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Dedicated to Free Times founder Richard H. Siegel (1935-1993) and Scene founder Richard Kabat Group Publisher Chris Keating Publisher Andrew Zelman

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Associate Publisher Angela Lott Editor Vince Grzegorek

We take a look at the East Cleveland mayor’s race, the latest in the community’s Q deal response, and more

Editorial Managing Editor Eric Sandy Music Editor Jeff Niesel Senior Writer Sam Allard Staff Writer Brett Zelman Writer-at-large Kyle Swenson Web Editor Laura Morrison Dining Editor Douglas Trattner Contributing Dining Editor Rachel Hunt Stage Editor Christine Howey Visual Arts Editor Josh Usmani Copy Editor Elaine Cicora Interns Johnny Cook, Lawrence Neil

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The definitive list of new restaurants, all opening soon in Northeast Ohio!

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All the events you should check out this week

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UPFRONT KARI OATMAN JOINS PIVOTAL EAST CLEVELAND MAYOR’S RACE

THIS WEEK

ON THE HEELS OF A MAYORAL recall last December, the voters of East Cleveland turn now toward a municipal election this November.

Current Mayor Brandon King has not yet filed his candidacy with the Board of Elections, but all signs point to him running. (He assumed leadership after former Mayor Gary Norton and former Council President Thomas Wheeler were ousted).

So far, seven candidates have joined the race, including first-timer Kari Oatman. Scene met with her recently to talk about the direction of her hometown and what awaits on the horizon for East Cleveland.

In the wake of last year’s headspinning presidential election, Oatman joined her friends in taking up the Indivisible movement — a resistance to how politics were unfolding in 2017 and a widespread mobilization of U.S. citizens. One of the underlying tenets of the movement is direct contact with elected representatives, and, indeed, a steady stream of phone calls and emails has rolled into Washington for the past few months — more than double the usual amount.

The Indivisible movement also encourages citizens to run for local office. Oatman says she’d considered running in East Cleveland for years, and 2017 seemed to bring about the right confluence of events for her to make the decision. “I think there’s a time and a place when you have to step up and civically do your due diligence if you want to have change,” she says.

Looking around at the state of East Cleveland, it’s clear that something has to give. Merger talks with the city of Cleveland have largely publicly stalled, and the conversation about how to fund

“I think there’s a time and a place when you have to step up and civically do your due diligence if you want to have change.”

the city’s future continues apace in council meetings, in library meetings, at church.

The city remains in fiscal emergency, according to the state auditor’s office. Funding for public services remains a top priority for East Cleveland, and Oatman is very familiar with that.

“We can’t just rely on state funding, federal funding and grant funding,” she says. The key to a healthier budget, she adds, is growing the city’s network of investors and a broader private tax base.

The border with Cleveland’s University Circle, of course, is central to that idea. Already, investment is brewing on East

BUMPY PICNIC New report shows Ohio natural gas production soaring, even while national output decreases.

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Cleveland’s southern hemline.

Oatman says that the key to working with University Circle stakeholders in encouraging “organic” growth. She says that, as mayor, she would outline three business districts in East Cleveland: Euclid Avenue, Hayden Avenue and Noble Road. “We want to try to get different independent small businesses in,” she says. The “spillover effect” from University Circle’s economic development successes can be treated as a foundation for East Cleveland’s growth.

And for private residents, the housing stock is a vital component of city tax revenues as well.

Oatman’s plan will determine who

owns every home in East Cleveland and urge payment of back taxes or forfeiture to the city — at which point the city will rate homes on a 1-5 scale and either demolish what needs to be demolished or market the rehabbed homes to prospective new residents like single mothers and veterans. “We’ve got to up our population,” Oatman says.

What the development problems — and the infrastructure problems — demand is open communication between city leadership and its residents. For too long, as anyone who’s attended a public meeting in East Cleveland can attest, internal distractions have taken up a lot of public time.

“It is years of infighting,

THE OTHER OTHER DRAFT CO-WRITTEN BY STAN LEE ‘American Ninja Warrior’ to film on Public Square May 8-9. Browns coach Hue Jackson will be sending talent scouts to both days’ taping.

Free Comic Book Day brings fans to stores this weekend. Citing villainous plot lines and humorous quips, Councilman Mike Polensek will perform one-man act “Q Deal: Descent” in line at Carol & John’s.

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mismanagement,â€? Oatman says. “I think in some cases, lots of things have come to pass that the people who are on council currently inherited. I salute anyone who stepped up to the plate to try to correct this. But you look at things like the ďŹ nancials of the city: Have they been allocated properly? You look at the audits for the city, and there are so many holes and gaps: This is not the proper way that things should be managed. I think that we’re going to have to make some drastic changes very quickly if we want to maintain our — and I don’t want to say ‘sovereignty,’ but if we want to maintain our own thing.â€?

There are many visions for East Cleveland, but Oatman’s begins with the word “community.� She recalls street festivals, neighborhood gatherings at Forest Hills Park and just generally a better sense of morale in East Cleveland when she was growing up in the 90s. “There may not have been a ton of money, but we were better using what we had,� she says, adding that the city still has a spectrum of great programs available for residents — but that they aren’t being marketed well to the people.

It’s hard not to look back at East Cleveland’s past, the home of John D. Rockefeller and the wonders of Euclid Avenue. But what’s past is merely prologue, and Oatman insists that there’s a very important conversation that needs to happen in the city right now. “There’s nothing to say we can’t have that back, but we do have to look at it from a modern standpoint,â€? Oatman says. “I don’t think our history lies in gentriďŹ cation. That’s worked in Ohio City in Tremont, and that’s OK; for us, it’s multicultural linguistics.

It’s learning how we can come together to create new histories, new businesses, new restaurants.

We don’t even have a coffee shop!

How are we going to attract young professional families?� — Eric Sandy

METROHEALTH’S TRANSGENDER JOB FAIR COUNTERS ONGOING DISCRIMINATION The third annual Transgender Job Fair returned to MetroHealth recently, offering a welcoming space for men and women too often stuck on the wrong end of employment

discrimination in Ohio.

The job fair brings a bunch of inclusive companies together — many of them national brands, like Starbucks and Progressive — and introduces them to transgender men and women seeking work in the Cleveland area. “It is simply to provide opportunity for a group of people that sometimes has difďŹ culty accessing work,â€? says Ginger Marshall, a member of Metro’s patient/family advisory council and a transgender woman herself. “We tend to get screened out.â€?

She’s referring to the process of employers running background checks and ďŹ nding incongruities between prospective employees’ legal names and, say, former names that might show up on credit reports or other records from the past. Those can be explained away, of course, but very often employers will shut down the screening process if differently gendered names are coming up — well before any HR rep even picks up the phone for a ďŹ rst-round interview.

That’s where the Transgender Job Fair comes in, and, by all accounts, this year’s event was a big step in a helpful direction. “It’s kind of old-fashioned,�

Marshall says. “I don’t know if you’ve looked for work lately, but the process is horrendous: online applications that can take a couple of hours to ďŹ ll out. You get screened out by machines based on keywords, and you never actually talk to a human being.â€?

We’ll point briey to a major report published by the Williams Institute a few years back: “As recently as 2010, 78 percent of respondents to the largest survey of transgender people to date reported having experienced harassment or mistreatment at work, and 47 percent reported having been discriminated against in hiring, promotion, or job retention because of their gender identity.â€? Some cities maintain legal language that prohibits discrimination based on gender identity and gender expression — and some companies do, too — but this sort of discrimination lurks far more systemically that local legislators might publicly admit.

Gov. John Kasich, for his part, says he hasn’t heard about anything like that. On the campaign trail last year, with regard to anti-LGBT discrimination, he remarked: “If you’re feeling like somebody is doing something wrong against you, can you just for a second get

Q DEAL REFERENDUM EFFORT HEATS UP IN EARNEST Calling the Q deal “deeply awed,â€? Greater Cleveland Congregations announced a new coalition of local citizen organizations that will begin gathering signatures for a voter referendum in an effort to repeal the controversial legislation passed last week.

The ordinance in question (305-17) commits an estimated $88 million of city money to the Q project from 2023-2034. It has been the subject of extensive debate

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With 173 locations, the retailer has eclipsed Cleveland Clinic as the state’s biggest employer.

75 New market-rate apartment units that will soon be coming to Tremont when developer Mike Tricarichi builds his four-story complex on the corner of W. 11th and FairďŹ eld.

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as it has progressed â&#x20AC;&#x153;like a knife through butterâ&#x20AC;? (quoting Ward 8 Councilman Mike Polensek), through the county and city councils.

It was never expected to fail.

The $88 million represents the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s contribution in the arenaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exterior overhaul, which may cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $280 million after interest payments and the creation of a sports facility renovation reserve. The city funds will come from a portion of the eight-percent admissions tax collected on ticketed events at the Q. County council voted to issue $140 million in bonds for the project after lengthy deliberations earlier this year.

Greater Cleveland Congregations, the organization that has led the opposition effort thus far, is now joined by Service Employees International Union Local 1199, the Cuyahoga County Progressive Caucus, AFSCME Ohio Council 8, and Amalgamated Transit Union Local 268. Together, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll begin collecting the necessary 6,000 signatures. They have 30 days to submit them.

The coalition has been meeting to explore strategies for weeks â&#x20AC;&#x201D; GCC has said that â&#x20AC;&#x153;all options were on the tableâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but they met recently at Olivet Institutional Baptist Church to ďŹ nalize their next steps on the referendum. â&#x20AC;&#x153;From the beginning there has been an unwillingness to develop a deal that addresses the critical ills in our neighborhoods like high unemployment, inadequate mental health crisis centers, increasing gun violence, and persistent challenges in schools,â&#x20AC;? said Pastor Richard Gibson, one of GCCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leaders, in a press release. â&#x20AC;&#x153;More energy has been spent attacking our proposal than considering or developing a deal that would more broadly impact our city and county.â&#x20AC;?

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an important point. GCC has long cried foul that the deal was never subject to meaningful negotiation with input from residents. It was presented to the public, fully formed and â&#x20AC;&#x153;to much fanfare and celebrationâ&#x20AC;? at a press event in December. As Kevin Kelley veriďŹ ed to Scene, all city council was prepared to do was ratify the deal, not change or expand it. It was Kelley, nevertheless, who was said to have negotiated additional provisions to sweeten the deal hours before the ďŹ nal council vote.

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gestures, the Cavs have agreed to â&#x20AC;&#x153;refurbishâ&#x20AC;? the gym floors at city rec centers and CMSD high schools â&#x20AC;&#x201D; about 53 gym floors at roughly $15,000 a pop, per councilman Matt Zone â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a far cry from the dollar-for-dollar match that GCC has proposed.

Negotiating a community benefits agreement, the GCC said, is a practice â&#x20AC;&#x153;that has become commonplace across the country when municipalities seek significant public subsidy for development projects such as sports arenas, yet has never been done in Clevelandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history.â&#x20AC;?

While the city does have a â&#x20AC;&#x153;CBAâ&#x20AC;? in place for development projects, it deals exclusively with hiring goals. And while hiring local and minority labor is important, GCC has contended that those considerations should be â&#x20AC;&#x153;baked intoâ&#x20AC;? every city project â&#x20AC;&#x201D; before benefits negotiations.

Like others who oppose the deal, including several of the city councilmen, the new coalition highlighted an array of difficulties facing the region that could be

neighborhoodsâ&#x20AC;? and erroneously wrote that it would create 700 new permanent jobs â&#x20AC;&#x201D; it will create an estimated 2,500 construction jobs and zero permanent jobs â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and repeated the lie that the Cavs will cover costs if actual tax revenue comes up short.

As County Council discovered and City Council confirmed, the public will be covering shortfalls. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Sam Allard

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Monday morning, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the most popular politician in the United States, by one recent poll â&#x20AC;&#x201D; spoke at the Global Center for Health Innovation.

He outlined key issues on his progressive agenda (these were dissident ideas, he said, ideas that Americans donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like to talk about), and thrashed the early Presidency of Donald Trump. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My greatest fear,â&#x20AC;? said Sanders, echoing a theme of his presidential campaign â&#x20AC;&#x153;is that we are moving rapidly toward an oligarchy.â&#x20AC;?

Sanders spoke of massive wealth inequality in the U.S. and

the panoply of issues stemming therefrom: the degrees to which political campaigns are financed by corporations, a villainous pharmaceutical industry, climate change denial in the service of fossil fuel companies.

He also highlighted the ways in which President Trump has drifted from his campaign rhetoric about being a â&#x20AC;&#x153;different kind of Republicanâ&#x20AC;? who would â&#x20AC;&#x153;stand up to the establishment.â&#x20AC;? Sanders placed Trumpâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attempts to abolish the estate tax, which affects only the top two-tenths of one percent of Americans, and his aggressive efforts to cut social programs for working people in stark contrast to campaign promises. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The job of progressives is not just to oppose Trumpâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reactionary agenda,â&#x20AC;? said Sanders. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In addition, what we need to do is bring forth a progressive agenda that addresses the needs of working families, an agenda that has a very different moral compass to that of President Trump.â&#x20AC;?

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addressed in a CBA. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The push for the Q expansion has taken place in the backdrop of Cleveland experiencing its worst street violence in decades and Cuyahoga County being the epicenter of the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s opioid epidemic,â&#x20AC;? the press release concluded. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The region remains one of the hardest-hit by the foreclosure crisis and slowest to recover. The county is $1 billion in debt and the city of Cleveland recently needed to pass a major income tax increase on regular working people to cover the costs of basic services in the city. There remains a better solution for our community.â&#x20AC;?

Because City Council passed 305-17 with a 2/3 majority â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Brian Cummins switched from a NO to a YES to make the final tally 12-5 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the ordinance received an emergency designation and took effect immediately. Frank Jackson signed it into law in a rhapsodic Facebook Live video last Tuesday.

And in Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Plain Dealer, he wrote an opinion piece once again calling the deal â&#x20AC;&#x153;one of the best the city of Cleveland has ever made,â&#x20AC;? an astonishing statement. He further characterized the project as â&#x20AC;&#x153;an investment in Clevelandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

persuasively has lost its way.

In a lively question and answer period — it was the longest line for questions we’ve ever seen at a City Club event — Sanders touched on issues of political activism, gerrymandering, the national Democratic agenda, his support for a Pro-Life candidate in Nebraska, and even the Q deal.

“I don’t want to get too involved in the local issue,” said Sanders, in response to the question posed by the Cuyahoga County Progressive Caucus, “but I will tell you this.

You have, all over this country, in many cases billionaires, people who own professional teams, who are going to taxpayers to ask for money. I don’t like that idea. That smacks to me of corporate welfare.

I think billionaires can fund their own endeavors, and when you talk about a city which has blight, which has educational problems, I think what government should be doing is investing in the needs of working people and low-income people.”

The early part of Sanders’ speech, about the perils of wealth inequality and the inordinate influence of money in politics, could be read as a direct (though accidental) condemnation of the Q deal. Later, in a question about what young people can do to get involved in politics, Sanders referenced basketball explicitly.

“I understand you take basketball very seriously here,”

the senator said, referencing the impending series against the Raptors. “But Democracy is not the LeBron James show. It’s you.”

—Allard

COSGROVE OUT Cleveland Clinic CEO Toby Cosgrove announced Monday morning that he will be stepping down from that role, which he’s held for 13 years.

A replacement is expected to be named by the board by the end of this year. (Cosgrove will stay on in an advisory role.)

Cosgrove worked as a cardiac surgeon at the Clinic for 30 years.

He got his start as a surgeon in the Air Force, serving in Vietnam.

“Cardiac surgery is an athletic event,” Cosgrove said once in a C-SPAN interview with David Lamb. “I had seen a lot of surgeons come to the end of their careers and not stop when their athletic abilities deteriorate. I wanted to stop before that happened.” He was named CEO in 2004.

“It is an honor and a privilege to be a part of an extraordinary and forward-thinking organization that puts patients at the center of everything we do,” Cosgrove said in a public statement this week.— Sandy

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EAT IT UP 25 new restaurants, breweries and bars we’re looking forward to this summer in Cleveland

By Douglas Trattner LOOSEN YOUR BELTS, CLEVELAND DINERS AND drinkers: The next few weeks and months will be filled with gobs of restaurant, bar and brewery openings. If you thought 2016, which brought the arrival of Salt, Mabel’s, The Plum, Proper Pig, and Parker’s Downtown, to name just a few, was a frenetic year for new eateries, just wait ‘til this summer when no fewer than 26 new spots will debut from east to west.

Buckle up, or, er, unbuckle, as the case may be. It’s shaping up to be a tremendous, delicious year.

NOW OPEN CHOW CHOW AT THE PARKVIEW It’s been a year and a half since Joseph Zegarac opened the popular Southern-styled shop Chow Chow Kitchen in Lakewood, and almost since the beginning the young chef was wondering where it all might lead. Expansion was the obvious choice, given the shop’s almost nonexistent dining room.

“I’ve met with people to discuss partnering up and I just get anxiety about more work just falling on me,” he says. “I never got the idea that someone would have my back and work with me until this situation came up.”

“This situation” is a new partnership with Mike Plonski of Parkview Nite Club. You can now find Zegarac running Chow Chow at the Parkview.

“Basically, we’re going to take pretty much everything that we love doing on both sides and collage it together,” says Zegarac. Parkview diners will get to enjoy Chow Chow staples on the reg, like Winner Dinner fried chicken and Nashville hot chicken, that crimson-crusted, devilishly spicy variation on a theme.

TERRESTRIAL BREWING COMPANY Since the Battery Park neighborhood was developed more than 10 years ago, the eastern half of the historic smokestacktopped powerhouse building has remained vacant. That changed last month when Terrestrial Brewing Company (7524 Father Frascati) took up residence within those red brick walls. The project, more than two years in the making, is from partners Ryan Bennett and Ralph Sgro.

Sgro, who is the brewer, was the opening GM at Platform Beer, where

he helped finish construction of that space and get it up and running.

“Since I started home brewing, this has been a dream of mine,” he says.

The owners were attracted to the building, formerly part of the Eveready Battery complex, and the proximity to Edgewater Park. But what appeals most to the owners is the number of current and future residents in the immediate area.

“We had the opportunity to go out to Portland, Oregon, to do a workshop with Portland Kettle Works [the brewing equipment manufacturer],” Sgro says. “Just seeing the beer scene there, it was very similar to Cleveland.

All these breweries pop up all the time there and it seemed like each brewery had its own little neighborhood that made it their own.”

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FEATURE There is no kitchen; instead guests can take advantage of the myriad local restaurants nearby like CHA Pizza Kitchen, GrafďŹ ti, Vita Urbana, Local West and Banter.

HOOK & HOOF For the past year, partners Hunter Toth and Chaz Bloom have been working to convert the old Fanucceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pizza shop (4125 Erie St.) in downtown Willoughby into Hook & Hoof, a New American kitchen, which recently opened. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I walked in the building and immediately fell in love with the old brick and character,â&#x20AC;? Toth notes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had this idea to build an old New York or Boston-style restaurant, with a long and tall room. I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want miles of square feet.â&#x20AC;?

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OPENING SOON AND THROUGH THE SPRING FOREST CITY SHUFFLEBOARD After nearly a year of construction, Jim Miketo is putting the ďŹ nishing touches on Forest City ShufďŹ&#x201A;eboard Arena and Bar (4506 Lorain Ave.), a gorgeous new entertainment option on the Ohio City-Detroit Shoreway border. A

complete gut-and-rebuild job on the former Supermercado Rico building on Lorain at West 45th has produced a spacious, but comfortable social club with indoor shufďŹ&#x201A;eboard, bar and kitchen. The business is on track for a mid-May opening.

Miketo, a Cleveland native and graduate of St. Edâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, lived in New York for eight years. It was there that he visited Royal Palms ShufďŹ&#x201A;eboard Club in Brooklyn and became enamored by the game and its followers.

“It’s one of those things that when you get people out there for the first time they really enjoy the experience,” he explains. “There’s really no physical exertion, there are low barriers to entry, and you’re able to have a few drinks while playing competitively against your friends.”

The building features five indoor and two outdoor courts. The “vintage varsity” boasts collegiate-style details like original baseball stadium seating, an old but functional scoreboard from Magnificat High, bleacher-board backbar, high-tops fabricated from basketball court hardwood, and a jumbotron that will hang from the rafters.

A fully equipped kitchen space, with service windows accessible from both inside and the outdoor patio, will be staffed by a rotating roster of local talent at all times.

Out front, the two outdoor shuffleboard courts will be flanked by a patio topped with green athletic turf keep the sports theme consistent.

BOILER 65 Owners Lawrence Harris and Srey Ny, a refugee of Cambodia who grew up in the Detroit Shoreway neighborhood, visited numerous similarly styled eateries throughout the country in preparation for this project.

Sometimes referred to as Cajunstyle seafood, boiling seafood, or even the less-than-tantalizing “seafood dump,” these fun, spirited restaurants have been proliferating across the nation after originating down south and out west. All feature seafood – almost always shellfish – that is steamed and then tossed in a bag with spices and delivered to the table.

Diners can “dump” the contents of the bag directly onto the wax papercovered tables or pluck it straight from the bag.

Meals will be built around crawfish, whole crab, head-on shrimp and lobster, which is steamed and tossed with a choice of flavors and spice levels. Flavors range from Cajun to lemon pepper, and the spice levels from mild to incendiary. Bags usually also contain andouille sausage, corn and potatoes.

Boiler 65 will open this week in Gordon Square.

SEAFOOD SHAKE That aforementioned boom in boiling seafood restaurants? It’s extending to the east side as well.

Ever since Winking Lizard closed its doors on Coventry last summer after nearly 20 years, there has been a flurry of activity inside the space.

Soon, all that prep activity will be

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done and Seafood Shake, much in the vein of Boiling Seafood on Lee Road and Boiler 65 in Detroit-Shoreway will debut.

Since taking possession, the owner has completely gutted the 3,000-square-foot space. Built-in booths are covered with awnings to lend a casual “outdoor picnic feel” to the interior.

A 12-foot-long, three-level fish tank will be filled with live seafood like lobster, Dungeness crabs, and other fish. In-season specials like live king crab and crawfish will join the usual line-up of oysters and shrimp. All of it will be sold by the piece or pound and is prepared in one of a couple ways, Cajun style or fried.

Look for Seafood Shake to open sometime in May. HI AND DRY Speaking of games…

The curtains came down on Press Wine Bar (2221 Professor Ave., 216-566-9463) this winter, but owner John Owen was ready with a plan for the space with a springtime debut including a new name, concept, and design.

The new concept has an old name: the Hi and Dry, which is the name of the tavern that the Southside replaced.

Sherman DeLozier, Southside owner and partner to Owen, says the name is intended as a tribute.

“I had my first date with my wife at the Hi and Dry, so it’s always had a special place in my heart,” he says.

The largest physical changes will take place in the large back room. That’s where approximately four duckpin bowling lanes will be

installed. Popular along the East Coast, duckpin features 10 short, squat pins and softball-sized balls with no finger holes. Bowlers get three balls per frame instead of the usual two. String-based pinsetters will right the fallen pins.

DeLozier, who admits that finedining was never really his thing, says that he appreciates the time and place when everything wasn’t so highbrow in Tremont.

“I’d love to bring some of those elements back,” he says.

Look for the Hi and Dry to begin the fun in the coming weeks.

CRU No restaurant project in recent — or distant, for that matter — memory comes close to Cru Uncorked with respect to spare-no-expense construction. The multi-million-dollar passion project in Moreland Hills is the vision and triumph of Bill Cutler, along with parents Sarah and Sandy, who is the retired CEO of Eaton Corp.

“Our biggest word here is experience,” Bill Cutler explains.

“There’s an experience when you arrive at the restaurant. There’s an experience when you walk into the restaurant. There’s an experience when you walk into the dining room.

And there’s an experience when you go into the lounge.”

Just 108 chairs are divided among those five spaces and servers will be responsible for no more than 14 guests at a time, guaranteeing that no request goes unheeded.

John Stropki, a classically trained French chef, will preside over a

seasonal, Continental-style menu that favors high-end ingredients like foie gras, lobster, duck and tenderloin.

Appetizers, priced $10 to $20, include grass-fed beef tartare with truffle caviar and a quail egg; bordelaise-glazed escargot with a lemon herb salad; and lobster bisque with lobster meat and foam.

Entrees on the spring menu, priced $30 to $50, include a sweet pea ravioli with braised radishes and wild mushrooms; striped sea bass with artichoke emulsion and favas; and a lavender-scented duck breast with duck confit-stuffed onions and hazelnut farro.

Fitting for a restaurant named Cru, a 6,000-bottle, 215-label wine inventory is spread among multiple temperature-controlled cellars and displays.

Cru debuts in mid-May. MARBLE ROOM STEAK AND RAW BAR When Marble Room Steak and Raw Bar opens downtown this month or next, it will immediately jump to the front of the line in terms of Cleveland’s most impressive dining rooms. The dramatic restaurant inside the historic bank lobby of the Garfield Building at East Sixth and Euclid was going to become the home of Jeff Ruby’s Steakhouse. When that deal fell through, there was little doubt who would step in to fill its shoes.

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FEATURE (623 Euclid Ave.). The pair also own Lockkeepers restaurant in Valley View, and Frank is CEO of Clevelandbased Millennia Companies, the owner of the building.

Guests who step off Euclid Avenue and spin their way through the revolving door will be floored by the immense volume of the room, a highceilinged space that exceeds 10,000 square feet.

Twin lounges with elegant soft seating will flank the central host stand. To the right will be a bar devoted to sushi and raw bar. To the left, a bowed 20-seat marble bar is positioned between columns, above which will rise a two-story wine cellar accessed via sliding ladder. Booth seating will be tucked in between columns on both sides of the room.

For those who don’t want a big, juicy USDA Prime porterhouse, there will be fresh-shucked oysters on the half shell, fresh-cut sushi, small plates and plenty of seafood.

The menu and kitchen will be overseen by Alberto Leandri, the Venice-born chef who for the past four years has been executive chef at Lockkeepers.

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THE LITERARY TAVERN For 30 years, the property at 1031 Literary Road in the heart of Tremont was known as the Literary Café, or “the Lit” for short. This past fall, Ross Valenti purchased the building from longtime owners Andy Timithy and Linda Baldizzi.

Valenti, a Tremont resident who also operates the Broadview Heights businesses D’Agnese’s and Cantine, appreciates the building’s history, both architecturally and operationally, and intends to honor it.

“I want to keep the integrity of what it was, because I’m old enough to remember the old Hi and Dry and the Starkweather – the transitional years,” he says, noting a couple neighborhood classics that were drastically changed.

The bulk of the improvements are cosmetic, he says, with a storefront renovation chief among them. His goal for the 50-seat café, which will go by the new moniker the Literary Tavern, is to create a casual, comfortable and relevant place for neighbors to enjoy themselves.

“Like a modern take on a shot-anda-beer bar,” Valenti says. “The idea is to have the kind of place I would like to go to. Not a concept-heavy place; it’s not a gastro-tavern, it’s not a wine bar, it’s not a cocktail lounge. It’s just a neighborhood tavern.” | clevescene.com | May 3 - 9, 2017

NOBLE BEAST Things are coming together quickly at Noble Beast Brewery, the craft brewery and taproom from Shaun Yasaki. In just a handful of years, Yasaki has moved from wedding photographer to cellar rat at Fat Head’s, to opening brewer at Platform Beer, where he worked for a year and a half. He left that post to open up a place of his own.

That place turned out to be a 4,800-square-foot craft brewery at 1470 Lakeside, on the northeastern edge of downtown in what used to be a storage facility. Now the space features a custom designed 10-barrel brewhouse from Portland Kettle Works.

Though it is just blocks from the heart of downtown, its location on Lakeside feels like an entirely different neighborhood, where views of the lake and sturdy brick warehouses dominate the landscape Yasaki plans to open in May with a lineup of five beers and grow from there. The name Noble Beast, he explains, is an allusion to the style of beers he intends to brew.

“It will be a split between noble, classic beers like traditional German and Belgian styles and the crazy American styles.”

Chef James Redford, who has spent the last four years working for Ben Bebenroth and Spice Catering, will preside over a menu of “locally sourced pub fare.”

WORKING CLASS BREWERY AND TAPROOM “It’s full-steam ahead right now,” Richard Skains says about Working Class Brewery (17448 Lorain Ave., 216-965-2569), a new brewery and taproom that he’s opening with partner Carmen Rusoniello.

The former Cleveland teacher and band director is building out a 3,600-square-foot space in Kamm’s Plaza. The rear third of the property will be home to the 10-barrel brewhouse and six fermenters. The front two thirds will be the site of the 70-seat taproom. There will be no kitchen; guests will be invited to bring in food from area restaurants if they wish.

Skains says that as an avid homebrewer with summers off, he began working part-time at local breweries like Rocky River and Fat Head’s.

“I’m at the age where I’m transitioning from one profession to another and it really only makes sense to be an owner,” he says.

When it opens soon, Working Class initially will produce five year-

round styles, as well as seasonals and experimental one-offs. Beers will be sold onsite, but also canned and kegged for regional distribution.

ZAYTOON A year and a half ago, David Ina and his parents Ghada and Albert opened Al’s Deli (1717 E. 9th St., 216-589-9223) on the main floor of the Residences at 1717. That popular deli is one of the few places in town where a diner can order a corned beef sandwich alongside a homemade falafel pita.

“Some days we sell more chicken shawarma than we do Reubens,” Ina explains. “It amazes me the amount of traffic that comes in particularly for the Middle Eastern food, which makes us really confident with this new concept.”

That new concept is Zaytoon Lebanese Kitchen, a Middle Eastern café that will open this spring in the former Huron Square Deli space (1150 Huron Rd. E.) in the Halle Building.

Zaytoon will open early, offering Turkish coffee and Lebanese pastries like namoura, dense semolina bars flavored with orange blossom water, and kunafa in ka’ak, bubbling sweet cheese baked with shredded phyllo and tucked into sesame bread.

The lunch menu will feature lentil soup, salads like tabbouleh and fattoush, vegetarian and beef-filled grape leaves, spinach pies and meat pies, falafel, and beef and chicken shawarma rolled into pita sandwiches.

SMOKIN’ Q’S Back in December of 2015 we shared the news that Fisher’s Tavern (718 S.O.M. Center Rd.), the “oldest restaurant in Mayfield,” was closing after 82 years in business.

The owners had decided that the time was right to sell, which they did to restaurateur Carl Quagliata, the man behind such classics as Piccolo Mondo and Giovanni’s Ristorante.

In the coming weeks, Quagliata and chef Zachary Ladner will open Smokin Q’s, a barbecue restaurant serving smoked meats and sides as well as lighter fare, lunch-appropriate salads and sandwiches.

In addition to growing up in Texas and eating barbecue, Ladner says that he worked in a restaurant that focused heavily on smoked meats. Given his roots, the chef will certainly smoke beef, but he also recognizes our local fondness for pork, so that will find a place on the menu as well. All will be smoked using real wood, he promises.

ROOD FOOD AND PIE Brian Ruthsatz is a Cleveland native who’s been itching to get back

into the restaurant game since his days as an operator in Chicago. He’ll do just that come June, when Rood Food & Pie (17001 Madison Ave.) opens in the West Madison neighborhood of Lakewood.

Rood Food will be an all-day café that straddles the line between breakfast and dinner, sweet and savory, classic and contemporary.

What attracted Ruthsatz to this particular piece of property was the roomy back area that will serve as the on-site bakery.

In the morning, Rood will serve light breakfasts of coffee, espresso and tea with pastries, overnight oats, scotch eggs, and pie. Lunch might feature biscuits, savory chicken potpies with fresh herbs, and smashed toasts creamed with avocado, basiltomatoes and/or meats. Dinner will offer small plates like build-yourown slider flights on house-baked rolls. Items like refried jerk chicken, brisket and sloppy tofu will be paired with fresh-baked milk bread rolls or punchy curry rolls.

“The other piece of this, obviously, is the pie,” says Ruthsatz. “We want people to segue into pie. When you talk about pie, people smile.”

An in-house pastry chef will put a modern spin on classic pie recipes.

A few seasonal options might include peach with a green tea crust, blueberry chamomile, apple with Ohio maple syrup, and lemon meringue with a raspberry bottom.

LUCA WEST Since the summer of 2013, Luca Italian Cuisine (2100 Superior Viaduct, 216-862-2761) has been attracting lovers of fine food and atmosphere to the Superior Viaduct, where magical skyline views combine with gourmet Italian food and wine to create truly memorable nights.

Come mid-summer, owners Luca and Lola Sema will open a second location, this one in Westlake at the former Viva Fernando/Viva Barcelona spot (24600 Detroit Rd.). Following a total renovation of the space, Luca West will debut with a similar menu and wine program to the downtown location.

BOSS DOG A year and a half ago. Lemon Grass Thai Cuisine closed its doors after 20 years. The stand-alone building was almost immediately purchased by local business owner Yashar Yildirim, who took his time searching for a suitable tenant for the space near the Cedar Lee Theatre.

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FEATURE Boss Dog Brewing (2179 Lee Rd.), a 10-barrel brewery and restaurant that should plug a gaping hole in the immediate landscape.

“We’ve been looking for the right space for two years,” says Josh. “We wanted to stick to the East Side; we’re Heights people, both my parents went to Heights High.”

To get to this point, the brothers played the ultimate long game, starting down a path five years ago with this exact end game in mind.

“We started out as your average homebrewers, doing it on our stove,” explains Josh.

Boss Dog beers will be sold exclusively onsite to begin with. As for the style of beer, Josh says they won’t likely be timid.

“Definitely more on the bold side,” he says. “We love hoppy beers, and coming from Fat Head’s, their beers are pretty hop-forward. But we’ll do a lot of different styles.”

The decision to include a fullservice restaurant stems from the fact that the space is roomy but also the nature of the surrounding neighborhood.

“We want to be a community centered place and I think that lends itself to an actual sit-down restaurant with good food and greet beer.”

Diners can expect gastropub-style fare when Boss Dog opens its doors this summer.

CITIZEN PIE, OHIO CITY VERSION The popular Neapolitan-style pizza shop Citizen Pie (15710 Waterloo Rd., 216-417-2742) is expanding and you can basically hear the whole west side of town squeal in delight.

The team has inked a deal to open a second location, this one in the SoLo neighborhood of Ohio City, a block or so south of the West Side Market.

The original in Collinwood continues to exceed the expectations of both the owners and customers.

“It’s just this tiny little place, but we have become a destination,” says owner Claudia Young.

The team, which also includes chef Vytauras Sasnauskas and partner Paulius Nasvytis, will be dishing up the same great woodfired pies in an eatery twice the size of the original when it opens this summer.

“It’s going to be pretty much along the same lines, but each shop will have its own flavor and vibe,” says Young.

New additions will include a few salads and Saltimbocca Neapolitan

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sandwiches, which basically take all the usual pizza ingredients and assemble them into sandwich form.

Think wood-fired pizza dough for bread filled with mozzarella, arugula, tomatoes and prosciutto, which will be sliced in house on a shiny new slicer.

Also new to the roster will be pizza fritta, a Neapolitan street food that quickly deep fries a stuffed doubledough pie.

SAUCY BREW WORKS Hingetown recently welcomed Spaces Gallery as one of its newest attractions. Another marquee addition will be opening soon: Saucy Brew Works from brewer Eric Anderson, formerly of Butcher and the Brewer, and partner Brent Zimmerman.

Saucy promises to provide a fun, casual brewery and self-serve pizza concept in the old Steelman Building on Detroit and West 29th.

By self-serve, Anderson means that customers will place their orders for beer and food up at the counter and grab seats in the open, industrial space. Based on the popular West Coast chain Pizza Port, the concept employs pizza ovens with baking stone conveyor belts that bake pies in less than two minutes.

“They will be New Haven-style: medium-thin crust with lots of sauce and toppings,” says Anderson.

The name obviously refers to pizza sauce, but it also is a reference to Anderson’s at-times unconventional brewing practices. This is the man, after all, who concocted a white stout called Albino.

“It’s a double entendre,” he says.

“Pizza is saucy, but it also refers to the way I approach beer with a little

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irreverence.”

In addition to the sours, and a full slate of classic styles, Anderson will push the boundaries when it comes to experimental beers and hybrids that straddle the line between beer and wine. He’s a graduate of the Master Brewing Program at the Siebel Institute of Technology, the nation’s oldest brewing school.

“I’ll use my microbiology background to make some mixedyeast fermentations to create some new flavor profiles that just don’t exist with standard off-the-shelf yeasts,” he explains.

XINJI NOODLE BAR The boom along Lorain Avenue in Ohio City just keeps on going. Soon, a Japanese-style noodle shop will join Platform Beer, The Grocery, Herb’n Twine, the Plum, Jack Flaps and Ohio City Provisions in that part of the neighborhood.

Owner Shuxin Liu, a cook of two years at Momocho, will open Xinji Noodle Bar (4211 Lorain Ave.), an ambitious farm-to-bowl eatery. When it opens this summer, the restaurant will specialize in Japanese-style ramen, Korean-style fried chicken, smoked chicken wings and steamed buns.

Liu says that each week, he’ll bring in whole pigs to use for the meat, broth and side dishes. The fat-and-gelatin-rich pork broth will be supplemented with meat from the belly, shoulder and neck, noodles, and traditional accompaniments like soy egg, scallions, bamboo shoots and wood ear mushrooms. What’s not used for the ramen will be crafted into charcuterie-style appetizers.

He also intends to expand the menu Citizen Pie from just ramen, Korean-style fried chicken and steamed buns to include small entrée dishes as he grows the business.

The bar will focus mainly on beer and sake, but will offer a few wines as well.

LBM, A COCKTAIL BAR AND KITCHEN For the past six years Eric Ho has worked at Melt in Lakewood, making his way up every rung of the industry ladder. Before the end of the year, he’ll take the next big step when he becomes an owner.

When it opens this summer, L.B.M. (you’ll have to find out what it stands for yourself) will be a casual cocktail bar with a full-service kitchen and chef. The inspiration for the concept originated in Chicago, says Ho. “Scofflaw in Chicago is my favorite bar,” he explains.

Ho says that his spot will utilize the same high-quality ingredients and talent of other cocktail bars, but at a price point that makes it more of an everyday type of place.

“A lot of it comes from the fact that I don’t have a bar that I’m comfortable sitting at,” he adds. “There are plenty of restaurants that have nice bars, but they close at 10 or 11 o’clock. And the ones that do go until 2:30 sometimes hurt the wallet a little bit. The drinks are really good but I can only go to them like once every three months or so.”

A full-service kitchen, run by an as-yet-unnamed chef, will prepare a menu of progressive American small plates.

The 1,300-square-foot interior will

have the look and feel of a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Viking drinking hall,â&#x20AC;? notes Ho. Think chunky woods, plenty of taxidermy, masculine as heck.

IL RIONE PIZZERIA Most of us are familiar with Clevelandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s well-known Little Italy neighborhood on the east side of town. But few of us know the history behind Clevelandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s west side Little Italy, clustered north of Detroit between W. 65th and 69th streets Along with partner Brian Moss, Holleran will channel that history with a new addition in an old billiard hall turned apartment building on W. 65th â&#x20AC;&#x201C; directly across the street from Stone Mad Pub - Il Rione Pizzeria (1303 W. 65th St.). The two have been developing the project since they worked together at Stone Mad. Holleran grew up in Jersey City, New Jersey, and says that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been lamenting the lack of what he calls â&#x20AC;&#x153;real New York/New Jersey-style pizzaâ&#x20AC;? since he moved to Cleveland a decade ago. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My goal was to try and replicate Spiritoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in Elizabeth, New Jersey,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you were to combine Spiritoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and Patsyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pizza [in New York], thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the ultimate goal.â&#x20AC;?

To Holleran, pizza perfection is a 16-inch pie baked in a Blodgett deck oven. It comes out with a crispy bottom â&#x20AC;&#x201C; â&#x20AC;&#x153;more like a baguette kind of doughâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and crispy crust enriched with a touch of olive oil. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There will be nothing creative about our place,â&#x20AC;? says Holleran. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are not trying to be fancy-pants, but we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to be fast food either.â&#x20AC;?

There will be beer, wine and a full bar, but donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t expect a menu of Manhattans and Sazeracs.

Because this project has been percolating for so long, Holleran says that he and his partner have watched in trepidation as new places continue to open up all around them. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Every time another pizza place or place that has pizza opens up weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d freak out and say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Somebody else is going to be the pizza people here!â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But then weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d go down and try it and say thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s totally not us, this is not even close to who we are, what we want to do, and how we want to make it. â&#x20AC;&#x153; BAD TOM SMITH Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d been chatter on the street that Bad Tom Smith Brewing Co., a small Cincinnati-based brewery, was looking to plant a ďŹ&#x201A;ag in Ohio City.

Now we know when â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and where â&#x20AC;&#x201C; that Northeast Ohio taproom will open.

Local operator Stephen Fellows said that the process of converting Weenie a Go Go (1836 W. 25th St.), a former

hot dog diner, into a small brewery and taproom is well underway and the beers, both brewed on site and shipped in from the Cincy brewery, should be ďŹ&#x201A;owing soon.

HEADTRIP BREWERY Nick Seagle has been home brewing for just over six years, but he says the time has come to make the leap. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be taking that jump with partner Tom Mitchell, when the pair opens Headtrip Brewery this summer on the Stow-Hudson border.

The Bainbridge and Cuyahoga Falls owners, both in their early 30s, are starting out small, both in terms of space and equipment. The 1,500-square-foot space in the Stow Hudson Towne Centre, a former Guava Juice Bar, will feature a small brewery and taproom. The operation will be open weekends only. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re deďŹ nitely nano,â&#x20AC;? Seagle says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are building a three-barrel system but will start with barrel-anda-half batches.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Small brewery, big dreams,â&#x20AC;? adds Mitchell.

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p.m. at the Happy Dog. Admission is $5. (Niesel) 5801 Detroit Ave., 216-651-9474, happydogcleveland.com.

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Art Doc Double Feature Tonight at 6:45, the Cleveland Museum of Art will screen two films about groundbreaking American artists. The first, What About Style? Alex Katz: A Painter’s Painter, focuses on Katz, a subject of a current CMA art exhibit that showcases nearly 80 key loans of Katz’s work. Tonight’s program also includes a screening of Everybody Knows... Elizabeth Murray, a film that pairs interviews and archival film clips with journal entries read

by Meryl Streep. Tickets cost $9, $7 for CMA members, students and seniors. (Jeff Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.

COMEDY

Bill Burr Aside from selling out shows internationally, comedian Bill Burr has made his way into a few movies — playing both serious and comedic roles — and put out five albums, all while being hailed as one of the top comedians in the industry. It’s for good reason, though, because the brutally honest Burr’s “against the grain” perspective on many of society’s quirks makes for sets that will both offend and delight. His tendency to cap his thoughts with “Ya know?” makes him seems more like a passionate everyday guy than a seasoned veteran putting on a show. He performs tonight at 7 and 9:30 p.m. at Hilarities. Tickets are sold out. (Jacob DeSmit) 2035 East Fourth St., 216-241-7425, pickwickandfrolic.com.

SPORTS

Cavs vs. Toronto Raptors The Cavs dominated the Raptors during the regular season, beating them in three of four meetings. But the Raptors still finished with one of the best records in the East and should be a formidable opponent for the Cavs. Tonight’s game begins at 7 at the Q. Tickets are sold out, but fans with or without a ticket to the game can experience Cavs playoff excitement at the popular free Cavs Fan Fest taking place outdoors at Gateway Plaza and along East Sixth St. (Niesel) 1 Center Court, 216-420-2000, theqarena.com.

FILM

MIX: Model comes to the Cleveland Museum of Art. See: Saturday.

MUSIC

CIM/CWRU Joint Music Program For nearly all of its 100-year history, the Cleveland Museum of Art has presented music from around the world, making its annual Performing Arts series part of a long tradition.

The series launches tonight with a CIM/CWRU Joint Music Program that features artists from the Cleveland Institute of Music and Case Western Reserve University’s early and baroque music programs. The musicians will present mixed programs of chamber music, and the concerts regularly feature instruments from the museum’s keyboard collection. Those concerts take place in the museum’s galleries at 6 p.m. on the first Wednesdays on the month through May. (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.

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The Cleveland Arts Prize The Cleveland Arts Prize is the oldest award of its kind in the United States. For more than 45 years, the organization has recognized local individual artists and arts advocates with special awards. From 6 to 8 tonight, MOCA Cleveland hosts a live announcement of the 2017 Cleveland Arts Prize winners. Wednesday’s event also includes the third installment of CAPtalks, featuring storytellers Cindy Barber, owner of the Beachland Ballroom & Tavern (CAP 2007), and geometric abstraction artist John Pearson (CAP 1975), who’ll discuss the subject of love. General admission tickets are $15, and Sponsor Circle tickets are available for $100 each and include 5 p.m. entry. (Josh Usmani)

11400 Euclid Ave., 216-421-8671, mocacleveland.org.

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Cleveland Stories Dinner Parties Cleveland Stories Dinner Party is a weekly series that pairs fine food with storytelling. Through it, the folks at the Music Box Supper Club hope to help raise awareness of the mission of the Western Reserve Historical Society’s new Cleveland History Center. The goal of the Cleveland Stories Dinner Party is to “bring to life some of the fun, interesting stories about Cleveland’s past — from sports, to rock ‘n’ roll, to Millionaires’ Row,” as it’s put in a press release. Admission is free, with no cover charge, although a prix fixe dinner, designed to complement the night’s theme, is $20. Doors open at 5 p.m., dinner is served at 6, and the storytelling starts at 7. Tonight, Chris Ronayne, the President of University Circle Inc., talks about why University Circle is laid out the way it is. The featured three-course dinner includes kielbasa and kraut soup, braised pork chop, gravy and mashed potatoes, and an ice cream sundae for dessert.

(Niesel) 1148 Main Ave., 216-242-1250, musicboxcle.com.

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

The series offers attendees the chance to grab a drink and a dog while listening to some of their Cleveland neighbors tell tall tales. It starts at 8

Kent State and the Vietnam War Weeks after national guardsmen shot and killed four college students during an anti-Vietnam war protest on the Kent State University campus, Neil Young penned “Ohio,” a tune about the incident. The Vietnam War inspired songs from Buffalo Springfield, Phil Ochs and Edwin Starr. Kent State & the Vietnam War, a film about the time period, screens continuously today until 9 p.m. in the Rock Hall’s Foster Theatre. (Niesel) 1100 Rock and Roll Blvd., 216-5158444, rockhall.com.

FILM

Reel Science Cleveland Cinemas and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History have teamed up for Reel Science, an ongoing series of films that features an eclectic and diverse line-up of classic and contemporary films The series aims to “explore the facts and fictions in each film” with an introduction and post-screening discussion hosted by one of the experts from CMNH. Tonight’s entry: When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, a campy sci-fi/fantasy movie about “a time when men lived in fear,” as it’s put in the trailer. The screening will feature a live commentary with comedian Bill Squire from The Alan Cox Show, Lee Gambol (Distance Learning Coordinator) and Lee Hall (Vertebrate Paleontologist) from the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Tickets are $7.50, but CMNH and Marquee Rewards members can purchase a discounted admission at the box office for just $5. A portion of each admission benefits the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. (Niesel) 1390 West 65th St., 216-651-7295, clevelandcinemas.com.

FOOD

Walnut Wednesday Walnut Wednesday is one of summer’s great traditions. Today from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Perk Plaza at Chester Commons — at East 12th and Walnut Streets — food trucks gather to serve up lunch to area residents and employees. Follow the Downtown Cleveland Alliance on Facebook for weekly updates on vendors, entertainment offerings and more. | clevescene.com | May 3 - 9, 2017

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sangrias and margaritas in the United States.” DJ Traga will spin Latin, Carribean, South American, Jamaican Dancehall and Mexican vinyl until 9 p.m. Both events are free. (Niesel) 11213 Detroit Ave., 216-221-8576, nowthatsclass.net.

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her a Screen Actors Guild award nomination; she’s now in the process of writing a revealing autobiography and putting together her own one-woman show, The Confessions of a Suicidal Diva. She performs tonight at 7:30 at the Improv, where she has shows scheduled through Sunday. Tickets are $17 to $20. (Lisa Hammond) 1148 Main Ave., 216-696-IMPROV, clevelandimprov.com.

Orny Adams Orny Adams’ dry optimism and seeming preference for the things most people would hate (he likes nightmares more than good dreams) are good fodder for his standup. His past work includes writing jokes for Jay Leno and Gary Shandling, and he currently plays the character of Coach Finstock on MTV’s Teen Wolf. He performs tonight at 8 at Hilarities, where he has shows scheduled through Sunday.

Tickets start at $23. (Liz Trenholme) 2035 East Fourth St., 216-241-7425, pickwickandfrolic.com.

Pelléas and Mélisande Among the most magical of all opera scores, Pelléas and Mélisande, Claude Debussy’s only completed opera, centers on two fallen lovers who marry and then return to a dark ancestral castle. Yuval Sharon (The Cunning Little Vixen) directs this made-forCleveland production. The performance takes place at 7:30 tonight at Severance Hall, where it repeats at the same time on Saturday. (Niesel) 11001 Euclid Ave., 216-231-1111, clevelandorchestra.com.

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Art Therapy Studios Spaces’ new home includes a beautiful classroom space overlooking the intersection of West 29th Street and Detroit Avenue This new addition allows the organization to provide more regular educational programming and community outreach efforts. Join Spaces and members of the community for Art Therapy Studios on the first Thursday of each month. From 6 to 7:30 p.m., Spaces invites the public to get inspired by the experimental art projects currently on view in its galleries, create your own original artwork and connect with your community. A $5 admission fee covers the cost of supplies, and all materials are provided. At least five reservations are required for the class to be held.

Please RSVP by calling 216-791-9303 or emailing mepps@spacesgallery.org.

(Usmani) 2900 Detroit Ave., 216-621-2314, spacesgallery.org.

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Beast No Feast Cinco De Mayo Celebrating Cinco de Mayo doesn’t have to involve stuffing your face with beef tacos. Today at 5 p.m. at Now That’s Class, the restaurant Helio Terra presents Beast No Feast Cinco de Mayo, a vegan-friendly celebration that will feature bean and cheese enchiladas, Jicama Napa cabbage slaw, and raw chipotle chocolate cashew cheesecake. Then, at 5 p.m. tomorrow, Now That’s Class will host a bonafide Cinco de Mayo celebration and serve what the club claims to be the “best

all the latest designers. Tickets include appetizers and an open bar. The local glam act Vanity Crash will perform.

Tickets are $45. (Niesel) 2000 Sycamore St., glamjamcle.com.

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The 46th Student Show As the academic year comes to an end this month, the Galleries at Cleveland State University present the 46th Student Show and Merit Scholar Exhibition. An annual tradition, the exhibitions showcase the best work produced by students throughout the school year. The South and Center Galleries host the 46th Student Show, a juried exhibition of nearly 100 works by current students. This year’s jurors are both local artists and gallerists: Gadi Zamir, founder of Negative Space Gallery, and Karl Anderson, co-founder of Forum Artspace at 78th Street Studios and R&D Program Coordinator at Spaces. The North Gallery’s Merit Scholar Exhibition includes individual showcases of new work by the Art Department’s Merit Scholars, students awarded special, merit-based scholarships each year.

As part of their scholarship contracts, Merit Scholars are required to present their work, even installing it on the gallery walls themselves. During the opening reception from 5 to 8 p.m. today, awards will be presented for the Student Show. Both exhibitions remain on view through June 10. Free.

(Usmani) 1307 Euclid Ave., 216-687-2103, csuohio.edu/artgallery.

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GlamJam: Fashion & Music Billed as “a celebration of fashion design and music in Cleveland,” GlamJam takes place tonight from 6 to 11 p.m. in the Powerhouse and Greater Cleveland Aquarium on the West Bank of the Flats. Models will walk the runway wearing clothes by

Cezanne et moi Schoolboy friends who became artistic icons, painter Paul Cezanne and novelist Emile Zola had a long and sometimes strained friendship.

Cezanne et moi, a 2016 French film, chronicles their relationship. The film shows at 7 tonight and at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow and Sunday at the Cleveland

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The 9th Annual SCENE Magazine Ale Fest will feature over 100 beers from around the corner to around the globe. The celebration is packed with your favorite porters, stouts, pilasters,ales, wheats, Belgians, ciders, and lagers just to name a few. Ale Fest has live music, interactive games, food booths, local vendors and more.

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The Fine Print Just a week before seniors at the Cleveland Institute of Art present their BFA theses and exhibitions, the school’s juniors showcase their work in a completely student-organized exhibition at 1Point618 Gallery in Gordon Square.

The exhibition, titled The Fine Print, includes work by 22 juniors from a collaborative class at CIA designed to introduce future gallery artists to the professional art world. Role of the Artist as a Producer is taught by Amber Kempthorn and Sarah Paul.

A diverse exhibition, The Fine Print includes students majoring in drawing, painting, printmaking and sculpture and expanded media. For this exhibition, the students’ work explores unspoken rules within our society. The Fine Print opens with a reception from 7 to 9 tonight and remains on view throughout the month by appointment only. To make an appointment, contact the gallery. Admission is free. (Usmani) 6421 Detroit Ave., 216-281-1618, 1point618gallery.com.

THEATER

Forever Plaid Written and originally directed and choreographed by Stuart Ross, the musical Forever Plaid centers on four eager singers known as the Plaids.

After meeting an untimely demise, the singers get one last chance to return from the afterlife to play the gig they never got to perform. The play opens tonight at 7:30 at the Hanna Theatre, where performances continue through May 21. Tickets are $15 to $80. (Niesel) 2067 East 14th St., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

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Gladiators vs. Philadelphia Soul The Cleveland Gladiators, part of the struggling Arena Football League, go up against the Philadelphia Soul tonight at 7 at the Q. The league has diminished over the last couple of years and only a few teams remain, the Gladiators being one of them. The high-scoring games can be good fun, and tonight’s game features concession specials that include $1 sodas and $2 draft beers. Tickets start at $9. (Niesel) 1 Center Court, 216-420-2000, theqarena.com.

BURLESQUE

Hispanic Burlesque Showcase Hispanic, Latina, Latinx, Mexican and Afro-Latina performers will participate in the inaugural Hispanic Burlesque Showcase that takes place at 7:30 tonight at the Beachland Ballroom. The show will focus on “the celebration and visibility of performers of these backgrounds and their vibrant heritage.” Performers such as Lola Coquette (Portland), Ms B Rose (Chicago), Ruby Rounds (Portland), Lorelei (Toronto), Bella Sin (Cleveland), Marley Teenie (Cleveland) and Noella Deville (Akron) will represent the cultures of Mexico, Chile, Panama and Puerto Rico. Their credentials? Rounds has a background in performing the Mexican folk dance, Baile Folklorico.

Coquette won Best Representation of Latin Culture at the 2014 Latin Burlesque Festival. Tickets are $17 in advance, $20 at the door. VIP tickets cost $30 in advance, $35 at the door.

(Niesel) 15711 Waterloo Rd., 216-383-1124, beachlandballroom.com.

MUSIC

Rolling Stone at 50 When Rolling Stone magazine made its debut in 1967, the Beatles, the Doors, Jefferson Airplane, Pink Floyd, Cream, the Byrds, the Rolling Stones, the Who, the Velvet Underground, the Jimi Hendrix Experience and many other acts released major albums. The year also gave us the “Summer of Love.” Since that time, Rolling Stone has provided cultural criticism that touches upon music, politics, film and television. Many of its writers became key voices (and critics) of their generation. Rolling Stone/50 Years, a new exhibit that opens today at the Rock Hall, celebrates the magazine’s half century mark. Regular admission rates apply. (Niesel) 1100 Rock and Roll Blvd., 216-5158444, rockhall.com.

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Superman: From Cleveland to Krypton Tonight, the Cleveland Public Library’s main branch hosts a special preview of the exhibit Superman: From Cleveland to Krypton, which features memorabilia, art and artifacts from the Mike Curtis Collection of Superman Memorabilia and other prominent collectors. The Curtis Collection was acquired last year from Curtis, an Arkansas collector and superman, who donated his 17,000 items, some of which date back to 1939, to the CPL. Tonight’s event takes place at 6:30 p.m.

Tomorrow’s opening day festivities include a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 11:15 a.m. and a screening of the 1978 version of Superman: The Movie at

3 p.m. For a full list of events and to register for the preview night, visit the website. (Lawrence Neil) Main Branch, 525 Superior Ave., 216623-2869, cpl.org.

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Walk All Over Waterloo May’s Walk All Over Waterloo includes both new and continuing exhibitions as well as special events. Taking place from 5 to 10 p.m. today (individual hours may vary slightly by venue), the monthly art walk includes WatchART! at Waterloo Arts in conjunction with the gallery’s current exhibition of artist books, meanwhile, the Maria Neil Art Project hosts an opening reception for Natural Selections: A Dresden Creation, an exhibition of new work by Deborah Pinter. Praxis Fiber Workshop presents Kombucha, Abby Clark’s fellowship exhibition. A 2016 graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art, Clark studied printmaking and fiber arts.

During her fellowship at Praxis, Clark has created a new body of work utilizing natural dyeing, immersion dyeing, screen printing, sewing and tapestry. Free. (Usmani)

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Bal Aquatique Ingenuity Cleveland’s Aquatique theme of this year’s Bal benefit was selected to use the influence of this unique event to celebrate our community’s largest natural resource and raise awareness of issues regarding our lake and rivers, as well as local water quality.

This annual benefit includes live music, art installations, dance performances, projections and more. This year’s event is taking place at IngenuityFest’s current location in the Osborne Industrial Park. In keeping with the theme, costumes are encouraged.

Those not costumed are encouraged to wear casual dress attire. A 21-and-over event, Bal: Aquatique takes place today from 7 p.m. until midnight. Individual tickets are $65, plus a small service fee, and corporate seating is available.

(Usmani) 5401 Hamilton Ave., 216-589-9444, ingenuitycleveland.org.

SPORTS

Burning River Roller Derby Season Opener Though they haven’t had much success in the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA), Burning River Roller Derby did make the WFTDA playoffs back in 2013. This year, they will aim for a better record when they kick off their 2017 season at the CE Orr Ice Arena The opener will feature

Burning River’s All-Stars against Gem City’s Purple Reign; the HazMat Crew will take on the Violet Femmes for the second bout. You can even sit trackside — at your own risk. Doors open at 5 p.m. and the first match begins at 6 p.m. Tickets are $10 in advance or $12 at the door for adults. Children under 5 get in free; children age 6-12 get in for $4. (Cook) 22550 Milton Ave., 216-289-8649.

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Cleveland Indians and Baseball in the Great Depression Part of baseball’s appeal is that the sport itself acts as a sort of history, with great players marking periods of time and eras of play. It’s also a sport that has endured very little changes over more than a century. No Money, No Beer, No Pennants, by local author Scott Longert, presents a historical account of the Indians franchise throughout the unrest of the Great Depression. Longert’s book has enough deep research to satisfy hardcore baseball fans while also including enough photography and anecdotes to please any general fans of the sport.

Tonight at 7p.m., Longert will give a talk on his book and the history of the Tribe. The reading, which includes a book sale and signing, takes place at the Brook Park branch of the Cuyahoga County Public Library system. (Johnny Cook) 6155 Engle Rd., Brook Park, 216-2675250, cuyahogalibrary.org.

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Cleveland’s Screaming Cleveland’s Screaming, an independent documentary film about the Northeast Ohio hardcore punk scene from 1981 to 1984, includes interviews and archival footage of bands performing DIY shows in what look to be basements and dive bars. The discs include footage from acts such as ODFx, Offbeats, Fester, Starvation Army, Pink Holes, the Dark and Guns.

Tonight at 9, Now That’s Class hosts a screening of the film. The movie and other items on Red Hour Records will be available for sale in the bar area. A limited edition T-shirt by artist Shaun Filley will be also available. Punk bands Zero Defex and Ruminators will perform. Admission is free. (Niesel) 11213 Detroit Ave., 216-221-8576, nowthatsclass.net.

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Adam Pendleton’s largest solo museum show to date, Lisa Oppenheim’s first solo show in the U.S., as well as a sitespecific sound installation, Transport Empty, in MOCA Cleveland’s Stair A by artists Zarouhie Abdalian and Joseph Rosenzweig. MOCA Cleveland’s Winter/ Spring 2017 exhibitions remain on view through May 14. Free. (Usmani) 11400 Euclid Ave., 216-421-8671, mocacleveland.org.

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MIX: Model May’s MIX at the Cleveland Museum of Art is a special Saturday event.

Taking place from 6 to 10 p.m. on Saturday, May 6, MIX: Model features the return of the International Interior Design Association’s Project Runway fashion show. The event challenges designers to create fashion designs constructed from décor and industrial materials. MIX is an 18-and-over event, and gallery access will be limited for this special Saturday event. Tickets are available through the museum’s website, but the event is expected to sell out. Admission is $10 in advance, $15 day of the event or free for CMA members. Parking is available for an additional fee in the CMA parking garage. (Usmani) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.

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Creativity: Learning through Experience XXV Today at 3 p.m. at Harkness Chapel, the Cleveland Composers Guild celebrates the 25th anniversary of Creativity: Learning Through Experience. The project brings together performers aged 18 and under and professional composer-members of the Cleveland Composers Guild. Professional composers work with young musicians to write pieces specifically for the students to perform. They coach the students as well. Over the last 24 years, the event has premiered 296 compositions and 409 students have performed. Admission is a $20 suggested donation. A reception follows the concert. (Niesel) 11200 Bellflower Rd., 216-368-2402.

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American Ninja Warrior Fan Fest A full-blown fan fest is set to

accompany the Cleveland taping of American Ninja Warrior that takes place at Public Square today and tomorrow from 2 to 8 p.m. In the show, contestants attempt to complete an insane obstacle course in order to win a boatload of cash. But for those who can’t catch the show taping (there are only so many seats), there are Ninja Warrior-themed thrills galore set up next to the actual course for families to enjoy. Expect to see things like an inflatable course — just like the ninjas use, but smaller — as well as a Spartan Race challenge. NBC will also be touting its other summer programming during the event, including photo ops with one of the big red chairs from The Voice and the judges table from America’s Got Talent.

Food trucks will also be on hand.

The first-time fan fest is free. (Laura Morrison) on-camera-audiences.com/shows/ American_Ninja_Warrior SPOKEN WORD

Science Cafe The second Monday of each month, Music Box Supper Club hosts Science Cafe, an informal lecture series that brings scientists from throughout the region to the club so they can talk about science topics. Tonight at 7, organizers mark the event’s tenth anniversary. Rekha Srinivasan from Case’s Department of Chemistry gives a lecture about “phytochemical in spices and their properties.” Admission is free.

(Niesel) 1148 Main Ave., 216-242-1250, musicboxcle.com.

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Vinyl Night Jukebox owner Alex Budin has described his 1,350-square-foot music-focused bar in the Hingetown ‘hood as “a place where people can expect to hear and learn about music of multiple genres, all of which is concentrated in a constantly evolving jukebox.” In keeping with that spirit and recognizing the burgeoning popularity of vinyl, the club hosts a vinyl night every Tuesday that serves as a listening party for new releases.

The place has partnered with Loop in Tremont so that patrons can hear a new album on vinyl. You can bring your own vinyl and spin it too. It all starts at 7 p.m. (Niesel) 7 p.m.

1404 West 29th St., 216-206-7699, jukeboxcle.com.

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COMIC CÉLÈBRE Bigger each year, Free Comic Book Day promises galaxies of fun in Cleveland

By Josh Usmani WITH MORE THAN 5.7 MILLION comic books being given away by more than 2,300 comic book specialty retailers, this weekend’s 16th annual Free Comic Book Day (FCBD) is sure to be the biggest and best yet.

In total, 50 titles from 37 publishers will be available. Taking place annually on the first Saturday of each May, it’s that time of year again.

Locally, shops celebrating include Carol & John’s Comic Book Shop, Weird Realms, Imaginary Worlds, North Coast Nostalgia, B & L Comics, Cards & Nostalgia and Kidforce Collectibles, as well as over 40 local libraries hosting smaller events. One of the biggest FCBD events in the U.S., Carol & John’s FCBD party begins Friday night from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. with comics given away at midnight, and continues from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday In addition to celebrating comics and comic book culture, Carol & John’s event celebrates Cleveland and its community through local art, history, cosplay and more. Up from last year’s 25,000 free comics, the shop will give away more than 30,000 free comics

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(10 per person), as well as hundreds of graphic novels.

At Carol & John’s, both Friday and Saturday’s events feature a full schedule of events and special promotions, and this year’s theme celebrates the year of what would have been legendary comic artist

the Galaxy and Cleveland are heavily featured throughout this year’s event at Carol & John’s.

“We feel we’ve put together a pretty comprehensive event this year, combining local talent with comics legend Jack Kirby’s influence,” says Carol & John’s shop owner John

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Jack Kirby’s 100th birthday (born August 28, 1917), as well as the May 5 theatrical release of Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2. From the event poster, featuring Star Lord, Rocket Racoon and Baby Groot in space somewhere over Cleveland, to a themed art exhibition and special giveaways, Kirby, the Guardians of

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Dudas. “To get to see the work of someone who’s basically responsible for our shop’s existence through the eyes of Cleveland artists is huge pull for us. It’s so great to see this event evolve into something that’s so completely Cleveland. The thing that clicks is that so many people get introduced to new artists, stories and

organizations that they didn’t know existed.”

Carol and John’s Free Comic Book Day events feature several exclusive elements. On both Friday and Saturday, dozens of local artists will be giving away free drawings requested by attendees. Additionally, Lake Erie Monster creators John G. and Jake Kelly will be signing 100 free copies of their comic on Friday night. Kristen and Sean Burns, former owners of Breakneck Gallery, are organizing an exhibition of work by local artists celebrating the work of legendary comic artist Jack Kirby.

Many of the artists participating in the art show will be drawing live on Friday or Saturday. Limited prints of the works featured in the exhibition will be available for $5 each. In addition to these prints, the shop will be selling limited Kirby-themed 2017 FCBD posters by the shop’s graphic designer Jameson Campbell. At 10 a.m. on Saturday, Campbell will be signing 100 free posters.

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IS SOME THEATER AS GOOD AS SEX? Well, yes, and if you love musicals, you really need to hit Something Rotten!

By Christine Howey IF YOU LOVE BROADWAY MUSICALS (or even if you hate them), there is a show in town that will massage your theatrical g-spot to multiple orgasms. Of course, searching for a partner’s actual physical g-spot can sometimes resemble a futile journey to the lost city of Atlantis: “How about here? No? Okay, how about here?”

But this production involves no such frustration.

In fact, Something Rotten! is such a powerful turn-on for Broadway lovers, it should be delivered in a plain brown wrapper. But there it is, for all to see, at Playhouse Square.

There are so many reasons to love this show, with music and lyrics by brothers Wayne Kirkpatrick and Karey Kirkpatrick—Karey also wrote the book with John O’Farrell—that I’m forced to segment the review into separate erogenous zones.

If you love a clever premise you’ll palpitate for Something Rotten! In fact, the premise is so shrewd, you’ll hate yourself for not thinking of it first. We’re back in Shakespeare’s time and two brothers, Nick and Nigel Bottom, are hack writers trying to fend off the tsunami of popularity surrounding the Bard. After flaming him in the witty song unambiguously titled “I Hate Shakespeare,” they try to figure out a way to compete with the Brilliant One. Later young Will, played by a magnetic Adam Pascal, gets his revenge when he performs in a leafy

bower (it’s the first “Shakespeare in the Park”), as an iambic pentameter “rock star” the ladies swoon over.

In desperation, Nick decides to consult a soothsayer named Nostradamus. No, not that one—it’s his somewhat less talented cousin, Thomas. And Thomas Nostradamus (Blake Hammond) shares with Nick that popular plays in the future will include… wait for it… singing in addition to talking. These plays will be called “musicals!” Of course, this sounds preposterous to Nick, but he shares the tip with Nigel and off they

fun of Puritans (with a capital P or not) you’ll throb for Something Rotten! Nigel falls for the lovely Portia (Autumn Hurlburt), the daughter of the strait-laced Puritan leader, Brother Jeremiah. The good Brother (an amusing Scott Cote) is so sexually repressed his every utterance is laced with double entendres that he can’t control. His unwitting lapses serve as a running joke throughout the proceedings, and these mini-meltdowns never seem to lose their snap.

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On the other hand, if you love irreverent comedy you’ll gasp for Something Rotten! It sends up damn near every musical you can remember, and it does so at times with only a few notes of certain iconic songs. These are woven together in the showstopping number “A Musical,” which is a huge production number, taken way over the top in tongue-in-cheek fashion. And it will send some into paroxysms of delight. Indeed, the audience on this evening applauded so long for this one song, some patrons might have developed carpal tunnel syndrome on the spot.

Then again, if you love making

a musical on what might seem inappropriate themes (the serial killer in Sweeney Todd or the presidential assassins in Assassins), you’ll sigh for Something Rotten! The Bottom brothers’ first attempt at a musical is titled “The Black Death,” and they sing about it in a song that trills: “It’s getting closer, it’s getting grosser/Soon everything that’s dangling won’t be any good for dingling.”

The jokes, naughty and otherwise, come at a fast and furious pace in this comedic juggernaut. Still, there’s time for some canoodling as Nigel and Portia get amorous. Meanwhile, Nick goes back to Nostradamus and asks what Shakespeare’s next big hit will be.

The klutzy fortuneteller conjures up a fuzzy vision of a soon-to-be written Hamlet but he gets a couple consonants wrong and tells Nick it will be called Omelet, which will have a Danish prince as its center. Nick only hears the Danish part, thinks the play is about breakfast, and charges off in a very wrong and very funny direction.

Finally, if you love engaging performances and big-time scenic design, you’ll come to a new place of joy with Something Rotten! In the roles of Nick and Nigel, Rob McClure and Josh Grisetti perform with unstinting scads of energy and sell their songs to the max. And Scott Pask’s scenic design is at times jawdroppingly gorgeous, changing almost instantaneously from a dark and spooky side street where Nostradamus hangs out to the Globe Theater to a courtroom.

While Something Rotten! gets nearly everything right—and right in a way that is quite transporting—it must be said that the conclusion of the story and the finale lack the snap and sizzle that the rest of the show demonstrates. But hey, this is such a satisfying and glorious session in the theater, even non-smokers might feel tempted to light up and relax after this theatrical roll in the sheets.

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MOVIES A FUNERAL IN YOUR BRAIN Cynthia Nixon shines, but Emily Dickinson biopic may be dourest of all time

By Sam Allard A QUIET PASSION STARS SEX and the City’s Cynthia Nixon as the 19th century American poet Emily Dickinson. Like other biopics that contrive to tell a story of a life entire, the film lacks natural momentum and a central conflict. Rather, in small stories of anger and loss, we watch Dickinson retreat into bitterness and despair; we see her rebellious spirit repeatedly crushed in the face of death, spiritual anguish, loneliness and chronic physical pain. (This ripsnorter opens on Friday at the Cedar Lee.) Nixon is remarkable as Dickinson.

She impressed in the underappreciated 2015 indie gem James White, and her career’s second wave appears to be gathering force. As Dickinson, she portrays a woman through multiple decades of adult life, a woman shaped by the moral codes of the day, but one who’s also probing, antagonistic and painfully self-aware — her mouth often curls with questions soon to be posed.

While the movie ultimately satisfies, we suspect that if this film were viewed on Netflix, casual viewers might not have the patience to endure. After an opening scene in which the young Emily (Emma Bell) is deemed a “no hoper” in the echoey schoolhouse of Mount Holyoke Women’s Seminary, we trudge through 30 minutes of mishmashed scenes: conversations about gender and art at the opera; impolitic remarks with a pious aunt; Pride & Prejudice-y banter about marriage prospects. (The Pride & Prejudice comparison is especially apt, given

that Emily’s sister Lavinia is played

by Jennifer Ehle, who memorably played Elizabeth Bennett in the BBC miniseries.)

The dialogue, which from time to time is interspersed with voiceover of Dickinson’s own verse, is overly stiff. Nixon’s instinct is to play the script naturally, despite the language’s formality, but her scene partners often recite their lines like high schoolers trying Shakespeare.

The film’s best scene is not stiff at all. It’s an early morning exchange between Emily and her sister-inlaw Susan (Jodhi May) discussing the downsides of marriage and the gnawing sadness of a being alone: “You have a life,” Emily tells Susan, not unkindly. “I have a routine… For those of us who live minor lives, and

are deprived of a particular kind of love, we know best how to starve. We deceive ourselves, and then others. It is the worst kind of lie.”

That’s a powerhouse scene, and that’s a sorrow that you feel in your bones. It’s one of the few moments that you may tear up right alongside the characters on screen. In other moments, you wonder if Terrence Davies, who also wrote the script, fell into the trap of assuming a movie about a literary figure must itself be “literary.”

The movie looks quite good, despite its close quarters. Virtually every scene takes place in Amherst, Massachusetts, and most of them in the Dickinson family home. Cinematographer Florian Hoffmeister, who also shot Davies’

2011 film Deep Blue Sea, creates rich and shadowy tableaus, dramatizing such minor activities as the climbing of a staircase or the closing of a door. The film’s most striking visual moment is early on, when the Dickinson family, sitting for daguerrotypes one by one, age imperceptibly as the camera zooms in.

As a character study, A Quiet Passion faithfully shows the Dickinson that those who know and love her poems would expect to encounter — a woman of fierce intelligence and unsteady constitution preoccupied with questions of mortality.

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SPOTLIGHT: ANOTHER EVIL IF THE BIG BOX OFFICE SUCCESS of Get Out is any indication, the horror genre has shifted from trying to scare audiences to using the set-up of typical horror movie in order to experiment with other genres and cinematic styles. Another Evil, the debut from writer-director Carson D. Mell, also aims to move the horror genre in a new direction. The film uses the familiar horror trope of the haunted house but includes elements of comedy, drama and thriller. The film arrives on digital platforms on Friday and screens at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, on

May 9, at the Capitol Theatre.

Another Evil focuses on modernist artist Dan (Steve Zissis), who discovers that a pair of ghosts is haunting his family’s vacation home in the mountains outside of Los Angeles. He attempts to get rid of the spirits by hiring a no-nonsense ghost hunter named Os (Mark Proksch). Os and Dan both hole up in the cabin for a week in order to get to the bottom of the supernatural mystery.

In a lot of ways, this isn’t a straight horror flick — there are multiple long monologues by characters, and there’s

not much in the way of actual scares.

Instead, the film takes a number of weird and funny turns, relying on the relationship between Dan and Os to produce most of the tension and comedy.

The performances by both the leads are excellent; Proksch in particular gives a very believable and complex performance as the oddball ghost hunter. The tonal shifts in the film also work well. There are scenes that can pass as funny, serious and scary all at the same time.

However, the comedy in the film

doesn’t come off as laugh-out-loud humor but mostly feels strained.

It often falls flat, and the film occasionally feels like it wants to dive into really serious territory, though it never really does.

Despite these issues, the memorable performances and the interesting mix of genres make Another Evil fresh and an exciting addition to the new wave of horror films. — Johnny Cook

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EAT BACK AT IT Years of planning and some early adjustments have BRIM Kitchen + Brewery on the right path THE TREND IN BREWERIES these days is to focus on the beer and let somebody else worry about the food, whether that somebody happens to be a food truck, revolving pop-up, or a nearby restaurant. The few new breweries that do have a kitchen wisely limit their food ops to a few basic menu items: think pizza, tacos or burgers.

BRIM Kitchen + Brewery went in an entirely different direction.

On our first visit, we polished off two pints in the time it took to scour the two-page menu and plan a course of action. We counted 32 different items spread across four different sections titled Rations, Greens & Grains, Handhelds and Plates. It wasn’t just the quantity of options that stopped us dead in our tracks; it was the befuddling placement of some items on the roster. Grilled steak bulgogi, for example, was listed in the Greens & Grains section, ostensibly because it contained rice. Grilled vegetable quinoa, however, was slotted under Plates, despite being largely composed of grains. And let’s not linger on the irony of placing a dish called Fork and Knife Brisket in the Handhelds section.

That’s why it was such a relief to return to BRIM weeks later to see a vastly condensed menu.

The original two-page roster had been trimmed to a tidy one-pager containing literally half the items.

What diners lose in variety they gain in sanity and efficiency. But the real winners are the guys in the kitchen. Since opening in early February, BRIM has been absolutely slammed, and maintaining a 32-item menu for 200 guests at any given time is an exercise in frustration.

It took owners TJ Reagan and Chris Frate two years and more than a few wheelbarrows of cash to open BRIM, a stunning white-brickand-glass structure that looks like a refurbished warehouse on the edge of town. The 8,000-square-foot, twolevel building features multi-pane windows, tall ceilings and exposed rafters. On busy nights, which is most nights, the dining room is so loud that it drowns out the roar of passing trains.

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From that dining room, guests have an unobstructed view of the glass-walled brewhouse, where veteran brewer Larry Hazen turns out creations like Fuzzy Peach Ale, a fruity Belgian-style ale, Mighty Mo, an IPA named after the USS Missouri, and Red X-Nugget Smash, an excellent red IPA. Guest beers from breweries near and far are offered as well. Beers are priced between $5 and $6.50 per pint.

Despite the truncated menu, there still is a wide variety of food options, all overseen by chef Nick Frate, who splits his time between BRIM and

But that dish didn’t make the cut.

Fortunately, the dense, meaty and satisfying Cubano ($12) did. Made right, the pressed sandwich is layered with smoky pork belly, ham, swiss, pickles and mustard. Like all sandwiches, it comes with BRIM’s top-notch hand-cut fries.

The avocado toast ($12) suffered from a poor choice of bread. Despite being toasted, the sandwich-style whole wheat slices didn’t stand a chance beneath layers of smashed avocado, tomatoes, feta and fried eggs. Another fried egg, this one perched atop a heaping portion of

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his family’s other business, Pub Frato in Concord. The eclectic menu veers from avocado toast to grilled skirt steak, and we’ve had varying degrees of success throughout.

We enjoyed the Frito Pie ($8), a deep crock of beef chili loaded with scallions, jalapeño wheels, sour cream and crunchy corn chips.

bucatini ($17), made an already rich dish even more so. This creamy, over-the-top pasta is studded with sweet peas, pork lardons and fragrant cheese. A dusting of toasted breadcrumbs adds a nice textural contrast.

What remains of the starter section is a bit of a mixed bag. The

hot pretzels ($6), paired with beer cheese fondue and mustard, are nice if you like them squishy and sweet as opposed to true Bavarian style with a nice crust. We had zero complaints with the brisket pierogis ($11), a delicious mix of smoky meat, zippy horseradish cream, pickled onions and cheese. A lingering vinegar-based marinade flavor on the grilled long-stem artichoke hearts ($9) didn’t jibe with the overpowering taste of truffle.

And an otherwise lovely crock of French onion soup ($5), capped with a seductive layer of melted gruyere, was cloyingly sweet.

All those qualms would easily fade into the backdrop when seated on the sunny second-level terrace boasting spectacular views of the surrounding landscape. Just over there, about 500 yards away, is the backside of Willoughby Brewing Co., which was opened 20 years ago by BRIM owner TJ Reagan, who sold that business six years back. It’s safe to say that he’s back in a very big way.

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EAT GATHERING PLACE Kifaya’s Kitchen is home to Cleveland’s Somali refugee community

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THE BUCKET LIST OF ETHNIC cuisine in Cleveland expanded by yet another country when Kifaya’s Kitchen (3650 W 117th St., 216-2198263) opened its Somali-themed eatery in 2013. It was a long journey for Kifaya Mohamed and son Ahmed Galeb to establish the family business after arriving in the United States as refugees from a Yemen camp in 2006.

Located inside a non-descript brick strip mall, Kifaya’s Kitchen has flown under the radar amid the fast food chains, Mediterranean restaurants and Halal grocery stores that populate the block. The addition of outdoor signage and a written menu have helped the quaint kitchen become accessible to a broader clientele.

Even without advertising, the parking lot of the eatery is packed two cars deep during the week, with spaces filled by Somali taxi drivers waiting for lunch. It’s a bustling place, with men stretching their legs waiting for takeout food or sitting in one of four booths to eat a sprawling, family-style meal. Wash your hands in a communal dining room sink and request a cup of sweet chai or shaah tea with cinnamon, ginger, clove and milk. Then let the wait begin.

Everything here is made from scratch, meat tossed upon a large flattop grill and sautéed with vegetables and an array of spices.

Dishes like the basto iyo malay (fish), basto iyo chicken, or basto iyo hilib (goat) are made with tender penne or run of the mill spaghetti, introduced to Somali cuisine by British and Italian colonists. These dishes are served up on large metal plates and scooped up hand to mouth.

Specials like the KayKay, with fatty, crispy cuts of goat, are served with sautéed onion, peppers, beans and greens with shredded sabaayad or flatbread that soak up the spiced tomato base permeating the meal.

Offered on the side is a leafy chopped salad of greens, cucumber, onion,

green pepper and tomato with fresh lemon for acidity. Three sauces – a spicy red, creamy white, and mild green – are served in squeeze bottles for the table.

Traditional Somali food is a descendant of many different cultures, situated in the Horn of Africa. Indian influence can be tasted in Kifaya’s curries, stews, samosas (available on weekends for $1), and chapatti-like flatbread. Arabic flavors can be found in the nuanced mix of spices, from the coriander rice to the garlic-, cumin-, and clove-rubbed meats.

Mohamed starts out as the only one working the counter today, cooking each order beyond the partition separating a modest kitchen from the dining room. “It’s going to be very good,” Mohamed says with the confidence of someone who knows they have the community backing them.

Several people wander in and out of the kitchen, helping Mohamed as customers arrive and then dwindle out before dinner.

Despite not knowing any English upon her arrival in Cleveland, Mohamed seems to communicate exactly what needs to be said through her smile and maternal demeanor.

She relies on her friends and family of seven children to run food throughout the day and ask questions to customers who speak only English.

Kifaya’s Kitchen began as a dream for Ahmed, who desired to restore a semblance of the old way of life for his mother, but it has grown into a hub for the community, with refugees from many countries eating together.

The business is as much a product of Mohamed’s hard work, cooking every day from 11 a.m. until 9 p.m., as it is the refugee community and the outreach programs that helped them off the ground.

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REBIRTH Fourk brings new life to old Matchworks Building in Mentor

By Douglas Trattner THE ICONIC MATCHWORKS Building in Mentor has seen more than its fair share of restaurants over the years. Concepts such as the Perfect Match, Blue Tip Grill, Wallaby’s, Match Works Tavern and Harry’s Hofbrau House have come and gone over the past three decades.

As of May 1, Fourk occupies that notable structure, but this new restaurant has more than a few things going for it that most of its predecessors did not. For starters, chef-partner Ryan Scanlon’s experience has provided him not only with the culinary chops to turn out great food, but also a pragmatic mindset that will likely appease the diners who walk through his door.

A graduate of Johnson & Wales University, Scanlon was the first employee that Burntwood Tavern founder Bret Adams hired. Scanlon served as opening chef of the

original Chagrin Falls location plus many others that followed before becoming regional culinary manager for all of them. But after seven years at Burntwood, Scanlon jumped at the opportunity to open his own place.

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nooks and crannies, created a seamless, one-level space, and laid down new hardwood flooring. Now guests will experience a space with a modern-industrial look with steel accents, concrete bartop and cool color patterns.

“Fourk” is play on words, the chef says, referring both to the four different food groups and the eating utensil. Scanlon describes the place as a modern American tavern, where classic dishes will be tweaked just enough to make them sing.

In the starter department, empanadas will be stuffed with lobster and topped with slaw and homemade hot sauce; BLT sliders feature thick-cut bacon and marinated tomatoes; Indian naan is topped with chorizo and goat cheese; tacos are fi lled with tuna ceviche and jalapeno lime slaw.

The sandwich category includes a bacon and cheese burger with an egg, a meatball and mozz sub, a fried fish sandwich with avocado and jalapeno lime slaw, and Cubano-style sandwich stuffed with cola-braised pork shoulder, Havarti cheese, Dijon and pickles.

For the mains, items like steak frites with salsa verde and grilled asparagus, brick chicken with mashed roasted cauliflower, and seared scallops over risotto cakes with peach and cracked-black pepper sauce are likely to hit home with diners. Also on the menu are dishes like fish & frites, salmon and polenta fries, and Cioppinostyle seafood and grits.

All of the above is matched with a progressive beer, wine and cocktail program.

Ironically, Scanlon worked in these very kitchens as a young chef, back when it was the Blue Tip Grill. This time around, he’s in charge, and he intends for Fourk to be a fixture of the community for many years to come.

“I don’t by any means expect to start out of the gate full bore, packed-house every night,” he says.

“I think it’s going to take some time to regain people’s trust around here and prove that we’re not those same places. I can’t speak to why some of those other restaurants were or weren’t a good fit because I wasn’t there, but we’re going to try and provide a fine-dining level of service but in a casual atmosphere.”

Fourk serves lunch and dinner seven days a week.

MELT BAR AND GRILLED TO OPEN NEW SPOT IN AVON Melt Bar and Grilled will open another restaurant in Avon sometime this summer. It will be the local restaurant group’s tenth full-service location. The company will be taking over the former Bar 145 space (35546 Detroit Rd.) on Detroit near Route 83.

At 6,000 square feet, this location tops all others in terms of size, with seating for approximately 270 guests when all is said and done. A roomy fourseason patio/private dining room alone can accommodate up to 80 guests.

The Avon location is on track to open in August. When it does, it will join two other new locations that will open just before it.

A Cedar Point location will offer a full food menu, craft beer and cocktails in a Cedar Point-themed space.

The Dayton spot will be located at The Mall at Fairfield Commons (2727 Fairfield Commons) in Beavercreek, Ohio, just east of downtown Dayton. The 5,000-square-foot restaurant is being built from the ground up and will reside near the main entrance to the mall. The Dayton Melt opening is planned for Monday, June 12.

BEACHWOOD YOURS TRULY REOPENS AFTER A YEAR OF CONSTRUCTION It’s been a year since the Beachwood location of Yours Truly Restaurant was closed for major renovations. Finally, on April 25, the public got to see what the new and improved store looks like.

The aging structure, which became the first Yours Truly in 1981, required significant improvements to bring it up to modern standards.

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STILL ROLLING Rock Hall’s ‘Rolling Stone at 50’ exhibit celebrates the fine art of cultural criticism

By Jeff Niesel ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE made its debut in 1967 just as the Beatles, the Doors, Jefferson Airplane, Pink Floyd, Cream, the Byrds, the Rolling Stones, the Who, the Velvet Underground, the Jimi Hendrix Experience and many other acts released major albums.

Since that time, the magazine has provided cultural criticism that touches upon music, politics, film and television. Many of its writers became key voices (and critics) of their generation.

Rolling Stone/50 Years, a new exhibit that opens on Friday, May 5, at the Rock Hall, celebrates the magazine’s half-century mark. Divided into several sections, the exhibit starts with a recreation of Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner’s desk. The magazine’s first office sat above its printing press on Brannan St. in San Francisco.

The Rock Hall exhibit includes Wenner’s original desk and mail sorter from that office. The debut issue

of Rolling Stone hit newsstands the week of November 9, 1967, and the cover price of the first issue was 25 cents. The 21-year-old Wenner had borrowed $7,500 from family and friends to launch the magazine, and the building’s owner gave him free loft space if Wenner agreed to use his printing service. A photo of the office shows what it looked like at the time.

“The mail sorter was in the office for years, and we’ve recreated the rest of the office,” says Karen Herman, the Rock Hall’s vice president of collections and curatorial affairs, who walked us through the exhibit earlier today. “The round table was in one of the meeting offices in the current offices in New York, but the mail sorter came from storage. A copy of the first edition of the magazine was on the wall too. It includes a picture of John Lennon in his acting debut.”

Wenner chose the cover image of Lennon wearing a World War II military outfit in Richard Lester’s film How I Won the War from a pile of

publicity stills. Wenner once explained his decision, saying, “It was two days before press and we didn’t know what to put on the front page. It was the best thing we had. But it’s defining, since it encompasses music, movies and politics. That was a fortuitous accident.

But it began our lifelong association with John.”

One of the magazine’s first handdrawn logos also hangs on the wall as does the “cease and desist” letter that Rolling Stones’ manager Allen Klein sent to the magazine for using the name “for your own commercial benefit.” Wenner explained the idea behind the magazine’s name in his editor’s note that appeared in the first issue: “The name of it is Rolling Stone which comes from an old saying, ‘A rolling stone gathers no moss.’ Muddy Waters used the name for a song he wrote. The Rolling Stones took their name from Muddy’s song.”

“Jann and Mick would actually become friends and one of the things you see at the end of the exhibit is a

videotaped interview with Mick,” says Herman.

As part of one early promotion, Rolling Stone offered a roach clip as a free gift with a paid subscription. Bob Kingsbury, the guy who became the magazine’s art director, made the clips by hand. The exhibit includes one of the original clips.

The exhibit’s intro panel includes one of the exhibit’s only items of clothing — a suit that comedian Steve Martin wore on the February 18, 1982 cover. Martin’s rented tuxedo was painted to mimic an Abstract Expressionist Franz Kline painting.

“The suit had been hanging in the Rolling Stone offices,” explains Herman. “It’s such a great piece.”

A letters to the editor section — the section of the magazine was originally called “Correspondence, Love Letters & Advice” — includes raves from fans and comments from celebs. It includes letters from John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Allen Ginsburg, David Mamet, Sting, Michael Stipe and then-CIA Director | clevescene.com | May 3 - 9, 2017

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After reading David Felton’s article, “Charles Manson: The Incredible Story of the Most Dangerous Man Alive,” in the June 25, 1970, issue, Manson wrote a letter offering to answer questions in exchange for a Rolling Stone subscription. That letter is part of the exhibit as a telegram from Jagger denying Wenner’s request for an interview about the Altamont Speedway Free Festival at which concertgoer Meredith Hunter was stabbed to death by one of the Hell’s Angels providing security.

The exhibit also includes a series of profanity-laden letters that gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson, a frequent contributor to the magazine, sent to Wenner.

“There were so many amazing letters from Hunter S. Thompson, that it made it hard to choose which ones to display,” says Herman as she points out one letter in which Thompson berates Wenner for interfering with his “work” by sending one of his friends to stay with him.

Rolling Stone became famous for its longform interviews. In one famous interview, John Lennon disputed the myth of the Beatles.

In another, Marvin Gaye explained the personal transformation that led to the artistic breakthrough of his album What’s Going On. Tina Turner documented her abuse at the hands of her husband Ike. The exhibit includes a section devoted to these famous interviews as well as interviews with Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, Bruce Springsteen and Madonna.

A video treatment allows viewers to hear audio clips from the interviews and then see how they materialized on the printed page.

In David Fricke’s Rolling Stone interview with Nirvana lead singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain, the late singer talks about feeling “optimistic” about his life. In another, Who guitarist Pete Townshend discusses the reasons why he started smashing guitars.

In a section devoted to various magazine covers, the exhibit features a slew of covers from the last 50 years. They’re displayed in chronological order, so viewers can

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see how the times have changed.

“When you look at the covers, you can see how the visual elements changed but at the same time there is still an energy there that carries all the way through and you can see some of the same people,” says Herman.

In one famous photo/cover from 1980, a naked John Lennon hugs a clothed Yoko Ono. The exhibit includes the Polaroid that Annie Leibovitz conducted prior to shooting what would turn out to be among the last photos ever taken of Lennon before he was assassinated.

Ultimately, the exhibit captures the power of rock criticism. After critic Jon Landau trashed two Cream concerts, Eric Clapton broke the group up, famously saying, “The ring of truth just knocked me backward.

I was in a restaurant and I fainted.”

Visitors can read clips of that review as well as pieces by writers such as Ira Robbins, Paul Evans, Kurt Loder and Lester Bangs.

“You can see the clunky tape recorders that writers used to use, and then editor’s notes on the rough drafts,” says Herman, adding that the materials came from Rolling Stone’s extensive archives. “You can see things that are crossed out in the notes. It also shows the work that goes into writing. Everyone thinks you just do an interview and it magically appears. The exhibit shows that’s not how it really works.

There’s a lot of work and inspiration involved.”

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MUSIC TALKING SMALL TALK Ottawa singer talks about the tracks on the band’s New EP

By Jeff Niesel SINGER DALE DELONG AND guitarist Tim Czajka formed the local indie rock act Ottawa in 2013 after their previous band, the Royaltons, dissolved.

They had a good run with the Royaltons, which played around town from 2007 to 2010. But they’ve had an even better run with Ottawa, which has built a bigger local following and produced more material.

“When you’re 20 years old, you don’t realize the work part of it,” says DeLong one recent evening while sitting on the patio at Platform Brewery in Ohio City. The group celebrates the release of its new EP, Small Talk, at 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 6, at the Beachland Ballroom.

“You think you’ll write great songs and get famous. When we started Ottawa, we didn’t want anyone involved who was even partying hard. In Cleveland, we have to work extra hard. There’s no industry. No one will come see us and pluck us up. We started Ottawa with a mission of going really hard. Prior to this, we didn’t realize the work and now we’ve made all the mistakes that an early twenties band makes and we’re trying not to do those same things.”

The 2014 EP Random Lights offers a nice distillation of the band’s influence. “The Good Kind” has a bit of Black Keys-inspired garage blues and a real swagger to it as a beefy bass riff propels the track.

“Lie to Me” starts slow and builds in intensity as DeLong sings, “I’m giving up on getting old.” DeLong practically dismisses the EP as a “first try,” but the album includes some sharp songs.

The band followed it up in 2015 with the single “Roman Candle” and then started writing songs for Small

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Talk, another terrific collection of tunes with Strokes-like swagger.

The disc begins with the undulating “Fever,” a song that builds in tempo as DeLong muses, “I buried my heart into the desert/I’m digging my face out of my hands.”

“Give It All” features a wailing mid-song guitar solo and soulful vocals while “Rockefeller” and “Britton Hall” both feature dueling guitars. The power ballad “The Worst Way” features an even heavier guitar riff. The band recently signed a licensing deal with Cadence Music Group, a company that handles acts such as Alabama Shakes and Radiohead.

Here’s DeLong’s take on each track on the new EP. “FEVER” Will wrote this guitar part, and I immediately sang the opening lyrics.

It actually took a long time to get the chorus right. The verses were always there, but there are pauses in the chorus that make song. It wasn’t until we tracked the song that they came about. [Producer] Jim Stewart and [producer] Jim Wirt, who happened to be in the room, said

thought that would be a great title.

We were tracking other stuff and trying to figure out the chorus, and we thought about doing a pause and that worked. Now, it has an anthemic vibe. Jeremy [Barnes] can’t help but slam his bass down every time we play it.

“GIVE IT ALL” It’s about how I would date somebody and go “next, next, next” and not in any mean way. It’s about at what point, you go, “You’re the one,” whether it’s a job or marriage.

Sometimes, you have to let your guard down with whatever you’re doing. The opening line is “Tell me your secret but we both know you’re not going to keep it.” There was a situation where someone said, “You’re the worst at keeping secrets.”

I thought that was a cool idea. The song just happened. We didn’t have a chorus but Will wanted to use the melody and I was sitting with my guitar and sang, “Give it all” in real time.

“ROCKEFELLER” I thought it was a fucking awesome word. It’s a reference

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to John D. Rockefeller. It’s about thinking about the legacy, not for me in particular, but the chorus goes, “Rockefeller you’re invited to the kingdom.” I was thinking about

these super-duper famous families in heaven or in the afterlife being puppet masters. I was thinking about them being puppet masters and my particular legacy with the band or whatever it is. Do we have what it takes for me to make it and for my family to be proud of me when I die? The beginning of the song is “What will they say when you’re gone?” I started thinking about whether I’m a jerk or too nice or if I care too much about music.

“THE WORST WAY” I love this song. It kills live. It’s another song where I was thinking about the girl I dated in high school.

She’s married now. It wasn’t that I treated her poorly, but it’s like a girl in a small town who says, “I don’t need you. I’m going to be a famous actress” but then comes crawling back. That’s the motif for that song lyrically. Will wrote the riff in the beginning. The bluesy thing just kind of happened. I really like that song. I feel like it could be a big song but we probably need to make it a minute shorter.

“BRITTON HALL” The title of Britton Hall is the name of this classroom at my high school. It was stored in one of our phones as that for a while. We decided to keep the name because we thought it was cool. I think I wrote that guitar riff. I was thinking about how Chris Martin and Gwenyth Paltrow end up with each other.

It seems staged or something and that’s what the song is about lyrically. It’s about how can you have all this attention and be comfortable.

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BLOOD, SWEAT AND TEARS A heightened awareness of mortality informs the tunes on Mastodon’s latest effort

By Jeff Niesel WHILE MANY MUSICIANS CLAIM to have listened to a wide range of music while growing up, the parents of Mastodon drummer Brann Dailor truly exposed him to a mix of different genres.

“My mom’s boyfriend, who moved in when I was three or four, was a drummer in my mom’s band,” he says via phone from a St. Louis tour stop, where he jokes that he was “partying super hard” with a cocktail of beets, lemon and ginger to help him kick a cold. “They would do four hours worth of covers. It was all the late ’70s and early ’80s popular music, everything from Styx and Boston and Journey to Judas Priest and Black Sabbath and Yes and King Crimson and Genesis and the Go Gos and the Police. My mom was a little hellraiser. She would be blasting The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway by Genesis. In my family, it was not whether you would you play music, but it’s more like what instrument would you play.”

He says his dad was into “crazy music” too.

“He was putting on records by the Mahavishnu Orchestra and John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme and Mozart’s Requiem,” Dailor says.

“Then, my dad got into punk rock and new wave. There was that angle as well. He was into Bauhaus and

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Tones on Tail and Cocteau Twins and all the 4AD stuff.”

While Dailor would eventually embrace hard rock with Today is the Day and then Mastodon, which he formed in 2000 with bassist Troy Sanders, guitarists Brent Hinds and Bill Kelliher, he’s continued to take an eclectic approach to making music.

Emperor of Sand, Mastodon’s latest effort, draws from different genres.

Album opener, “Sultan’s Curse,” features proggy guitar riffs and snarling vocals that mix well with Dailor’s propulsive drumming.

“Steambreather” features a trippy interlude before embracing an aggressive approach that sounds like early Rush.

question. We’re always looking to surprise ourselves, regardless of what other people might think or say about it.”

For Emperor of Sand, the band started with “a bunch of good riffs.”

“There was personal stuff going on with people, like [friends and family with] cancer,” Dailor says.

“We tried to balance it. When we could get together and do work and do it, we did it. We did a lot of demoing this time around in Bill’s basement so stuff was worked out ahead of time for vocal melodies.

We would write down stuff to say, and they would be place holders for the actual lyrics. We’re a music-first band and then you have to shoehorn lyrics over the top. It’s not always

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“It just happens naturally,” Dailor says when asked about the band’s eclectic approach. “We are all into different types of music. We never take anything off the table.

If something finds its way in and we are digging on it, then we just do it. We don’t question it. We’ve never asked, ‘Is that what people want from us?’ We never asked that

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the best thing for lyrics. We’re more of a riff-based band. I try not to embarrass myself with the lyrics. I think, ‘Can I read them out loud to someone without cringing?’”

The album is so accessible, it will likely appeal to people who don’t even like metal.

“It’s based in heaviness, but I never came out and said we’re a

heavy metal band,” says Dailor.

“We’re just a band and we just play music. I get the same feeling from Stevie Wonder that I get from Slayer.

But it’s also hard to call it anything else. It’s heavy but likeable. It’s hooky. If I’m going to like music, I need hooks. Even Neurosis has hooks.”

Dailor admits that some fans might have jumped ship as the band’s music has changed.

“I’m sure there have been dropoffs and jump-ons,” he says. “I do that too with bands. I get it. I do that too. I would never speak ill of anyone. I know how much time and effort it takes to make an album. If you don’t have [Swedish hitmaker] Max Martin writing your songs, there are blood, sweat and tears.

If I don’t like it, I know the people in the band probably still love it. If I don’t like it, it might be my fault too. It’s so subjective and it’s kind of intangible and a little bit mystical.

You can’t put your finger on why a song invokes a feeling. It’s time and place for a lot of people. This album helped us get us through a hard situation, and we hope that feeling translates.”

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MUSIC THE CENTURY MARK Guided by Voices guitarist Doug Gillard rejoins the band just in time for its 100th album

By Jeff Niesel LAST YEAR, THE LONG-RUNNING indie rock act Guided by Voices entered yet another era as singerguitarist Bobby Bare Jr., a guy who’s held down a solo career for the past two decades, joined the band at the request of its founder, singer Robert Pollard. Bare, who in our interview with him at the time described himself as a “huge, obsessive Guided

by Voices fan,” first came across the guys back in 1997 when he saw them perform with hard rockers Nashville Pussy.

Doubting that they could follow-up Nashville Pussy, a band that plays, as he puts it, “a million miles a minute speed metal,” he was shocked when they “came out and destroyed the universe.”

As the reconstituted group toured last year, guitarist Nick Mitchell left the band in the middle of the tour. In the wake of his departure, Pollard recruited former Clevelander Doug Gillard, who had played with local rock groups Death of Samantha, Gem and Cobra Verde before joining the group in 1997.

Speaking via phone from the Phoenix area, where he was taking a few days off before the band’s appearance at the Coachella festival, Gillard reflects on how he came to first join the band some 20 years ago.

“We’d been friends with the band since 1993 or 1994,” says Gillard. “I think I first met Bob in 1993 when he got signed to Scat Records. When they would come to Cleveland, either Cobra Verde or Gem would open for them. We all got to be good friends.

I had jumped up on stage with them a few times to jam. I was a fan of the music and a friend of Bob’s.”

Gillard joined at a particularly good time. He and members of Cobra Verde backed Pollard on 1997’s exuberant Mag Earwhig!, and Gillard would soldier on with the guys as they signed to TVT Records and delivered 1999’s Do the Collapse and 2001’s Isolation Drills, albums that nearly delivered the pop/rock hit that has always eluded the band.

“We certainly had a good time making Mag Earwhig!, which we recorded in Cleveland,” says Gillard.

“When we worked with [the Cars’] Ric Ocasek on Do the Collapse, he made the record sound like he wanted

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it to. We didn’t have a lot of say so with that one, but Bob wanted to see where it would go. Then, when we worked with Rob Schnapf on Isolation Drills, it was an organic and natural process. He let us be us. He had great ideas so that was a good experience.”

After a 2004 farewell tour, Pollard put the band back together in 2010 to play the Matador Records 21st Anniversary celebration in Las Vegas.

The group toured and recorded until disbanding once again in 2014, only to reunite again last year and issue Please Be Honest, an album Pollard recorded entirely on his own.

When Pollard needed Gillard to fill in for Mitchell at a Cincinnati festival, Gillard, who tours and records with

that went into the decision. It has all worked out well.”

Gillard says Bare Jr. has proven to be a good addition to the band.

“He sings some backup vocals and is really useful in that respect,” says Gillard. “He takes care of the guitar on the other side of the stage.”

For the just-released August by Cake, Pollard recorded five of the songs on his own before bringing the band together to complete the disc. He wanted each member to write at least two songs for what would become the band’s first double-disc. The riveting Who-like “5° on the Inside” opens the 32-song album with a bang as Pollard then continues to exploits his British

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the indie act Nada Surf, worked the gig into his schedule.

“We had to really scramble, but I got a flight and made it to Cincinnati in time to play the show,” says Gillard. “After that show, Pollard asked me to rejoin the band. There was a lot of thought and discussion

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Invasion obsession with songs such as “Fever Pitch” and “What Begins on New Year’s Day.” “It’s a double album on vinyl but only a single CD,” explains Gillard.

“It was initially just a batch of songs for a new album but at some point, Bob decided it should be a double

album and we set out to do that. It wasn’t a last minute decision. It was a mid-way through decision.”

Gillard says the album features a “more diverse” set of songs than other GBV albums.

“Bob just keeps at it,” says Gillard, adding that the band tends to play about 12 songs from the album. “He keeps writing fresh songs. He has a great sense of melody and comes up with interesting titles. Most of the cover art is his collages. All that combined makes for an intriguing package and this album runs the gamut. We all sing a little more. I like the diversity of sounds coming from the different studios we used too. I always liked albums that weren’t homogenous.”

In typical fashion, Pollard still drinks heavily while performing as he embraces the rock lifestyle with enthusiasm.

“We’ve cut back a bit on the drinking,” says Gillard. “If we can, we still have the cooler of beer on stage. It’s not just a prop — it gets used.”

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The XX: The XX burst onto the scene in 2009 with a debut so confident and assured that it was hard to believe the band wasn’t old enough to legally drink. Their signature aesthetic — whispery dream pop mixed with R&B — was fully developed from the get-go, and the band has used the success of their debut to become a highly coveted live act. In the years since their debut, band member Jamie XX has carved out a successful niche as an electronic musician. His work as a DJ is apparent on new album I See You — standout track “On Hold” spins a Hall and Oates sample into a catchy breakbeat and sees the band shifting into a more danceable territory. Since the band is playing over two dozen summer festivals including Coachella, Lollapalooza and Bonnaroo, its enormous outdoor stage set-up and light show should play well in Jacobs Pavilion. Soulful UK crooner and Drake collaborator Sampha will open the show. (Johnny Cook), 8 p.m., $29.50-$45. Jacobs Pavilion.

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

Bad Boys of Blues Weekly Jam: 9 p.m., free. Happy Dog. Bills Cardinal/J-Fitch/Proda/ Qdajuice/TribeUntitled/Dom Deshawn Music by Sample God: 8:30 p.m., free. Grog Shop.

Sam Blakeslee/Tri-C Next Gen/ Dominick Farinacci: 7 p.m., $10.

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Poison Rites/Punching Moses/Dead Sedonas: 9 p.m., $5. Now That’s Class.

The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band/Thor Platter Band: 8:30 p.m., $15. Beachland Ballroom.

Rockin’ The Keys for a Cause! A Dueling Piano Themed Event to Benefit The Epilepsy Association: 6 p.m. Vosh Club.

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all the live music you should see this week The XX launch the outdoor concert season at Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica. See: Wednesday.

Charles Walker Band: 9 p.m., $5.

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War: 8 p.m. Hard Rock Rocksino Northfield Park.

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Blue Lunch: 7 p.m., $20. Bop Stop.

The Crazy Train: 8 p.m., $12 ADV, $15 DOS. The Kent Stage.

Fits of Hail Record Release/Banging Fragiles/Sleepykid: 9 p.m., $5.

Happy Dog. Flint Eastwood/Michigander/The Rainbow Emergency: 8:30 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Beachland Tavern.

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

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

Lonely Pirate Committee/Dynaton/ Sol Fox: 7:30 p.m., $6. Grog Shop.

Mastodon/Eagles of Death Metal/ Russian Circles: 6:30 p.m., $32.49 ADV, $37.50 DOS. The Agora Theatre.

Rebels Without Applause (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m., $7. Music Box Supper Club.

Devin Townsend Project/Thank You Scientist/Oni: 6:30 p.m., $26. House of Blues.

Y&T: 6 p.m., $15 ADV, $20 DOS. Agora Ballroom.

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Holden Laurence Album Release/Bad Hounds/John’s Little Sister: As a member of The Modern Electric, Holden Laurence has captivated many a Northeast Ohio audience over the years. Now, he hits the stage with tonight’s solo release party for Wild Empty Promises, a fantastic debut that blends (in his spot-on words) mope-rock, post-

punk and New Wave deftly. “Broken Waltz” is a great place to begin, what with its bittersweet tone and cinematic delivery; you can tell that Laurence cut his teeth on Modern Electric songwriting and that he’s developed an even stronger voice here. (We recorded an interview with Laurence last week; feed your ears at clevescene.com.) (Eric Sandy), 8:30 p.m., $7 ADV, $10 DOS. Beachland Tavern.

Martin Barre: 8 p.m., $25 ADV, $28 DOS. Music Box Supper Club.

Cinco De Mayo Party with Cats on Holiday (in the Supper Club): 8 p.m., $8 ADV, $10 DOS. Music Box Supper Club.

The Clarks/The Mason District: 9 p.m., $8-$18. Grog Shop.

Dear Tracks/Small Wood House/ Scientific Affair: 9 p.m., $5. The Euclid Tavern.

Dennis DeYoung: The Music of STYX: 7:30 p.m., $32.50-$95.

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Grind/Vulgar Display of Pantera: 7 p.m., $7 ADV, $10 DOS. Agora Ballroom.

Heaven is In You with Mooke da God/Ray Conde + Tom King: 9 p.m., $7. Now That’s Class.

Madison Crawl (in the Wine Bar): 8 p.m. Brothers Lounge.

Old Souls/On the Cinder/Matt Wixons Flying Circus/Two Hand Fools: 9 p.m., $5. Happy Dog. So Much Light/Nnamdi Ogbonnaya/ Hough Crowd/Seth Hasan (in the Locker Room): 7 p.m., $8 ADV, $10 DOS. Mahall’s 20 Lanes.

The Spazmatics: 8 p.m. Vosh Club.

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

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Stephan Crump’s Rosetta Trio: 8 p.m., $15. Bop Stop.

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Ameera/The Steam’az/DJ Sledge Hamma: 8 p.m., $10. Bop Stop.

The Band Perry: 9 p.m. Hard Rock Rocksino Northfield Park.

Crazy Doberman/Kevin Failure/ Fallen: 10 p.m., $10. Now That’s Class.

Guided by Voices/Mirrors: 9 p.m., $32 ADV, $35 DOS. Grog Shop.

Jeff Hanneman Memorial Show with 3rd World Leader/Stressloard Kronus/Wrath Icon: 7 p.m., $5.

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Amy Helm & the Handsome Strangers/Fife & Drom: 8 p.m., $25. The Kent Stage.

Hey Mavis/Escaping Pavement (in the Supper Club): 8 p.m., $10. Music Box Supper Club.

Carlos Jones & the PLUS Band: 10 p.m., $8. Brothers Lounge.

Like Tyrants/Tropic Bombs/Darling Waste/Hell & Highwater: 9 p.m., $12. Musica.

Morgan Mecaskey/Mister Moon/Tom Evanchuck: 9 p.m., $5. The Euclid Tavern.

The New Reign/Atheros/Cemoa/John Soros/Dah/Greenhaus: 9 p.m., $10 ADV, $15 DOS. Beachland Tavern.

Ottawa/Surrounding Cities/ Sweepyheads/Paper Morning: 8:30 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Beachland Ballroom.

School of Rock/The Staff Infection: 2 p.m., free. Brothers Lounge.

Michael Stanley & Friends/Chris Allen: 8 p.m., $75 ADV, $85 DOS. Music Box Supper Club.

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

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

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Paul Barrere and Fred Tackett/Craig Fuller: 8 p.m., $25. The Kent Stage.

California Guitar Trio (in the Supper Club): 7 p.m., $20 ADV, $22 DOS. Music Box Supper Club.

K Camp: 7 p.m., $20 ADV, $25 DOS. Agora Ballroom.

Los P/Don Purp/Coo Johnson/Tino/ Gold Rose/Romello: 8 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Grog Shop.

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Coco Montoya: 7:30 p.m., $18 ADV, $20 DOS. Beachland Ballroom.

Piccolos In The Pub: 4 p.m., $5. Bop Stop.

Predator Dub Assassins/Broke By Monday/Gingerman: 8:30 p.m., $6.

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Mega Bog/Tasseomancy (in the Locker Room): Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to describe the music of Brookyln- and Seattlebased Mega Bog. Some songs borrow from older American rock music, using folk sounds and pop melodies, but then other songs devolve into a freewheeling jazz collage, replete with dancing ďŹ&#x201A;utes and honking saxophones. The band, which released its second album a few months back, is led by multi-instrumentalist Erin Birgy, who assembles a shifting group of diverse musicians to keep live shows organic. One show might feature keyboards and guitar, and another might feature some prominent and experimental ďŹ&#x201A;ute playing. Experimental Toronto band Tasseomancy will open. (Cook), 9 p.m., $8 ADV, $10 DOS. Mahallâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 20 Lanes.

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Elsewhere chronicles, in many ways, the raw and aspirational evolution of a band caught in its earliest years, with nowhere to go but up. Songs like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Old Friendsâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Size of the Moonâ&#x20AC;? blossom in nuanced ways, not unlike the literal blossoming of Northeast Ohio ďŹ&#x201A;ora this time of year. All proceeds beneďŹ t the Southern Poverty Law Center.

(Sandy), 8 p.m., $13 ADV, $15 DOS. Mahallâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 20 Lanes.

Redd Kross/Rumbling Spires: Brothers Jeff and Steve McDonald started a punk rock band together when they were still in grade school.

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with punk icon Keith Morris and also tours with the Melvins. He even produces bands in his home studio.

The bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most recent album, 2012â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Researching the Blues, features retro-leaning punk rock that draws equally from the Sex Pistols and the Raspberries. For this tour, the band will perform 1984 all-cover tunes concept record Teen Babes from Monsanto in its entirety. Dale Crover from the Melvins recently joined the band as a drummer. (Jeff Niesel), 8:30 p.m., $6-$14. Grog Shop.

Todd Rundgren: White Knight â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Chivalrock Tour: Singerguitarist Todd Rundgren has spent the past couple of years playing a series of tour dates billed as An Unpredictable Evening with Todd Rundgren. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an appropriate title for the shows simply because Rundgren can be so â&#x20AC;&#x153;unpredictable.â&#x20AC;?

Now, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just announced the details regarding a new studio album and tour. The resulting disc, White Knight, features guests such as Dam Funk, Trent Reznor, Donald Fagen, Daryl Hall, Bettye Lavette, Robyn, Joe Satriani, Joe Walsh and others. (Niesel), 7 p.m., $35-$65.

House of Blues.

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

Grassroots Bluegrass Jam: 7:30 p.m., free. The Euclid Tavern.

Natural Causes/Obnox/Knife Fighters: 9 p.m., $5. Now Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Class.

Thunder Dreamer/Bummed Out/Paul Ryan: 7:30 p.m., free. Beachland Tavern.

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

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Flaw/Righteous Vendetta/Them Evil: 6 p.m., $10 ADV, $15 DOS. Agora Ballroom.

Horisont/The Dirty Streets/ Turbeaux/Got It Got It Need It: 8:30 p.m., $12 ADV, $14 DOS. Grog Shop.

LANY/Goody Grace: 8 p.m., $18.

Beachland Ballroom.

Kikagaku Moyo/Small Wood House/ Space Funeral/Stif: 7 p.m., $12 ADV, $14 DOS. Mahallâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 20 Lanes.

Say Anything/Bayside/Reggie and the Full Effect: 6 p.m., $22.50$32.50. House of Blues.

Two Set Tuesday Featuring Duo Decibel System (in the Wine Bar): 7 p.m. Brothers Lounge.

Dan Zola Big Band: 7:30 p.m.Vosh Club.

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BAND OF THE WEEK AXIOMA

By Jeff Niesel MEET THE BAND: Cyril Blandino (guitars), Aaron Dallison (bass, vocals), Jon Vinson (drums), Justin Meyers (guitars) THE FRENCH CONNECTION: A dark metal band from Cleveland featuring members of Keelhaul, Brain Tentacles and Forged in Flame, Axioma came together in 2015. Originally, the group only consisted of Meyers and Blandino, who also play in the local metal act Forged in Flame. “We wanted to play some heavier music,” says Meyers. Blandino came to the States a decade ago with the French metal act Morgue. He met his wife in Cleveland and wound up moving here. Meyers met him through mutual friends, and he played in Forged in Flame for a bit. Meyers says the band takes its influences from a wide variety of sources, including soundtracks.

“We’re not just coming just from one direction,” he says.

THE PATH LESS TAKEN: Meyers describes the band’s debut, Opia, as a “dark unorthodox mixture with bleak lyrical context and artwork that carves a dismal yet aggressive path through the soundscape.” “With Axioma, we want to do darker themed music,” he says. “We’re not trying to be black metal or dark metal or play music from just any one genre. We write what feels natural.”

WHY YOU SHOULD HEAR THEM: The album’s opening number, “No Devil,” features buzzing guitars and hoarse vocals. As heavy as it might be, the song possesses a restrained intensity as it steers clear of the kind of conventional time signatures usually associated with death metal.

With its ominous keyboards, the sparse “The Exit” would be at home on a horror movie soundtrack. Band members write individually and then flesh the songs out together. “There

are similar themes that go through the album lyrically and sound-wise,” says Meyers. “We’re not opposed to doing longer instrumental passages.”

Vincent Deliberato engineered the album at his locally based DeCalo Studios and David Johnson mastered it his locally based Bad Back Studios.

The band self-released the disc in the States and put the disc out as a limited release in Europe too. Meyers says the band, which has already started writing songs for a followup album, has a few regional shows

lined up for the summer.

WHERE YOU CAN HEAR THEM: facebook.com/AxiomaOfficialUs/ WHERE YOU CAN SEE THEM: Axioma performs with Death Crawl, Shed the Skin and Fell Ruin at 8 p.m. on Thursday, March 4, at Now That’s Class.

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Emo rockers Fall Out Boy announced they’ll start a fall tour at the Q.

MUSIC WITH A MESSAGE Fall Out Boy to launch fall tour at the Q

By Jeff Neisel LAST WEEK, EMO ROCKERS Fall Out Boy dropped the new song “Young and Menace,” the first single from their forthcoming studio album, M A N I A. The group also released the song’s music video.

“There’s a lyric in the song, ‘trying to send the world a message, I was young and a menace,’ that reminded me of growing up in the suburbs of Chicago. I didn’t look like anyone there or feel like anyone – I felt like an outsider in my own town. It wasn’t until I discovered punk rock and that community that I realized I did fit in somewhere in this world — with the other people who didn’t fit in,” says Fall Out Boy bassist and lyricist Pete Wentz in a press release. “It’s hard to rationalize rage — it’s hard to quantify anxiety... this song does neither, it embraces the wave...”

The band will embark on a 20city North American fall arena tour in support of the album. The jaunt kicks off on Oct. 20 in Cleveland with a show at the Q. Tickets go on sale to the general public at 10 a.m. on Friday, May 5.

In addition, $1 of every ticket of the tour will go towards the band’s newly launched Fall Out Boy Fund which will support a number of charities in the Chicago area. For more information, visit falloutboy. com/tour.

ROCK HALL TO SCREEN DEMME FILM IN JULY Late last year, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame announced a series of renovations. One of the “longterm” renovations included what the museum dubbed “The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Signature Experience.”

Those enhancements will combine improved Inductee exhibits with a signature multimedia presentation production by Oscar-winning filmmaker Jonathan Demme.

Last week, the talented Demme, who directed concert films such as Stop Making Sense and Neil Young: Heart of Gold as well as the drama Silence of the Lambs and a slew of other fantastic films, passed away at age 73.

He had completed his film for the Rock Hall, however, and it will make its debut on July 1.

“Jonathan had a keen ability to meld his passion for music and storytelling in works that showed us the world in a new light,” says Rock Hall president and CEO Greg Harris in a statement. “It was an honor to have worked with him on one of his last projects.”

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by Dan Savage NANCY, THE TECH-SAVVY AT-RISK youth, two gimps, Christ on the cross, the Easter Bunny, two weeping women, and the Easter Bunny’s smoking-hot leather master took to the stage at Revolution Hall in Portland, Oregon, for a live taping of the Savage Lovecast on Easter weekend. Audience members submitted their questions on cards —but with Rachel Lark and the Damaged Goods and comedian Nariko Ott on the program as well, we didn’t get to many questions. So I’m going to answer as many of Portland’s questions as I can in this week’s column.

Dear Dan, We’ve been sleeping with another couple for three months (first time my BF and I opened our relationship). How do I suggest full penetration with the opposite partner? At this point, we just do oral and that’s the “groove” we’re in.

Only-oral-with-others may be this couple’s preferred groove and the lane they want to stay in. If they’re only up for the “soft swap,” as it’s known in swinging circles, penetration isn’t gonna happen. But you should feel free to ask for what you want—at the very least, you’ll get some long-overdue clarity about their boundaries.

Dear Dan, Is squirting pee? We know that chemically it’s similar, but is it REALLY? I’m tired of this debate, so consider this my final answer: So what if it is pee?

Dear Dan, My girlfriend asked me to make out with another guy. Her fantasy. We met a really pretty gay boy at a house party, and so I made out with him. I got hard, and my girlfriend made a huge scene.

She says it was supposed to be for her pleasure, not for mine, and she’s still angry six months later and constantly questions whether I’m really straight. (I am!) What do I tell her?

Good-bye.

Dear Dan, When do you know if it’s okay to insert your finger in your boyfriend’s butthole? Without fear of freaking him out?

After you’ve applied lube to your

finger and his butthole—which you’re allowed to do only after you’ve asked him if you can insert your finger in his butthole and after he’s consented to having your finger in his butthole.

Dear Dan, I want to try anal, but I am scared of getting poop on my partner. Is an enema enough?

Properly administered, an enema should be more than enough. But with anal as with liberal democracy—a good outcome is not guaranteed. Sometimes you do your homework and your prep, and everything still comes to shit.

Dear Dan, I love my man, but we’re both tops.

What should we do?

Spit-roast very special guest stars if you’re in an open relationship, take turns/one for the team if you’re in a monogamous relationship, explore and enjoy your non-butt-penetrative options.

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Dear Dan, How do we play around with opening up our relationship as parents of a 1-year-old? We barely have enough time or enough sleep to keep our own relationship juicy.

Play around in theory for now— lots of dirty talk—and put theory into practice after your kid is a toddler and you’ve landed a reliable babysitter.

Dear Dan, My girlfriend and I are pretty grossly in love and very affectionate, especially after we’ve just had sex. Should we make an effort to tone it down a bit around a third we’ve just fucked around with? Or should we just be ourselves, and if they don’t like it, oh well?

Be yourselves—but make an effort to include your third in those oxytocininfused displays of postcoital affection.

Unless your third was inconsiderate or creepy during the sex, or is anxious to go immediately after the sex (a sign you may have been inconsiderate or creepy), your third helped get you to that blissedout state and deserves to bask a bit in the afterglow too.

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