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UPFRONT CLEVELAND, GET READY FOR A DENNIS KUCINICH 2021 MAYORAL RUN CAT’S OUT OF THE BAG. The PD’s Brent Larkin, in a column late last week, reported that Dennis Kucinich is considering running for Cleveland mayor in 2021. Larkin spoke with multiple people “familiar with Kucinich’s thinking,” who all said that Kucinich intends to run. Kucinich did not respond to Larkin’s requests for comment, but did send an email to friends and contributors in late February after the publication of a Rolling Stone article by columnist Matt Taibbi which called him “years ahead of his time.” The tone of the email suggested Kucinich, who most recently was defeated by Richard Cordray in Ohio’s 2018 gubernatorial primary, wouldn’t be shy about reentering the fray. “It is imperative that at this time we rejoin our discussion, with fresh insights of our most recent experience as we endeavor to lift up our nation,” he wrote. “I’m back.” Scene has been hearing rumors of a potential Kucinich run for weeks. Cleveland’s Boy Mayor has been making regular appearances around town in recent months. Shaking hands. Bending ears. The whole deal. When we reached out to him in early February to pick his brain, and mentioned a few of the specifics we’d heard, he said he’d be happy to discuss policies but declined to comment on the juicy stuff. “As you might expect, I have no comment on City Hall rumors or speculation regarding elective office,” he wrote in an email. “I’m simply a concerned Clevelander.” From inside City Hall, sources have predicted Kucinich’s run with either annoyance, fear or something like sadistic glee. The assumption has been that Kucinich would use mismanagement at the West Side Market and Cleveland Public Power as central campaign planks. (Shrewd political instincts, as ever.) That prediction seemed to gain merit when Kucinich wrote an opinion piece for cleveland.com on Feb. 26 titled “How to Save the Iconic West Side Market,” the publication of which was regarded as an unwelcome incursion in some city council quarters.
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Kucinich served as Cleveland’s mayor from 1977 to 1979 and represented Northeast Ohio in the U.S. House of Representatives for 16 years, until 2012. He ran for president of the United States twice, opposing the Iraq War and advancing a progressive agenda which was often ridiculed but, as Taibbi noted, is now more or less mainstream in the Democratic Party. While his mayoralty is remembered, correctly, as a tumultuous era, he represented a sustained threat to moneyed interests in town, famously preventing a sale of the Muncipal Light and Power Company (Muny Light, which became CPP) to rival CEI (now FirstEnergy). There’s no use denying that bookending that narrative — the guy who saved Muny Light now wants to save CPP — makes for a killer stump speech.
Kucinich is an opportunistic and sometimes theatrical campaigner, but he has a hard core of local support and would immediately vex the campaigns of both Kevin Kelley and Marty Sweeney, presumed contenders who will need overwhelming support on the white West Side to achieve a top-two finish in the primary. In fact, if Kucinich enters the race, the most aggravating result for those interested in the city’s improvement might be Frank Jackson’s decision to stay in the race, pursuing an unprecedented fifth term between naps and bouts of grandfatherly introspection. Jackson, for the record, was born four days before Kucinich in 1946. Cleveland’s deepest pockets are reportedly fed up with Jackson and his invisible brand of leadership, to say nothing of his familial dramas.
One likely mayoral candidate who has not yet announced told Scene that no less than Al Ratner (one of the financiers of the dark money organization formed to re-elect Jackson in 2017) would not be supporting Jackson in 2021. But that could change if Kucinich ran. Ratner and the most serious donors/puppeteers — Jackson’s Union Club roster of accountants, attorneys and real estate developers — could once again invest heavily in him to prevent a new Kucinich ascendancy. Short of an unprecedented ground game, then, no candidate would be able to overcome Jackson’s war chest, which was used in 2017 to pay for strategists and canvassers and a sea of yard signs. That dynamic will be deflating for a number of self-evident reasons. But if 2021 does indeed shape up to | clevescene.com | March 11 - 17, 2020
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UPFRONT be a Jackson/Kucinich showdown, a number of edge candidates who are serious about fresh leadership at City Hall and improving the quality of life for the city’s preponderant poor and vulnerable will have to fortify support quickly — in some cases, by consolidating — and develop a specific, urgent campaign message that speaks to all Clevelanders. — Sam Allard
Councilman Says Cleveland Police Can ‘Get Creative’ in Violating the Rights of People Asking for Money on Highway Exit Ramps Ward 16 Cleveland city councilman Brian Kazy has received a “growing” number of resident complaints about people asking for money at highway exits. Kazy, whose ward includes a healthy amount of highway territory, including parts of I-90, I-480 and I-71, did what any well-read and well-informed
councilman would do in response: He reminded those residents that asking for money, either verbally or with a sign, is protected speech and that Cleveland, after being sued by the ACLU in 2017, repealed its panhandling ordinance. Just kidding. Instead, in an interview with Channel 5, Kazy admitted knowing it was constitutionally protected behavior but said Cleveland police can get “creative” in curtailing those rights. “We’re going to start using enforcement by Cleveland police to get them off of the off ramps and out from underneath the bridges,” Kazy told Channel 5. “There’s loitering, there’s impeding the flow of traffic, there’s a couple of creative ways that CPD can go ahead and enforce them.” It’s unclear what “enforcement” he’s talking about here, given that Cleveland doesn’t have a loitering ordinance and people asking for money don’t stand in the middle of the road. Most likely, Kazy is talking about simply using the police to move them from where they have every right to be, and using “creativity” to do so under illegal means. “The city should be looking for
creative ways to get people out of poverty, not trying to find a way to limit people’s First Amendment right to ask for help,” says Joe Mead, a CSU law professor and associate general counsel of the ACLU of Ohio who has worked on panhandling lawsuits locally. “This seems as good a time as any to remind the councilman — and all of Cleveland — that there is no city law prohibiting loitering, and that such laws have been struck down by the Supreme Court. The motorists cited in the article all seem to agree that panhandlers haven’t been a problem for traffic flow or safety of motorists.” Kazy also latched onto a Linda Taylor moment, telling the station some people collect “up to $500 a day” and that one person was found who “lives in Parma, works at the Jack Casino, and then stands at West 150th and I-71 on his days off collecting cash.” Nevermind that it doesn’t much matter where someone lives, or if they have a job, or if that job doesn’t cover all of their expenses, or anything at all, except that they can stand there and ask for money all they want, because it’s protected speech. (Not for nothing, but WKYC
spent time with those who ask for money at exit ramps a few years ago and found, much to no one’s surprise, that the reality is $15 to $25 a day.) Summit County late last year repealed its panhandling ordinance, which had targeted those who ask for money alongside exit ramps, after a lawsuit by the ACLU of Ohio. — Vince Grzegorek
Partial Body Cam Footage From Frank Q. Jackson Investigation Released After first telling Channel 19 News that there were “no responsive records” to a request for any body camera footage from Cleveland police who responded to Mayor Frank Jackson’s house in August 2019 after a car belonging to his grandson Frank Q. Jackson, who lives with Jackson, was seen leaving the scene of a murder on the nearwestside, the city has now delivered some body camera footage. But not all of it, it appears. Antonio Parra was brutally killed in broad daylight in Cleveland’s Clark-Fulton neighborhood last August. Two suspects drove away
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in a 2006 Volkswagen Passat registered to Frank Q. Jackson. That car was eventually found by police two days later, burned out on Holton Avenue with its license plates and VIN numbers removed. Sources told 19 that Frank Q. Jackson had sold the car “months ago,” but he received a traffic ticket while driving the vehicle on August 9. The body cam footage released this week doesn’t tell us much, as it all ends before cops talk to anyone in the house beyond asking who is home and saying that there was a situation. Based on reporting by Cleveland. com and local TV stations, there wasn’t much of an investigation beyond that. “Q’s at the mayor’s house right now,” one officer says on the body camera footage. “He just pulled up and Gomez asked us to detain him so we’re gonna go up to the door and try to grab him, okay?” That didn’t happen. Mayor Jackson told them his grandson would give a statement the next day. There was no testing for gunshot residue performed. Frank Q. Jackson’s truck was towed from the scene, and body cam footage shows one officer interviewing an unidentified juvenile.
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But the body cam footage is important for a few lingering reasons. Parra’s mother has sued Mayor Jackson and police chief Calvin Williams for wrongful death and obstruction of justice, with the complaint specifically identifying the interactions at Jackson’s house as evidence that police, implicitly or explicitly, treated Frank Q. Jackson as above the law. (Frank Q. pleaded guilty in early January to drastically reduced charges stemming from a violent encounter in June 2019. In that incident, he choked and punched an 18-year-old woman while in a vehicle and then beat her with a truck hitch. In the deal, the younger Jackson agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge. He has received a sentence of 18 months probation. Jackson managed to escape the harsher felonious assault charge and an abduction charge, for which he faced up to eight years in prison.) Parra’s attorney, Peter Pattakos, told Channel 19: “[This] only reinforces that there were profound irregularities with this investigation. We will soon enough have every single officer that was involved under oath as well as the mayor himself, and we look forward to finding out what really happened.” As for the mayor, he has repeatedly said that he in no way influenced the investigation or prosecution of Frank Q. Jackson in that incident, which city of Cleveland prosecutors declined to pursue charges for before Cuyahoga County prosecutors indicted him, or in the murder investigation. Still, Cleveland.com reported on the assorted “anomalies” that piled up in the murder investigation, citing experts who said it was rare for cops not to take a “prime suspect,” which Cuyahoga County prosecutor Mike O’Malley called Frank Q. Jackson, into custody in such circumstances, or to perform gunshot residue tests. And Channel 19 had previously reported, citing sources, that Mayor Jackson asked/instructed the responding police officers to turn off their body cameras. He’s denied the claim, but full footage would show whether or not that was true. Based on what’s been released so far, it’s hard to imagine that full footage doesn’t exist.
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FEATURE BRIDGING THE DIVIDE Cleveland CDCs are working together, out of both financial necessity and common goals, to bring development to neighborhoods that have been left behind Lee Chilcote
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RIVER RUNS THROUGH Collinwood made out of concrete and rusted railroad tracks. It’s a dividing line, hemmed by unkempt weeds and plastic bottles, that you can cross without even knowing it, a stopover, a noplace, a between-place. But Jamar Doyle, executive director of the recently-formed Greater Collinwood Development Corporation, wants to bridge the divide. Collinwood’s river is I-90, says the 41-year-old nonprofit leader. It’s the old Collinwood Railyards, a half-mile trench dividing the northern and southern parts of the neighborhood that was once one of the most active rail yards in the country, linking the industrial centers of the Midwest and Northeast. Today, it’s a demarcating line separating white and black, middle-class and lower-income, trendy neighborhoods from ones that haven’t even been thought of yet or were dismissed a long time ago. Doyle says the highway and rail yards are his neighborhood’s version of the Cuyahoga River, which has historically separated the city’s whiter, more middle-class west side, which is known for having better schools, neighborhoods and services, from the city’s blacker, poorer east side, which is known for its crumbling infrastructure, dilapidated houses and poverty. “If you thought of this as our Cuyahoga, we have a lot of the same concerns, such as where is development going?” he says. “North Collinwood is seen as a more stable community, so how do we balance redevelopment of that area with efforts toward more equity and inclusion?” “All of the east-west issues that Cleveland faces,” he adds, “we face the same issues north-south.” People have been talking about reuniting Collinwood for longer than Doyle has been alive, but maybe that’s precisely the point. Doyle is part of a new group of forwardthinking, collaborative leaders who are running Cleveland’s community development corporations (CDCs), nonprofits that receive funding largely from the city but also from
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other sources to spur neighborhood redevelopment. These leaders say CDCs need a fresh approach, and they’re focused on creating more equitable development patterns throughout the city, both east and west. Doyle sees an opportunity to serve South Collinwood while continuing progress in North Collinwood, home to the Beachland Ballroom and Waterloo Arts District, both of which are fragile examples of the city’s redevelopment. “There’s a perception in North Collinwood that there aren’t points of interest south of the freeway, whereas people in South Collinwood tend to feel that amenities north of the tracks aren’t available to them,” he says. “Neither is true.” These goals are ambitious given that there’s less funding for community development than there was a decade ago. As the
city’s population has declined, so has Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) money that pays for CDC operations, from a high of about $40 million to $20 million per year. Declining resources have sunk many CDCs in recent years. Others have floundered or disappeared for other reasons, including mismanagement and malfeasance. Greater Collinwood CDC itself arose from the ashes of two failed CDCs that went belly-up. A few years ago, when Doyle was working as assistant director at St. Clair Superior Development Corporation, he was approached by then-councilperson Jeff Johnson to become interim director at Collinwood & Nottingham Villages Development Corporation, where he was told director Tamiko Parker was out on temporary medical leave. However, it soon became apparent that in fact she’d stolen tens of thousands of dollars from
the organization, among other things obtaining a $19,000 cashier’s check from a CDC bank account to buy a car in Michigan, depositing paychecks twice in the amount of $30,000, and going on junkets to Las Vegas and Atlantic City. Within a few months, Doyle was tapped as permanent director. By July 2018, he’d also learned that the director of Northeast Shores CDC was gone, and he was inheriting the organization’s remaining staff. Nine months later, the board of Collinwood & Nottingham Villages created Greater Collinwood CDC with Doyle at the helm. “Sometimes I joke, man, I need one year where things stay the same,” he says with a laugh. That’s a big ask around these parts, but there’s one bright spot to the declining resources and trimmer staffs: It has forced reorganizations, | clevescene.com | March 11 - 17, 2020
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mergers and collaborations among Cleveland’s CDCs that would have been deemed impossible a decade ago. Famicos Foundation, led by veteran director John Anoliefo, now serves Glenville after that area’s CDC closed in 2015. Burton, Bell, Carr Inc. of Central now serves Buckeye-Shaker, where the longtroubled CDC recently failed to pay taxes on properties it owns and also failed to pass a clean audit test required by the city. Cross over to the west side and you have Old Brooklyn CDC collaborating with Metro West CDC; Tremont West Development Corporation and Ohio City Inc. partnering up on projects; and Detroit Shoreway providing community development services to Cudell through a shared service agreement. Industry leaders say Cleveland CDCs, which have shrunk in number from more than 40 at their peak in the 1980s to fewer than 30 today, must combine resources to be more effective, and they’re actively driving in this direction by tying funding to groups that work across neighborhood lines. For the past several years, the city and other funders have required CDCs to serve more than 15,000 residents, emphasizing collaboration and working together across neighborhood lines. “There’s a real effort to find ways to better serve parts of the city through partnership or capacity building that have not received strong services in the past,” says Joel Ratner, president of Cleveland Neighborhood Progress (CNP), a nonprofit intermediary that provides support and technical assistance to CDCs. Yet for Doyle, who is AfricanAmerican, this mission is personal. He grew up in Glenville and watched its decline when he was younger, and now sees an opportunity to help guide development in a way that benefits eastside neighborhoods. “The passion for the work for me is because I feel like I’m rebuilding home,” he says. CDC Changes Cleveland’s CDCs started off in the ’70s and ’80s as scrappy grassroots organizations that used aggressive organizing to bring attention to disinvestment, redlining and white flight in their neighborhoods. They were funded in part by the
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Commission on Catholic Community Action, which received support from the Catholic Diocese and the Gund Foundation. At the peak, there were literally hundreds of community organizers working across the city to improve neighborhoods. That independent community organizing approach came to a screeching halt one weekend in spring 1982, however. At the time, Sohio, now BP, was headquartered here, and community leaders were angry at the company for making record profits at a time of soaring energy costs which were disproportionately borne by the poor and elderly, so they organized an action. Dozens of enraged community members “disrupted the annual SOHIO shareholders meeting, picketed at the home of SOHIO’s president, and stormed the chairman’s lunch at his tony suburban country club,” according to “The Community Development System: Urban Politics and the Practice of Neighborhood Development in Two American Cities from the 1960s to the 1990s,” a dissertation by Jordan Shein Yin presented to Cornell University in 2001. This is relevant to today’s CDCs because that’s when many CDCs learned a painful lesson about not biting the hand that feeds them, and it’s stuck with them ever since. The now-infamous “Hunt Club incident” didn’t go over well with business and philanthropic leaders, to say the least, who immediately cut their funding. After that, CDCs shifted away from community organizing and toward bricks and mortar development, including work like building affordable housing, rehabbing older homes and helping businesses with storefront renovations. The problem has always been that with many CDCs receiving the majority of their funding from HUD’s Community Development Block Grants as well as their councilperson’s ward allocation, these groups needed to please their elected officials in order to survive. While the best CDCs have developed a diversified revenue stream including development fees, fundraising and grants, many of them did not, and went under due to development deals that went bad in the recession. In the worst cases, CDCs in some neighborhoods have functioned as mini city halls that are effectively run by their council people, receiving as much support and funding, or as little, as that councilperson decides, which in turn is dependent on how involved they
are, or what little or big dramas with CDC employees have preoccupied their attention. Ratner, who has led efforts over the past decade toward adopting a community development model that goes beyond bricks and mortar to addressing racial equity, job creation and education, says that Cleveland’s CDCs need to change. Too often, he says, the industry has been measured by how many CDCs there are rather than their effectiveness. In the past, all CDCs had access to similar funding from the city and their councilperson, regardless of how good they were at doing their jobs. “We really want to keep our eye on the ball, and focus on quality community development services to neighborhoods, not just infrastructure,” he says. “What we know is that too many CDCs for too long have not met the needs of their neighborhoods. What’s the right number of CDCs? It’s the number that can be sustained with the dollars we have and that are delivering effective services to their neighborhoods. “Our job at CNP is to make sure that neighborhoods either maintain or improve the quality of community development service over time so that
all neighborhoods ultimately — and this is aspirational, we’re not there yet — have strong, transformational CDCs working there,” he adds. This is not exactly a new conversation. Some CDC leaders have long been frustrated with spreading CDC funding over all 36 of the city’s neighborhoods. “What is the benefit to a neighborhood and the region if you have resources going to ineffective CDCs and equal or less resources going to effective CDCs?” Burton Bell Carr’s Tim Tramble told Scene in 2015. What’s different now is that CNP has changed its funding criteria to promote collaboration, leading to many of the mergers, collaborations and partnerships that we’re seeing today. Ratner acknowledges the challenges ahead, but he’s bullish on the system, saying that even though there are fewer CDCs than there used to be, the ones that remain are more effective. Moreover, there’s a renewed focus on equitable development that’s different from the way things operated in the past, he says. Ratner points to examples like new homes and businesses in the Circle North development on East 105th Street in Glenville, part of Mayor Jackson’s neighborhood
redevelopment plan. Scene reached out to the city requesting information on how the Department of Community Development awards funding to CDCs, but spokespeople did not respond to requests for comment. “We feel that the system is stronger and more efficient than ever before,” says Ratner. “We’re delivering community transformation in many places, though there’s still a lot of work to be done.” Out of the Ashes Doyle points to Greater Collinwood CDC’s recent successes as evidence that the revamped approach can work. In the past few years, Greater Collinwood has worked with Cleveland Chain Reaction to bring nine new and rehabbed businesses to the area; secured a $50,000 grant for the initial re-vamping of the Five Points streetscape at East 152nd and St. Clair Avenue; saved Collinwood High School from closing and developed a plan to add programs there; and worked with Cleveland Metroparks’ on the revitalization of Euclid Beach Park, a regional amenity that serves the entire city. At the same time, he
acknowledges the challenges and opportunities of a larger service area. For example, while Greater Collinwood CDC now serves more than 35,000 residents — “If we were a city, we’d be one of the 10 largest in the Northeast Ohio region,” Doyle says — the organization has fewer staff members and less money than previous groups. Whereas there were once 22 staffers spread out among multiple organizations, today Greater Collinwood has just 12 full-time staff members. “That’s sometimes tough because we can’t do everything we want to do,” Doyle says. Tim Tramble of BBC rattles off a list of similar challenges regarding serving an expanded area. He was initially reluctant to take over community development services in Buckeye-Shaker and, in fact, he and his board said no multiple times. “My main concern was to protect the integrity and efficacy of what we were already doing (in the Central neighborhood),” he says. Nonetheless, they ultimately saw an opportunity to serve a part of the city that lacked high-quality services. He acknowledges that staffing a larger service area has made his job much harder. “The reality is, I’m only one person, and
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our associate director is only one person,” says Tramble. “There’s more work to do, and we have an inability to split ourselves into two people.” Nonetheless, he doesn’t regret it. “We think that there is tremendous opportunity there, and that BuckeyeShaker is a very special part of the city,” he says. “There’s a rich diversity of people who truly care about their neighborhoods. They all want the same thing, and there’s an opportunity to forge a broader, more cohesive, more connected area.” Tramble, who is well-respected in the city for his success as leader of BBC, hasn’t wasted time bringing his no-nonsense approach to Buckeye Shaker. Recently, BBC announced through a partnership with the city of Cleveland that it was acquiring the majority of buildings within a 14-block area of Buckeye between East 116th and East 130th Streets, in an effort to attract businesses and residents to the neighborhood. Doyle says that organizations like Greater Collinwood and BBC could have a catalytic effect on the east side, where development has lagged behind. “The west side has received a disproportionate amount of funding and investment,” he says. “Now, with organizations like Greater Collinwood, Famicos Foundation and Burton, Bell, Carr Development expanding their services, we’re at scale. There’s an opportunity to leverage the capacity of the east side.”
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Westside CDC leaders are also busy working together across boundaries. In Old Brooklyn, which has gained new coffee shops, restaurants and retail and where home prices have also gone up, CDC director Jeff Verespej has seen a sea change. In the past, CDCs were often focused on their own service areas to the detriment of collaboration, but that’s starting to change. “We’ve gone from everyone working just for the goals of their own neighborhoods to realizing we need to work with our neighbors,” says Verespej, citing his ongoing collaboration with Metro West CDC on a healthy housing project as one example. Last month, the Cleveland Foundation awarded Old Brooklyn CDC a $99,000 grant to “help implement its health-focused strategic plan and strengthen the Benjamin Franklin Community
Garden,” according to an announcement. “We’re not going to succeed as a city if we have three places that are vibrant and the rest of our communities are still being left behind,” Verespej says. “We’ve raised our game to make all of us better.” Other community development leaders in Cleveland share his optimism, though not without some hesitation. Jenny Spencer, managing director of Detroit Shoreway Community Development Organization (DSCDO), oversees one of the city’s best-known CDCs. The organization has been serving Cudell under a shared service agreement since Cudell Improvement Inc. lost its staff two years ago after years of what insiders characterized as mismanagement. The two groups are currently in talks about a merger. Although working in a larger area can be challenging, serving a new neighborhood has allowed DSCDO to leverage staff expertise and heighten their impact. “Cudell and Edgewater share aspects and characteristics with Detroit Shoreway,” she says of the organization’s decision to start serving these areas. In the past, when staff members got calls or emails from residents or businesses past 85th Street, they couldn’t help them. “It’s always been an artificial boundary, with Lake and Detroit Avenues running through all three neighborhoods and connecting us.” It also allows organizations to tell a more powerful story to funders. Yet she cautions that it isn’t easy and the two groups are still working on it. “I don’t think there’s been a successful merger yet,” she says of Cleveland’s CDC landscape. Residents in Bellaire-Puritas and West Park actually rejected a merger of their CDCs a couple of years ago. “At its core, it’s about identity.” Doyle agrees that connecting North and South Collinwood is as much about neighborhood identity and class and racial barriers as it is about physical development. Yet in the end, he says, having one CDC could allow residents and stakeholders to fulfill a long-held dream. “There has always been discussion that there should be one Collinwood, when in reality it’s been over 100 years that Collinwood has been divided,” he says. “There’s an opportunity to reconnect the neighborhood in ways that it hasn’t been. The community has so far embraced us and worked with us.”
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2020 MAC Tournament Many teams in college basketball’s biggest conferences will make it to the NCAA basketball tournament whether or not they win their conference tournament. In the Mid-American Conference, teams must win the conference tournament to get selected to play at the Big Dance. At least that’s traditionally been the case. So expect the mid-sized schools from the region (Kent State, Ohio University, Akron University, etc.) that’ll duke it out at this year’s tournament to engage in some real winner-take-all battles. Starting today at noon, both men’s and women’s teams will play at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse, leading up to the championship games on Saturday. Check the Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse website for more info, including ticket prices. (Jeff Niesel) 1 Center Court, 216-420-2000, rocketmortgagefieldhouse.com. MEN MEN MEN!
Chippendales Chippendales, a male stripper show, has been on the circuit for what seems like an eternity. The guys bring their six-pack abs and toned figures to House of Blues tonight as part of a multi-city tour. According to the official press release, the guys intend to create “a fun, partylike environment where women can let loose, have a great time and appreciate the fantasies played out on stage.” Sounds like the bachelorette party from hell. The show begins at 9 p.m. at House of Blues. Check the House of Blues website for ticket prices. (Niesel) 308 Euclid Ave., 216-523-2583, houseofblues.com. SPOKEN WORD
Cleveland Stories Dinner Parties Cleveland Stories Dinner Party is a weekly series that pairs fine food with storytelling. Through it, the folks at Music Box Supper Club hope to raise awareness of the mission of the Western Reserve Historical Society’s Cleveland History Center. The goal is to “bring to life some of the fun, interesting stories about Cleveland’s past — from sports, to rock ’n’ roll, to Millionaires’ Row,” as it’s put in a press release. Admission is free, with no cover charge, although a prix fixe dinner, designed to complement the night’s theme, is $20. Tonight, Patrick
Thousands of people will converge on downtown for the annual St. Patrick’s Day parade. See: Tuesday.
Shepherd talks about what it’s like to work behind the scenes at the Cleveland International Film Festival. Doors open at 5 p.m., dinner is served at 6, and the storytelling starts at 7. (Niesel) 1148 Main Ave., 216-242-1250, musicboxcle.com. THEATER
In My Life – A Musical Theatre Tribute to the Beatles In My Life – A Musical Theatre Tribute to the Beatles aims to deliver “the closest thing to watching an actual Beatles concert.” On a 125-city tour of the U.S., Canada and Australia, the traveling tribute to the Fab Four comes to town for a performance at 7:30 tonight at the Stocker Arts Center/Hoke Theatre on the campus of Lorain County Community College in Elyria. Expect to hear classic tracks such as “Penny Lane” and “I Want to Hold Your Hand.” During the tribute, manager Brian Epstein (played by Murphy Martin) narrates his side of the story starting from his discovery of the group at the Cavern Club in Liverpool up until after the release of
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. The show also touches on the band’s “intimate moments” in the recording studio, and it demonstrates how the foursome struggled to reconcile creative differences after Epstein’s death in 1967. Tickets are $30 to $50. (Niesel) 1005 North Abbe Rd., Elyria, 440-366-4040, lorainccc.edu. THEATER
Jesus Christ Superstar A classic musical that comes to us courtesy of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, Jesus Christ Superstar features rousing Broadway belters such as “I Don’t Know How to Love Him” and the glorious title track. For this 50th anniversary production, an additional 22 Northeast Ohio string players join the 11-piece ensemble of touring musicians to create a 33-piece orchestra that delivers the soundtrack in all its glory. Tickets start at $39, and the play continues through March 29 at Connor Palace. (Niesel) 1615 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.
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Rob O’Reilly Local comedian Rob O’Reilly is an awkward nerd with bad vision. Because of this, sex is very weird for him, and he fears getting beat up after his shows. This self-deprecating guy is a Cleveland native, and his defeatist-yet-tough attitude is what makes him so funny. He takes the stage at Hilarities tonight at 7. Tickets are $10 and $15. (Liz Trenholme) 2035 East Fourth St., 216-241-7425, pickwickandfrolic.com.
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Capone Comedian Derrick “Capone” Lee served nine months in jail in the early ’90s, He successfully left that life behind, however, when he turned to comedy. He performed for the first time ever at Columbia University and hasn’t looked back.
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GET OUT His material often centers on subjects such as racism and social inequality. Capone has shared the stage with big-name comics such as Mike Epps and Tracy Morgan. He performs tonight at 7:30 at the Improv and has shows scheduled at the club through Sunday. Tickets start at $17. (Niesel) 1148 Main Ave., 216-696-IMPROV, clevelandimprov.com. COMEDY
Pete Holmes On the HBO show Crashing, comedian Pete Holmes portrays himself as he struggles to ďŹ nd his way onto the comedy club circuit. It’s a very funny show that features cameos by real-life comics. It’s also helped boost Holmes’ proďŹ le. The suddenly successful standup comes to Hilarities tonight for a three-night stand. Tonight’s show starts at 7, and Holmes also performs at 7 and 9:30 tomorrow night and Saturday night. Tickets cost $25 and $35. (Niesel) 2035 East Fourth St., 216-241-7425, pickwickandfrolic.com. MUSIC
New Soft Shoe Nine years ago, on what local singersongwriter Brent Kirby calls a drunken dare, a group of Cleveland friends and musicians showed up at the Happy Dog to play a couple sets of tunes by the late, great Gram Parsons. Dubbed the New Soft Shoe, the group has been at it ever since, spreading the gospel of what it refers to as “Gram’s Cosmic American Music.� Anything that Parsons played, the New Soft Shoe covers. As a result, the group plays tunes from the International Submarine Band, the Byrds and Flying Burrito Brothers. It also plays songs from Parsons’ solo album GP/Grievous Angel. Tonight at 8, the band performs in the Waldorf Hall at Forest City Brewery. Admission is free, but a donation is requested. (Niesel) 2135 Columbus Rd., 216-228-9116, forestcitybrewery.com. MUSIC
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Schubert’s Great C-Major Symphony Franz Welser-MÜst conducts the Cleveland Orchestra tonight at 7:30 at Severance Hall as it takes on Schubert’s Symphony in C Major. Orchestra violinist Katherine Borman gives the pre-concert talk that takes place an hour before the show in Reinberger Chamber Hall in Severance Hall. Performances also take place at Severance Hall tomorrow
and Saturday. Consult the orchestra website for more information. (Niesel) 11001 Euclid Ave., 216-231-1111, clevelandorchestra.com. THEATER
Sex n’ the City: A (Super Unauthorized) Musical Parody Sex In the City, a popular HBO show from the ’90s, chronicled the ups and downs of four women as they tried to navigate the New York dating scene. This “super unauthorized� musical parody takes the show to task as it tackles issues like romance and heartbreak with a tongue-in-cheek approach. The show makes a one-night stand tonight at the Hanna Theatre at 7:30. Tickets cost $47.50. (Niesel) 2067 East 14th St., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org. MUSIC
Silver Hall Concert Series The Silver Hall Concert Series at the Maltz Performing Arts Center at Case Western Reserve University regularly highlights Northeast Ohio orchestras and ensembles. The series includes 18 to 20 free concerts throughout fall and spring. Tonight’s concert begins at 7:30 p.m. and features CityMusic, a professional chamber orchestra that focuses on audience development and arts education. Admission is free. Consult the website for more details. (Niesel) 1855 Ansel Rd., 216-368-0295, case.edu/maltzcenter.
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Flanagan’s Wake Flanagan’s Wake transports the audience to an Irish wake where villagers tell tales and sing songs for their dearly departed Flanagan. Finding the humor in life and death, the wake acts as a dark backdrop to an otherwise hilarious show in which alcohol fuels the humorous reminiscing. Sort of like a tragic Tony ’n’ Tina’s Wedding, the interactive and improvised show engages the entire audience as the guests are treated as the friends and family of the deceased. Tonight’s show starts at 8 and repeats tomorrow night at 8 at Kennedy’s Theatre. Performances continue weekends through April 25. Tickets are $27. (Patrick Stoops) 1501 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org. FOOD
Lenten Fry-Days For the past 14 years, Prosperity Social Club has hosted a ďŹ sh fry on
Friday nights during the Lenten season. The big draw is the golden fried haddock with sweet potato fries and slaw; it’s so popular, the restaurant and bar even sells a special Gotta Haddock commemorative T-shirt! But wait, there’s more: Prosperity’s fish dishes will also include a pan-roasted and maplebourbon glazed salmon with roasted broccoli and sweet potato mashers, and a pan sauteed shrimp piccata in lemon-butter sauce with capers served over linguine. Other menu items include potato pancakes served with apple-cranberry chutney, and farmhouse-cheese and potato pierogi. During Lent, the kitchen opens at 11 a.m. and serves fish-centric meals until midnight. Prosperity also offers some smaller dine-in or take-out midday portions to accommodate people who work 9 to 5. Prosperity’s Lenten Fry-Days continue through April 10. Reservations are a good idea. (Niesel) 1109 Starkweather Ave., 216-937-1938, prosperitysocialclub.com. FILM
Lucien Freud: A Self Portrait David Bickerstaff directs this film about Lucian Freud, one of the greatest realist painters of the 20th century. The film shows how Freud
depicts himself in more than 50 paintings, prints and drawings. It screens at 7 p.m. today at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tickets cost $15, or $11 for CMA members. (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org. THEATER
That Golden Girls Show – A Puppet Parody A very popular TV sit-com from the ’80s, The Golden Girls focused on four elderly women who lived together in Miami, where they confronted the pains of getting older. This parody casts the women as puppets as it depicts some of the same themes. Tonight’s performance takes place at 7:30 at the Hanna Theatre, where shows continue through Sunday. Tickets cost $39 to $49. (Niesel) 2067 East 14th St., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org. ART
Walkabout Tremont Walkabout Tremont, which takes place on the second Friday of every month from 5 to 10 p.m., showcases the best of this smart neighborhood, with art openings, extended hours at galleries and shops, restaurant and bar specials, street performers, live music, pop-up vendors, neighborhood
walking tours and much more. In honor of Lent, this month’s theme is “The Art of the Fish Fry,” with fish fries happening throughout the neighborhood. See the Facebook page for more info. (Niesel) facebook.com/WalkaboutTremont.
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Adrian Dunn In support of his latest album, Redemption: Live, a collection of spiritual and gospel tunes that “redefine and modernize the genre’s historical roots to celebrate African American history and honor victims of systemic injustice across the country,” Cleveland native Adrian Dunn has embarked on the Black Music Matters tour. The tour includes two performances in Cleveland. In the first, Dunn will play the Harkness Chapel at 7 tonight; general admission is free. The Adrian Dunn singers will accompany him for that show. Dunn will also perform and speak from 9:45 a.m. to noon tomorrow at the Olivet Institutional Baptist Church. You can read more on his website. (Niesel) 11200 Bellflower Rd., 216-368-2402, adriandunn.com.
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Trevor Noah Trevor Noah got his start doing standup in post-apartheid South Africa, and was a successful comic even before he became a contributor — and then took over as host — on The Daily Show. In 2017, Noah debuted his ninth new comedy special, Afraid of the Dark, on Netflix. He performs tonight at 8 at MGM Northfield Park – Center Stage. Consult the venue’s website for ticket prices. (Niesel) 10705 Northfield Rd., Northfield, 330-908-7793, mgmnorthfieldpark. mgmresorts.com. FILM
The Room Thanks to The Disaster Artist, the James Franco movie about the making of the cult classic The Room, the film’s popularity has soared. The film that features writer, director and star Tommy Wiseau screens at 10 tonight at the Cedar Lee Theatre. Tickets are $6. (Niesel) 2163 Lee Rd., Cleveland Heights, 440-528-0355, clevelandcinemas.com. FOOD
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best restaurants. It’s the ultimate cure for a hangover and a great start to another night on the town. Regular admission is $50, and the price includes unlimited brunch tastings, five drink tickets and a commemorative glass. For $70, VIP tickets include unlimited brunch tastings, eight drink tickets and an early jump on the food. Proceeds benefit the Providence House Crisis Nursery. The event begins at 11 a.m. at the Madison. You must be 21 or over to attend. Details and ticket sales are at the website, below. (Niesel) 4601 Payne Ave., 800-297-4985, scenebrunch.com. DANCE
Stephen Petronio Company The Stephen Petronio dance company has performed numerous high-profile engagements in New York and throughout the world. New music, visual art, and fashion collide in Petronio’s dances, producing powerfully modern landscapes for the senses. Sponsored by DANCECleveland, tonight’s performance at the Ohio Theatre will mark the company’s Ohio debut and feature an evening of mixed repertoire including Bloodlines, a project to honor and curate a lineage of American post-modern dance masters. The performance begins at 7:30, and tickets start at $25. (Niesel) 1501 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, dancecleveland.org.
B!tch*s Love Brunch Crawl Flats East Bank’s annual B!tch*s Love Brunch Crawl will return today from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The event aims to be a “fun, tongue-incheek way of enjoying a morning with friends while sampling the best brunches Flats East Bank has to offer.” This year’s event will feature St. Patrick’s Day-themed brunch items. Advance tickets are $30 (plus a small processing fee). Tickets include a sampling at each participating location. The samples will be paired with a 4-ounce pour of a brunch cocktail. Each participating location will have drink specials for its featured cocktails too. Participating locations include Alley Cat Oyster Bar, Beerhead Bar & Eatery, Bold Food & Drink, Dante’s Inferno, Lago East Bank, Margaritaville Cleveland, Thirsty Dog Brewing Co., True Cocktails & Bites and Truman’s 216. (Niesel) 1055 Old River Rd., flatseastbank.com. FILM
Day of Wrath Set in 1623 Denmark, Day of Wrath, a psychological drama, centers on a young woman who gets branded as a witch. The film screens today at 1:30 p.m. at the Cleveland Museum of Art as part of the museum’s Carl Theodor Dreyer retrospective. Tickets cost $11, or $8 for CMA members. (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.
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Monsters vs. Rochester Americans The Cleveland Monsters return from a long road trip today to take on the Rochester Americans at 3 p.m. at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse. It’s Family Day, so the first 2,000 kids aged 12 and under will receive a Castaway Bay day pass. There also will be a postgame skate. Consult the Monsters’ website for ticket prices. (Niesel) 1 Center Court, 216-420-2000, clevelandmonsters.com. MUSIC
Otterfest 2020 Founded in 2017, Otter Entertainment aims to bring “the best in high-quality entertainment production to Ohio and Michigan music lovers of all genres.” In what it’s billing as “the ultimate St. Patty’s Day pre-party,” the promotion company will host the inaugural Otterfest today from 3 to 11 p.m. at the Sand Trap Grill & Bar in North Royalton. Billy Likes Soda, Electric Circus, Bad JuJu, Reckless Country, Rocked and Loaded,, Ladies Night Band and Big Don Band will perform, and DJ Alan from Resurrection Soul Club will spin funk, soul, British Mod and ska. Admission is free. (Niesel) 6824 Bunker Rd., North Royalton, facebook.com/otterentertainment. MUSIC
The Peacherine Ragtime Society Orchestra The Washington Post has praised the Peacherine Ragtime Society Orchestra as “the premier American ragtime ensemble.” Today at 3 p.m. at the Maltz Performing Arts Center at Case Western Reserve University,
the ensemble will provide live orchestration to the classic silent films Habeas Corpus, The Rink and One Week. Tickets range from $12 to $32. (Niesel) 1855 Ansel Rd., 216-368-6062, case.edu/maltzcenter. COMEDY
Gary Vider Soft-spoken comedian Gary Vider likes to brag that he’s never gotten into a fight because his quirky humor serves as a weapon. When a guy pushed him once at a bar, he quickly diffused the situation with a joke. The diminutive Vider, who made it to the finals of Season 10 of America’s Got Talent, relies on quick-witted one-liners in his routines too. Expect him to deliver them with ease when he performs tonight at 7 at Hilarities. Tickets cost $13 and $18. (Niesel) 2035 East Fourth St., 216-241-7425, pickwickandfrolic.com.
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Movie Mondays Every Monday, Cleveland Cinemas hosts $5 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 and Tower City Cinemas. Unfortunately, additional charges
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Shit Show Karaoke Local rapper/promoter Dirty Jones and Scene’s own Manny Wallace host Shit Show Karaoke, a weekly event at the B-Side Liquor Lounge wherein patrons choose from “an unlimited selection of jams from hip-hop to hard rock,” and are encouraged to “be as bad as you want.” Fueled by drink and shot specials, it all goes down tonight at 10 p.m. (Niesel) 2785 Euclid Heights Blvd., Cleveland Heights, 216-932-1966, bsideliquorlounge.com.
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See America’s favorite carpenter Ty Pennington, from TLC’s Trading Spaces on Sat.!
Cunningham This film recreates works by the famous American dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham as a way of paying tribute to his artistic genius. The film also features archival footage of Cunningham working with composer John Cage and artist Robert Rauschenberg. It screens at 1:45 p.m. today at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tickets cost $10, or $7 for CMA members. (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.
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St. Patrick’s Day Parade The first Cleveland St. Patrick’s Day parade reportedly took place in 1867. In the early years, the parade marched through the near-westside (from the Flats to Detroit-Shoreway), where the region’s Irish immigrants were concentrated. The songs and dancing were organized by the Order of the Hibernians. Back in 1910, Ohio senator Dan Mooney introduced a bill which recognized St. Patrick’s Day in Ohio, turning the parade into a true tradition. Today’s parade launches at 1:04 p.m. at the intersection of Superior Avenue and East 18th Street and will end at Rockwell Avenue and Ontario Street. Expect downtown bars to be jammed after it’s over. The parade route and more are on the website. (Niesel) stpatricksdaycleveland.com.
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STAGE DANCE FEVER Young teen girls dance for their lives at Dobama Theatre by Christine Howey PRACTICALLY NOBODY WANTS to relive their pre-teen and early teen years, especially girls. It is a time when young females are about to blossom into womanhood, carrying with them all the insecurities and misunderstandings of childhood. In short, it’s a time of life that vaguely resembles a Hieronymus Bosch painting, full of earthly delights and gruesome fears, all smushed together so confusingly it’s hard to tell one from the other. That is the cultural and personal neighborhood that playwright Clare Barron investigates in Dance Nation, now at Dobama Theatre. And her canvas for this portrait of prepubescent female joy and misery is the world of dance competitions for 12- to 13-year-old girls. It is a very particular hellscape and the same territory that has been well trod by the TV show Dance Moms. Like that reality show, in this play there are a couple of overbearing stage moms and a domineering jackass dance coach named Pat (played respectively by Carolyn Demanelis and Tom Woodward). But the focus is on this troupe of seven girls and one boy, who are working on their dance moves in a studio in Liverpool, Ohio, hoping they can compete their way to the Nationals in Tampa, Florida. The piece they are rehearsing is “acro-lyrical” dance which, for the uninitiated, is a combination of traditional hoofing and acrobatics. And as if that isn’t enough of a stretch for these kids, the dance is a tribute to Mahatma Gandhi, which is simultaneously pathetic and hilarious. But the teens are completely serious about this, of course, and immediately there are tensions around which girl might nab that starring role. Turns out, Coach Pat splits the choice part of Gandhi, with one girl playing Gandhi himself and another the “spirit of Gandhi.” That decision triggers plenty of angst as the dancers battle their interior demons and each other for a share of the spotlight. In the script, the playwright specifies that the eight teens should be played mostly by adults who have no particular dancing skills. One reason
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The teen years are depicted through the lens of dance in Dobama’s Dance Nation.
for using adults is that the script is loaded with graphic visuals and candid references to bodily functions, sexual fantasies and body parts (did I mention the “Perfect Pussy” group rant?) that inhabit young minds.
Michalak’s equally unfussy scenic design, utilizing a series of ballet barres at different heights to provide perches for the actors. But as the almost two-hour-long one-act proceeds, and as we watch
DANCE NATION THROUGH MARCH 29 AT DOBAMA THEATRE 2340 LEE RD., CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, 216-932-3396 DOBAMA.ORG
There’s some rough, even feral, stuff in here and while teen actors could probably handle it, it’s clear some members of the audience might not. As far as the lack of dancing skills, the idea is to capture that awkward stage of physicality that goes a long way to inform how middle-school girls experience the world and their own emerging autonomy. In this production, directed with admirable unfussiness by Shannon Sindelar, there are moments that dazzle you with their brilliance. It is played out on Cameron Caley
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the teens both enact moments in real time and then reflect on those moments as adults, the structure of the play devolves into mild confusion. Since many of the scenes are crafted to work as discrete elements, this undercuts the emotional impact of the work as a whole. But oh my, some of those separate elements are certainly galvanizing. In this hoofing group there is one acknowledged star, Amina (Corlesia Smith), who has a level of dancing polish that the others can’t approach. Her primary competitor is Zuzu
(Delee Cooper), who is beset by her interfering mother on one hand and her own crippling lack of confidence on the other. Smith and Cooper both move well, almost too well for the purposes of this play. While Smith brings a nicely conflicted sense to the always successful Amina (“Please let me lose!” she cries at one point), Cooper struggles a bit to keep her narrative sections engaging and cohesive. One of the most dazzling passages in the production is when Mariama Whyte as Ashlee launches a monologue that is so beautifully fragmented it stands alone as a testament of teenage girlhood. Ranging from rhapsodizing about her “epic ass” and great tits to a rant about how students should stop complaining about how hard math is (“It’s easy, just study!”), Whyte nearly brings down the house. Playing counterpoint to that intensity is Anne McEvoy as goofy, out-of-step Maeve. While McEvoy is a couple decades (ahem) removed from being a 13-year-old, she perfectly embodies that youthful angst, running to fetch a hair clip she forgot while Coach Pat taps his foot impatiently. And her recollection of the magical feeling she once had of being able to “fly” is lovely. Calista Zajac, who is closest in age to the characters in this show, is also excellent as Sofia, dealing with her character’s unfortunately-timed onset of menstruation. Avani Hamilton as Connie and Wesley Allen as Luke round out the hard-working cast. Even given the loose assemblage of scenes and time lines, which can be off-putting, the heart of the piece is intact. The girls dance. They share their passions while sharing girlish rumors and confidences. They soar and they hurt. And that’s the early teen life we experience with them for a couple hours. Yeah, you’ll remember.
Christine Howey, former stage actor and director, is executive director of Literary Cleveland.
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MOVIES UNHOOKED Benh Zeitlin’s Wendy is gloomy retelling of Peter Pan By Sam Allard AFTER EIGHT YEARS, DIRECTOR Benh Zeitlin has followed up his wondrous Oscar-winning debut Beasts of the Southern Wild with a sophomore effort: Wendy, a much less wondrous film that nevertheless retains its Beast-ly vibe. It opens Friday in select area theaters. Zeitlin’s observant regional portraiture is reminiscent of the early work of director David Gordon Green, who looked to be a distinctive voice in American cinema with such gems as George Washington (2000) and All the Real Girls (2003) before he shifted course. He has lately taken over the Halloween franchise, and has shown promise there, but moviegoers must never forget 2011, in which Green helmed two of the worst comedies in the past quartercentury: Your Highness and The Sitter. Zeitlin’s magic-infused bayou in Beasts and rustic diner in Wendy are both full of the sensory details that bring places to life, here the American South. The opening 10 minutes of Wendy, in fact, which capture the buzz and intimacy of a ramshackle railway diner and the family who lives and works there,
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are among its best. By the way, Wendy is a retelling of Peter Pan, a story that seemingly gets new cinematic treatment every six to eight months. In Zeitlin’s version, Wendy and her twin brothers Douglas and James are children of a single mother. They’ve grown up at a diner and long for adventure. Instead of flying to Neverland with a magical visitor
who refuses to grow up, they hop aboard a magic train with an urchin who guides them to a mysterious island with a sentient maternal spirit. There, they play around for a while and encounter a few dangers. The movie unexpectedly becomes an origin story for Captain Hook. Overall, it’s a cross between Kings of Summer, Where the Wild Things Are and The Polar Express.
And despite its visual achievements — Zeitlin deserves credit for transporting an audience to a fully realized fantasyland without the use of gaudy CGI — the narrative limitations become oppressive. Substantial portions of the movie are just kids dashing though island foliage and so forth, and the familiar Peter Pan plot lines never quite cohere. It feels like it’s about six hours long. Moreover, Peter Pan is supposed to be an exuberant paean to youth, but this version is often extremely somber. In spite of the story’s weaknesses, Zeitlin remains an interesting cinematic talent. What’s quickly becoming a trademark is his ability to cast mesmerizing young actors. Beasts’ Quvenzhane Wallis is here succeeded by Devin France (in the titular role) and Yashua Mack (playing Peter). Both children, with their probing eyes, feral hair and abiding sense of mischief, light up the screen.
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SPOTLIGHT: PAAVO, LIFE IN FIVE COURSES ORIGINALLY, PAAVO, LIFE IN Five Courses, a film about event planner and chef Paavo Turtiainen, was supposed to document how several Finns left their native country and became successful. But when producer and director Hanna Hemilä began to interview and film Turtiainen, she realized she didn’t need the other subjects. Turtiainen’s story was compelling enough. Turtiainen, who worked in Europe on and off for 12 years as personal secretary and archivist for movie star Ingrid Bergman, lived on a Finnish farm before moving to Paris and Sweden with Bergman and her third husband, Swedish producer Lars Schmidt. Turtiainen would become Bergman’s trusted friend and confidante until her 1982 death. Turtiainen, who now lives in Cleveland but still commutes to New
York on occasion for catering gigs, will answer audience questions after a screening of the film that takes place at 3 p.m. on Sunday at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque. A dessert reception open to all ticket holders will follow the screening, the movie’s local theatrical premiere. “The producer/director is a friend of a friend of mine from Finland, and so we met, and the producer asked if I would be part of this film that showed how Finns had moved out of Finland felt about their move and their original country,” says Turtiainen, who left the country when he was 19. “I said I would be a part of it, and then I never heard about the other people who were supposed to be in the film, and it became a film about me. It was an interesting project for me. There are things [in the movie] that hurt and things you laugh at.”
Turtiainen says that working with Bergman and her husband, something that’s shown in the film, was a life-changing experience. “She had always been this mother figure almost,” he says of Bergman. “She became my second mother, and she was very protective. I had never built an archive, so I had to build it from scratch. She kept everything, and there was a huge amount of articles. The thing I remember from that, as well as from her husband’s archive, was that I thought how small I was, and that I couldn’t do anything like what she had done. It was so massive, the amount of work she had done. It was the same with Lars.” Because the movie is shown so infrequently in the United States, Turtiainen says he’s excited that the Cinematheque will screen it and give him the opportunity
to take questions from audience members. “The head of the Scandinavian Film Festival in Los Angeles wrote a wonderful note that people came to the movie to see Ingrid Bergman, but they left loving Paavo,” says Turtiainen, who comes off as a particularly kind and compassionate man in the movie. “In Oslo, where it was the opening feature at the European Documentary Film Festival, they called it the year’s feel-good movie. That’s a nice way of putting it. I just hope people like what they see and get some of the history of film. It’s a period which is gone, and it’s terrible that the era, which was so great, is forgotten.” — Jeff Niesel
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EAT BOUND FOR GLORY With a slim but tight menu and open fire cooking, Alea dazzles in Ohio City By Douglas Trattner THE DIVIDE BETWEEN GOOD chicken and great chicken is wide enough to pilot a yacht through. Good chicken is filling yet forgettable, but truly exceptional roast chicken has a way of making diners shift from indifferent picking to impassioned debate, literally redirecting the table talk in its direction. The chicken ($28) at Alea is such a dish. Like most things at this fearless new Ohio City restaurant, the entree is stripped down to bare essentials. Yogurt-marinated, roasted and grilled, the bone-in half bird sports a mahogany skin that gets ripped, stripped and devoured with Walking Dead-like intensity. Both the white and dark meat below are moist, lush and so deeply flavorful that any accompanying sauce would be an affront to the chicken. Instead, a punchy, citrusy and perfectly picked flat-leaf parsley salad serves as the piercing treble to the poultry’s thrumming bass. On one of the coldest, most bone-chilling nights of the year, we crossed the threshold into a small, sleek, stark space where we instantly were met with the sights, smells and warmth of an open fire. Alea is not the first Cleveland restaurant to employ a wood-burning cooking suite, but it is the only one to position that apparatus in the middle of the dining room. While it’s true that most foods taste better when cooked over an open flame, it’s also true that disaster can happen in the blink of an eye. Meaty East Coast oysters ($18) are grilled just long enough to pop the tops, warm the flesh and dissolve a sliver of lardo (cured fat), which melts into a bed of chopped oyster mushrooms below. Each salty, savory, smoky slurp is a triumph. It’s hard to top the gratification that comes from smearing roasted bone marrow ($14) onto thick slices of grilled bread. The kitchen yanks the split bones from the heat at precisely the right time, when the marrow is shimmering, wobbly and spreadable as opposed to liquefied and gone. Again, this is a time when a rustic parsley gremolata is essential to the success of the dish. Hamachi ($16), one of the few
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dishes to avoid the flames, is a stunner in looks and taste. Sliced thicker than most crudos, the rosy-rimmed fish offers a more compelling, toothsome texture. The buttery flesh is garnished with crisp shallot rings, pert capers and an egg yolk that, when popped, blends with the sherry vinaigrette to form a sauce. Sweet potato makes an unexpected though welcome appearance in the
chicken, of course, is amazing and ample enough for two. A fat bone-in heritage-breed pork chop ($28) comes off the wood grill with an alluring campfire aroma, sizzling crust and racy pink center. It’s set into a pool of silky-smooth celery root puree and joined on the plate by juicy roasted grapes, which are a revelation. Oceanfresh Spanish mackerel ($30) is seared until the skin is charred and buckling, and the boldly flavored filets
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form of an appetizer — or is it salad? — that pairs the honey-scented tuber with bracing yogurt, warm spices and crunchy, nutty toppers. Gnocchi lovers should not miss the malfatti ($15), delicate gnudi-like dumplings that get crisped up on the plancha before hitting the table. When there are just five entrees on the menu, there’s no room for duds. We haven’t come across one yet. That
a creamy shade of white. The warm fish is contrasted by a bright, cool and crisp shaved fennel slaw with golden raisins and pine nuts. You don’t necessarily come to a restaurant like Alea expecting great cocktails — the place really doesn’t even have a bar — but that’s precisely what you’ll get. The wine list is short but exceptional, with bottles plucked from some of the best
winemakers around the world, most of whom are doing so organically and biodynamically. What’s more, 20 of those labels are available as glass pours. We giddily drained bottles of a fruity, balanced Willamette Valley pinot noir from Ransom ($45) and a luscious, full-bodied Montepulciano d’Abruzzo from Strappelli ($70). Alea is one of those restaurants that sneak up on us, opened in an obscure building on a quiet block by an unfamiliar chef. But Athan Zarnas’ savvy is evidenced by the enthusiastic response to this highconcept eatery. Alea is not without its flaws. The 33-seat restaurant does not take reservations and has nowhere for hopeful diners to wait. (Might we suggest Jukebox?) Meals progress in their own sweet time, with dishes landing on the table when they are done. The small, stark space is rock-concert loud, a quality that should dissipate when the large front window can be raised. But despite those shortcomings, Alea is bound for glory.
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EAT EASY LIKE SUNDAY MORNING: 10 Cleveland brunches we love By Douglas Trattner BRUNCH IS A BIG DEAL FOR Clevelanders. Here’s our pick of 10 to check out. Dinerbar on Clifton 11801 Clifton Blvd., Lakewood, 216521-5003, dinerbaronclifton.com Loyal fans of the original Diner on Clifton, which operated for 17 years just 160 meters away from the new Dinerbar on Clifton, will quickly observe how much has changed. But they will also appreciate how much has stayed the same. They’re packing them in on weekends for brunch, thanks to full bar service and reliable breakfast fare served all day. Wellmade corned beef hash ($9.95) is delicious any time, especially when it features fat and salty chunks of meat, tender potatoes and sweet sauteed onions beneath a roof of over-easy eggs. The dish is joined by a handful of other egg dishes that can be
ordered clear up till close. Items such as French toast, pancakes and eggs Benedict are reserved for mornings and weekend brunch only. One of the brightest storylines at Dinerbar is the sweets program, overseen by pastry chef Annabella Andricks. A glass-fronted display case taunts guests with mile-high salted caramel cheesecakes, giant swirled Ho-Hos and rainbow-colored “funfetti” cakes fit for a unicorn Lucky’s Cafe 777 Starkweather Ave., 216-6227773, luckyscafe.com Perennial Best of Cleveland “Best Brunch” winner, Lucky’s Cafe cleans up annually thanks in large part to chef Heather Haviland’s heavenly cheddar-scallion biscuits with scrambled eggs and sausage gravy. Bleary-eyed diners also flock to this Tremont coffee house for honey-coated
granola, gingerbread waffles topped with maple-roasted apples, breakfast burritos stuffed with scrambled eggs, and the ever-famous Shipwreck, a dizzying mish-mosh of eggs, hash browns, bacon and cheddar. Hit up Lucky’s during the week for the same great food; there’s no rule that says brunch can only happen on weekends. Le Petit Triangle Cafe 1881 Fulton Rd., 216-2811881, lepetittriangle.com This little French-inspired spot is an Ohio City jewel, a hidden lair with a locals-only vibe that truly is “easy like Sunday morning.” Crepes, like the ham and d’Affinois, are always a great idea, but so too are fluffy omelets, sunny quiches and tangy lemon curd French toast. If you’re feeling more “unch” than “br,” dig into a salad Nicoise with salmon, egg, potato and olives or the roast chicken sandwich,
an airy croissant layered with meat, goat cheese and mango chutney. Black Pig 2801 Bridge Ave., 216-862– 7551, blackpigcle.com Brunch in Cleveland — heck, brunch anywhere — used to be an exercise in muted creativity: How many different dishes can we create from bacon, eggs, potatoes and bread? But then something magical happened: Chefs who couldn’t be bothered with the traditional began jumping in with two feet — chefs like Mike Nowak, who works the sweet-and-savory balance beam like an Olympic gold medalist. While still relaxed, Black Pig’s weekend brunch offers a level of competence not found at the corner diner. Not only do guests enjoy the benefit of a professional kitchen, but also the service staff that supports it. Come for the short
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rib hash with eggs and black garlic aioli, or the Black Pig Benedict, with pate-topped English muffin, eggs and Hollandaise, but stay for the relaxed efficiency of a well-run brunch. West Side Market Cafe 1979 West 25th St., 216-579-6800, westsidemarketcafe.com Most folks breeze right by this cafe en route to shopping at the West Side Market, but that’s foolish. For starters, there are Bloody Marys inside waiting for you. And second, the food is always reliable, consistent and affordable. One thin Lincoln nets a diner a square breakfast of two eggs any style, home fries and toast. For a couple of bucks more, grab the eggs Benedict or huevos rancheros, a Latin stack of tortillas, refried beans, fried eggs, queso fresco and ranchero sauce. If you’re in a hurry to head into the market, order the fried egg sandwich to go, a soft roll stuffed with a fried egg, spicy bacon and cheese. The doors open bright and early for those in search of the worm. Ohio Pie Co. 1315 1/2 Pearl Rd., Brunswick, 330-7414117, ohiopieco.com A thin-but-not-too-thin crust, subtly sweet sauce, edge-to-edge cheese, and square-cut round pie combine to form Ohio-style pie, christened and now
being dished up by the Ohio Pie Co. in Brunswick. Leftover pizza for breakfast is a trusty weekend remedy, but why settle for day-old when you can nab fresh pie early Saturday and Sunday mornings designed specifically for the occasion? Weekend mornings usher in a roster of brunch pies starring toppings like bacon, egg and potato on an “everything” bagel-seasoning-style crust with a cream cheese white sauce. Beachland Ballroom and Tavern 15711 Waterloo Rd., 216-3831124, beachlandballroom.com You know and love this eastside concert club for its unbridled devotion to hosting the world’s best musicians, but did you know that they also make a mean chilaquile? The come-as-you-are vibe and the live DJ combine to make this “rockin’ brunch” one of the illest, chillest in town. Start with a kicky chapula cocktail, a South-of-the-border eye-opener of tequila, orange juice and sour cherry, or any one of six different takes on the Bloody Mary. Those chilaquiles consist of crunchy tortilla chips topped with chicken (or beans), over-easy eggs and queso fresco. Potato latkes with lox and applesauce is a fun departure. People rightly adore the fried chicken and waffles, buttermilk biscuits and sausage gravy, and the sturdy corned beef hash and eggs.
Spice Kitchen + Bar 5800 Detroit Ave., 216-9619637, spicekitchenandbar.com Since Spice Kitchen was built on the practice of making the absolute most of local resources, it’s only natural that the menu thrives on the timeliest of options. And Sunday brunch is no different than the rest of the week at this Detroit-Shoreway gem. You’ll find winter greens during winter, and spring veggies when the calendar turns, and so on. Locally sourced chicken finds a home in a tasty fried sandwich version or as one half of the ubiquitous chicken and waffle offering which, while common enough elsewhere, is elevated to heavenly status by Spice’s crew. House-smoked salmon is paired with a Cleveland Bagel bagel, waffles are aplenty, and the dynamite pastry program translates to some of the best biscuits you’ll ever sink your teeth into. Fire Food & Drink 3220 Shaker Square, 216-9213473, firefoodanddrink.com You can’t mention brunch in this town without bringing up Fire, an ageless American bistro on Shaker Square. The stylish yet industrial dining room with views onto the square is a charming place to ease into the day, aided by warm service
and pitch-perfect food. The sticky buns here are the bomb, appearing on almost every table. Chef Doug Katz might have single-handedly launched the local shakshuka craze, with farm-fresh eggs poached in a harissa-scented tomato sauce. Fire’s eggs Benny is textbook, its shrimp and grits a revelation, and don’t get us started on those weightless lemon souffle pancakes. Astoria Cafe and Market 5417 Detroit Ave., 216-2660834, astoriacafemarket.com Sunday brunch at Astoria is every bit as pleasant as lunch on Tuesday and dinner on Thursday. Given the cafe and market’s Mediterranean bent, it’s no surprise to see the menu populated with items like Tortilla Espanola, the frittata-like pie fortified with potato and onion. Here, it’s capped with a poached egg and Hollandaise sauce because, why not? I’ve been absolutely obsessed with the gyro omelet ever since typing those two words, and I’m pretty certain that the duck confit hash and eggs is in my immediate future. If you haven’t yet popped into this sunny spot, we recommend you remedy that forthwith.
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N THE FINAL EP RELEASE of Kendall Street Company’s 2018 three-part record, RemoteVision n, we’re treated to a quirky opening track that evinces the best parts of this band at once: the self-effacing humor, the “in” jokes, the jazzy song structures, the borderline prog-rock bridges, the head-bobbing bass thumps. It’s all there. The song’s called “Laura, I’m Sorry About the Cobbler.” It’s kind of a long story. But it’s important. Ben “Peaches” Laderberg, lead guitar and vocals in the band, is driving the van as Kendall Street
Company tears across Louisiana to start their winter tour with CBDB. They’ll be at Beachland Tavern on Thursday. The guys pass him the phone so that he can get a few words into this interview with the jam band reporter up in Cleveland, and he really gets into it. “Let’s just do a little stream-ofconsciousness thing,” he says. “I’m driving the chariot right now with the peanut gallery in the back. I love my job, for the most part.” Then he starts telling me that “Laura, I’m Sorry About the Cobbler” comes out of a misunderstanding
between him and his girlfriend, Laura. After a Kendall gig at a cidery, Laderberg filled up a spare pillowcase with a whole bunch of apples. Back home, he suggested his girlfriend might want to make a nice cobbler with his haul. She asked him to pick up a cobbler pan, and “that didn’t really pan out, ha ha ha.” An argument ensued over the cobbler, although, as you can imagine, the argument was actually about broader communication dynamics and not just the cobbler. The band took this moment and wrote a song. It’s become a crowd favorite, enough so that people across
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MUSIC outside like five guys gathered together almost at random, given instruments and told to “make it sound funky and fun.” But that’s the basis of most good friendships in this world, right? Kendall Street Company lands in the scene by way of Charlottesville, Virginia, where the musicians matriculated at the University of Virginia. There, in the brickterraced neighborhoods of noble, old-town America, they honed their chops at house parties and latenight bar gigs. “There are always a lot of turning points in the formative years and throughout your career in music,” Roy says. “There are a lot of different points at which you sit back and say, ‘Wow,’ or you look forward thinking, ‘This is what I’m going to do.’” He mentions an early show that saw the band performing for around four hours, one of those marathon gigs that really demonstrated to the guys what
inclinations to stick with their musical commitment seemed more and more like the right decision. Laderberg played cornhole with the guys from Umphrey’s McGee, which also underscored how real this had become. You don’t just show up on the Lockn bill without a track record of good music and a fun-loving audience. The band took it all in, savoring their path on the road as professional musicians. The following year, the band put out the three-part RemoteVision, a conceptual undertaking that showed off their funkier sides. The three parts cover various moods and themes, and each EP was built out like the rungs of a haiku: five songs, then seven songs, then five songs again. To promote the music, the band released clever haiku on their social media channels. It was all of a piece, part of another chapter in the band’s history. Take “Two Legs, Two Feet,” on the first of the triptych, an angular groove that spins like a top on the airy weirdness of the band’s central conceit (“My car has two legs and two feet/only when it gets enough to eat”) before landing in a head-
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they were capable of. The obvious questions were arising as some of the older musicians were preparing to graduate: Should we continue with this? Where’s this going? The music guided the decision. You can hear this on the band’s first album, Earth Turns, a fine collection of funky riffs and chemistry that foreshadows a lot of the music they’d be making together in subsequent outings. Local shows became regional tours, which soon saw the band listed on heavyweight festival bills, like their 2017 debut Lockn performance. “That was a big moment,” Vanaman says. “I had never been to a music festival until we performed at Lockn. So, that was my first experience at one. It was eye-opening in all the best ways possible.” And it was a statement to themselves and to their audience. As they hung around the festival grounds, congratulating Bob Weir on a great set, passing by Keller Williams backstage, their earlier
cocked philosophical entreaty in the chorus (“Home is where I might be/Chicago or Idaho, surprise me”). Next up: two projects that balance the band’s sillier side and the more serious, indie-style songwriting that Smith has had in the works for a while. He references Wilco and Yo La Tengo as influences on the latter, a record that the band is still recording. For the former, Smith says it will be called The Nautical Aquatical, a looser, groovier spin on sea creatures (“Ernie the Eel,” for instance). They recorded those tunes at a studio in Miami to really get into the oceanic vibe. Both albums are due out this year. This is the fun side of music. It’s a party, and the guys in Kendall Street Company keep that truth front of mind each time they hit the stage. All smiles, big hearts. Plenty of cobbler.
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Three 6 Mafia brings its reunion tour to the Agora Theatre By Emanuel Wallace Photo courtesy of Dove Clark
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EMPHIS-BASED HIPhop group Three 6 Mafia initially made its bones through underground mixtapes but would soon find itself creating a sound and laying the groundwork for a style that would eventually be copied and cloned by many others as it rose to fame. Members of the group include Juicy J, Crunchy Black, Gangsta Boo, Koopsta Knicca, Lord Infamous and DJ Paul, and some of Three 6 Mafia’s biggest hits are “Stay Fly,” “Sippin on Some Sizzurp,” “Who Run It,” “Tear da Club Up 97” and “Ridin’ Spinners.” “To be honest with you, we was before our time,” DJ Paul says over the phone about the group’s ability to remain relevant for such a long period of time. “We were talking about drugs
and getting crunk and fighting in the club and crazy stuff that no one was talking about. So when we came out talking about it, we were so far ahead of our time that no record labels wanted to sign us. Radio stations didn’t want to play it and this and that.” Undeterred, the group decided to seek alternate ways to break into an industry that wasn’t yet quite receptive to hip-hop that wasn’t from New York or out on the West Coast. “We put our own money behind it,” he recalls. “We put up $4,500 and put the music out ourselves, and it blew up. We believed in it. It was so far ahead of its time and now it’s just catching onto the masses.” Three 6 Mafia has sold nearly six million albums to date. Two of their albums, When the Smoke
Clears: Sixty 6, Sixty 1 and Most Known Unknown, have been certified platinum. “We sold millions of records on our own, and now, the young kids done got ahold to it, and it’s brand new to them,” Paul says. “These young kids grew up with the more laid-back friendly rap that was going on in the mid-tolate 2000s. Now, they’re in their late teens and early twenties and starting to hear about the aggressive rap that we did. They’re going back to it like, ‘Holy crap. This is the fun stuff.’” And while the music is fun, DJ Paul understands that there’s a drug element that has a presence in the music as well. “Snap crackle pop rap was one thing, but this is hardcore, get high to it, get crunk and have fun in the club music,” he says. “That’s what it was made for, and
that’s what the kids are doing now. Drugs is the most popular thing in the world right now, with marijuana and things being legal. It was drug music and now it’s drug time in our society.” In the early stages of hip-hop in Memphis, there was only a handful of DJs making noise in the city. DJ Paul’s biggest influence was undoubtedly DJ Spanish Fly who, without being aware of it, was laying the blueprint for DJs who would also rap as well. “He was making the Gangsta Walk music,” Paul says about what drew him to Spanish Fly. “He had a song called ‘Gettin Away with the Medicine’ talking about getting away with selling drugs and things like that. Mostly, what attracted me to him more than everyone else was that he was a DJ who was | clevescene.com | March 11 - 17, 2020
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MUSIC rapping. DJs weren’t rappers back then; they were guys who played rap songs that rappers made. He would loop these rap instrumentals and throw a soul loop on top of something and rap over it.” The do-it-all-yourself approach that Spanish Fly had to creating music was not lost on DJ Paul. “He did this with no drum machine or nothing, just using a mixer and looping on cassette tape,” Paul continues. “He turned himself into a rapper without knowing he was. He just rapped for the fun of it, just to throw some extra excitement onto the mixtape and not knowing he was creating something major.” In 2006, DJ Paul, Juicy J and Frayser Boy were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song for ‘It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp’ from the film Hustle & Flow, which pitted them against songs from Crash and TransAmerica. Moments after they performed the song with
go back to the first Saw movie. The remake of Texas Chainsaw Massacre was good, and no one really does good remakes but they did a good job with that one. I liked the remake of Friday the 13th too.” When it comes to his horror flicks, DJ Paul likes to keep it as real as possible at all times. “As for fresh brand new, I can’t think of many because I don’t like that sci-fi shit,” Paul says. “I like a physical killer that can be hit in the head and shot at. I don’t like nothing where you stand in the house and a finger reaches out and touches you and when you turn around ain’t nothing there. Fuck that. I like something that can happen in real life or is based on a true story. Like Texas Chainsaw Massacre was based on the story of Ed Gein. I like stuff like that.” Untimely deaths have dwindled the size of the group (Lord Infamous passed in 2013 and Koopsta Knicca in 2015), but the remaining members of Three 6 Mafia have reunited and embarked on a tour. On Friday, that tour will make a stop at the Agora. DJ Paul feels that the best
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film star Taraji P. Henson, the group was announced as the winner of the award, making them the second hip-hop act to take home the Oscar. “Obviously winning the Oscar,” Paul points to as a career highlight. “Then, there was our first gold plaque for Chapter 2: World Domination with the ‘Tear Da Club Up’ single on it. There’s really too many to name, man. We’ve been around for 30 years — so many great accomplishments.” Speaking of films, much of the horror element in Three 6 Mafia’s music stems from the group’s fascination with movies from the genre, but DJ Paul feels like fans have been getting slighted as of late. “I don’t even remember the last horror movie that I saw that I liked,” Paul says. “They’ve been skipping out on us, man. I liked ‘Us,’ that was cool. It’s a couple more but I would have to go back some years. I would have to
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time for the reunion to happen is now. “The sound is so popular right now,” Paul says. “Everybody is remaking our music. It’s just the right time to do it. I clear like three or four samples a week from people remaking our songs and putting them in movies and commercials. The sound is on top right now.” Naturally, with a reunion, the question soon arises about new material. DJ Paul insists that it will happen, but there’s no timetable in place at the moment. “Just one step at a time,” Paul says. “We’ll start with the tour. We’re going to make some new music eventually but we’ll start with the tour. We’ll get everybody back in the same room together, hangin’ and kickin’ it, and we’ll see where it goes from there.”
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Steve Aoki/Timmy Trumpet/Riot Ten/Godlands/Global Dan: One of today’s most successful DJs, Steve Aoki has put up some impressive numbers during the course of his lengthy career. He’s amassed 2.6 billion music streams on Spotify, with an additional 355 million music streams on YouTube. As the founder of the trendsetting record label, events/lifestyle company, and apparel line Dim Mak Records, Aoki has helped launch the careers of global acts like the Chainsmokers, Bloc Party, the Bloody Beetroots, the Gossip, and the Kills, among many others. The label has issued more than 1,000 official releases. The current tour supports his forthcoming album, Neon Future IV. (Jeff Niesel) 7 p.m. Agora Theatre. BBNO$/Lentra: 8:30 p.m. Grog Shop. Bluewater Kings: 8 p.m., free. Music Box Supper Club. Consider the Source/C-Level: 8:30 p.m., $10 ADV $12 DOS. Beachland Tavern. Contribution Vol. 2 Premiere Screening and Media Mixer: Two years ago, local musician Paul Francis composed and recorded 100 audio tracks that he hoped local filmmakers will use for their soundtracks. The project was successful, and Francis just wrapped up a second project. He’ll host a premiere screening at Mahall’s tonight and then release everything to the public shortly after. The event starts at 8 p.m., and admission is free. (Niesel) Mahall’s 20 Lanes. Squirrel Nut Zippers/Cats on Holiday Duo: 8 p.m., $30 ADV, $35 DOS. Beachland Ballroom. Waves De Ache: 7 p.m., $15. Bop Stop.
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Steve Aoki brings his world tour to the Agora. See: Wednesday.
Adam Green/Nation of Language/ Joey Sprinkles: 8:30 p.m., $12 ADV, $15 DOS. Mahall’s 20 Lanes. GRLWood/Partner/Wattever: 8 p.m., $8. CODA. Monika Herzig’s SHEROES: 7 p.m., $20. Bop Stop. Ms. Lauryn Hill/Seinabo Sey: 9 p.m., $68.50-$116. MGM Northfield Park. Joe Hunter & Pete Cavano: 8 p.m., $15. Nighttown. Christone “Kingfish” Ingram: 8 p.m., $20. The Kent Stage. Kendall Street Company/CBDB: 8 p.m., $10 ADV, $15 DOS. Beachland Ballroom. Jordan Reyes/ME: You/Hot Take/ Anthropol: 8 p.m., $6. Now That’s Class.
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records with Styx. But he still plays the band’s music as Dennis DeYoung and the Music of Styx. Tonight, he brings a tour to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the group’s 1977 effort, The Grand Illusion, to town. The album features the hugely popular singles “Come Sail Away” and “You’re Fooling Yourself.” In addition to playing the album in its entirety, DeYoung will play the band’s other big hits as well. (Niesel) 8 p.m., $37.50-$75. MGM Northfield Park. Double Doubtfire/HMMR/Boiled Men/Oongow/Nora & Company Irish Dancing: 9 p.m., $15. Now That’s Class. Get It Done Showcase Competition Featuring Bae Bae Savo: 10:30 p.m., $10. Grog Shop. Laraaji/Andrew Elaban/Gerycz/ Powers/Rolin Trio: 9 p.m., $15 ADV, $20 DOS. Mahall’s 20 Lanes. Ross Livermore/Collin Miller: 8 p.m., $8. CODA. Mod Sun: 8 p.m., $22.50 ADV, $25 DOS. House of Blues. NEFFEX: 7 p.m., $15 ADV, $20
DOS. House of Blues Cambridge Room. Parlor Walls/Obnox/Mister Mischievous: 9 p.m., $6. Happy Dog. Caroline Rose/Good Baby: 8:30 p.m., $15 ADV, $18 DOS. Beachland Tavern. Rumpke Mountain Boys/JP & the Chatfield Boys: 8:30 p.m., $13 ADV, $15 DOS. Beachland Ballroom. Gerald Skillern/David Thomas Trio: 8:30 p.m., $15. Nighttown. Three 6 Mafia: 7 p.m. Agora Theatre. Jackie Warren: 10:30 p.m., free. Nighttown.
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the band will perform tonight at the Beachland Ballroom. Founder Robert Kidney has recorded and toured with Anton Fier and his Golden Palominos. He and his brother Jack have toured Holland twice and played in London. The entire band went to London to perform at the Royal Festival Hall in 2000. At tonight’s show, ticket holders will have exclusive opportunity to purchase the new Numbers Band release, Endure: Outliers on Water Street. The release date of the album is still to be determined. (Niesel) 8 p.m., $10. Beachland Ballroom. The Boys from the County Hell: 7:30 p.m., $13 ADV, $15 DOS. Grog Shop. Robert Cray: Veteran bluesman Robert Cray and drummer/producer Steve Jordan (Eric Clapton, Rolling Stones, John Mayer) have done a slew of albums together over the years going back to Take Your Shoes Off, which was released in 1999 and snagged a Grammy Award for the best contemporary blues album the following year. For nearly 20 years, Cray and Jordan have continued to collaborate, most recently on Cray’s 2014 album, In My Soul. When it came time to think about the next album, Jordan had an idea. He suggested that Cray should come to Memphis to record at Royal Studios, employing the services of the house band, the Hi Rhythm Section. What came out of the experience was something that Jordan termed “a soul, rhythm and blues fantasy camp,” something that Cray himself couldn’t argue. The resulting album, Robert Cray and Hi Rhythm, came out in 2017, and Cray just released That’s What I Heard earlier this year. (Matt Wardlaw) 8 p.m., $40-$50. The Kent Stage. De Rodillas/Pine Taar/Rat Fucker/ Kratom/Scum Guppies/DJ ToothPac Shakur: 9 p.m., $5. Now That’s Class. Evolution (in the Neon Room): 8 p.m., $15-$20. MGM Northfield Park. Lupe Fiasco: 7 p.m. Agora Theatre. Tim Lekan Plays Cole Porter Featuring Celine Opdycke: 8:30 p.m., $14. Nighttown. Motown and More with Nitebridge (in the Supper Club): 8 p.m. Music Box Supper Club. Mr. Speed/Theatre of Crue: 8 p.m., $15 ADV, $18 DOS. House of Blues. Diego Rivera Quartet: 8 p.m., $15.
Bop Stop. Tooth Lures a Fang/Bonnie Clydeman/Kid Tested: 9 p.m., $6. Happy Dog. The Underground Youth/Lorelle Meets the Obsolete/Ma Holos: 8:30 p.m., $13 ADV, $15 DOS. Mahall’s 20 Lanes. Jackie Warren: 10:30 p.m., free. Nighttown. Window Dogs/The Labra Brothers/ Shawn Brewster: 8 p.m., $8. CODA.
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Antoine Dunn: 7 p.m., $30-$37. Allen Theatre. Homewrecker/Sanguisabogg/ Subtype Zero/Cue Ball: 8 p.m., $12. Now That’s Class. Lectularius/Tartarus Horde/ Noxis: 3 p.m., $5. Now That’s Class. Pipeline Hosted by Sam Rothstein: 9 p.m., $10. Grog Shop. Prince Ish Presents: 7 p.m., $12. Bop Stop. R the Czar: 8 p.m., $10 ADV, $15 DOS. Beachland Tavern. Robert Lockwood Jr. 105th Birthday Memorial With Robert Lockwood Jr. All Stars/The Gene Schwartz Trio/Crazy Marvin Braxton/Robert Frank and Friends: 7 p.m., free. Beachland Ballroom. Devin Townsend/Haken/the Contortionist: 7 p.m., $27 ADV, $32 DOS. House of Blues.
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Disney @ Nighttown – Baldwin Wallace Musical Theater: 7 p.m., $10. Nighttown. Kat Edmonson: 7:30 p.m. Music Box Supper Club. The Wonder Years/Free Throw/ Spanish Love Songs/Pool Kids: 7 p.m., $23.75 ADV, $26 DOS. House of Blues.
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Dragonforce/Unleash the Archers/ Visions of Atlantis/HellandBack/ Atomic Witch: 5:30 p.m. Agora Theatre. Outlab: Experiments In Improvised Music.: 9 p.m., free. Bop Stop. St. Patrick’s Day with The New Barleycorn: 1 p.m., $25. Nighttown.
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(saxophone) A PASTORâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SON: Local saxophonist
Nathan-Paul originally sang in a third-grade choir in his elementary school. After his father, a pastor, got him a saxophone, he found it was â&#x20AC;&#x153;immediately easyâ&#x20AC;? to play the instrument because he had learned to play recorder in school and those skills transferred to the sax. InďŹ&#x201A;uenced by Charlie Parker, Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Louis Armstrong, he began playing music as a way of honoring his father. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My music career has evolved over the time, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really just a testament to my relationship with my father,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One of the biggest thing we connected on was music. He loved music and passed his love of music on to me. I wanted to make him proud, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the basics there. People donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t understand. This is really a reďŹ&#x201A;ection of my and my fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s relationship more than anything.â&#x20AC;?
was made. It was a cold, random email from a stranger.â&#x20AC;? WHERE YOU CAN HEAR HIM: facebook.com/
nathanpaulmusic, instagram.com/ nathanpaulmusic, ropeadope.com/ artists#/nathan-paul WHY YOU SHOULD HEAR HIM: Originally
AN ADMIRABLE EFFORT: A few years ago
when local soul singer Wesley Bright threw himself a birthday party, he requested Nathan-Paul perform at the event. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He wanted it to be a show, so he wanted us to create a band just for the event,â&#x20AC;? says Nathan-Paul. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We came up with the group name and everything. We were looking for synonyms for â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;charmingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;admirable qualities.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Admirablesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; came about. We never intended to keep it going, but someone said it was something special. We decided to try it, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re still a band even though itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s changed a lot. The only constant is myself and the bass player.â&#x20AC;? NOW WITH NATIONAL DISTRIBUTION:
Nathan-Paul recently inked a deal with the nationally distributed Ropeadope Records to release â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Shakedown,â&#x20AC;? his ďŹ rst single for the label. That song came out earlier this year, and a three-song EP mixed and mastered locally by Jeff Koval and engineered by Jim Stewart followed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I sent them an email and I forgot I sent them an email,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just what you do. I sent [label owner] Louis [Marks] a private Soundcloud link. I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t expect a response. In a month later, he responded. We talked and the deal
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a song he wrote for the Admirables, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Shakedownâ&#x20AC;? features a stirring sax riff and has a terriďŹ cally funky vibe. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I write a lot,â&#x20AC;? says Nathan-Paul when asked about the track. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I write all the time. Some people have their hobbies. Some people like to drink wine, but I write music. It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to be for anything. I just write music for fun. I was writing a lot and I took a nap thinking I should write a song. I just heard the song in my head. It was already there. I thought, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Oh my gosh. Wow.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; I just wrote it down. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t write songs off emotional things. I just sit down and start messing around. To me, everything is a song.â&#x20AC;? For the upcoming release parties, Nathan-Paul has assembled a â&#x20AC;&#x153;new squadâ&#x20AC;? of local players to back him up. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll record the shows for a â&#x20AC;&#x153;bootlegâ&#x20AC;? album heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll issue later this year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a superstar group,â&#x20AC;? he says of the backing band. WHERE YOU CAN SEE HIM: Nathan-Paul
performs at 8 p.m. on Friday, March 13, at Blu Jazz+ in Akron, and at 8 p.m. on Friday, March 20, at the Bop Stop
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HIS JULY, CLEVELAND Scene will turn 50 years old, and in advance of the occasion, we’ve decided to dig into the archives on a weekly basis to republish something that appeared in the paper on that date (or thereabouts) during Scene’s first decade. This interview with Roxy Music’s Phil Manzanera by Cliff Michalski appeared in the issue that came out on March 13, 1975. It featured the headline, “Finding Roxy through an ad: Phil Manzanera discusses his role in Roxy Music.”
*** When the progressive rock music which has come out of England in this decade is considered, one of its most popular figures, as well as major influences, has been Roxy Music. When they first appeared on the scene in mid-1972, their image was quickly identified with the glitter/glam extremes of the period, but their music proved to be something more unique than that. Crossing influences from the 50s rhythm and blues and 60s bands such as the Doors and the Velvet Underground, they added some of the most sophisticated electronic devices available to mold a group sound outside of any existing category. A year later, after the departure of Eno, Roxy decided to move away from music dominated by experimentation and ideaplaying and into the realm of conventional songs and melodies. Their STRANDED and COUNTRY LIFE albums reflected this change, and both records succeeded in further increasing their followings both here and overseas, particularly in the Cleveland area. Three recent sold-out concerts by Roxy in this area confirm the presence of this following, and sales of their albums here are [strong]. Bryan Ferry, the band’s lead vocalist and primary influence, has become prominent in the new breed of style-conscious, aloof rock stars spawned by David Bowie. Ferry and the other members of Roxy, through solo albums and numerous guest appearances on other people’s records, are also influencing 70s rock in ways beyond the group’s music alone. In an attempt to get a different look at Roxy, SCENE talked to guitarist Phil Manzanera
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about his role in the band’s development and some independent musical projects of his own. After a 20-minute rave about the merits of the old Spirit, the interview began. SCENE — How did you join Roxy Music? MANZANERA — Well, in 1971. I was in a group called Quiet Sun, and I started to look around for a bettergig. Roxy had just sacked their first guitarist, David O’List (formerly of The Nice), and I answered an ad in MELODY MAKER they ran. Bryan (Ferry) and Andy (Mackay) played some tapes of their music for me, which I liked, and then they auditioned me and I joined. SCENE — Was the band expecting the popularity they got in England at first? MANZANERA — No, it was totally surprising. I mean, it was like Christmas every day for us. It seemed to have been a situation of being in the right place at the right time. The British rock press latched onto our image and costumes; we were very photographic. I’m sure that helped. SCENE — How do you feel the band has evolved through their recording career; what do you think Roxy is doing differently now? MANZANERA — Roxy began with all these people with very different tastes in music, there were really too many ideas at first, and not enough technical knowledge about music and recording. Our first record was an experiment with ideas and sound, and the second expanded on a few of those ideas a bit. With STRANDED, we started getting away from playing sounds and more into song structures, and COUNTRY LIFE further expanded on this. Our next record will [be] different. SCENE — How democratic do you feel Roxy is in its operation? MANZANERA — I think it’s democratic to an extent, but there are also times when one person’s decision is needed. We all basically agree on the structure and form of the band’s material. Since STRANDED, there’s been more of an effort to include material from the other group members [besides Ferry’s]. COUNTRY LIFE is, in a sense, our first group album. Eddie Jobson
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made more of a contribution on it, as well as the songs by Andy and me. SCENE — How do you feel the solo projects by group members affect the band? MANZANERA — I think it’s a healthy state of affairs. The restrictions imposed on you as a member of the band can be dispensed with, and types of music you enjoy which might not fit-into the group’s style can be recorded. Everyone also brings the technical and musical knowledge they acquire through solo work back into Roxy, improving the quality of the group work. SCENE — Do you have a solo album planned? MANZANERA — Yes, I’ve just completed one. They’re mostly songs I’d written a few years ago. There’s nine tracks on it, five with vocals. I used different singers on each one. It’s electronic in some respects, but different from the style of Eno, or Roxy’s style. I’m very pleased with it. SCENE — Who are the backing musicians on it? MANZANERA — I used Andy, Eddie and Paul (Thompson) from the band, as well as Eno and John Wetton [ex- King Crimson — ed.]. It’s due to be released in the States in April. I did another Lp around last Christmas; I was working like an idiot at the time. It contains instrumental, experimental things, music of the type I played with my old-time group. It’s supposed to be released on a lower-priced, experimental label in England. SCENE — How did you end up working with John Cale on his FEAR album? MANZANERA — I got a phone call from an A&R man at his record company who had heard that I was interested in [becoming] the album’s executive producer, helping get the backing musicians together and booking rehearsal time for the group. I helped him get a rougher style of production than he’d had on his previous records, a style which would better suit his music. I think John’s beginning to mature incredibly in his music; I think he’ll show a lot of people that Lou Reed wasn’t the only significant musician from the Velvet Underground.
SCENE — Getting back to Roxy Music, how is the band being received on this tour? MANZANERA — Quite well for the most part. This is our first major tour as a headline act over here; one last year was quite short. We’re playing a number of cities for the first time, sticking to smaller halls. SCENE — Does any other area in the U.S. compare with this one for the popularity of the band? MANZANERA — No, I think Cleveland is our best area at the moment. Detroit and Philadelphia are also good. Some places, such as San Francisco, aren’t really ready for us yet. Our first record company [Warner Bros. — ed.] gave us an image as a glitter rock group, and we’re still trying to overcome this in some areas. SCENE — It seems to me that Roxy’s last two albums were planned out more in advance of the recording Was this true? MANZANERA — None of our Lps have been really planned out to any extent. Everyone comes in a few days before the recording time and begins to work on the songs then. The music is always put together first, then Bryan takes the tapes and writes lyrics for them. SCENE — How were Bryan Ferry’s solo concerts in England received? MANZANERA — Very well. He had an orchestra backing him, and all of the material played came from his solo albums, the oldies but goodies. I played guitar [on] them. SCENE — There were reports here to the effect that if Ferry felt his solo concerts went well, he might leave Roxy Music. Would you care to comment on this? MANZANERA — All I can say is it’s a fact that we have concerts and studio time booked until the end of the year. In the beginning, there were some personality clashes within the band, but I feel that we’ve achieved a good working relationship now.
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SAVAGE LOVE BROWNIE POINTS by Dan Savage I’m a cis bi woman, and I mainly have sex with people with penises. I have a really gross problem, sorry. It’s been an issue for as long as I’ve been sexually active — but in the past few years, it seems to have gotten worse. If I am being penetrated vaginally, especially if it’s vigorous (which I prefer), and I orgasm, sometimes I poop accidentally. If I try to clench up to keep this from happening, it doesn’t work and I can’t orgasm. This used to happen once in a blue moon, only with particularly intense orgasms, but now it happens more frequently. One person I’ve been seeing really likes anal, and that makes the problem even worse. To be clear: I have no desire for poop in my sex life. It’s gross, it’s embarrassing, and my partners do not enjoy it. Nor do I. I’ve tried going to the bathroom before sex, but I can never seem to fully empty out. I even went to a doctor to talk about it, but all I got was a big shrug and no useful suggestions. I’ve looked online and found discussions of this happening to other people and them being understandably horrified, but nobody mentions it being a regular occurrence. This really sucks! Do you have any suggestions? Other than “give up sex completely,” which I would prefer not to do. — Necessary Objective: Soothe Her Intestinal Tract “I’ve absolutely heard of this before, and as NOSHIT already knows from internet searches, she’s not alone and needs help,” said Dr. Debby Herbenick. “And a ‘big shrug’ doesn’t sound like a helpful response from a physician who you’re asking for help in figuring out a complicated and extremely under-researched and therefore tricky sexual issue.” Dr. Herbenick is a professor at the Indiana University School of Public Health and author of Because It Feels Good: A Woman’s Guide to Sexual Pleasure and Satisfaction and numerous other books. And what you’re going to need, according to Dr. Herbenick, is a doctor who’s actually prepared to help you. So that awkward conversation you had with your last doctor? A conversation you no doubt dreaded having?
You’re going to have to have that conversation again, NOSHIT, maybe more than once, with other doctors. I know, I know: Talking with your doctor about a sexual issue — particularly a messy one — is difficult. And when we finally work up the nerve to speak with a doctor about something like this and that doctor isn’t helpful, our understandable desire to avoid having that conversation ever again can lead us to conclude that talking to doctors is a waste of time. But it isn’t, so long as you’re talking to the right doctor. “The letter writer should ask her health-care provider for a referral to an urogynecologist,” said Dr. Herbenick, “especially one who likes to get to the bottom (no pun intended) of challenging cases.” If this happens to you at other times — if you poop yourself when you fart or sneeze — be sure to share that information with the specialist. “There are lots of tests that health-care providers can use to examine her rectal function,” said Dr. Herbenick. “These tests can include a digital rectal exam, a sigmoidoscopy (insertion of a tiny tube with a camera to look for issues such as inflammation), an X-ray, an anal ultrasound, a colonoscopy, or other tests. In other words, there are things other than a big and completely useless shrug that can be done. And depending on what they find, they may suggest biofeedback, surgery, physical therapy/pelvic-floor exercises, supplements, and so on.” But with all that said, NOSHIT, doctors aren’t all-powerful, and some problems can only be managed and not solved. “The fact is, our bodies don’t last forever in the ways we want them to,” said Dr. Herbenick. “And some research does point toward more frequent anal intercourse being associated with fecal incontinence.” (Aging, childbirth, and hormone-replacement therapy are very strongly associated with fecal incontinence.) Only a small percentage of women who regularly engaged in anal intercourse reported higher levels of fecal incontinence, NOSHIT,
so if this isn’t a problem for you generally — if this is only a problem during sex due to some tragically star-crossed neural wiring — you might want to steal a move from the squeaky clean gay bottoms out there. Instead of just “going to the bathroom” before sex and hoping you’re empty, treat yourself to an anal douche to make sure you’re empty. (Alexander Cheves wrote a great guide for receptive anal intercourse, “17 Tips for Happier, Healthier Bottoming,” for Out. Google it.) “But finding a health-care provider who’s willing to listen to what’s important to her in her sex life is the first step,” said Dr. Herbenick. “A sex-positive health-care provider — probably a urogynecologist or a proctologist — who’s willing to hear her out can help her figure out some good ways forward. It’s about listening to what quality of life means to her. That seems to include an active, pleasurable sex life involving vaginal and/or anal sex with orgasm, and without pooping, or at least not nearly so often.” Follow Dr. Herbenick on Twitter @DebbyHerbenick.
*** I’m a 32-year-old woman married to a 45-year-old man. We’ve been together for 10 years. At the beginning of our relationship, I told him smoking was a deal breaker for me because he was a former smoker. Well, the asshole started smoking again this year. I’m pissed about this, and it has affected my desire for him. This is complicated further by the fact that for most of our relationship, we’ve had very mismatched libidos, with mine being much higher. He has always said that I could get my needs met elsewhere, as sex just wasn’t that important to him. Well, last year I started exploring extramarital relationships, and now I have a boyfriend that I’m eager to fuck. Can you guess who is now interested in fucking me? My husband, Mr. Sex Isn’t Important. Turns out, he’s very into fucking me after I’ve fucked another dude. But I only want so much sex, and
I don’t want to fuck a smoker. I feel obligated to have sex with my husband, though. My question is, am I? He didn’t feel obligated to have sex with me more than once a month for nine years, which made me feel shitty and undesirable. (Also, we have kids. Hence the marriage and why I’m not going to leave.) — Seriously Hate Ash Mouth You aren’t obligated to have sex with your husband — you aren’t obligated to have sex with anyone, ever. But I assume you don’t want to be left any more than you want to leave, SHAM. And if you refuse to fuck your husband because he broke the deal you made a decade ago — and because you’re pissed about nine years of sexual neglect (legit grounds) — he might decide to leave you. So while you don’t have to fuck this ash-hole, you might want to fuck this ash-hole. But until he quits smoking, you could reasonably refuse to kiss him or sleep in the same room with him. (Smokers don’t realize how bad it smells — how bad they smell — and just how thoroughly they can stink up a room, even one they never light up in.) One followup question: Did your husband always know this about himself — did he know he was turned on by the thought of you being with other dudes — or did he realize it only after you started fucking this other dude? If he knew it all along, and his encouragement to get your “needs met elsewhere” was a dishonest and manipulative attempt to force his kink on you, SHAM, you have even more right to be pissed. But if he realized this turned him on only after you started fucking other dudes — if he was as surprised by how you getting a boyfriend uncorked his libido as you were both surprised and annoyed by it — you might want to forgive him.
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