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NOBLE PURSUIT How Christopher Noble went from Cleveland bar owner to running an international butler academy in China

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THIS WEEK

ON FRIDAY EVENING, OHIOANS for Medical Marijuana suspended its campaign. Considering the recent passage of the state’s medical marijuana bill, organizers are planning on advocating for the legislation and its effective implementation.

From the group: “...the reality is that raising funds for medical marijuana policy changes is incredibly difficult, especially given the improvements made to the proposed program by the Ohio General Assembly and the fact that the Governor is expected to sign the bill.”

OMM had been pursuing an amendment that would have been far less restrictive than what the statehouse passed. For one thing, the amendment would allow patients to smoke marijuana; the bill prohibits smoking.

There’s also a marked difference in the qualifying conditions that would net a medical marijuana prescription. As written, the bill covers: HIV/AIDS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), Crohn’s disease, epilepsy or another seizure disorder, fibromyalgia, glaucoma, hepatitis C, inflammatory bowel disease, multiple sclerosis, pain that is either chronic and severe or intractable, Parkinson’s disease, post-traumatic stress disorder, sickle cell anemia, spinal cord disease or injury, Tourette’s syndrome, traumatic brain injury and ulcerative colitis.

The amendment would have added: muscular dystrophy, autism with aggressive or self-injurious behavior, Huntington’s disease, cachexia or wasting syndrome and severe and persistent muscle spasms.

“Our Constitutional amendment builds on the legislature’s work by

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incorporating national best practices and offers voters an opportunity to enact a law free of the horsetrading inherent in the legislative process,” said Aaron Marshall, spokesman for Ohioans for Medical Marijuana, prior to the campaign’s suspension. “Our amendment also protects the rights of patients in the Ohio Constitution, not leaving this important issue vulnerable to the reach of special interests.”

Note that Gov. John Kasich still has to sign the bill into law. It’s still kind of unclear whether he will. “He’s said if we need it and we got a good bill he’d be OK with it,” spokesman Joe Andrews cryptically told Cleveland.com.

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BOOM GOES THE BIKE SHARE As many as 125 new bikes will hit Cleveland streets in time for the RNC as part of a new bike share program that aims to have 700 total bikes at 70 stations across the city by 2020.

The program will be called “UHBikes,” named for title sponsor University Hospitals. The bikes are red unisex cruisers with a University Hospitals basket upfront.

Details about rental cost and payment mechanisms are still being finalized. County sustainability director Mike Foley has said he wants the program to be accessible to all, even those without credit cards.

UHBikes will feature at least one nontraditional convenience: for a fee, riders can leave their bikes wherever they finish their ride -- they won’t have to park at a docking station.

“The city is using bikes outfitted with GPS trackers and built-in locks that can attach to any bike rack,” wrote Vox.com in its analysis of Cleveland’s new program. “So if your destination station is full (or if you need to park someplace other

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than a station), you can simply lock the bike at whatever rack is closest at hand and get on with your day.

Other riders can then use their smartphone apps to find the stray bike and grab it.”

The UHBikes program will be managed in partnership with CycleHop and Social Bicycles, who already run bike shares in Phoenix, Tampa and Beverly Hills. The program arrives in Cleveland less than two years after bike sharing was first introduced with Zagster.

Most of the organizations that sponsored bike racks through Zagster have elected not to renew their contracts in favor of a single system, Jacob Van Sickle, executive director of Bike Cleveland, told Scene. But five locations still remain.

Sam McNulty, who was one of Zagster’s private investors, was pleased with the results of the program.

“I’m very happy to see that our two-year experiment in private sector-funded public-access bike sharing spurred interest and action from the wider community,” he said.

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NOBLE PURSUIT How Christopher Noble went from Cleveland bar owner to running an international butler academy in China.

By Sam Allard

THE CALL: CHRISTOPHER NOBLE IS FOND of saying that he’s world famous… in China. He’s the rakish central figure in a Hollywood-caliber commercial spot that swarmed the TVs of Sichuan Province and points east in early May. It was a commercial advertising something called the International Butler Academy, in Chengdu.

The International Butler Academy, China (TIBA) turns out to be the satellite campus of a castlebased school in the Netherlands that trains men and women from around the world in the fine art of extremely upscale service. Think white gloves, coattails, mises-enplace. The Downton Abbeyish site of this specialized training, in the Netherlands, is the gloriously Dutch Huize Damiaan, in the town of Simpelveld.

In China, TIBA in Chengdu is the only game in town. And perhaps it comes as little surprise, but butlering is booming in the world’s most populous nation, where “millionaires are born every day,” according to TIBA chairman Robert Wennekes. That’s great news for Chris Noble. He’s the 45-year-old training director there, and he happens to hail from Cleveland, Ohio.

Noble descends from a tree of distinguished local bar owners -Pickwick & Frolic’s Nick Kostis is his godfather -- and for 13 years, he owned two Cleveland bars of his own. One on the east side, one on the west. But a few years after reading a newspaper series on the International Butler Academy, he decided to pursue a different sort of dream.

“I remember the line from the

last paragraph of the last story in the series,” Noble says on a sunny afternoon in Cleveland. It’s only his second trip home in more than three years. “It said, ‘It’s living the life without having to pay the bills.’ I folded up my paper and told myself at that moment, ‘This is what I’m going to do.’”

Owning bars afforded Noble certain luxuries -- “I never had to punch a clock,” Noble says, for instance -- and so, one day in 2012, he took eight weeks off to attend one of TIBA’s training sessions in Europe. The rigorous curriculum is the same one he now oversees in China, (though his own course is six weeks, as opposed to eight: “Fewer field trips,” he explains).

The training often involved grueling 16-hour days of endless information and meticulous physical activity: housemanagement, table-management, cigars, wine, laundry, the whole deal.

“You will be responsible for the rest of the staff, and possibly the yacht, the jet and other properties,” TIBA apprises potential students on its website.

“You will be the estate or house manager, sometimes the chauffeur and at times even the housekeeper, handyman, accountant, gardener etc. Whatever your role, we will teach you to do it with style and grace.”

Noble got hooked in a big way.

“It was right up my alley,” he says.

So when he returned to Cleveland after the course concluded, he sold his bars and made his life’s new direction official.

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FEATURE

“Cleveland was a funny time in the ’80s, man. It was a depressed economy, and besides a couple little bars here and there, it was empty.”

— Chris Noble

people, the same stories. A customer may be a great customer, but he’ll tell you the exact same story that he told you eight years ago. Not eight hours or eight days ago, eight years. It was one of these things where it was like, if I don’t get out now, I’ll be owning bars in Cleveland for the rest of my life.”

LITTLE BARS Right now, Chris Noble’s nursing a hard cider at Johnny’s Little Bar & Grille, the watering hole on Frankfort Avenue between West 6th and West 9th. He’s admiring the woodwork and shaking his head at the photos on the wall with an almost Proustian nostalgia. He’s dressed in a threepiece greenish suit that presents as a sheeny strain of tweed. His hair is parted with the same geometric precision of Europe’s celebrity footballers. And if you’re wondering whether or not he’s wearing cufflinks and a tie tack, rest assured that he is.

“Nothing has changed since the day we built this place,” Noble says

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(except, perhaps, himself).

Back then, before it was Johnny’s Little Bar & Grille, it was just Little Bar. Noble’s step dad Tony Harris owned what is now Johnny’s but what was then called Isis, and Noble says it was the biggest lesbian bar between New York and Chicago, visited by such trailblazing entertainment luminaries as Lily Tomlin and Patti Labelle. In 1982, Noble says, Isis hosted a $100,000 light show, unheard of at the time.

Nineteen eighty-two was the same year that Noble, his brother, his mom, Tony Harris, Nick Kostis, a carpenter and an electrician built Little Bar, adjacent to Isis. They gutted the place, redid the wood, fixed the doors.

“Those stock certificates on the wall?” Noble says, gesturing to the corner where they’re framed to this day. “My dad dug them up from someplace and put them up.

And the pictures of that building being demolished? My dad took those pictures.”

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Noble’s teenage years were spent in the kitchens and on the floors of downtown bars -- back when Cleveland was slightly more, shall we say, rough and tumble than it is today. Back then, the Warehouse District was literally full of warehouses.

“Cleveland was a funny time in the ’80s, man,” Noble says. “It was a depressed economy, and besides a couple little bars here and there, it was empty.”

But that didn’t deter the crowds.

Noble remembers having to install a makeshift dumb-waiter in Little Bar (a garage door opener and aluminum trays) to accommodate all the patrons on the second floor.

Today the second floor is dark and dusty, home to bathrooms but otherwise attic-esque. Not back then.

“It was packed every single day,” Noble says, energized by the memory. “And while my friends were out chasing girls, I was here or over at Ontario Lounge every night and every weekend all summer, washing dishes, cleaning up, checking the booths for spare

change. This is where I grew up...

And if anyone ever tries to tell you Little Bar has been around forever, unless they mean since 1982, it hasn’t.”

After high school, Noble bounced along a rudderless trajectory that’s familiar to a lot of teenagers without immediate plans. He tried out college, but he and Kentucky’s Morehead State didn’t get along so well. He did some odd jobs for awhile, but otherwise “just kind of floated through life,” says Noble.

In ’93, at 23 years old, he joined the Coast Guard, ultimately serving for eight years in both Alaska and Florida.

“And that’s where things started clicking for me, in terms of highend service,” Noble says. “I was quickly tapped for front-office work, and I became part of the command cadre. I helped entertain guests: foreign dignitaries, domestic consular generals, politicians, you name it. Every politician in the lower 48 wanted to come to Alaska in the summer months to go hunting or whatever,

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When he was transferred to St. Petersburg, Florida, he was assigned similar work.

Owning bars seemed like a natural extension, even a kind of logical extreme, to the entertainment skills and experience he’d accrued as a Coastie. So after he got out, he returned to Cleveland and quickly bought two joints: the Fidelity Sports Lounge on West 117th, which he converted to the private Oriole Club about six years later, and the Union Club Tavern on East 26th and St. Clair.

Noble says the Union Club, in particular, was a huge success.

“It worked out beautifully because every trade was there,” Noble says. “from iron to steel, carpenters, electricians, elevators, longshoremen, you name it. They always had their union meetings there so that helped out.” (The hardhats and blue-collar appurtenances that adorn the walls of the Union Club Tavern to this day -- appurtenances remarked upon in our own excursions with the Cleveland Bar Experiment -- Noble says were his idea, expanded upon

by the bar’s current owner).

And for a long time, Noble enjoyed the roller-coaster ride of barownership, even loved it. But during those 13 years, he was nursing an itch in private, a drive to explore the world’s faraway corners. Maybe that’s why he read the Plain Dealer’s travel section so sedulously. Maybe that’s why the International Butler Academy held such allure for him.

He says after he read the TIBA series but before he decided to take the course, he checked the website from time to time just to make sure it still existed, just to make sure he hadn’t lost his chance.

“Don’t get me wrong, I love Cleveland. Cleveland had been very very kind to me. Beautiful family, beautiful friends. But I wanted to do and see things, man. I wanted to see the world,” Noble says. “So after the butler course, I sold those bars as fast as I possibly could.”

GATEWAY TO THE WEST For all the talk of Cleveland’s renaissance, China’s rebirth and explosive 21st-Century growth is

in a category unto itself.

You know, or at least have heard the names, of the major coastal cities: Beijing, the capital in the north; Shanghai, the international business center with the radical skyline (and the largest “city proper” population in the world) that has served as a memorable backdrop in a number of recent action movies -- Mission Impossible 3, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Skyfall; Hong Kong, the autonomous territory on the South China Sea, long under British rule; Guangzhou, across from Hong Kong in the mainland, with a metropolitan-area population (that includes Shenzen, Dongguan and Macau) of 44 million.

You may be less familiar with the heartland, China’s answer to the American Midwest and the West Coast. It’s dotted with cities you’ve never heard of that are all significantly more populous than Chicago and L.A. Chengdu, for example, where Chris Noble lives, is home to 14 million souls. (“Are there, like, skyscrapers there?”

Scene is embarrassed to say we

inquired. The answer is yes.

Among other things, it’s home to the New Century Global Center, the largest building, by floor area, in the world). Chongqing, a twohour train ride from Chengdu, is now China’s most populous municipality, with an estimated 30 million people living there.

Many of these millions are very very rich. “Super-rich” is how the class of newly wealthy Chinese has been defined in such print venues as the New York Times and the New Yorker. And the quest for (and acquisition of) Western-style wealth has engendered a desire for Western-style amenities, Westernstyle service.

Enter Chris Noble. His first internship after he graduated from TIBA in the Netherlands was with WangJiang in Chengdu, a real estate firm keen on distinguishing its luxury apartments from all the others cropping up. Noble wasn’t working for a specific family the way Carson does for the Crawleys in Downton Abbey. In some ways, he was positioned in for-sale units for effect. And the effect, as far

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“People in China are beginning to recognize butlering as a viable career path and are paying for the course (about $8,000) themselves.”

— Chris Noble time, I’m serving them coffee, tea, whatever they want. At about 9:30, she calls me over and she goes ‘Chris, I wanna tell you something.

I’m buying a unit here today. I was looking at another high-end luxury place down the street, but I’m gonna buy here today, because of you and your service.’ And I said, this is what I’m here to do.

I’m proud to serve you. And she goes, ‘I didn’t just buy one unit, I bought 10.’ That’s a true story. She had a stack of credit cards this thick.”

Noble makes a claw with his thumb and index finger that could grip a pop can.

So effective were Noble and his friend, a Swiss man who took TIBA’s course the same time Noble did, that WangJiang hired them full-time. Shortly thereafter, WangJiang and TIBA met to discuss a “China Campus,” which Noble would run.

“It was needed,” Noble says.

“China’s funny, man. Twenty years ago, you could build it and they would come. Now, people are more choosy. You can have two luxury apartments -- same construction, same gold fixtures -- and the only thing that sets apart one from the other is the service.”

TIBA China was officially established in the summer of 2014

-- it’s still very recent -- and it’s now run out of the WangJiang Hotel Chengdu. Noble says that many real estate firms in China now like to bundle butler service with the sale of luxury apartment units, and so most of the students, at first, were sent there (and paid for) by big firms or high-end hotels.

“But I’m starting to see a change,” he says. People in China are beginning to recognize butlering as a viable career path and are paying for the course (about $8,000) themselves. Noble says it’s certainly no small investment, but that in his experience, it’s worth it.

“We offer worldwide assignment, and even if a placement isn’t available right this moment, there might be in the future. Right now, there’s a man building the biggest house ever made on the island of Hainan [near Hong Kong]. It’s absolutely humongous. He’s hiring two butlers --- he wants one male, one female who both must be goodlooking and must be from Hong Kong; he won’t budge on that -and he’s paying them $1 million RMB per year (~ $167,000). This is a life-changer not only for the individual but for the individual’s family.”

Noble knows all about lifechangers: Taking TIBA’s course in the Netherlands in the first place -- eight weeks he describes as more rigorous than boot camp -- was a risk; moving to Chengdu, to a city he thought would be all pagodas and pandas, was about as dramatic a shift from Cleveland, Ohio as one could imagine. What’s the next big change for Chris Noble?

To hear him tell it, probably moving back home.

As China looks West, so too does Noble. He’s enjoyed his years in Chengdu and the work he’s done with TIBA, but he misses the states, and he says he’s already eyeing lakefront property in Euclid. But what would a worldclass butler do in Cleveland, Ohio?

“The hospitality industry, probably.” Noble speculates. “I’m interested in hotel management.”

He’ll certainly have plenty to choose from.

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1/01

RuPaul’s Drag Race arrives at the Agora.

See: Friday.

ART

Drink and Draw Social Club Twice every month, Great Lakes Brewing Company hosts Cleveland’s Drink and Draw Social Club. The event is organized by the Rust Belt Monster Collective and sponsored by Carol and John’s Comic Book Shop. Drink and Draws are an opportunity for artists of all levels of experience to drink, draw, socialize/network and collaborate in very relaxed and welcoming environment. Events take place on the first and third Wednesday of every month. At the end of each Drink and Draw, prizes are awarded for various superlatives. Free. (Usmani) 2516 Market Ave., 216-771-4404, greatlakesbrewing.com.

SPOKEN WORD

Keep Talking Keep Talking is an exciting storytellers program where locals can share their real-life experiences on a theme. This month’s theme is to be determined.

Stories range from the insightful and sad to the funny and bizarre. Held in the Happy Dog’s basement, the Underdog, the series is your chance to grab a drink and a dog while listening to some of your Cleveland neighbors amuse you with their tales. Tonight’s edition starts at 8 and costs $5.(Stoops) 5801 Detroit Ave., 216-651-9474, happydogcleveland.com.

COMEDY

Dave Landau With a deadpan demeanor, on-point pacing and perfect timing, it’s easy to see why Dave Landau is in demand among audiences and club owners today. While critics often compare his comedy to that of another era, Landau appears to be just like us.

He has a wife, a house and a sense of calmness in an increasingly unstable world. Tackling topics that everyone in the audience can relate to — marriage, kids, sex and hilarious situations that he finds himself in — Landau can make any and everyone keel over from non-stop laughter.

Be sure to get your dose of him at Hilarities tonight at 8. Tickets are $18. (Danielle Immerman) 2035 East Fourth St., 216-241-7425, pickwickandfrolic.com.

FILM

Sweet Bean A touching Japanese film, Sweet Bean tells the story of how one

woman works for a baker who is much younger than her. She revitalizes his dorayaki pancake business by filling the pancakes with her very own homemade sweet bean paste. A story about trust, hard work, and friendship between business partners, it screens at 7 tonight and at 7 on Friday night at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tickets are $9 for general admission, $7 for CMA members. (Alexis Wohler) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.

FOOD

Walnut Wednesday You know it’s summer when Walnut Wednesdays return. Today from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Perk Plaza at Chester Commons — at East 12th and Walnut Streets — food trucks gather to serve up freshly cooked food to area residents and employees. Follow the DCA on Facebook for weekly updates on vendors, entertainment offerings, and more. Admission is free, but the food will cost you. (Niesel) downtowncleveland.com.

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6/02

FILM

As I AM: The Life and Times of DJ AM A look at the life and work of the influential electronic music DJ, Adam Michael Goldstein, also known as DJ AM, As I AM: The Life and Times of DJ AM chronicles the life of the American DJ remixer and musician.

Goldstein was a member of the rock band Crazy Town from 1999 until 2001 and was also a successful solo DJ, performing for three years at Cesar’s Palace, as well as at private events for various celebrities. the movie screens tonight at 7:30 at Capitol Theatre. Regular admission rates apply. (Wohler) 1390 West 65th St., 216-651-7295, clevelandcinemas.com.

COMEDY

Pablo Francisco With a wicked sense of humor, arsenal of characters, spontaneous outbursts, spot on impressions and clever insights, it’s understandable why Pablo Francisco is one of the most popular touring comedians worldwide. His off-the-wall performances match his spot-on observances regarding our absurdly illogical pop-culture obsessed world effectively producing raucous laughter, so it’s easy to see why his two comedy specials, They Put It Out There and Ouch!, continue to remain the network’s most requested specials. For an evening of laughter, be sure to catch Francisco at 7 tonight at the Improv, where he has shows scheduled through Sunday.

Tickets are $20. (Immerman) 1148 Main Ave., 216-696-IMPROV, clevelandimprov.com.

COMEDY

Joe Machi With a resume to boast about, it’s easy to see why Joe Machi has been endlessly touring the U.S. as a headlining stand-up comedian.

Between performing on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, appearing as a regular on Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld on Fox News and winning countless comedy competitions like the 2013 NY Comedy Festival’s Funniest Comedian Competition, it’s hard to understand how Machi even has time to constantly tour the country. With relatable topics delivered hilariously, you won’t want to miss Joe Machi at 8 tonight at Hilarities where he performs through Sunday. Tickets are $23.

(Immerman) 2035 East Fourth St., 216-241-7425, pickwickandfrolic.com.

FILM

a darkened chamber with hordes of sweating, texting teenagers, is hardly an optimal way to be entertained, especially given the lovely breeze and picnic-able lawns of Northeast Ohio in June, July and August. Watching a movie outside’s the way to go. Driveins no longer have the cache, nor the presence, that they enjoyed in the soda-fountain 1950s, and while they’re thoroughly enjoyable, plenty of local cities and organizations are helping to fill the void by getting the silver screen under the starry sky. Every Thursday evening at 9 p.m. from June through August, Crocker Park plays a film behind the GameStop store. (Sam Allard) 143 Crocker Park Blvd., Westlake, crockerpark.com.

SPOKEN WORD

SoundExchange Influencers Series Jerry Cantrell of Alice in Chains and 2016 Inductee Glenn Hughes of Deep Purple come from very different places when it comes to the music they create. Most critics associate Cantrell with the grunge movement of the ‘90s and harder rocker Hughes with what we now consider classic rock. They’ll share the stage tonight at 7 at the Rock Hall as part of the Rock Hall’s SoundExchange Influencers Series spotlights “the importance and power of all generations of music – past, present and future – while simultaneously raising awareness around the value of all music.” Admission is $10. (Niesel) 1100 Rock and Roll Blvd., 216515-8444, rockhall.com.

THEATER

The Toxic Avenger A hit off Broadway, The Toxic Avenger makes its regional debut tonight at 7 at Cain Park, where it runs through June 26. The musical centers on a corrupt New Jersey mayor who thwarts a man’s attempts to clean up the most polluted city in the state by dumping his ass in a vat of radioactive waste water. The man returns to wreak havoc as the Toxic Avenger, a sevenfoot mutant with super human strength. Tickets to tonight’s preview are $20. (Niesel) 14591 Superior Rd., Heights, 216371-3000, cainpark.com.

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COMEDY

Frank Caliendo Known for his impressions of actors, politicians and sports figures, Frank Caliendo is a man of many talents.

Specifically specializing in his variety of sports-related impressions, Caliendo recently completed an impressive 10-year run on the FOX NFL Sunday Pregame show and just joined the cast of the Sunday NFL Countdown on ESPN. In addition to his skilled sports-related impressions, Caliendo does a wide-array of other impressions, and his overall hilarious sense of humour has landed him performances on shows such as The View, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, The Tonight Show and the Late Show with David Letterman. So if you like to laugh, you won’t want to miss Caliendo at Hilarities tonight at 7:30 and 10. Tickets are $35.

(Immerman) 2035 East Fourth St., 216-241-7425, pickwickandfrolic.com.

Groove is in the Heart Mahall’s Bowling Alley has had great success with Groove is in the Heart, a ‘90s dance party series. The event features DJ Hama, DJ Castronaut and DJ Rachel H spinning tunes from the era in the main stage area, and DJ Becca Bae’s Basement Bangers playing in the Locker Room. Vintage

showcase two artists, each seeking to communicate visually in their own unique way. In the Sullivan Family Gallery, Suzan Kraus: Perspection includes elements such as handmade paper and paint colors, assembled to create abstract visual narratives which reflect our personal thoughts and feelings by causing us to look simultaneously inward and

Demo Days Just a week before the opening of their annual Peer Show, the Cleveland Print Room invites you to a demonstration of the lumen printing process. Using organic materials, participants will create their own prints with materials provided or brought from home — feel free to bring your own plants and other organic materials. This all ages event is free for CPR members or $5 for non-members. Demo Days: Lumen Prints takes place from noon to 3 p.m. today. The demo and workshop are led by CPR instructor Nikki Follen. (Usmani) 2550 Superior Ave., 216-401-5981, clevelandprintroom.com.

EXhiBit noW OPen The latest special exhibit at the Rock Hall looks at some of the most important debates in our country through the lens of rock music, such as civil rights, LGBT issues, war & peace, censorship and more. Featuring exclusive video interviews with Bono, David Byrne, Dee Snider, Tom Morello, Lars Ulrich and more.

Northeast Ohio! Get almost 20% off of a Rock Hall general admission ticket at the box office. Must show a valid ID with ZIP code beginning with 440, 441, 442 or 443.

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Ru Paul’s Drag Race At an event hosted by Michelle Visage, “queen of the divas,” eight of your fan favorites and top performers from RuPaul’s Drag Race will grace the stage at the Cleveland Agora for a night you’ll never forget. If you’re not familiar with the show, RuPaul’s Drag Race follows 13 drag queens as they compete for the title of “America’s Next Drag Superstar,” a headlining spot on the Absolut Tour, a lifetime supply of Kryolan makeup and a cash prize of $75,000. So you won’t want to miss the reigning queens when they rule over the Agora tonight at 9. Tickets are $37.50. (Immerman) 5000 Euclid Ave., 216-881-6700, clevelandagora.com.

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ART

Gladiators vs. Arizona Rattlers With the Cleveland Browns headed toward yet another season of rebuilding, why not get your football fix with the Cleveland Gladiators, our Arena Football team that has proved to be competitive (back in 2014, they made it to the championship game).

Tonight at 7, the team squares off against the Arizona Rattlers. It’s fan salute night so expect plenty of giveaways. Tickets start at $10.

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words, which offer him a broader and more nuanced language. Both exhibitions open with a reception from 7 to 9 p.m. today. Free. (Usmani) 28795 Lake Rd., Bay Village, 440-8716543.

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clothing, focusing on ‘90s styles, will be on sale at Cattitude Vintage, which has a dedicated space in Mahall’s. The event begins at 10 p.m. Admission is $5. (Niesel) 13200 Madison Ave., Lakewood, 216521-3280, mahalls20lanes.com.

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outward. Meanwhile in the Diane Boldman Educational Gallery, Bill Forester: Facing Forward features self-portraits by the artist that serve as a passage through a threshold of recovery and celebrate life and love as the artist “faces forward.” Six years ago, a stroke took Forester’s voice.

His need to communicate and be understood drove Forester to discover methods of creative expression beyond

Spring Badfish 2016 Sublime-tribute band Badfish is returning to the Quarry for another legendary two-night performance on Friday and Saturday, June 3 and 4 along with several other phenomenal bands. In addition to the amazing live music, you’ll enjoy hiking, biking, camping, cliff diving, sunbathing and more. If you love summer and if you love music, then Spring Badfish is not to be missed. Tickets are $45-75.

(Immerman) 12001 State Route 282, Garrettsville, 440-548-2716, nlqp.com.

COMEDY

Theo Von Comedian and writer Theo Von is best known as the host of TBS’s hit weekly hidden camera prank show Deal With It, as well as Yahoo!’s insanely popular daily recap show, Primetime In No Time. With an extensive list of accolades for his numerous TV appearances, Von is a comedian not to be missed. Working his southern charm into his relatably hilarious sense of humor, Von appeared on In Bed With Joan Rivers, in which he refuted Rivers’ claim that he looked like a young DiCaprio by saying he’s actually the “grinch who stole Matt Damon.” To experience the man that stole Rivers’ heart, don’t miss Theo Von at the Hard Rock Rocksino tonight at 7:30 and 10:30 and tomorrow night at 7. Tickets are $20.

(Immerman) 10705 Northfield Road, Northfield, 330-908-7771, www. hrrocksinonorthfieldpark.com.

ART

Walk All Over Waterloo June’s first Friday marks the last Walk All Over Waterloo before the neighborhood’s annual Waterloo Arts Fest at the end of the month.

An early preview of sorts, the event includes the opening of several exhibitions, including the annual Waterloo Arts Fest Juried Exhibition, Frank Lanza’s photographs at Space: ROCK, Annmarie Suglio’s Interlude at Praxis Fiber Workshop, local photography by Stephen Bivens at Phone Gallery, Loren Naji presents ZENITH at his Satellite Gallery and Marcel Duchamp’s (not THAT Marcel Duchamp – this one’s from Akron) Readymade exhibition at Loren Naji’s Art Lounge. Also, you’ll have another opportunity to view Hilary Gent’s Properties of Water at the Maria Neil Art Project. There’s plenty more to see and do throughout the neighborhood.

June’s Walk All Over Waterloo takes place from 5 to 10 p.m. today. Free.

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cosmic phenomena, seminal scientific instruments, and spectacular scenes in deep space.” Although only 24 minutes long, the show captures the fascinating vastness of the universe.

It shows today and tomorrow at 4 p.m. at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History’s Nathan and Fannye Shafran Planetarium. Tickets are $5, and members get in free. (Bullock) 1 Wade Oval Dr., 216-231-4600, cmnh. org.

FILM

Inside Out Academy Award-winning animated feature, Inside Out, is coming to Playhouse Square tonight as a part of the Summer Movie Series at U.S. Bank Plaza. Perfect for all ages, Inside Out follows young Riley to San Francisco after she’s uprooted from her Midwest life; the audience experiences a roller coaster of emotions in the awardwinning film about Riley’s journey.

Don’t miss your chance to enjoy an amazing film on a pleasant Cleveland summer evening; Inside Out screens tonight at 8:30 at U.S. Bank Plaza.

Free. (Immerman) East 14th St. and Euclid Ave, 216-7714444, playhousesquare.org.

Art & Wine Festival Now in its tenth year, Kent’s Art & Wine Festival, which takes place today from noon until 10 p.m. at the Hometown Bank Plaza and the surrounding sections of North Water and West Main Streets, has become a summer staple. A $20 ticket includes a commemorative wine tasting glass and ten taste tickets to be redeemed at several featured Ohio wineries, including Barrel Run Crossing of Rootstown, Gervasi Vineyard of Canton, Grape & Granary of Akron, Troutman Vineyards of Wooster, Maize Valley of Hartville, It’s Your Winery of Medina, McAlpine Meadery of Beach City and the Winery at Wolf Creek of Norton. This year’s featured artists will showcase painting, stained glass, ceramics, jewelry, sculpture and fabric.

The food options include offerings from the local artisan cheese shop, Kent Cheesemonger, as well as local sweets, ice cream and popcorn. Local singer-songwriters such as Randy Horvath, Diana Chittester, Ian Penter and Brent Kirby are slated to perform.

(Niesel) facebook.com/KentArtAndWineFestival.

Rocky Horror Picture Show Because it’s the first Saturday of the month, the Cedar Lee Theatre will host a midnight screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the 1975 film that still draws an exuberant, costumed crowd that likes to throw rice and dry toast and sing along to the songs in the movie. Tickets are $9.50. (Niesel) 2163 Lee Rd., Heights, 216-321-5411, clevelandcinemas.com.

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Dark Universe Narrated by renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, Dark Universe explores the mysteries of our Solar System and beyond. The immersive and visually stunning show features “exquisite renderings of enigmatic

Welcoming Party Join Zygote Press in welcoming their latest resident artist as she arrives in town. Sara Tabbert lives and works in Fairbanks, Alaska, but as Zygote Press’ Rasmuson Artist in Residence, Tabbert will live and work in Cleveland

June 4 216-241-6000 Group Sales 216-640-8600 playhousesquare.org

COMEDY

Bill Maher Unflinching honesty and big laughs have garnered Bill Maher 34 Emmy nominations for his work on Politically Incorrect and HBO’s Real Time, and now is your opportunity to laugh with him live at Connor Palace. Known for stripping down politics to its core, Maher keeps it real, hilarious and just a little bit politically incorrect. Don’t miss him tonight at 7:30 at Connor Palace. Tickets are $50. (Immerman) 1615 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

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$9 for general admission, $7 for CMA members. (Wohler) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.

through July. During this initial conversation, the artist will discuss her recent work, as well as looking forward to her time in Northeast Ohio. Join the artist at Zygote Press at 10 a.m. today to learn more. Free.

(Usmani) 1410 East 30th St., 216-621-2900, www.zygotepress.com.

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7th Day Sweat The “seventh day” tends to be a day of rest for many folks. But not for the party hearty people who run B-Side Liquor Lounge, the popular dance club located underneath the Grog Shop.

Dubbed 7th Day Sweat, their weekly Sunday night soiree features DJ White Rims spinning “today’s hottest dance hits,” so you can “sweat it out” every Sunday. Admission is free but you must be 21 or older. It all starts at 7 p.m. (Niesel) 2785 Euclid Hts. Blvd., Heights, 216932-1966, bsideliquorlounge.com.

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Gallipoli Directed by Peter Weir, this 1980s Australian new wave classic features Mel Gibson in his prime. The film follows two idealistic sprinters in 1915 Australia who decide to enlist in the British army to fight during the First World War; their enlistment ultimately sends them to the Gallipoli peninsula in what is now Turkey. The movie screens tonight at 6:30 at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque. Tickets are $9. (Immerman) 11610 Euclid Ave., 216-421-7450, cia. edu.

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Primary/Crisis Behind a Presidential Commitment Robert Drew directs Primary and Crisis Behind a Presidential Commitment, two fly-on-the-wall documentaries that are among the director’s most famous films. Primary follows Democratic candidates Hubert H. Humphrey and John F. Kennedy during the 1960 primary election in Wisconsin. The second film, Crisis Behind a Presidential Commitment, takes viewers to a never-before-seenstory of how JFK’s administration responded to Governor George Wallace’s refusal to integrate the University of Alabama in 1963. The movie screens today at 1:30 p.m. a the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tickets are

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Tropical Sundays A weekly summer celebration, Now That’s Class’s Tropical Sundays features cornhole and basketball in the club’s back parking lot and exclusive Tropical Sunday cocktails including Pimms, Paulito’s Puerto Rican Punch, Mi’Monsters, Cucumber Bloody Marys and Bloody Tooth. The club promises “many more surprises and activities” too. The event starts at 3 today.

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

SPOKEN WORD

Philly Weeden Award-winning author, playwright, screenwriter and keynote speaker, Philly Weeden comes to Playhouse Square for a night unplugged. With two books under his belt and one on the way, Weeden has mastered the art of book writing as well as playwriting; his hit play, If You Knew Better You’d Do Better, featured all local Clevelanders with no acting experience, a decision that no doubt demonstrates Weeden’s love for the city. With a pension for humor and thought-provoking dialogue, Weeden is a speaker not to be missed tonight.

He talks today at 5 p.m. at the Hanna Theatre. Tickets are $25. (Immerman) 2067 East 14th St., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

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The Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Free Admission Day for Local Residents Looking for a fun and free way to start your week? Head on over to the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, which offers free admission for all residents of Cuyahoga County and Hinckley Township on Mondays.

You can explore the zoo’s massive collection, which includes more than 3,000 animals and 600 distinct species, including the largest primate collection in the country.

Or check out the zoo’s impressive botanical garden, which has been praised for expertly illustrating the interdependent relationship between plants, animals and humans. The Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is open on Mondays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. This free Monday promotion is not available on holidays. (Alaina Nutile) 3900 Wildlife Way, 216-661-6500, clemetzoo.com.

NIGHTLIFE

Wing Ding Doodle Blues icon Howlin’ Wolf famously covered “Wang Dang Doodle,” the old blues tune penned by Willie Dixon. Prosperity Social Club in Tremont has adopted that slogan, calling its wing night Wing Ding Doodle. The weekly event features specials on Buffalo wings and cold brews. Prosperity will not only serve up substantial, $1 whole wings, but it’ll also offering meatless Monday “wing” baskets for vegans. Discounted drafts and a playlist of vintage-electric blues and soulful R&B curated by local musician Clint Holley will be on tap as well. Wing Ding Doodle takes place every Monday from 6 p.m. to midnight. (Niesel) 1109 Starkweather Ave., 216-9371938, prosperitysocialclub.com.

centennial photo op, free entry to the centennial exhibition Pharaoh: King of Ancient Egypt, a pop-up restaurant in the atrium, live music throughout the museum, special activities and of course special cake and ice cream. Pierre’s will provide its new CMA centennial flavor, Sundae at the Museum, and local bakers have created special cakes inspired by works in the CMA’s collection, including Dali’s the Dream and Cleveland native Viktor Schreckengost’s the New Yorker (Jazz) Bowl. CMA director William Griswold will deliver remarks at 2 p.m. A complete schedule of events is available on the CMA’s website.

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

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Almost Holy Set in Ukraine, Almost Holy focuses on Gennadiy Mokhnenko who makes a name for himself on purpose by forcibly abducting homeless, drug-addicted kids from the streets. The hopes of continued post -revitalization seem possible as the country leans toward a European Union inclusion. The movie screens tonight at 7:30 at the Cedar Lee Theatre. Regular admission rates apply. (Wohler) 2163 Lee Rd., Heights, 440-7174696, clevelandcinemas.com.

SPOKEN WORD

Brews & Prose A monthly event, Brews & Prose brings some of the region’s top authors to Market Garden Brewery on West 25th St. Tonight’s event features readings by Terrance Hayes, an American poet and educator who has four books of poems under his belt, and Francine J. Harris, a writer-in-residence at Washington University in St. Louis. The event begins at 7 p.m. in the brewery basement. Other than the cost of your beers, it’s free. (Niesel) 1947 West 25th St., 216-621-4000, marketgardenbrewery.com.

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Centennial Birthday Celebration The Cleveland Museum of Art’s centennial birthday celebration officially begins with a community birthday party today 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. This special day includes a red carpet entrance with

Dance Party!

As a part of the 12-week outdoor dance event at Playhouse Square, Valerie Salstrom of Get Hep Swing will be bringing Lindy/Swing Night to U.S. Bank Plaza. Throw your best dancing shoes on, grab a partner and head downtown for a night full of Swing dance. If you aren’t familiar with Swing, then you won’t want to miss fun instruction at 5:15 because from 6 to 8 p.m., the plaza will turn into a massive fun-filled dance party. For the opportunity to learn new moves and experience a different culture through dance, come on down to the U.S. Bank Plaza tonight at 5:15. Free. (Immerman) East 14th St. and Euclid Ave., 216771-4444, playhousesquare.org.

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Spanish Flight Night Why spend money on a flight to Spain when you can just get in your car and drive there yourself?

Okay, so maybe Bin216 isn’t exactly Spain, but it will be for the night.

Between Spain’s best wine, food and entertainment, Bin216 will be the place to be. Take a break from your mundane Cleveland lifestyle and spice it up a bit with Partners Spanish Flight Night tonight at 6 at Bin216. Tickets are $30 for Partners and $35 for non-Partners.

(Immerman) 1515 Euclid Ave., 216-8600530, thedriftwoodgroup.com/ restaurants/bin-216.

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ART ONE STOP SHOP The Power of the Tower exhibit showcases the work of the Tower Press building’s artists

By Josh Usmani THANKS TO A RESOLUTE commitment to creating a communal space for creatives for roughly 15 years, the Tower Press Building is home to an abundance of artists and arts organizations. This weekend, many of the building’s resident artists are showcasing their current work with a curated exhibition, the Power of the Towerr, in the first floor’s Wooltex Gallery. The Power of the Towerr features new and recent work by 16 artists with studios in the building – roughly half of whom also live in the building. The Power of the Towerr opens with a reception from 5 to 9 p.m. this Friday, June 3.

At 7:30 p.m., curator Douglas Max

Utter (a.k.a. DM Utter) will discuss the work and artists in the exhibition during a curator conversation in the gallery.

“The Tower Press Artists Group is comprised of 16 different artists in varying stages of various artistic disciplines,” explains Dan Morgan, local photographer, organizer of the Tower Press Artist Group and resident at Tower Press for six years.

“I like to say that the only thing all these artists have in common is Tower Press. Since 2001, Tower Press Ltd. has offered area artists affordable live-work space.”

The exhibiting artists are part of the Tower Press Artists Group,

a tenant association of sorts, which discusses, plans and executes several events each year.

Power of the Towerr artists include: Robert Banks, John Davis, William Gould, Michael Greenwald, Katrice Headd, William Martin Jean, Anne Kibbe, Michael Levy, Erica Miller, Dan Morgan, Scott Murphy, Billy Nainiger, Eric Rippert, Christopher Stofan, Damian Venditti and JenMarie Zeleznak.

“This exhibition is named and curated by Douglas Max Utter,” Morgan continues. “Utter was considered by the 16 artists, among several other area arts leaders. In past years, Dana Depew and Robert Thurmer, director of the Galleries at CSU, have coordinated successful shows. The Wooltex Gallery was named after the Wooltex textile business, originally housed in the historic space.”

Douglas Max Utter is one of Cleveland’s most respected artists and art critics. DM Utter studied at Case Western Reserve University, and has taught courses in drawing and painting at the Cleveland Institute of Art, Kent State University and the

University of Akron. He has written hundreds of articles, essays and reviews for numerous national and local publications, including locally for the Plain Dealerr, the Free Times, Angle (which he co-founded with Amy Sparks and Dan Tranberg) and of course, Scenee. In 2013, DM Utter was recognized with the Cleveland Arts Prize Lifetime Achievement Award, as well as a Creative Workforce Fellowship in 2011 from Cuyahoga Arts and Culture and the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture.

For the Power of the Tower exhibition, DM Utter met with the artists and carefully considered their unique personal history and perspective, as well as contributions to their community.

“I had a wonderful time interviewing these artists and discussing their current work in preparation for the show,” says Utter.

“I think that as a group they bring together some of the strengths and history of the arts here in northern Ohio. Levy’s prizewinning career at the Plain Dealer, Bill Jean’s teaching at the Cleveland Institute of Art, stage design, acting, and meditative collages, Bill Gould’s contributions to the local landscape are just part of the resonant background to this very exciting exhibit.”

In addition to viewing the artwork and meeting the artists, the opening includes music from DJ SupermanLover and a performance from Kristy Kline with her electronic group Jazz Rock Harp. The exhibition will also be open Thursdays and Saturdays throughout June from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Built in 1907, the 109-year-old Tower Press building was designed for noted women’s clothing manufacturer H. Black & Company. It occupies an entire city block between E. 19th and E. 21st St. on the south side of Superior, facing the Plain Dealer across the street.

THE TOWER PRESS ARTISTS GROUP 1900 Superior Ave., 216-241-4069 towerpress.com.

Believe it or not, 15 years ago the city fire department deemed the vacant building unsafe and suggested it be torn down. Following an extensive $10 million renovation, the building was converted into live/work space dedicated to local creatives and has existed as such since 2002. Check it all out for yourself this weekend.

JenMarie Zeleznak, “I Was Swimming Through The Waves, For What Must Have Been Days”, watercolor pencil on paper, 30 in. by 30 in., 2016

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STAGE THE LATHE OF LIFE An Edward Albee classic, Three Tall Women, is revisited in this convergencecontinuum production

By Christine Howey IF YOU’RE GOING TO BUILD A three-legged stool, you best know what you’re about. Because if one of those legs is shorter than the others and another a bit loose at the joint, you’re going to have problems with balance.

That is the challenge that the renowned playwright Edward Albee presents to any theater company that takes on his Pulitzer Prizewinning play Three Tall Women.

It’s an inventively imagined but daunting piece of theater, and you require three talented actors plus a wise director to bring it off in proper style. In this iteration at convergence-continuum, the guts of the play are delivered, but the production never quite takes fl ight due to some performance and directorial wrinkles.

Although the title references three women, it really all revolves around one, a woman given the cryptic identity of “A.” In the first act, she is a wealthy, borderline senile 92-year-old who is clearly about to tip over for the fi nal time.

She is attended by “B,” a middleaged caretaker hired to watch over the old crone and “C,” a young law firm paper shuffler who is there to straighten out issues with A’s estate.

It has been speculated that A is really a stand-in for Albee’s mother, who rejected him after he came out as gay. Whether that back story is true or not, it’s clear Albee has some serious issues with this harridan as she delaminates before out eyes in Act One—weeping in self pity, lashing out at her menials, and cackling at her ability to make life unpleasant for them.

She is delighted at one point to

Sarah Kunchik as C, Lucy Bredeson-Smith as A, Teresa McDonough as B

drop a glass that shatters in the bathroom sink so that B will have to clean it up. But then she expects B to attend to her every whimper with gentleness.

Like most paid caretakers, B has seen it all, and Teresa McDonough conveys the wry, weary reality of the situation. While A whines and harangues, McDonough’s B merely nods and helps A toddle to the bathroom one more time.

As C, Sarah Kunchik shows some of the disgust as she encounters A’s slightly out of control bodily functions and the old woman’s snarly prejudices. But Kunchik adopts a consistent smirk that never allows C to completely register as a shocked newcomer to this unpleasant environment.

dark humor than there should be in A’s tirades and skeins of fractured memories. This A is more a pathetic old coot rather than a woman annealed by fate into a monster.

And the black laughter that should be generated must then be caught up short at when A suffers a stroke at the end of the act.

As directed by Tom Kondilas, this half of the play is performed more as a sad documentary about an unpleasant home nursing experience rather than as a florid war being waged against death and the dying of the light. This is important because it is all prelude to Act Two, where things change dramatically.

After the intermission, the same actors return, but this time each is

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In the demanding role of A, the superb actor Lucy BredesonSmith hits all the right notes, convincingly portraying this decrepit woman who, teetering on the brink of death, is so confused by her memories and where they have brought her. Unfortunately, those well-struck notes don’t often coalesce into a compelling melody, since there is less risk-taking and

playing A at different stages of her life. Kunchik is now A at age 26, McDonough is 52-year-old A, and Bredeson-Smith is a bit more capable A, around age 75. This structure is a brilliant gambit by Albee, as long as the ground has been prepared for this final internal face-off. But since the first act often falters, with many monologues delivered without the clarity of sharp turns and wicked

asides, there is less to resolve in Act Two. In this second stanza, McDonough holds firm in the center, playing the middle-aged A with resignation, chatting cynically about her short husband (nicknamed “the penguin”) who provided her with jewelry but little else. And Bredeson-Smith is more effective here, bemused at her former selves who have no idea how they turned into her at this advanced age. But director Kondilas doesn’t help Kunchik find the sweet spot of the young A, the bubbly and optimistic girl who sees her sexy and impulsive early life as simply a prologue to increasing happiness in the future.

Without that contrast, Albee’s panoramic vision of life with all its potentials and disappointments is narrowed. And the crushing truth that the two older versions of A can provide lands with less impact.

That said, Albee is a glorious wordsmith and his central conceit is alive and well in this slightly unbalanced production. That is: None of us is able to imagine who we will become as age and experience shape us on the everspinning unmerciful lathe of life.

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MOVIES CROCODILE TEARS Why you might have a real hard time crying at Me Before You

By Sam Allard ME BEFORE YOU, THE SPARKSIAN rom-drama starring Game of Thrones’ Emilia Clarke and The Hunger Games’ Sam Claflin, opens Friday in wide release. It’s based on the bestselling novel of the same name by JoJo Moyes, who also wrote the screenplay, and among other things it features Ed Sheeran’s two biggest hits deployed to sublime emotional effect. Loving really can hurt sometimes, it turns out.

The movie follows your standard romantic narrative trajectory, except not quite. Like 2014’s summer tear jerker The Fault in Our Stars -during my own viewing of which, where I’ll come right out and say I was the only visible adult male in attendance, I was obliged to excuse myself and gasp-cry into a toilet bowl for something like 90 seconds, so thorough had been the emotional bulldozing just endured --- Me Before You deals with an improbable romance in the face of vertiginously stacked medical odds.

Will Traynor (Claflin) is a whitecollar dreamboat with all the expected appurtenances therefrom: pristine London loft, leggy blonde girlfriend, kickin’ bod toned, tanned and readied by extreme sports. But he’s paralyzed from the neck down after being hit by a motorcycle in the film’s opening scene. Will’s parents (Janet McTeer and Charles Dance) -- who, in case you’re curious about their social standing, have lately repurposed their mansion’s stables as an annex for their son -- hire the town goofball Louisa (Clarke) in whom we are meant to be endeared by wacky apparel and domestic strife.

This familiar setup is primed for a blameless formula -- Miserable, Mean Upper-Class Man beset by circumstances beyond his control softens due to the care and compassion of a Dowdy Lower Class Woman for whom he begins to genuinely fall -- to which it adheres in broad strokes, but it’s yanked into very weird territory early on, because so deep and dark is Will’s depression, post-accident, that he’s decided to end his life. He’s promised his parents he’ll mull over the decision for six months, but his plan all along is to call it quits at

a euthanasia clinic in Switzerland.

He’s got an estate lawyer and everything.

In walks Lou, then, ignorant to the freight of her contract gig. She’s distraught when she first overhears Mr. and Mrs. Traynor arguing about the sitch -- and with good reason -- but her outlook shifts (a few steps behind the audience, who can see the plot developing a thousand miles away): “Maybe I can do more than [make him enjoy the time he’s got left],” Lou tells her sister. “Maybe I can make him want to go on living!”

(Cue montage of Emilia Clarke merrily diving into the available literature on people with disabilities at the town library.)

Why this is all very weird is because Me Before You is supposed to be a cathartic sobfest. That that’s its whole point, at least from a marketing perspective, is to me beyond dispute. If you disagree, I’d direct your attention to the Kleenex, in Me Before You packaging, distributed individually to the attendees at this week’s press screening at Crocker Park, which ritual (the Kleenex distribution) I have no choice but to assume was replicated at promo screenings nationwide. The studio isn’t wrongheaded, either, for anticipating box-office success based on a tear jerker marketing strategy. I don’t think it’s speaking out of turn to say that a lot of women, the primary intended audience for films of this ilk, revel in a “good cry” from time to time. (Everybody Loves Raymond, Season 4, Ep. 20 -- “Alone Time” -- is a pretty good source for independent corroboration.) Crying at the movies, or just crying to “let it out,” feels great.

And though varying degrees of self-consciousness, even complicity, obtain in our emotional manipulation when we’re watching movies like Me Before You -- our tears aren’t being organically jerked so much as they’re being more like consensually induced -- most of us are willing to shrug our shoulders and say the ends (loosely: emotional catharsis) justify the means (tragic circumstance as narrative bait and hook, pitch-perfectly deployed Ed Sheeran ballads, etc.)

But nary a tear was shed by moi during Me Before You. I was too busy considering the ethical quandary of euthanasia in the case of Will Traynor. I won’t conduct you down that convolved train of thought. To do so would require way too much time and energy. But that’s the point. The moral complexity, or at least the potential moral complexity (i.e. the moral question, (for nonnihilists)) of suicide generally and assisted suicide specifically necessitate at least a moment or two of consideration. But in Me Before You, it’s brought to you in the sheep’s clothing of a summer rom-dram whose whole raison is the inducing of mindless cathartic crying; and that, for me, was extremely disorienting and unpleasant.

The big central thrust of which disorientation and unpleasantness was this: We are supposed to be moved to the same tears by a disability to which we’ve been moved before (in tonally comparable movies) by cancer and AIDS and tragic accidents. (More on this particular thread at Clevescene.com).

Not for nothing do I note the movie’s strenuous advocacy for human agency, for the sanctity of autonomous choice. “It’s his choice,” the characters frequently remind each other, about Will’s assisted suicide, (which by the way sets up another unpleasant situation, i.e. that Will’s choice, whatever it is, becomes the de facto position of the movie on euthanasia). Plus, on the other hand, Will’s constantly badgering Louisa about how shitty her choices are.

#LiveBoldly, is the film’s hashtag, and the tenor of the presentation got me thinking I was supposed to regard the fact that Louisa had stayed in her small British town (and not gone to college, for instance) with more horror and contempt than the fact that Will saw not one reason to stay alive.

There were also some technical inhibitors which prevented my own cathartic crying, namely that the movie’s sappiest and (ostensibly) most heart-rending scenes were all filmed in extreme close-up. Will Traynor is by and large confined to a wheelchair, and Louisa, in moments both tender and anguished, often sits on his lap. Or else she’ll snuggle up within inches of Traynor’s face when he’s supine.

The camera, dutifully, is never far behind. Clarke is constantly on the verge of some very big emotion -Hilarity! Grievous discomfort! Soulcrushing disappointment! Rabid curiosity! And viewers may have a hard time separating the effort to authenticate all those big feelings with the feelings themselves. Take just for one example when Lou shaves Will’s face. It’s another one of these clinically intrusive close-ups, and Clarke is smiling with what I’d classify as a bizarre amount of wonderment throughout. It’s like she’s gazing upon the Christ child.

(Much more indeed at Clevescene. com).

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PROPER INTRODUCTION Cleveland finally landed a great barbecue joint. We’re talking about Proper Pig in Lakewood, of course

By Douglas Trattner IN TERMS OF TIMING, IT COULD not have worked out worse for the guys from Proper Pig. After months and months (and months) of setbacks, Michael Symon finally announced the opening for his rabidly anticipated barbecue concept Mabel’s – and wouldn’t you know, it was the very same week as the Pig’s debut.

But don’t feel bad for owners Shane Vidovic and Ted Dupaski, the team behind the Texas-style barbecue food truck of the same name. While they might have surrendered a little pre-opening buzz to the Iron Chef, their Lakewood restaurant has been balls to the wall ever since its April opening. Daily, the colorful, casual and festive 35-seat shop flies through 500 pounds of barbecue, twice the amount the smoker can bear at any given time.

The lines at Proper Pig (and Mabel’s) is proof that for far too long Cleveland diners have been starved of quality barbeque. In a city weaned on crock-pot pulled pork and boiled, grilled and sauce-slathered ribs, the proliferation of authentic barbecue is a blessing, because wood-smoked meat is a gift from the heavens.

The Pig boys have been honing their craft as proprietors of the portable Pig rig for the past three years, but they’ve been making barbecue much longer than that.

It takes practice and patience to transform a lean, unforgiving saddle of meat like brisket into a quivering mass of juicy barbecue instead of a really costly piece of beef jerky.

Capped in black, ringed with fat, and bordered by a crimson smoke ring, the tender and supple meat is a joy and revelation to eat.

Because so many of us didn’t grow up eating the real thing down south or out west, there seems to be a bit of a learning curve when it comes to barbecue. If you’re talking about the sauce, the restaurant is doing it wrong. If you describe the ribs as “falling off the bone,” the restaurant is doing it wrong.

If the meat has zero smoke flavor, too much smoke flavor, or artificial smoke flavor, the restaurant is doing it wrong.

At Proper Pig, the meat is the star of the show. That brisket gets a straightforward rub of salt, coarse

the bone, but it still requires the teeth in your head and only where you bite it. There’s more to pulled pork than mushy, pudding-soft meat and Proper Pig’s version shows that off in long ribbons of sweet meat studded with bark, those dark and crusty bits that are the hallmarks of low and slow smoking.

All of the above barbecue comes naked – as in, no sauce. On the tables are bottles of a thin tomato and vinegar based elixir that adds a pleasant tang if you’re looking for a little lubrication.

While the brisket, ribs and pulled pork are the main attractions, one shouldn’t overlook the Texas hot links and the turkey breast.

Spicy and smoky, the beef hot link sausages burst with juiciness when you snap through the natural casing. If you’re going to get turkey at a barbecue joint, it should at least be as good as Proper Pig’s.

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black pepper and a dash of paprika before heading into the humid hothouse of a smoker for the better part of the day. The same for the St. Louis pork ribs, which arrive pink, peppery, meaty and glistening with fat. The meat does come cleanly off

Brisket, pulled pork and turkey are sold by the half pound ($10, $8 and $9 respectively), ribs by the half or full slab ($13, $21), and links by the link ($4). The best way to go is to order a two-, three- or four-meat combo platter, which

include sides and are served on the traditional butcher paper-lined tray accompanied with white bread, pickles and sliced white onions. Use the bread to make little sammies with the meat or to sop up all the drippings. The sides – potato salad, coleslaw and smoky baked beans – are all fine.

Proper Pig offers a handful of sandwiches, some straightforward fabrications built around pulled pork, chopped brisket or turkey, while others are more extravagant in size and scope. The Proper Slopper ($12) is a jawbreaker piled high with brisket, pork, hot links, bacon, slaw and sauce. To drink, there’s soda and a short selection of beer, including Texas-based Southern Star.

As diners in the First World, we have come to expect that our restaurants will have the food we desire. That’s not the case in Barbecue Land, where it’s common practice to run out of certain items until the following day. That’s why Proper Pig is dinner-only until they add a second smoker and up their output.

At least in Cleveland we’re not forced to stand in line for hours praying that there will still be brisket at the other end – yet.

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WHEN MICHAEL GRIEVE TOOK over as executive chef of Tartine Bistro (19110 Detroit Rd., 440-3310800, tartinebistro.com) in March, he inherited a fully stocked spice rack.

But Grieve likes to call himself more of a salt-and-pepper kind of guy. Part of his goal has been to simplify the menu in order to let natural flavors shine through, and he is finding his footing as he moves into his first spring and summer seasons with the restaurant.

“Salt and pepper, olive oil; I like to keep it simple,” he says. “You don’t need to take away or mask anything with too many different seasonings.”

A Willoughby native, Grieve relocated to San Francisco after military service and graduated from Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts. He worked at the esteemed fish market and seafood restaurant Anchor Oyster Bar until he returned to Cleveland in 2013. He started at Tartine as a line cook last November and quickly climbed the ranks.

Grieve might be nostalgic for the fresh, plucked from the ocean catches of the West Coast, but his love of seafood remains a prime influence on the menu, which previously was light on such offerings. Octopus and shark already have made well received appearances as specials, and he’s planning to introduce halibut cheeks and calamari soon. He recently added a lemon and thyme crusted cod, which is caught and shipped to Ohio within 36 hours. Cod has long been one Grieve’s favorites.

“It’s so delicious on its own,” he says. “It’s a balance; you can overdo a piece of cod and you’ve just ruined a wonderful piece of fish. Why overcomplicate it?”

He’s found a perfect pairing of seafood with tomatoes that will continue clear through summer.

“They’re just so colorful, they make

every dish pop,” he says.

A Basque shrimp dish is tossed in a marinara made with tomatoes sautéed with bell peppers and a bit of garlic and white wine. Scallops, which are topped with citrus zest to brighten the dish, are served over sweet corn risotto mixed with sofrito sauce.

“The acid in the tomatoes helps to cut the richness of the scallops and sweetness of the corn without taking away from the flavor of the two,” Grieve explains.

The chef been busy introducing new techniques to the kitchen as well.

Cherry tomatoes are cooked sous vide with lemon juice and basil then served with lemon pesto and grilled fresh sardines, a fish with which Grieve worked regularly in California. Tartine has since expanded sous vide cookery to lamb and short ribs.

Root vegetables and select herbs have helped usher in the chef’s new seasonal menu updates. Baby heirloom carrots are blanched and sautéed with greens and served with lamb. Grieve also uses carrots for a bit of color and crunch in the weekly slow-roasted beef bourguignon plate, which he seasons with rosemary smoke. The rosemary makes another appearance on the beef tartine.

“I wanted to add rosemary without taking away from the natural flavor of the beef,” the chef says. “Rather than tasting it with the first bite, the smoke is the first thing you smell when it gets to the table.”

Soon, the once-cozy restaurant will be able to serve many more guests. A major expansion project will add a new dining room and up the seating from 50 to 150. Throughout it all, Grieve will make sure that there is no loss in quality and consistency.

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VITA URBANA (1200 W. 76TH ST., 216-600-5303), located in the ritzy Shoreway Building in Battery Park, officially opened its doors to the general public last week. The all-day gourmet market and café, operated by owner Mike Graley and chef-partner Scott Popovic, combines a 50-seat bar and bistro with a gourmet retail marketplace.

Earlier in the week, management was putting the finishing touches on the space. The shelves are being stocked, the kegs are being tapped, the coolers are being filled, and the mise en place is in place.

In the morning, Vita Urbana functions as the neighborhood’s coffee shop, offering up fresh-brewed Rising Star and Cleveland coffees, espresso, cappuccino and fresh-fruit smoothies.

To eat, there will be grab-and-go items like danish, muffins and croissants and made-to-order foods like oatmeal, granola, and sausage, egg and cheese empanadas.

Following breakfast service, an allday menu kicks in. A large selection of snacks and starters features meat and cheese boards, a few salads, beef fatpopped popcorn with smoked sea salt, tuna tartar with orange and scotch bonnet gelée, Certified Angus Beef tacos with chipotle cabbage, and grilled salmon skewers.

More substantial small and medium plates include beef and ricotta meatballs with sauce and bread, rosemary roasted chicken mac and cheese, fried mascarpone polenta with roasted mushroom ragout, pan-roasted Canadian salmon with roasted new potatoes and spring pea sauce, and beer-braised beef short rib with polenta and swiss chard.

Prices are in the $5 to $13 range.

For in-house guests there are four beers on tap and nearly 50 wines by the glass. For those on the go, a well-

stocked retail section has beer, wine, gourmet cheeses, charcuterie, pasta, olive oil, condiments and a few basic necessities. One section is dedicated to “first to market” food products originating in the Cleveland Culinary Launch and Kitchen.

FAT CASUAL BBQ TO TAKE OVER GRAFFITI SOCIAL KITCHEN EVERY THURSDAY Beginning this week and running every Thursday through August, Graffiti Social Kitchen will transform into Fat Casual BBQ. Barbecue savants Walter Hyde and Scott Slagle, who ran Fat Casual in Macedonia, dished up barbecue at the Tavern of Solon, and took over the beer garden at Sterle’s each weekend last summer, will take their smokedmeat talents to Detroit Shoreway. The barbecue takeover will coincide with the popular Edgewater Live series nearby.

“Last year we did that grilling series on the patio with a different chef each week and that worked really well and people liked it,” says Graffiti chef and owner Brian Okin. “Obviously, Scott and Walter have a cult following in the city but don’t have a place of their own right now, so this is an opportunity to bring their barbecue back.”

Okin and company could have just featured Fat Casual’s food alongside their own, but ultimately decided to just hand over the keys to the castle.

“Instead of doing competing things we decided, let’s just go with them that day; it’s their restaurant for the day,” Okin says.

On the menu are starters like BBQ nachos and smoked wings, a few salads, and smoked meats like pulled pork, ribs, corned beef, turkey and beef sausage. The Fat Casual

EAT bites “Picnic” has a little bit of everything, including sides like corn bread, mac & cheese and baked beans.

Fat Casual fans have come to know and love the BBQ boys’ famous smoked prime rib, and that will be available every week. Other specials like smoked beef ribs will come and go.

Dessert options include panna cotta with grilled peaches, and a twist on pecan pie made with brown sugar pudding, pecan toffee and sweet potato ice cream. For those in a hurry to get to the beach, Fat Casual will offer “Adult Happy Meals,” which include a sandwich, side and drink all ready to go.

Hours are 5 p.m. to close week one and 4 p.m. to close all following weeks.

7699) opened up in the Hingetown neighborhood of Ohio City, the bar has continued to add to its arsenal of attractions. In addition to an expanded and improved back courtyard (which happens to have a large screen perfect watching b-ball games), the bar recently added a front sidewalk patio.

But the most welcome improvements have been in the food department. In the beginning, the only grub a guy could get was a basket of pierogis and a few popcorn balls. Before long, the bar added sausages from the Pork Chop Shop at the West Side Market, which evolved into a sausage sandwich with sauerkraut, and things took off

from there.

“What happened was my kitchen staff started making up their own dishes when they didn’t feel like eating pierogis or whatever,” explains owner Alex Budin. “They came up with these kraut bowls that were so popular with the staff that we started testing them on customers and they loved it.”

Those “build your own” kraut bowls are still on the menu, with mix-andmatch add-ons like brats, spicy Italian sausage or crispy tofu and a cadre of sauces and krauts. One add-on, the spicy chicken, was so popular that it evolved into its own sandwich. That sandwich soon was joined by other new

signature sandwiches. Toss in a few soups and salads and you’ve cobbled together a decent size menu.

In addition to the regular menu, Jukebox has been steadily adding to its lineup of late-night eats. First there was the Pierogi Night every Thursday, then Late Night Ramen on Friday, Saturday nights are now reserved for Late Night Pizza Bagels, and then there’s weekend brunch, which happens every Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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HARD ROCK CAFE CLEVELAND CLOSING IN JULY The string of restaurants and bars that have joined the fray of the Cleveland dining scene in the past couple of years is staggering and every week seems to bring a new announcement of an addition. That’s been especially true in recent months as Cleveland looks forward to July and the arrival of the RNC. July, however, will bring at least one closing.

A press release from Hard Rock announced that the Hard Rock Cafe Cleveland, highly visible outside of Tower City thanks to the big ole guitar by the road, will be shuttering.

A specific date has not yet been announced but it will be after the RNC concludes.

The “strategic decision,” according to the release, is due to Hard Rock shifting efforts to the Hard Rock Cafe at Northfield Park and the Rocksino.

The downtown location opened back in 1998, one of the seemingly endless Hard Rock cafes dotting the world, back when Tower City was in its glory days. Those days have gone and recent months have seen major changes coming to the complex — Dan Gilbert bought the Avenue at Tower City and K+D is in negotiations to buy the tower itself, with all its attending office space.

Apartments are planned and who knows what Mr. Gilbert has in store for the mall, but it’s sure to be better than what’s there now.

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THE SONG’S THE THING Acclaimed singer-songwriter Jason Isbell started singing and strumming at an early age

By Matt Wardlaw HEARING SINGER-SONGWRITER Jason Isbell tell the story, it’s pretty clear he was destined for a career in music from a very early age.

“There was always music around.

My parents didn’t play instruments, but they always listened to a lot of music,” he remembers during a phone conversation in advance of his upcoming show in Akron.

“My mom listened to a lot of songwriters, and my dad really liked ‘70s rock, arena rock and old country music,” he says. “My grandparents played music in church and all of their brothers and sisters played and my aunts and uncles all played and sang, so it was around for me from the start.

I think probably around eight or

nine years old, I started thinking that there were people who made a living at it. You know, before that, I kind of thought everybody had that same kind of experience. Once I got in school and realized that not everybody was musical, that was a bit of a shock to me. But yeah, I never really wanted to do anything else. I never wanted to be a fireman or an astronaut or anything like that. I just always wanted to play the guitar and sing.”

It’s an interesting story as far as how that guitar made it into young Isbell’s hands for the first time.

His grandparents and uncle would show him some of the initial ropes, but Isbell suspects it’s possible that they might have had some ulterior

motives.

“I think maybe it was kind of a form of childcare as much as anything else, because when I was little, I would stay with my grandparents most of the time,” he says. “My granddad would teach me how to play different instruments, and [it was] probably as much to keep me occupied and keep me from breaking anything as anything else.”

It all paid off for Isbell, who logged a number of miles as a member of the Drive-By Truckers before eventually going solo in 2007.

Battling addiction issues, Isbell would later pull it all together to release the well-received solo album Southeastern, his fourth, in June

of 2013. Barely two years later, he was back with his latest album, Something More Than Free, which nabbed two Grammy awards for the 37-year-old Alabama native earlier this year.

“I just went in with a set of songs, and I wanted to serve the songs. I didn’t have too many preconceived notions, because you know, Dave Cobb was producing this record again. So I wanted to let him do his job,” he says. “I essentially just came in with a set of songs that I’d already written and we went from there. I like doing it that way. Some people write when they’re in the studio and I write maybe one or two songs while we’re in the process of recording.

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MUSIC up with my homework done because that takes the pressure off. I can just enjoy my time in the studio.”

He’s happy for the recognition and the awards, but it’s not something he thinks about when he’s in the midst of the creative process.

“As far as how the record’s been received, you can’t ever really plan on that. It’s not something that you can count on when you’re in the studio recording,” he says. “Not if you’re making the kind of music that I make. I try not to target anything and I try not to aim at any certain audience or anything like that. I just follow the songs and the songs are really just documents as much as anything else. You know, I’m very happy with the way the record’s been received, that’s for sure. It’s made it a lot easier for us to travel and go out and play the songs for folks. You know, it feels good to think that you’re not alone in the world, that the things that are on your mind are also on the minds of at least a couple hundred thousand other people.”

of wanting to go back to their childhood and whether you’re in the worst possible spot you could be in or not, that’s still something that I think everybody longs for.”

He refers to Haggard as “probably the best country songwriter there ever was.”

“I think George [Jones] was probably the [better] singer and you know, Willie [Nelson] and Merle really struck me as the best country songwriters,” he says. “Willie had a lot of high points and he was really good at writing songs that translated to people, but Merle, there was something really, really smart about those songs and something really genius, I think, about the way he continued to represent working people even after he was a very successful person himself.”

Isbell was scheduled to play a couple of co-headlining shows in Georgia with Haggard earlier this month that were canceled after his death. Unfortunately, he never had the chance to get to know the country legend, but he has plenty of good memories.

“I’d been around him a couple of times and we played some festival dates. The last time I saw him was at Willie’s Picnic last 4th of July.

You know, he was great. He was definitely, you could tell in his performance that he had gotten older and he was a little bit short of breath, but he still gave everything he had.

It was a really great show. Every time I’ve seen him, it’s been a really great show. I think that’s probably a testament to how good his songs are.

You know, as long as you can get up and play, if you’ve got songs that are that good, you can entertain people.”

In the days and months that are

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Lately, Isbell has been performing Merle Haggard’s “Sing Me Back Home” in tribute to the legendary country artist, who passed away in April.

“There’s nothing wrong about that song, you know? I mean, every word in it is perfect,” Isbell says. “It’s emotional without being maudlin and there’s something that really rings true there, whether you know that Merle’s been in prison or not.

There’s definitely an authenticity in that song and I think it’s something that everybody can relate to, just because everybody has that feeling

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ahead, Isbell is looking forward to the chance to continue to entertain the people who enjoy his own music — and he’s got new songs on the horizon.

“We’ve got quite a bit of touring.

I’m hoping I can get back in the studio by the end of the year. I’ve got a few songs that I’ve been working on, so hopefully I’ll be in a place where I can record another record by year’s end.”

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A NEW ERA

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MUSIC Indie rockers Death Cab for Cutie expand their sound in wake of lineup change

By Eli Shively INDIE ROCK HEROES DEATH Cab For Cutie, whose co-headlining summer tour with CHVRCHES comes through town this week, have found themselves in a pretty comfortable spot after the release of their Grammynominated 2015 record Kintsugi and the departure of original member Chris Walla in late 2014. Extensive touring over the past year or so with new members Dave Depper and Zac Rae has done wonders for the band’s chemistry and confidence in what longtime fans might call the postWalla era — and, according to bassist Nick Harmer, that’s exactly what they needed.

“I think we were a little apprehensive in the beginning of how it was gonna roll out,” Harmer says. “I mean, we always knew we could find competent players to perform the parts that Chris had played over the years, but what was more important for us to have a good musical experience was to find players that we connected with personally.” That kind of chemistry is essential to the well-being of a band like Death Cab who, their three different drummers aside, hadn’t experienced any lineup changes since their inception as a full band in 1997.

Not only do Depper and Rae serve to replace Walla, but with five total members instead of four the band has been able to do certain things that weren’t previously possible live.

“We were listening to parts and thinking ‘Ah, we can do that little key melody now,’” Harmer says. “With a fifth voice on stage, we’re able to recreate and fill out the sonic spectrum even more so, and that’s really dynamic.” Fans that have been coming to shows for years will immediately recognize the difference, and even hear moments from recorded material that the band didn’t have enough pairs of hands to squeeze into a live set.

Moments like those are especially abundant on Kintsugi, possibly the band’s most instrumentally dense

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effort to date and the last to bear Walla’s creative influence. Layers of dreamy synth, keys and guitar can be detected in the background throughout the album, adding a more produced and atmospheric feeling to the Death Cab formula.

It almost lends itself to having more members to ensure everything is dutifully recreated live, especially ones that can play both keyboards and guitar as Depper and Rae do. Songs like “The Ghosts Of Beverly Drive” and lead single “Black Sun” are full of intricate moments of programmed noise, the instrumentation perfectly locking itself into place to create the right sounds at the right time. While later releases certainly ramped up to this sort of sonic direction, if fans of earlier hit records like Plans and Transatlanticism haven’t noticed much of a difference yet, they surely will once they see the live show. “[There is] the immediate sense that people will come to shows and notice how much fuller our band sounds,”

their back catalog that haven’t been revisited for a long time — while simultaneously giving them the fivemember treatment.

“We’re looking at these shows, because it’s kind of at the end of the tour cycle, as a way to kind of dig deep into the catalog and present some stuff that we haven’t been playing much on this Kintsugi cycle at all,” Harmer says. According to him, the band has always tried to cater setlists according to what was played the last time it was in a certain city. For example: Death Cab haven’t been to our neck of the woods in northern Ohio since 2012, so expect them to pack their Cleveland set full of newer songs fans here haven’t had a chance to see played live.

Given the freedom the band has with the set lists and the obvious flow of ideas between new members, can show-goers expect to hear any new material this summer? Harmer says it’s definitely under consideration at the moment, but expectations should be low.

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Harmer says. “It allows us to take things in certain directions I think we haven’t in the past. I think they’ll really be impressed by that. It certainly hits our ears and we’re really excited about it.”

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“We’ve been thinking about at least trying it at a certain point … we’ve got new guys and a new thing, we might as well try something new,” he says.

“It’s kind of a gut shot moment for us, whether we’re going to do it or not.”

However, as far as heading back into the studio with Depper and Rae goes, Harmer is cautiously optimistic. The band has been touring

as a five-piece for almost 18 months now, and the flow of creative energy between members has had plenty of time to establish itself. From a fan’s perspective, it really only seems like a matter of time.

“The studio’s kind of a weird thing, and an interesting environment that we have yet to get into with both those guys,” Harmer says. “We’re still a little ways away from entering that process, but I know we’re really excited about heading that way when the time comes.”

Still, despite any kinks that may need to be worked out in terms of the in-studio dynamic, whatever emerges is sure to sound familiar to longtime listeners. Harmer is confident that whatever chief songwriter Ben Gibbard presents to the rest of the band will be true Death Cab through and through, despite whatever the new members may bring to the table.

“We’ve been pretty cautious over the years to keep ourselves out of musical cul-de-sacs, and I feel like the songwriting starts first,” he says.

“As long as [Gibbard] has a lot of excitement and really is believing in his songs in the beginning, then when it comes to the band I think we can really bring them in line to hold up to what we’ve done as a band in the past.”

Whenever the new material finally surfaces — if it upholds the direction in which Kintsugi was headed, fans will likely be in for something special once the time comes. In the meantime, though, they have an extensive string of shows to enjoy this summer.

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MUSIC PROJECT ORIENTED New technology has helped producer extraordinaire Alan Parsons create a live show FOR LEGENDARY PRODUCER Alan Parsons, there was a good reason that for many years, the Alan Parsons Project didn’t play live concerts. He wanted to be able to reproduce what he had done with the studio albums on the concert stage, and while there would eventually be technological advances that would help him out on that front, it would take a few years.

“The fact that we didn’t actually start touring until 1995 is an indication of how difficult it might have been before that time,” Parsons says with a big laugh, during a recent phone conversation from his California home. “All of the material was recorded between 1976 and 1987. Eight years later was the point at which I felt comfortable enough for the available technology to actually assemble a band and put it on the road. It was helped largely by keyboard technology and sampling technology. When MIDI came along, it just made it all a whole lot easier. Rather than having a mountain of keyboards, you know, we could just get by with two or three.”

Technology helped him recreate the albums.

“We’ve got a pretty close approach to some of the orchestral sounds and other sounds that would have been difficult to capture with primitive keyboard technology in the earlier years,” he explains. “Once we got going in the mid-’90s, we managed to replicate [things] live quite adequately, I think [in comparison] to the original sounds. It’s a little tough to get a full orchestra effect, but we did fine with strings and occasional woodwind instruments on synths. There’s still no real substitute for a full orchestra.”

That’s why Parsons has been happy for the occasional opportunity to perform Alan Parsons Project classics like “Eye In The Sky,” “Games People Play” and “I Wouldn’t Want To Be Like You,” with an orchestra. One of those concerts, a 2013 date with the 70-piece Philharmonic Orchestra of Medellin, comes out this month under the banner of the Alan Parsons Symphonic Project on Blu-ray, DVD, CD and digital download.

“We recorded [Live in Colombia] with a full blown symphony orchestra a couple of years ago. It’s great to play with an orchestra,” he says. “The good thing about the video is that we

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It took a few years but Alan Parsons overcame an identity issue.

captured it with lots of cameras. It’s full-blown HD production with really good quality picture. And of course, we recorded it multi-track as well, so the sound came out great. I love playing with orchestras, wherever it is. We’ve done a few shows here in the States. We’ve done shows in Europe as well with an orchestra. It makes a big difference and I’m hoping that one day we can actually do a full blown tour with the orchestra.”

For the moment, Parsons is pretty happy to still be playing his music for people after four decades.

“I just feel fortunate that so long after they were released on the records that people still want to hear them.

We have a little bit of an identity crisis in that everybody knows the songs, but they don’t associate the songs with my name, which is a little bit of a frustration. When you start a song, you see one audience member turning to another and they’re saying, ‘Oh wow, I didn’t know that this was the

“It’s interesting, the sort of artist identity, the ‘Alan Parsons Project,’ was really meant to describe just the first album. I didn’t realize at the time time that we had created an artist identity called ‘The Alan Parsons Project.’

But it did stick and that’s what Clive wanted, he wanted to call the I Robot album, another Alan Parsons Project album. So it stuck right through to the final album in 1987.”

In the long run, Parsons was grateful to have the support of Davis, who would play an important role in helping to map out the future success of the Alan Parsons Project.

“We were blessed to have Clive’s interest. He heard the first album and, I mean, Tales of Mystery and Imagination wasn’t a fantastically huge success. It charted, but only in the lower regions of the charts. But it was enough to attract Clive’s attention and he signed us to his newly formed Arista label and everything else that followed was with Clive.”

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Alan Parsons Project!’ But you know, I’m just glad to be here flying the flag and keeping the catalog alive.”

It was legendary record label president Clive Davis who helped to guide Parsons when he was struggling with the group’s identity crisis, advising that he should stay the course.

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At 18 years of age, he was working as an assistant engineer at Abbey Road Studios, where he would be part of the production team for two Beatles albums, Abbey Road and Let It Be, prior to becoming involved with another album which continues to bring him lots of accolades, Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon.

“You know, we all worked very hard to make it the record that it became,” he says now. “I had to work long hours sometimes, because I was doing other projects as well, but I didn’t want to give up a single minute of engineering time to anybody else, because I wanted to be the only engineering credit. And that paid off — I got credit for it and the Grammy nomination, which was very nice.”

He wasn’t surprised by the expansive visions the members of Pink Floyd had for the album that they had in mind.

“I think the Floyd were pretty wellknown for taking studio facilities to the max,” he laughs. “It was only 16 tracks with Dark Side of the Moon, so that was a battle in itself to squeeze everything onto 16 tracks. But you know, that was part of the process and part of the challenge of recording back then.”

Even now, he still marvels at how he answered those recording challenges.

“I think that in the years when I started my engineering and production career proper, which was in the early ’70s, it was a fight to get interesting sounds,” he says. “There were no magic boxes or digital boxes to produce delays. You just had to resort to mechanical devices, like echo chambers and echo plates and tape. Tape played an enormous part in creating delays, with time stretching and time shrinking and all of that stuff. It’s actually remarkable to think that the albums that I made my name with, like Dark Side of the Moon, there were no digital boxes back then. It was all done with tape and chambers and things.”

He says there was a benefit to working with rudimentary equipment.

“I think it was a healthy thing to have to battle with primitive technology to achieve results,” he says. “I think that battle often resulted in very satisfying results. Now that everything is digital, you just plug in a box and you get a myriad of effects with the touch of a button. I feel there’s a certain loss in the creative process.

It’s become a little bit too easy now.”

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10 X 3 Singer Songwriter Showcase: Hosted by Brent Kirby (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m. Brothers Lounge.

Awolnation/Death from Above/ Ironfom: 7:30 p.m., $27.50-$45.

Jacobs Pavilion.

Margaret Brouwer’s Blue Streak Ensemble: 7 p.m., $10.

Nighttown.

Judy Collins/Ari Heist: 8 p.m., $45 ADV/$50 DOS. Music Box Supper Club.

Heron Oblivion/Chris Forsyth & the Solar Motel Band/Watery Love: 8:30 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Grog Shop.

Joe Leaman: 7 p.m., Free. BLU Jazz+.

Jimmy Thackery and the Drivers/ Tommy Shaper and the Mature Individuals: 8 p.m., $20.

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The Wombats/Ottawa: The Wombats’ latest album, Glitterbug, takes a noticeably different approach compared to earlier albums. Instead of strumming out goofball punk rock rhythms like 2007’s A Guide To Love, Loss, and Desperation and 2011’s This Modern Glitch, the band has toned down the silliness. The new stuff still offers danceable pop rock, just without the humor, off-kilter song covers or kitschy album artwork. “Glitterbug is how we should sound,” says drummer Dan Haggis. “We’ve got a good starting point moving forward. We haven’t really thought about the next album or how it’s going to sound but we’re happy with Glitterbug so if it continues in that vein, we’ll be happy.” (Anne Nickoloff), 8 p.m., $18 ADV, $20 DOS. Beachland Ballroom.

Blu Jazz Big Band Residency with the Sam Blakeslee Large Group: 8 p.m., $10. BLU Jazz+.

Judy Collins/Ari Heist: 8 p.m., $45 ADV/$50 DOS. Music Box Supper Club.

Mary Bridget Davies/Ryan Sudick: 8 p.m., $20. Nighttown.

The Dear Hunter/O’Brother/Rare Futures: 8 p.m., $20. Musica.

Delicate Steve/Sexy Pig Divas/G.S. Schray: 9 p.m., $7. The Euclid Tavern.

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Rabble Rabble/Burnin’ Loins/ Another Mother’s Milk: 9 p.m., $5. Happy Dog. Moss Stanley: 10:30 p.m., free.

Nighttown.

Tom Tallitsch Album Release Party: 8 p.m., $12. BLU Jazz+.

Urban Luau Featuring Carlos Jones and the PLUS Band/ Umojah Nation and Human Nature: 8 p.m., $10. Musica.

6/01

SAT

Still touring in support of last year’s How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful, Florence and the Machine play Blossom on Saturday.

The Gage Brothers/Band of Lovers (in the Supper Club): 8 p.m., $10.

Music Box Supper Club.

Hallow Earth — A Bent Crayon Curated Evening Part 3: 8:30 p.m., Free. Happy Dog. Chris Hatton’s Musical Circus (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m. Brothers Lounge.

Jam Night with the Bad Boys of Blues: 9 p.m., Free. Brothers Lounge.

Gary Lee: 5 p.m., Free. Music Box Supper Club.

Alan Parsons: 7:30 p.m., $39.50$62.50. Hard Rock Rocksino.

Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band: 8 p.m., $17 ADV, $20 DOS. The Kent Stage.

The Rat Pack Featuring Frank, Sammy and Dean: 7 p.m., $5.

Vosh Club.

Runaway Brother/Half Waif/ Sedna’s Not Alone (in the Locker Room): 9:30 p.m., $5. Mahall’s 20 Lanes.

The Summer Set/Handsome Ghost/ Royal Teeth/ Call Me Karizma: 7 p.m., $17 ADV, $20 DOS. Grog Shop.

Superheaven/Creepoid/Spirit of the Beehive: 7 p.m., $15 ADV, $18 DOS. Mahall’s 20 Lanes.

Wave Magnetik: 8 p.m., $10. Bop Stop.

World War IX/Reptile Dysfunction/ Revadons/Ratmosphere: 9 p.m., $5. Now That’s Class.

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6/03

Dixie Chicks/Augustana: Earlier this year, the Dixie Chicks, one of country’s biggest acts in the late ‘90s and early 2000s, announced a return to touring with their upcoming DCX MMXVI World

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Tour. It marks the first time in ten years that the band has embarked on a headlining a tour in North America. Equally capable of playing bluegrass and pop/rock, the band will undoubtedly serve up hits such as “Long Time Gone” and “Goodbye Earl.” If the setlists from the group’s recent tour of Europe are any indication, expect to hear covers of tunes by Prince, Fleetwood Mac and Bob Dylan.

(Niesel), 7 p.m., $43-$137.50.

Blossom.

Agumboot Music Festival Fundraiser Party: 6 p.m., $10.

Grog Shop.

Blues Chronicles: 5 p.m., Free.

Music Box Supper Club.

Toronzo Cannon (in the Supper Club): 8 p.m., $12 ADV, $15 DOS. Music Box Supper Club.

Cruisin Motown Band: 9 p.m., $5.

Vosh Club.

DJ Lawrence Caswell: 6 p.m., Free.

Happy Dog. Filthy Lowdown/Dead Federation/ The Drexels: 9 p.m., $5. Now That’s Class.

David LIebe Hart/The Bottom Dollars/The Sleeps/Key to the Mint: 9 p.m., $10 ADV, $14 DOS. Beachland Tavern.

The Jimmy Jack Band: 9:30 p.m., $5. [edit secondary] 9:30 p.m., $5.

Brothers Lounge.

Ernie Krivda Quartet: 8:30 p.m., $20. Nighttown.

Lounge Kitty (in the Supper Club): 10:30 p.m., Free. Music Box Supper Club.

Modern Swing Dance Party: 9 p.m., Free. Bop Stop.

Mr. Stress Blues Band Alumni/Blue Lunch: 8 p.m., $10. Beachland Ballroom.

Thor Platter (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m. Brothers Lounge.

6/04

Florence + the Machine/Of Monsters and Men: Last year, indie rockers Florence + the Machine had a huge breakthrough. The band’s latest album, last year’s How Big How Blue How Beautiful, was named to best of lists from Rolling Stone, NPR Music, SPIN, American Songwriter, Consequence of Sound and more. The band was even nominated for five awards at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards.

Her voice sounds stronger than ever on tracks such as “Ship to Wreck” and “What Kind of Man,” the latter of which finds the band exploring moodier sounds and blues-based sonic textures.

(Niesel), 7 p.m., $26-$80.50.

Blossom.

House of Heroes CD Release: This Christian alt-rock band has developed a respectable following in its native city of Columbus and beyond. Their songs feature powerful, catchy guitar riffs and passionate vocals. “Colors Run,” the newly released song off of their upcoming album, Colors, has a heavier vibe and will keep your head nodding along. With that in mind, their CD release party is sure to be a good time. (Elizabeth Bullock), 8 p.m., $10. Musica.

Yoni & Geti/AdvanceBase/Fresh Produce: Yoni (Yoni Wolf of Why?) and Geti (indie rapper Serengeti) just released their first collaborative album, Testarossa. an adventure in the space between hip-hop and rap. The quirky indie rock-rap of Why? (think They Might Be Giants with deadpan vocal interludes) becomes apparent in the samples and embellishments chosen for the hip-hop segments, while Serengeti populates the tracks with his characteristic smooth rhymes (Yoni sings a line or two as well).

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Rachel Brown and the Beatnik Playboys: 8:30 p.m., $14.

Nighttown.

DJ Terkalerk (in the Supper Club): 10:30 p.m., Free. Music Box Supper Club.

Anthony Hamilton & Fantasia: 8 p.m., $48.50-$252.25. State Theatre.

Hot Djang!: 3 p.m., Free. Music Box Supper Club.

JMSN/Tiffany Gouche/p. stoops: 9 p.m., $12. Beachland Tavern.

Lucas Kadish Four: 8 p.m., $12.

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Numerators/Wesley Who: 9 p.m., $5. Now Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Class.

Prince Tribute Night with Tim Moon/Scarlet & the Harlots/The Chestertons: 9 p.m., $7 ADV, $10 DOS. Beachland Ballroom.

Radioactive: 9 p.m., $5. Vosh Club.

Revival: 8:30 p.m., $12 ADV, $15 DOS. Music Box Supper Club.

Sinatra Night with Michael Sonata (in the Supper Club): 8 p.m., $10.

Music Box Supper Club.

The Spazmatics: 9:30 p.m., $5.

Brothers Lounge.

Tom Tallitsch Quartet: 8 p.m., $12.

Bop Stop.

Jeff Varga (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m.

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

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6/05

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Dan Campbell, ďŹ nds Campbell venturing beyond his pop punk roots and writing songs about love, loss, and moving on. Weissâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heartbreaking acoustic ballads are sure to evoke a similarly tear jerking response. Check out Aaron Westâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Grapefruitâ&#x20AC;? and Weissâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wait For Meâ&#x20AC;? and get ready to sing along. (Eli Shively), 6 p.m., $13.50 ADV, $15 DOS. Mahallâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 20 Lanes.

Bethlehem Steal: 9 p.m., $5. Happy Dog. DJ Special K: 9 p.m., Free. Brothers Lounge.

Dustbowl Revival (in the Supper Club): 8 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Music Box Supper Club.

Irish Sundays: Brittany Reilly & Achill Crossing: 3 p.m., Free.

Music Box Supper Club.

Kottonmouth Kings: 6 p.m., $17 ADV, $20 DOS. Agora Ballroom.

The Monkees: Good Times: The 50th Anniversary Tour: 7:30 p.m., $47.50-$82.50. Hard Rock Rocksino.

Ian Moore & the Lossy Coils/Istvan Medgyesi: 8 p.m., $15 ADV, $17 DOS. Beachland Tavern.

Noise Lunch with Zurvan / Brian Straw / Baaldavar/Progressive Discipline/Ash/Nathan Mahan: 4 p.m., Free. Now Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Class.

Mike Petrone (in the Wine Bar): 5:30 p.m. Brothers Lounge.

Subhumans/Pears/Party Plates: 8:30 p.m., $15. Grog Shop.

Three For All: 7 p.m., $10. Bop Stop.

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6/06

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Skatch Anderssen Orchestra: 8 p.m., $7. Brothers Lounge.

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Tonight is sure to please, so donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t miss it. (Sandy), 8:30 p.m., $22 ADV/$25 DOS. Grog Shop.

Pity Sex: The pop-shoegaze powerhouse will attempt to drown the crowd in reverb tonight at Now Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Class. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t write them off as cookie cutter, however â&#x20AC;&#x201D; their knack for infectious catchiness will have everyone in the room nodding along. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bonhomieâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;What Might Soothe You?â&#x20AC;? off of 2016â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s White Hot Moon showcase these deďŹ ning characteristics, offering up irresistible hooks drenched in powerful, fuzzy tone.

Dual vocalists Brennan Greaves and Britty Drake are the icing on the cake. Petal and PWR BTTM open. (Shively), 8 p.m., $12 ADV, $14 DOS. Now Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Class.

Charles Bradley and HIs Extraordinaires: 8:30 p.m., $27.50 ADV, $30 DOS. Beachland Ballroom.

Death Cab for Cutie/Chvrches/Pure Bathing Culture: 7 p.m., $25$49.50. Jacobs Pavilion.

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FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES: On past tours with the garage duo the Black Keys, the band became friends with Keys’ singer-guitarist Dan Auerbach.

“We both had it in our minds that we could work with each other,” says Shultz. “On a day off, we went to his hotel room and told him about some of the ideas we were working on and the new artists, and it clicked and made sense.” While recording the songs for what would become Tell Me I’m Pretty, Auerbach would bring “really obscure weird music” into the studio to inspire the band. “Once we all started to vibe out on [the music], our mind would

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WHY YOU SHOULD HEAR THEM: On Tell Me I’m Pretty, the band expands its garage rock sound to incorporate elements of psychedelic rock and blues. Album opener “Cry Baby” features crooning vocals and sounds like something from the ‘60s. the same goes for the careening “Mess Around,” a song that features a vintage electric guitar riff and nasally vocals. “With each record, we try to leave enough elasticity to surprise ourselves,” says Shultz. “You want to be an accumulation of all the things you’ve learned over the years. We’ll continue to apply those learnings and push ourselves to learn more. When it comes to growth, I never looked it as a straight line. I looked at it more like a tree or plant. You grow in various directions, and there’s still room to grow.”

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