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UPFRONT CLEVELAND POLICE UNION PREZ MAINTAINS CITY HAS COPS SET UP TO FAIL DURING RNC

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STEVE LOOMIS HAS BEEN SAYING it for months now and he’s going to keep on saying it: The city of Cleveland, despite public reassurances by the safety department, mayor, the Secret Service and the chief of police, is behind schedule in getting Cleveland cops ready for the Republican National Convention. That includes, Loomis has said, timely acquisition of equipment, ill-fitting riot gear, unclear operational guidelines, training and more.

There’s no question that the RNC poses a logistical and security problem the city and its police men and women have never before faced, and that recent history in the department has led many to worry about the ability of Cleveland cops to maintain peace and order during the historic event.

And there’s little question that the arrival of Trump’s GOP coronation will likely bring with it tens of thousands of protestors from all ends of the political spectrum. And the idea that the city itself has been slow — both in general perception and compared to Philadelphia, which is hosting the Democratic National Convention, and voiced not just by the media but by members of City Council — to address concerns and announce regulations regarding issues such as parade routes and protest permit applications has long been part of the narrative in the host city’s buildup to the main event.

Still, the most vocal and strident critic of the city’s prep is one of its own, though a man whose job it is to defend and advocate for the rank and file.

Back on March 30: "We haven't worked with any of these officers, or even our own officers. We are months and months behind where we need to be for this thing. And that's the FEMA instructors telling us that," said Loomis.

And April 4: “Steve Loomis, president of the union representing rank-and-file Cleveland police officers,

Steve Loomis would like you to hear him out.

said he’s ‘very, very concerned’ the city is behind schedule,” reported Cleveland.com. “My fear is that we sat on our hands a little too long,” Loomis said. “We’re being told ... that we’re anywhere from six to nine months behind where we should be. So, we’ve really gotta get a move on here.”

And May 6: Steve Loomis said, "We have concerns. We'll take all the training we can get with as many people as we can get it with. But we still have significant concerns."

And June 8, from WKYC: “Steve Loomis, the union’s outspoken leader, said Wednesday that he intends to put his accusations in writing and send a letter to Jackson and police department leaders. Loomis said the union will ‘hold the city responsible’ for any officer injuries, lost or damaged property or civil liabilities as a result of the city’s lack of training or preparedness.”

And June 16: "I want to hold [the city’s] feet to the fire to get us the things my members need to do their jobs,” Loomis said. “And if this thing goes bad, we will be well on record on why it went bad.”

That last bit, from just last week,

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comes from a Cleveland.com story centered on the response to Loomis’s long-standing chorus from Jeff Larson, CEO of the Republican National Committee’s convention-planning outfit.

Here’s what Larson had to say: "We have complete confidence in the city of Cleveland, the Cleveland police department, the federal and state agencies that are working on this, and Cleveland is going to be a safe place. It's not going to be the place where officers are going to get hurt. It's an effort he's making to diminish the hard work that hundreds and hundreds of people are putting into this."

"He's not involved in the planning on a day-to-day level," Larson told Cleveland.com. "He's misrepresenting the preparedness of the city, and it's having repercussions, I think not just in the city of Cleveland, but for people elsewhere who pick up his stories."

"His story," of course, is the Loomis tale of woe. And while there are bound to be well-founded concerns among Loomis and the rank and file about the city's preparedness (who isn't at least a little bit concerned?), it has been strange to see a cog in

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the city machine speak so vocally and frequently and with a sense of impending doom about Cleveland's big week in the international spotlight in July. But when he says things like "if this thing goes bad, we will be well on record on why it went bad," it's hard not to see a clear motivation — proactively insulating Cleveland police from criticism, or at least attempting to. By publicly saying the cops aren’t ready, if “things go bad,” he’s prepped an onthe-record excuse way ahead of time, inoculating (at least partially) the men and women on the streets in advance for criticism that would undoubtedly fall their way. “We will be on record on why it went bad.” I told you back in March. I told you in April. I told you in May. I told you in June.

He may or may not be misrepresenting the preparedness of the city, but he's not doing it to diminish the hard work of hundreds and hundreds of people working on this.

He's doing it to protect hundreds and hundreds of his people.

We asked Loomis this morning about the PR implications of his media rounds and where blame/credit falls in his view of the situation: “I could care less about credit. You know me better than that. ALL I want is for every one of our officers to go home in the same condition they came to work in. That is a fair expectation.

We still have no gear issued, they are telling us no body cameras, no radios, and now we have a 28 page document that will literally be impossible to adhere to should things start getting bad. My guys, (and by that I mean ALL uniformed police officers) are completely and totally set up for failure.

Little or no gear or training to date, very little help from outside agencies, historically violent protestors at RNC’s (without Trump factor) it’s an unfair notion that I or any of us are worried about credit for a good outcome. Our

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UPFRONT concern is for the blame the city has set my guys on the street up to take for a bad one. Like I’ve said before our counterparts in Philly have been training together with ALL of their equipment for over 7 months now and their union stands with the chief and mayor saying they are prepared... I would have loved to have been able to do that…”

CITY FIGHTS BACK IN LAWSUIT AIMED AT RNC SECURITY DETAIL With the Republican National Convention looming over the next four weeks, the city of Cleveland is wrangling the ACLU in court over its own security protocol and asking a federal judge to dismiss the group’s lawsuit.

Last week, the ACLU filed a lawsuit against the city of Cleveland, asking a federal judge to order the city to loosen its RNC regulations.

The group insisted that Cleveland’s security plan restricts the free speech rights of those attending the event. (The suit was filed on behalf of Citizens for Trump, Organize Ohio and the Northeast Ohio Coalition for

the Homeless.)

Among the concerns is the parade route, which diverts participants away from the event -- from the LorainCarnegie bridge to Ontario, and then to Orange. The group wants a route that would take protesters closer to Quicken Loans Arena, where, presumably, delegates might see them.

Furthermore, the ACLU is requesting that Cleveland process all protest permit applications immediately and relax the “Event Zone” size and restrictions.

“I think the security issue is an excuse for overly severe restrictions.

It’s perfectly possible to have organized parades without trouble,” ACLU Executive Director Christine Link said.

The city’s main point in its response, which was filed on Monday, is that it’s kind of too late in the game to tweak security measures that much.

“Plaintiffs’ desires to conduct hours-long parades on the routes of their choosing and to monopolize parks, if granted a permit to do so, would shift the City’s resources in such a way to limit the channels of communication available to the rest of the public,” Assistant Cleveland Law Director L. Stewart Hastings wrote. The city’s security forces, he

maintained, are heavily burdened already during this event.

Other city leaders, Mayor Frank Jackson included, have said for a while now that the mission was to balance free speech rights with safety needs. Even as recently as this month, political rallies for presumptive GOP nominee and talking McRib Donald Trump have led to violent clashes between supporters and protesters.

A hearing on this matter is set for June 23.

DAVE’S MARKET WOULD BE CRIPPLED BY MINIMUM WAGE HIKE At a Cleveland City Council committee meeting last week, the Saltzmans of Dave’s Markets (Steve, Dan and their papa, Burt) testified that the proposed city minimum wage increase, to $15 from the state’s current $8.10, would cripple their grocery store business.

Though many of Dave’s employees already make more than $15 an hour — $18.27, on average — entry level pay is still in the eight dollar range. And a precipitous wage increase in the city of Cleveland alone might necessitate closing a location or two, Steve Saltzman said.

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of the low-income neighborhoods where Dave’s has invested. Councilpeople took turns applauding the Saltzmans for the nutritional impacts of their stores, impactful, in part, because other supermarket brands have refused to establish locations in the non-sexy outposts of the urban core.

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come back and play for his hometown team, despite the Cavaliers owner, Dan Gilbert, having spent years assaulting LeBron’s character in an effort to boost his own public image. LeBron said that he came home because he wanted to bring a winner to the people of Northeast Ohio, and also to be “bigger than basketball.” And then he put the franchise on his back and did it: He picked his own roster, picked his own coach, inspired the best in his teammates, and overcame the impossible drought — as well as a historic opponent in the recordbreaking Golden State Warriors, and a 3-1 Finals deficit that no team had ever survived — to bring the long-awaited title to his hometown.

At this point, it’s almost unnecessary to point out LeBron’s philanthropy, unmatched by any modern-day athlete, or that these accomplishments came after he was born and raised in poverty, sometimes living out of the back of his struggling teenage single-mother’s car. Except that it’s easy enough to imagine that LeBron absorbed the game of basketball to his level of genius at least in part because of his gratitude for the peace of his life in the gym in the starkest contrast with the struggles of his impoverished circumstances away from it.

Which is to say that as much as it’s just a game, everyone needs a dependable refuge, and sports — both playing and watching — are supposed to be just that. It took an athlete like LeBron — who has, like no other, taken refuge in a sport to make it his own — to transform Cleveland sports fandom from an act of self-torture into

the opposite: fun.

Cleveland sports, at least when it comes to Cavaliers basketball, are finally fun again, and for the best reason: A genius came home to put his talents to use where he knew they’d ease the most suffering.

— Peter Pattakos

THE WEIGHT They came to witness the moment together. They were starved and pessimistic and sought solace and shreds of hope together, because only their fellow Clevelanders knew how it felt.

This was back on July 8, 2010.

Thousands descended upon downtown Cleveland to watch LeBron James tell the world he was staying in Cleveland. They flooded bars across the city and hundreds gathered around a gigantic projection screen at the corner of Prospect Avenue and East Fourth Street just outside Harry Buffalo. They wanted to celebrate.

It wasn’t a championship, but it was something. They would celebrate like it was a championship though, and while the rest of the world would look upon that with something bordering on pity, it was something.

The scene after the words “South Beach” left LeBron’s mouth was surreal. Tom Green was there for some reason, interviewing dejected Cavs fans who spooled out of bars and onto the streets and back into their cars and back into not just the championship drought, but the realization that the drought would probably last forever. They didn’t mourn losing a championship that night, but

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something like it.

Years went by and they watched and took major joy in minor victories.

There was a 27-point effort from J.J. Hickson to snap a then-record 26game losing streak. There were the pingpong balls and No. 1 draft picks.

And then there was July 11, 2014, and LeBron’s letter. I’m coming home.

Home included that little patch of pavement at the corner of Prospect Avenue and East Fourth Street, one block away from Quicken Loans Arena. And almost four years to the day of The Decision, in the midst of a regular Friday afternoon in Cleveland, LeBron’s words rung out over Cleveland and the city cascaded outside. It was an impromptu party, St. Patrick’s Day with wine and gold instead of green, offices empty, bars and streets packed, smiles for days.

Cleveland celebrated like it won a championship that day, if just for a bit, and if for no other reason than it’s what Cleveland had, and the promise, both explicit and implicit in LeBron’s missive, of what might come: the end of the drought, the possibility of five decades of silence being answered with

that loomed like a taunt, the last notch waiting, maybe forever, overhead.

Humanity spilled into the streets for an hours-long, delirious, joyful parade Sunday night. I don’t know when the notch over win No. 16 was added, and it doesn’t much matter. High fives were delivered to strangers by the thousands. Revelers crisscrossed the city in what felt like a search for every last stranger they had not yet embraced. It was a scene beyond description. It was a celebration that wasn’t like anything else. It just was. — Vince Grzegorek

the roar of one thunderous night, the salve to a string of pithy nicknames for our most miserable moments that carried with them instant recognition far beyond Cleveland’s borders.

And so Cleveland gathered again on Sunday night in indescribable and innumerable force. Any place with a TV was packed, and any vantage point outside of a place with a TV was

crowded with grown adults craning their necks for a peek at the action.

Crowds outside bar and restaurant and downtown bodega windows went dozens deep. Spectators lined the ledges of parking garages for a bird’s-eye view. The immediate area around the arena was a frenetic storm; the gigantic countdown to 16 wins on the side of the Q, a win-by-win totem

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We suspect the denial only lasted until midway through Game 6. It naturally gave way to anger fired like buckshot at anything in range — the referees, the NBA, LeBron James — with similar accuracy.

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By Game 7 we imagine them fully into bargaining: “Okay, fine, let us win, and we’ll play hard and say all kinds of nice things about the Cavaliers for the first time all series.”

Unfortunately the Cavaliers were going to get that either way, and they preferred their way, with a peremptory slap of the ass, and a summary “get to bed Sonny, it’s way past your bedtime.”

And with that, they lit their cigars.

Winning a championship in a major sport for Cleveland was destined to be a bellwether moment however it came. But it’s hard for us to imagine a sweeter dish than this. They avenged last year (putting back into question whether a healthy Cavs would’ve beat them), beat a historically great team, made the NBA’s only unanimous MVP look brittle, petulant and soft (not to mention shitty defensively), and became the first ever Finals team to win after going down 3 games to 1.

Check and mate, LeBron.

The next stage, as any Cavs fan can tell them, is “Depression.” It’s the kind of thing you can really perfect with a few years of practice, maybe months if combined with video reviews of prior Browns seasons, which we suppose can be substituted rather freely with Oakland Raiders lowlights. Just remember Warriors fans, you want to stay on depression for a good long time until you come to Acceptance. You might hit it sometime next March. Good luck!

We understand the poor form in ridiculing Warriors fans, but after the disrespect heaped on the Cavaliers leading up to and through the first four games of the series, we feel it’s their due. Call it a smug tax.

— Chris Parker

LIKE WE’D BEEN THERE BEFORE It’s a funny thing, the sensation of history thunderously unfolding around you in the present moment.

Most seconds tick by like blind soldiers throughout the day but, now and then, one of them swoops in and knocks you off your feet. You can feel every breath on the planet, every footstep in the world.

The whole thing happened suddenly, as though we had all been preparing flash-mob choreography for weeks and the moment had finally arrived. Fire trucks and ambulances were ubiquitous in downtown Cleveland in the late Sunday/early Monday morning hours after history was written, but still it’s sort of unclear how this particular truck was selected.

Instinct kicked in at some point, and the crowd pounced.

We were on East Ninth Street, and the fire truck came to a southbound halt. The crowd was thick and buzzing with electricity and looking for an outlet for the energy.

Naturally, the bold and crazed among the crowd hopped onto the ladder-strapped sides of the truck, fists raised and voices hoarse. Then the others arrived.

The crowd began going nuts, just north of Prospect. More and more people scaled the truck and cheered, sliding an impromptu dance party into the middle of the post-game madness. Improbably, even more people crammed themselves onto the beast. It’s unclear how everyone fit, but we believed in the possibility of just about anything that night.

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Cleveland police soon chimed in as rumors swirled around the city, passed through text and tweets, that Cavs fans had absconded with the fire truck completely: “DISPELLING FALSE REPORTS OF STOLEN FIRE TRUCK. NO EMERGENCY VEHICLES HAVE BEEN STOLEN.” Sure, it wasn’t stolen, but for a good five minutes or so it was commandeered in a tidal frenzy of energy and excitement. We hugged, cried, screamed, danced, and some of us climbed on top of a fire truck.

Joy manifests itself in weird ways; the outpouring of those emotions has to go somewhere. It’s a blur now, though it still feels immediate. We were there. We are there.

For the amateur climbing and G-rated commandeering of a public safety vehicle, there was little to no destruction. No car fires. No flipped cars. A broken window here or there.

And, according to the Cleveland police department, only five arrests.

“We are watching a big crowd,” an officer said on the police channel after the game. “They’re not unruly.

They’re happy.”

For not knowing what to do, Cleveland sure knew what not to do.

— Eric Sandy

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Like a lot of Clevelanders fueled by adrenaline in the aftermath of Game 7, I couldn’t get much sleep Sunday night. This had nothing to do with the vamping car horns and everything to do with my own repeated requirements of confirmation that I was not in some extremely high-def dream. And so at 2:15 a.m., responding to a tweet I’d seen earlier in the night, I hopped in the good old Dodge Avenger and high-tailed it to Tiedemen Road to commune with my kind of fans: those who were prepared to drop big bucks on print copies of The Plain Dealer, and preferred to purchase their copies hot off the press.

The Plain Dealer production facility is in Brooklyn and the big white lettering on its sign is rather the jewel of the I-480 stretch between I-76 and I-71. But driving on highways seemed somehow sacrilegious at this wee and godly hour, because at every intersection, cars erumpent with revelers honked and processed onward or homeward.

Or aimlessly, for all I knew. Every car appeared to have about eight people inside, or more like attached.

With limbs sashaying from windows and open doors, the cars resembled nothing so much as drunk and gayappareled octopi.

When I arrived at the production facility parking lot, off West Biddulph, a handful of cars were already there. Folks made their pilgrimages from their cars to the PD truck, where a jovial man sold copies for $1.50 a piece. “Ohio’s Sports Powerhouse,” the truck announced on its broadside.

Under the tridential glow of a streetlight, the Plain Dealer signage, and a moon almost full, the faces in the lot were visible to me as almost prayerful. There were no whoops nor cheers. The transactions were efficient, clipped. Four hours removed from the block, the 3 and the tears, it’s not that the joy had subsided. Maybe it just modulated.

Anyway, a security guard monitored the proceedings just in case. The gentleman ahead of me bought four copies, which sounded about right, so I did the same. (Two friends texted Monday morning asking if I might be able to procure copies on their behalf and I had the pleasure of announcing that the deed was already done).

The front-page headline, which you’ve surely seen by now, says, “Believe It!” with a massive photo by the Plain Dealer’s Gus Chan below, featuring LeBron holding the golden Larry O’Brien trophy and wearing a face that seems at once ecstatic, satisfied and at total peace.

When I skedaddled from the lot a few minutes later, there was only one car remaining. But two cars pulled into the lot as I pulled out.

And word from the PD’s graphics editor was that at 7:45 a.m. (and then again at 10:45 a.m.), people were still processing in, standing in line to get their copies. At 1:19 p.m., Dani Carlson from Cleveland 19 News tweeted that people were approaching the PD truck with “wads of cash,” inquiring how many they were allowed to buy. By midafternoon the PD announced it had sold out its initial run of 182,000 copies and was in the process of printing 300,000 more. That’s 482,000 all told, or one for every four people who live in the Cleveland metropolitan area.

This was and is history of the tangible kind. (What else are you going to do, screenshot a home page?) — Sam Allard

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Hoppin’ Frog Hoppy Hour Much like the Fat Head’s tasting room in Middleburg Heights, the Hoppin’ Frog Tasting Room in Akron is in a non-descript strip of storage facilities and warehouses.

But step inside and you’ll find a cozy tasting room where you can find a huge array of the brewery’s wonderful libations. The place features “hoppy hour” every weekday from 3 to 7 p.m. Tonight, the brewers visit the tasting room from 5 to 7 p.m. While they don’t fill growlers, you can drink bottles on site or take ’em to go. The place also offers a “Hoppin’ Frog Rare & Vintage” list as well as a guest bottle list. And you can order from a limited food menu too. (Jeff Niesel) 1680-F Waterloo Rd., Akron, 234-525-3764, hoppinfrog.com/tasting-room.

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Indians vs. Tampa Bay Rays After sweeping the defending World Champion Kansas City Royals at the beginning of June, the Cleveland Indians suddenly looked like contenders. But then they struggled against the Royals in Kansas City, suggesting the race to win the division might just run down to the wire. Tonight at 7:10 at Progressive Field, they wrap up a three-game series against the Tampa Bay Rays.

Tickets start at $13. (Niesel) 2401 Ontario St., 216-420-4487, clevelandindians.com.

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Pig + Whiskey Wednesdays The patio season is in full swing in Northeast Ohio and chefs like Ben Bebenroth over at Spice Kitchen are finding every excuse in the book to move culinary operations out of the restaurant and under the clear blue skies. He and his crew have created Pig + Whiskey Wednesdays; Bebenroth and his chef Josh Woo fire up the smoker and cook up a mess of barbecue. The items vary based on whim and weather. There’s always a seasonal whiskey cocktail or two to wash it all down. The events run from 5 to 10 p.m. and there will be live music at some dates. No reservations are required. (Douglas Trattner) 5800 Detroit Ave., 216-961-9637, spicekitchenandbar.com.

Coventry Village hosts a Coventry Sidewalk Sale & Pop Up Party. See: Saturday.

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Spies Rudolph Klein-Rogge portrays an evil mastermind whose goal is world domination, in Fritz Lang’s 1928 film Spies. A government agent attempts to stop his plots in this exciting film. It screens at 6:15 tonight and at 6:15 on Friday night at the Cleveland Museum of Art as part of the museum’s series on German director Lang, famous for having helmed such films as Metropolis and M. The museum will show a new 2K digital restoration of the movie. General admission is $10, or $8 for CMA members. (Alexis Wohler) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.

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Walnut Wednesday You know it’s summer when Walnut Wednesday returns. Today from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Perk Plaza at Chester Commons — at East 12th and Walnut Streets — food trucks gather to serve up lunch to area residents and employees. Follow the Downtown Cleveland Alliance on Facebook for weekly updates on vendors, entertainment offerings and more.

Admission is free, but the food will cost you. (Niesel) downtowncleveland.com.

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difference through raising money to change the life of local children living every day with life altering mental and physical challenges.” Whew! You can contribute to the cause today from 6:30 to 10 p.m. when Scene and Harry Buffalo present the CLE Have A Heart Charity Date Raffle at the Barley House. There will be an open bar and heavy appetizers; and beyond the Date Raffle, a Silent Raffle will feature gift package items valued at over $8,000. Special guests include Learn 2 Love Me, who’ll host an “adult” prize wheel, and there will be a tasting by Cleveland Whiskey and live music by DJ G and Live Productions. Online tickets are $35 in advance, or pay $40 at the door. (Niesel) 1261 West Sixth St., 216-623-1700, clevelandhaveaheart.org.

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Destiny You can catch another flick this week by German director Fritz Lang (Metropolis, M): his 1921 silent film Destiny, a dazzling fantasy in which Death grants a young woman three chances to change fate and save the life of her fiance. Set in Persia, Venice and China, the film’s three stories blend German Expressionism, German Romanticism and Orientalism with a host of circa-1931-style “special effects.” At 6:45 tonight and at 5 p.m. on Saturday, the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque shows a new digital restoration of the movie, considered Lang’s first great work of cinema.

(Apparently, even Luis Bunuel was impressed.) Tickets are $9, or $7 for members. (Wohler) 11610 Euclid Ave., 216-421-7450, cia.edu.

Edgewater Live Two years ago, the Cleveland Metroparks launched its extremely popular Edgewater Live, a Thursdaynight happy hour concert series. The event returns this year; the concerts take place from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. every Thursday night. In addition to featuring a performance by a local band (tonight it’s the Spazmatics), the events feature yoga, stand-up paddleboarding and cornhole. And those ubiquitous food trucks will be on hand as well, including the Proper Pig, Slyman’s, Betty’s BombAss Burgers and many more. Bring a blanket or a lawn chair and remember: Admission is free. You can find the weekly schedules on the website. (Niesel) 6500 Cleveland Memorial Shoreway NW, clevelandmetroparks.com.

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Neon Bull Gabriel Mascaro’s 2015 film Neon Bull centers on a handsome cowhand who helps delivers bulls to rodeos in northeast Brazil. The guy dreams of becoming a fashion designer, so he creates costumes of exotic fantasy for the “mother” in his work family. A rodeo movie that explores issues of gender and body as much as animal wrangling, Neon Bull received rave reviews upon its release last year. It makes its Cleveland premiere tonight at 8:45 at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque, where it screens again at 7:30 tomorrow night. Tickets are $9, or $7 for members. Apparently, it’s kinda sexy: No one under 18 will be admitted. (Wohler) 11610 Euclid Ave., 216-421-7450, cia.edu.

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Outdoor Movies at Crocker Park Seeing a film indoors, cooped up with hordes of sweating, texting teenagers, is hardly an optimal way to be entertained, especially given the lovely breezes and picnic-able lawns of Northeast Ohio in June, July and August. Watching a movie outside’s the way to go. While they are thoroughly enjoyable, drive-ins no longer have the cachet, nor the presence, that they enjoyed in the sodafountain 1950s, and plenty of local cities and organizations are helping to fill the void by getting the silver screen beneath the starry sky. For instance, every Thursday evening at 9 p.m. through August 25, Crocker Park screens a film behind the GameStop | clevescene.com | June 22 - 28, 2016

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Outdoor Movies at P.E.A.C.E. Park For outdoorsy movie fans on the other side of town, never fear: P.E.A.C.E. Park in the Coventry neighborhood will be the eastside analog to Crocker Park, showing free films on Thursday evenings through July. Tonight’s feature is the kids’ flick Goosebumps.

The screening begins at 9. (Allard) 2843 Washington Ave., Cleveland Heights, 216-556-0927, coventryvillage.org.

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Explore the Deep Brew Sea, the next event in the series, takes place today from 6 to 9 p.m. The event features tastings of 30 types of summer beers, including shandies, ciders and ales.

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Imagined Garment Imagined Ground This summer, the Morgan Conservatory presents new work by Iowa-based artist Julie McLaughlin and Russian born Masha Ryskin, who currently lives and works in Rochester.

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Chapel of the Mosquitos Considering noted local architect Robert Maschke founded the place, 1Point618 seems like the perfect venue for Jose Oubrerie’s Chapel of the Mosquitos. Oubrerie is professor emeritus at the Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture at the Ohio State University, where he served as chair of the architecture department. Oubrerie had an early career in painting before studying architecture in Paris. The exhibition combines his paintings and structures. The Chapel of the Mosquitoes opens with a reception from 7 to 10 p.m. today and remains on view through Aug. 15. It’s free. (Josh Usmani) 6421 Detroit Ave., 216-281-1618, 1point618gallery.com.

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Invasion U.S.A. One of action hero Chuck Norris’ most absurd, paranoid and xenophobic films, Invasion U.S.A. tells the story of an ass-kicking ex-CIA agent who’s happily retired and living in the Everglades.

Government officials force him out of retirement to deal with a band of commie terrorists who have come to Miami, causing chaos, invoking panic and threatening Christmas. The film screens tonight at 7 and tomorrow night at 8:40 at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque as part of the cinema’s “The Republicans are Coming” series. Tickets are $10, or $8 for members. (Wohler) 11610 Euclid Ave., 216-421-7450, cia.edu.

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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.

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Cleveland Pizza Fest Formerly Cleveland’s Pizza Bake-Off, the Cleveland Pizza Fest, which kicks off today at the Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds in Berea, gives pizza lovers the opportunity to sample slices from 15 area restaurants as they compete for the title of “Best Pizza on the North Coast.” There will also be a classic car show, a Bike Night, pizza eating contests, kids’ zone, a 5K run/walk and music from local and regional performers. Hours are 5 p.m. to midnight today, noon to midnight tomorrow, and noon to 8 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets are $5. (Niesel) 164 Eastland Rd., Berea, 440-243-0090, cuyfair.com.

Imagined Ground opens today with a reception from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. and remains on view through Saturday, Aug. 6. Admission is free. (Usmani) 1754 East 47th St., 216-361-9255, morganconservatory.org.

Student/Faculty Art Exhibit Valley Art Center offers a wide variety of adult and children’s classes, as well as workshops and summer camps.

(More information on classes is available on the website.) The center’s annual Student/Faculty Art Exhibit showcases the classes offered by the Chagrin Falls organization. All students and instructors since June, 2014 can participate in this annual exhibition. The annual Student/ Faculty Art Exhibit opens tonight with a reception from 6 to 8; light refreshments will be served and there will be plenty of opportunity to mingle with the artists, students and instructors. The exhibit remains on view through Aug. 3. Admission is free. (Usmani) 155 Bell St., Chagrin Falls, 440-247-7507, valleyartcenter.org.

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The price of admission includes a souvenir beer glass. Tasting tables featuring an assortment of beers and hors d’oeuvres will be stationed throughout the aquarium. Tickets are $30 for pass holders, $40 for non-pass holders. A designated driver ticket will set you back $20. (Niesel).

2000 Sycamore St., 216-862-8803, greaterclevelandaquarium.com.

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explored the sculptural possibilities of papermaking. Her wearable paper garments are influenced by Eastern fibers. Ryskin’s work uses the landscape motif and its elements as a metaphor for themes of memory, history and the passage of time; he uses a variety of media including painting, drawing, printmaking, fibers and installation. Imagined Garment

Tri-C JazzFest Outdoor Festival Some 18 bands (including Blue Lunch, Ernie Krivida’s Fat Tuesday Big Band, and Wesley Bright) will play on two outdoor stages at Playhouse Square today and tomorrow, as part of the 37th annual Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland.

While most of the other JazzFest events are ticketed, these outdoor performances at the U.S. Bank Plaza provide a chance to swing, dance and even catch a few food demos from the Tri-C hospitality management faculty.

Hours are today and tomorrow from 1 p.m. to 1 a.m. See the full schedule of events on the website. (Immerman) East 14th Street and Euclid Avenue, 216-771-4444, playhousesquare.org.

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Cleveland’s summer music festival comes alive with traditional jazz, urban funk, blues, gospel, Latin rhythms and more inside Playhouse Square theaters and on two stages outdoors.

Great food and cooking demos!

Activities for kids!

THURSDAY, JUNE 23 CONNOR PALACE THEATRE

7:30 p.m. Tommy LiPuma’s Big Birthday Bash PRESENTED BY

FRIDAY, JUNE 24 INDOORS OHIO THEATRE

6 p.m.

Chick Corea Trio (Chick Corea, Christian McBride, Brian Blade)

CONNOR PALACE THEATRE

June 23-25, 2016

8 p.m.

PLAYHOUSE SQUARE

10:15 p.m.

David Sanborn/Maceo Parker

OUTCALT THEATRE

Big Sam’s Funky Nation

OUTDOORS UNDER THE CHANDELIER AT PLAYHOUSE SQUARE

12:30 p.m. Keyed Up for JazzFest SCENE STAGE

1:30 p.m.

3:05 p.m.

4:15 p.m.

5:25 p.m.

JazzFest Jazz Camp Showcase TCJF Soundworks International Orange Blue Lunch

STRASSMAN INSURANCE STAGE

6:25 p.m.

7:35 p.m.

8:35 p.m.

8:55 p.m.

10:15 p.m.

11:35 p.m.

#TriCJazzFest

THE GEORGE GUND FOUNDATION

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Witness Protection Red Light Roxy Swing Dance Lesson Ernie Krivda’s Fat Tuesday Big Band One World Tribe Wesley Bright The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation U.S. Bank Advantage Consulting Services LTD Constellation Brands Great Lakes Brewing Co. K&D United

SATURDAY, JUNE 25 UNDER THE CHANDELIER AT PLAYHOUSE SQUARE 9:30 a.m.

Yoga (Registration begins at 8:30 a.m.)

INDOORS HANNA THEATRE

1 p.m.

4:45 p.m.

Melissa Aldana/Somi Dominick Farinacci CD Release Concert

OHIO THEATRE

3 p.m.

Terence Blanchard’s E-Collective

CONNOR PALACE THEATRE

7:15 p.m.

BWB/Lalah Hathaway/ Brian Culbertson

OUTDOORS SCENE STAGE

1 p.m.

2:05 p.m.

3:10 p.m.

4:15 p.m.

5:20 p.m.

Paul VornHagen Quartet Sam Blakeslee 5tet Bluelight Moises Borges Brazilian Jazz Tribe of Eli

STRASSMAN INSURANCE STAGE

6:15 p.m.

7:35 p.m.

8:55 p.m.

10:15 p.m.

11:35 p.m.

Forecast Humbly Submitted The Admirables FunkyardX Sammy deLeon y su Orquesta

OUTCALT THEATRE

10:30 p.m. ¡Cubanismo!

FRIDAY, JUNE 24 2:45 - 3:05 p.m. Storytime: Donna Willingham “Froggy Sings the Blues” 3:55 - 4:15 p.m. Island Steel Drum Band Experience 5:05 - 5:25 p.m. “Pop-ins” (visits by jazz musicians) U.S. Bank KidBop! activities take place Friday and Saturday in the tent on East 14th Street next to the Hospitality Management tent.

SATURDAY, JUNE 25 1:45 - 2:05 p.m. Storytime: Donna Willingham “Froggy Sings the Blues” 2:50 - 3:10 p.m. Island Steel Drum Band Experience 3:55 - 4:15 p.m. Storytime: Donna Willingham “Froggy Sings the Blues” 5:05 – 5:25 p.m. “Pop-Ins” (visits by jazz musicians) Crafts from 1:45 - 6:45 p.m. each day provided by Lakewood Montessori School

COOKING DEMONSTRATIONS FRIDAY

JUNE 24

SATURDAY

JUNE 25

2:45 p.m.

3:55 p.m.

5:05 p.m.

7:15 p.m.

Market District Demo, Chef Paul Ondo Tri-C Demo, Chef Maureen Leonard, (crema catalina) Market District Demo, Chef Paul Ondo Tri-C Demo, Chef Karen Monath (ceviche)

1:45 p.m.

2:50 p.m.

3:55 p.m.

5 p.m.

Tri-C Demo, Chef Giovanna Mingrone (savory tarts) Market District Demo, Chef Paul Ondo Tri-C Demo, Chef Karen Monath (gazpacho) Market District Demo, Chef Paul Ondo

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Executive Chef – Westfield Inn – Westfield Center, OH Description: Leads and oversees all aspects of culinary operations within the Westfield Inn including a la carte, banquet and room service catering. Responsible for menu planning and production, staff leadership and development, expense management, purchasing and inventory management, safety, sanitation, and ongoing customer service excellence.

Collaborates with other culinary leaders to synchronize food services and shared use of culinary resources across all Hospitality Operations. There are four (4) culinary operations within the Corporate Hospitality business unit of Westfield Group. These include Westfield Group Country Club, Blair Conference Center, The Westfield Inn, and Corporate Dining Operations.

Other operations in the business unit include Event Planning and Hospitality Administration.

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The Clan Based a true story, Pablo Trapero’s 2015 film The Clan focuses on the Puccios, a seemingly normal upper middle-class family living in Buenos Aires. But in reality, they’re actually criminals who kidnap their neighbors, hold them for ransom and murder them. Tonight at 9:30, the film makes its Cleveland premiere at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque. Tickets are $9, or $7 for members. (Wohler) 11610 Euclid Ave., 216-421-7450, cia.edu.

FILM

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

Although only 24 minutes long, the film captures the fascinating vastness of the universe. It screens today at noon and 4 p.m. at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History’s Nathan and Fannye Shafran Planetarium. There’s another show Sunday at 4 p.m.

Planetarium shows are an additional five bucks with general admission, but members get in free. (Elizabeth Bullock) 1 Wade Oval Dr., 216-231-4600, cmnh.org.

FAMILY FUN

Euclid Wind Festival This year’s Euclid Wind Festival features helicopter tours of the Lake Erie shoreline (early reservations are needed, since it’s expected to sell out); tethered hot air balloon rides (also expected to sell out); a drone show and simulation; Dr. URawesome (Guinness World Record holder for world’s largest bubble); aerial-acrobat dance by Jasmine Dragons; a performance by Ulterior Motive on the beach; inflatables and activities for the kids — and much more! Everything takes place at Sims Park from 3 to 8 p.m. today.

Admission is free. (Usmani) 23131 Lake Shore Blvd., Euclid, 216-481-8995, cityofeuclid.com.

MUSIC

Hypnotic Brass Ensemble Hypnotic Brass Ensemble freely

mix the brass band with generous doses of hip-hop, soul and funk.

Praised by the Los Angeles Times, the group blends several genres into a high-energy and entertaining performance. (Their music was featured in The Hunger Games. Just sayin.’) In any case, you won’t want to miss their 8 p.m. performance at Evans Amphitheater at Cain Park.

Tickets are $10 to $15. (Immerman) 14591 Superior Rd., Cleveland Heights, 216-371-3000, cainpark. com.

FAMILY FUN

Sidewalk Sale and Pop-Up Pinball Party Old-fashioned pinball machines have made a comeback and you can play them at various bars and venues in Northeast Ohio. Today, you’ll even be able to play them outdoors as Coventry Village in Cleveland Heights hosts a Sidewalk Sale and Pop-up Pinball Party from noon to 5 p.m. The event features other seasonal attractions too: The Columbus band V!bes performs from 1 to 3 p.m. and DJ JP spins “summertime favorites” from 3 to 5 p.m. There will be a sidewalk sale and a beer garden between Marc’s & Heights Cleaners that will serve Great Lakes beers. In addition, there will be a Coventry Cash Machine where you can step inside a “blowing cash machine” and win “money” you can use at participating Coventry merchants during the day. Find details on the website. (Niesel) coventryvillage.org.

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Solstice 2016 For the eighth annual Solstice, the Cleveland Museum of Art’s signature summer event, guests will once again have an opportunity to enjoy “dynamic and cutting-edge music from around the world.” Museum galleries will be open late into the night too. Acts scheduled to perform include disco and electronic music pioneer Giorgio Moroder, the Mexico City-based Latin dance band Centavrvs, the Congolese rumba act L’Orchestra Afrisa International, Brazil’s Luísa Maita, and Londonbased electronic musician Sara Abdel-Hamid (aka Ikonika). Dante Carfagna, the collector/curator behind the groundbreaking “Boddie Recording Company” box set of Cleveland singles from the ’60s and ’70s, returns with his crates of obscure 45s. He spun at the very first Solstice in 2009. The event takes place tonight at 8. Tickets are sold out, but you might find them through various ticket brokers.

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ʯʎʧʎ ʵʱʮʱ ʐ ʯʧʮʫʵʵʣ ʧʶʪʧʴʫʦʩʧ ʘʑʔʖ ʅʘʗʑʗʒʑʖʒʑʕʗ ˃ˆ˘˃ː˅ˇʏ ʚ˒ˏ

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ʪʻʲʰʱʶʫʥ ʤʴʣʵʵ ʧʰʵʧʯʤʮʧ ʘʑʔʗ ʅʓʗʏ ʅʓʒ ʓʕ ʈ ˗ːˆˇ˔ ʊːˑ ˆˋ˕˅ˑ˗ː˖˕ʋʏ ˅ˊˋˎˆ˔ˇː ʔ ʈ ˗ːˆˇ˔ ˕ˋ˖˖ˋːˉ ˑː ˎ˃˒ ˈ˔ˇˇʏ ʚ˒ˏ ʨ˔ˇˇ ʲ˃˔ˍˋːˉ ʵˊ˗˖˖ˎˇʎ ʵ˗˒˒ˑ˔˖ˇˆ ˄˛ ʹʧʰʼ

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ʥʣʫʰ ʲʣʴʭ ʣʴʶʵ ʨʧʵʶʫʸʣʮ ʙʑʚʐʓʒ ʨʴʧʧ ˑː ʨ˔ˋˆ˃˛ʏ ʅʗ ˇ˃˅ˊ ʓʕ ʈ ˑˎˆˇ˔ ˕˃˖˗˔ˆ˃˛ ʈ ʵ˗ːˆ˃˛ ʨ˔ˋˆ˃˛ ʕʐʚ˒ˏʏ ʵ˃˖˗˔ˆ˃˛ ʓʒ˃ˏʐʚ˒ˏʏ ʵ˗ːˆ˃˛ ʓʔʟʗ˒ˏ

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ʮʣʦʻʵʯʫʶʪ ʤʮʣʥʭ ʯʣʯʤʣʼʱ ʙʑʓʘ ʵʹʧʧʶ ʪʱʰʧʻ ʫʰ ʶʪʧ ʴʱʥʭ ʅʗʒʑʖʒʑʕʗʑʔʗ ˃ˆ˘˃ː˅ˇʏ ˅ˊˋˎˆ˔ˇː ʔ ʈ ˗ːˆˇ˔ ˕ˋ˖˖ˋːˉ ˑː ˎ˃˒ ˈ˔ˇˇʏ ʚ˒ˏ ˅ˊˋˎˆ˔ˇː ʔ ʈ ˗ːˆˇ˔ ˕ˋ˖˖ˋːˉ ˑː ˎ˃˒ ˈ˔ˇˇʏ ʚ˒ˏ ʨ˔ˇˇ ʲ˃˔ˍˋːˉ ʵˊ˗˖˖ˎˇʎ ʵ˗˒˒ˑ˔˖ˇˆ ˄˛ ʹʥʲʰ ʈ ʛʓʎʕ ʶˊˇ ʵ˗ˏˏˋ˖

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GET OUT (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.

MUSIC

Tri-C JazzFest: Terence Blanchard Multiple Grammy Award-winning trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard has traveled many paths. From a successful solo career to composing more than 50 soundtracks and recording more than 30 albums, there’s nothing Blanchard hasn’t tackled. You can catch the New Orleans native and his E-Collective at 3 p.m. in the Ohio Theatre on Playhouse Square as he performs as part of the 37th annual Tri-C JazzFest. Tickets are $25 to $32. (Immerman) 1501 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

FILM

Unforgiven Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman and Richard Harris star in Unforgiven, the Eastwood-directed Western about a reformed killer who returns to his violent ways to collect money that he desperately needs. A meditation on both mortality and morality, Eastwood’s final Western offers “a fresh and sobering look at frontier justice and heroism.” Part of the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque’s “The Republicans are Coming” series, it screens tonight at 7 and tomorrow night at 8:40 at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque. Tickets are $10, or $8

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for members. (Wohler) 11610 Euclid Ave., 216-421-7450, cia.edu.

FAMILY FUN

Yoga Under the GE Chandelier Bring your yoga mat, water, shades and a sense of loving kindness to the second annual Shine Bright Yoga under the GE Chandelier today at 9:30 a.m. The session is open to people of all ages and levels of expertise; the class is 60 minutes long and will be held rain or shine.

(In case of showers, the yoga moves into the Allen Theatre lobby.) Show up around 8:30 to register. Other than that, it’s free. (Immerman) 1375 Euclid Ave., playhousesquare. org.

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for four years now. A few years back, Scene described the show as “fierce, formidable and very funny.”

The women have some serious experience too. Katie White-Sonby is an actress who’s performed at Clague Playhouse, Karamu and Kennedy’s Cabaret. Marjorie Preston is an alumna of Something Dada and Rockwell 9 improvisational comedy troupes. Dionne Atchison is a theater artist with Cleveland Public Theatre, and Brenna “MC” Connor is an actress and improviser.

The event begins with a short-form set of improv games, followed by a longform improv set. It begins at 5 p.m. at Coffee Phix. Arrive early if you want to sign up and perform.

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

PATIO

NIGHTLIFE

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 below 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., Cleveland Heights, 216-932-1966, bsideliquorlounge.com.

COMEDY

Cleveland Improv Jam The Angry Ladies of Improv has hosted the Cleveland Improv Jam

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Tropical Sundays A weekly summer celebration, Tropical Sundays at Now That’s Class feature 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.

FILM

Woman in the Moon Here’s a chance to catch German director Fritz Lang’s final silent film, 1929’s Woman in the Moon. Written, as were all Lang’s silent films, by his

wife Thea von Harbou, the flick tried to recapture the magic and spectacle of Lang’s 1927 sci-fi masterpiece Metropolis. Did it suceed? You be the judge; we’ll just say that its rocket science was so revealing that the movie was suppressed by the Nazis until 1945! Tickets are $10 for general admission, $8 for CMA members. (Wohler) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.

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THEATER

2016: A Political Race ODDyssey Billed as Cleveland’s answer to the Capitol Steps, Cleveland Cabaret Project’s 2016: A Political Race ODDyssey, “a politically incorrect and satiric revue,” promises to provide plenty of laughs as the Republican National Convention nears. The group performs on five Mondays leading up to the event. Lora Workman, founder and artistic director of CCP, possesses an impressive resume. A graduate of Baldwin Wallace University’s Conservatory of Music, she studied cabaret in Italy and New York and was a semi-finalist in the 2003 San Francisco Cabaret competition.

Tonight, she directs the group as it performs at 7 at Nighttown. Tickets are $15. (Niesel) 12387 Cedar Rd., Cleveland Heights, 216-795-0550, nighttowncleveland. com.

MUSIC

38th Annual Workmen’s Circle Yiddish Concert Lipa Schmeltzer has earned titles

like “the Jewish Elvis Presley” and “the Hasidic Lady Gaga” for his upbeat, fun and energetic Jewish music. Catch his pop-fueled performance at 7 p.m. at Evans Amphitheater at Cain Park. It’s free.

(Immerman) 14591 Superior Rd., Cleveland Heights, 216-371-3000, cainpark. com.

FILM

Movie Mondays Every Monday, Cleveland Cinemas hosts $6 Movie Mondays, where film fans can catch up on the latest Hollywood flicks for significantly reduced prices. Bring your friends and family and make Movie Mondays a weekly tradition — many theaters even offer discounted concession stand items.

Participating theaters include Apollo Theatre, Capitol Theatre, Cedar Lee Theatre, Chagrin Cinemas, Shaker Square Cinemas and Tower City Cinemas. Unfortunately, additional charges apply for 3-D movies.

(Alaina Nutile) clevelandcinemas.com.

MUSIC

Music Mondays Every second, third, and fourth Monday of the month, Great Lakes Brewing Company in Ohio City kicks off its week with a little live music, craft brews and delicious pub eats (we recommend the housemade pizzas, which are half off during their 4 to 7 p.m. happy hour).

Guests can grab a beer and meander down to the Beer Cellar on the basement floor to enjoy the laid back tunes of local musicians. Tonight, it’s local singer Kristine Jackson, who adeptly alternates between blues and pop. She plays from 6 to 8 p.m., and there’s no cover charge.

(Nutile) 2516 Market Ave., 216-771-4404, greatlakesbrewing.com.

FOOD

Vegan Mondays If you’re vegan, vegetarian, gluten free, or just plain interested in trying something new, head over to Townhall in Ohio City this evening from 5 to 10 p.m. for Vegan Night. Work your way through the delicious and healthy vegan menu, featuring hits like Veggie Vegan Flatbread (think fresh tomatoes, chiles, mushrooms and vegan cheese), Tofu Etouffee (blackened tofu, onions, tomatoes and brown rice) or many of the regular menu items made vegan. If you’re still feeling skeptical, know this: Monday night is also Craft Beer

Night and all 36 crafts are only $3 from 6 p.m. to close. Cheers! (Nutile) 1909 West 25th St., 216-344-9400, townhallohiocity.com.

FOOD

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.

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

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A local food truck will be on hand, and live bands will perform too.

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ART THOUGHT BUBBLE Ron Hill grants an insider’s look at the world of editorial cartoons

By Josh Usmani WITH MORE THAN A DECADE’S worth of experience as both a local teacher and editorial cartoonist, Ron Hill has a unique, insider’s perspective of the educational system. In his new book, Edutoons, Hill showcases a large collection of his editorial cartoons commenting on and critiquing the educational system, both locally and nationally.

Although originally published in six local newspapers over an eight-year period, the book’s themes are often universal for students, teachers and parents all over the country, and just as relevant to today’s public dialogue.

“The book could be subtitled ‘A Pictorial History of Modern Teaching,’” says Alliance High School English teacher Chris Shillig, who taught a graphic novel class with Hill. “While the cartoons focus on situations specific to schools in Northeast Ohio (where Ron lives), they also have a universality that transcends any one district. A levy is a levy is a levy, and every taxpayer has been faced with supporting one. Ditto the questions and dubious ethics surrounding today’s standardized testing culture, the proliferation of technology into students’ lives, and the tough decisions about when to build and when to close schools.”

An award-winning editorial cartoonist, Hill’s career began as a commercial artist in advertising and illustration after receiving an associate’s degree in visual communication from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh in 1983. Hill began working as a professional editorial cartoonist in 1999, and started teaching at Alliance High School in 2002, where he taught an interactive media class in the school’s career-tech department for 13 years until retiring last spring. Additionally, he is president of the Northern Ohio Illustrators Society, as well as a member of the National Cartoonists Society and the

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From Ron Hill’s Edutoons, “The start of another summer vacation for Ohio’s students.” Originally published in The North Ridgeville Press, June 10, 2015

American Association of Editorial Cartoonists.

“Since I was a teacher at Alliance High School starting in 2002, and ‘retired’ in 2015, I had a unique perspective on what I saw as the monetization of public education as a taxpayer, parent and school teacher,” Hill explains. “This informed my opinion cartoons on such issues as standardized testing, scores used to penalize good districts and teachers, school safety, school funding and other issues that drastically changed public education in this 21st century.”

Edutoons compiles editorial cartoons published in six regional newspapers between 2008 and 2015: The Chagrin Valley Times, The Solon Times, The Geauga Times Courier, The North Ridgeville Press, The (Avon) Press, and West Life.

“The cartoons in this book form a running commentary on the steady politicization of our children’s education at the hands of lobbyists, testing companies and elected officials,” Hill elaborates. “Hopefully, this book will make you want to cheer, scream and yell, and, most importantly, think about America’s future. What we are really teaching our children — or not teaching them?”

In Edutoons, Hill also asks, “Who pays for education and how? How much? Can schools really function as havens from societal ills, or is our education system doomed to reflect and even amplify them? Can schools

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test students fairly at the same time that educators question the validity of the systems?”

Edutoons is self-published through Act3, an illustration and design media company that Hill co-founded after his retirement. The book is 136 pages and retails for $14.95.

“I arranged the cartoons into four chapters, and present them in chronological order,” says Hill.

“I further added commentary and research to give the cartoons context, and also to tie the overall narrative of this tumultuous time in Ohio’s education policy. Though these cartoons were written to address specific issues in the community I was publishing in, I believe these are issues that parents and educators grapple with across the country.

“The cartoons collected in this book may seem repetitive. They are.

The challenge of writing cartoons that are funny (I prefer the word sarcastic) and make people think about the same problems in a new way is hard.

“Also, the topics themselves are repetitive. When Ohio’s systems for funding public education relies mostly on each community’s property tax assessment (which has been ruled a number of times to be unconstitutional by Ohio’s Supreme Court), you end up with unequal educational opportunities between one community and another. So, to expect students — and school

districts — with access to vastly different resources to uniformly score ‘excellent’ is ludicrous. And yet this is what is unrealistically expected of today’s teachers.

Someone has to keep saying these things; many do. I will keep trying to find new ways to draw the same things differently. I am glad I have a forum and the freedom to continue doing so.”

Edutoons is the first in a series of planned editorial cartoon collections, gathered by important themes from Hill’s library of thousands of cartoons.

As a special bonus, Hill drew original cartoons based on true stories from his own educational experience inside select copies of Edutoons and dropped them off for sale at the offices of the Chagrin Valley Times in Chagrin Falls.

Hill was inspired by John “Derf” Backderf, who dropped off copies of his various graphic novels to his favorite bookstore, Mac’s BacksBooks on Coventry, last year.

You can see Hill from 2 to 4 p.m. on Saturday, July 2, as he takes part in the Author Alley at Loganberry Books, during the 10th annual Larchmere Arts Fest.

Edutoons is available through Amazon, Ingram/Spark, Baker & Taylor, select independent bookstores and Act3creative.com.

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STAGE A LITTLE LESS SCARY A reimagined Phantom of the Opera is impressive at the State Theatre, but ...

By Roy Berko

IT’S BEEN SEEN BY OVER 140 million people in 30 countries and 151 cities. It’s been translated into 14 languages. It’s Broadway’s longest running show. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera is now on stage at the State Theatre, albeit in a reimagined form.

The present touring version has a new set, staging, choreography and costumes. There are new special effects including computer-generated graphics, and fire bolts much like those that come out of the scoreboard at the Q for Cavs games. Even some of the characterizations and the emotional level have been altered.

Be assured, however, that despite the changes, the well-known story line and the sumptuous music remain intact.

The tale takes place in the Paris Opera House more than a century ago, centering on a disfigured musical genius who is obsessed with a talented member of the chorus, who he trains to be the leading lady in his new musical, with dire consequences.

And, yes, the sounds of “Think of Me,” “Angel of Music,” “The Music of the Night,” “All I Ask of You,” and “Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again” fill every nook and cranny of the theater.

The changes have resulted in a staging that appears smaller and less impressive. This despite the cast

and orchestra of 52, making it one of the largest productions now on tour.

Though still opulent, this Phantom doesn’t appear to be as “grand” as the original. The always anticipated chandelier crashing to the stage has been replaced by an unspectacular vertical drop of the large fixture straight down above the heads of the audience seated in the first 10 or so rows. There were sound pops and lighting sparks, but the effect was disappointing, thus no screams of terror or ducking from the people seated in the expensive seats.

Some will consider the elimination of the crashing chandelier parallel to doing Miss

and enhances the journey of Christine and the Phantom into the bowels of the Paris opera house, but takes away some of the eerie darkness of the original set.

In other words, the menace of the Phantom is watered down. This may well have been Connor’s intent as his version places more stress on the intimacy of Christine and Raoul, which adds to the conflict of the romantic triangle. This version also stresses the romantic realism of the story, down-playing some of the spectacle and melodrama.

One can only wonder if this less grandiose, reserved version had been the original, would the show have achieved its level of greatness? My

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Saigon without the requisite helicopter, Wish You Were Here minus the real swimming pool or American Psycho without a blood splatter zone.

Director Laurence Connor has decided to go with a youthful Phantom, more realism, some less exaggerated characterizations of some roles, and a large cylinder on a turntable placed stage center, which makes for smooth transitions,

guess? Probably not.

As for this cast, Chris Mann, best known as a finalist on NBCTV’s The Voice, has a fine Billboard voice. It does not translate into the powerful Broadway sound needed for The Phantom. Nor does he have the physical and emotional power to transform a mere human into a maniacally obsessed, larger-than-life menace. He definitely is not in the same class as Michael Crawford (the

original Broadway Phantom), Mark Jacoby or Thomas James O’Leary, who also performed the role. (The part, in this touring edition, is exchanged between four actors, so attendees may see a different Phantom than was on stage opening night.)

Katie Travis has the looks and voice for Christine, but she, like Mann, doesn’t exude the necessary hyper-emotional level. Hers is a good but not great interpretation of the role. (Three actresses trade off the part.)

There are local connections between the cast and this area. Price Waldman (Monsieur Andre) was an Oberlin attendee, Stephen Mitchell Brown (Jeweler) won a Cleveland Critics Circle Best Actor award for his portrayal of Jean Valjean in Les Miserables, and Kathryn McCreary (Wild Woman) is a College of Wooster and Ohio State grad.

Cleveland native and Baldwin Wallace University Musical Theatre grad, Trista Moldovan, won raves for her portrayal of Christine on Broadway several years ago.

The orchestra was full and lush, as befits the score, but sometimes, the lack of sound balance caused lyrics and words to be drowned out.

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MOVIES THE DREAM TEAM Raiders! The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made chronicles a fantasy come to fruition

By Jeff Niesel BECAUSE HE LIKED HARRISON Ford so much as Han Solo in Star Wars, a young Chris Strompolos was predisposed to like him in Raiders of the Lost Ark. But unlike other kids, Strompolos, now an actor and producer, became obsessed with the film when he saw it at age 10.

“Indiana Jones was a believable character for me,” says Strompolos in a recent phone interview. “He was larger than life, and he represented the wit and machismo and the physicality of a hero that I had not seen. It was exciting and true and honest. I wanted to be that character.”

With the assistance of childhood friend Eric Zala, who served as director, Strompolos’ dream would become a reality. Across seven summers, the two would film a shotby-shot remake of the movie. The resulting movie, Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation, made its debut in 1989 at a beverage distribution company in Gulfport, Mississippi.

Years later, when a VHS copy of the movie found its way to horror director Eli Roth, it became an underground hit.

Now, the new documentary, Raiders! The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made (based on a book of the same title), chronicles the making of the movie and follows Zala and Strompolos as they set out to film one last scene to complete it. Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation and Raiders!

The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made open on Friday at the Capitol Theatre. Zala and Strompolos will participate in a Q&A on Friday night following the 7:20 showing of Raiders and the 9:50 showing of The Adaptation.

Much of the movie centers on the complications involved in filming one last scene. The “airplane scene” involves building a replica of an airplane and setting off a series of explosions. Oh, and Indiana Jones has to wrestle a huge shirtless dude too. As adults, Zala and Strompolos were better equipped to film the scene. But it still presented a number of obstacles.

“It was no more ‘endless summer,’ says Zala when asked about shooting

the airplane scene. “Previously, if we didn’t finish, there was always next summer. One of our biggest challenges was time slipping through our fingers. We pulled together the airplane scene in a matter of months and remotely because I lived in Las Vegas at the time and Chris was in Los Angeles. We were shooting in Mississippi and had to do location scouting and build a 70-foot wingspan replica [of a plane] and a straw hut and tower. We were no longer asking for props and costumes for our birthdays. No, you put your own money on the line because so many people have invested so much.

Mortgage payments and keeping our jobs weren’t on our minds when we were 12.”

Zala says he and Strompolos value the learning experience involved with meeting the “challenges” any director and crew might face.

“We learned important lessons when we were kids,” he says. “It’s not always fun. You have to push through, though it seems impossible.

You have to ignore that seeming certainty and push through. When we were kids, we didn’t know that remaking a $20 million movie on your allowance wasn’t very realistic.

We didn’t know how to pull it off the second time and have it documented.

If we were going to fail, it was going to be immortalized too. We went for it, pushing aside those voices of selfdoubt. It paid off again.”

In touring with the movie, the two have seen how both the documentary and their Raiders adaptation have connected with fans.

“It’s been immensely gratifying,” says Strompolos. “We just did this for ourselves. None of that was supposed to happen. Maybe that unexpectedness factors in. That’s why we wanted to do this tour. We wanted to meet people who were touched and moved by the journey and taken by our little humble bouquet to the Spielberg/Lucas classic, this perfect film.”

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SPOTLIGHT: DHEEPAN FOLLOWING THE LIVES OF THREE Tamil refugees, Dheepan vividly illustrates the ravages of war and the hardships of the immigrant struggle. It opens Friday at the Cedar Lee. The film commences in Sri Lanka where three strangers assume the identity of a family in order to voyage to France. In the hopes of fleeing war and starting a new and better life, Dheepan (Antonythasan Jesuthasan), Yalini (Kalieaswari Srinivasan) and their “daughter” Illayaal (Claudine Vinasithamby) settle in a suburb of Paris where they begin a different, perhaps harder, struggle: the struggle of being strangers in a new land.

Through the power of the lens, we are able to see France as each of the characters sees

it. We follow Dheepan in his role as caretaker of the grounds they live on; his struggle to understand and speak French is no doubt his biggest road block, but Yalini’s journey is the most interesting to watch. You would think that Dheepan would be the protagonist of the film, given that the film is named after him, but Yalini is the most visible protagonist.

We see her struggle to care for Illayaal while also fulfilling her role as a handicapped man’s housekeeper. She goes from knowing no French to being able to understand most of it. From lashing out and caring very little for Illayaal, she ends up loving and caring for her like her own.

As for her relationship with Dheepan, that is also fascinating to see. It blossoms from strictly business into an organic relationship that only

grows as they continue to find and discover themselves in a new, unfamiliar world.

Lacking what most would consider a clear plotline, Dheepan is unusual in that it contains about five distinct “chapters,” each with their own rise, climax and fall that are marked by the dissolution of light. When the light fades into near darkness, the film transitions into a new phase in each character’s development. With each character’s new phase comes heart-wrenching, emotionally ridden scenes. With every chapter that passes, you feel a growing connection to the characters. You feel their pain, you feel their struggle. You see a new yet similar battleground unfolding in France like the one in Sri Lanka; you root for them, you pray for them. You feel for them. — Danielle Immerman | clevescene.com | June 22 - 28, 2016

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EAT SMALL BUT MIGHTY Nora is in the heart of Little Italy, but also a world away

By Douglas Trattner

The patio at Nora in Little Italy

courage to return to that squat brick building on Murray Hill. I’m glad I did — and so should you.

There’s a certain freedom that comes with small restaurants and short menus, a sensation that Zalar came to know and love working at places like Smith & Mills, a trendy 30-seat, 400-square-foot boîte in New York. The opposite of turning a large freighter, running a diminutive bistro allows the chef to be nimble and daring without fear that he’ll be stuck with a clunker.

We didn’t find many clunkers on his concise roster of appetizers, pastas and entrees, which tops out at around 15 items.

Meals begin with warm, crusty bread served with salted whipped butter. That same bread gets toasted, slathered with roasted garlic and paired with an orb of burrata ($10), ripe tomatoes and basil pearls that pop when you slice into the fresh, milky cheese. Unlike that ill-fated wintertime salad a few years back, this clever caprese succeeds on every level.

Zalar, who left Cleveland when he was 18 to embark on his culinary career, has a knack for rearranging the components of classic dishes not just for fun but

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YOU DON’T EXPECT TO FIND A pasta dish that includes potatoes.

For good reason too, because who needs to add more starch to a plate of starch? But then the dish lands on the table and you see that those potatoes are wispy little matchsticks, flash fried to a sunny golden brown and arranged like a crown of thorns around the fettucine noodles. More than a garnish, the crispy spuds supply some much-appreciated texture in an otherwise texture-less dish.

But that’s just one delicious facet of the pasta carbonara that chef Eddie Zalar prepares at Nora, his one-year-old bistro in Little Italy.

That crunch of the potato is set against the gentle resistance of housemade noodles. Then there’s the requisite creaminess, provided by the oozing yolk of a perfectly poached egg. A grating of cured egg yolk offers a salty kick of umami.

In a neighborhood that runs on red sauce, it’s shocking to find an Italian restaurant in Little Italy that lacks a single marinara. Instead, Zalar applies his classic French training to characteristically Italian ingredients to come up with dishes that are in synch with the season, if not the surrounding restaurants.

“Yeah, we’re trying to avoid red sauce,” the chef says. “If you want pasta with red sauce, there are other places in the neighborhood that are doing that. We’re trying to do something different.”

Indeed. The last time my wife and I dined at that historic corner bistro, long home to Salvatore’s Ristorante, it was the dead of winter and the chef of a previous business thought it was a good idea to serve a tomato and mozzarella salad. It wasn’t, and we never returned. Perhaps that’s why it took me 10 months to work up the

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up instead as a dusting on the rice balls. And when you break into them, yellow saffron risotto glimmers like sunshine.

Damn near every chicken Marsala ($28) I’ve ever eaten starts with a sauteed chicken cutlet and ends with a sweet, gloopy wine sauce. Zalar, naturally, goes about things differently. For starters, he treats the white and dark meat differently, with an expertly roasted crisp-skinned airline breast joining a juicy roulade of boneless thigh meat. The meat, along with earthy mushrooms and halved Peruvian blue potatoes, rests in a

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for the benefit of the diner. In place of the customary pool of marinara (nope, not in this house), the chef rests his golden brown arancini ($8) in a bed of airy whipped ricotta. The fennel that so often finds its way into red sauce shows

silky, elegant blush sauce with a hint of wine.

When it comes to a fi lling for ravioli — here called agnolotti — the chef shuns globs of meat and cheese in favor of a neon-green sweet pea mixture. In this case,

the pasta pillows are presented on a bed of whipped goat cheese and garnished with tomato, cheese shavings and pickled kohlrabi slices, creating a beautiful, colorful still life.

The closest a diner will get to pasta with red sauce at Nora is the pappardelle with lamb ragu and minty ricotta. There’s also a Calabrian-style pasta with clams, octopus and chiles and a ravioli stuffed with duck confit, but expect the menu to change. All pastas can be ordered in half or whole portions ($12-$16/$19-$26), great for diners who enjoy coursing out their Italian feast.

Nora’s non-conventional Italian menu will not please every diner who visits Little Italy, but at 40 seats, it doesn’t have to. And for those who will not be denied their chicken Parmesan, there is no shortage of suitable options within walking distance.

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TUCKED AWAY IN A CORNER OF an office building in the Clark-Fulton neighborhood, a small, 900-squarefoot operation is entering its 10th year of creating many of Cleveland’s finest cheeses.

In 2006, the husband and wife team of Gerald Onken and Mariann Janosko launched Lake Erie Creamery (216-961-9222, facebook. com/LakeErieCreamery), Ohio’s first artisan creamery, in the heart of the city. Brian Moran, who took over operations in 2013, says they don’t recognize just how important their work truly was.

Ohio wasn’t always filled with small-batch goat cheesemakers like it is today, and Moran largely credits Onken and Janosko for paving the way. “They were filling a niche that no one really realized needed to be filled,” he says.

During his three years at the helm, Moran has expanded the product line with a few twists of his own, including more cows’ milk products. All milk continues to be locally sourced. Chevre remains the best-known offering, and Moran has introduced new flavors such as herbed goat, and tarragon with orange zest. A new lemon flavor offers a sweet, versatile counterpart to the Key lime.

The tarragon orange was inspired by Fleur Verte, a round of chevre coated in tarragon and pink peppercorn. Moran was toying with the idea of making a similar variety, but didn’t have the peppercorn. He did, however, have clementines, so he zested them and mixed it with tarragon for striking results. Moran says it’s not a top seller, but it’s one that epicureans tend to gravitate toward.

“Because of the orange zest, it’s not sweet like some of the other chevres,” he says. “The tarragon has a long finish and orange tends to break that

up a little bit.”

Lake Erie’s most popular retail item is Lake Erie Pearls, hand-rolled goat cheese submerged in rosemary olive oil in a handsome jar. It’s become a popular hostess gift to be served with crusty bread, but it can also be used in pastas and as pizza and flatbread toppings. After the cheese is gone, the leftover oil can be made into a salad dressing.

In cows’ milk offerings, Moran has found a hit in black pepper feta. All Lake Erie Creamery fetas are aged for three months. That cheese currently is featured on the meat and cheese board at Great Lakes Brewing Company, one of his biggest customers. “It still has the snap you expect from feta, but not as much as the goat feta,” Moran says.

As the poutine craze exploded, so too did requests for Lake Erie’s cheese curds. They’ve been found on the menus of Spice Kitchen, Forage Public House, and the newly opened Picnic in the 5th Street Arcades.

Moran, who formerly worked at the West Side Market, credits time spent in close proximity to Dohar/ Lovaszy Meats as inspiration for his own version of the spicy Hungarian cheese dip, körözött. Featuring a blend of whole-milk cream cheese and goat cheese spiked with paprika, it’s spicy, but not too hot. To create a dip, it can be thinned with half-and-half or sour cream. “But Hungarians like to pour beer into it,” Moran says.

The cheeses can be found at the Cheese Shop at the West Side Market, Nature’s Bin, Vita Urbana, Tremont General Store, the forthcoming Astoria Foods, and Heinen’s beginning in July.

“I’m very happy to keep up the legacy of what Gerald and Mariann started,” Moran says.

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WE FIRST GOT TO KNOW PARTNERS Johnny Lis and Brad Wiescinski at last year’s Cleveland Pizza Fest, when they claimed second place in the rankings despite being an unknown player.

“People were amazed by our specialty pizzas,” Lis said following the event. “The feedback was tremendous.

Many of them said they never tasted pizza like this in Cleveland.”

Since then, the duo has been working to open Pizza (216), a brickand-mortar pizza cafe in the Old Arcade, in a storefront space across from the Corner Alley. After nearly a year of construction, the shop opened last week.

Pizza (216) specializes in New York-style thin-crust pizzas cooked in a 700-plus-degree brick oven. While customers can come in and order a pie topped with any combination they’d like, the shop’s wheelhouse is specialty pies, like the ones they were dishing up at the Pizza Fest. That winning entry is the vodka pizza, which has a vodka cream sauce base, fresh sliced mushrooms with parsley and garlic, and is topped with fresh peas, Parmesan cheese and sliced prosciutto.

The team will continue to add menu items as the days and weeks go by.

A 12-tap draft system will dispense a selection of regional craft beers.

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PROGRESSIVE MIZESTRO RESTAURANT IN BRECKSVILLE TO CLOSE Chef Matt Mize recently celebrated the one-year anniversary of his playful Brecksville bistro Mizestro (8918 Brecksville Rd., 440-792-4679, mizestrodining.com), but it looks as though he’s reached the end of the line. Via email, the chef announced that he would be closing up shop and selling the business. For fans of the chef’s tricks and treats, which included levitating food with an electromagnet, whipping up sorbet tableside in cryogenic bowls, and pouring glowin-the-dark cocktails, there at least is satisfaction in the prospect of a future endeavor.

“Today, we’re announcing that after 16 months of introducing people to the art of small plates and the technique

of molecular gastronomy, we have decided to sell Mizestro and take a few months off,” he wrote. “There were many reasons for the difficult decision to sell and it wasn’t made without great thought and sadness. We plan to enjoy the summer with family and friends and to allow Chef Mize to study the newest and latest trends in the restaurant industry. We are extremely focused on opening our next spot hopefully in the very near future. Be excited for us and look forward to Chef’s wizardry and dynamic twists on even bigger and better things!”

We’ll keep you updated on the new owners’ plans for the space.

SETI’S POLISH BOYS PULLS UP STAKES: NO LONGER PARKED AT DEAN SUPPLY For the past decade, Seti Martinez has been parking his food truck in the parking lot of Dean Supply every day of the week. From that boxy white rig he would dispense his delicious Polish Boys, chili dogs and slaw dogs to longtime customers who knew precisely where to find him. If those customers go looking for him there again, they aren’t going to find him.

Martinez says that the move just made sense.

“People had to come a long way to find me there, so I figured, if I’m on the westside I’m already where a lot of people are,” he says.

These days, Seti and his world famous Polish Boys can be found in front of the Thomas F. McCafferty Health Center, on Lorain Avenue near West 42nd Street. He’ll be parked there Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. or thereabouts. For the uninitiated, his Polish Boys feature an all-beef sausage topped with slaw, fries and BBQ sauce.

As for the folks at Dean, meaning both the shoppers and the employees, the news was taken with a silver lining, says owner Bruce Desatnik.

“Some people were sad to see him go. Some people were excited about having something new,” he says. “We figure, with all the different food trucks out there we decided we’d change them out every week.”

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MATT FISH ANNOUNCES OPENING DAY FOR SUMMIT COUNTY MELT BAR & GRILLED Matt Fish opened his first Melt Bar & Grilled in Lakewood 10 years ago, and on July 6 he and his large and growing team will open its seventh full-service restaurant. The new spot will be the first for the Greater Akron area, taking the place of the Friendly’s at 3921 Medina Rd. in Bath Township.

“This is the first freestanding structure that we have, so it’s our building, it’s our parking lot, it’s our landscaping, it’s our everything,” Fish explains. “We try our best to be unique, fun and different and to separate ourselves from others. The same thing will happen here.”

The 4,800-square-foot restaurant seats 120 diners plus an additional 35 on a seasonal patio. Guests will enjoy the same playful, colorful interior and a menu full of creative sandwiches and craft beer.

The Montrose shop joins locations in Cleveland Heights, Independence, Mentor and a pair in Columbus (Short North, Easton), along with satellite spots at the Jake and Tinkham Veale University Center on the campus of Case Western Reserve University.

“We’ve been wanting to be in the Akron-Canton area for a very long time; we looked there even before Columbus, but nothing ever materialized,” Fish explains. “This opportunity came up to us when all these Friendly’s closed.”

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enchanting farm-to-table experiences as part of the Cleveland Field Kitchen pop-up dinner series.

Previous events included a Winter Solstice Dinner at Look About Lodge in the South Chagrin Metroparks and another in an artist’s loft at the Artcraft Building.

The next one, slated for June 25, will take place at Greenfield Berry Farm in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Like all the others, it goes well beyond a delicious meal under the stars in the great outdoors.

“I design these dinners to be a gathering of food, design and inspiration — from the people we partner with telling their story, the surrounding landscape and table design, to the food and drink pairings,” Hanley Potts explains.

“We aim to give our guests a special dining experience.”

Guests can expect not only an elaborate meal — a four-course feast of farm-fresh foods with wine pairings — but also an opportunity to learn about life and work on the Greenfield Berry Farm, in the heart of a national park. The free-flowing gatherings can last for four hours, a celebration of one of the longest days of the year.

The event begins at 6:30 p.m. and costs $95 per person.

If you can’t make this event — or get shut out due to demand — the Cleveland Field Kitchen will be hosting additional events on Sunday, July 17, at a private residence in Euclid; and on Saturday, August 20, at Shaker Lakes Nature Center. Two additional autumn events will be announced soon.

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Producer Tommy LiPuma returns to town for a big birthday bash.

TOMMY LIPUMA BOASTS ONE of the best resumes in the music business. He’s received 36 Grammy nominations and five wins. He’s been involved with 36 gold and platinum records. He’s worked at labels like A&M, Blue Thumb, Warner Bros., Elektra, the GRP Recording Co. and the Verve Music Group. He’s worked with Diana Krall, Barbra Streisand, Miles Davis, Natalie Cole, George Benson, Sir Paul McCartney and Leon Russell, just to drop a few names on you.

Back in 2012, the board of trustees of Cuyahoga Community College named the college’s arts center the Tommy LiPuma Center for Creative Arts in recognition of his support of the Cuyahoga Community College Foundation. He still comes to town as a special guest lecturer and adviser and shares knowledge with students, faculty and staff.

On June 23, Diana Krall, Al Jarreau, Dr. John, Leon Russell and the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra — all artists he’s produced over the course of his 50-year career — will honor him at a special concert at Connor Palace. Billed as Tommy LiPuma’s Big Birthday Bash, the show kicks off the 37th annual Tri-C Jazz Fest, a busy weekend of concerts and events. We recently spoke to LiPuma by phone and asked him about his career. Here’s what he had to say.

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I was about 8 or 9. I was laid up in bed for a couple of years. Radio was my savior. Thank god my mother loved music. She got me a tabletop radio.

That’s where I accidentally turned on WJMO and it was the only R&B station at the time. JMO in those days would play Charles Brown, Big Maybelle and Ruth Brown. This was like finding a new church. I couldn’t believe it when I found it. That’s where I cut my gums, so to speak, on R&B music.”

SAX APPEAL “I had taken up piano just about six months prior to getting ill. I’m not ambidextrous. It was difficult for me to get two hands going at the same time — not that I wasn’t able to, but it didn’t come natural to me. I sensed it wasn’t the instrument for me. I was going to Warrensville Elementary and there was a great teacher there who was a trombone player. He sensed that I was interested and loved music. He pulled me aside one day and introduced me to all these instruments. I picked a clarinet to begin with. I wasn’t crazy about the sound of it, but once I found the saxophone, I was playing gigs within two years. I was 16. The [clubs] didn’t know I was 16, of course.”

DISTRIBUTING THE GOODS “I was a barber by trade. My father was a barber and my uncle too. When I went back to school after becoming ill, they put me two years behind.

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time, I was 18. It wasn’t for me. My father said I had to learn a trade. Of course, I learned the barber business. I ended up fucking hating it. I couldn’t stand it. Thank god I had music. I was playing three or four nights a week as a musician. That kept me from committing suicide. I worked on 17th and Euclid. All the radio stations were right in that area. I started getting disc jockeys and promotion men as customers. I realized it was the business I should be in. I kept asking, but nobody took me seriously, but then someone did. I went on the road with a band for about a year and was playing every toilet in the United States from Fargo, North Dakota, to Mishawaka, Indiana. I came back home and this guy who had been a promotion man took over as a manager of a distributor in Cleveland. He called me and said he would pay me 50 bucks a week to pack records. I did that for two or three months. He put me promotions, and I was on my way. Within a year, I gained a reputation and got hired by a guy who used to be in Cleveland by the name of Bob Skaff. He gave me a gig in L.A. as the local promotion guy.”

ON TO A&M RECORDS “After doing promotion, I got into music publishing, but you had to make demos. I was working with Randy Newman and Jackie DeShannon. I used to make demos with them. That’s when I got into what it was about to make a record. That took me to A&R. A couple of friends of mine — Jerry

Moss and Herb Alpert — they started a record company and hired me as their first staff A&R guy. I was at [their label] A&M for about four years. The first thing they asked me to do was a group called the Sandpipers and I had a big hit with them. They were friends with Andy Williams, and his wife wanted to do something. She was very nice but not really a singer, but I had a hit with her and we sold a million albums. I thought I was getting stereotyped and I didn’t want that.”

EXPANDING HIS HORIZONS “[Blue Thumb Records] was great.

We had Dave Mason from Traffic and the Pointer Sisters and the Jazz Crusaders. The first act I signed was Dave Mason, and we did [1970’s] Alone Together, which was a big album. We had T. Rex and Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks. Every time we had something that came close to smelling like a hit, the majors would come along and steal them away. We sold the company to ABC and we both went to work for Warner Bros. My friend Lenny Waronker, whose father owned Liberty Records, had become head of A&R at Warner Bros. I knew [record executive] Mo Austin too. I knew him when he started Reprise when I first went out there. That’s how I started producing records. Once I got to Warners, I really started swinging.”

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so when I was asked to work with [Barbra] Streisand, I just asked my business partner. He said, ‘Go ahead.’

It was great. In those days, she still really had her chops, and it was a great experience. It was The Way We Were album. I loved working with her. She was a real pro. After that, I went to Warner Bros. and the first act I signed there was Michael Franks and we had a gold record with The Art of Tea, which is his first album, and then I signed George Benson and things exploded. His first album sold about 15 million and that started the ball rolling. And then we signed Al Jarreau and David Sanborn and then on and on. It was ridiculous. There was so much happening and so much talent. Thank god, all of that was recorded because that still holds up. I was a complete freak for all that stuff.”

AN UNFORGETTABLE ALBUM “My Blue Thumb partner Bob Krasnow eventually ended up taking over as chairman of Elektra. I went to work for him after I was at Warner Bros. for 17 years. I moved to New York in 1984, and Bob asked me to join him at Elektra in 1990. It’s funny when I think about it. I had known the few hits Natalie [Cole] had. I wasn’t a huge fan or that well-versed on all the things she had done. A month or so before my partner Bob had mentioned her to me, I heard her cover of Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Pink Cadillac.’

It was great. About a month later, Bob got a call from Dan Cleary who was her manager. They wanted to know if we were interested. I said we were.

Before we got together with her for the first time, I thought it would be great

“I became president of GRP records in 1994. They were in the process of talking to Diana Krall, and they wanted to sign her. They picked up her first album. She had done an album for a small company in Canada. They put it on, and I really wasn’t impressed. Thank god they had a video of her and the piano.

She had done it for a program on BET. She sang ‘Body and Soul.’ I thought, ‘Goddamn this girl can sing.’ It grabbed me by the throat. I thought she was really great and I said, ‘Absolutely.’ The first album was a direct to 2-track. The second album was [1996’s] All for You: A Dedication to the Nat King Cole Trio, an album we did with just guitar bass and her and the vocals. She did all the classics.

The third album was called [1997’s] Love Scenes. She did something called ‘Peel Me a Grape.’ That broke her open.

That album did about 100,000 and for a jazz album that was unheard of. The next album was with a full orchestra.

That was [1999’s] When I Look in Your Eyes. That’s when she really broke. We sold two million copies, and she was nominated for album of the year. She had been going since she was 18 or 19 when she moved to L.A. and met John Clayton, who’s a great bassist and arranger ,and Jeff Hamilton, who’s a great drummer. When I met her she was 28, but she had been on the road getting her chops together.”

IN THE WORKS “I haven’t done the last two Krall albums, but she wants to go back in and do something with me. I’ll do her album in October. I’m working on an interesting project with [singer-pianist] Michael Feinstein. It’s the complete

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if she did her father’s songs. I wasn’t sure how she’d handle standards. I mentioned it to Bob, and he thought it was a great idea. We mentioned it her, and she said she wanted to do it for the last 10 years, but Capitol didn’t want to do it. She didn’t want to do it as her first album for Elektra. She wanted to do it as the second album.

I told her that an idea is like a virus.

Once you say it, it gets out there. The next thing you know, Johnny Mathis will do it. It takes the polish off of it. She thought it over for a few days and she called us back and said she wanted to do [1991’s Unforgettable].”

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works of George and Ira Gershwin.

That could be fun. Of course, I did this album that’s coming out June 10 with [trumpeter] Dominick Farinacci, and that turned out great. It’s called Short Stories. We recorded it at the Center for Creative Arts in Cleveland. I’m very happy with it. He’s one of those guys who wants to give back. My two passions in life remain music and art, and I’m really committed to both of them.”

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IT’S WHAT THEY DO Zac Brown Band caters to more than just country fans.

Eclectic approach suits Zac Brown Band

By Jeff Niesel LAST SUMMER, AS SINGERguitarist Zac Brown and his ninepiece band strolled unassumingly onto the Blossom stage, he simply nodded in approval to the revelers in the small pit in front of him. Brown clearly embraces his fans’ need to party hearty and that undoubtedly influenced the songs the band decided to play during a crowd-pleasing two-a-half-hour (with a 15-minute intermission) concert.

While Brown caters to a country crowd, he and his band played a bit of everything. And we do mean everything. They covered Charlie Daniels’ Band redneck anthem “The Devil Went Down to Georgia,” offered up a grunge-y rendition of Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir” and paid tribute to the Marshall Tucker Band with an epic rendition of “Can’t You See.” And that’s not to mention covers of songs by Metallica, Queen and the Foo Fighters. While the rendition of “Can’t You See” meandered a bit mid-song, the choice of cover songs showed the band’s range. These guys can play anything by anyone. Their cover of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” was spot-on and even included a video treatment that was a send-up of the original music video.

“We try to push the boundaries during the live show,” says singerkeyboardist-guitarist Coy Bowles, who formed the band with Brown some 15 years ago, during a recent phone interview from his Atlanta home.

“We’ll play Queen or something like that that people wouldn’t expect from us or from a country band. We never

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associated ourselves with being a country band per se. We grew up with it and have a deep relationship with it, but we just like to play good music.

It’s not anything against anything.

It’s just freeing to play different styles.

We prided ourselves that we have such musicality.”

Bowles studied jazz for several years and says he spent five years listening to John Coltrane and Miles Davis in the process. When it came time to record last year’s Jeckyl + Hyde, the band opted to let his various influences come to the fore. “Loving You Easy” features soulful vocals and features a retro vibe with its perky synthesizers and cooing backing vocals. With its chirping strings and references to “an island state of mind,” “Castaway” sounds like a cross between Bob Marley and Jimmy Buffett. With its crunchy guitars, “Junkyard” verges on metal. The terrifically eclectic album defies genre.

album that people don’t go, ‘What are they doing?’ In the back of our minds and our hearts and our souls, we knew that the songs were good and the performances were good. Worst case scenario, there are so many songs on the album that if people didn’t like some of the songs, there would still be songs they were into.”

Judging by the album’s positive reception, the risk was worth it.

More popular than ever, the band will again promote the album with this summer’s tour that includes a Blossom date. The 26-date tour also includes stops at stadiums and amphitheaters as the band returns to venues such as Alpine Valley Music Theatre, Citi Field and Fenway Park.

“Our fans are smart people,” says Bowles. “They like music. They listen to the Eagles and Alan Jackson and Marvin Gaye. They listen to a lot of different stuff, so why not cater to that? It keeps you on your tiptoes. I’m

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“We arrived at the place where we might be able to get away with it,” says Bowles when asked about the band’s approach. “We thought that people might allow us to play a rock tune like ‘Heavy Is the Head’ with Chris Cornell and then go into ‘Mango Tree,’ which is a big-band tune, like something Sinatra might do. We were a little ‘fingers crossed’ when we released the

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not just playing country guitar all night. I’m playing a Les Paul through Marshall stacks and then jumping on organ to play a ballad and then playing slide guitar. It’s a musical workout for sure.”

And for fans who might’ve seen the band last summer but aren’t sure they need to see it again, Bowles says there’s plenty of reason

to come back this year. The group has worked out some new covers, including a rendition of the Nine Inch Nails’ song “Head Like a Hole.”

“We’re good at writing songs and doing albums, but the real experience is that you have to come see it live to see what that whole experience is about,” says Bowles.

“When we first came out, we would do these radio shows. We would play a show that night and go to bed at 4 in the morning and wake up at 5 or 6. They would put us into this radio station and, at the time, Brad Paisley and Alan Jackson and the people who wore cowboy hats and represented country music in that manner were the people who were big stars — and still are. We would walk in with T-shirts and blue jeans and Zac would be wearing a beanie.

We all had beards. The overall consensus of the radio station was, ‘What did we get into?’ We would play [songs such as] ‘Chicken Fried’ and ‘Highway 20,’ and their jaws would drop. They would be like, ‘Whoa. You guys really play.’”

Bowles says that as time has gone on, the guys have decided to “dress the part more.” But the band’s commitment to musicianship remains.

“Being able to play the music and being players has been who we are and what we do,” he says matter-offactly.

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MUSIC HE’S BACK Weird Al Yankovic returns to town with yet another ‘multi-media extravaganza’

By Jeff Niesel

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“I had been doing dumb parodies since I was 8 years old,” Yankovic recalls. “Like every other kid in the universe, I would make fun of the songs I heard on the radio. In my early teens I became fixated with the Dr. Demento Radio Show. He played comedy and novelty and weird things

on MTV as he parodied pop stars such as Michael Jackson. When grunge hit in the ’90s, Yankovic was there to poke fun at Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” and when hip-hop became huge, he delivered “White & Nerdy,” a sendup of “Ridin’” by Chamillionaire and Krayzie Bone.

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A WEIRD AL YANKOVIC CONCERT is more than just a concert. It’s an experience, as Yankovic does a bit of everything. He changes into a countless number of outfits and shows funny, homemade videos in which he takes clips of celebrity interviews and inserts his own colorful commentary, drawing from standup comedy and theater in the process.

“We just want to give people as much entertainment as we can possibly cram into a two-hour show,” he says via phone from a Louisville tour stop. He brings his Return of the Mandatory World Tour to the Akron Civic Theatre at 8 p.m. this Friday.

“First and foremost, it’s a high-energy rock show with the same band I’ve had since my first album. We have a big-screen video projection and a ton of costumes and props. We try to make it as theatrical as possible and make it a real production. It gets bigger and better every time out. My very first tour was very primitive.

We had an 8-mm projector, and we played the ‘Ricky’ video on it. The next time out, ‘Eat It’ was a big hit so I wore a Michael Jackson jacket.

It’s evolved into a full-on multi-media extravaganza.”

Yankovic says he never imagined that his career would take off the way it has. In the beginning, he performed on Thursday nights at his college coffeehouse. Students would go and sit and have a coffee and watch local artists and students perform. Nine times out of 10, some guy would play an acoustic guitar and sing a Dan Fogelberg song. Then Yankovic would come up with his accordion and sing “some goofy song in a strangled voice and freak everyone out.” It would always get a huge reaction because it was just so different. That’s when he got his first love of performing and realized he could make people laugh.

By the time he graduated from college, he thought he could maybe become a performer.

Initially, Yankovic released “My Bologna,” a sendup of the Knack tune “My Sharona.” That was the first of many Weird Al songs to become hits on a novelty radio program hosted

by Dr. Demento. It became No. 1 for several weeks on Demento’s Funny Five. The guys in the Knack even heard the song and liked it.

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on the radio and I fit right in with that.

I sent him my homemade tapes. ‘My Bologna’ was something I recorded in the bathroom across the hall from my college campus radio station. It even got released on Capitol Records — the original bathroom copy.”

From that point on, Weird Al set his sights on pop’s biggest tunes.

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“I was very lucky,” Yankovic says. “I was an outlier in the Malcolm Gladwell sense. When MTV started out, artists weren’t in the habit of making videos.

MTV needed music videos. Artists weren’t in the habit of making music videos. If you had a video, they’d play it. My first couple of videos weren’t that great. They were cheaply produced, but just because they existed, they got

some airplay. When ‘Eat It’ hit, that made me an overnight celebrity, and I was being recognized on the streets.

I had lived my whole life in relative anonymity until that day when I became the ‘Eat It’ guy.”

With his latest effort, 2014’s Mandatory Fun, he proves that he’s still at the top of this game as he turns Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” into “Word Crimes,” Pharrell Williams’ “Happy” into “Tacky,” Lorde’s “Royals” into “Foil” and Iggy Azaela’s “Fancy” into “Handy.”

“The thought process is similar to every other album,” he says of the release. “I wrote the originals first because those can stay in the vault and not become so dated and musty. I tend to write the parodies at the last minute because it keeps them more topical. It’s a puzzle. Half of the material is parody, and you don’t want it to be old news. I let the voices in my head tell me what to write and act accordingly.”

The disc also provided Yankovic with another Grammy, and critics have described the album as Yankovic’s best work. He agrees with that assessment.

“It’s a personal thing, so it’s hard for me to be objective about it, but I do think of it as my best work,” he says. “I could pick and choose songs from my various albums that I like.

My best album is probably more The Essential Collection. Those tracks are from all the albums. As an original studio album, I would go with Mandatory Fun.” Mandatory Fun also comes at the end of the 14-album contract Yankovic had with his record label. Now that he’s no longer obligated to put out albums, he says he might not continue to do so. After all, we live in a world where timeliness is everything. Songs become hits and then quickly fade, so any attempt at parody has to be swift.

“I don’t think it makes the most sense for me to wait until I have 12 songs and release them all at once,” he says. “I would like the opportunity to record and release it in a short amount of time. I haven’t been proactive because I have had other projects come my way, but that’s certainly the plan.”

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all the live music you should see this week Photo by Clarion Call Media

WED

6/22

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

3 Pill Morning: 6 p.m., $12 ADV $15 DOS. Agora Ballroom.

Jon Bellion: 8 p.m., $17-$27. House of Blues.

The Defibulators (in the Supper Club): 8 p.m., $10. Music Box Supper Club.

The Everymen/Deche/The Lawton Brothers: 9 p.m., $5. Happy Dog. Flag/War on Women/The Dirty Nil: 8:30 p.m., $28 ADV, $32 DOS. Grog Shop.

Hoodeech/Stoneroller: 8 p.m., Free.

Beachland Tavern.

The Mulligan Brothers: 8 p.m., $10 ADV, $15 DOS. The Kent Stage.

Barbara Rosene: 7 p.m., $20.

Nighttown.

WNCX Bike Night with Burnt River Band: 7 p.m., $5. Music Box Supper Club.

THU

6/23

Benefit for Michael Bay: One of the Cleveland blues scene’s most visible and respected stalwarts, Michael Bay has performed at many benefit shows for other musicians over the years. He’s a generous guy, and an excellent guitarist. This time around, the show is for him; Bay suffered a heart attack earlier this year, and the city is rallying to raise funds for his medical costs and to celebrate his talents. The show is at Brothers, the setting for weekly jam nights going back many years.

Many of the finest musicians in Cleveland will grace the stage and perform sweet tunes for the lot of us. Mr. Bay, this one’s for you.

Everyone else, drop a $10 donation at the door and remember to tip your servers well. (Eric Sandy), 8 p.m., $10. Brothers Lounge.

Yonder Mountain String Band: 9 p.m., $25 ADV, $29 DOS. The Kent Stage.

Bumper Jacksons (in the Supper Club): 8 p.m., $10. Music Box Supper Club.

The Faceless/The Zenith Passage: 7 p.m., $15 ADV $18 DOS. Agora Ballroom.

Chris Hatton’s Musical Circus (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m. Brothers Lounge.

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Punk rockers Against Me! will play two nights at the Grog Shop. See: Sunday.

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

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

Demos Papadimas Album Release/ Nate Jones Band/Radio Lark: 8:30 p.m., $7 ADV, $10 DOS. Beachland Tavern.

Suppression/Slowdance/Whipping Post/Grin and Bear It: 9 p.m., $5.

Now That’s Class.

A Swing Dance Party with Blue Sky 5: 7 p.m., $15. BLU Jazz+.

The Tribute to Chicago Featuring Beginnings: 8 p.m., $18 ADV, $20 DOS. Music Box Supper Club.

FRI

6/24

Colleen Green/Cassie Ramone/ Free Pizza/Emma Shepard (in the Locker Room): Indie singersongwriter Colleen Green vocalizes the plight of every maturing Millennial on her most recent full-length, 2015’s I Want to Grow Up. Through her struggles to do and be the right thing, Green recognizes that just when age grants true appreciation for the self-abandonment of childhood, conscience suffocates the last bit of freedom with guilt. Green’s relatively “bare beats” style, a sort of lo-fi bedroom recording approach executed with nothing more than a drum machine, synth, and guitar, is supplemented on this album by additional instrumentation and production from members of JEFF the Brotherhood and Diarrhea Planet. This May, Green followed up the album with a self-titled EP on Infinity Cat

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Recordings. Playing dress up with the sound of the Ramones, she delivers deadpan plays-on- words backed by chugging elementary chord progressions, a sound she dubs “Ramones-Core.” (Bethany Kaufman), 8 p.m., $8. Mahall’s 20 Lanes.

Melissa Etheridge: This singersongwriter, actress, and activist will perform songs from her latest album, 2014’s This is M.E., tonight at Cain Park. The record is an emotional journey of hope and love, all told through intimate pop music. She self-released it through her own label ME Records, and worked tirelessly with pop songwriting veterans to craft all eleven tracks. Expect a very personal, passionate performance from the twotime Grammy winner. (Hannah Borison), 8 p.m., $35-$65. Cain Park.

Tri-C JazzFest: 10:15 p.m. Outcalt Theatre.

Tri-C JazzFest: Chick Corea: 6 p.m., $32-$60. Ohio Theatre.

Tri-C JazzFest: David Sanborn/ Maceo Parker: 8 p.m. Connor Palace.

Turnover/Sports/Secret Space: At this point, it’s hard to imagine that Turnover once embodied pretty much every typical pop punk cliché in the book.

Since the release of last year’s Peripheral Vision, the band has completely changed their image and sound — from heartbroken teenagers to down-in- thedumps twentysomethings as their music has shifted to the dreamier, reverb-heavy side of the spectrum. Don’t underestimate

their still-sharp hook writing ability, however. Songs like “Take My Head” and “Humming” have massive earworm potential while still maintaining a bit of a lyrical edge. Their set tonight at Now That’s Class will have the audience’s feet moving whether they like it or not. (Eli Shively), 8 p.m., $13 ADV, $15 DOS. Now That’s Class.

Armstrong Bearcat Band: 9:30 p.m., $5. Brothers Lounge.

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

Walter Beasley: 7 p.m., $30 ADV, $35 DOS. BLU Jazz+.

Beverly/Flowers/Forager: 9 p.m., $8. Happy Dog. Stella Brickhouse (in the Supper Club): 10:30 p.m., Free. Music Box Supper Club.

Zac Brown Band/Drake White/ The Big Fire: 7 p.m., $35-$71.50.

Blossom.

Clay Cook: 11:55 p.m., $15. Musica.

David Allan Coe: 6:30 p.m., $25 ADV, $29 DOS. Agora Ballroom.

DJ Kishka: 6 p.m., Free. Happy Dog. Fireside Duo: 5 p.m., Free. Music Box Supper Club.

The FM Project: Steely Dan Tribute (in the Supper Club): 8 p.m., $10. Music Box Supper Club.

Into the Blue: Grateful Dead Revival: 9 p.m., $12. Beachland Ballroom.

Brent Kirby (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m. Brothers Lounge.

Ma Holos/Another Mother’s Milk/ Venus Flytraps: 9 p.m., $5. Grog Shop.

Metro Jazz Voices: 8:30 p.m., $15.

Nighttown.

Shag/Red Rose Panic/Take Off Charlie: 9 p.m., $5. The Euclid Tavern.

Moss Stanley: 10:30 p.m., free.

Nighttown.

Stilletto Album Release/The Beyonderers/Royal Vasa: 8:30 p.m., $8. Musica.

Weird Al Yankovic: 8 p.m., $37.50$55. Akron Civic Theatre.

SAT

6/25

Rascal Flatts/Kelsea Ballerina/ Chris Lane: A trio of big name country artists will take Blossom tonight — Rascal Flatts, in particular, is sure to draw a huge crowd. Their storied career dates back to 1999, with releases as late as 2014’s Rewind, which they’ll

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Kelsea Ballerini is pretty new to pop music fame, as her first studio effort The First Time was released just last year. However, expect her to draw the crowd in with her compelling country-pop, including the radio single “Peter Pan” that’s just been everywhere recently. Rounding out the bill is Chris Lane, a singer/ songwriter who’ll be performing songs from his new album Fix. (Borison), 7 p.m., $30.50-$61.25.

Blossom.

Tri-C JazzFest: Cubanismo: 10:30 p.m., $30. Outcalt Theatre.

Tri-C JazzFest: Dominick Farinacci: $32. Hanna Theatre.

Tri-C JazzFest: Melissa Aldana/ Somi: Hanna Theatre.

Tri-C JazzFest: Smooth Jazz Extravaganza: $35-$70. Connor Palace.

We Were Promised Jetpacks/Prism Tats/Golden Streets of Paradise: This Edinburgh, Scotland, quartet made a name for themselves cramming the boundless tone and restlessness of a post punk band into a radio-ready indie rock package. Their latest, 2014’s Unraveling, adds a bit of a more introspective vibe to the formula, but the driving melodies and thundering rhythm section remain in place. The bouncy, cyclical groove of catalog standouts like “Quiet Little Voices” and “Ships With Holes Will Sink” illustrate the energy of their live show perfectly — yes, die hard fans will loudly sing along and those not completely sold will fold their arms and observe, but everyone’s head will undoubtedly be nodding along with the beat.

(Shively), 9 p.m., $15. Grog Shop.

Bossa Nova Night with Luca Mundaca (in the Supper Club): 8 p.m., $7. Music Box Supper Club.

Bro Dylan/Midnight Passenger/ Dustin Kaiser & the Jackson Street Band: 9 p.m., $8. The Euclid Tavern.

Jackson Browne: 8 p.m., $44.50$77.50. Akron Civic Theatre.

Cleveland’s Breakfast Club: 9:30 p.m., $5. Brothers Lounge.

Devious Ones/Mexican Coke: 9 p.m., Free. Now That’s Class.

Wanyama/Fletcher’s Grove/C-Level: 9 p.m., Free. Beachland Tavern.

Hypnotic Brass Ensemble: 8 p.m., $10-$15. Cain Park.

R. Kelly The Buffet Tour: 8 p.m., $68$153. Wolstein Center.

Like Tyrants/Tropic Bombs/Hell and Highwater/The Shadow Division:

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9 p.m., $10. Musica.

Love Canon/The Gage Brothers: 9 p.m., $10 ADV, $13 DOS. Beachland Ballroom.

Mali Music: 8 p.m., $20. House of Blues.

Sounds of Jazz Featuring Nancy Redd (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m.

Brothers Lounge.

Space Funeral/Aerial Run/Loner/ Istvan Medgyesi: 9 p.m., $5. Happy Dog. Jackie Warren: 10:30 p.m., free.

Nighttown.

SUN

6/26

Against Me!/Tim Barry/Fea: Several albums into a storied career, Against Me! has only gotten more in touch with what makes them love punk rock, and doubly as willing to burn the establishment to the ground.

Openly transgender frontwoman Laura Jane Grace literally did just that at a recent show in North Carolina — after the now-famous “bathroom bill” was passed making it illegal for transgender people to use public facilities comfortably, she set fire to her birth certificate on stage in front of hundreds of fans.

As much as their music is designed to make a statement, however, it’s also easy to see that no one embraces the fun of punk quite like Against Me! does. The sold out Grog Shop crowd will be jumping, finger pointing, and push-pitting their way through back to back nights of hits like “I Was A Teenage Anarchist,” “We Laugh at Danger and Break All The Rules” and “True Trans Soul Rebel.” (Shively), 8 p.m., $22.50-$25.

Grog Shop.

Passion Pit: Formed in 2007, Passion Pit is an indietronica band from Boston with a keen understanding of what “good vibes only” means.

Passion Pit’s music leaves all negativity behind in favor for light, happy, upbeat tunes that would bring sunshine even to Cleveland. With hits like “Take a Walk,” “Sleepyhead” and “Carried Away,” it’s not uncommon to walk into Urban Outfitters to the sound of Passion Pit permeating the store. The indie hipster following is understandable given the indie hipster nature of the music; the lyrics are great, the electronic instrumentation gives the songs some edge and the overall nature of the music is perfect year-round, but especially during the summer.

To put it simply, Passion Pit’s music is just fun. It’s upbeat, high-energy and full of good vibes only. (Danielle Immerman), 8 p.m., $35 ADV, $45

DOS. House of Blues.

Joe Walsh/Bad Company: 7 p.m., $20$125. Blossom.

Trace Adkins: 7:30 p.m., $44.50-$65.

Hard Rock Rocksino Northfield Park.

Kutt Calhoun/Whitney Peyton/ Sincerely Collins: 6 p.m., $12 ADV, $15 DOS. Agora Ballroom.

DJ Special K: 9 p.m., Free. Brothers Lounge.

Brian Fallon & the Crowes/Chris Farren: 8 p.m., $25. Beachland Ballroom.

The Head/Brainwave/The Allies/ Munin: 9 p.m., $5. Now That’s Class.

Irish Sundays with The Portersharks: 3 p.m., Free. Music Box Supper Club.

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

Ritual Howls/YOU/Kiernan Paradise/Unikove/Silkman (in the Locker Room): 9 p.m., $7. Mahall’s 20 Lanes.

Iron Bison/GROUP/Admiral Phantom/Two Hands/Downtown Volley: 7 p.m., $10. Mahall’s 20 Lanes.

MON

6/27

Against Me!/Tim Barry/Fea: 8 p.m., $22.50-$25. Grog Shop.

And the Kids/The Sonder Bombs/ Punch Drunk Tagalogs: 8 p.m., $10. Beachland Tavern.

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

Scant/Stress Orphan/Andrew Kirschner/Skin Graft/Witchbeam: 9 p.m., $5. Now That’s Class.

Strangers You Know: 8 p.m., $12.

House of Blues.

Velvet Voyage (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m. Brothers Lounge.

TUE

6/28

Indigo Girls/Lucy Wainwright Roche: 8 p.m., $45-$65. The Kent Stage.

John Pizzarelli Quartet: 7 p.m., $40.

Nighttown.

M2B2 Big Band: 8 p.m., Free.

Brothers Lounge.

Mike Phillips: 7 p.m., $20.

Nighttown.

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He has regularly performed in both Cleveland and Pittsburgh for the past five years. The self-described “cynical optimist” writes what he calls “worldweary, wistful lyrics.”

THE GREEK BLUES: In 2013, Papadimas put out his first album, Wanderin’ Through the Wilderness. “I’m influenced by Dylan and by the music that influenced him: Woody Guthrie and Robert Johnson,” says Papadimas. “I am also interested in Mediterranean influences. I’m GreekAmerican. I play the bouzouki. I bring in those influences. It’s singersongwriter, rootsy old-timey stuff with a Mediterranean twist. Over the past decade, you see more of an interest in a acoustic-based music and people bringing different folk musics together with bands like the David Wax Museum. The past decade has been an exciting time for folk music.”

WHY YOU SHOULD HEAR HIM: His new album, Waiting, shows off his songwriting skills. A song like “Restless Time” pairs Papadimas’

rich voice with evocative slide guitar.

With its spirited string arrangement, “Barrier Doors” comes off as a waltz and sounds like Desire-era Dylan. The same goes for “Backwater Rising,” a folk-y tune that finds Papadimas talking his way through the song that features standup bass, violin and harmonica. Papadimas spent about two years developing the songs for the album, which he recorded in Youngstown with Pete Drivere, who’s know for his work with rock acts the Infidels and Deadbeat Poets. “I got to know him when I moved back to the area,” Papadimas says of Drivere. “He really helped with the record. It was my own mixing of the folk musics and he brought in some great players, like steel player Al Moss and Chris Leonardi, who plays Hammond B-3.”

Papadimas has already played CD release shows in Youngstown and Pittsburgh. After playing one last CD release show in Cleveland, he plans to have a busy summer performing at festivals and in clubs throughout the region.

WHERE YOU CAN HEAR HIM: demospapadimas.com WHERE YOU CAN SEE HIM: Demos Papadimas performs with Nate Jones and Radio Lark at 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 23, at the Beachland Tavern.

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Dear Dan, There is a guy at my work who is into puppy play. I know this because I have some friends in the gay puppy community. I don’t give two shits what anyone I work with does to get off. All well and good, except … he wants us to call him Spike, his puppy name. Isn’t this a case of him involving everyone at work in his sex life, whether we want to be involved or not?

— Disturbed Over Gratuitous Gratifications Of Naming Experience “It’s important to note, firstly, that pup play isn’t a sexual activity so much as it is a head space,” said Amp, a puppy, a gamer, a porn performer, and the cohost of Watts the Safeword, a kink-friendly sex-education YouTube channel. “For DOGGONE’s coworker, pup play may be a comfort thing, or a social thing, or even a way for him to redefine who he is as a person.”

Amp, who is 26 and lives in Seattle, got into pup play about five years ago.

“A daddy and his pup joined a group of friends on a gay camping trip,” said Amp. “Their bond just seemed to glow, and their relationship stuck with me as something I wanted in my life. For me, yes, pup play can get sexual with my Daddy, but Amp is just who I am when I’m out and about.”

So I put this question to him: Does he get a secret thrill and/or a visible boner when a coworker, barista, or casual friend calls him by his pup name?

“God no!” said Amp. “A pup name is essentially a nickname. So long as the kinkier aspects of pup play — tail wagging, barking, ball chasing — are kept out of the workplace, DOGGONE’s coworker using his puppy name at work doesn’t involve the office in his sex life.”

A quick thought experiment, DOGGONE: Let’s say a female coworker married a man — a really hot man — and later confided in you that she married him because the sex was great. And let’s say she took her new husband’s last name. Would using her new last name “involve” you in her sex life?

Pup play isn’t as serious a business as marriage, of course, but you should be able to extend the same courtesy to Spike that you wouldn’t hesitate to extend to your hypothetical straight female coworker — that is, use the names you’ve been asked to use without

obsessing over their respective sex lives.

You can — and should — follow Amp on Twitter @Pup_Amp.

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