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Editor Vince Grzegorek

Infamous Amherst couple indicted, Cleveland City Council talks $15/hour minimum wage, and more

Editorial Managing Editor Eric Sandy Music Editor Jeff Niesel Staff Writer Sam Allard Writer-at-large Kyle Swenson Web Editor Bliss Davis Dining Editor Douglas Trattner Contributing Dining Editor Nikki Delamotte Stage Editor Christine Howey Visual Arts Editor Josh Usmani

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A sampling of our favorite photos from this past week

Advertising Senior Multimedia Account Executive John Crobar, Shayne Rose Multimedia Account Executive Kiara Hunter-Davis

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Creative Services Production Manager Steve Miluch Layout Editor/Graphic Designer Christine Hahn Staff Photographer Emanuel Wallace

Inside Mark Mothersbaugh’s magical world of mutants, monsters and mongoloids

Business Asst. To The Publisher Angela Lott Sales Assistant/Receptionist Megan Stimac

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UPFRONT AMHERST COUPLE INDICTED IN SCHOOL DISTRICT THEFT SCHEME

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AN AMHERST COUPLE WAS arrested May 13 in connection with a deep fraud scheme based out of the Amherst Exempted Village School District, where their own child is enrolled.

Jaleh S. Saghafi, 47, and Phillip S. Presutto, 44, were indicted last week on fraud, tampering with records and theft charges stemming from a long-running reimbursement plot that pulled in tens of thousands of dollars from the school district. According to Amherst police, Saghafi and Presutto generated invoices seeking reimbursement from the school district for tutoring services for their child, which the district had agreed to pay.

The services were not used in the manner that the couple had initially stated, an investigation revealed.

The parents’ child was supposed to spend half of each school day receiving specialized tutoring through the Cleveland Clinic Center of Autism. As time went on, the child’s learning skills were not improving; the Clinic began to ask questions, and soon learned that the parents had been sending fake invoices to the school district and keeping the reimbursement money.

Several tutors involved with the situation were never paid.

Police believe this plan had been in action since 2011, adding up to “between $30,000 and $60,000” of district cash, according to one source with whom Scene spoke.

The couple’s names might seem familiar to Scene readers; last year we published a longform investigation of their involvement in multiple civil and criminal cases, including allegations that they had kidnapped Jaleh’s mother and siphoned thousands of dollars from her personal bank accounts.

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CITY COUNCIL INTRODUCES $15/HOUR MINIMUM WAGE LEGISLATION Cleveland City Council introduced an ordinance May 16 that would hike the minimum wage in the city to $15 per hour. The legislation will be discussed in committee meetings over the next few weeks.

The move comes after thousands of signatures were gathered by Raise Up Cleveland, an advocacy group backed by the Service Employees International Union. Supporters brought in 28,782 signatures from voters in support of an ordinance from council. 11,900 were valid; only 5,000 valid signatures were required.

If the ordinance is ultimately approved, the minimum wage would be increased on Jan. 1, 2017. (The minimum wage in Cleveland is currently $8.10.)

Council also has the option of rejecting the ordinance or adopting it in a different form. “If the

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petitioners are not satisfied with council’s legislation, they can require the original legislative proposal to be put to a vote of the public,” according to a statement from council.

“The ultimate question is coming right here to 601 Lakeside,” Councilman Jeff Johnson said during the May 9 council meeting. “I support the immediate implementation of a $15-an-hour minimum wage in the city of Cleveland.”

#WAHOOWATCH: AIM APPEALING TO PROGRESSIVE In the latest effort to pressure the Cleveland Indians organization to get rid of Chief Wahoo, the local chapter of the American Indian Movement has asked for a dialogue with the Progressive Corporation, the auto insurance giant based in Mayfield that owns the naming rights to the Indians’ stadium until 2024.

Cleveland AIM sent a letter to

Progressive on May 1 asking for a meeting within 30 days. As of May 17, the group had received no response.

The ask: Remove the Progressive name and corporate brand from the baseball stadium “until such time as both the exploitative ‘Indians’ team name and the flagrantly racist redfaced ‘Wahoo’ caricature are changed.”

In a statement, AIM’s local director, Sundance, said he believed this tactic [appealing to the Indians’ corporate sponsors] was appropriate “when the perpetrators of bigotry are unresponsive to repeated pleas for decency.”

AIM questioned whether the Progressive Corporation was living up to one of the “core values” listed on its website -- “the golden rule.”

“We respect all people, value the differences among them and deal with them in the way we want to be dealt with,” the Progressive site states.

“This requires us to know ourselves and to try to understand others.”

AIM’s local council of elders believes that attaching the Progressive name to institutionalized racism “directly contradicts” this core value.

“Racism is not progressive,” the statement concluded.

Progressive’s Public Relations folks have not yet responded to Scene’s request for comment on the matter.

The Progressive Corporation bought the stadium naming rights in 2008 for $58 million over 16 years, or about $3.6 million per year. The stadium was formerly known as Jacobs Field.

PORT AUTHORITY WANTS TO LIGHT UP HARBOR Taking a cue from the popular Terminal Tower lighting ops, the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority is moving on plans to light up the two harbor silos that sit at the mouth of the river.

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Youngstown Schools revealed to have mandated screenings of creationist video based on teachings of Islamic sex cult leader.

Curriculum reportedly no longer featuring works by Ernest Angley and Charles Manson.

Hail and sleet descend upon runners during Sunday’s annual Rite-Aid Cleveland Marathon. Organizers say that next year, in a bid for sunny skies, they’ll hold the race in January.

We’re all proud of you, Stipe!

Before you ask — yes, this will be up and running in time for the RNC. It’s a bold move for the otherwise not-so-ashy Port Authority. “We’re also passionate about creating an inviting waterfront for residents and visitors,â€? Will Friedman, Port Authority president and CEO said in a public statement. “Harbor Lights will provide a spectacular display of public art on what is currently a lackluster industrial structure.â€? (“Harbor Lightsâ€? is the ofďŹ cial name of the project.)

It’s more than just that, though.

Port leadership is hoping that Harbor Lights will “change the narrative,� “create a nighttime visual amenity� and “aesthetically blur the lines of the port and its neighbors.�

It’s sounds kinda esoteric, but this might be just the thing to make global maritime services hip again.

ROOMS TO LET RETURNS TO SLAVIC VILLAGE Following the housing crisis of 2008, Slavic Village was one of the most devastated areas in the country. In an effort to continue the conversation around vacancy and the current state of Cleveland’s historic neighborhoods, Slavic Village Development presents its third annual Rooms to Let: CLE (RTL).

The event originated in Columbus with a similar theme. RTL returns to Slavic Village from noon to 5 p.m.

Saturday, May 21, and Sunday, May 22. “Every year, I am amazed by the creativity of our artists and the interaction between visitors and the installations,� says Executive Director of Slavic Village Development Christopher Alvarado. “Unlike conventional gallery openings or museum events, this is a fully immersive experience that is accessible to everybody, and I am proud that our neighborhood hosts this.�

Each year, Slavic Village Development selects a group of curators to receive vacant homes throughout the neighborhood – some of which are slated for demolition as well as those that will be rehabilitated. Curators of this year’s event include Dana Depew (local artist and curator), Sai Sinbondit (Designer at Bialosky + Partners Architects), Amy Krusinski Sinbondit (ceramics/sculpture), Scott Pickering (artist) and Chris Webb (artist). Each curator assembles a team of artists to transform both the interior and exterior of a dilapidated house into an enveloping

art installation. This year’s houses are located on E. 54th Street in the Slavic Village neighborhood. “I look forward and am extremely excited to participate once again in this project,� says curator Depew. “Rooms to Let: CLE offers the unique opportunity to utilize a vacant home that has a date with the wrecking ball as a nontraditional exhibition space. The participating artists and curators enact their vision in order to give these spaces a proper eulogy.�

Artists include: Jeffrey Chiplis, Ron Copeland, Dana Depew, Rick Ferris, Eli Gfell, Keith Graham, Jake Hochendoner, Kara Isabella, Jonah Jacobs, Charles Kiss, Robin Latkovich, Christine Mauersberger, Liz Maugans, Ella Medicus, Loren Naji, Rian Brown-Orso, Kristina Paabus, Cindy Penter, Scott Pickering, Nancy Prudic, Edward Raffel, Rebecca Rinaldi, Marc Spangenberg, Grace Summanen, Paul Sydorenko, Anna Tararova, Annette Yoho Feltes, Hector Castellanos-Lara, Roni Callahan, April Bleakney, Danielle Moorer, Latecia Wilson, Sampson Smiley, Latoya Webb, Stephanie Kluk, Melinda Placko, Rebekah Wilhelm, Jeannie Oakar, Michael Gill, teens from joint Broadway School of Music & the Arts/University Settlement after-school arts class at Washington Park Horticulture Center (under direction of artist Claudio Orso).

Maker Artists include: Catherine Butler, Kate Snow, Martha Lattie, Helen & Dot Von Schneider, Valerie Grossman, Peter Debelak, Anastasial Sobvola, Makenzie Tigert, Jeremy Smith, We Can Code It, Jason Radcliffe, Laura Cooperman, thinkBox, Amy Sinbondit and Sai Sinbondit.

Curator Chris Webb elaborates on his portion of the project, “‘The Healing House’ is the name of the space I’m curating for this year’s Room’s To Let. In it, I am examining many issues that face Northeast Ohioans (from economic turmoil to local “headline� news), and I’m artistically posing the question, ‘How can we heal?’�

RTL includes a block party with live music, interactive art activities and local food vendors. Hands-on activities include Zygote Press’ Mobile Press, an opportunity to design and build your own “Dream House� in miniature with local artist Hector Catellanos and more.

For more info, pick up an event map at 5324 Fleet Ave., and enjoy a beer garden sponsored by Platform Beer Co., snacks from Saucisson and music sponsored by Agumboot

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At 6 p.m. on Saturday, May 21, neighbors and visitors are invited to a Community Meet & Greet with the Rooms to Let artists to reflect and share feedback.

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Rooms to Let, Elevate Gallery (3675 E. 65th St.) showcases the work of artists Patsy Kline, Anna Arnold and Johnny Perkins. The gallery will also feature hands-on piñata crafts for kids and live music from the Celtic fusion band, Mud in Yer Eye. From 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday, May 22, the Polish American Cultural Center (6501 Lansing Ave.) hosts a free exhibition of local artists and craftspeople. Admission to the show is free. A homemade lunch of ethnic foods will also be available from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m

RENNER’S ‘TRUE CRIME ADDICT’ True Crime Addict, by former Scene staff writer James Renner, will be available for sale at bookstores next week. The nonfiction book chronicles Renner’s reporting on the disappearance of UMass student Maura Murray, in 2004, and his own (sometimes harmful) obsession with the case.

“What I discovered was that my obsessions with these cases are not so different from the obsessions of the people I try to track down,” Renner writes. “They hunt victims. I hunt them. Being a true crime addict is not a good thing and I learned this the hard way.”

Fans of the Serial podcast and Netflix’s Making a Murderer will get a kick out of Renner’s investigation of the mystery; and fans of local media will get a kick out of Renner’s account of his pyrotechnic departure from Scene, in 2008.

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FEATURE RUBBER CITY REBEL Inside Mark Mothersbaugh’s magical world of mutants, monsters and mongoloids

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Mark Mothersbaugh and one of his vintage instruments.

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IN A CIRCULAR LIME GREEN building on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, Mutato Muzik — Devo singer and artist-at-large Mark Mothersbaugh’s production company — has reaped great dividends for the former Akronite who moved to the West Coast in the 1980s to pursue his dream of becoming a musician and composer.

And what a career it’s been.

Dressed in blue jeans and a black shirt, the 65-year-old looks more like a stagehand than a composer and artist. His goatee and spikey hair have gone gray, but he still possesses a mischievous laugh that suggests he hasn’t quite outgrown his punk rock past when he would don a “Booji Boy” mask and perform at Northeast Ohio dive bars such as the Crypt and Pirates Cove.

The day we meet him at his “office,” he has a few free hours in the late morning and early afternoon but must shuffle off to a couple of gala events later in the evening. First, he plans to be on hand for the opening of In & Of Itself, a play about a magician and performance artist that’s directed by Frank Oz. He wrote the play’s music.

He will also attend the BMI Film/TV Awards where he’ll receive four awards for the soundtrack work he did last year. Both involve putting on a tux and mugging for photo ops.

Mothersbaugh’s artwork finally gets the closeup it deserves at the end of this month as Mark Mothersbaugh: Myopia, the first retrospective of his art, opens at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland and at the Akron Art Museum. On Friday, May 27, Mothersbaugh gives a free live performance on Toby’s Plaza in front of MOCA to launch the exhibit. The publication of a hardcover book of essays and images, as well as a vinyl album of music, accompany the exhibit.

It’s been a long, strange trip for Mothersbaugh, who formed Devo in the late ’70s and, after writing the theme music for the wacky kids’ (and adults’) program Pee Wee’s Big Adventure in 1986, continues to be a sought-after composer for film and TV. Mothersbaugh, who studied art at Kent State University, also works in many

artistic mediums, including print, sculpture and animation. He makes rugs, posters, postcards and decals.

His work ranges from the Warhol-like “Lucas Cows,” a decal of pastel-colored cows, to “Wipe!,” a rug featuring a black and white drawing of a man with his torso cut in half, blood oozing from what’s left of his belly.

He infuses these objects with the same off-kilter sensibilities that made Devo into a punk/New Wave sensation.

MAN ON A MISSION Born and raised in Akron, Mothersbaugh says he can remember being curious how kids knew the right answers when the teacher asked them to add numbers or read a sentence written on the chalk board. He didn’t know what a chalk board was, and he didn’t know how they knew the right thing to say. The reason? He was legally blind. But he didn’t know it at the time.

“I did have 20/20 vision from six

inches away,” he says as he sits in the Mutato Muzik studio space where he records. “I remember examining things close up. I remember thinking there was an innate life force in everything and being fascinated with texture and plants and insects and even inanimate objects. People adjust to whatever they have in terms of vision.”

When he got glasses, he immediately wanted to know how people experienced color and thought it was possible that his red was different from other people’s reds.

“I became very curious about things people had that were the same and what things people had that were unique and what that meant,” he says, describing the moment he could see as “the most amazing moment of my life.”

“I was 7, almost 8,” he recalls. “I just went, ‘The world makes so much more sense now.’ I had seen pictures of telephone wires and clouds. But I had never really seen them. All that stuff hit me at once. All those things had

been theoretical before that, and very mystifying. And nobody knew that I couldn’t see. For me, it was just joy. I just went, ‘I accept this. I love this new world.’”

The same week he got glasses, he started drawing trees.

“I remember seeing what a top of a tree looked like, which I had never seen before, and I saw one that my father had planted in this tract of houses in Cuyahoga Falls where we lived at the time,” he says. “We were up on a hill and started driving. Down the hill was my elementary school. I saw the school I had been going to for the first time. I thought it was incredible.

My teacher, who had spanked me and made me stand in the corner and go to detention and go to the principal’s office, was standing behind me while I was drawing and said that I drew trees better than her. I remember that statement exactly. It was the first thing any teacher had said that wasn’t just a discipline thing. I dreamt that night that I would be an artist. I knew who | clevescene.com | May 18 - 24, 2016

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FEATURE Rembrandt and Van Gogh and those heavy hitters were. That’s what they teach you in first and second grade.

I wanted to be like them. I remember thinking that. She sent me on a mission.”

That mission continued when Mothersbaugh entered art school at Kent State University. Back in those days, Kent State used to give away partial scholarships to kids who hadn’t planned on going to college. He was told he could receive financial help, so he enrolled in 1968.

“In school, I was doing these decals, which was my version of graffiti,” he says. “That’s how I met [Devo’s] Jerry Casale. He came up to me and asked if I was the one putting up pictures of astronauts holding potatoes while standing on the moon. I was, and we started talking. He was a few years older, and we just hit it off right away.”

In the midst of a grad school project that involved blowing up the portraits of all the people who hated him in high school and then distorting their images, Casale enlisted Mothersbaugh’s help.

“We collaborated on visual things,” says Mothersbaugh. “We worked on posters and other things together. We were both musicians and we started writing music together.”

When the shootings happened at Kent State on May 4, 1970, Mothersbaugh and Casale were both shocked.

“We started talking about what we were seeing,” says Mothersbaugh.

“We decided it wasn’t evolution but devolution. I had this cynical attitude about religion but the same with science. They had ideas but a lot of it seemed not worked out. They would say that the universe is finite but they don’t know what the universe looks like at the edge. We though devolution was the common ground between science and religion.”

Inspired by Ohioan B.H. Shadduck, an anti-evolutionist from the ’30s who wrote the tract Jocko Homo: Heaven Bound King, Mothersbaugh penned one of the band’s first songs, the herky jerky “Jocko Homo.” Devo started performing locally in Akron.

“We’d play places in Akron or Kent, and no one wanted to hear original music,” says Mothersbaugh. “You went to a club to hear a band play cover songs. We’d lie and say we were a cover band. We did ‘Secret Agent Man’ and ‘Satisfaction’ but not at all like the Rolling Stones. We’d be up there in janitor outfits. They’d be sitting there with a beer and Jerry and I would go,

‘This is another song by Foghat called “Mongoloid.”’ They’d throw beer bottles at us.”

The negative reaction only encouraged Casale and Mothersbaugh.

DEVO: ‘THE BAND OF THE FUTURE’ In the mid-’70s, Mothersbaugh & Co. met somebody connected to Pirates Cove in Cleveland who encouraged them to check out the venue. They saw the Cleveland punk band Pere Ubu and found the performance inspiring.

“They were pretty cool,” says Mothersbaugh. “I loved all their early material. I loved the singles, and I remember thinking that they were really good and they had an audience of people who weren’t trying to kill them. There were 30 people, which was twice as many as we were playing to. We started seeing there were other Cleveland bands with similar interests.

There were the Dead Boys and Rocket From the Tombs. We didn’t have anyone in Akron. [Pere Ubu] played for our 15 people in Akron once, and I remember watching [singer] Crocus [Behemoth] in a black rain coat. He had hair like Larry from the Three Stooges. He grabbed a handful of hair from his head and ripped it out.

I thought, ‘You can’t do that for long.’

That was the beginning for us.”

By the time Devo started playing in New York in the late ’70s, it had developed a stage show that included costumes and films. Inspired by an industrial supply catalog, they purchased hazmat suits and developed a look unlike any other band.

“Every other band — whether it was Talking Heads or Television or Lou Reed or anybody — they were all wearing blue jeans,” says Mothersbaugh. “Some were torn and had suede patches and some were pressed and everyone was dressed like that except for the New York Dolls, who were much more fabulous looking.

Some bands were copying the Beatles and wore suits. After our first show, the word spread. We became this band that everyone had to see.”

Rock singer David Bowie came to one of the New York shows at Max’s Kansas City club and watched the first set. “He came upstairs, and he asked what we were doing for a record. He wanted to produce us if we wanted.”

When the band came back on stage for its second set, Bowie introduced the group.

“He came out on stage and said, ‘Devo is the band of the future,’” Mothersbaugh says. “He said he’d take us to Tokyo that winter and said the only thing that could throw it off was that he might have to take a role for a

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ARE WE NOT MUTANTS? About 20 years ago, Mothersbaugh’s Muzik Mutato provided him with a steady flow of soundtrack work. He’d write a piece of music in his studio and would then have an engineer mix it into the film. While he was doing that, he had an hour of free time and would go into a room where he had a computer and a large Epson printer.

He’d start tweaking various images to create a series of “beautiful mutants,” all in the name of making the most of every second of the day.

“I had resisted using computers for a long time. I was afraid I’d get into video games and waste time,” he says.

“I didn’t do drugs because of that, and I didn’t drink because of that. And I didn’t have kids because of that. I thought they were kinds of things that stole your vision and time, and I was so dedicated to it that I didn’t want to give up those things.”

Inspired by carnival mirrors which he collected, he began working on a series of mutant photos, manipulating them with Photoshop.

“I started taking pictures of people, and I became interested that you could split a face right down the middle,” he says. “Almost all the time, one half would look younger and prettier and more angelic. The other half would look more grotesque and evil and that was fascinating to me.”

He used tintypes and daguerreotypes.

“I started looking for those images that would be in a frame or a leather pouch that Civil War soldiers would carry,” he says. “They could fit in a pocket. When I took my images and put them in the cases, it transported you to another world.”

He even wrote a movie script about the process.

“You never know, maybe someday I’ll film it,” he laughs.

One of the most notable “beautiful mutants” involves a car. The automobile manufacturer Scion asked him to paint one of their vehicles.

Everyone was doing it, they told him, in an effort to convince him to join artists such as Shepard Fairey.

“I didn’t want to paint, but I told them I would paint two cars and cut them in half and make a car with two fronts and another car with two backs.

Somehow they talked to someone who let me do it. I did, and I put two front ends together and it looked great. I put the two back ends together and that’s in the [upcoming] show.”

The front end showed up at the L.A. Convention Center when it was being unloaded from a truck, and the guys who work for him had to steer it.

It’s a convention center so there was a big floor.

“They were showing off,” says Mothersbaugh. “This one guy was doing these spinning cups and everyone was laughing and the Scion people walked in and saw it and wanted to crush the car and destroy it. They did. They took it from me.

They thought someone would sue them. That wasn’t what the intention of letting me cut two cars in half was about. I didn’t have an agent, and I still don’t, so I didn’t have someone who could have warned me about it.”

POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE While Mothersbaugh might have abandoned his mutation series, his postcard series is alive and well. In fact, the day we interview him, he says he just added to the collection at 1:15 that morning. He says even after his vision was corrected, he still gravitated toward small drawings. If he tried to do a big painting, the perspective was off and he’d have to project the image onto a canvas and then sketch and color it. Postcards didn’t require the same amount of prep.

“I had a great time at Kent State in the art world,” he says when asked about the genesis of his postcard art. “In the process, I found out that there were people around the world who liked to exchange mail art. They used their post office. There were no computers and cell phones. It was a valuable form of communication. With postal art, the whole idea was there would be people who handle it and could see whatever you do.”

That meant the audience wasn’t just the person who received the card but also the person who handled the card and everyone who might see it.

Mothersbaugh calls it an “incidental audience.”

“It was empowering to me that I could take a postcard and put artwork on it and put an address for [artists such as] Robert Jasper or Robert Indiana or Irene Dogmatic in San Francisco. You could send

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“Then, we were touring and wouldn’t live anywhere and it was easy to be sitting backstage or in an airplane or in a car,” he says. “You have two hours when you’re on stage and 22 hours getting to the next place, and I couldn’t stand wasting that much time. If I have to write music and wait for an engineer, I can’t wait. I had to do something else. I kept those cards and kept making them through all those years. It just stayed with me beyond that.”

BACK TO THE BEGINNING Mothersbaugh first met Myopia’s curator Adam Lerner in 2011 after Devo performed at the Denver county fair. He had gotten a message that Lerner, the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, wanted to talk to him about visual artist Bruce Conner.

“He made the second Devo video where he took the song ‘Mongoloid’ and cut all sorts of collage footage to it from some great, crazy, old ad graphics and science graphics,” says Mothersbaugh. “It was a really great film.”

Conner assigned himself to be the band’s escort in San Francisco when

the group was driving around in a van and sleeping in it and playing clubs. Mothersbaugh and Lerner talked about Conner, and Lerner asked what Mothersbaugh was doing.

“I told him that in the last 10 years I had done 125 gallery shows,” says Mothersbaugh.

The MO was the same. As Mothersbaugh explains, the gallery operators were kids who were excited about art and had just got out of college. They knew they would soon start working at Walmart doing ad graphics. But before selling their souls to corporate America, they would open a gallery in “some part of town where the people who buy art — the dentists and the lawyers and the doctors — wouldn’t want to go.”

Lerner loved the concept and came to L.A. “He came over and walked around in here and saw that I had a room dedicated to drawing,” says Mothersbaugh. “I draw every day, and I take images I really like and put them in Photoshop. If I really like them, I blow them up and print them.

I showed him where I kept stuff and where I have a collection of warehouse spaces. Looking through it, he felt this urge to organize it and make a show out of it, which is great.”

Mothersbaugh says it’s particularly

gratifying to have an exhibit in Northeast Ohio.

“It’s coming full circle,” he says.

“I was in Cincinnati with it at the beginning of the year. Cincinnati is dear to me because they had Queen City Records. They pressed our first record. I remember getting in a car one day and we were going to pick up the vinyl. I remember driving to Cincinnati and the closer we got, the more excited we got, and we were sweating. We got these boxes and we would rip the box open and were holding up this single that said, ‘Jocko Homo/Mongoloid.’ I remember looking at it and thinking, ‘We’re really artists.’ There are all these things that connect us with Ohio. Cleveland was our first trip out of Akron. It felt like such a monumental thing.”

And coming back to Cleveland still represents a “monumental thing,” perhaps more for art patrons here than for Mothersbaugh. The kicker: When Mothersbaugh returns to Northeast Ohio later this month for the opening of Myopia, he won’t have to worry about angry fans throwing beer bottles at his head.

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them something in the mail and nine out of 10 times they would send you something back. Even though he never met me, the fact that he reacted to my artwork was an empowering feeling. We had no internet and there was no such thing as Youtube or MP3s you could send out. That was a big thing. I would make this art and send to my friends and about a year into it, I realized they could be lyrics to a song or an album cover or art when we were playing a show and could be a poster.”

Since he had been a stamp collector, he knew there were binders that would hold 100 pieces of paper this size. He bought those binders and used them to store his postcards. He still has a shelf full of red binders at his studio space.

While they’re not necessarily in chronological order, Mothersbaugh says they serve as a sort of diary.

“There are some that I drew when I was living on a houseboat on the Thames for three weeks,” he says.

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We were interacting with William Burroughs and Timothy Leary and Dennis Hopper and Dean Stockwell and all these people. I was impressed by them. I would write down things they said.”

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Drawing Power Great Lakes Brewing Company hosts Cleveland’s Drink & Draw Social Club at 7 p.m. on the first and third Wednesday of each month. The event is organized by the Rust Belt Monster Collective and sponsored by Carol and John’s Comic Book Shop. Drink & Draws are an opportunity for artists of all levels of experience to drink, draw, socialize/network and collaborate in a very relaxed and welcoming environment. At the end of each Drink & Draw, prizes are awarded for various superlatives. The drawing is free; the drinking will cost you. (Josh Usmani) 2516 Market Ave., 216-771-4404, greatlakesbrewing.com.

just how powerful suggestion can be on the human mind. This show is adults only, as Power’s act isn’t family friendly. Rated somewhere between R and X, Power’s performance will have you laughing with his naughty fun.

Don’t think you can go to a hypnotist show and not participate, as Power will undoubtedly find a way to rope you into the show. He performs tonight at 7:30 at the Improv. Tickets are $12.

(Martin Harp) 1148 Main Ave., 216-696-IMPROV, clevelandimprov.com.

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An Earnest Discussion of Cleveland and the Sports Connection In honor of the premiere of 30 For 30: Believeland — This Is Cleveland (the film about Cleveland sports fans that aired on ESPN on May 14), locals Mike Polk Jr. and Earnest Byner will “celebrate who we are and how we got here” as they deliver “An Earnest Discussion of Cleveland and the Sports Connection,” a talk presented in partnership with the City Club of Cleveland. It takes place tonight at 7 at the Happy Dog. Admission is free. (Jeff Niesel) 5801 Detroit Ave., 216-651-9474, happydogcleveland.com.

Concert Series aims to celebrate the cultural legacy of the Cuyahoga Valley with a series of folk and roots rock concerts at the Happy Days Lodge.

Tonight’s concert features Robin and Linda Williams, icons of Americana, folk and bluegrass for over 40 years.

Attendees can purchase light meals featuring soups, snacks and sweets prepared by Conservancy Canteen.

In addition to food, the venue offers local, alcoholic and non-alcoholic handcrafted beverages. Single concert admission is $23 for adults, $18 for conservancy members and $7.50 for children ages 3 to 12. Doors open at 7 p.m., and the concert begins at 8 p.m.

(Niesel) 500 West Streetsboro Rd., Peninsula, 330-657-2909, ConservancyforCVNP.org.

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Dan Grueter Cleveland native Dan Grueter likes to poke fun at himself in his standup routines, including when he was teased in the 1980s for wearing his brother’s hand-me-down bell-bottoms.

As a result, he regularly got his ass kicked. Now he loves to pick on audience members for questionable wardrobe choices; don’t wear that sweater vest because you’re just asking to be called out. The fast-talking and quick-witted comedian performs tonight and tomorrow night at 8 at Hilarities. Tickets are $20. (Niesel) 2035 East Fourth St., 216-241-7425, pickwickandfrolic.com.

Land of the Pharaohs The Cleveland Museum of Art currently hosts Pharaoh, an exhibit of Egyptian art. To complement the exhibit, the museum will screen several films set in ancient Egypt. Tonight at 7 in the Morley Lecture Hall, it screens Land of the Pharaohs, a 1955 “historic epic” (with a screenplay co-written by William Faulkner) about the building of the Great Pyramid. The museum will show a special scope print of the movie. Tickets are $10. (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.

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Heritage Concert Series Presented by the National Park Service and the Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park, the Heritage

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Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto The press hailed Beethoven’s final

piano concerto as “without doubt one of the most original, imaginative, most effective but also one of the most difficult of concertos” when it was first performed. Renowned Beethoven specialist Rudolph Buchbinder, a guy who’s had a “lifelong fascination with Beethoven,” has performed and recorded the complete concertos and sonatas several times. He joins the Cleveland Orchestra tonight at 7:30 at Severance Hall to perform the piece.

Tickets start at $29, with encore performances at 11 a.m. tomorrow, 8 p.m. on Saturday and 3 p.m. on Sunday. (Niesel) 11001 Euclid Ave., 216-231-1111, clevelandorchestra.com.

A Space Program In 2012, acclaimed contemporary artist Tom Sachs recreated a fourweek mission to Mars with both bricolage and performance art in a gigantic installation at New York City’s Park Avenue Armory. The new documentary, A Space Program, takes viewers inside the installation as well as Sachs’ studio, giving a “backstage” feel to a now-historic art piece. The film screens tonight at 6:45 and again tomorrow night at 7 at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque. Tickets are $9; $7 for members. (Eli Shively) 11610 Euclid Ave., 216-421-7450, cia.edu.

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May Show This year’s May Show at Lakeland Community College opens today with a reception from 7 to 9 p.m.; the party kicks off with $4,000 in cash awards (including $1,500 Best in Show).

Executive director and curator of the new art program at the Cleveland Clinic’s Arts & Medicine Institute, Joanne Cohen, and artist and director of the Ohio Art League, Kim Webb, juried this year’s May Show. The jurors received 522 entries from 239 artists. Tonight’s reception includes a musical performance by the FAC-PAC. Admission is free. (Usmani) 7700 Clocktower Dr., Kirtland, 440-525-7029, lakelandcc.edu/gallery.

Cancer Blows A Cleveland Institute of Music grad widely regarded as one of the top trumpet players in the world, Ryan Anthony was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 2012. Diagnosed the day before Thanksgiving, the guy played the National Anthem to open the annual Dallas Cowboys Thanksgiving game. At the time of diagnosis, his bone marrow was 80 percent cancer cells. And yet, he’s persevered and continues to perform in order to raise money for cancer research.

He’s coming to Cleveland to perform a benefit concert, Cancer Blows, at 7 tonight at Severance Hall. Tickets start at $25. (Niesel) 11001 Euclid Ave., 216-231-1111, clevelandorchestra.com.

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Will Power If you’re skeptical about a comedy hypnotist show, Will Power will change your mind forever — whether he does it with mind tricks is for you to find out. His hypnotist act shows

Lavell Crawford Some people are born funny; others grow into it. The latter seems to apply to Lavell Crawford, a stand-up comedian whose act primarily revolves around his upbringing in St. Louis

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If his obesity-centric material weren’t enough, Crawford’s supremely goofy and aloof demeanor only help to make him more likable. It helps to explain how he ended up finishing second in the fifth season of Last Comic Standing, an achievement he has parlayed into appearances on Chelsea Lately, Breaking Bad, and Workaholics (“Eggs Tyrone,” anybody?). He performs tonight at 7:30 and 10 at the Improv, where he has shows scheduled through Sunday. Tickets are $35.

(Jacob DeSmit) 1148 Main Ave., 216-696-IMPROV, clevelandimprov.com.

band has kept its fire burning across time. Check out “Whiskey Woman” for a fine example of the hookah-laden chops still hooked around each of the band’s compositional outings. Given the band’s personal history, rife with small shows and Hookahville festivals alike, every chance to be a part of the

New Drawings with an opening from 6 to 8:30 tonight. A gallery talk with Klausman and gallery owner Meg Harris will take place midway through the reception. Terry Klausman is a mostly self-taught artist. His career began in abstract welded and machined steel sculpture.

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Dying to Know Documentary Dying to Know: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary lays out the lives of Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert, both former Harvard professors who became generation-defining thinkers. Leary, once pegged “the most dangerous man in America” by President Richard Nixon, was a worldfamous advocate of psychedelic drugs.

Alpert found success as Ram Dass, a philosopher and author influenced by Eastern culture. The film explores the personal and professional relationship of the two as well as their achievements.

Filmmaker Gay Dillingham will take audience questions post-screening, at 8:35 tonight and at 7:10 on Sunday night at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque. Tickets are $10 or $8 for members. (Shively) 11610 Euclid Ave., 216-421-7450, cia.edu.

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Hookahville 2016 The grandfather of Ohio’s expansive jam band scene — culturally and musically — Ekoostik Hookah has always maintained close ties to the Cleveland area. From 1991’s Under Full Sail to 2013’s sweetly groovin’ Brij, the

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In Unknown Space The Cleveland Foundation’s Creative Fusion artist in residence at the Cleveland Print Room, Blessing Ngobeni presents the results of his residency tonight with an opening reception from 5 to 8 p.m. Ngobeni is a native of Tzaneen, South Africa.

During his time in Cleveland, he has worked with students at the Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland State University, Cleveland Metropolitan Public Schools and Lake Erie Ink. His style is characterized as a dynamic hybrid of graffiti and collage. Blessing Ngobeni’s In Unknown Space remains on view through May 28. At 1 p.m. tomorrow, Ngobeni will discuss his work and experience in Cleveland during a free gallery talk. (Usmani) 2550 Superior Ave., 216-401-5981, clevelandprintroom.com.

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Glassland The esteemed film journal Sight & Sound declared Glassland “the best Irish film in years.” The movie centers on a cabdriver (Jack Reynor) who has his hands full with his alcoholic mother (Toni Collette). When he finds her unconscious one morning, he has to scrounge up the money to put her in rehab — no easy task since he lives on a subsistence wage. The movie screens at 7 p.m. at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tickets are $9. (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.

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7 pm Doors 8 pm Show TICKETS: $ 5.50 (including fees)

On sale now at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame box office, or online at rockhall.com

1100 Rock and Roll Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44114 fun is a necessary diversion from life out there. This weekend, the band brings its Hookahville festival to Nelson Ledges. John Kadlecik Band, Carlos Jones and Dixons Violin share the bill. Tickets are $60 in advance or $70 at the gate. (Eric Sandy) 12001 State Route 282, Garrettsville, 440-548-2716, nlqp.com.

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Terry Klausman: New Drawings Harris Stanton Gallery’s Cleveland location debuts Terry Klausman:

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Return of Spring Just steps from Playhouse Square, Bonfoey Gallery — Cleveland oldest art gallery — hosts a free opening reception tonight from 5 to 8 for San Francisco-based Gary Bukovnik and his appropriately titled new exhibition of watercolors, Return of Spring.

A Cleveland native, Bukovnik’s boldly colorful watercolors will be on view in both the street and lower level galleries through June 18.

Tomorrow at 10:30 a.m., Bonfoey hosts a free gallery talk and painting demonstration with Gary Bukovnik and a member of the Greater Cleveland Orchid Society. (Usmani) 1710 Euclid Ave., 216-621-0178, bonfoey.com.

Following a work-related accident that nearly severed a finger on his dominant hand, Klausman began drawing simple repetitive marks with his non-dominant hand, inspired by the minimalist artists he admired.

The marks resembled barbed wire or stitches, which can be seen as a reflection of the healing process. New Drawings remains on view through June 18. Admission is free. (Usmani) 2301 West Market St., Akron, 330-867-7600, harrisstantongallery.com.

Drew Thomas Currently the host of Phat Comedy Tuesdays at Twisted Taco, comedian Drew Thomas likes to joke that men and women don’t talk about marriage in the same way. Women sound happy about it; men, not so much. Thomas regularly draws on everyday life for his routines. A few years back, he caught a good break when he was featured on The Craig Ferguson Show. He’s shared the stage with fellow wiseasses such as Ron White, Jake Johansen, Bill Burr, Jim Norton and Craig Robinson. Be warned, he likes to harass the patrons in the front row of the club, often making fun of their outfits. He performs tonight at 7:30 and 10 at Club Velvet at the Hard Rock Rocksino at Northfield. Tickets are $13 to $18.

(Niesel) 10705 Northfield Rd., Northfield, 330-908-7793, hrrocksinonorthfieldpark.com.

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An Opening Reception Gearing up for this summer’s RNC, Spaces hosts an opening reception for three new projects that explore the political process. In addition to Kate Sopko’s highly anticipated The Fixers, SWAP resident artist Roopa Vasudevan (based in Shanghai and Brooklyn) begins her exhibition, which will unfold during the course of her residency. Additionally, Spaces’ Vault features a selection of video and film works examining the election cycle, as well as a mini-retrospective of Edward Freska’s political cartoons.

It happens from 6 to 9 p.m. It’s free.

(Usmani) 2220 Superior Viaduct, 216-621-2314, spacesgallery.org.

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Case’s Annual Book Sale The digital revolution is upon us, but this year’s annual book sale at Case Western Reserve University will feature physical releases — some 70,000 of them. The sale, which includes books, prints, maps and atlases, sheet music, CDs, DVDs, records, play scripts and memorabilia, celebrates its 70th anniversary this year. Among this year’s potential treasures: a giant rock ’n’ roll collection featuring biographies (solo performers and groups), song books, CDs and memorabilia. Most items are in excellent condition with some still in their original shrink-wrap.

The anonymously donated collection stretches from the late 1960s though the mid-’00s. According to the official press release, most of the items are priced to “get them into the hands of readers who are looking for literary works, tell-all biographies, Civil War histories, urban fantasies, cookbooks (hundreds!), how-tos and/or the ‘hard’ and natural sciences.” As in the past, the sale will be held at CWRU’s Adelbert Gymnasium. Free parking will be available near the gym. The sale begins today and runs through Tuesday. It’s free and open to the public, except for the pre-sale preview that runs this morning from 10 to noon; that costs $20. (Niesel) 2128 Adelbert Rd., acesite.org/book-sale.

THEATER

A Good Man is Easy to Find A “dramatic, powerful, spiritual and hilarious” stage play with “incredible music, instrumentation, singing and dancing,” A Good Man is Easy to Find explores the nature of relationships with tongue firmly

placed in cheek. The goal: to convince you that “there’s a perfect person out there for you and that person is so easy to find.” The performance takes place tonight at 7 at the Ohio Theatre.

Tickets are $31.50 to $41.50. (Niesel) 1501 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

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The Kneeling Goddess A six-film series derived from a very highly acclaimed, seven-film retrospective of the same name presented last July at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Mexico at Midnight: Film Noir From Mexican Cinema’s Golden Age consists of “tough, stylish, sexy, cynical crime films” made by the Mexican film industry during the 1940s and 1950s.

The films feature revered actors such as Dolores del Rio, María Félix, Pedro Armendáriz, and Arturo de Cordóva. Tonight at 5 at the Cleveland Institute of Art’s Cinematheque, it’s The Kneeling Goddess, a film about a woman who lures a married man away from his wife. Tickets are $9.

(Niesel) 11610 Euclid Ave., 216-421-7450, cia.edu.

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June 19, 2016 3:00pm

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Live at Aloft Local singer-songwriter Phil Bonnano has four albums of original material, and his repertoire includes more than 200 cover songs. That makes him the perfect guy to perform at the Aloft Beachwood’s W XYZ bar every Tuesday and Saturday evening. The concerts are open to hotel guests and local music fans alike. On a national level, the hotel chain has hosted live music since its inception in 2008. Bruno Mars, Ed Sheeran and the Lumineers have all participated in its “Live at Aloft” series before becoming household names. In addition to live music, concert attendees can sample the W XYZ Bar’s selection of beers, wines and specialty cocktails as well as bite-size appetizers. Guests can listen to the performance in the bar or in the Backyard, an adjacent outdoor seating area. Bonnano performs tonight from 8 to 11 p.m. and Tuesday from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.

Admission is free. (Niesel) 1010 Eaton Blvd., Beachwood, 216-595-0900, starwoodhotels.com/alofthotels.

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GET OUT an effort to clear room in the studio, DeSantis will have special discounts available on all merchandise.

DeSantis opened the studio in early 2013. Recent renovations doubled her classroom size. What originally started as a schedule of two classes per week quickly blossomed into four teen/adult classes, numerous kids’ classes, one-day workshops and independent studio time, as well as four instructors teaching classes out of DeSantis’ studio space. (Usmani) 13000 Athens Ave., Lakewood, ginadesantisceramics.com.

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THEATER

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Kevin Pollak Most people aspire to get as close to the top as they can. Veteran actor, impressionist and comedian Kevin Pollak likes to joke that he only aspires to get to the middle. This is exactly why he’d rather impersonate celebrities than actually be one of them. However, his impressions are pretty top-notch and will have you cracking up. Maybe he’ll even do his Christopher Walken or William Shatner impressions. He performs tonight at 7 and 9:30 and tomorrow night at 7 at Hilarities. Tickets are $28 to $33. (Liz Trenholme) 2035 East Fourth St., 216-241-7425, pickwickandfrolic.com.

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Rooms to Let Following the housing crisis of 2008, Slavic Village was one of the most devastated areas in the country. In an effort to continue the conversation around vacancy and the current state of Cleveland’s historic neighborhoods, Slavic Village Development presents its third Rooms to Let: CLE. The temporary art installation returns to Slavic Village today and tomorrow from noon to 5 p.m. Slavic Village Development selects a group of curators to receive homes slated for demolition. Each curator assembles a team of artists to transform both the interior and exterior of the house into an enveloping art installation.

RTL includes a block party with live music, interactive art activities and local food vendors. This year’s houses are all located on East 54th Street; find details on the website. It’s free.

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Roxy Remembered show at the Beachland Ballroom. Ryan Zymler hosts the event that focuses on the “classic burlesque that once dazzled Cleveland.” Renowned dancers slated to perform include Leena Allure (Detroit), Noella DeVille, Sable Champagne, Kinsey Quake, Marley Teenie and Ellie St. Cyr. Local star Bella Sin will give her last Cleveland show before she takes a hiatus and moves behind the scenes for production of the next few shows.

Tickets range from $15 to $30, with VIP and reserved ticket options available. (Niesel) 15711 Waterloo Rd., 216-383-1124, beachlandballroom.com.

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The Roxy Remembered Tonight at 8:30, Le Femme Mystique Burlesque presents the sixth annual

Steel Magnolias Set in Louisiana in the 1980s, Steel Magnolias centers on the women who hang out at Truvy’s Beauty Spot, where “there is no such thing as natural beauty.” Each week, six “Southern spitfires” gather to gossip.

A “life-changing event” threatens to send their world into a tailspin.

Tonight at 8 at the Allen Theatre, the Cleveland Play House presents its production of the play. Tickets start at $10, and performances continue through Aug. 21. (Niesel) 1407 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

FESTIVAL

The Red, White and BBQ Rib Burn Off Erie Street in downtown Willoughby will be closed today and tomorrow for the the Red, White and BBQ Rib Burn Off, which will feature three stages for live bands. There will be beer and wine and ribs from more than a dozen participating downtown Willoughby restaurants.

The event takes place from noon to 11 p.m. today and from noon to 8 p.m. tomorrow. Admission is free, but donations to the USO are appreciated.

(Niesel) downtownwilloughbyohio.com/ribs.

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The Prince of Egypt The Cleveland Museum of Art currently hosts Pharaoh, an exhibit of Egyptian art. To complement the exhibit, the museum will screen several films set in ancient Egypt.

Today at 1:30 p.m., it screens The Prince of Egypt, a 1998 animated film about the life of Moses featuring the voices of prominent actors such as Val Kilmer, Ralph Fiennes, Michelle Pfeiffer and Sandra Bullock.

The film will be shown in the Morely

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Coming Attractions

TrueNorth Cultural Arts Presents:

Lecture Hall. Tickets are $10. (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.

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Critics call them the next Simon & Garfunkel

MILK CARTON KIDS Special Guest

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May 6th- 22nd Fri & Sat at 7:30 PM and Sun at 3:00PM

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JILL SCOTT August 4, 8 PM

JOAN BAEZ October 19, 8 PM

PEPPA PIG LIVE! Peppa Pig’s Splash

September 28, 6 PM

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River of Grass Well-known indie filmmaker Kelly Reichardt’s acclaimed 1994 feature, River of Grass, represents her first attempt at a full-length film, and it provides a solid aesthetic base for her future work. The film centers on a suburban housewife and a man she sort-of falls in love with. After they cause an accidental shooting, the couple decides to go on the run, thinking they’re murderers. The film’s only showing is tonight at 6:30 at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque. Tickets are $9, or $7 for members. (Shively) 11610 Euclid Ave., 216-421-7450, cia.edu.

NIGHTLIFE

Toxic Burlesque Carmen M’Knoxide & Co., the folks behind Toxic Burlesque, have thrown burlesque bashes at Brothers Lounge for the past four years. They return to the club tonight with Carmen M’Knoxide, Rubi~Nesque, Dot King and Ava Adore. The emcee is Champagne Charley. The show starts at 8 p.m., and tickets are $10. (Niesel) 1609 Detroit Ave., 216-226-2767, brotherslounge.com.

FOOD & DRINK

Wing Ding Doodle Blues icon Howlin’ Wolf famously covered “Wang Dang Doodle,” the old blues tune penned by Willie Dixon. Prosperity Social Club in Tremont has adopted that slogan, calling its wing night Wing Ding Doodle. The weekly event features specials on Buffalo wings and cold brews. Prosperity will not only serve up substantial, $1 whole wings, but it’ll also offering meatless Monday “wing” baskets for vegans.

Discounted drafts and a playlist of vintage-electric blues and soulful R&B curated by local musician Clint Holley will be on tap as well.

Wing Ding Doodle takes place every Monday from 6 p.m. to midnight.

(Niesel).

1109 Starkweather Ave., 216-9371938, prosperitysocialclub.com.

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Tropical Sundays A weekly summer celebration, Tropical Sundays at Now That’s Class features cornhole and basketball in the club’s back parking lot and exclusive Tropical Sunday cocktails including Pimms, Paulito’s Puerto Rican Punch, Mi’Monsters, Cucumber Bloody Marys and Bloody Tooth. The club promises “many more surprises and activities” too. The event starts at 3 today. Admission is free. (Niesel) 11213 Detroit Ave., 216-221-8576, nowthatsclass.net.

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an impressive resume. A graduate of Baldwin Wallace University’s Conservatory of Music, she studied cabaret in Italy and New York and was a semi-finalist in the 2003 San Francisco Cabaret competition.

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

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2016: A Political Race ODDyssey Billed as Cleveland’s answer to the Capitol Steps, Cleveland Cabaret Project’s newest endeavor is 2016: A Political Race ODDyssey, “a politically incorrect and satiric revue,” that promises to provide plenty of laughs as the Republican National Convention nears. The group performs at Nighttown on five Mondays leading up to the event. Lora Workman, founder and artistic director of CCP, possesses

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Another Dawn Part of an ongoing six-film series at the Cleveland Art Institute’s Cinematheque — derived from a very highly acclaimed, seven-film retrospective of the same name presented last July at the Museum of Modern Art in New York — Mexico at Midnight: Film Noir From Mexican Cinema’s Golden Age consists of “tough, stylish, sexy, cynical crime films” made by the Mexican film industry during the 1940s and 1950s. The films feature revered actors such as Dolores del Rio, María Félix, Pedro Armendáriz and Arturo de Cordóva. Tonight at 6:45 at the Cinematheque, it’s Another Dawn, a 1942 film about a union organizer (played by the aforementioned Mexican matinee idol Armendáriz) who is on the run from a corrupt politician. Tickets are $9.

(Niesel) 11610 Euclid Ave., 216-421-7450, cia.edu.

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ART ENTER SUMMER This month’s Third Friday at 78th Street Studios promises artistic splendor

By Josh Usmani THIS FRIDAY PROMISES another perfect storm of collective efforts at the 78th Street Studios’ popular Third Friday event.

Among the openings and exhibitions taking place from approximately 5 to 10 p.m., E11even2 presents 27*, an exhibition inspired by the infamous “27 Club” of celebrities who died at the age of 27. This exhibition features work inspired by Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Brian Jones, Jim Morrison and Amy Winehouse.

27* includes works from 15 artists who each created up to three new pieces for the show. Curated by E11even2 cofounder Billy Nainiger, the exhibition includes paintings, drawings, sculptures and mixed media.

Just down the hall, Zaina Gallery hosts al-Jiran, a new installation of sculptural work by Zaina founder Leila Khoury, who describes the work as “fragments of a partial upbringing in pre-war Syria.” Aleppo Bath House and other architecture-based works inspired al-Jiran (which means, “the neighbors”).

Around the corner, the Cleveland West Arts League hosts the Ninth Annual Brooklyn High School Art Show, featuring a diverse range of new work from young artists.

Forum Art Space presents the work of Phillip Buntin and Tony Ingrisano.

Through very different methods, Buntin and Ingrisano explore and challenge our interpretation of information, and encourage viewers to “see more with less and less with more.”

Tregoning & Company continues its impressive, large-scale retrospective of drawings and paintings by the late Anthony Eterovich. For more than 50 years, Eterovich taught life drawing at the Cleveland Institute of Art, and from 1962 to 1978, he chaired the art department at James Ford Rhodes High School. This retrospective is the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of Eterovich’s drawings and paintings ever, and is part of joint effort with the Artists Archives of the Western Reserve, ARTneo and the Cleveland Institute of Art, each of which is (or will be) hosting special exhibitions reflecting on the life and work of Eterovich.

On the second floor, Kenneth Paul Lesko Gallery showcases the highly

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A collection of murals painted live by the Rust Belt Monster Collective at local events throughout Cleveland since 2012.

On view at Popeye Gallery inside Survival Kit at 78 th Street Studios.

anticipated return of Troy Gua’s Pop Hybrids series. Gua’s work investigates themes of identity, celebrity and pop culture. His Pop Hybrids series features two superimposed iconic faces. Individually, these faces are immediately recognizable, but Gua dissolves the two into one subjective portrait. This juxtaposition creates psychological associations, as well as highlighting facial similarities in very different pop culture icons — like “Ubermensch,” featuring Friedrich

Gallagher, Sarah Hayes, Ashley Pastore and Dott von Schneider-Lanza.

Optic Environments includes detailed collages, mixed media works and Matthew Gallagher’s large-scale field paintings.

Derek Hess Gallery hosts a onenight-only exhibition of nearly 100 rare and vintage concert T-shirts from the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s. The collection belongs to Kansas native Erna Hammer, who began collecting the shirts while working as a DJ

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Nietzsche and Superman. The result is inviting, engaging and thought provoking.

While her own work currently hangs at the Maria Neil Art Project in the Waterloo Arts District, Hedge Gallery owner Hilary Gent presents Optic Environments, a group show featuring new work from Matthew

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at the nationally syndicated radio station, Z-Rock. The shirts range from well-worn to freshly pulled from the printer, and chronicle a distinct period of rock history.

On the third floor, it’s Frank Oriti’s last Third Friday before moving his studio to the Screw Factory.

Additionally, Popeye Gallery (inside

Survival Kit) presents the first largescale solo exhibition and book launch for the Rust Belt Monster Collective, a group of six local artists who collaborate on live paintings at local events like IngenuityFest, Brite Winter, and Solstice and MIX at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The new 120-page hardcover book chronicles the fouryear history of the Rust Belt Monsters.

Quantities are limited, and the group has designed an exclusive slipcover signed by all six artists for the first 100 copies sold at the opening.

At 9 p.m., Extra Medium Pony and Sleepy Kid will perform live at Survival Kit. The performance is free, but donations are accepted.

And don’t forget about the lower level, where ARTneo continues its Fundamental Gestures exhibition exploring how local artists capture the human form in unique ways.

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STAGE LOVE IN BLOOM The world’s longest-running musical, The Fantasticks, is on stage at the Great Lakes Theater

By Christine Howey FUN FACT: ORIGINALLY THE Fantasticks, that quintessential musical about love and romance, was going to be performed on horseback.

When Tom Jones (book and lyrics) and Harvey Schmidt (music) first conceived of writing a contemporary version of Les Romanesques by Edmond Rostand, itself a spoof of Romeo and Juliet, the two Texans were going to set it on a couple adjoining ranches and title it Joy Comes to Deadhorse.

In addition, they wanted to perform it with real horses on stage. They soon came to their senses, which is a good thing for us and for the crew that would have had to clean up after every show.

That production opened minus any equine performers in 1959 and almost closed the first night. But then it ran for 42 years in the small, off-Broadway Sullivan Street Theatre in New York City, and it’s still going strong to this day. In this staging directed by Victoria Bussert at the Great Lakes Theater, the humor leads the way, thanks to a couple delightful acting turns. And the music, of course, is exceptional as always. But this production doesn’t display some of the intimacy and magic that can make The Fantasticks truly live up to its name.

It hardly seems necessary to review the story here, since this musical has been produced by nearly every theater company known to man, from high schools on up, over the past half century. Suffice to say that two fathers on adjoining properties want to marry off their kids to each other. But being aware that kids do the opposite of what their parents say, the dads pretend to try and keep 16-year-old Luisa and 20-year-old Matt apart, thereby ensuring their attraction to each other.

The durable yarn is narrated by El Gallo, a sultry and mysterious man who sets the theme in one of the best opening numbers in the history of musical theater: “Try to Remember.”

For Jones and Schmidt, who had written many songs together in their student days at the University of Texas and then in the Army, “Try to Remember” was the first time they had written a song by starting with the music first. And the blending of that lovely melody with insightful lyrics

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has made it an iconic part of American musical history.

Indeed, there are several enduring tunes in this show, such as “Much More” and “Soon It’s Gonna Rain,” during a first act that is immersed in romance and moonlight. After all that lovey stuff, we are plunged into an Act 2 rife with romantic perils exposed by the light of day.

Playing the two lovers are Clare Howes Eisentrout as Luisa and Pedar Benson Bate as Matt, and they are fine individually in their songs and quite cute playing off each other. Eisentrout writhes with adolescent lust when

seem a bit too studied.

In the key role of El Gallo, Michael Padgett has the hot look and sinuous moves down pat. But his singing voice lacks the power in the lower registers to genuinely stir the soul. At times he almost disappears vocally, particularly during “I Can See It,” at the beginning of Act 2 when El Gallo is supposedly introducing naïve Matt into the harsh reality of the world. No wonder Matt didn’t get the message.

Speaking of perils, the Hanna Theatre venue seems too large for this intimate show, even though the Hanna is actually quite cozy. This small show

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Matt croons about her endearingly in “Metaphor” (“You are heat!” “You are love!”), indicating the direction their passion might take. However, the two dads played by Lynn Robert Berg and Justin Ness don’t always find the right comic blend for their characters, and their dance moves

with no frills is placed in front of a three-story-high, largely unused metal structure that soars above the actors.

There’s probably no way around this, since making the stage area lower and smaller would look out of balance.

But it still doesn’t work ideally for this show.

Also, the costuming concept by Bussert and/or costume designer Esther M. Haberlen seems off-center.

The Fantasticks is intended to be a highly theatrical presentation of reality. But instead of that, we have the fathers decked out like two guys shopping at the Home Depot, and El Gallo looking like a dude hanging out at the bar at Lago in a snug leather jacket with a hip red plaid shirt tied around his waist.

Of course, we do get some theatricality in the persons of Henry and Mortimer, two down-on-theirluck actors who are employed by El Gallo to help fool the kids into falling in love. Aled Davies and Jeffrey C. Hawkins camp it up outrageously in their respective roles, and thank god for that.

All in all, The Fantasticks is a wonderful play, and any chance to see it is a treat. Even with some glitches.

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MOVIES MOTHER’S WAY Susan Sarandon’s strong performance can’t redeem The Meddler

By Jeff Niesel CRITICS HAVE BESTOWED HIGH praise upon veteran actress Susan Sarandon for her performance in The Meddler, which opens area-wide on Friday. Sarandon portrays Marnie, an aging widow who moves to Los Angeles so she can live closer to her daughter Lori (Rose Byrne). While Sarandon’s performance stands out, the movie suffers from a simplistic script and a predictable conclusion.

The film commences with Marnie speaking in a voiceover about how much she loves SoCal. She regularly visits the Grove, an upscale shopping center, and loves the warm weather and constant sun (though as anyone who’s lived in Southern California knows, a thick marine layer often engulfs the coastal cities). On the outside, Marnie seems to have recovered from her husband’s sudden death; the fact that she receives a nice check each month from his life insurance policy certainly has a lot to do with her apparent recovery.

Lori, on the other hand, hasn’t fared so well. Her father’s death represents just one of her many problems. Up against a deadline to finish a script for a TV pilot, she struggles to handle the stress.

And she and her boyfriend Jacob (Jason Ritter) recently called it

quits. Marnie offers to help, but Lori despises her tendency to pop in, unannounced. And Marnie has a way of asking too many questions and, well, meddling.

When Lori heads to New York to work on the pilot, she doesn’t accept Marnie’s offer to come along for support, making Marnie wonder what she did to upset her daughter so much.

In Lori’s absence, Marnie makes a few new friends. One of those new friends, Jillian (Cecily Strong), is an acquaintance of Lori’s. But with Lori out of town, Marnie quickly turns her meddling ways toward Jillian and even offers to help plan and finance her wedding. And Marnie meets Zipper (J.K. Simmons), a retired cop, who takes a liking to her despite her inability to show him any affection without becoming flustered.

Simmons is terrific, by the way, as the easy-going Zipper, a guy who raises chickens at his ranch-style house on the city’s outskirts.

The sophomore effort from writerdirector Lorene Scafaria (Seeking a Friend for the End of the World), the movie focuses too much on the mundane (Marnie’s often on her iPhone and/or at the Genius Bar to figure out how to use the thing) and

telegraphs the ending. From the start, we know chatty Marnie hasn’t dealt with her loss, so it’s no surprise when, at the film’s anticlimactic conclusion, she has to finally tie up the loose ends and do something with the guy’s ashes and then

confront the fact that she might have feelings for Zipper.

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SPOTLIGHT: ANGRY BIRDS A MOVIE BASED ON AN APP? SOUNDS pretty preposterous. But somehow, the folks behind The Angry Birds Movie, which opens area wide on Friday, pull it off. It helps that the filmmakers recruited some A-list talent to provide the voices.

Appropriately enough, the sarcastic but likeable Jason Sudeikis does the heavy lifting here. He portrays Red, the film’s anti-hero, with a real sensitivity. Turns out, the other birds don’t like Red so much. They think he has anger issues, something that comes to the fore when he shows up late to a young bird’s birthday party, falling onto an egg and making it hatch too early. The newborn bird is now so confused that it calls him dad, much to its real father’s chagrin. No wonder all the birds prefer that this guy lives outside the town.

As a punishment, Red heads to anger

management classes taught by Matilda (Maya Rudolph), an angry bird herself. She controls her rage by telling herself to take deep breaths, and she attempts to make her students follow suit. The other birds in the class include Chuck (Josh Gad), Bomb (Danny McBride), and Terence (Sean Penn, who simply grunts a few times). Despite his reclusive nature, Red enjoys

their company and soon strikes up a friendship with his feathered fellows.

In predictable fashion, the island where Red and the birds live comes under attack one day as a boatload of pigs lead by Leonard (Bill Hader) arrives and steals all the birds’ eggs.

Red seeks advice from a giant eagle (Peter Dinklage) said to be the protector of the island, but the eagle simply delivers a bunch of “crazy talk,” so Red has to take matters into his own hands.

The movie artfully incorporates elements of the Angry Birds app and video game into its plotline. A few significant but subtle touches — a Black Sabbath tune plays during the opening scene, and comedians Keegan-Michael Key and Hannibal Buress have cameos — help ensure adults will find the film tolerable as well.

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By Douglas Trattner EIGHT YEARS AGO I WALKED into a small Central American restaurant on Denison called La Brasa and couldn’t believe my eyes.

Right there behind the counter was a beefy charcoal barbecue pit built into the floor of the open kitchen. Hovering just above the heat source — brasa translates to glowing ember — was a custom grate designed to cradle a dozen spatchcocked chickens. With a flick of the owner’s wrist, the entire assembly swiveled, flipping every yardbird at once.

That restaurant vanished almost as quickly as it appeared, leaving only memories of its magical chicken, sold for a pittance by the half or whole. But then I heard about Steven’s Chicken and the unshakable longing was replaced by optimism. When I meet owner Luis Cancinos for the first time (the restaurant is named after his son) and mention La Brasa, he smiles and says that the short-lived restaurant was run by his sister, a remarkable twist of fate that bodes well for chicken lovers.

Like his sister, Cancinos marinates the birds in a secret brew of citrus juice and, perhaps, soy sauce and brown sugar, butterflies them and grills them over lump charcoal. Unlike his sister, he does so out back behind the restaurant, which is considerably cheaper than the $80,000 his sister ponied up to construct and vent her indoor barbecue pit. Though half the size, the grill is equipped with the same type of pivoting grate system, which facilitates effortless and frequent flipping, a method of self-basting that keeps the meat juicy. What comes out the other end is smoky and copper colored, with beautiful bits of charred skin here and there.

The bones slide out of the meat like a loose tooth.

The entire bird ($15) is tucked whole into a giant aluminum foil roasting pan alongside heaps of crisp french fries and moist yellow rice with chopped white onion and

crisp bean sprouts, a nice touch. The fries are fine if you’re eating them immediately, but they won’t survive a long drive home. That’s why I ask to swap them out with a stack of corn tortillas, which not only thrive in the steamy environment, they provide a vehicle for eating the chicken meat.

Steven’s is a perfectly lovely little restaurant with about seven tables, but most of the business is take-out. We did stick around for lunch one day while we waited for our grilled chicken to come off the grill. Cancinos does them in small batches throughout the day to keep them hot, fresh and delicious. The restaurant serves traditional El Salvadoran pupusas ($1.50), thick corn tortillas stuffed with chicken, cheese, bean paste or a combination thereof. The pancake-size patties are served with the customary curtido, a tart and crunchy cabbage slaw, and thin tomato sauce.

At $3 a pop, the tacos are a great option as well. We sampled the diced steak, tender lengua (tongue) and braised tripe, each of which is ladled onto a pair of warm corn tortillas and garnished with ripe avocado, chopped onion, cilantro and lime wedges. When we sat down, our server dropped off a basket of justfried tortilla chips and bright, tart salsa verde, a sauce that perks up the tacos as well.

Also on the modest regular menu is a grilled steak dish, chicken flautas and a burger. Steven’s is

garnachas, which are like tostadas that are made with those dense house tortillas.

For now, Cancinos is happy, but his dream is to one day build a setup similar to the one his sister had at La Brasa. Grilling chickens outside is fine half the year, but the other half …

A Word About Tortillas Like most people, I assumed that store-bought corn tortillas were just as good as homemade. But then I tasted some and discovered that the

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closed on Saturdays when the owner is at church, but he makes up for it on Sundays with specials like beef stew served with rice and thick handmade Guatemalan tortillas.

Like unstuffed pupusas, the fragrant corn tortillas turn every meal into a celebration. Steven’s also offers chiles rellenos, tostadas and

two have about as much in common as bakery bread and grocery store bread. But it wasn’t until I took a cooking class in Mexico that I discovered that, unlike baking bread, making corn tortillas is child’s play.

It’s literally two ingredients. So have the tortillas at Steven’s, and if that’s not possible, shelve the Ortega and

make them yourself.

Note: You can roll out tortillas with a rolling pin, but a tortilla press will save you immeasurable amounts of time, frustration and wasted dough.

2 cups masa harina (Maseca is a popular brand) 1 1/2 cups warm water In a large bowl, combine the masa and some of the water. Mix to form a dough. Keep adding water in small amounts and kneading until the dough is smooth and supple, like fresh Play-Doh. Heat a large skillet or griddle over medium-high heat.

One at a time, pinch off pingpong ball size portions of dough, roll them in a ball, place them in a lightly greased tortilla press, and press. Lightly oil the griddle and cook the tortillas, one or two at a time, for about 45 seconds per side.

Keep them covered with a kitchen towel as they come off the heat.

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WHEN JOHNNY SCHULZE MOVED to Cleveland from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 2000, he drove through Tremont and thought it reminded him of his former home. If he ever opened his own restaurant, he told himself, it would be right here.

Schulze had learned his way around the cuisine of New Orleans, where he grew up, by traveling around the state with the Army National Guard. After graduating from culinary school, he went on to recreate the dishes whenever he could.

“Every time I did Mardi Gras parties, people would go nuts over it,” he remembers.

He took the leap to launch the Cajun and Creole-focused Zydeco Bistro food truck in 2011. While serving a bar in Kent, he met Justin Clements, who told him he had plans for a New Orleans concept of his own, serendipitously, in Tremont.

The pair joined forces and three years later Bourbon Street Barrel Room (2393 Professor Ave., 216-2984400, bourbonstreetbarrelroom.com) opened its doors.

From Baton Rouge to Bourbon Street, Schulze looks back on the dishes that shaped his career.

Jambalaya While I was in the Guard, I traveled all over Louisiana. In Gonzales, Louisiana, I worked alongside a lot of Cajuns. I was in the jambalaya capital of the world.

That’s where I first saw the Cajun version being made. It’s less tomatobased than the Creole-style version usually found in New Orleans. I saw them cook it in the big cast iron pots over an open fire. My wife’s family is also Cajun. Between traveling for work and her family, culinary school was my gateway to put it all together.

Seafood boils I like seafood boils, specifically with the blue crab indigenous to Louisiana and all along the East Coast up to Maryland. You get your hands in the food, it’s really relaxed and informal. I’ll do a crab boil

here in the summer, but I’ve done them everywhere all my life. The seasoning in Louisiana compared to what you do in New England is very different. It’s a Cajun and Creole mix with lots of cayenne, so it has a good heat. It uses the three major vegetable ingredients that go into all the Cajun cooking, the Holy Trinity: onions, celery and bell peppers.

Gumbo On the truck, we do blue crab and seafood gumbo. I put in crawfish, oysters, shrimp and crab, the Holy Trinity of vegetables, and okra and filé powder. Just like jambalaya, it’s comfort food. Gumbo is a timing thing. You have to watch it. A recipe is not going to teach you how to make it. My wife’s grandfather would take the whole crabs and throw them in the gumbo. I’m in heaven when I’m eating that.

Beans and Greens I use black eyed peas, red beans, the kidney red beans, even white beans. It’s very similar to making cassoulet, I just delete meat to make it vegan. The beans have enough flavor that they can carry themselves on their own. When I lived in Connecticut, I worked at a French restaurant with cassoulet on the menu. Present day has changed and I’m able to adapt those techniques to current menus.

King Cake In culinary school, our pastry instructor had a recipe that I learned and I’ve shown other people how to make it. I use it every year. It’s Danish dough and you have to learn how to roll it, make the Creole cream cheese filling and the icing, and put the colors on it. It’s hard to make in this restaurant because I don’t have enough oven space to make more than two at a time, but I taught Hiss Bakery in Barberton the recipe and they make it for us. I start selling it a few weeks before Fat Tuesday. It always reminds everyone of Mardi Gras.

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By Douglas Trattner ONE OF THE NICEST VIEWS OF the Cleveland skyline is reserved for guests of the Cleveland Hostel, which opened in Ohio City about four years ago. Those who climb the stairs of the three-story building have unobstructed views of the West Side Market and the whole of downtown.

Now, thanks to a new cafe that will be open to the public, all interested parties can take in those Instagram-worthy views. When it opens later this month, Passenger’s Cafe will serve up espressos, cappuccinos and drip coffees, all of which can be enjoyed on the roof,

says owner Mark Raymond.

“There might be a lot of people who live in the neighborhood and say to themselves, ‘Oh, the hostel is really cool, but I have no reason to go there.’ This cafe gives them a reason to come.”

To accommodate the new cafe, the hostel lobby has been completely redesigned. Formerly just a spot for guests to check in and check out, the lobby has been transformed into a small but sleek coffee bar with seating for about 20. Sidewalk seating will also be added.

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280. The waterside setting will be furnished with soft-seating options and equipped with ďŹ re pits, tiki torches and patio heaters. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to be a huge restaurant, we just want to be a great little restaurant serving great tacos and great margaritas,â&#x20AC;? adds Doody.

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For the past seven months construction has been taking place on the single-story, freestanding building on the banks of the Cuyahoga River. While not at all trouble-free, the project should be completed in time for the May 27 opening day. Diners can look forward to a bar-focused restaurant with a seafood-heavy menu built around tacos, tamales and margaritas. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only a 4,500-square-foot building, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pretty complex construction; the patio is actually cantilevered out over the river,â&#x20AC;?

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In season, more activity will be taking place outside than in. Indoors will accommodate approximately 175 diners, while the expansive terrace with insideoutside bar will hold an additional

different salsa or slaw going on each taco.â&#x20AC;?

Also on the menu are tamales ďŹ lled with chicken, grilled steak skewers and loads of chips and salsa. Margaritas will be made with fresh-squeezed lime and there will be plenty of cold Mexican cervesa to wash it all down. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The beauty of the concept is that it caters to a lot of different groups throughout the day,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The concepts that are super-successful today have a lot of transfer from one group to the next.â&#x20AC;?

While there was talk of a La Place location for Coastal Taco, Doody says that deal is dead. But if all goes as planned, taco fans on both sides of town might soon see one of these in their own neighborhoods. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We would do one east and one west fairly quickly,â&#x20AC;? says Doody. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We try to keep it rolling.â&#x20AC;?

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WORKING CLASS HEROES Alt-country rockers the Heartless Bastards and the Old 97’s share a blue-collar ethos

By Jeff Niesel

THE HEARTLESS BASTARDS and the Old 97’s, two high-energy alt-country acts that defy stereotypes about the genre, have teamed up for a string of East Coast, Midwest and Canada dates throughout May with opener BJ Barham (of American Aquarium). The Bastards have built their reputation around Erika Wennerstrom’s “powerhouse vocals that electrify a crowd.” And the Old 97’s singer Rhett Miller tends to sing until he’s hoarse. The two bands play the Beachland Ballroom, and we spoke to Wennerstrom and Miller in separate phone interviews to get their takes on this terrific double bill.

The press release announcing the co-headlining tour says the two bands have “crossed paths” over the years. When would you have first encountered one another?

Miller: I’ve been hearing about these guys for a long time. We have a bunch of friends in common in Austin, and I know that Erika is an Ohio girl and I married an Ohio girl, so I have all sorts of Cleveland ties.

The clips of the band performing that I’ve seen on the internet were so vital and exciting. They’re such a fun rock band. So many times, I feel like the genre we get lumped into — Americana or whatever it is — doesn’t give people the sense that they’re coming to see a big, loud, exciting rock show. In the case of our bands, that’s really the case.

You’ll see a sweaty rock band jump around and really bring it all night long. I thought that to put us on the bill together will be perfect. We share

a common dilemma. Both of us are tough as opening bands. Anybody that brings us in to be their opener will have to follow a big, loud, sweaty set. They have to bring energy that matches or exceeds what we bring.

Neither of us will have that problem.

Whoever plays first won’t have to play a quiet set to accommodate the headliner.

Wennerstrom: The first time I met Rhett was on a solo date in Cincinnati at the Tall Stacks Festival. We met then and that was in like 2006. The Heartless Bastards relocated to Texas and it’s been 10 years so we’re both really Texas bands. We have done shows with bands we both like, but we’ve not done shows together. We have mutual appreciation for one another.

At what point did you begin to talk about doing a tour together?

Miller: Erika and I talked about how great it would be to play together. We did some recording sessions for [the Old 97’s album] Most Messed Up. She recorded a duet on this John Prine song called “In Spite of Ourselves.” I keep trying to get it released and I keep running into a problem of mechanical royalties or something. I wanted to put it out for free in advance of the tour, but I can’t do that because we don’t own the publishing rights. I loved working with her. I loved her excitement level about music and work ethic. I was looking for an excuse to tour with her band for a long time. When our management got with their management and realized we could

make this work, I was very excited.

Wennerstrom: I think the idea for this tour just came up sometime in the fall of last year, we started talking about it. It was something where we reached out and were both into the idea. It was just a matter of finding a good time period and getting the routing worked out.

The two bands play very different styles of music. Do you have some fans in common?

Miller: I think so. We’ll find out.

We haven’t done a lot of co-headlining stuff. We did some stuff with DriveBy Truckers and figured out there was some overlap but lots of people who are fans separately. It will be interesting to see how much overlap there is and how much we can make fans out of their fans and vice versa.

Wennerstrom: Yeah. Each night there are people in the audience that I know are not familiar with us. I know some are seeing us for the first time. Genre-wise, there are some common areas. It’s a great fit and a great way for us to grow our fanbase.

Which band’s fans are rowdier?

Miller: They’re younger so they have that on us. I don’t know. Our fanbase is pretty crazy, so we’ll see.

Wennerstrom: I don’t know in all honesty.

Both bands seem to take a DIY approach to touring and recording.

Is that accurate?

Miller: Yeah. I think that’s a necessity in the modern music industry. There used to be a record

label that lorded over you and told you what a record should be and when it’s dead. I’m so glad that that’s over. Both our bands have benefited from that. There was a time when the artists people had access to were dictated by the industry. That’s gone.

You have to earn the right for people’s ears. I think we’re there. Both bands have put together catalogs that speak for themselves.

Wennerstrom: I don’t know if we do DIY recording. I don’t know if Old 97’s do either. They tend to work with producers and real studios. But we’re both hard-working bands. We keep doing what we do because we love it and in that sense we have a DIY approach. I didn’t realize they’ve been together for 22 years. Usually, after that amount of time, something happens [and a band member has to leave]. I was impressed with that.

Do you think Texas and Ohio have anything remotely in common?

Miller: I do. I know both states really well by virtue of being a seventh generation Texan and now having married into Ohio. They’re both regarded as being conservative states but there’s a liberal streak that runs through the people. The biggest thing I’ve noticed is a sense of humor.

My friends from Ohio are some of the funniest people I know. The same holds for people from Texas: They’re renegade people with this willingness to embrace the dark side a little bit.

Wennerstrom: Yeah. I think so.

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Ohio very much does. Growing up in Dayton, it’s an industrial town and I feel like Ohio bands like Guided by Voices and the Black Keys have that work ethic. They just work and work.

The Black Keys exploded so much and it’s great to see, but I think they would be working as hard as they do even if that hadn’t happened.

You might be due for a new studio release. Anything happening on that front?

Miller: Funny you should ask.

We’re in the middle of mixing the final songs today. It probably won’t come out for a while, ironically because of the election. [The record label] ATO has a Drive-By Truckers record coming out in September, so we’re trying to figure out when to put it out. The idea of putting it out right on top of the election is not super exciting for any of us. We’re working

our last album, Restless Ones, and I’m just writing and want to see what happens next. I might do a solo album under a different name or maybe I’ll put them on the next Heartless Bastards record. I’m not sure yet. I’m just putting one foot in front of the other at the moment.

Do you have a favorite Cleveland memory?

Miller: I had a solo gig at the Music Box, which is a great room, and there was a sweet little girl who got up on stage and sang “Firefly,” a duet I do. She was so brave. It’s such a rare thing. It’s so dangerous to pull a stranger up on the stage, particularly when it’s a little kid, but she totally nailed it.

Wennerstrom: Oh gosh, the Beachland is a staple. I’m so happy that it’s still there after all these years. The Beachland and the Grog

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with a producer named Vance Powell.

He’s great. He mixed my recent solo album. He won a Grammy for the Chris Stapleton album. He’s a rock ’n’ roll guy. He likes guitars. He and our guitarist worked really well together. It will pick up sonically where the last one left off. It has one foot in the garage world but the pedal steel on it is also more pronounced.

Thematically and lyrically, it’s a different record. It’s the next step after Most Messed Up. It’s maybe like the day after.

Wennerstrom: I’m writing a lot right now, but we have been on the road so much that everyone wants a break. It’s one of the last tours for

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MUSIC TANGLED UP ONE MORE TIME Singer-songwriter Ryan Humbert to present a final Dylan tribute

By Jeff Niesel ONE OF THE MORE TALENTED singer-songwriters in town, Ryan Humbert has paid tribute to singer Roy Orbison and country icon Hank Williams with elaborate stage shows.

Back in 2014, he decided to give Bob Dylan the same treatment with Tangled Up in Dylan: The Music of Bob Dylan, a tribute show that featured many of the singer’s most famous songs. When it was held at the Akron Civic Theatre in 2015, the show was such a success that Humbert and his seven-piece band scheduled an encore performance at the Gervasi Vineyard Pavilion in Canton.

“We had done Roy Orbison, Hank Williams, the Everly Brothers and even Woody Guthrie,” says Humbert.

“I call it my ‘classic artist’ series. We would pick a different artist and we would do nothing but their music for the night. They took off. We did five performances of Orbison. Dylan has been successful. We sold out the other three shows and expect this one to sell out. This has honestly been a really fun show. The biggest problem is simply that there are too many good songs.”

Now, Humbert has announced one last Tangled Up in Dylan performance; it takes place at 7 p.m. on Sunday, May 22, at the Music Box Supper Club.

Band mates Erin Vaughn, Emily Bates, Ben Evans, Brian Piper, Dan Nauss and Michael Houff will join Humbert as he plows through some of Dylan’s greatest hits, including songs such as “All Along the Watchtower,” “Blowin’ in the Wind,” “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door,” “Mr. Tambourine Man,” “Hurricane” and “Like a Rolling Stone,” the tune that Rolling Stone dubbed the Greatest Rock Song of All Time, perhaps simply because it has “Rolling Stone” in its title.

“If you think about, Bob Dylan has three ‘greatest hits’ albums, one of which is a double album” says Humbert. “I wanted something that would appeal to the casual fan but also the hardcore Dylan fan like myself. We do a big portion of the hits. We also do things that the big Dylan fanatics will like and say, ‘Holy crap! I can’t believe he’s playing

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that.’ We never try to imitate the artist. We wanted to take the songs and put our spin on them. That’s the best way to pay tribute to these songs and the artists. With ‘Mr. Tambourine Man,’ we thought it would be good to do a version more like the Byrds. It just depends on the song. The show shifts between electric and acoustic too. And not all seven of us are on stage at the same time.”

The set will also include deep tracks and B-sides such as “Abandoned Love,” “Mama, You Been on My Mind,” “Most of The Time” and more.

“I’m a huge Dylan fan,” says

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Humbert. “I have his whole catalog.

I got the complete records box set when that came out a few years ago.

I started with 800 of his songs on my computer and whittled it down.

We are going to do 40 songs from 20 different albums. We said, ‘If we’re doing one more show, we need to blow it out.’ We’re recording it for a potential live album, and it will be epic. We’re pretty excited about it.”

Over the years, Humbert has become one of the more active singersongwriters on the local music scene. He’s opened for acts such as Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders, Train, Elvis Costello, Chris Isaak and Third Eye Blind. In 2009, he

released Old Souls, New Shoes, an independent, fan-funded pop/rock album recorded in Nashville with members of Sheryl Crow’s band as well as members of Third Eye Blind, the Counting Crows, the Black Crowes and more. While on tour supporting 2012’s Sometimes the Game Plays You, Humbert recorded a five-song in-studio performance at the Sirius XM studios in New York City. In 2014, he released Half Way Home, an album he recorded in just six days in Nashville.

“I’ve been playing a ton and started working for the 91.3 Summit again,” says Humbert when asked about what he does when he’s not digging into Dylan’s back catalog.

“The station is great right now.

It’s super exciting to listen to. It’s growing. I’m helping with events and marketing and design stuff.”

Last year, Humbert launched the side project, Shooter Sharp & the Shootouts, performing classic country and honky-tonk music for fans of authentic, old-school country music.

“We have a ton of shows coming up. We recorded some demos with Jim Stewart and they turned out so great that we’re going to release it,” he says of the side project.

“That album should be out in early summer.”

The Ryan Humbert Band is still going strong too.

“I’m going to take the summer lighter with the Ryan Humbert Band,” he says. “I want to play more with the Shootouts, just to give that project a bit more of a push.”

Additionally, from 3 to 5 p.m. on Tuesday, May 24, Humbert & Co. will perform an acoustic set of Dylan songs in the Rock Hall lobby as a way of honoring the icon on his 75th birthday.

Ticket prices for the Music Box show are $20 in advance and $22 day of show. To order tickets, call 216-242-1250. Tickets are also available online at musicboxcle. com. Admission to the Rock Hall show is free.

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MUSIC THE TALKING CURE Local rapper Archie Green uses music and therapy to combat depression

By Emanuel Wallace LOCAL RAPPER/PRODUCER Archie Green has asked himself more than once why he felt suicidal over the past couple of years. On a recent evening at the Tavern Company on Lee Road, Green appears to ride a different kind of wave. Earlier in the week, he appeared with a handful of other rappers in a roundtable discussion on the Vice website about depression and its place in hip-hop, and the song he created tackling the subject, “Layers,” piled up streams on SoundCloud.

“I kind of hit a breakthrough in terms of getting back to normal, so to speak, or getting to a point where I was basically over my depression,” Green says. “At the same time, I was compelled to write about it. That, in itself, was a therapeutic experience for me. So, as far as putting it out as an artist, it’s our job to be transparent and tell our story in hopes of there being someone else who can also relate.”

Green, who in his earlier days went by the moniker SoulKlap, still reflects on the darker period. He had come back to Ohio after earning his Master’s in music business at NYU. He got a DUI and lost his license for a year in the process of it all.

“The DUI was a traumatic experience,” Green says. “But what I hadn’t realized was that I had been depressed for a period of time leading up to that. It was truly manifested after this traumatic event, but I had been depressed primarily from times where I might not gave gotten the support that I felt like I wanted. Not just from fans and peers, but also my parents — not to say that they didn’t support me, but they were afraid.”

Green says he was also worried that if he “put all my eggs into this one basket of music, there’s no guarantee that I’ll be able to make a decent living off of it.

“After my DUI and my license being suspended, I was basically isolated. It was self-imposed isolation because at the time I lived with my parents in Aurora, which is out in the middle of fuckin’ nowhere. It took at least 20 to 30 minutes to get anywhere near civilization in my

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book. So I felt like I would’ve been a burden calling on friends [to hang out or for rides].”

That period of time was rough for Green, but at the behest of one of his fraternity brothers, he began to seriously consider seeking professional help.

“There was a lot of asking God ‘Why?’ and a lot of talking

you, but you might want to talk to someone.’”

Green made it official following an episode when he and the rest of his family were celebrating Thanksgiving.

“I was renting a house with my sister,” Green says. “This was two years ago. After dinner, I needed to go to my room to be alone.

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to myself,” Green recalls. “A lot of prayer. I was nudged by one of my friends, who’s also a therapist. He said, ‘Hey, it might not be a bad idea to reach out to somebody and talk about what’s going on. Not saying that there’s anything wrong with

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It was almost like I had gotten claustrophobic or some shit. I didn’t know what it was, but it was weird because I’ve been around these people for all of my entire life and all of a sudden I needed to be alone.

That’s when I knew I needed to

see what’s really going on. After going to a therapist, that’s when I was clinically diagnosed with depression.”

Green swears by his therapist and recommends it for anyone who feels they need someone to talk to. But he’s well aware of the stigma that comes along with mental health care — especially in the black community.

“There’s definitely a stigma, and it has to be talked about,” Green insists. “The other thing I wanted to break down was the belief that depression is this rare disease.

Depression is a lot more common than people think. It’s very common — especially right now as an African American male in the 21st century in America. I can look at my timeline on Facebook or Instagram, I can look at the Cleveland Police Department and hear about certain injustices and be depressed about that.”

He thinks that stereotypes about black men contribute to the problem.

“Black men are looked upon by some to be very manly, very masculine, and being depressed or being a crybaby, or whatever you want to call it, is emasculating,” he says. “Because of that, when there’s something mentally wrong we think, ‘Well, I’ll talk myself out of it’ or ‘I’ll go see my pastor about it,’ but we’ll definitely keep it inhouse. The thing with depression is that it could be genetic, it could be a chemical imbalance in the brain.

There’s nothing at all wrong with you, it’s just that some tools need to be rearranged.”

Although he’s much better, Green still sees his therapist. And he’s happy to share his experience through his music with anyone who will listen.

“I’m in a very happy place,” he says. “I have bad days just like anyone else, but they’re just regular bad days, nothing that would send me over the edge. It’s not nearly as bad as it was, because I’ve been able to talk through it. If I can help usher in this discussion, let’s do it.”

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Savages/Head Wound City: Listening to the post-punk of Savages is like watching a tornado approach your home: The deafening roar in the distance signals the impending demolition of your most basic comforts and complacencies. Guitars groan, reel, and gnash violently while singer Jehnny Beth, a classically trained opera singer, restrains them with her exorcising incantations.

After seducing critics and fans alike with the complex social commentary of their 2013 debut, Silence Yourself, Savages wasn’t sure what to do when Beth started writing about a more “delicate” subject: love. But love isn’t always a sultry summer sunset; primal desire and rejection can be bonecrushing tidal waves. According to the manifesto that accompanies Adore Life, the album advocates for self-satisfaction in love and in life, which often requires skirting society’s obligations and expectations. The band has played many auditoriums, but tonight it’ll summon from a more intimate stage. (Bethany Kaufman) 8:30 p.m., $20. Grog Shop.

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

Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo: 7:30 p.m., $39.50-$65. Hard Rock Rocksino.

Bluewater Kings Band: 8 p.m., free.

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Boston: 8 p.m., $27.50-$67.50.

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Gary Hall: 10 p.m. Barking Spider Tavern.

Randy Napoleon Trio: 8 p.m., $12.

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Old 97s/Heartless Bastards/BJ Barham: 8 p.m., $26. Beachland Ballroom.

SS Web/Gypsywolf/Thunder Cougar/ Falcon Hawk: 9 p.m., $5. Now That’s Class.

Scott Stapp/Rockett Queen/Seldom: 7:30 p.m., $30 ADV, $35 DOS. The Kent Stage.

Tri-C Soundworks: 7 p.m., $15.

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Punch Lines and Pair in 1994 and Rat Ass Pie in 1998), instead focusing its energies on putting out singles on a plethora of punk labels. Dave Parasite now splits his time between running his own label, Kid Tested Records, and keeping the band active through shows. Catch their first Cleveland appearance in four years.

(Kaufman) 9 p.m., $7. Now That’s Class.

Weekend Nachos/Homewrecker/ Vice/Wasted Blood: This gig has its fair share of storylines.

Legendary power-violence quartet Weekend Nachos are making a final Cleveland stop on their farewell tour; hometown boys Homewrecker are playing their 2012 LP Worms & Dirt in full; and Wasted Blood will be calling it quits after their opening set.

Add Ohio hardcore mainstays Vice

into the mix, and you have one of the best punk lineups of the year so far. Expect plenty of violent guitar riffage from Nachos, as they’ve made themselves known for their groovy yet grind-y style throughout their career — 2012’s Worthless, their most popular release, is chockfull of it. Fan favorites “Hometown Hero” and “Jock Powerviolence,” both off Worthless, will certainly pop up in their set at some point. If a stressful work week has you daydreaming of mosh pits, don’t miss this one. (Eli Shively) 8:30 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Grog Shop.

Blu Jazz Jam with Theron-Brown: 8 p.m., $8. BLU Jazz+.

Clash Of the Tartans: 7 p.m. Packy Malley’s Bar. Chris Hatton’s Musical Circus (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m. Brothers Lounge.

Hillbilly Idol/Neon Don & Eva Dilcue/Poor Howard Stith: 6 p.m.

Barking Spider Tavern.

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

Randy Napoleon: 8 p.m., $20.

Nighttown.

Piano Bar with Lounge Kitty (in the Supper Club): 8 p.m., $7.

Music Box Supper Club.

Shivering Timbers/The Sundresses/ Eddie Doldrum: 9 p.m., $5. Happy Dog. Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder: 8 p.m., $35-$45. The Kent Stage.

Sweepyheads/Five Pound Snap/Kid Tested: 8:30 p.m., $5. Beachland Tavern.

Mark Zaleski Band: 8 p.m., $12. Bop Stop.

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“The cool thing about working with a producer who’s a guitar player is that you can dick around with guitar sounds,” he says. “We had a wall of amps and it looked like something out of Spinal Tap. I was looking for different guitar sounds. I love to hear people like B.B. King and Albert King. You can recognize their guitar sounds right away. But I also liked Jimi Hendrix and what he does. It’s like canvas painting. I would hate to paint with the same color.” (Jeff Niesel) 8 p.m., $15 ADV, $18 DOS. Music Box Supper Club.

Dierks Bentley/Randy Houser/Cam/ Tucker Beathard: 7 p.m., $33$57.75. Blossom.

District 97/Axon Neuron/Tiles/ Figurehead: 9 p.m., $10. Musica.

Shannon Eller Sextet: 8 p.m., $12.

Bop Stop.

Friday Concert Series Featuring J. Scott Franklin (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m. Brothers Lounge.

Carlos Jones and the PLUS Band/ Midnight Trail Band/George Foley & Friends: 5:30 p.m.

Barking Spider Tavern.

JP and the Outside Voices/Veseria: 9 p.m., $5. The Euclid Tavern.

Dennis Lewin: 10:30 p.m., free.

Nighttown.

Meat Loaf: 7:30 p.m., $57.50-$99.50.

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Merrick (Rocks the) House Featuring Cleveland’s Breakfast Club: 7 p.m., $25. House of Blues.

Mint Condition: 8:30 p.m., $45$92.50. The Tangier.

Organism with Howie Smith/ David Thomas/Bob Ferrazza/ Bill Ransom: 8:30 p.m., $15.

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Bieber, followed a similar trajectory to one of his earliest pop compatriots. Cutting his first single, “I Confess,” at age 14, Paul Anka began a storied career as a singer/songwriter and actor in 1957. His first hit, “Diana,” topped the Canadian and American charts and is one of the best selling singles by any Canadian musician.

He kept busy behind the scenes in the years after; Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show theme song was a reworking of Anka’s “Toot Sweet,” and he earned writing credits on classics such as Tom Jones’ “She’s a Lady” and Frank Sinatra’s “My Way.” Although some of the high notes he hit in his youth now elude the 74-year-old, he still has the energy and stage presence to put on a great show. (Jacob DeSmit) 8 p.m., $53.50-$85. Hard Rock Rocksino.

Dave Matthews Band: By now, Dave Matthews Band has long been established as a force in the national touring circuit.

This summer marks their 25th anniversary — a silver point in time that connects halcyon shows in Charlottesville with larger-thanlife gigs at sheds across America.

Blossom happens to bring out some good vibes in this band. In 2014, Bela Fleck surprised us all with a sit-in, and last year’s show led us through an old-school setlist with blistering treatments on each song. It’s almost summer, and Dave’s shows really capture the spirit of this season. Plus, the band has announced that they will not tour during 2017. Get on the bus while ya can. (Eric Sandy) 8 p.m., $40.50-$85. Blossom.

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Ryan Anthony (left) and mentor Michael Sachs.

RYAN’S HOPE CIM grad returns to headline benefit concert A CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF Music grad widely regarded as one of the top trumpet players in the world — he trained locally with the Cleveland Orchestra’s Michael Sachs — Ryan Anthony was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 2012. Diagnosed the day before Thanksgiving, the guy played the National Anthem to open the annual Dallas Cowboys Thanksgiving game.

At the time of diagnosis, his bone marrow was 80 percent cancer cells.

And yet, he’s persevered and continues to perform in order to raise money for cancer research. He’s coming to Cleveland next week to work with local students and perform a benefit concert, Cancer Blows, at 7 p.m. on Friday at Severance Hall.

“Ryan finds the soul and spirit of music better than anyone I’ve ever heard on the trumpet,” says Gary Ciepluch, a CIM and CWRU professor and Anthony’s former teacher, in a press release.

After graduating from the Cleveland Institute of Music, Anthony soloed with major orchestras around the world and performed with the Canadian Brass. He’s currently Principal Trumpet of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra – Jeff Niesel

TOMMY SHAW TO JOIN CYO Cleveland’s Contemporary Youth Orchestra will often perform with rock musicians. The latest such concert finds the group paired with Styx guitarist Tommy Shaw, who joins the ensemble at 8 p.m. on Friday, May 27, at Cleveland State University’s

Waetjen Auditorium. Currently in its seventeenth year, CYO’s annual Rock the Orchestra has featured acts such as Ben Folds, Graham Nash, Bootsy Collins and Jon Anderson of Yes. This year marks the 10th anniversary of CYO’s performance with Styx in 2006.

The performance will feature music from Styx, Damn Yankees, Shaw Blades, and Shaw’s solo career.

“We are honored and excited to have Tommy Shaw join us for his first solo acoustic show with orchestra, celebrating the ten year anniversary of the Styx and CYO show,” says music director Liza Grossman in a press release. “His unique voice will soar above the orchestra and his fans will hear his songs in a format like never before.”

CYO features 115 students from 64 Northeast Ohio school districts. Tickets for Tommy Shaw and Contemporary Youth Orchestra are available at cyorchestra. org. – Jeff Niesel

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By Dan Savage Dear Dan, My husband and I have been married for 16 years.

We have been polyamorous for the last five years. We are a bit mismatched sexually in many ways. Polyamory was our solution. For much of this time, my husband had a girlfriend. Before I go on, let me say that I adore my husband in all ways except sex. We are raising a child together and are a good fit otherwise. I no longer have any desire to have sex with my husband. Lots of men and women write in to complain about their partner’s low libido. This is not the case.

My libido is fi ne. I just don’t want to have sex with my husband. Whenever we would have sex in the past, I would get anxious and try to avoid it. We each have our issues. He feels insecure and has trouble maintaining erections. I always felt desexualized — not by him, but when I was younger.

Being a poly woman dating in my 40s has been incredibly empowering and sexy. But my husband’s experiences have been different. He is frustrated because it is hard for him to meet women, and his frustration is made worse by the fact that I don’t want sex with him either. When he had a girlfriend, our sex life wasn’t as much of an issue. What should I do? He’s unhappy.

I’m frustrated. Neither of us wants to divorce. Should I force myself?

— Lady In Baltimore Isn’t Desiring Obligatory Sex It is a truth universally acknowledged — in the poly universe anyway — that a married poly woman will have an easier time fi nding sex partners than a married poly man. Some men in open/ poly relationships present themselves as dishonest cheaters rather than honest nonmonogamists because women would rather fuck a married man who’s cheating on his wife than a married man

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