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UPFRONT ‘THE STATE OF OPS IS DIRE’ And other highlights from police monitoring team report
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CHIEF AMONG THE “NOTABLE challenges” mentioned in the Cleveland Police Monitoring Team’s first semiannual report, released in late May, was the Office of Professional Standards (OPS). The civilian-led office is charged with investigating external (civilian) complaints about CPD officers, and its work, per the report, has been “unacceptable and irresponsible by any measure.” The OPS has a staggering backlog of incomplete cases, for one thing, (202 from 2014 and 225 from 2015). For another, a revised manual that OPS produced for the monitoring team as mandated by the Consent Decree was “deficient in every regard — lacking rigor, containing inaccurate information, failing to address numerous Consent Decree requirements and omitting a host of material details.” So foundational are the deficiencies discovered within the OPS that the monitoring team, (with the support of the city of Cleveland and the Department of Justice) will create a sub-group to conduct an “in-depth microscopic review of OPS and its functions,” with the goal of developing an “emergency organizational transformation plan.” Additionally, on the “challenges” front: The roll-out of a new records management system, called LERMS, was “immediately plagued by significant problems.” That led to an extreme backlog of police records not entered into the system. Though city personnel are reportedly working steadfastly to reduce the number (from as many as 12,000 to about 7,600), the monitoring team has advised that the CPD must “commit to rigorously implementing mainstream project management structures going forward.” The report had much to celebrate, too.
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Most importantly, the report noted “tremendous progress” on the development of a core Use of Force policy. Multiple drafts for that policy have been thoroughly discussed by CPD leadership and the monitoring team, and community engagement on a final draft is expected to take place in late July or early August (after the RNC has wrapped up). The Cleveland Community Police Commission has produced written work that the monitoring report said demonstrates “a very high level of quality.” The report also notes — as Scene certainly has — that the CleCoPoCo meetings have often been contentious, rife with heated debates. But the Monitoring team report suggested that those debates are signs “of strength and progress, not impotence or dysfunction.” “Indeed,” the report said, “the Commission must perpetually strive to create an environment at its meetings where the Cleveland community can passionately disagree when warranted while assuring a respectful tone that promotes participants listening to views different than their own.” Over the next six months, the report says, the monitoring team will focus on community and problem-oriented policing, use of force inquiries, and bias-free policing.
DRIVER IN LORAIN ‘NIGHTCRAWLER’ CRASH GETS NO JAIL TIME An update on a former story: Zachary Goodin, the 18-year-old Lorain County resident whose reckless driving led to the death of 17-year-old Cameron Friend in a much-publicized car crash last year, will not go to jail for his actions. Due to heartfelt pleas from Cameron Friend’s family members at the Thursday sentencing, Lorain County juvenile judge Lisa Swenski only
suspended Goodin’s driver’s license and ordered him to receive counseling. According to the ChronicleTelegram, though, Judge Swenski had intended to impose the maximum 90-day-sentence. “I’m having a hard time getting over the fact that he’s doing no time for taking somebody’s life, for speeding, for being reckless,” she said at the sentencing. She also asked whether or not Goodin kept a photo of Cameron Friend with him to remind him of his actions. Goodin replied that he kept one on his night stand. Goodin was initially charged with felony aggravated vehicular homicide, but pleaded down to misdemeanor vehicular homicide and criminal damaging. This was the car accident at which Lorain man Paul Pelton filmed the grisly aftermath and became the object of violent public shaming. Scene reported on Pelton in last year’s feature “Forgive Us Our Trespasses.” Pelton was sentenced to 30 days in jail and ordered to pay a $250 fine for a misdemeanor vehicle trespass charge and an additional persistent disorderly conduct charge. The disorderly conduct charge resulted from Pelton’s alleged attempts to bribe Zachary Goodin into saying that Pelton had had permission to enter the vehicle. Pelton denies those allegations. When Pelton tried to enter a plea deal to avoid jail time, a plea deal that the families of the crash victims and even the local police supported, the judge rejected it. Pelton posted to his Facebook wall on May 19th that he’d heard from a “reputable source” that Goodin would serve no jail time. “Two weeks ago, the driver that survived the accident...used parts of my video in his defense,” Pelton wrote. “His defense was able to prove that [Cameron Friend] wore his seat belt incorrectly (as per the video) thus, self
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created his own incapacitating injury. They were able to plead his aggravated manslaughter felony charge down to a simple misdemeanor. It is likely, according to my source, that the driver, will not serve jail time and will serve a one-year probation period.” Goodin’s attorney, Kenneth Lieux, wasn’t immediately available for comment about whether or not Pelton’s video was used as evidence in negotiations.
CITY COUNCIL WILL ‘PROBABLY/POSSIBLY’ VOTE ON TRANSGENDER ORDINANCE IN JULY Cleveland City Council has entered its summer recess, and the transgender bathroom bill -- one which would permit people to use the bathroom that corresponds to their gender identity, and which would prohibit business owners from discriminating against employees and customers based on “gender identity and expression” -- was not voted on. “Probably/possibly,” it’ll be voted on at the July meeting. That’s the latest word from council. And it’ll definitely be dealt with prior to September, when the sun-bleached council members return to regular meetings. Council Prez Kevin Kelley said last week that though it might seem like the bill has been dormant (there hasn’t been a hearing on the matter since November 2014), “we have been working to put something forward that everybody is happy with.” He also said that he doesn’t anticipate a move from the state to override the city’s law. That comes as a bit of a surprise, given that the Cincinnati-area Christian conservative and human turnip John Becker has been gathering steam for a bathroom bill of his own ever since Target invited people to use the bathrooms that correspond to their gender identity.
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Becker fears sexual predators who might pose as transgender persons “in order to gain easy access to a smorgasbord of women and young girls.” Becker said in his April “Becker Report,” however, that he’s met with two transgender people and wants to find a way forward on a law. Back to Cleveland: the legislative body did manage to pass, Monday evening, an ordinance that will apply a 3 percent hotel room tax to all shortterm rentals. The booking agents (AirBnBs and the like) will be required to collect the tax. On dwellings where the homeowner rents out the property more than 91 days per year, an additional rental registration is required.
STATE REP WITH PERSONAL BEEF GOES UP AGAINST CLEVELAND HOUSING COURT, THEN RETREATS There’s no question Cleveland is still facing a housing problem. Any quick peek at the city’s neighborhoods will show you that: crumbling housing, abandoned structures, all the visible wear and tear still left behind from the foreclosure storm that hit in 2008. But a new piece of state legislation had been introduced that would completely eliminate the housing division of the Cleveland municipal court. The legislation, however, was filed by a state representative who has had past problems with Cleveland’s housing enforcement powers-thatbe — most recently a month before introducing the legislation. On May 25, House Bill 578 was introduced by Cleveland’s State Representative John E. Barnes Jr. The proposal seeks to “abolish the housing division of the Cleveland Municipal Court, transfer housing proceedings to the civil division of the Cleveland Municipal Court.” Barnes name for the act is the “Housing Court Efficiency and Expansion Act.” This is a topic the state legislator has experience with. Barnes and a company he owns called Embassy Realty Investment Inc have been involved in on-going legal action against the city over the demolition of a piece of property on Lee Road. Barnes sued the city after the city razed the structure (the city cited multiple issues at the property, both with the previous owners and Embassy Realty); the judge eventually ruled in favor of the city, a decision
backed up by the appeals court. As Cleveland.com reported, the city is also now suing Barnes to recoup the cost of demolition. The state legislator’s issues with the court don’t stop there. In April, Barnes was issued a minor misdemeanor citation for parking a flatbed truck with expired plates on the lawn of a E. 103 St. address. With all Barnes’ past involvement with housing issues, is he the right person to call for a complete shake up of the city’s housing court? It’s a fair question to consider. When Scene spoke to Barnes yesterday, he was adamant about not commenting on his ongoing legal action. “I will say to you that it is no question that what I have personally experienced inspired the legislation,” he said. “But it is something I have been working on for years.” Shortly after, the representative released a written statement. The kicker: Barnes has decided to pull the legislation.
DIGIT 100WIDGET The age of the Cleveland Museum of Art, as of June 7, for which there will be celebrations aplenty this week.
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‘I DON’T WANT TO DIE’ After his mom’s overdose death, a heroin addict confronts recovery in Cleveland By Eric Sandy NICHOLAS DICILLO VIVIDLY recalls the day he fell in love with heroin. It’s at once a story that binds every moment in his life since then, seven years ago, and yet a story that he feels shouldn’t define who he is. This is not an easy line to draw in Northeast Ohio these days. “That was the beginning of the end,” he says from inside his counselor’s white-walled office at Community Assessment Treatment Services (CATS) in Slavic Village. It’s April 18, nearly two months after he voluntarily checked in for another spin through rehab. He wanted to stay for three months, but funding is scarce for opiate addiction treatment across the nation, and that fact is no different in Cuyahoga County. There’s local money for courtordered clients at rehab facilities, but the cash flow for voluntary clients
is paltry. DiCillo is riding the dime of the Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services Board of Cuyahoga County. “They stripped me of those extra 30 days,” he says. He’d be checking out by the end of the month. As DiCillo describes that first tryst with heroin, his voice is bold and confident. He’s wearing a T-shirt and gym shorts, leaning forward in a swiveling office chair, one leg resting across the other’s thigh. Back in 2009, he says, he was working at a downtown bar on West Sixth Street, and one of his friends told him that she was going to go buy some heroin. Would he like to try it? DiCillo, 28, had a long track record of experimenting with drugs by that point. For years, even through the full-ride scholarship
that took him to Northwestern University, he had been dabbling with just about anything that crossed his path. “You lay it on the table, and I wanted to try it,” he says. He snorted his first dose of heroin and eyed his friend as she stuck a needle in her arm. “I watched her mainline it and watched this sort of metamorphosis and transition — from lucid to what looked like heaven,” DiCillo says. “I had a weird curiosity and fascination with that. So the next day I started IVing the drug.” It was new to DiCillo in the moment but familiar territory in some ways. His father overdosed on heroin and died when DiCillo was just a few years old. His mother, Celeste, overdosed on a combination of heroin and benzodiazepines and died this past January. They had
been supportive of one another, him and his mom, both in that unconditional sense of familial love but also in a codependent sense of trying to get by in a world where addiction drives every action. For her, that story ended at her home in Cleveland, where DiCillo found her unresponsive body. For him, that story became a sinking, deep depression. But he used the cataclysm of his mother’s fatal overdose to push him toward his own rehabilitation, toward life. “I had just enough hope and just enough strength and courage to pull myself out of the gutter and do something different,” DiCillo says. “Dare I say it, I think my mom had to die for me to live. That’s a really tough cross to bear, but I’m certainly going to honor her — but live for me — in my sobriety.” | clevescene.com | June 8 - 14, 2016
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FEATURE Like many addicts approaching recovery, he tried going cold-turkey solo at first. When that didn’t work, he landed back at CATS, the treatment center on Broadway Avenue in Slavic Village, in February. He’d already been through those doors before, in 2012, and he needed that familiar setting to attempt to rebuild his life. The opiate plague has ticked across America and hit every demographic without prejudice — urban, suburban; white, black, Hispanic, Asian; rich, poor; male, female — and it’s impossible to listen to the stories of addicts without being overwhelmed by a sense of how unsuspecting it all is. Each story is different, but they’re all the same. DiCillo, as he spins his life’s yarn in a plain room with four white walls, motivational posters breaking the visual static, sounds very much like you or someone you know. He was a college student once. A musician in his mid-20s. When he’d see an open swing set at a park, hell, he’d hit the swings for a spell and relive the childhood he never had. And then there were the drugs. “Whether or not they were gateway drugs is almost inconsequential,” DiCillo says. He tells Scene that when he fell in love with heroin, the high felt like a “hug from God,” but then … “The fact of the matter is heroin took me to the depths of hell and beyond.” It’s a narrative that no longer rests below the surface of Northeast Ohio. You can’t turn on the news without hearing a reporter lay out the latest overdose statistics. According to the coroner’s office, about 1.5 people die each day of opiate-related overdoses in Cuyahoga County. “Epidemic” is the word we use, for lack of a better term. It captures the scope, but not the complexities. Still, the body count is stunning and the brute force of the data is, at the very least, a conduit in beginning to describe the public health emergency. The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s office, for instance, began publishing spreadsheetstyle press releases, alerting the community to the ongoing death toll. Eight people overdosed and died between March 16 and March 20. Twelve people overdosed and died between March 30 and April 4.
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And so on. White female, 26, Parma Heights. White male, 46, Cleveland. Hispanic male, 53, Cleveland. String them together and, during the first four months of 2016 alone, 150 people in Cuyahoga County fatally overdosed on heroin, fentanyl or a combination of the two. If that trend continues — getting worse before it gets better, as many predict — the county will end up with around 450 overdose deaths by year’s end. That’s compared to 194 in 2015, 198 in 2014, and 194 in 2013, according to the medical examiner’s data. In other words, more than
addiction more than a decade ago, and he’s not optimistic about the region’s prospects these days. “I think we’re still at a point where this is going to continue to get worse before it gets better,” he tells Scene in an Ohio City cafe one morning. “I don’t want to sound defeated, but we’ve been working on it for three years and you see these numbers and it’s tough. I don’t think people realize how much is going on. You see the numbers and it’s kind of shocking, but once you take a step back and look at the scope of the problem, this is the
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twice as many deaths than last year. More than the last two years combined. Cleveland’s problem is bad — horrible — but certainly not unique. Mid-sized markets like Cleveland and Columbus and Dayton grew desirable in the eyes of traffickers as doctors across the country built a culture of overzealous opiate prescriptions through the 1990s and 2000s. Heroin, as DiCillo puts it, is easy and cheap as hell to buy. Much easier than tracking down OxyContin in a pinch. The numbers only begin to tell the story. The real picture is a modern twist on a Norman Rockwell painting, the disease of addiction running rampant in America. Aaron Marks works with the Heroin and Opioid Task Force led by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Northern District of Ohio. He survived his own bout with heroin
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public health crisis of the next generation. It’s the No. 1 cause of accidental death in the United States of America.” Marks can’t help but zoom out for the aerial shot. This is bigger than imaginable, he says. Last month, the U.S. Congress passed the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act, which President Barack Obama is expected to sign into law. The bill would shift federal drug policy away from punishment and toward treatment. The hope is that this is a bellwether for states and local governments’ handling of addicts. This, Marks says, is the tone that this country needs right now. In Ohio, for instance, drug offenders comprise 27 percent of the state’s rising prison population. That image of the addict-inmate is a perpetual problem for folks like Marks and countless others who are
trying to reroute public perception of the addiction problem in the U.S. Simply put, this isn’t being treated as a public health crisis. It’s something to be hidden, mocked, reduced to base criminal behavior. Here’s a moment you’ll remember: Video footage of a man overdosing in a Fairview Park McDonald’s hit the local news networks in April. The woman he was with came over to his side of the table and applied a shot of naloxone up his nose. (Naloxone – brand name, Narcan – reverses overdoses and is available over the counter in Ohio.) The woman went on to overdose herself within an hour back at home. She lived. But the tone of the reports and their online comments — the simple framing of a moment in the life of a heroin addict in Northeast Ohio — further etched the narrative that addicts are criminals destined for jail or worse. That sort of fear isn’t helping the county’s case at this most harrowing juncture. “This is the crisis of the generation. People don’t realize it, but it’s going to wipe us out,” Marks says. “It’s touching every aspect of society, and it’s going to wipe out an entire generation of people.” Marks pauses a beat for emphasis before finishing his thought: “It’s going to kill so many people.” These things don’t happen in a vacuum. Addiction touches all corners of a person’s life, including all the people who revolve around him or her. Karyn Faranda met DiCillo five or six years ago. He had wandered into her social circles, bringing with him a curiosity and a burgeoning heroin habit. The two of them knitted a fast friendship. “You kind of couch-flop wherever somebody will let you,” Faranda says of the social flow in the junkie circuit. “He struck me as a very beautiful soul: very kind, very intelligent. That’s something I didn’t get a lot of while I was out there. People aren’t talking about the evolution of time and space and, you know, the meaning of life while shooting heroin. But Nick and I did.” They were honest with each other about the nature of their addictions. “We never fit in,” Faranda says over coffee on a recent Saturday afternoon. She speaks from behind big brown eyes heavy with stories, earrings dangling amid black locks and a blue patterned headband. “We had that need to want to see the
world, to see more than shitty-ass Cleveland, Ohio. We were meant for better things, and we always knew it. However, we also knew our limitations because of what we were doing. And we shared in our sorrow of that — that there seemed no way out at that point.� DiCillo was studying at Northwestern University before he returned to Cleveland in 2009. He describes a fairly typical college lifestyle: the rites of passage of beer-soaked parties by night, the ambitious classload by day. He was on a full-ride scholarship for music; DiCillo was an accomplished autist. He offset his creativity with the
“The fact of the matter is heroin took me to the depths of hell and beyond.â€? — Nick DiCillo rigors of the university’s acclaimed journalism program. He kept busy. For all the opportunity and open paths ahead, he didn’t feel the sort of optimism and pride one might expect. He’d suffered from depression for years. And while prescription painkillers are one path to heroin, depression can be too. “I went from cosmopolitan cultured collegiate — you like that alliteration? — to gutter junkie,â€? DiCillo says with a slight laugh. “When I moved here I bought a car for the ďŹ rst time and I moved out on my own. I had a great job. I freely gave it all away. Nothing was taken from me, you know what I mean? I gave it all away. I gave every bit of it away. But today I’m re-empowered to a certain degree, and I’m able to take ownership of my life again and slowly and surely rebuild and reattain all of those things I so freely gave away.â€? It took a few months after his ďŹ rst hit before DiCillo started getting dopesick. That’s the word for the physiological nightmare of heroin withdrawal, those creeping moments when you need the drug but don’t have any (or won’t give your body any). The symptoms are brutal: nausea, headaches, restlessness, sleeplessness, diarrhea, cold sweats, hot ashes, seizures, hallucinations, suicidal thoughts. When you start getting dopesick, that’s when life takes a darker turn inward. The addiction is real and
unrepentant at that point. And whether it’s a loving family, a good job or a nice house, heroin dwarfs the things that give life its structure. Nothing is taken, but everything is lost. To hear the stories, it’s a very simple matter to pick up a bag of heroin in Cleveland. DiCillo and his friend, Bryan Stadtler, from the conďŹ nes of a rehab clinic in Slavic Village, recount to Scene horriďŹ c stories of their respective addictions in Cleveland. It’s a simple process, yes, but this is not an easy path to walk. “It’s amazing how intricate it really is and how much ingenuity is required [to sustain a heroin habit],â€? DiCillo says. Many dealers refer to the drug as “dog foodâ€? on the streets. With the right glint in your eye, all it takes is a knowing look in certain neighborhoods to score. Stadtler recalls trekking out to Union and 116th, Kinsman and 116th: “I never failed getting it there. There’s a Walgreen’s and Sunoco at Union and 116th. If you’re white and you’re sitting out there — I mean, me and my girlfriend, when we didn’t have money, we would sit in my car in the parking lot and we’d get up to a gram in an hour with people just handing us their phone numbers and free samples ‌ ‘Here, here, here, here.’â€? The street version of a Trader Joe’s sample stand. They’d hang out in the parking lot until they got enough free samples to get high. If the stuff was good, they’d keep the phone number and parlay the freebie into a future transaction. But anything beyond the next immediate high was of little concern, really. Stadtler — six months clean when he ďŹ rst met with Scene, and now living in Parma — says his habit started eight years ago with prescription painkillers. Recreational use. “When they were around, I’d eat them,â€? he says. “Then I started searching for them. I would get sick if I didn’t have them.â€? He was taking Percocets and Vicodin. He soon moved on to eating 100-mg. fentanyl patches that he got from a friend. Then came heroin, about four years ago. (Ninety-four percent of respondents in a 2014 JAMA Psychiatry survey of people in treatment for opioid addiction said they chose to use heroin because prescription opioids were “far more expensive and harder to obtain.â€?) “My friends and I used to sit in the parking lot of the Garden Valley housing projects on Kinsman at 2 a.m. for an hour, waiting for this
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dealer to show up,” DiCillo says, adding that that dealer has since died of an overdose. “If you were on the edge of the earth, we would go there. That was just what was required of our addiction.” Simple, but not easy. There are certainly plenty of good reasons to question how we got here, how the problem got so out of hand. But DiCillo, from the depths of a love affair with heroin, preferred to debate the ontology of his and others’ addiction. There’s something deeper at work here, and it’s not something that can be rehabilitated in our current social and political systems. It’s the sort of conversation that Faranda, always keen to advocate for solutions, wishes this county engaged in more often. DiCillo, with trademark precision, lays out the facts of the matter, with no punches pulled. “Even in spite of the increased consequences for drug dealers … I have many friends that are in prison right now for shooting up other friends,” DiCillo says. “They were charged with involuntary manslaughter. I mean, they’ve created and paved a totally new road to prosecute people, but it’s barely making a dent, because your addiction is so gripping and takes hold of you to such a frightening extent that none of that matters. That’s what people fail to realize: that it doesn’t matter what kind of laws you institute, what kind of consequences there are, how alarming the statistics are. None of that matters.” There’s a certain editorial mission in government agencies and news media outlets publishing death statistics and the latest trends in dealers cutting their stuff with highoctane fentanyl. But, for instance, when a rash of overdoses blazes across a particular neighborhood, junkies in town are already well aware. When DiCillo says none of that matters, he means it. “I wanted to go find the dope that was the best, that people were dying from,” he says. Stadtler adds: “I would look to see where somebody died from dope, and I’d say, ‘That must be good dope. I’m going to that neighborhood, get some of that dope. Must be pretty damn good dope if it’s killing people. Let’s go shoot some.’” Anecdotally, in heroin and opiate forums online, of which there are many, the same
things are said. The shit that kills people is the shit people want. It’s antithetical to how non-users think users would react, but it’s the truth. “People don’t realize that that’s where we are,” DiCillo says. One time, DiCillo and a friend copped on 112th and Superior. This was in 2011, a few years into DiCillo’s heroin addiction. They never wanted to wait until they got home to shoot up, because they were often teetering on the edge of dopesickness, so they pulled onto a side street. Then they saw the cop car. As they turned down another street to get out of there — two white twentysomethings cruising around the East 110s late at night, mind you — the officer followed them. He and his friend were charged with drug possession and possessing criminal tools. Within two months, he was assigned to Cuyahoga County Judge David Matia’s drug court program. A guilty plea granted him a shot at recovery: two and a half years under Matia’s supervision. Drug tests and treatment meetings. The structure is such that drug court clients will shed their felony charges if they can clean up and report to the judge each week. It’s a model that is being hailed as the hopeful middle path — threading the punitive and treatment-based philosophies — in battling the addiction epidemic. For DiCillo, it went well for a while. But in March 2012, he tested positive for heroin. Before his next day in court, he fled. (This isn’t uncommon in drug courts around the country. But the consequences are harsh: jail time, sanctions, probably a handful of fresh charges.) “That’s how I coped with things,” he says. “While on the run I had gotten involved with some people who I had been previously incarcerated with and previously in treatment with. We developed a swell idea to create money and commit crimes.” What transpired in the spring of 2012 harkens back to the “intricacy” of a sustained heroin addiction. DiCillo and three others began manufacturing payroll checks from Berea Beverage and Pickwick and Frolic. Free money, free drugs. “We’re really sophisticated criminals, us heroin addicts,” he says, tongue in cheek. DiCillo and the others were arrested on the west side of Cleveland in July of that year. He was sentenced to 18 months in state prison on one count of forgery, a fifth-degree felony. This is a fairly typical pattern
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in the throes of heroin addiction. More and more non-violent crimes like that are traced back to drugs in Northeast Ohio. Earlier this year, Lorain County Drug Task Force commander Dennis Cavanaugh told the Chronicle-Telegram that drug crimes in his county comprise an estimated 85 to 90 percent of the cases his officers were investigating. Property crimes, thefts, burglaries. “It doesn’t look like it’s getting better anytime soon,” he said at the time. It’s not. Like DiCillo, Karyn Faranda tripped along the same hazardous path in life for years. She had been a lifelong drug user too, beginning with alcohol at 12. What followed was a parade of marijuana, acid, ecstasy, methamphetamines, cocaine — that last one garnering her a strong eight-year addiction — and whatever the hell else she could find. “Anything you got, and more and more of it,” she says now, looking back. (Faranda has been clean for two years by the time we meet.) For a few decades, though, heroin waited in the offing. Then she returned to Cleveland, where a new friend in rehab introduced her to dope. “I always thought I would never try it because I knew I would love it,” Faranda says. “I knew it would be everything I thought it would be and more. And it was. I can’t say honestly that I don’t love the feeling of it. I just don’t love — if this makes sense — I don’t love the feeling of it that I get as a person when I’m using. “It was exactly the substance
“It was exactly the substance that I needed. It didn’t smell, it didn’t have this or that – I was like Superwoman on it. I could accomplish so much. I was better at work. I was better at sex. I was better at everything. I was unstoppable.”
that I needed,” Faranda continues. “It didn’t smell, it didn’t have this or that — I was like Superwoman on it. I could accomplish so much. I was better at work. I was better at sex. I was better at everything. I was unstoppable.” Within a month,
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On Feb. 15, DiCillo checked in at the detox program at Rosary Hall downtown. He summoned the strange sense of motivation that comes with hitting rock bottom, and he took another shot at sobriety. During the previous few weeks, he had mostly hid from the world. He tried a few cold-turkey detoxes, encamping in Painesville, where he knew no one. It wasn’t working. At Rosary Hall, he didn’t sleep. (“I forced myself to endure that, because that’s just part of the process of getting sober as a heroin addict, an alcoholic, a benzo addict,” he says.) He moved into CATS in short order, trying to keep in mind his promise to himself: that he would honor his mother and live. He sought a 90-day stint, but the county only ponied up for 60 days. The money is tight, resources paling in comparison to need. “There becomes that blurred line of helping people and getting paid,” DiCillo says of local government funding and treatment centers’ business models. But there was nowhere else to go, really. After his mother’s death in January, he was homeless. CATS had an open bed. “I wanted to be dead right along with her, because I felt a part of my identity had died with her,” he says. “I didn’t know that I would ever be able to come back from that. Yeah, she was the one that cosigned my bullshit, but she was also the one who loved me unconditionally, and I never had to question that.” He took the ghost of his mother’s support system and turned it into a dose of motivation, a source of something that would actually change things. He settled into a groove at CATS, despite his wariness of the whole situation. Two months clean, and his selfawareness was still looking around the corners of his psyche for the
return of the monster. “Don’t get me wrong: I’m never going to say that I’m never going to use again,” DiCillo says. “I don’t want to place that expectation on myself. But as long as I can make it to midnight tonight, I can start over again tomorrow. That’s how I’ve had to force myself to live. Do I want to use today? Absolutely. Do I want to run out the door and shove a needle in my arm? Absolutely. But right now the good outweighs what would come from that. At least for today, at least for the rest of today, I’m going to do my best to choose not to use, so I can lay my head down and do it all again tomorrow. I have to live like that if I’m going to be successful. That’s the only thing that will work. I’m taking baby steps, but I’ll tell you what: Each day is better than the previous one.” We had plans to catch up with DiCillo again to hear about those days and that progress. But on May 4, Scene received an email from Stadtler: “Hey man just giving you an update on Nicholas … He sadly passed away yesterday. He left CATS about a week ago and ended up overdosing last night.” The police report fills in the details Stadtler couldn’t. On the night of May 3, DiCillo picked up a bag of heroin on the east side. According to the report, he came back to a house on West 116th Street, where someone — a friend or an acquaintance — told him he could crash in the bedroom. After taking out the trash, that person returned to the bedroom 20 minutes later to find DiCillo slumped over in a chair with a needle lying on the floor next to him. The police were called. A medic arrived shortly after and performed CPR. It didn’t matter. DiCillo was pronounced dead at 1:47 a.m. on May 4. “I’m absolutely horrified about dying,” DiCillo said in our last conversation. “I don’t want to die. I like what’s happening right now. I’m just now starting to like myself again. I have a whole lot more life to live. I have a whole lot more things that I want to do. I don’t want to die today, man. I don’t want to become another statistic. I don’t want to be another one of those people: ‘Oh, what a tragedy, he overdosed and died.’” This is the modern epitaph for thousands in America. This is the thing that is going to kill so many people. This is the thing that killed Nicholas DiCillo.
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Roy Wood Jr. With his extensive resume, comedian Roy Wood Jr. has started to make some serious noise. Rolling Stone magazine describes him as a “breakout.” Between performing on The Late Show with David Letterman, appearing on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and routinely appearing as a correspondent on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, it’s hard to understand how Wood even has time to constantly tour the country. He performs at 8 tonight at Hilarities, where he has shows scheduled through Saturday. Tickets are $25. (Immerman) 2035 East Fourth St., 216-241-7425, pickwickandfrolic.com.
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Tony Roberts Tony Roberts’ wicked sense of humor has earned him the esteemed title of “the comedians’ comedian,” the guy other performers love to watch work. His hilariously refreshing style has garnered him respect in the States and abroad, creating high demand on the comedy circuit. His appearances on HBO’s Def Comedy Jam, and Showtime at the Apollo, and BET’s Comicview attest to his talent. Tonight you can catch Roberts at 7 at the Improv, where he has shows scheduled through Sunday. Tickets are $20. (Immerman) 1148 Main Ave., 216-696-IMPROV, clevelandimprov.com.
After the Pedestal This year’s After the Pedestal exhibition at the Sculpture Center is the ninth edition for the show that features small, local sculptures. Tonight, the gallery hosts an opening reception from 5:30 to 8, and the work remains on view through July 29. Admission is free. (Josh Usmani) 1834 East 123rd St., 216-229-6527, sculpturecenter.org. MUSIC
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GET OUT Spawntaneous,” a massive show that takes place from 7 tonight until 5 tomorrow morning at the Cleveland Masonic Auditorium. Playboy model Justeena XO hosts the event that features three rooms of sound, lights, lasers, video mapping/mixing, performance artists, fabric dancers, fire artists and more. The lineup features rapper Talib Kweli and rapper/singer/ actor Cham (aka Baby Cham). Tickets start at $40. (Niesel) 3615 Euclid Ave., 216-431-7370, facebook.com/SpawntaneousProductions.
from the Netflix documentary Making a Murderer, attorneys Dean Strang and Jerry Buting will engage in a moderated discussion tonight at the Hanna Theatre. Expect to hear their expert opinons on the operation of the criminal justice system as well as the broader implications of the Steven
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The Peer Show For the second consecutive year, the Cleveland Print Room invited both member and non-member photographers to submit new and recent work to its annual Peer Show. Jurors Laura Ruth Bidwell, artist and co-founder of the Transformer Station,
Ran Considered one of the greatest directors of all time, Japan’s Akira Kurosawa adapts Shakespeare’s King Lear in his 1985 film Ran. The movie centers on a Japanese warlord who gives his kingdom to his eldest son, provoking resentment from his other sons. Tonight at 8:35, the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque screens a new 4K print of the movie. It also screens again at 9:30 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets are $10. (Niesel) 11610 Euclid Ave., 216-421-7450, cia. edu. ART
Refraction With its latest exhibition, Heights Arts showcases the legacy of Brent Kee Young, professor and head of the glass department at the Cleveland Institute of Art, where he worked for more than 35 years. For this special exhibition, Heights Arts invited 11 artists who studied in his program during his tenure. Refraction opens with an artist and community reception from 6 to 9 today and remains on view through July 30. It’s free. (Usmani) 2175 Lee Rd., Cleveland Hts., 216-371-3457, heightsarts.org.
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J Bliss Comedian J Bliss got his start in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 2005, and has traveled up and down the East Coast ever since, making crowds laugh with his humor that deals with everyday observations and personal experiences. He performs at 7:30 and 10:30 tonight and tomorrow night at the Hard Rock Rocksino’s Club Velvet. Tickets are $18. (Immerman) 10705 Northfield Rd., Northfield, 330-908-7771, hrrocksinonorthfieldpark.com. MUSIC
Classic Fest As one of Nelson Ledges’ most popular shows of the year, Classic Fest will no doubt be a weekend to remember. Featuring Pink Floyd tribute band Several Species, Led Zeppelin tribute band Kashmir, Rolling Stones tribute band Satisfaction and many more, Classic Fest will leave you with a greater appreciation and love for classic rock. Tickets are $45 to $75. (Immerman) 12001 State Route 282, Garrettsville, 440-548-2716, nlqp.com.
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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 Bazaar With over a decade of amazing events under its belt, Cleveland Bazaar, Northeast Ohio’s longest-running indie craft show, is kicking off a new summer series aimed at downtown workers. You’ll find unique craft vendors and specialty retail trucks on Playhouse Square’s U.S. Bank Plaza every second and fourth Friday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Admission is free, as are the sunshine and fresh air you can enjoy as you shop. (Immerman) East 14th St. and Euclid Ave., clevelandbazaar.org. SPOKEN WORD
Making a Murderer: A Conversation on Justice Two of the most compelling figures
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Avery case. (For those of you dwelling under a rock, Avery was a Wisconsin man who served 18 years for a rape he did not commit. Two years after his release, the cops popped him again for a murder. His conviction in that case is currently under appeal.) Strang and Buting appear tonight at 8 at the Hanna. Tickets are $39 to $95. (Immerman) 2067 East 14th St., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.
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and Arnold Tunstall, collections manager at Akron Art Museum, selected this year’s participants. More than 30 works will be on display during tonight’s opening reception from 5 to 9. Awards, including a top prize of $300, will be presented at 6:30 p.m. The show remains on view through July 21. Admission is free. (Usmani) 2550 Superior Ave., 216-401-5981, clevelandprintroom.com.
Safety Last! The late, great comedic actor Harold Lloyd stars in 1923’s Safety Last!, a movie about a department store clerk’s publicity stunt that goes awry when he decides to scale a 12-story building. At 7 tonight and at 5 p.m. on Sunday, the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque shows a new print of the movie that includes a musical score from composer Carl Davis. It’s part of the Cinematheque’s “The Republicans Are Coming” series. Tickets are $10. (Niesel) 11610 Euclid Ave., 216-421-7450, cia.edu. ART
Transport Tonight, the Wine Spot in Cleveland Heights hosts an opening reception for Transport, a new exhibition of local artwork. Transport pairs Rafael Valdivieso’s paintings with Rebecca Groynom’s photographs, along with interactive media by Brent Gemmill. The opening reception takes place from 7:30 to 10 and includes a musical performance by Stephan Haluska. Transport remains on view through Sept. 2. It’s free. (Usmani) 2271 Lee Rd., Cleveland Heights, 216-342-3623, thewinespotonline. com.
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Walkabout Tremont After more than 20 years, the Tremont Art Walk is now Walkabout Tremont; the second edition happens this evening from 5 to 10 p.m. Expect more than 20 pop-up art tents, a half-dozen street entertainers, gallery shows, four open churches, bar and restaurant specials, and much more. For details, business hours, an event map and info on neighborhood tours, visit the website. Admission is free. (Usmani) walkabouttremont.com.
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Art by the Falls Just a short drive outside Cleveland, Chagrin Falls hosts its 33rd snnual Art by the Falls fest from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. today and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. tomorrow in Riverside Park. Ceramics, fiber, glass, jewelry, painting and photography are just some of the artworks you’ll find on sale. Begin at the Valley Art Center’s welcome and demo tents off Main Street to grab a map, program and freebies. This year, the tent will showcase local artists and VAC instructors creating work live. Additionally, a stage in the center of Riverside Park will feature live music both Saturday and Sunday. Come hungry: Food vendor selections include BBQ, pizza, Greek, Italian and more. Also, don’t miss Chagrin Art’s third annual Music Crawl, featuring a variety of musicians performing throughout the village from 6 to 9 p.m. today. Admission is free. (Usmani) valleyartcenter.org.
Cinematheque. Tickets are $10. (Niesel) 11610 Euclid Ave., 216-421-7450, cia.edu. SHOPPING
The Cleveland Flea A self-described “small business incubator” that draws thousands of locals to AsiaTown’s Tyler Village once a month to shop, the Cleveland Flea features a range of items you won’t find at the typical retail store. With more than 170 vendors, the flea offers “curated vintage,” “culinary all-stars” and “the most talented makers in the region.” As much a social gathering as a shopping experience, the Flea serves as an excellent hang, a place to meet and make friends. It runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is free. You can find directions and parking advice on the website.(Niesel) 3615 Superior Ave., theclevelandflea.com. 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 show features “exquisite renderings of enigmatic cosmic phenomena, seminal scientific instruments, and spectacular scenes in deep space.” Although only 24 minutes long, the show captures the fascinating vastness of the universe. It shows today and tomorrow at 4 p.m. at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History’s Nathan and Fannye Shafran Planetarium. Tickets are $5 and members get in free. (Elizabeth Bullock) 1 Wade Oval Dr., 216-231-4600, cmnh.org.
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Cherry Blossoms Winner of the audience award when it showed a few years back at the Cleveland International Film Festival, Doris Dörrie’s 2008 film Cherry Blossoms is a touching story about Trudi (Hannelore Elsner) and Rudi (Elmar Wepper), an elderly Bavarian couple who try to reconnect with their children. They first visit two of their kids, now grown up, in Berlin; but when it’s apparent they’re not welcome, they take a trip to the Baltic Sea. When Trudi unexpectedly dies, Rudi has to go back home by himself. He can’t adjust to life without his wife, so he goes to Tokyo to see his son. That doesn’t go so well either, but after he meets a young homeless Japanese girl, he suddenly gets in touch with his spiritual side. The movie, a loose retelling of the 1953 film Tokyo Story, has compassion at its core and is beautifully shot. It screens tonight at 6:35 at the Cleveland Institute of Art
The Green Berets John Wayne stars as a U.S. Special Forces colonel in The Green Berets, a 1970 film about the Vietnam War. Wayne’s stand against the Vietcong makes a believer out of a cynical war reporter, suggesting the film’s political agenda. Tonight at 9, the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque shows a 35-mm color and scope print of the movie as part of its “The Republicans are Coming” series. Tickets are $10. (Niesel) 11610 Euclid Ave., 216-421-7450, cia.edu. THEATER
Il Trovatore Follow the tragic love of the noble Leonora and the troubadour Manrico in Il Trovatore, a masterpiece opera comprised of plot twists, incredible scoring, soaring melodies and beautiful staging. English translation will be projected, and the Orchestra
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Admission is free. (Niesel) 11213 Detroit Ave., 216-221-8576, nowthatsclass.net.
of Opera Circle of Cleveland will be under the baton of Joel Smirnoff. This enchanting and enthralling opera takes place tonight at 7:30 at the Ohio Theatre. Tickets are $26 to $66. (Immerman) 1501 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org. SPORTS
Monsters vs. Hershey Bears After securing the top seed in the Eastern Conference, we all suspected the Cavs might return to the NBA Finals. But who knew the Monsters would be playing for a championship too? The minor league hockey team caps off a remarkable season tonight at 7 as Game 4 of the Calder Cup Finals comes to the Q and the team takes on the Hershey Bears in the city’s first appearance in the Finals in 50 years. The first 10,000 fans will receive an exclusive Monsters’ T-shirt and rally towel. Tickets start at $16. (Niesel) 1 Center Court, 888-894-9424, theqarena.com. FESTIVAL
Parade the Circle For 26 years, Parade the Circle has signaled the arrival of summer in downtown Cleveland. One of the signature events of the season in Northeast Ohio, Parade the Circle includes floats, dancers, live music, stilt-walkers, giant puppets, colorful costumes, vibrant characters, handmade masks and so much more. This year’s theme is “Temenos,” translated as “a sacred circle of creativity.” It all takes place from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. today in Wade Oval, where you’ll also find food, activities and other entertainment. The parade begins at noon, rain or shine. It steps off from the CMA and will move counter-clockwise around Wade Oval. Admission is free. (Usmani) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.
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Tropical Sundays A weekly summer celebration, Now That’s Class’ Tropical Sundays features cornhole and basketball in the club’s back parking lot and exclusive Tropical Sunday cocktails including Pimms, Paulito’s Puerto Rican Punch, Mi’Monsters, Cucumber Bloody Marys and Bloody Tooth. The club promises “many more surprises and activities” too. The event starts at 3 today.
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Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt offers an in-depth look inside the life of the German-Jewish philosopher who coined the phrase, “the banality of evil,” while covering the trial of Adolf Eichmann for The New Yorker. Her own life was anything but banal, and included a love affair with philosopher and Nazi sympathizer Martin Heidegger. The movie screens at 1:30 p.m. today and at 6:45 p.m. on Wednesday at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tickets are $9 for general admission, $7 for CMA members. (Wohler) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.
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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. 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.
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Science Cafe The second Monday of each month, Music Box Supper Club hosts Science Cafe, an informal lecture series that brings scientists from throughout the region to the club so they can talk about science topics. Tonight at 7, hear about what the age-old disease Mycobacterium Tuberculosis can teach us in 2016. Admission is free. (Niesel) 1148 Main Ave., 216-242-1250, musicboxcle.com.
wings, but it’ll also offering meatless Monday “wing” baskets for vegans. Discounted drafts and a playlist of vintage-electric blues and soulful R&B curated by local musician Clint Holley will be on tap as well. Wing Ding Doodle takes place every Monday from 6 p.m. to midnight. (Niesel) 1109 Starkweather Ave., 216-937-1938, prosperitysocialclub.com.
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Trivia Pursuits Do you have tons of obscure music knowledge? Are you a student of fast food menus and their nuanced histories? What say you about the geographic evolution of Scotch whisky? Tonight’s your chance to wow your friends, make yourself instantly more desirable to someone you’re newly dating, and hang with Cleveland’s headiest hipsters and hot dog lovers. It’s the Happy Dog Monday Night Trivia. Starting at 8 p.m., expect themed rounds — it’s a crapshot — and general knowledge questions that seem considerably trickier than some of the other live trivia locales in town. Arrive early. The tables fill up quickly. (Allard) 5801 Detroit Ave., 216-651-9474, happydogcleveland.com.
Outdoor Movie Screening, Part II Watching a movie outside is the way to go. Drive-ins no longer have the cachet, nor the presence, that they enjoyed in the soda-fountain 1950s, and plenty of local cities and organizations are helping to fill the void by getting the silver screen under the starry sky. Interested? Old Brooklyn’s Loew Park has dibs on Tuesdays, in its second annual Cleveland Summer Cinema series that runs from June 14 to August 9. Come a little early, between 6 and 8 p.m., for the farmers market. Expect food trucks and a beer garden too. Then stick around until dusk for the screening; tonight’s flick is Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Admission is free. (Allard) 3121 Oakpark Ave., whatsyouroldbrooklyn.com.
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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. DINING
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
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Vinyl Night While sales of CDs continue to decline, vinyl has seen a resurgence. In fact, the recent Jack White album became the fastest-selling vinyl album since Nielsen Soundscan began compiling vinyl sales figures in 1991. Jukebox owner Alex Budin has described his 1,350-square-foot music-focused bar in the Hingetown ’hood as “a place where people can expect to hear and learn about music of multiple genres, all of which is concentrated in a constantly evolving jukebox.” In keeping with that spirit and recognizing the burgeoning popularity of vinyl, the club hosts a vinyl night every Tuesday that serves as a listening party for new releases. The place has partnered with Loop in Tremont so that patrons can hear a new album on vinyl. You can bring your own vinyl and spin it too. We love the concept. It all starts at 7 p.m. (Niesel) 1404 West 29th St., 216-206-7699, jukeboxcle.com.
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ART FACES OF THE CITY Keliy Anderson-Staley showcases Cleveland’s diversity in portraits By Josh Usmani IN ADDITION TO AN ONGOING solo exhibition at the Society for Photographic Education, Texasbased photographer Keliy AndersonStaley is one of 19 artists selected for LAND Studios’ InterUrban collaboration with the RTA and the City of Cleveland. After spending a week photographing more than 150 Clevelanders with a process dating back to the 19th century, AndersonStaley selected 50 to be enlarged and installed inside the RTA Red Line tunnel at the airport. Just in time for the influx of RNC delegates, guests, activists and press, the intense portraits will greet visitors heading into town. Although Anderson-Staley’s exhibition at the Society for Photographic Education gallery, entitled [Hyphen] Americans, was planned before Fred Bidwell selected her to participate in the InterUrban project, the show unexpectedly acts as a preview of the upcoming public installation. It showcases more than 130 wet plate collodion tintype portraits captured by AndersonStaley throughout the U.S. for more than a decade, many of which have never been exhibited before. Rather than prints, the show features the original plates from the 19th century process. [Hyphen] Americans features an eclectic variety of subjects of virtually every age and ethnicity. The exhibition is carefully curated into sections, with each wall encouraging the viewer to create a narrative by comparing and contrasting the portraits. Each image invites the viewer to imagine a personality and personal history, as well as a universal narrative throughout. The subject’s attributes, clothing and accessories act as context clues for this creative analysis. “Our identities are linked to the visual history of social difference, a history in which photography has not always played an innocent role,” Staley says. “Against this history, each individual in this series — identified only by a first name — defiantly asserts his or her selfhood, resisting any imposed or external categorizing system we might bring to these images. Echoes and patterns
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A collection of Clevelanders’ tintype portraits captured by Keliy Anderson-Staley during her visit to Cleveland. Courtesy of the artist.
of similarity and difference can be found across the installation, but each portrait reminds us of the persistent uniqueness of faces and our common humanity.” Anderson-Staley’s goals for the project are to serve as a reminder of both our individual and shared experiences, as well as our own place in history and the role of photographic technology in shaping our identity. “Composed of thousands of portraits, [Hyphen] Americans is a diverse collection of American
the first process widely used to make photographic portraits. It was unfortunately also used for ‘scientific’ ethnographic studies of the human face, many of which were based in racist assumptions about physiognomy. The project draws attention to the fact that all portraits exist within a history of images, and that our perception of ourselves and our ancestors has always been mediated by photographic technology.” Anderson-Staley is known nationally for her tintype portraits.
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She currently lives and works in Houston as an assistant professor at the University of Houston. Her work has been featured in major exhibitions at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C., the Houston Center for Photography and the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Waltz Books recently published her book, On a Wet Bough. InterUrban is a public and private
collaborative partnership between the City of Cleveland, LAND Studios, Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (RTA), Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency, the Cleveland Foundation and AnisfieldWolf Book Awards. The project includes large-scale murals and photography by 19 international and local artists. LAND Studio received nearly 300 submissions for the project. The artists were chosen by local collector, philanthropist and cofounder of Transformer Station Fred Bidwell and Hawaiian artist Jasper Wong. The artists are working with the sponsors to develop concepts related to themes inspired by the AnisfieldWolf Book Awards that “celebrate the rich diversity of cultures and the artists, writers and people that open and challenge our minds.” InterUrban is funded through a $150,000 grant from the Cleveland Foundation, as well as more than $350,000 from the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency. Anderson-Staley’s portraits are a perfect fit for the project and location. As riders speed past each portrait, the subjects’ intense gazes will capture their attention immediately. This universal intensity is due to the process’ long exposure time (up to 15 seconds based on lighting). The portraits are printed directly onto metal, and require long exposures and an abundance of light. The process dates back to the Civil War, and was used to photograph Abraham Lincoln. Anderson-Staley captured more than 150 portraits of locals over a recent week in Cleveland, spending two days at Transformer Station and two days at the Cleveland Institute of Art, as well as giving a gallery talk at the Society for Photographic Education. [Hyphen] Americans remains on view through July 29. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday from 10 to 4 p.m. and by appointment. Anderson-Staley’s InterUrban installation will debut this month and remain on view indefinitely.
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Heathers at the Beck Center brings rockin’ music, teenaged angst and great choreography By Roy Berko A TEENAGED GIRL SNARLS AT another, “I know who I’m sitting with at lunch, do you?” Yes, high school can be a time of great angst or hellish glee. Depends on which clique you are in. Jocks, cheerleaders, nerds, drama-kids, brains … what was your place in the high school hierarchy? Veronica, a 17-year-old misfit at Westerburg [Ohio] High School, yearns to be part of the in-group — the Heathers, plural, led by head cheerleader Heather McNamara, the sullen Heather Duke and the “bitch queen,” Heather Chandler. The three blond bombshells run the high school for their own enjoyment, harassment, bullying and degrading allowed. Veronica hangs with overweight nice kid Martha Dunstock, better known as Martha Dumptruck, until one glorious day. That day Veronica’s talents as a forger are discovered and the creation of hall passes and absence excuses flow forth and detentions disappear. Through forgery, Veronica becomes a Heather. Will Veronica now become Miss Popular? Will she, after achieving her goal, turn on Martha? Will she fall for J.D., new school bad boy and become, like him, a psychopathic killer? Will idiot jocks Ram Sweeney and Kurt Kelly be knocked from their stud pedestals? Will J.D. satisfy the longings for revenge of every high school outsider who was the victim of character assassination and bullying by the likes of the Heathers? Will the audience cheer when they vicariously get their settling of scores? Yes, high school can be hell, and
Laurence O’Keefe and Kevin Murphy, conceivers of Heathers: The Musical, now in production at Beck Center for the Arts, have found the key to making bullying a fun, but often sadistic, form of entertainment. Heathers has a bizarre history. A Daniel Waters-written, non-musical version was filmed in 1988 and became a cult hit. It made instant celebs of Winona Ryder, Christian Slater and Shannen Doherty. Though not a critical hit, the film was named one of the best high school movies by Entertainment Weekly, and ranked No. 412 on Empire’s list of the 500 Greatest Movies of All Time. The musical’s start came on Sept. 13, 2010, via a concert/reading in
another explodes. The opening “Beautiful” sets the mood and is followed by such other showstoppers as “Blue” and “Shine a Light.” This is Céspedes at his finest, and it makes the production a special event. Madeline Krucek gives just the right tone to kind Veronica, who has a strong sense of right and wrong, even if she gets waylaid for a while by bad boy JD (Shane Lonergan). She has a fine singing voice and nice stage presence. Her duets “Dead Girl Walking” and “Seventeen,” sung with Lonergan, are compelling. Lonergan, dressed in the appropriate black trench coat, doesn’t look like a deadly psychopath (do they ever?), but he portrays a killer to
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a pub. The script languished until 2013, when it showed up for a limited engagement at Hudson Backstage Theatre in Los Angeles. And then it hit the big time in February 2014, when it opened off-Broadway for a five-month run. Since then, the script has become a favorite of community theaters looking for a device to attract younger audiences. Beck’s production, under the direction of Scott Spencer, is being staged in the intimate Studio Theatre, where it fills the space with rock sound, great singing and good acting. The star of the show, however, is Martin Céspedes’ choreography. One dynamic dance routine after
the core. His well sung “Freeze Your Brain” gives a clue into what is going to come. Kayla Heichel was born a “high school mean girl.” This lass portrays evil, power and control with ease as the hateful H. Chandler, leader of the Heathers. She is well backed up by the other Heathers, (McNamara) Amy Kohmescher and (Duke) Tia Karaplis. They all have strong singing voices and their solos are well done. Molly Millsaps creates Martha (Dumptruck), she of beautiful soul, with charm and pathos, in spite of teasing and rejection. Her version of “Kindergarten Boyfriend” is a
wonderful ballad that gets a lovely rendition. Riley Ewing (Ram Sweeney) and Jonathan Walker White (Kurt Kelly) are right out of the playbook: walking six-packs with no brains and lots of unbridled testosterone. The duo can actually dance, sing and act. Matthew Wright (Ram’s dad) and Paul Floriano (Kurt’s dad) almost steal the show with their rendition of “My Dead Gay Son.” Multi-award winning Trad A. Burns shows his usual creativity in designing a visually and functionally perfect mock-locker filled set. His lighting design, along with Aimee Kluiber’s costumes, helps in creating the right illusions. Musical director Larry Goodpaster and his band do a great job of hitting all the right notes and supporting instead of drowning out the singers.
Editor’s Note: Scene theater critic Christine Howey was awarded a 13-week summer residency in Provincetown, Massachusetts. She began her summer on the East Coast this week and will return in late August. In the meantime, Roy Berko and a few others will be covering Northeast Ohio’s theater in the mag and online. Roy is a member of the American Theatre Critics Association and the Cleveland Critics Circle.
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MOVIES MAKE PLANS TO SEE IT Maggie’s Plan is a laugh-out-loud ode to Woody Allen By Sam Allard MAYBE IT’S THE BOUNCY JAZZ score; maybe it’s the scenes of bickering banter on the tree-lined streets and in the sundry sunny lofts of New York City. Maybe it’s the cast of hyperverbal, existentially conflicted middle-aged principals, most of whom are inclined toward either academia or the arts; maybe it’s, for example, Maya Rudolph, dispersing dressing on what is visible even from a distance as a kale salad in a university cafeteria, uttering this line of dialogue about Ethan Hawke’s John Harding: “He’s one of the bad boys of ficto-critical anthropology.” Or maybe it’s the elaborate domestic predicament into which these hyperverbal principals stumble headlong. But for any of the above reasons, it’s impossible to view Maggie’s Plan, the screwball rom-com starring Greta Gerwig, Ethan Hawke and Julianne Moore that opens Friday, as anything other than a Woody Allen knockoff. The quality of the copy may be a matter of perspective, but given Allen’s detritus lately, Maggie’s Plan is in fact a much more spirited and credible exploration of modern-day romance. And it’s pitch-perfectly cast. Gerwig is Maggie Harden. She’s a Quaker-born arts administrator at the New School in New York City and has decided that she’s going to have a baby. She’s not waiting to fall in love: That prospect seems impossible
after a string of exclusively brief and unhappy relationships. Instead, she’s opting for a donation of sperm from a former college acquaintance, Guy (Travis Fimmel), who’s now a “pickle entrepreneur,” forever on the brink of a major deal with Whole Foods. This decision sits uneasily with Maggie’s longtime pals (Bill Hader and Maya Rudolph, glittering in small roles), who protest that Guy has no concept of personal space. In the midst of all this, Maggie meets John (Ethan Hawke), a
wannabe novelist who works as an adjunct anthropology professor at the New School and tends to play second fiddle to his imperious Danish wife Georgette (Julianne Moore), who’s tenured at Columbia. “You know how in every relationship there’s a gardener and a rose?” John tells Maggie in an early scene. “I’m the gardener.” John and Maggie fall in love! Go figure! And Maggie’s plan for singleparenthood is derailed by the fastblossoming affair.
Three years later, Maggie begins to resent John, who’s not pulling his weight in the marriage, continues to struggle through his novel, and still talks to Georgette daily on the phone. Meanwhile, Georgette has published a well-received memoir recapping the intimate details of the John-Maggie affair. In the face of these unwieldy personal dynamics, Maggie and Georgette develop a kinship and hatch another plan, in the attempt to restore order to what have become very messy lives indeed. Written and directed by Rebecca Miller (most recently of 2009’s Pippa’s Plan, plus the longtime wife of Daniel Day-Lewis), Maggie’s Plan manages to convey the rise and fall of complicated relationships via a script that’s often bracingly, scorchingly true. Even its moments of absurdity — snowed in at an anthropology conference in Quebec, John and Georgette and the rest of the gathered attendees dance to an acoustic, salsa-fied performance of Springsteen’s “Dancing in the Dark” — feel stolen from someone’s lived experience. Gerwig, Hawke and Moore (and even the character actors Hader, Rudolph and the lovably dopey Fimmel, uncaged from Viking apparel) are a flat-out fun ensemble.
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SPOTLIGHT: DARK HORSE: THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY OF DREAM ALLIANCE DARK HORSE: THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY of Dream Alliance, a new documentary film that opens on Friday, might just be the feel-good movie of the year. A classic story of an underdog who triumphs against astronomical odds, the movie chronicles the rise and fall and rise of Dream Alliance, a racing horse bred by Jan Vokes, a bartender and cleaning lady who lives in the Welsh village of Cefn Fforest. One night while working the bar, she overhears tax lawyer Howard Davis talk about raising a racehorse. He gave it a whirl and lost something like 5,000 pounds, so he had no interest in pursuing that path once again. But Jan does. And with a little arm twisting, she gets Howard and a
toothless companion of hers to go along with her plan. Jan recruits some of the bar regulars to donate £10 per week for the purchase of a mare. Then, she’s got to pony up (pun intended) for a stud fee. Once the colt is born, she enlists a top-notch trainer. But even he has his doubts about the horse, which he likens to a street fighter who makes do with stamina rather than speed. Dream Alliance turns into quite the competitor, even though one announcer fails to even recognize the horse as a “thoroughbred,” infuriating Jan, who acts more like Dream’s overprotective mother than its owner. “Good thing I didn’t run into that announcer,” she confides.
And when the horse gets hurt, as the animals often do when engaged in vigorous racing, Jan and her team (dubbed the Syndicate) rally by its side and treat it like a family member, scrapping together whatever savings they have to ensure it gets the treatment it needs. By putting together present-day interviews and old clips from the various races that Dream Alliance ran, director Louise Osmond expertly constructs the film’s plot. Featuring all the highs and lows found in any drama, the movie becomes a true roller coaster ride. Viewers will undoubtedly find themselves rooting for the horse and its owners as they face and ultimately overcome incredible odds. — Jeff Niesel | clevescene.com | June 8 - 14, 2016
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SWEET DREAMS After three generations in the same family, new owners take over Mitchell’s Fine Chocolates in Cleveland Heights and an institution lives on By Douglas Trattner AFTER 77 YEARS IN THE confectionery business, it had come down to this: Owner Bill Mitchell would either find a suitable buyer for Mitchell’s Fine Chocolates in Cleveland Heights, or he would shutter the shop, liquidate its assets and find a new tenant for the building, which he owns. Fortunately, it didn’t come to that. In less than a month, the beloved chocolate factory officially will change hands for the first time in three generations. After entertaining offers for nearly a year, Mitchell found what he was searching for. No, not a fat sack of cash, but rather a beneficiary of the business who was less like Veruca Salt and more like Charlie Bucket. “My hope was to find someone I could pass on the traditions to, because I have no family,” Mitchell explains. “Of all the people who walked through the doors over the past several months to look at us, it was Jason who stood out. Of all the people who came in here, he has shown the most passion.” “Jason” is Jason Hallaman who, along with his wife Emily Bean, will be the new owner of a very old business. Call it fate, call it fortune, but the truth of the matter is that it seemed destined to happen, even though it almost didn’t.
“We popped into a store and noticed a display of Mitchell’s Chocolates and we told the owner how much we loved it,” Bean recalls. “The owner said, ‘Oh, did you hear that they were selling?’ We literally got in our car, drove straight to Lee Road and talked to Bill.” Hallaman, like most people his age who grew up in Cleveland Heights, has very pleasant memories of Mitchell’s candies. He went to Coventry Elementary, which was a very short walk from the shop’s original location on Euclid Heights Boulevard. “[Bill’s mother] Penelope was very fond of my father and we’d go in there after church and she would never let him give her any money, and you can imagine how three boys are in a chocolate shop,” Hallaman relates. “Some of my greatest memories took place there.” After 50 years on Coventry, the shop relocated to its current location on Lee Road, where it has been chugging along for 25 years. Bill’s father passed away years ago, while his mother only recently passed away at the age of 97. “He wants to retire desperately, but when you hear that a business is being sold, people get so negative,” says Hallaman. “It must be a dinosaur, they say, it must be
a dying breed. Walk away. Bill did the right thing. He took care of his mother till her last breath. The shop is a legacy, and it’s a lot of responsibility, and I feel there are just a handful of people around who can possibly understand that, and I’m one of them.” While Bean will keep her job as staff pharmacist at University Hospitals’ Ahuja Medical Center, Hallaman will transition into the role of operator. Since he bought his first business at the age of 19, he’s had a knack for finding the right opportunity at the perfect time. And given the increased appetite for artisanal, hand-crafted food products, both locally and nationally, that’s precisely what this is. “The thing about Cleveland is, if you’re a local thing, and you offer a good product, people in this town will support you,” says Hallaman. “They will dig deep, and they will make sure it’s a success. Small, independent business people don’t know how good they’ve got it here.” Hallaman not only is receiving financing, favorable lease terms, and a near bottomless well of goodwill, he is inheriting two longtime staffers and extensive hands-on training from Bill. If all goes as planned, Mitchell will be living in the middle of the Aegean Sea on
Lemnos, the very same Greek island on which his mother was born, in a year’s time. Meanwhile, Bean and Hallaman are planning for as seamless a transition as possible. The name doesn’t change, the storefront stays the same, the product line doesn’t budge, the recipes stay true. Customers will always be able to walk in and purchase an assortment of dark chocolate-covered apricots and orange peels, soft-centered chocolate nougats, silken butter creams and various truffles. What will change — and needs changing — is the store’s relationship with modern food lovers. “We’re a Ferrari stuck in first gear,” Mitchell admits. “We need these young kinds of people who are makers. I’m passing the baton onto a new generation.” Customers will begin noticing keener marketing, an increased presence on social media, and improved in-store technology, all in an attempt to protect a treasured Cleveland institution. “We’re only at the halfway point right now,” Hallaman says. “I want this store to stay open for another 75 years.”
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DURING MICHAEL SWANN’S SIX years as executive chef at Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center in Nashville, it wasn’t uncommon to see him making the rounds at tables during dinners for 5,000 guests. Thinking small while executing on a grand scale has always been the philosophy of Swann, the decorated and well-traveled chef recently hired to oversee operations at InterContinental Hotel. “We want to go back to the simple fundamentals of what it sounds like for oil to sizzle in the pan instead of this big production,” says Swann. “We’re going to cook restaurant food in a banquet setting.” Swann’s new role will be to oversee culinary operations of InterContinental’s banquet services in all three hotels, the C2 restaurant in InterContinental Suites, Moce Cafe and Bar in the Holiday Inn Cleveland Clinic, and Table 45 and the North Coast Cafe in the InterContinental Hotel. That’s no small task, but it’s one Swann certainly has been primed for. Preceding his work at Opryland, he served as executive chef of Marriott and Renaissance hotels and resorts and went on to become culinary director at Georgia World Congress Center and a consultant. He has been seen on Food Network’s Dinner Impossible and been recognized by Food & Wine magazine as a Rising Star Chef. And now he’s chosen Cleveland. “When the general manager asked me, ‘Why Cleveland?,’ I looked at him and said, “Well, why not Cleveland?” says Swann. “InterContinental, it’s an infinite brand. I say I left the best for last.” The Suites’ menu already is undergoing an overhaul, and room service will soon follow. The buffet will be upgraded to be mindful of guests who stay multiple nights. For example, the styles of sausages, egg tarts and quiches may change from day to day. In Cleveland, it’s easy to slip into heavier, more robust spreads, but Swann emphasizes that won’t be the focus. “I’m really trying to go with more light, healthful options in the morning,” he notes. That mindset carries over to
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InterContinental’s jewel, the modern, eclectic Table 45, where Swann already has begun collaborating with chef de cuisine Matt Anderson, who recently joined the team from Crop Kitchen. Swann has always had a strong flair for Mediterranean flavors. It shines through such dishes as panseared diver scallops served over chickpea puree with savory raspberry sauce and fresh thyme. But he also draws influence from his travels to Southeast Asia, Europe and South America. A levelone sommelier, he’s excited by wines coming out of places such as Mendoza, Argentina and hopes to incorporate more wine pairings. “You have to have a balance of world food and funky stuff, food that just shakes it up,” Swann says. Plans are in the works to push the quality of sushi and energize the glassenclosed chef’s table. To build on worldinspired flavors, Swann hopes to bring the international student exchange program he executed at Opryland. To maintain restaurant-quality food throughout the banquet operations, Swann is utilizing a state of the art “rationale system” technique, where each plate is arranged cold and maintains a perfect flavor profile. “With this particular process, we’re really able to elevate the presentation,” he says. “Every dish is a work of art.”
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HEADY STUFF Hyper-realistic cake designer Natalie Sideserf to teach a class in Cleveland By Douglas Trattner LIKE THE POT SELLERS OF Austin, Natalie Sideserf owes much of her success to Willie Nelson. Well, an edible version of him anyway. Soon after relocating from Cleveland to that Texas town, the artist-turned-baker had the crazy idea to craft a hyperrealistic likeness of the country legend out of delicious cake. “I had this goal set in my mind to learn how to use these materials as if they were traditional art materials so I could use my artistic side to do some really extreme things, except that it’s edible and it’s cake,” explains Sideserf, owner of Sideserf Cake Studio. While countless pastry chefs have followed in her footsteps, Sideserf was a pioneer in the field of lifelike, often over-the-top, edible confections. “When I started I was just experimenting,” she says. “In sculpture class you make these busts out of clay and I thought, why can’t I make that out of cake? I started doing research online to try and find a cake bust and I could not find any. I said, I’m just going to dive in and try this.” That tasty Willie Nelson cake landed on the front page of Reddit and all of the sudden, everybody wanted a taste of Sideserf and her cakes. “It went viral all over the world because nobody had seen anything like that.” When Sideserf married her husband, it was only natural that she would bake the wedding cake. What wasn’t expected was the form it would take: her and her betrothed’s severed heads in a bloody scene straight out of the Walking Dead. “My husband is a huge horror fan so I had the idea in my head,” she says. “I was describing the idea to my family and they were all like, yeah, I don’t get it.”
When you’re staring down a work of art like one of Sideserf’s creations, it must be unbearable to demolish it with a knife, no? “It’s always so much harder for everyone else, but I love it. It’s my favorite part. Like the severed head for example; once you cut into it you can see that it’s just cake, and it smells like cake, and it tastes like cake and it’s way less intimidating.” And there are no brains oozing out. “I can make that happen too.” Sideserf has been teaching classes in her technique, and she’ll be doing so in Cleveland from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on June 18, at the Westin Hotel (777 St. Clair Ave.). The cost is $210.00. “Anybody who is interested can come in and try it out,” she says. “It’s a nice introduction to using edible materials to make a cake topper.”
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The classic Negroni is equal parts gin, Campari and sweet vermouth, but variations are endless. Griffin Cider House will be offering daily specials that explore the wide range of options. Guests can also order up gin flights and Negroni flights to sample a broader selection in a single visit. But for many, it’s impossible to top the golden ratio. “It’s the balance of the bitter and the sweet,” Read says of the drink’s appeal. “It’s just a great sipper, and especially good for this time of the year.” To keep track of all the Negroni Week events, check out facebook.com/ negroniweekcleveland. Negroni Week or not, Griffin Cider House should be stop No. 1 for gin lovers. “I like tell people that I’m not a gin expert, I’m a gin-drinking expert; I love drinking gin,” Read says. “What’s great about gin is that there’s quite a range, from ones that taste very piney to others that don’t have such a strong juniper note.”
LOCALLY CONCEIVED MANCAN, WINE IN A CAN, A BOON FOR WINE FANS ON THE GO “If I’m carrying a picnic basket to Blossom from the farthest lot, I’m not going to want to carry a bunch of bottles,” says Banter owner and wine lover Adam Gullett. “That’s the time and place for a can.” Wine is fine, but it traditionally arrives in heavy, breakable, nonecofriendly glass bottles. And then there’s the need for glassware and special equipment to liberate the contents. When you’ve plowed through all that delicious juice, you have the pleasure of lugging those cumbersome bottles back out to the car with you. There’s a solution. It’s called Mancan and it was conceived in a Cleveland bar by local entrepreneur Graham Veysey. “It was April 27, 2014, and I was at a dive bar with a friend,” Veysey recalls. “I wanted a glass of wine, but who knows how long the bottle’s been open. I said, ‘I wished they served wine in a can.’ We immediately jumped on our phones to check and the only wine in a can that we found was Sophia, which came in a little pink can. I said we need a man can, an actual 12-ounce beer can.” That night, Veysey snatched up the mancanwine domain and got about the business of building a wine-in-acan empire. In just a few short years, Mancan has made an impression
in the highly competitive alcoholic beverages market, 15 percent of which belongs to wine drinkers. The product is stocked in stores across 10 states, and locally at places like Progressive Field, Jukebox, Happy Dog, Nano Brew, Platform, Banter and others. Some of the early success can be pinned on savvy marketing, but most of the credit goes to the fact that it’s a great idea buoyed by a great product. Veysey and partners Fisk Biggar and Marika Shioiri-Clark, who is also his wife, work with a California winemaker with 20-plus years of experience. The result is a portfolio of three wines: white, red and fizz, all blends consisting exclusively of California-grown grapes. “We’re deliberately non-vintage, non-varietal,” explains Veysey. “The wine has to consistently hit the taste profile and it has to have universal drinkability.” This is not wine you stash in your cellar. This is wine you drop into an ice chest — red and white — pop open, and drink during the picnic, at the beach, by the pool, before the game or après-ski. Each can is 375 ml (12.6 ounces), or the equivalent of half a bottle of wine. The price is $4.99 for what works out to be two big glasses. “When was the last time you had just one glass of wine?” asks Veysey. “If anything, it’s too drinkable, because your muscle memory wants to slam it because it’s in a can.” The wine recently snagged gold and silver awards at the Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America convention, besting almost every other wine in the blend category. Banter stocks the product in its coolers alongside much pricier wines. And often, the cans are the ones that get the best reaction. “People come in and they’re looking at the wine cooler and they’re like, ‘Hey, wine in can!’” Gullett says. “It’s definitely not a Châteauneuf-du-Pape, but they’re not selling it like that. It’s wine in can. Now go enjoy your kayak.” In addition to the red, white and fizz, Manican will add a rosé to its portfolio. But that’s it, says Veysey. “It’s all about simplicity.” The name, a tongue-in-cheek attempt to market the wine to historically beer-loving men, is largely taken in the spirit in which it was intended. But not always, notes Veysey. “I’ve been surprised by the vitriol that some people have with the name,” he says. “We’re pro-choice; you can choose it or not. We wanted a name that is strong, memorable.”
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FEELS LIKE THE FIRST TIME 11 bands to see at the inaugural LaureLive Music Festival By Jeff Niesel BRANDED AS NORTHEAST OHIO’S first and only multi-day, multi-stage and multi-act contemporary music festival, LaureLive kicks off its inaugural year on June 11 to 12, with two days full of music, art, food and fun at Laurel School, an all-girls (K-12) independent school in Shaker Heights. The festival will take place on Laurel’s 140-acre Butler Campus at 7420 Fairmount Rd. The two-day festival will feature 30 performances, including national acts such as O.A.R., Grace Potter, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Andy Grammer, X Ambassadors, Elle King, Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness, Red Wanting Blue, Civil Twilight, ZZ Ward, Ra Ra Riot and others. Local acts such as Carlos Jones and Welshly Arms, who’ll perform with Cleveland’s Contemporary Youth Orchestra, will also be on hand. For the festival’s culinary aspect, LaureLive has partnered with Red Frog Events. Based in Chicago, Red Frog operates and curates all culinary aspects for Firefly Music Festival and the Big Barrel Country Music Festival. There will also be daytime activities for kids, and music education, songwriting classes and performance workshops. Here’s a guide to some of the musical acts worth seeing:
SATURDAY Ra Ra Riot 3-3:45 p.m. Music Elevates Stage Ra Ra Riot permeated Syracuse with their indie-rock sound in 2006, but within six months of their formation the band was already popping up nationally due to their distinct chamber pop/indie-rock sound and catchy songs. Fast forward 10 years and the band has four albums out with their latest, Need Your Light, released this past February. With hits like “Can You Tell,” “Beta Love” and “The Orchard,” the band is especially known for pairing string instruments like the violin and cello with its upbeat “let me dance around until I can’t feel my feet” classic jams. (Danielle Immerman) Brent Kirby’s songwriter/band showcase 4-7 p.m. Cleveland Coffee Co. Pavilion A Wisconsin native, local singersongwriter Brent Kirby moved around the Midwest before landing in Cleveland 14 years ago. In addition to having a successful solo career, Kirby also plays with roots rockers Jack Fords and has recorded with Hey Mavis, another local roots rock act. He plays Gram Parsons’ covers with New Soft Shoe, and he hosts 10x3, a
local singer-songwriter session that showcases the work of up-and-coming acts. He brings some of the city’s best local singer-songwriters and indie rock acts to the festival for a special session. (Niesel) Andrew McMahon 5-6 p.m. Laurel Stage Singer-songwriter Andrew McMahon is no stranger to Cleveland: His former bands, Jack’s Mannequin and Something Corporate, have made the city a staple of their tours. Now a solo artist playing under the moniker Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness, McMahon continues to play Cleveland on a regular basis. His fans certainly reciprocate the love: In 2014 at House of Blues, a boisterous audience shouted along with both beloved old favorites (Jack’s Mannequin’s “Dark Blue,” “The Resolution,” and Something Corporate’s “Cavanaugh Park,” “Watch the Sky”) and the expansive, poptinged songs from 2014’s Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness. Expect a similar performance when McMahon performs today at LaureLive. (Annie Zaleski) X Ambassadors 6-7 p.m. Laurel Stage This New York alt-rock outfit has
taken the pop world by storm as of late with the smash hit “Renegades,” but further exploration of its catalog reveals a bit more personality than one might expect. For example: The band’s 2015 debut VHS is a sprawling, 20-track epic with just as many narrative interludes as potential radio earworms. They’ll bring the crowd to a boil with their infectious energy and an instrumentally diverse range of tunes, specifically the saxophone-led “Naked” and the slow but powerful “Unsteady.” (Eli Shively) O.A.R. 7:45-9:15 p.m. Music Elevates Stage Rock-radio devotees will instantly recognize certain hits by this Maryland-born, Columbus-based five piece — “Shattered (Turn The Car Around)” and “Love and Memories,” to name a few. However, some of the devoted fans the group has earned throughout two decades as a band will certainly be in attendance as well, and that’ll call for some deeper cuts. Check out “That Was a Crazy Game of Poker” if you’re interested in exploring its college jam band roots. (Shively) Red Wanting Blue 9:15-10:15 p.m. Laurel Stage Red Wanting Blue is a touring | clevescene.com | June 8 - 14, 2016
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MUSIC band’s band. They’ve essentially been on the road for nearly 20 years, deepening their personal map and writing what singer Scott Terry calls “road records” along the way. The band released Little America in July 2014, etching a moment in time for a band that’s relished countless others. The songwriting seems more clear-eyed and more laid-back on this one. Terry may have become a more comfortable songwriter over the years, as he’s maintained his commitment to honesty in music and to transposing the stories of his life into song. It’s less heavy, dynamically, while still being complex, “Dumb Love” being analogous in some ways to 2012’s “Audition.” (Eric Sandy) Lee Fields & the Expressions 10:15-11 p.m. Scene Stage Part of the same soul/R&B revival that includes acts such as Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Lee Fields & the Expressions hearken back to another era when groups toured with big horn sections and dressed in matching outfits. Their latest album, Emma Jean, includes somber soul ballads such as “Magnolia” and “Eye to Eye.” Fields, who physically resembles the late, great James Brown, possesses a powerful voice well-suited to belting out; he has toured with major acts such as Kool and the Garg and O.V. Wright over the course of a 43-year career. The Expressions provide him with a potent horn section that should go over well with a festival audience. (Niesel)
SUNDAY Welshly Arms 2:45-3:30 p.m. Music Elevates Stage One of Cleveland’s biggest players on the local music scene, Welshly Arms is an amalgam of dirty rock and soulful blues; the band recalls the Black Keys, the White Stripes and the Strokes but hasn’t yet had the kind of mainstream exposure that will dilute its sound. The four-piece band started producing music in 2013 with the release of the EP Welcome. The music video for “Two Seconds Too Late” has received over 60,000 views on YouTube, and “The Touch” was featured on the CW’s The Vampire Diaries. Most recently, when the band isn’t busy playing sold-out shows at the Beachland Tavern, Welshly Arms is busy making new music to follow up to its 2015 self-titled debut album. (Immerman)
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Elle King 3:30-4:30 p.m. Laurel Stage A Los Angeles native, singersongwriter Elle King dominated charts in 2015 with her hit rock-pop fusion single, “Ex’s & Oh’s.” In the rock genre, “Ex’s & Oh’s” peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Rock Songs chart while it reached the top of the Alternative Songs chart in September 2015, making King only the second female soloist to reach the top since 1996. Her success with “Ex’s & Oh’s” garnered King two nominations for Best Rock Performance and Best Rock Song at the 58th Grammy Awards; King has also found tremendous success with the 2015 release of her debut album, Love Stuff, which features 12 songs including intoxicatingly catchy ones like “Under the Influence” and “Where the Devil Don’t Go.” (Immerman) Michael Franti & Spearhead 5:30-7 p.m. Laurel Stage Decades ago, singer Michael Franti played with art-noise collective the Beatnigs before making the transition to the hip-hop world with the politically minded Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy. With Spearhead, Franti goes for a reggae vibe and the tunes have found a fanbase with the jam band crowd. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. His new single, the upbeat, horn-driven “Crazy For You,” should go over well with the LaureLive crowd. At this point in his storied career, Franti certainly knows how to tap into the feel-good energy of the fans at an outdoor festival. (Niesel) Grace Potter 7:45-9:15 p.m. Music Elevates Stage When singer Grace Potter met with Eric Valentine (Queens of the Stone Age, Nickel Creek) to talk about producing her solo debut, Midnight, she just couldn’t contain her enthusiasm. She knew she had found the guy who could bring out her rock impulses. Potter leaves her country and roots rock tendencies behind on Midnight as the album commences with the poppy “Hot to the Touch” and embraces soulful pop (“Alive Tonight”) and futuristic funk (“Your Girl”). Singer-songwriters Rayland Baxter and Audra Mae, Noelle Skaggs of Fitz & the Tantrums, Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips, and Nick Oliveri of Queens of the Stone Age all have cameos on the album as well. (Niesel)
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MUSIC EMO TO THE CORE Dashboard Confessional returns to its roots for Taste of Chaos Tour LAST SUMMER, DASHBOARD Confessional toured with alternative rockers Third Eye Blind, a band whose catchy pop tunes appeal to a decidedly more conservative audience than Dashboard’s. This summer, the band will hit the road with Taking Back Sunday, Saosin and Early November as part of the Taste of Chaos Tour. So which is it? Does the band qualify as adult-oriented alternative rock or is it more aligned with emo and screamo acts? “Last year was a roll of the dice really,” says Chris Carrabba via phone from his Nashville home. “We’ve opened for Bon Jovi and Beck and U2 and Weezer. So it’s not like we only play with bands from our scene. We did that co-headlining thing with Third Eye Blind because we’re mutual friends and it’s nice to get out of your comfort zone, and it worked. It made for a successful evening of music.” During that tour, Carrabba says he started thinking it would be good to go “back to the band’s roots.” “Now, that’s what you have here,” he says of the current tour. “You’ve got the original fans that liked all these bands and liked the scene and felt it was important and built the scene and made the bands popular in the first place. The state of radio didn’t predict bands like us getting popular. That was the doing of the fringe scene that helped to make us popular. We got popular because of the fans. Those fans are still there or have come back to this style of music or come back to having a little more free time to get back into music. There’s been this revival that’s called the ‘emo revival.’ Younger people hear our name being touted as an influence. We’re getting a younger audience than we had for a little while and we’re getting that older audience.” Carrabba says he finds the emo revival inspiring and even a little bit humbling. “What are the odds that I’m still employable as a musician?” he says. “We’ve moved the cultural needle a few times with MTV Unplugged and Spiderman 2, but we never had a hit song. The fact that we can do these kinds of rooms and have the legitimacy we have as a band — you’d think that would line up with some
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kind of radio success. It doesn’t. It’s about a fanbase embracing a scene and working hard to ensure that they stay popular and then sticking by them forever.” He draws an analogy to Dave Matthews Band even though Matthews & Co. play a much different style of music. “I kind of look at it a little bit like the more punk version of what happened with the Dave Matthews Band,” he says. “You can say Dave Matthews now and people don’t remember that band had a strange rise to fame. They played anyplace they could play and fans started telling other people that they had to see them.
pile” of tunes that just weren’t right for Further Seems Forever. When Further had some leftover studio time, Carrabba decided to seize the opportunity to record some of his demos. Amy Fleisher Madden, who ran Fiddler Records, went out and bought Carrabba a $200 guitar. After he cut the record, 2000’s The Swiss Army Romance, Carrabba didn’t think he’d release it. “[Fleisher Madden] happened to put her money on bands that would do well, but she was just doing this out of her bedroom at her parents’ house,” he says. “She was clearly preternaturally intelligent. I got lucky that I befriended somebody like
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That happened with our fans too. We worked really hard and were wiling to keep touring and never stop. It was our dream. Fans picked up on it; if they hadn’t, I’d be working somewhere and I’d just have some great stories.” Initially, Carrabba sang with the indie rock band Further Seems Forever, a group that formed back in 1998. While still a member of that band, he began experimenting with his own tunes. It was a “growing
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that. I started writing the songs and they didn’t want the songs. I thought that if they don’t sound like Further, what do they sound like? They kind of sounded like each other, so I just chased it down. Once I was done, I thought it was a great process. I sat down with a Dictaphone and played the songs straight through. That’s when I got prodded to go in the studio and record the songs. The fun memory that dawned on me was that it was the
running order of the record. It’s just how I played them into the Dictaphone. Now, we pour over the running order — as if anyone listens to records anymore.” He started selling copies of that debut out of his van and he began playing shows. The confessional music really took hold with fans. Released respectively in 2002 and 2003, The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most and A Mark, a Mission, a Brand, a Scar really connected with fans. The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most included the trademark single “Screaming Infidelities.” A Mark, a Mission, a Brand, a Scar went to No. 2 on the Top 200. The group even sold out Madison Square Garden on its last full band tour. But in 2010, the band called it a day. Carrabba subsequently started singing with the folk-y indie rock group Twin Forks. That band has enjoyed a certain amount of success: Last year, it played mid-sized venues with Counting Crows. Despite the success of Twin Forks, Carrabba still thought it was time to bring back Dashboard. When the band reunited last year to tour with Third Eye Blind, Carrabba told us he thought the band was “fucking on fire.” Does he still feel the heat? “If I thought we were on fucking fire then, we’re burning the house down at this point,” he says. “We were brand new to each other in a lot of ways. [Bassist] Scott [Schoenbeck] and I have been in the band the longest. Now, it feels better than new. It’s really rare and with all respect to each lineup I’ve had. With all due respect to those great players, I’ve never had a band that I felt was like a complete extension of each other. It’s really incredible. There’s total reliance and trust in each one of the other guys. We’re listening to each other. That’s something that people ask me about with new bands. I tell them to play as much as they can and listen to each other. If there’s a pull coming from that side of the stage, you better chase what he’s doing. We all better chase that. To be in this band is my favorite thing.”
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BØRNS’ new album features a vibrant mix of electronic and acoustic elements.
DON’T CALL IT A THROWBACK BØRNS embraces a ‘classic element’ on his latest album, Dopamine By Jeff Niesel SINGER-SONGWRITER BØRNS (Garrett Borns), who grew up in Grand Haven, Michigan, where his parents exposed him to “a lot of music,” says he had “a pretty broad knowledge of old ’50s, ’60s and ’70s music” by the time he became a teenager. “At a young age I knew all the songs, and those are some of my favorite songs,” says Borns via phone from Los Angeles where he was doing his laundry. His new album, Dopamine, features a vibrant mix of acoustic and electronic music that simultaneously sounds oldfashioned and contemporary. Two years ago, Borns released his debut EP, Candy, an album he recorded with producer and friend Tommy English. “I recorded the EP on my own before there was any record label involved or anything,” he says. “I didn’t want their influence being on a record. And I just wanted to really love it for what it was because it was fun to make and not because I was trying to get a record deal. And, of course, I wanted to be able to play this music and tour, but I didn’t know exactly where it was going to go. It was just kind of a studio project. Then some labels showed some interest in it.” When he started writing the songs for Dopamine, he drew upon very distinct influences. “I definitely wanted to write songs in an older way of writing songs, with song structure and crafting melodies,” he says. “Things that you saw a lot in the ’60s and ’70s, like Electric Light Orchestra and the Bee Gees. I take a lot of inspiration from their song structure. So, I wanted to write songs that felt like they had kind of a classic, almost throwback, element, but done in a contemporary way. I wanted them to sound like, ‘Oh, wait, I should know this,’ or ‘How do I know this?’ But it sounds new. We want things to sound new. We definitely don’t want them to sound like we’re trying to make
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throwback things, but we have a lot of influences from older eras of music.” Album opener “10,000 Emerald Pools” features androgynous vocals and chug-a-lug guitars as Borns sings, “all I need is you.” For the Beach Boys-like tune “Overnight Sensation,” he took inspiration from a stack of old Playboy magazines. “I had a stack of reading material chillin’ in the studio just for any weird word association type things that happen with recording,” he says. “I love how those old magazines are laid out. They’re very clever and they’re all done very deliberately. All of the advertisements and articles are very well thought out, and I just love the words that they use.” Showing the strength of his voice, he starts “Past Lives” without any musical accompaniment. Eventually, synths and percolating percussion kick in, making the tune sound like something the Pet Shop Boys might have recorded back in the ’80s. “That intro started out as kind of an idea for the chorus of that song when we were writing it,” he says. “It was just an idea that we recorded really quick with the vocoder and then we just kind of forgot about it. Then once we were finishing the song, we found that original idea and we were like, ‘What if this was kind of like an intro to the song, just
carefree sounding when I was playing it. It almost sounded like a James Taylor song or something. And I brought it in the studio and [producer] Tommy [English] had this down tempo minimal beat going on and then I sang it with that beat and gave it a different vibe, just a little bit
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darker. And we kind of liked that.” While critics have described Borns’ music as “heartfelt electronic music,” he says that description isn’t quite apt. “There are electric instruments in it,” he says. “I wouldn’t really call it electronic music. There’s a good amount of acoustic instruments in it too. Some of the stuff is
programmed, but a lot of it’s actually played on instruments. There are a lot of keyboards and guitars, bongos, tambourines, background vocals. The majority of it is played by humans. So, it’s not really electronic, but there are electronic elements.” Borns says he’s already started thinking about the songs for his next album, but he’s not going to reveal what the new tracks might sound like. “A lot of ideas that I’ve vaulted away are coming out now,” he says. “I would love to [provide more details], but it’s all top secret at this point. It’s a little too early. I have too many weird ideas right now, so if I say one thing, it’ll be like, ‘Oh! You’re gonna make a record of jump rope songs?’ I don’t want people to think that.”
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M83/Bob Moses: French electronic musicians M83 have been an excellent source of departmentstore pop since the release of 2011’s Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming, whose biggest hit, “Midnight City,” boosted the band to indie fame. Although it’s an understatement to say the quintet seems to be taking itself much less seriously on its newest album, Junk, front man Anthony Gonzalez’s talent for writing pulsing dance music hasn’t faded. The album’s lead single, “Do It, Try It,” is drenched in ’80s pop nostalgia, driven by heavy synth and bass and adorned with cheesy, auto-tuned “oohs” and “ahhs” as it climbs to its loudest peaks. In some ways, M83’s latest feels slightly ironic or satirical as it takes dated pop clichés to their most obnoxious limits, but the music’s inherently danceable style should make for a fun concert, anyway. (Jacob DeSmit), 7 p.m., $32$42. House of Blues. twenty one pilots/Mutemath: Straight out of Columbus, twenty one pilots have dominated the alternative music scene ever since the release of their 2013 album Vessel. With hits like “Car Radio,” “Ode to Sleep” and “House of Gold,” the band, which consists of vocalist Tyler Joseph and drummer Josh Dunn, further branded itself on tour with its unique performance style. Being a duo, the group has plenty of room on stage to play around and that’s exactly what it does. Dunn is known for taking his drum kit and playing it in the crowd while Joseph turns into an acrobat by scaffolding up whatever part of the stage he has access to. He then proceeds to sing down at the crowd while perched 20 or 30 feet above — a sight not to be missed, especially considering the difficulty of performing songs from the band’s latest album, Blurryface, a mix of rock and hip-hop. (Danielle Immerman), 7 p.m., $25-$45. Wolstein Center. 10 X 3 Singer Songwriter Showcase: Hosted by Brent Kirby (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m. Brothers Lounge. Ray Bonnerville/Sands & Hearn: 8 p.m., $15. Beachland Tavern. Chris Cohen/Sister Smirk: 9 p.m., $8. Happy Dog. John Doe and his RocknRoll Band/ Jesse Dayton: 8 p.m., $20 ADV, $22 DOS. Music Box Supper Club.
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The wacky duo Flight of the Conchords plays a sold out show at the State Theatre. See: Saturday.
Aidan Plank and the New Melodies: 8 p.m., $10. Bop Stop. Helen Sung Trio: 8 p.m., $20. BLU Jazz+. Sunn O)))/Big Brave/Hissing: 8:30 p.m., $35 ADV, $40 DOS. Grog Shop. Wizard Rifle: 8 p.m., $8. Now That’s Class.
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Nothing/Wrong/Culture Abuse: There are wonderful traces of shoegaze still arcing into the contemporary music scene, and Nothing is one of the bands that’s earning its nods in that department. With a bitchin’ sophomore album on the table this year, Nothing shows off skilled hands when dealing with dynamics. This isn’t just straightforward, pummel-the-walls rock ‘n’ roll, but rather a delicate sea of songwriting and sensory exploration. Each song on the new album presents a fresh perspective on fuzz rock. The band themselves put it this way: “Tired of Tomorrow is a modern, nihilistic take on the triumphant fuzzed-out guitar rock of the ’90s,” and that’s exceptionally spot-on. (Eric Sandy), 7 p.m., $14. Now That’s Class. Vladimir Cetkar: 8 p.m., $20. Nighttown. Chris Coles Quartet: 8 p.m., $10. Bop Stop. Dave East: 7 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Mahall’s 20 Lanes. Chris Hatton’s Musical Circus (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m. Brothers
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Bela Fleck and the Flecktones featuring Victor Wooten, Roy “Futureman” Wooten and Howard Levy: Bela Fleck and the Flecktones (Victor Wooten, Roy Wooten, Howard Levy) have built a strong catalog of tunes and live performances throughout the 1990s and 2000s, and this June tour gives them and their fans a chance to revisit all that they’ve accomplished. These cats are masters of their instruments -- see “Big Country” and “Flight of the Cosmic Hippo,” for instance -- and it’s hard to imagine a more blissful way to spend a Friday night. (Sandy), 8 p.m., $25-$65. Cain Park. Back in Black: AC/DC Tribute: 7:30 p.m., $13. House of Blues. Captain Kidd/Clubhouse: 7 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Mahall’s 20 Lanes. Caravan of Thieves (in the Supper Club): 8 p.m., $12 ADV, $15 DOS.
Music Box Supper Club. Crywolf/Maderra/Ghostatic: 9 p.m., $12 ADV, $15 DOS. Beachland Ballroom. Cult of the Psychic Fetus/The Memphis Morticians/American Werewolves: 9 p.m., $10. Beachland Tavern. Garbage Creek/Brat Curse/Bummed Out/Heavy Cat: 9 p.m., $5. Now That’s Class. Heaven Is In You/Jarvi/Father of Two/Adab (in Club Atlantis): 10 p.m., $7. Now That’s Class. Brent Kirby and His Luck: 9:30 p.m., $5. Brothers Lounge. Jay Leonhart Duo/Tomoko Ohno: 8:30 p.m., $20. Nighttown. Christine Marie (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m. Brothers Lounge. Mea Culpa & The Safeties: 9 p.m., $5. Happy Dog. Now That’s Heavy Fest with Valkyrie/Resinaut/Black Spirit Crown/Red Tape Revolution: 10 p.m., $7. Now That’s Class. Ken Peplowski and Harry Allen: 8 p.m., $25 ADV, $30 DOS. BLU Jazz+. Radarhill: 8 p.m., $10. Bop Stop. Red Hawk: 9 p.m., $5. Vosh Club. Sassafraz/Jojo Stella/G Finesse/The Black Eagle: 9 p.m., $8. Musica. Moss Stanley: 10:30 p.m., free. Nighttown. Stella Brickhouse (in the Supper Club): 10:30 p.m., Free. Music Box Supper Club. Timbara Band: 9 p.m., $5. The Euclid Tavern. Venom Inc/Necrophagia/Midnight/ Sunlord: 9 p.m., $15 ADV, $20 DOS. Grog Shop. DJ Joe Yachanin: 6 p.m., Free. Happy Dog.
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Barenaked Ladies/OMD/Howard Jones: Barenaked Ladies have played Cleveland since the early days, so it’s not a surprise that the Canadian alt-rock band would play here as part of its Last Summer on Earth Tour that pairs BNL with ‘80s acts OMD and Howard Jones. Expect to hear quirky hits such as “Brian Wilson” and “If I Had a $100,000,” songs that show off the group’s clever wordplay and ability to rap and sing. At previous shows on the tour, Jones has joined the band for a rendition of his “No One Is to Blame.” (Jeff Niesel), 7 p.m., $32.50-$72.50. Jacobs Pavilion.
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Black Pistol Fire/Samfox/Brave Bones: What makes two Canadian boys sing the blues? It wasn’t long before Toronto natives Kevin McKeown and Eric Owen learned that their grisly rock ’n’ roll wasn’t quite as universal as Drake’s rap. Seeking some southern hospitality (and a sonically-similar scene), the duo moved their band, Black Pistol Fire, to Austin, Texas, where they caught the ears of critics like Consequence of Sound and NPR Music. The two prove the exponential power of ampliďŹ ers, making as much of a ruckus as any four-piece complimented by a performance that can only be described as acrobatic and volatile. They’ll take the stage at the Grog, Shop this week in support of their fourth album, 2015’s Don’t Wake the Riot. (Bethany Kaufman), 9 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Grog Shop. Flight of the Conchords Sing Flight of the Conchords: Grammy Awardwinning folk comedy duo Flight of the Conchords (Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie) kick off their national tour at Playhouse Square with the “Flight of the Conchords Sing Flight of the Conchords Tour.â€? New material will be exclusively showcased on this tour; additionally, the Conchords have partnered with the charity organization Global Citizen to engage and motivate Global Citizens across the U.S. to take action to end extreme poverty by 2030. Tonight’s show, which takes place at 8 at the State Theatre, sold out the day tickets went on sale so scalpers and brokers will be your best bet for this one. (Immerman). State Theatre. The Moxies/Goodnight Tonight/ Essential Groove/Bad Wolfe: Cleveland’s own, The Moxies are a three-piece rock band specializing in gritty, raw, classic rock ‘n’ roll. Their 2013 self-titled debut album not only garnered them a massive loyal following in Cleveland but also landed them in Nashville where they’re currently ďŹ nishing up work on their second album which has been touched by tenured pros like Jared Champion, former drummer for Cage the Elephant. Although the album hasn’t been formally released yet, the Moxies have performed several songs off the album at their most recent shows. These songs, in addition to the classics from their ďŹ rst album, are unlike anything you’ll ever hear. Marco Ciofani, the lead vocalist and guitarist,
rips into his guitar, shreds the chords and beautifully screeches the lyrics out into the crowd. With Ciofani working the crowd up with his own dance moves and electric performance, bassist Tyler Adams equally matches Ciofani’s ferocity on stage. The two dance around, galvanizing the crowd until they can’t feel their feet anymore. To witness the trio tear the stage apart and literally rip the strings off their instruments is an experience unlike anything out there today. You won’t want to miss their fan appreciation show at The Agora especially since it’s free; so if you’re not a fan of theirs already, you will be by the end of the night. (Immerman), 7 p.m. Agora Ballroom. Chil/Before the Streetlights/Of Heart & Mind/Darling Waste: 6 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Mahall’s 20 Lanes. Paul Christensen (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m. Brothers Lounge. The Del Rios: 3 p.m., Free. Music Box Supper Club. Billy Donato: Vintage Vegas with a Modern Twist: 8:30 p.m., $15. Bop Stop. Travis Haddix Blues Band (in the Supper Club): 8 p.m., $7. Music Box Supper Club. Chris Hatton and the Italian Sound Machine: 9:30 p.m., $5. Brothers Lounge. Jay Leonhart Duo/Tomoko Ohno: $20. Nighttown. Morrison Hotel: 9 p.m., $10. Musica. The NBHD (THE NEIGHBOURHOOD)/Kevin Abstract/Mothxr: 7 p.m., $28-$38. House of Blues. Ken Peplowski and Harry Allen: 8 p.m., $25 ADV, $30 DOS. BLU Jazz+. Saul Glennon/The Can’t Evens: 9 p.m., $5. Happy Dog. School of Rock: 3 p.m., Free. The Euclid Tavern. Schwartz Brothers: 8:30 p.m., $7. Beachland Ballroom. SIMO/The Got It Need It: 8:30 p.m., $10. Beachland Tavern. Jackie Warren: 10:30 p.m., free. Nighttown. The Weight Band (performing the music of The Band): 8 p.m., $38.50$42.50. The Kent Stage. Whitesnake/Whitford/St. Holmes: 8 p.m., $48-$88. Hard Rock Rocksino NorthďŹ eld Park.
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