, he said, “Hey. Let me show you something in the basement.” I don’t know what it is with these guys about wanting to show us their basements. But Ivan, Shorty, Roach, and I followed him down there. There was this crusty old refrigerator with about 400 pounds of freezer ice on it. He went over and wrestled with
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ice, handed the bag to Shorty, and said, “Here you go, brother. I like you. I want you to have this.” Later, Shorty tossed the bag out the window of the Caddy. I said, “Shorty, what are you thinking, man?” “What am I supposed to do with a bag of old frozen chicken wings?” “Hell if I know, but you can’t toss
them on the road he drives down every day. What if he sees them?” So I pulled over and backed up. Shorty went searching in the dark for the wings.
*** I still have no idea how much time passed while I waited for Willie Beard to say something in his SUV that fateful day. When people say “it felt like a lifetime,” they’re not exaggerating. I was still sitting there, holding the photos of my fellow undercover ATF agents in my left hand. A blizzard of thoughts swirled in my head. If he reaches for his gun, can I get to mine in time? Does my cover team have a clear view of us? Am I gonna see my wife and kids again? I was aware of everything — the gray November sky, the oblivious people walking in and out of McDonald’s — and at the same time my own response to the pictures echoed through my brain: “I’ve never seen these dudes before.” Willie Beard finally spoke. “That’s what we thought. We’ve had this picture for a couple weeks, and we had a meeting about it.” Beard told me that one set of copies of the pictures had been sent
to the Hells Angels’ Cleveland chapter, and another was sent to the Lake East Hells Angels. I ran some quick logic: If they had the pictures for two weeks and hadn’t killed us yet, and Beard didn’t kill me just now, then the investigation probably wasn’t compromised. He told me to be careful about informants and undercovers. Looking back, I don’t think he suspected me at all. I think he was looking out for me. Thing is, I knew about the photos. After an ATF infiltration a few years earlier — a massive case with dozens of arrests and convictions — the pictures got circulated to all the outlaw motorcycle clubs around the country. We’d recovered a lot of them from biker clubhouses over time, but some were still circulating. Maybe that’s why I was able to keep my cool. My supervisors decided to shut it down. One of them had been on edge through the whole investigation, so he was able to use the confrontation with Beard to justify ending it. But we couldn’t just stop in our tracks. We needed time to get warrants and affidavits in order, so we kept at it for a couple more months. Bailey and Nazi Jim were instructed to lay low. I used my fictional kids and baby mama down in Florida to get away for a bit. While I was out of town, the other guys started spreading the word about my fictional death: “Junkyard had a brain aneurysm and died on the trip.” When people said they wanted to come to the funeral, my guys told them that it was too late. They said my kids’ mom hadn’t called anyone until after the funeral.
weren’t there for the actual raids or arrests. It would have been way too risky; those guys might have opened fire rather than get arrested by the undercover cops who’d duped them. But we were there to help our two case agents with interviews and evidence. We didn’t see Snow after the arrests; he went to prison and wound up getting killed inside by a fellow member of the Aryan Brotherhood who nearly sawed off his head. JB died of heart failure in county jail. Wild Bill went back to prison. Somehow we missed a gun at Paulie’s place; so he only
got probation on a drug charge. The only person we made a point to see after the fact was Aryan Jim, who was about to get a nine-year sentence, during which time he’d probably be kicked out of the Brotherhood for letting so many undercovers into the organization. When we saw him, he was being questioned in a room at Eastlake Police Department shortly after the raids. One of the officers opened the door to let us in. Nazi Jim was with me. So were Ivan and Shorty, three of the guys I’d brought to the bar on St. Paddy’s Day more
than a year earlier when we’d first agreed to start the club. When we walked in, AJ was sitting at the end of a big table. He looked at us, gathered his thoughts, shook his head, and said just three words: “All of you?”
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Family Reflections: Authors Tell Their Stories Notable local authors such as Dan Chaon, Paula McLain, Barbara Raymond, Loung Ung and Abby Sandiver will be on hand tonight at Music Box Supper Club for Family Reflections: Authors Share Their Stories, a benefit for Adoption Network Cleveland, which offers programs for individuals, children and families impacted by adoption, kinship and foster care. Author D.M. Pulley will moderate the discussion. It all begins at 6 and tickets start at $50. (Niesel) 1148 Main Ave., 216-242-1250, musicboxcle.com. SPORTS
Indians vs. Cincinnati Reds As part of interleague play, the Indians always play the Cincinnati Reds both here and in Cincinnati. The Reds have struggled to hit the .500 mark all season but have competed pretty well in a tough National League Central. Expect them to give the Tribe a good battle when the two teams play today at 1:10 p.m. at Progressive Field. Tickets start at $15. (Niesel) 2401 Ontario St., 216-420-4487, clevelandindians.com. FOOD
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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, Jul Big Green plays 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.
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Dance Showcase 2019 Local dance ensembles ABREPASO Flamenco/Alice Blumenfeld, Cleveland State University Dance Program, ELEVATED, GreeneWorks Project, GroundWorks DanceTheater, Inlet Dance Theatre, Neos Dance Theatre, Shri Kalaa Mandir and Verb Ballets will all be on hand tonight for the annual Dance Showcase 2019. The event will also feature special guest artist BalletMet from Columbus. The showcase begins at 7 at the State Theatre. Admission is free, but tickets are required. Go to the Playhouse Square website for more info. (Niesel) 1519 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org. COMEDY
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(Neil Young), Limelight (Rush), PettyBreakers (Tom Petty), Prog Nation (Yes), Ball n Chain (Janis Joplin) and more. Admission is $90 ($75 presale) for today through Sunday, or $65 ($50 presale) for tomorrow through Sunday. There is no extra charge for camping. (Niesel) 12001 State Route 282, Garrettsville, 440-548-2716, nlqp.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.
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Classic Fest Tribute bands draw some of the biggest crowds to Cleveland clubs and festivals, so it makes sense that the folks at Nelson Ledges Quarry Park would book a bunch of tribute acts for Classic Fest. The weekendlong festival that begins tonight will include performances by Kashmir (Led Zeppelin), Gilmour’s Breakfast (Pink Floyd), Ragged Glory
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Flat Out Fridays The East Bank of the Flats features a slew of great bars and restaurants. To take advantage of the terrific riverfront location, the venues have partnered for Flat Out Fridays, a summer music series by the waterfront that includes sweet treats, beverages and other outdoor entertainment. Tonight’s Flat Out Friday runs from 6 to 11 p.m. and features local favorites Tricky Dick. Admission is free; details are on the website. (Niesel) Old River Road and West 10th Street, flatseastbank.com.
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Ragtime Cleveland-native Roderick Lawrence will portray lead character Coalhouse Walker Jr. in the Ragtime production that’s at Cain Park this month. Lawrence has been performing in New York City and Los Angeles and will make a special return home for the musical. Other featured actors include Bridie Carroll (Wicked) as Mother, Mariah Burks (Toxic Avenger) as Sarah and Scott Esposito (Godspell) as Tateh. Nominated for 13 Tony Awards including Best Musical, Ragtime tells the story of three families in the pursuit of that ever-elusive American Dream. In 1998, it won Tony Awards for Best Score, Best Book and Best Orchestrations, and it also won both the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards for Best Musical and Best Score. Tonight’s performance takes place at 7, and performances continue through the weekend. The play will run through June 30. Check the Cain Park website for ticket prices. (Niesel) 14591 Superior Rd., Cleveland Heights, 216-371-3000, cainpark.com.
game show comes to the State Theatre tonight at 8. Celebrity Coach No. 1 is Grocery Store Joe (Bachelor in Paradise) and Celebrity Coach No. 2 is two-time Olympic gymnast Cathy Rigby McCoy. Tickets start at $25. (Niesel) 1519 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.
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Reverse, Reboot, Reveal Cleveland’s Dancing Wheels Company presents a program tonight at the Allen Theatre featuring the work of the nation’s most celebrated disabled choreographers. The performance begins at 8 p.m., and tickets cost $40. (Niesel) 1407 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000 playhousesquare.org.
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Family Feud Live: Celebrity Edition Last Comic Standing’s Alonzo Bodden hosts Family Feud as the
Rock For Relief Proceeds from the second annual Rock for Relief will benefit the Karen P. Nakon Breast Cancer Foundation, an organization that helps families in Northeast Ohio who have been impacted financially by a breast cancer diagnosis. The Foundation pays housing expenses during the time in which families are in need. Local bands the Side FX Project and Less Than 88 will perform. The event begins at 7 p.m. at the Music Box, and tickets cost $30. (Niesel) 1148 Main Ave., 216-242-1250, musicboxcle.com. ART
Walkabout on the Wild Side Walkabout Tremont, which takes place on the second Friday of every month from 5 to 10 p.m., showcases the best of this smart neighborhood, with art openings, extended hours at galleries and shops, restaurant and bar specials, street performers, popup vendors, neighborhood walking tours, and much more. This month, the alpacas are coming, along with City Dogs Adoption Van. That’s what makes it a walkabout on the wild side. See the event Facebook page for more info. (Niesel) facebook.com/WalkaboutTremont. FILM
Your Name Today at 6:45 p.m., the Cleveland Museum of Art will screen Your Name, the most popular anime feature of all time. Directed by Makoto Shinkai, it centers on a bored schoolgirl who one day
magically swaps bodies with another student. The movie screens tonight at 6:45 at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tickets cost $10, or $7 for CMA members and students. (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.
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Adopt-a-Beach Shoreline Cleanup Since 2012, Greater Cleveland Aquarium’s nonproďŹ t Splash Fund has hosted an Adopt-a-Beach shoreline cleanup program. Today’s cleanup takes place at 10 a.m. at Edgewater Park. Someone from the Splash Fund team will be on hand to “advise, assist and provide necessary supplies.â€? Anyone who donates his or her time to help the lake stay great will be rewarded with one free general admission ticket to the Greater Cleveland Aquarium. Splash Fund leadership provides gloves, containers and guidance and, at the end of each session, the team records and analyzes the junk they have amassed. Over the course of four mornings, last year’s volunteers helped the Splash Fund bag 386 pounds of trash that included bits
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BAYarts Arts & Music Festival More than 70 vendors will be on hand for today’s BAYarts Art & Music Festival that takes place at BAYarts from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. There will be local handmade items, local food, wellness, kids art and live music courtesy of Rey Cintron’s Rice and Beans band. Admission is free, and dogs on leashes are welcome. (Niesel) 28795 Lake Rd., Bay Village, 440-871-6543, bayarts.net.
Cruise-In Gear heads can rejoice. Avon Lake’s fourth annual Cruise-In will take place from 4 to 8 p.m. today at Weiss Baseball Fields. The free event will feature a large array of custom cars, trucks and motorcycles, vintage ďŹ rst responder and military vehicles, race cars and the Bernie Moreno Exotic and Luxury Vehicle Row. There will be food trucks, concession stands and activities for kids of all ages. Proceeds from door prizes, a 50/50 rafe and T-shirt sales will beneďŹ t Valor Home of Lorain County, a transitional housing program for homeless male veterans. Parking is free, and if it gets rained out, the event will take place tomorrow. (Niesel) facebook.com/DEIcruisein.
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Cleveland Summer Beerfest Now in its fourth year, the Cleveland Summer Beerfest, which takes place today at Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica, offers craft beer lovers the chance to sample some of the best beers in the country. More than 100 breweries will be on hand pouring samples of more than 175 beers. The ďŹ rst session begins at 2 p.m., and the second session starts at 8 p.m. The price of admission includes 25 sample tickets and a 5-ounce
d’oeuvres and hands-on activities. Each event focuses on a special theme inspired by Cleveland’s past. Today, you’ll learn about Cleveland’s rich history in the ďŹ ne arts and architecture realm with up-close looks at original drawings from the architects who built the city. Craft cocktails, wine and beer will be available for purchase. Admission is free. Details are on the website. (Niesel) 10825 East Blvd., 216-721-5722, wrhs.org. FESTIVAL
The Hooley Today from noon to 8 p.m., you can check out the Hooley on Kamm’s Corners, an annual street festival that takes place on Lorain Avenue from West 165th Street to Rocky River Drive. The festival offers crafts, live music, dancers from area Irish dance schools, pipes and drums and plenty of family fun. Food will be available at the pubs and eateries lining Lorain Avenue and from vendors on the street with kettle corn, ice cream, freshly squeezed lemonade and other festival staples. Two entertainment stages showcase a variety of musical acts and performers, including the Wallace Coleman Band and Monica
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Hot Dog Fest Cleveland’s Happy Dog knows a lot about making the perfect wiener. Today, they’re hosting a huge Hot Dog Fest to celebrate all things cased meat, music and sunshine. The event takes place in the parking lot shared by Happy Dog and Angel Printing. Attendees can also expect a dunk tank and, for those with extra-stretched stomachs, a hot dog eating contest. The band/DJ lineup includes Tough Shits, Tweens, David Nance, Long Hots, Pleasure Leftists, Knowso, Lisa Bella Donna, Shang, Heavenly Queen, the Dreemers, Oregon Space Trail of Doom and Powers/Rolin Duo. The event kicks off at 2 p.m. and rolls through midnight. Admission is $12. (Laura Morrison) 5801 Detroit Ave., 216-651-9474, happydogcleveland.com. FESTIVAL
Larchmere PorchFest Don’t call the cops today to complain about the racket coming from next door. The 30 local bands playing at Larchmere PorchFest have the city’s approval to perform. Acts such as Gretchen Pleuss, Sam Hooper Group, and Collin Miller & the Brother Nature are all on this year’s bill. Expect to find after-parties at local Larchmore bars and restaurants. It all begins at 1 p.m., and admission is free. Consult the website for a schedule and map of the stages. (Niesel) larchmereporchfest.org. MUSIC
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Neave Trio Since forming in 2010, Neave Trio has received praise for its “engaging, cutting-edge performances.” The group has performed at venues such as Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall and 92nd Street Y and has also appeared frequently as soloists for Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with orchestras across the country. It has held residency positions at Brown University, ArtsAhimsa Chamber Music Festival, San Diego State University and the Banff Centre. In
the fall of 2017, the trio joined the faculty of the Longy School of Music of Bard College as an Alumni Artists, Faculty Ensemble-in-Residence. The group aims to champion new works by living composers and its most recent album, Celebrating Piazzolla, honors the music of Astor Piazzolla. At 8 tonight, the group comes to town to celebrate music by women composers and will perform at Praxis Fiber Workshop & Gallery, where it’ll present works by four distinguished women composers spanning the romantic era through the modern day, including Rebecca Clarke’s Piano Trio, Amy Beach’s Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 150, Cécile Chaminade’s Piano Trio No. 1, Op. 11 and Jennifer Higdon’s Piano Trio. (Niesel) 15301 Waterloo Rd., 216-644-8661, praxisfiberworkshop.com. YOGA FUNDRAISER
Yogathon Zenworks Yoga will host a familyfriendly Yogathon today at 9 a.m. at Merwin’s Wharf. This year’s format includes 40 minutes of tai chi, followed by 40 minutes of yoga. It ends with 15 minutes of guided meditation. There will be a Kids’ Zone, and “experience partners” will offer a fun mix of wellness activities before and after the event. All money raised from the event will benefit Zenworks Yoga, a nonprofit dedicated to bringing yoga and mindfulness to children and families in Cleveland. General admission tickets are $20 and include one raffle ticket. The $35 VIP ticket includes a Zenworks T-shirt and one raffle ticket. (Niesel) 1785 Merwin Ave., zenworksyoga. com/events-2/yogathon-summerfundraiser.
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The Gospel of Eureka Directed by Donal Mosher and Michael Palmieri, The Gospel of Eureka centers on Eureka Springs, Arkansas, home to both a strong Christian fundamentalist community and a thriving queer scene. The two somehow coexist and even overlap, suggesting that maybe miracles do happen. Narrated by Justin Vivian Bond, the film makes its local debut today at 1:30 at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tickets cost $10, or $7 for CMA members. (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org. SUMMER FUN
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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 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.
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Frank Caliendo Donald Trump, Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino, Robin Williams and Bill Clinton are only a few of the many incredible impressions that Frank Caliendo has mastered. He is a comedic genius when it comes to impersonations, somehow capturing the exact voice, body language, and facial expressions of each character he performs. His ability to effortlessly switch from one character to the next keeps the audience mesmerized. Caliendo will perform tonight at 7:30 at Hilarities. Tickets are $35 and $45. (Hannah Borison) 2035 East Fourth St., 216-241-7425, pickwickandfrolic.com. MUSIC
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Classical Revolution Cleveland Today, and the third Tuesday of every month, Classical Revolution Cleveland brings chamber music to the Happy Dog. Performers like the Trepanning Trio, Anime Duo,
students of Cleveland Institute of Music and even Cleveland Orchestra members grace the stage in these exciting concerts. Tonight’s free, all-ages performance starts at 8. (Patrick Stoops) 5801 Detroit Ave., 216-651-9474, happydogcleveland.com. FILM
The Owl’s Legacy: Episodes 8-10 The Owl’s Legacy, a 13-part, fiveand-a-half hour nonfiction film by France’s cine-essayist Chris Marker (La Jetée and Sans Soleil) explores ancient Greece’s lasting influence on Western civilization and culture. Made for French television and first broadcast in 1989, the film features a controversial interview with philosopher George Steiner, who angered one of the series’ primary sponsors with his on-camera assertion that modern Greece has little connection to its glorious past. As a result, one of the film’s financial backers suppressed the series for almost 20 years. Today at 1:45 p.m., the Art Museum screens episodes 8 to 10. Tickets cost $10, or $7 for CMA members. (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org. FILM
Retro Tuesdays The Aut-O-Rama Twin DriveIn Theatre in North Ridgeville represents the perfect way to catch a new film from the comfort of your own car. Built in 1965 by the Sherman family, the drive-in is still owned and operated by the family’s third generation. While the latest films show on the weekends, the Aut-O-Rama offers classic double features for Retro Tuesday. Tonight’s features: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and The Breakfast Club. Check the website for times and ticket prices. (Niesel) 33395 Lorain Rd., North Ridgeville, 440-734-1786, autoramadrivein.com. FOOD
Truck Stop Tuesday Crocker Park in Westlake has launched its seasonal Truck Stop Tuesday, a weekly food truck gathering that takes place from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Main Street. Needless to say, admission is free, but the food will cost you. You can find a lineup of upcoming food trucks on the website. (Niesel) 189 Crocker Park Blvd., Westlake, 440-871-6880. crockerpark.com.
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MOVIES THIS IS A MOVIE REVIEW ABOUT THE NEW JIM JARMUSCH FILM, THE DEAD DON’T DIE This is that review’s quippy sub-headline By Sam Allard Photo courtesy of Focus Features
SHORTLY INTO THE SECOND OR third scene of the Jim Jarmusch meta zombie comedy The Dead Don’t Die, singer-songwriter Sturgill Simpson’s “The Dead Don’t Die,” begins playing on a car radio belonging to police chief Cliff Robertson (Bill Murray). His deputy, Ronnie Peterson (Adam Driver), notes matter-of-factly that Simpson’s country ballad is the theme song. “Theme song?” Robertson asks. “Yeah, the theme song,” Peterson replies. The same song accompanied the film’s credits a few minutes prior and would return, an improbable folksy leitmotif, throughout this bizarre little monster movie with an all-star cast. It opens Friday at select theaters. The film’s meta tendency doesn’t amount to much. It’s rarely all that funny and ultimately subverts the central zombie plot. If the characters are able to acknowledge that they exist within the confines of a movie script, for example, who cares about the townspeople dying? The script allows for minimal existential grappling but does provide a host of passing amusements as zombies arise from their graves to wreak havoc on the
small Rust Belt town of Centerville — a “real nice place.” Much of the script, though, has the raggedy first-draft humor of something written by a college junior. Rosie Perez plays a TV anchor named … Posie Juarez. But DDD’s marketers at Focus Features understand that the cast is why people will see this festival-circuit flick. The tagline isn’t kidding when it references “the greatest zombie cast ever disassembled.” Joining Murray and Driver in Centerville are the likes of Chloe Sevigny (another police officer), Tilda Swinton (a mortician and samurai devotee), Danny Glover (a farmer), Steve Buscemi (a farmer), Rosie Perez (a TV journalist), Caleb Landry Jones (a gas station operator and zombie savant), Sara Driver (a zombie), Iggy Pop (a zombie), RZA (a delivery man-turned-zombie), Tom Waits (a hermit), and Selena Gomez (a hipster from Cleveland). Watching these indie A-listers fool around is worth the price of admission. When Peterson demonstrates how to decapitate a zombie — going for the head is crucial, he says — Chief Robertson comments on the form with which
he swings his machete. “Didn’t you play some minor league ball?” Incidentally, did someone say a “hipster from Cleveland?!?!? Someone did, yes. Local audiences will delight in the fact that Gomez and her road-tripping compadres who pull into Centerville at twilight are pegged by local law enforcement as hipsters from Pittsburgh, but Peterson sets the record straight. “Those are Ohio plates,” he observes outside the Centerville motel. “My educated guess would be
Cleveland.” It’s not the only local reference. And fans of Jarmusch, who was born in Akron and whose whole cinematic career has been devoted to idiosyncratic movies about oddballs with Northeast Ohio connections, will appreciate the director’s sensibility, even when it’s clunkily imposed on what is ostensibly a horror film.
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SPOTLIGHT: LATE NIGHT LATE NIGHT, WRITTEN BY THE Office and The Mindy Project writerstar Mindy Kaling and starring Kaling alongside Her Majesty Emma Thompson, is a buttery, oven-ready PG-13 comedy of a sort that has been displaced in recent years by raunchier R-rated fare. Bursting with the same effervescence that Kaling herself projects, Late Night is worthy of what might be deemed an old-fashioned descriptor: a “feelgood” film. It opens Friday in wide release. Katherine Newbury (Thompson) is a veteran late-night talk show host — the first woman to host her own late-night show — whose ratings are tumbling and whose career may
be toast when a steely new executive (Amy Ryan) tells her she’ll be canceled after her current season. In an effort to spice up the show, and to respond to criticisms of a writers’ room composed exclusively of privileged white males, Newbury’s assistant (a pitch-perfect Dennis O’Hare) hires the uncredentialed Molly Patel (Kaling) on the strength of an off-the-cuff remark in an otherwise calamitous interview. The plot is thereafter as formulaic as it gets: A hardened veteran who is initially annoyed and even repulsed (or frightened?) by a younger “diversity hire” grows to respect and admire her as she ably, honestly diagnoses the show’s defects — Newbury is both too old and too white — and invites this
pioneering woman in entertainment to be more vulnerable both on screen and off. But you can’t argue with a solid formula, especially when it’s so pleasantly executed. There is a romantic B-storyline as well, and the general vibe (young creative people in New York City!) is that of a rom-com, but it’s not squarely in that territory. The ensemble scenes in the writers’ room, with guys like Reid Scott (Veep), Max Casella (Sgt. Bilko) and Paul Walter Hauser (I, Tonya), amplifying their bro-tastic tone-deafness, are punchy and fun. But they take their cues from the radiant, expressive Thompson. From her mortified confusion at the bubbly
Molly to her casual disemboweling of her writers — “You’re fired, obviously” — Thompson is every bit the intellectual host who can’t break through to younger audiences and can’t see why she should have to. While it’s difficult to see Newbury as a former standup comic — the late-night opening monologues and the standup bits are where the scripted humor runs briefly aground — Thompson nevertheless presides over the cast and the entire project with a glittering prestige and authority. — Sam Allard
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BY THE TIME YOU GET OFF WORK and make your way to Thyme Table in Bay Village, the “Bay Moms,” as one staffer affectionately called them, have been merrily sipping white wine at the bar for at least an hour. Stroll in at the uncivilized hour of 6 p.m. and already the dining room is full, with many tables well into their main courses. Who eats dinner this early? Since opening at the tail end of April, the modestly proportioned bistro has been at the top of the dance card for many residents of this placid lakeside suburb. Chef-owner Michael Smith appears to have captured the curiosity and support of the community with his spiffedup tavern concept, where the menu trades ambitious for approachable at nearly every turn. Thyme Table is the opposite of a special-occasion restaurant, but that doesn’t mean there is nothing special about the place. Years of working in the customerfacing catering business has given Smith a knack for devising eyecatching dishes like chicken-fried oysters, lobster-topped tots and beer-braised short ribs with cheddar grits. And given his decade of experience satisfying client whims of every stripe, it’s also not surprising to see subtle nods to Italian, Greek, Korean and Middle Eastern cuisines sprinkled throughout. To kick off your meal with a literal flash, order the flaming cheese ($14), a showy starter that involves some pyrotechnics. After the cheese is set ablaze tableside, it is paired with a platter of pita wedges, stuffed grape leaves, tabbouleh and hummus. The grape leaves are firm and lemony, the tabbouleh herby and bright, and the hummus nutty and pleasantly spiced. Those decadent tater tots ($12) arrive hot and crispy beneath a crown of sweet lobster meat. Bacon, scallions and a judicious gilding of cheesy sauce elevate the ubiquitous pub snack into an extravagant treat. Smith and company nail the fried oysters ($12), dark and craggy on the outside, plump, molten and briny within. There’s remoulade for dunking and a refreshing shaved
fennel slaw as a chaser. There is almost nothing pretzel-like about the pretzels ($7) save for the dusting of coarse salt. While freshly baked, savory and delicious, especially when dipped into the beer cheese and grainy mustard, these round rolls lack that characteristic sheen and shell of a true pretzel. I’m pretty sure that if the person who selected the perfectly flat, rimless side plates was also the one
scrutiny. That otherwise appealing egg-topped fried chicken sandwich ($13) was torpedoed by a biscuit bun so thick and dense it was inedible. An elegantly trimmed and patiently braised short rib ($24) arrived lean, supple and pot roasty. But you could cut the accompanying cheddar grits like cornbread they were so stiff and set. The less said about the falafel ($17), the better, a dish that perverts the paradigm in every way, shape
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tasked with wiping down tables between guests, they likely would reconsider their purchase. From scallions to tots to roly-poly pretzels, everything tumbled right off the edge. We did appreciate the tabletop carafes of clean, cold water to top off our glasses as the need arose. As the crowds confirm, there’s no shame in dishing up chestnuts like fried chicken sammies, peppercorncrusted tuna and braised beef short ribs, even as spring approaches summer. But do so and you invite
and form. In the plus column are nearly perfect salads like the gem wedge ($7), which swaps pale iceberg for buttery gem and crimson oak lettuces and dresses them with bacon, cherry tomatoes, pickled red onion and a creamy blue cheese dressing good enough to bottle. Pasta ($19), made black as night thanks to an infusion of vegetable ash, is satisfyingly al dente. It is tossed with beautiful shrimp and springy peas in a light pesto-
enriched cream sauce. In a small, trendy place like Thyme Table, where a first-come, first-served system translates into consistent waits for a table, the bar is often a diner’s best friend. The 14-seat stick here is indeed a saving grace for solos and couples, but the stools come at a price. Our bartender was great with cocktails, beer and wines by the glass and bottle, but she could not list the contents of the meat and cheese board, erroneously described the chicken sandwich as white meat, and when asked about the differences between the short rib appetizer and short rib main course, said of the former, “It’s smaller with different stuff on top.” Management did a great job reworking the former 583 Bistro into a snappy little space with forest green walls, tin ceilings, copper accents and on-trend lighting, but if you think restaurants have become too loud, you might want to avoid Thyme Table when that bar gets rolling.
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FOR THE PAST 10 MONTHS, Rafael Zaloshnja has been laboring to bring back the old building that long housed Palazzo restaurant. Last week, he officially unveiled the space as the Palazzo (10031 Detroit Ave., 216417-7005), an upscale Italian eatery. The Albanian-born, Europe-trained chef has been in Cleveland since he was 20 years old, working at places such as Heck’s, Beachcliff Tavern and Luca. He purchased the building last summer. The unique structure on the border of the Edgewater and Cudell neighborhoods began life as the Spaghetti Grill. The business was purchased in 1947 by Palmina DiFilippo and her daughter Theresa, who opened Palmina’s. At some point, the building was relocated across the street to its present location to make room for an RTA station. In 1993, Carla and Gilda Carnecelli, grandchildren of the original owner, reworked the building into the Italian restaurant Palazzo. That restaurant cruised along until about 2002, when it closed. “I’m an Eastern European and I’ve always loved that construction, so one day I decided that I’m going to take a chance,” Zaloshnja explained. On the roster are traditional Italian appetizers like antipasti platters and wine-steamed mussels. There are a half dozen pastas, from gnocchi arrabiata and fusilli Bolognese to veal-stuffed tortellini in cream sauce. Pizzas are baked in the original brick oven that came with the keys. Hearty meat-driven mains include osso bucco and veal saltimbocca. Homemade desserts include gelato, cannoli and creme brulee. “I’m third-generation and in my experience, if you do good food and good service, people, no matter where you are, will come support you,” says the chef. “They’re going to give you a chance, at least, and if you’re smart enough, you can keep them.”
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shop in Lyndhurst, quickly caught the attention of both vegan and non-vegan diners. “We were doing everything from scratch and it really took off,” explains Sias. “We started to get a following.” Soon, additional pop-ups began drawing crowds at eastside locations like Bottlehouse Brewery and Poison Berry Bakery. Catering business further extended the brand throughout the community. Before long, the hunt for a suitable location in which to put down roots became a priority. “We wanted to stay in Cleveland Heights because there are not many vegan options on this side of town,” notes Sias. “They are mostly on the west side, in Lakewood and Rocky River.” The pair found just what they were searching for at the former Greedy Girl and, briefly, Sangeet space (2158 S. Taylor Rd.) in the Cedar-Taylor District of Cleveland Heights. The 25-seat vegan eatery will open on June 15. From then on, the restaurant will be open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 5 to 9 p.m. every day. Over the years, Sias and Cheng have enjoyed support not just from the vegan community, but the dining community at large, thanks to the creative, satisfying and delicious foods that embody the Foodhisattva brand. At its core, the food is vegan-Asian fusion that leans heavily to Korean and Japanese. Popular items that will likely make appearances include chickpea burgers with veggie slaw and Sriracha mayo, bulgogi seitan cheesesteak with cashew “cheese” sauce, kimchi waffles with vegan Korean fried chicken, sesame noodles topped with sprouts, cucumber and “omelet” strips, and onigirazu (Japanese rice ball sandwiches) stuffed with vegan tofu omelet, avocado and coconut bacon. “I have this romantic view of the small neighborhood corner space,” Sias says. “I really like the feel of those sorts of spaces where you have a small community approach. Down the road, I can see expanding the brand to the west side.”
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INGER-SONGWRITER ANI DiFRANCO says she first began thinking about her recently published memoir, No Walls and the Recurring Dream, several years ago. It slowly evolved to become an account of her life story, including her childhood and the wall-less “donut-shaped” house in the Buffalo area where she grew up. “Back in the day, we had the thought to make a handbook of sorts about being an indie musician, but that ship sailed,” she says during a recent phone interview from her New Orleans home. She performs with Lucy Wainwright Roche at 8 p.m. on Thursday at Cain Park. “At this juncture in my career and life and time on the planet, I was looking for a writing challenge after hundreds of songs. It was a new kind of challenge, and I have kids now, so I’m trying to stay home and not be such a road dog. All signs pointed to giving it a try.”
self-preservation,” she says. “[The songs] are not just about my personal love affairs. [They’re about] the society I live in and the power struggles between people and the heartbreaking inequities. I have a little window of experience into the second-class citizenry of being female. It gives you an empathy for the ways in which people are prevented from becoming themselves. I only write about what really affects me, but part of that is politics and society.” Since so much of her memoir focuses on the early part of her career (she released her selftitled debut in 1990 on her own Righteous Babe Records), DiFranco decided to revisit that past by assembling a “mixtape” of some of her early songs to accompany the book. “We had various ideas about what I could do with the older songs,” she says. “Then, what happened is what usually happens with me when left to my own devices, and I just make
I was just breaking ground and trying to invent myself. [The photos] capture that moment.” The songs on the mixtape run a wide gamut. “Anticipate,” for example, features some woozy saxophone courtesy of Maceo Parker. More funk than folk, it finds DiFranco practically rapping her way through the tune. “I love him as a human being and consider him a friend,” she says of Parker. “He’s such a musical being. I love the way he picked up on the vocal line in the choruses and sang with me. He has such a natural way of fitting in with me. DiFranco also teams up with politically minded singer-songwriter Billy Bragg on the sparse “To the Teeth.” “I was a fan of his as a teenager,” she says of Bragg. “His were some of the first political songs that I encountered out there in the world. I just ate him up. I thought, ‘Thank god.’ I loved his punk rock vibe even though
I’m 48 now, and it’s been long enough that I’ve been away from that life of solo young woman in the world traveling that I had forgotten how much of your energy goes to self-preservation. An accomplished songwriter, DiFranco is naturally more adept at poetry than prose, and she admits the book didn’t come easily. “But there’s a first time for everything,” she says. “I felt along the way many moments of deep dread and panic. I thought, ‘Can I do this?’ Then, I thought, ‘I can’t do this. Why did I’d say I would do this?’ I had other moments where I saw it shaping up. I had to move through all of it. I had no idea until the thing came out whether anybody would vibe with it.” In looking back at the early days of her career when she played coffeehouses and bars in the Buffalo area, she says it struck her that many of the songs she wrote back then had to do with “survival” and “negotiating mortal danger.” “I’m 48 now, and it’s been long enough that I’ve been away from that life of solo young woman in the world traveling that I had forgotten how much of your energy goes to
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something by myself. It’s a rough-and-ready indie thing. I re-recorded some songs and invited three special guests. Other than that, it’s maybe evocative of some of my earliest records when I recorded solo. It’s where the book begins and ends. It ends in 2001 when I was back to recording alone in my house. I go through these spells. It seemed appropriate to go back, and the book itself was such an adventure of going inward. That’s what I really felt when I started to record the music. The whole project is about going deep in.” The cover art for the mixtape features retro shots of DiFranco from that time period. “It was at some photo shoot I did in 1993 or something,” she says when asked about the photos on the mixtape cover. “I remember the photographer in New York and going up on his roof. I don’t remember what it was for — some passing magazine. I just came upon those photos. The book focuses on the early ’90s when
he was a solo songwriter. Many years later, we met doing some benefit that I can’t even remember. We’re not close and not friends but only acquaintances, but I feel very kindred to him. There’s this atmosphere of support we have for each other. It was super sweet to drop him a line out of nowhere and ask him to do this for me. When I asked, he immediately said, ‘How high?’” Since the Cain Park concert comes in the wake of the book’s publication and the mixtape’s release, DiFranco says she’ll likely include some of those early ’90s songs in her set list. “I think since I’ve relearned those old songs, I figured I’d play a few of those songs,” she says. “Yes, I think I’ll pull out some of those ancient tunes for a change.”
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some shows with me when my first record turned 25 years. We played that record from start to finish, and the Blind Boys were on some of those shows. Carter: My manager was the one who brought us together, and I’m glad he did. Marc is always a funny guy. He’s always got something to say. Within 15 minutes after we met each other, we were good friends. You come from different backgrounds, culturally and
Muriel, who is a gospel singer, and I met Al Green in the church I went to. That became my signature calling card largely because of the gospel music I heard. And now, there’s this collaboration with the Blind Boys. It’s another thread in the tapestry of my inexplicable connection to gospel music. Carter: He likes our type of music. We have that in common. He always talks about the Blind Boys of Alabama. We got music in common.
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Dead Meadow/Ma Holos: 8:30 p.m., $15. Beachland Ballroom. Druids/Pillars/Enhailer: 9 p.m., $10. Now That’s Class. Bobby Sanabria Trio with Jackie Warren & Peter Dominguez: 7:30 p.m., $20. Nighttown. Jack Zucker Trio: 7:30 p.m., $15. Bop Stop.
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06/13
Aaron Benjamin/C-Level/Rubix Groove: 8 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Grog Shop. Blackfoot Gypsies/Time Cat: 8:30 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Beachland Tavern. BoDeans/Trapper Schoepp: 8 p.m. Music Box Supper Club. Ani DiFranco/Lucy Wainwright Roche: 8 p.m., $25-$45 ADV, $28-$48 DOS. Cain Park. Ricky Exton’s Octo Jazz: 8 p.m., $10. Nighttown. Marquis Hill Blacktet: 8 p.m., $20. Bop Stop. Christone “Kingfish” Ingram: 8 p.m., $15. The Kent Stage. The Lemon Twigs/Boa Constrictors: 8 p.m., $15 ADV, $17 DOS. Beachland Ballroom. Nazca Plate/Mallows/Cool Dads/ Young Steve: 9 p.m., $5. Now That’s Class. Justus Proffit/Jason Kaminski (in the Locker Room): 7 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Mahall’s 20 Lanes. South Hill Banks: 8 p.m., $10. The Winchester. Therapy Thursday Hosted by Braxton Taylor: 8 p.m., free. CODA.
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06/14
Zac Brown Band: Known for live shows that often feature a slew of oddball covers in addition to original material, Zac Brown Band returns to Blossom tonight for what’ll undoubtedly be another memorable gig. The group seemingly plays the venue each summer and always delivers a stellar performance. The current tour supports a forthcoming album that the band has said “draws inspiration from the mythology and mystery surrounding the Great Horned
Indie rockers Vampire Weekend come to Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica. See: Friday.
Owl that can see perfectly in the night, serving as a guide when we need sight in even the darkest of moments.” Expect to hear some of those songs at tonight’s gig. (Jeff Niesel) 8 p.m., $29.25$108.25. Blossom. The Orrin Evans Trio: 8 p.m., $20. Bop Stop. Grunge Fest: 8 p.m., $13. The Winchester. Ben Nichols & Oliver Peck/Austin Lucas: 9 p.m., $20. Grog Shop. Paleface/The Village Bicycle/ Micah/Aaron Civil War: 9 p.m., $5. Happy Dog. Rock For Relief 2: 7 p.m., $30. Music Box Supper Club. Rooney: 20th Anniversary Break the Wall Tour 2019 Live + Unplugged: 8:30 p.m., $20 ADV, $22 DOS. Beachland Tavern. Vampire Weekend/Chicano Batman: Tonight, indie rockers Vampire Weekend come to town on what they’re calling their “most ambitious North American tour to date.” Special guests such as Danielle Haim contribute to Father of the Bride, the sprawling, 18-song album that’s drawn comparisons to Bruce Springsteen’s The River and the Beatles’ White Album. The songs work well together on the disc, and they hold up well on their own. The Paul Simon-like “Harmony Hall” might be one of the year’s best singles. The live show tends to be a high-energy, celebratory affair as the band really rallies behind frontman Ezra Koenig. (Niesel) 7:30 p.m., $37.50-$69.50. Jacobs Pavilion. Joe Louis Walker (in the Supper Club): 8 p.m., $15 ADV, $20
DOS. Music Box Supper Club. Jackie Warren Trio: 8:30 p.m., $10. Nighttown. Jackie Warren: 10:30 p.m., free. Nighttown. Werewolf Jones/Spike Pit/The Missed/Ruckzuk: 9 p.m., $5. Now That’s Class. Window Dogs/Witchsister: 8 p.m., $8. CODA.
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06/15
AJ Croce Plays Croce: For the current tour, singer-songwriter A.J. Croce will perform his father Jim Croce’s songs, his own material and songs that influenced both of them. Croce’s father died when he was only 2, but despite that traumatic setback, Croce has gone on to have a successful career and released nine albums to date. His latest effort, Just Like Medicine, veers from simmering rockers such as the soulful “Gotta Get Outta My Head” to woozy, horndriven ballads such as “Cures Just Like Medicine.” (Niesel) 8 p.m., $30-$40. The Kent Stage. Electric Feels: 9:30 p.m., $15 ADV, $20 DOS. House of Blues. Buddy Guy/Samantha Fish: 8 p.m. MGM Northfield Park – Center Stage. Helado Negro/Tasha/Peachcurls: Roberto Carlos Lange, the Brooklyn-based singer-producer who records as Helado Negro, comes to the Grog tonight in support of his latest effort, the eclectic, unclassifiable This Is How You Smile. Lange draws upon Brazilian music for the
shimmering “Fantasma Vaga” and gets funky for “Seen My Aura.” (Niesel) 9 p.m., $13 ADV, $15 DOS. Grog Shop. Horns & Things: 8:30 p.m., $20. Nighttown. Russ Nolan and the Theron Brown Trio: 8 p.m., $15. Bop Stop. Tank and the Bangas/Alfred Banks: When they played at last year’s In Cuya music festival, Tank and the Bangas, a rowdy band out of New Orleans, could’ve easily played on a bigger stage. Wearing a bright green shirt and colorful camo pants, exuberant singer Tarriona “Tank” Ball held the crowd’s attention with her grinding dance moves, and the large ensemble mixed together funk, rock and jazz. The band’s new album, Green Balloon, features an equally likable mix of genres. The quirky “Spaceships” possesses an Outkast vibe, and “Ants” features some tonguetwisting rhymes. (Niesel) 9 p.m., $20. Beachland Ballroom. Tummyache/Mircera/D.D Island: 8 p.m., $7. CODA. Jackie Warren: 10:30 p.m., free. Nighttown. White Reaper/Twen: 7 p.m., $15 ADV, $18 DOS. Mahall’s 20 Lanes.
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06/16
Among Authors: 8 p.m., $7. CODA. Eddie Baccus Sr. & Jr.: 7 p.m., $20. Nighttown. Big Head Todd & the Monsters: 7:30 p.m. MGM Northfield Park – Center Stage. Father’s Day With Skatch Anderssen Orchestra: 7 p.m., $15. Bop Stop. Local H/In the Whale/Dodies/Who Hit Me: Local H frontman Scott Lucas grew up in Zion, Illinois, — a place that isn’t exactly teeming with rock bands — and looked to acts like R.E.M. for inspiration. After all, those guys had come out of another small American town (Athens, Georgia) and ascended to international fame after being embraced by college radio. Ironically enough, Local H, a duo that plays heavy, grungy rock that straddles the line between metal and indie rock, is still going strong while R.E.M. has called it quits. The | clevescene.com | June 12 - 18, 2019
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LIVEWIRE group regularly passes through the Grog Shop so expect it to be in good form for tonight’s gig. (Niesel) 8:30 p.m., $17 ADV, $20 DOS. Grog Shop. Howard Jones/Men Without Hats/All Hail the Silence: 7 p.m., $40 ADV, $45 DOS. House of Blues. Reggae Sundays: The Ark Band (in the Supper Club): 4 p.m., free. Music Box Supper Club. Sons of F.U.N.K./The Cat’s Meow: 8:30 p.m., $12 ADV, $15 DOS. Beachland Tavern.
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Akstra Trio: 7 p.m., $10. Bop Stop. The Allman Betts Band: 8 p.m., $35. The Kent Stage. The Robert Cray Band and Marc Cohn Featuring the Blind Boys of Alabama/Shemekia Copeland: 7 p.m., $25-$75 ADV, $28-$78 DOS. Cain Park. Melissa Etheridge: 7:30 p.m. MGM Northfield Park – Center Stage. KISS the Summer Hello Featuring Ava Max/Ally Brooke/In Real Life/AJ Mitchell/Jake Miller/DJ Mike D: 7 p.m., $30 ADV, $35 DOS. House of Blues. Moon King: 8 p.m., $10. Now That’s Class. Outlab: Experiments In Improvised Music: 9 p.m., free. Bop Stop. Teenage Bottlerocket/Ramona/ Heart & Lung: 8:30 p.m., $15 ADV, $17 DOS. Grog Shop. Terrapin Flyer/Haight Street Revue: 7:30 p.m., $20 ADV, $25 DOS. Music Box Supper Club. Taj Weekes & Adowa: 8:30 p.m., $12 ADV, $15 DOS. Beachland Tavern.
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BAND OF THE WEEK THE ALLMAN BETTS BAND By Jeff Niesel
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originally met in the late ’90s and have played together numerous times since then, but they only formally assembled the Allman Betts Band within the past year or two. In 2017, Allman organized a concert at the Fillmore in San Francisco to honor the music and memory of his father, founding Allman Brothers Band keyboardist and singer Gregg Allman, and also to debut his new band, the Devon Allman Project. “That was the debut of his band, and he had just asked me to be a guest at that show,” Betts says. “I had just put out a solo record and I was the opening act.” The show marked the beginning of a partnership with Betts, son of founding Allman Brothers Band guitarist and singer Dickey Betts. Last year, Betts served as the opening act on the Devon Allman Project tour. During the shows, he’d also join Allman each night for a tribute to their respective fathers. “We went to Europe and played extensively throughout the States,” says Betts when asked about that tour. “I would guest with his band, and he would do three or four tunes with my band. My guitar player Johnny Stachela was out with me, and I used [Allman’s] rhythm section. From that, we formed the Allman Betts Band. It’s been really great.” NO OVERDUBS: The group recorded its
forthcoming album, Down to the River, at Muscle Shoals with Matt Ross-Spang (Jason Isbell, Margo Price, John Prine). “Devon worked with [Ross-Spang] in Memphis,” says Betts. “He was doing something on a Sun Studios special. They had met there and stayed in touch.
Devon brought that name up and let me know what his credentials were, and I thought it was a good choice.” The guys cut the record live to tape. “We wanted to go for an old-school classic vibe,” says Betts. “A lot of the great records were done that way. You just set up and record the room instead of recording a bunch of tracks and overdubbing a bunch of stuff. You record what’s going on in the room. We used tape because it sounds so great.” WHY YOU SHOULD HEAR THEM: Album opener “All Night” features gruff vocals and wailing guitars as it evokes the classic rock of the 1970s. “That was just right off the cuff,” says Betts when asked about the track. “I had a riff, and we started working on it. Devon came up with the subject of the song. I had a melody and a movement and all the parts. It’s just a classic collaboration of guys sitting around.” With “Shinin’,” another classic rock-sounding track that features a touch of organ, the band writes about overcoming hardship. “It’s about when you’ve been through some hard times, and you find a new light and a new hope that love can bring,” says Betts. “It’s an uplifting song but it’s gritty too. It’s talking about where I’ve been. I’m shining now, but I’ve been through some stuff. It’s got a cool Southern-soul-meets-Derek-and-theDominos vibe.” WHERE YOU CAN HEAR THEM:
allmanbettsband.com. WHERE YOU CAN SEE THEM: The Allman Betts Band performs at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, June 18, at the Kent Stage in Kent.
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SAVAGE LOVE SHOP AROUND by Dan Savage
I’m a straight cis woman in my early 40s and a single mother. I have not dated or hooked up with anyone in years. While I miss dating, the biggest issue right now is that my sex drive is off the charts. While watching porn and masturbating once my child goes to sleep helps, I really want to get well and truly fucked by a guy who knows what he’s doing. I could likely go to a bar or on Tinder and find a man for a one-night stand, but I’m hesitant to do that. To add to my complicated backstory, I have a history of childhood sexual abuse and have had only two partners in my whole life, one of whom was abusive. My past sexual forays have not been particularly satisfying, in part due to my lack of experience and comfort indicating what I do/do not like, as well as some dissociation during the actual act. I keep thinking it would be easier to find a sex worker to “scratch the itch,” as presumably a male sex worker would be more open, sex-positive, and skilled. But I have no idea how I might go about it or what the procedure or etiquette is. And I am fearful that I could get arrested given the illegality of soliciting in my conservative southern state. Getting in trouble could have devastating effects on my life, and I would definitely lose my job. I am trying to weigh the pros and cons, but I feel out of my depth. Any advice for a gal who wants to get fucked but is not sure how to make that happen in a safe-ish space? — Single Mom Absolutely Stupid Horny “In the recent past, the answer would have been ‘Google,’” said John Oh, a Sydney-based male sex worker for women. “But in a post-SESTA/ FOSTA world, that route is now unreliable — especially in the United States, where advertising on the web is far more difficult.” SESTA/FOSTA — the “Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act/ Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act” — is a 2018 law that was crafted, backers said (backers lied), to fight sex trafficking. It made it a crime for web platforms to knowingly or unknowingly allow someone to post a sex ad. The law is so vague that platforms like Craigslist, Tumblr, and Facebook purged sexually
explicit content in an effort to prevent sex workers from basically being online at all. SESTA/FOSTA’s backers claim they want to protect women — and only women — but in reality, pushing sex workers out of online spaces (where they could more effectively screen clients, share safety tips with each other, and organize politically) made sex work more dangerous, not less, and has led to more sex trafficking, not less. But one platform — one much pilloried but still popular platform — is bucking the anti-sex-worker/antisexually-explicit-content trend. “Twitter is still a (mostly) safe place for sex workers, and I have not heard of law enforcement using it to entrap potential clients,” said John. “So I believe that it is a reasonably safe place to anonymously research male sex workers. Many of us advertise there.” Since no one knows how long Twitter will allow sex workers to use its platform, you might want to get started on that search now, SMASH. And while sex work is work, and it’s work many people freely choose to do, not everyone is good at their job. Since your experiences with unpaid sex weren’t that great, I asked John for some tips on increasing your odds of finding a skilled male sex worker. “Sadly, in places where sex work is criminalized, it’s harder to find a suitable male sex worker,” said John, “especially for someone who needs extra special care due to trauma. I expect that for SMASH, traveling to a place where sex work is not criminalized would not be practical, but that might be an option for others.” If traveling to Australia, where John lives and where he’s been doing sex work for nine years (legally, as sex work is decriminalized in his state of New South Wales, and legalized in much of the rest of Australia), is unrealistic, John suggests chatting with sex workers in your area — but not, at least at first, the male ones. “Her best option may be to talk to female sex workers on Twitter and ask them for a recommendation,” said John. “This has two benefits — the first is that female workers
in her general area will have local knowledge. The second is that female workers are generally very careful about endorsing male workers. So if a few female workers suggest a male sex worker, there is a high likelihood that he will be safe, capable, and professional. But if SMASH goes this route, tipping the female workers who help her out would be polite — otherwise this would amount to asking for unpaid labor.” You can find John Oh on Twitter @JohnOhOfSydney.
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An older guy at my gym tentatively inquired if he could ask me an “inappropriate question.” I told him he could. I’m straight, he’s pretty obviously gay, and I figured he was going to hit on me. Then he said the question was “sexual in nature” and was I sure it was okay? I said yes. He asked if he could buy the shoes I wear to the gym once they’re worn out. I know why someone would want my old shoes — he’s obviously masturbating with them — and that’s fine, everyone’s got their weird thing (myself included). Two quick questions: Isn’t what he did risky? (I could easily see some other guy reacting badly.) And how much should I charge? — Smelling Nikes Entertains A Kinky Senior It was definitely a risky ask, SNEAKS, but you’re probably not the first guy he’s approached. I imagine he has a hard-earned feel for who’s likely to react positively and who’s not (and a few canceled gym memberships along the way to show for it). And I’d say $20 would be fair. It’s not the full cost of replacing the shoes — he’s a shoe perv, not a fin sub — but it’s enough to be worth your while and it reflects the value of your old shoes. Not on the open market, but to him.
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A straight couple I know that “dabbles” in kink recently visited a famous leather/fetish/bondage store with deep ties to San Francisco’s gay community (Mr. S Leather, not that it’s important). They purchased
some simple bondage implements that they could just as easily have ordered online from any number of stores that aren’t institutions in the gay BDSM subculture. I don’t think straight people should be barging into spaces that aren’t theirs to purchase items that were not created for them. I am not gay myself, but I try to be a good ally, and part of being a good ally is holding other straight people accountable. — Respect Queer Space You’ve got to be kidding me with this shit, RQS. Donald Trump banned trans people from the military, the Trump administration has made it legal for doctors and EMTs to refuse to treat queer people, they’re allowing federally funded adoption agencies to discriminate against same-sex couples, and they just shut down promising research into a cure for HIV (much to the delight of religious conservatives, who have always and still want us dead). And heaping insult on injury, RQS, Donald Fucking Trump “celebrated” Pride Month with a tweet — and you’re not only worried about a straight couple buying a little gear in a gay leather/fetish/bondage shop but you’re coming to me with this shit expecting praise? If a couple of straight people wandering into a gay-owned business that’s legally obligated not to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation — a law that protects queer people, too — is what you’re wasting your time on right now, RQS, with everything that’s going on, you’re a shit ally and a worse human being. Just to make sure it was okay with Mr. S, I shared your letter with general manager Jonathan Schroder, who said: “We are owned by gay men and very explicitly market to gay men. But everyone is welcome here. We’re happy there are straight people who feel comfortable shopping here.”
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