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UPFRONT CLEVELAND SCHOOL DISTRICT’S CURRENT CRISIS: HIGH LEVELS OF LEAD FOUND IN WATER

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IN A CITY (AND COUNTY) ALREADY plagued with concerning rates of lead poisoning, the news out of the Cleveland Metropolitan School District last week should prompt urgent action. And while the district is removing hundreds of drinking fountains and faucets and other water sources in the schools flagged with the most alarming lead levels in the water supply, it’s hard to imagine a more tepid response from Patrick Zohn, chief operating officer of the district: “I was neither surprised nor unsurprised. I just knew that we as a district had to find out if there was an issue,” he told WEWS. Well, there’s an issue.

For the better part of 2015, WCPN and The Plain Dealer performed an admirable job in reporting on the lead crisis of Cuyahoga County. In short, elevated lead levels in aging homes and in the local water supply correspond perfectly with increased poverty, lower IQs (especially among school-age children) and infant mortality (more on that shortly). Data gathered by the Cuyahoga County Board of Health, for instance, showed that some neighborhoods in Cleveland saw major problems occurring simultaneously: 33 percent of children tested positive for “elevated blood lead levels” in neighborhoods where 70 percent of families lived at or below the poverty line. The general line for years has been that this is not coincidental.

And so the CMSD had to find out if there was an issue. Months of lead testing this summer in 69 CMSD school buildings led to the latest headlines: Nine percent of the 1,700 water sources tested returned elevated levels of lead.

“If, after the repair, we still test positive, then we’ll go deeper into seeing what if any piping needs to be

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“I was neither surprised nor unsurprised.

I just knew that we as a district had to find out if there was an issue” — Patrick Zohn

replaced,” Zohn told WEWS, referring to the removal of 79 drinking fountains and 40 faucets across the district.

As an example, a water source at Collinwood High School returned a 1,270 parts per billion lead level. The EPA insists testing organizations take action at 15 ppb. (Some water experts and civil engineers have taken issue with that 15-ppb threshold, however, saying that it should be reevaluated and lowered.)

Recall, too, as the CMSD confronts this issue, the backdrop of the drinking water crisis in Flint, Michigan, and the unsettling flareup in Sebring, Ohio, earlier this year.

(The city of Berea is confronting what appears to be a standard-issue water

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problem accompanying construction in the city, though recent Cleveland 19 News reports have riled up residents and the mayor.) The presence of lead in local water supplies is an extremely costly problem with farreaching consequences — and it’s not terribly easy to solve. As Zohn told Plain Dealer reporter Brie Zeltner last week: “You didn’t need the gift of prescience to know that someone would eventually say here, ‘Well, what’s the school district doing?’”

It’s currently unclear how much the replacement work will cost. (Water testing is nearing the $400,000 mark and climbing.)

With a look to the future, though, here’s Zeltner with an illustration of what’s to come: “School officials said

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they do not know how or whether they will monitor these potentially hazardous water sources in the future but will ‘probably’ follow up.” Terrific.

PROSECUTOR ELECT MIKE O’MALLEY PLEDGES TO MAKE GOOD ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM CAMPAIGN PROMISES Cuyahoga County prosecutor-elect Mike O’Malley addressed a crowd of more than 1,500 people at Olivet Institutional Baptist Church last Thursday night, pledging to enact several significant criminal justice reforms. His announcements can be attributed in large part to the advocacy and pressure of the Greater Cleveland Congregations (GCC), a network of

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O’Malley said he has spent the past eight months working closely with representatives from the GCC. The first criminal justice reform “action meeting” occurred in February at Fairmount Temple.

“February was the kickoff,” O’Malley said. “Today we’re moving the ball forward, but we’re not at the finish line yet. It is through collaboration that we will continue to move the ball forward.”

Among O’Malley’s announcements: He pledged to establish within the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s office a devoted civil rights unit, the first of its kind in the county. “We can’t have people who are discriminated against because of their race, national origin, sexual orientation, religious

views,” O’Malley said. He pledged that his office would work with U.S. Attorney Carol Rendon and her office to establish a joint effort to get civil rights cases prosecuted in federal court.

He pledged to abide by the commitments of his campaign related to police use of deadly force cases. He said, on the trail, that he’d recommend independent investigation and prosecution for all such cases, and he reaffirmed that commitment Thursday.

He pledged to reduce overcharging low-level nonviolent offenses at a rate of seven to 15 percent per year. “We cannot incarcerate, penalize and institutionalize people because of drug behavior,” O’Malley said to applause.

Judge John Russo also spoke

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briefly, leading with a “justice system isn’t just a system” pun, which was thoroughly well received. He announced that the Cuyahoga County court system had been awarded a federal grant to expand the successful drug court, which aims to rehabilitate rather than imprison drug offenders.

There are currently two courts with two dedicated judges in the system.

The grant, Russo said, will allow for a third.

LOCAL LEADERS DISMAYED BY RISING INFANT MORTALITY RATES, BUT PREACH PATIENCE An alarming report released last week by the Ohio Department of Health showed the infant mortality rate in Ohio rising in 2015, despite millions of dollars devoted to the cause.

Cuyahoga was among the worstperforming counties in the state, jumping from 8.1 to 10.5 infant deaths per 1,000 lives births last year. (A total of 156 babies died in Cuyahoga County before their first birthday, out of 14,843 born).

Local leaders were dismayed,

but said that this year’s influx of dollars — nearly $4.5 million to fund First Year Cleveland, the city-county partnership to curb infant mortality — will help reduce those numbers.

County Executive Armond Budish reiterated earlier comments that the regional infant mortality programs work, and that even though local rates are “shameful” and “unacceptable,” improvements take time.

County health commissioner Terry Allan said he hoped that 2015 was an aberration, “just a data point,” and not indicative of a larger trend.

The efficacy of First Year Cleveland’s programs won’t be known until the data is gathered in coming years.

But City Council president Kevin Kelley’s words in 2015 about the

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55 Years that Dick Goddard has appeared on Fox 8 News. His last broadcast was this past Tuesday at 6 p.m.

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CLEVELAND COMMUNITY POLICE COMMISSION MEMBERS ASK STEVE LOOMIS TO RESIGN FROM COMMISSION In recent months and weeks, Cleveland police union president Steve Loomis a.) has been issued a sixday suspension by the chief after an altercation involving a family member

and rooms in different parts of the school with the lights out, workcurrent ing on the story on our phones. We just immediately responded. officer at the union We couldn’t call people to talk to them, but we were trying to get hall (Loomis something together right away. It was very immediate. will appeal); b.) has come under Nora Spadoni, editor of The Shakerite, investigation for on covering last week’s events at wearing his uniform Shaker Heights High School at a Trump rally despite being off duty, and c.) has come under fire from black members of the union for rallying the group to member has other professional and issue an endorsement for Donald personal obligations which prevent Trump, which marked the first them from attending every CPC time the union had ever endorsed a meeting. However, you are the only presidential candidate.

Commissioner who has consistently Now 10 of the 13 members of missed required meetings for many Cleveland’s Community Police months, thereby not fulfilling Commission have sent him a letter Commission responsibilities.” asking him to resign from the group.

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seriousness of infant mortality are illustrated by the state’s recent report.

“I wonder if the term ‘infant mortality’ isn’t too academic or too clinical,” Kelley told Scene in an interview, months before a $2.9 million grant from Ohio Medicaid was awarded to First Year Cleveland.

“Maybe we should call it ‘dead baby syndrome’ or ‘our babies are dying’ syndrome, something more shocking.”

As the state report shows, some of our babies are much more likely to die than others. This may be the most shocking fact of all. The widening gap in infant mortality rates between white and black babies is getting increasingly dramatic.

In 2015, black babies died at nearly three times the rate of white babies.

In 2013, the white-to-black rates of mortality per 1,000 births were 6.0 to 13.8. In 2014: 5.3 to 14.3. In 2015: 5.5 to 15.1.

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FEATURE

From the front of the house to the back, Cleveland restaurants are dealing with a talent crunch

By Douglas Trattner IN ADVANCE OF THE Republican National Convention, longtime Washington Post food critic Tom Sietsema visited Cleveland, where he dined at a number of independent restaurants as research for a travel feature. Alongside praise for local establishments like Flying Fig was a swift and unequivocal swing at the service he received while dining around town.

“One missing ingredient: good service,” Sietsema wrote in the feature. “With a handful of exceptions — the upscale Edwins, the happy-go-lucky Mabel’s BBQ — most of the places I tried treated this anonymous diner as if I were invisible.”

While one can take issue with the

realities of accurately assessing a city’s collective service quality based upon a single three-day steeplechase through town, the writer did call attention to an issue that has been festering like a slow-growing mold in a dark corner of a walk-in cooler. Call it the Great Culinary Talent Crunch of our day, but the fact is that the demand for quality restaurant employees — from servers and assistant managers to line cooks and chefs de cuisine — is outpacing supply.

One doesn’t have to be a restaurant critic to notice the negative consequences — though this one certainly has. From lackluster service to improperly executed food, signs of the

employment crisis are having real and devastating effects on the diner experience. An early meal at Coastal Taco, one of the busiest new restaurants in the Flats, was a comedy of errors. Our servers appeared dazed and confused throughout the entire evening, if they appeared at all. When the food arrived, it was cold, wrong and unimpressive.

During a recent meal at another popular spot, the table was expected to eat the appetizers directly from the platter, apparently, as the server neglected to offer any plates or silverware. Dirty dishes and empty beer bottles lingered so long on the table at one Ohio City restaurant that we assumed that our server

had taken a new position elsewhere in town mid-meal. Under-cooked burgers, over-cooked fish, and menus that look to be photocopied and distributed across town in attempt to eliminate any possibility of creativity on the part of the kitchen all are upsetting realities of the current marketplace.

When I contacted Coastal Taco owner Rick Doody to relate my negative experiences, I was surprised by his candor. Here is a guy who, along with his brother Chris, has opened 115 Bravo and Brio restaurants employing 11,000 staffers, and he admitted he just couldn’t get it right.

“We didn’t have the staff, we didn’t have the training, we didn’t have the team,” Doody regretted.

Out of all the concerns facing restaurant owners, general managers, kitchen managers and anybody else tasked with hiring, it is the attraction and retention of passionate staffers that is causing the most fits.

“When I’m looking for a couple of new employees, it’s hard to find them,” explains Dan Deagan, owner of Deagan’s Kitchen in Lakewood.

“When we were looking to hire some servers recently, we put out a sponsored Facebook post that went out to like 8,000 people. I think we got four applications.”

Asked what he believes to be the cause of that tepid response, the owner of the popular 6-year-old gastropub says with a laugh, “That tells me that either there are too many restaurants, that everybody has jobs, that nobody wants to be a server, or that nobody goes on Facebook.”

You don’t have to be paying attention too closely to see that there has been a genuine and significant restaurant boom in the Greater Cleveland area over the past decade. New restaurant (and bar and brewery) openings have been outpacing closings at rates that appear to hover in the five-to-one range. The growth of inner-ring neighborhoods like Tremont, Ohio City, Gordon Square, University Circle and the Flats appear to be fueled by a flush of new dining and entertainment attractions. A recent downtown development boom ushered in a handful of new hotels, each possessing multiple bars and restaurants with an insatiable demand for hospitality workers.

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FEATURE execution, and a simplification of menus to better match the skills of the people cooking it.

And we’re just getting started.

According to the foodservice trade reps at the National Restaurant Association, the industry is expected to add more than 400,000 food-prep and serving positions over the next 10 years. Where all those employees will come from is anybody’s guess.

If there’s any consolation for local owners, it’s that the problem is hardly unique to Cleveland.

“I was joking with my partners the other day and I said, ‘Forty restaurants need to close in Chicago,’” says Todd Stein, executive chef and partner of Formento’s in the city’s West Loop neighborhood.

“And I don’t think I’m exaggerating the number. Not that I want them to close.”

Though Stein was born and raised in Chicago, he actually got his first big cooking break in Cleveland, where he was hired on as executive chef of Vivo, a high-end Italian joint in the Old Arcade. In the decade since he left the North Shore, Stein worked in Las Vegas, developed restaurants for the Wit Hotel in Chicago, and continued to make a name for himself in the Windy City.

He says that while the development boom in his town is tenfold of what’s taking place in Cleveland, the root causes of the restaurant boom are the same nationwide.

“We’re catering to what we believe is the need of guests,” he says. “This is their entertainment; it’s what a lot of people are using their disposable income for. Most people still want to eat out multiple nights of the week, and that’s why you keep seeing restaurants open.”

Accelerating the pace and sum of new restaurants is a generation of celebrity chefs and other high-profile operators and restaurant groups with seemingly bottomless access to both cash and the most attractive addresses in town. “Just like with an athlete, these chefs look at it as an opportunity — this is my window to make good, financially,” Stein says of the strike-while-the-iron’s-hot mentality.

We’ve certainly seen that take place in Cleveland, where large and growing restaurant groups like Zack Bruell Restaurants, Red Restaurant Group, and even Barrio have hired top-level talent away from their current posts to help with expansion. In the very recent

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margins are slim. If you are at 10-percent profitability, you are doing well.”

Seeholzer, who helps oversee five restaurant properties around town, says that many area restaurants actually hover in the three- to sixpercent range, and “depending on the year, depending on the month, it might be slim to none,” he adds.

And out of the net profit bucket come loan payments, capital improvements and everything else needed to keep the lights on and the food cold.

“The restaurant doesn’t last forever,” he notes. “It’s like having thousands of people in and out of your house throughout the year. The HVAC needs to be replaced, walk-in coolers die, roofs start leaking …”

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past we’ve watched Andrew Bower move from Market Garden Brewery to Red’s new casual concept 811; Peter Joyce leave his job as culinary director for Crop Restaurant Group to join the seemingly unstoppable Barrio group; and Matt Anderson leave his job as head chef at Crop Kitchen to join ranks with Bruell at Table 45. It wasn’t long after those last two moves, by the way, that Crop closed the doors of three of its four eateries.

All of the above translates to a disconcerting trend, one that is forcing bosses to hire warm bodies over able bodies — if bodies show up at all.

“When I started, we had the pick of the litter — and quality people,” Stein says. “If we needed a cook, we’d put out the line and five guys would show up, and you’d want to hire all five because they were great.

Whereas now, five guys show up and you have to hire one because you need them.”

The source of the problem is not simply that there are more restaurants than there used to be, it’s that young employees seem less eager to enter the field and make a career out of it, industry veterans report. Back in the day, all it took was a foot in the door and a willingness to learn, and one could

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work his or her way up the ladder from busboy to GM, from dishwasher to chef, from employee to owner.

Today’s workers seem less interested in toiling long hours for low wages in dangerous, challenging conditions.

“Years ago when I was at Washington Place, I was getting applications in weekly,” says Chris Kafcsak, executive chef at Deagan’s.

“I haven’t gotten an application for a cook in well over a month. Not even someone walking in the door. And when they do, the people are asking for top dollar without even being able to work a hot line.”

Kafcsak says that many unskilled applicants walk in demanding $12, $13 and even $14 dollars an hour, wages reserved for his best employees, and even then only after they’ve been with him for a couple years and proven their value. Those figures might not sound all that unreasonable, but that’s only because many outside the industry don’t have an accurate understanding of the financial realities of running a restaurant.

“I think the general public has unrealistic beliefs about profit margins and assumes you make a killing,” says Jonathan Seeholzer, director of restaurant operations for MRN Hospitality Group. “Profit

Poorly trained or inexperienced kitchen staffers not only are causing employers problems, they are the unintentional death of creativity.

Kafcsak says that he’s happy with his current team at Deagan’s, but admits that with an even better, more skilled team, diners would be seeing and enjoying a more creative bill of fare.

“We have to take into consideration all new items, testing them out to make sure that we have the staff to prep it, that the kitchen can pump them out on a busy night before they ever hit the menu,” he explains. “We’ve run specials that have sold extremely well, but we know that with the staff we have we’re never going to be able to keep up.”

In this new reality, Kafcsak and those in his shoes are more than happy to trade experience for enthusiasm and a willingness to learn.

“Not to make light of the situation, but somebody taught me how to do this job, so it can’t be that hard,” Stein muses. “I look more at the human side of the person than I do the ability side on their resume.

Most of the people who have worked in all these great places, in my opinion, generally have a lot of bad habits. So I’d rather take somebody with less experience and a huge heart who’s willing to learn and grow and listen. But sometimes you don’t have a choice.”

To keep Stein’s 200-seat restaurant humming requires one chef, two sous chefs and 15 cooks in the kitchen. That pales in comparison to the staff it takes to

fully staff the restaurants of the Cleveland-based Paladar restaurant group, which includes one Bomba Tacos and six Paladar Latin Kitchen locations spread across four states.

Much of the responsibility for that challenge lands in the lap of Angie Mosher, director of human resources. Of the nearly 500 moving parts, the toughest positions to keep fully staffed are the hourly line cooks and midlevel management spots like assistant managers and sous chefs, Mosher reports.

“I haven’t gotten an application for a cook in well over a month. Not even someone walking in the door. And when they do, the people are asking for top dollar without even being able to work a hot line.”

— Chris Kafcsak, Executive chef, Deagan’s

“There’s no question that hiring is a challenge,” she says. “But you can always find people with a great personality. If they don’t necessarily have the experience, we are happy to train them on how to be a great server. It might take a bit longer, but we continue to find great people.”

Some of the staffing issues, says Paladar owner Andy Himmel, can be blamed simply on the distance between job and applicant. As more and more of these new restaurants pop up in hip urban centers or flashy new development projects in spendy suburbs, scores of eager potential employees simply can’t make it to the front or back door.

“In wealthy areas like King of Prussia (Pennsylvania, home to the newest Paladar), the cost of living is so high that many employees don’t live close to those markets, so it depends on access to public transportation,” Himmel reports.

“How far is someone willing to go until it stops making sense to come to a restaurant?”

Himmel, who opened his first restaurant, Boulevard Blue, on

Larchmere a dozen years ago, says that he finds himself competing for his best talent not just against other restaurant owners as in days past, but against entirely new foes.

“With some of these really great front-of-house managers, you’re competing against the entire world,” Himmel has noticed. “Where at times people felt trapped in the restaurant industry, you have these front-of-house managers who seem comfortable moving into other industries where they work less hours, make similar amounts of money and don’t have the stress that comes with working in a restaurant.

When you combine that with the rising demand for high-caliber talent, there’s no question that’s a problem.”

The same can be said of chefs, who are finding new opportunities outside the restaurant kitchen, be that in the kitchens of a high-end grocery store (say, Giant Eagle Market District), at a country club, as the owner of a small catering firm, or behind the desk as a food writer.

Despite being a graduate of the prestigious Culinary Institute of America, and despite launching the award-winning Greenhouse Tavern alongside Jonathon Sawyer, when faced with the choice of staying in the kitchen or moving on to greener pastures, Seeholzer opted for the latter when he signed with his current employer MRN. “First and foremost, it was my kids and my family, realizing that I had gone days and days without seeing them,” he reflects. “For so long it was looked at as a glamorous thing, and so many people got into it, and then they realized that it’s not as easy as it looks, those 15-hour days in a hot kitchen.”

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The complaints are nothing that Monath hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t heard directly from Kafcsak as well as other chefs and owners, many of whom call weekly in search of employees. There are no current plans to deviate from the classic culinary track, she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I understand that and I respect that, but we have a duty to teach our students the basics ďŹ rst and then they can build on that,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Being ACF accredited is a means that holds us to a certain standard. It makes us more disciplined, it makes us really look at what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing, analyze

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For me to grow, I need people around me to do it.”

Bruell, who employs around 470 people throughout his eight-unit empire, says that he’s likely done opening new places until something dramatic changes. That could be a major shift on the supply side, or a major swing on the demand side thanks to population growth. Having multiple restaurants gives Bruell and operators like him a device to keep workers in his employ by having multiple paths of advancement.

“It’s very important that people know that they have a chance to grow,” he says. “If it’s just a job, we don’t want them. You want to surround yourself with as many people who think this is their passion, that this is their life’s work, and are open-minded enough to say, ‘Teach me

what you know.’”

That was Nolan Cleary’s precise attitude when he started working as a busboy at Lola in 1999. Today, he’s the general manager of Mabel’s BBQ, one of the buzziest, busiest new restaurants in Cleveland. Along the way he’s held every front-of-house position there is, including server, bartender, assistant manager and beverage director. He recognized early on that hitching his wagon to the right horses was his path to success.

“From the onset, it was very obvious that I worked for good people,” he recalls. “You could see that they took really good care of their employees. It was, and still very much is, like a family. Obviously, we’ve grown quite a bit as a restaurant group, but that approach is still something that we talk about all the time.”

Another topic of discussion at staff meetings is the current state of affairs in the Cleveland restaurant scene.

High-profile closures like Arcadia, Willeyville, Crop Kitchen and Crop Rocks seem to be signaling a tipping point in the marketplace. The question for Cleary and other prognosticators is whether these closings are victims of diminished demand or simply the consequences of being an inferior operation.

“A lot of places have opened, and now we’re seeing the wave start to come over and see some places close,” Cleary says. “Is it because there are too many restaurants or because the quality is not there? It’s a tough question.”

Nobody thinks about the mounting quantity of restaurants more than Dan Deagan, who is constantly surveying the landscape in search of warning signs. Is there a bubble? Is the other shoe going to drop? All he really knows for sure is what goes on within his own four walls, but he’s concerned about what might be lurking around the bend.

“Thankfully, we’re six years in and we’ve done really well,” he says.

“But being in this business is so stressful. You have one bad week and you wonder, ‘Is this the beginning of the end?’ Places that are opening right now, I can’t imagine the stress they must be going through because I assume that nobody is doing as well as they expected to. There are just too many places.”

Years ago, the biggest threats to small independent restaurants seemed to be the big national chains that invaded our marketplace from footholds like Legacy Village, Eton Chagrin and Crocker Park. Those developments soon will be joined by

other projects like Pinecrest and Van Aken District, which will continue to place huge demands on the talent pool and the dining population’s wallet.

Regardless of how it all plays out, says Himmel, well-operated independent restaurants will survive and thrive while those that aren’t will see diners take their dollars elsewhere.

“What you’re seeing nationally in terms of a restaurant recession is a trend affecting larger publicly traded chains,” Himmel explains. “Some of those national chains that we used to think were really cool seem kind of passé and dated now. There has been a huge exponential shift over the last three or four years, with a lot of the smaller, independent operators taking a big chunk of that business.

Independent restaurants that are run well, provide a good value, and offer something unique are always going to have a place in the market. The restaurants that aren’t run well, that have skated along and didn’t really try to evolve and grow and pay attention to what’s happening, yeah, they’re going to have a harder time. And maybe that’s not necessarily a bad thing.”

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Fox 8 (aptly called the Mike Polk Jr. Show), perform live, you know he really thrives on having an audience at his disposal. He performs a special Thanksgiving show tonight at 8 at Hilarities. Tickets are $10 to $15.

(Niesel) 2035 East Fourth St., 216-241-7425, pickwickandfrolic.com.

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COMEDY

John Caparulo Best known for his stints on E!’s Chelsea Lately and as the host of CMT’s Mobile Home Disaster, comedian John Caparulo is a Kent State grad who regularly comes home and fits some shows into his schedule while he’s here. Caparulo, known as Cap, got his start on the Cleveland circuit where he worked in the late ’90s. He plays the role of the dumb hillbilly, but his narrative jokes are well thought out and his comic timing is impeccable. In 2013, he issued Come Inside of Me, a collection of some of his best jokes, including his lengthy bit about the first time he went skydiving. Expect to hear some of that material tonight when he performs at 8 at Hilarities. He also has shows scheduled on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Tickets start at $28. (Jeff Niesel) 2035 East Fourth St., 216-241-7425, pickwickandfrolic.com.

SPORTS

Cavaliers vs. Portland Trail Blazers In sharp-shooting guard Damian Lillard, the Portland Trail Blazers have one of the league’s top scorers.

He’s carried the Western Conference team so far this season. You can catch him and his Trail Blazer cohorts tonight at 7 at the Q, as they make their sole visit to town this season to take on the Cavs. Tickets start at $19. (Niesel) 1 Center Court, 216-420-2000, theqarena.com.

FUN RUN

Winterfest returns to Public Square. See: Saturday.

BEER

FILM

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

Serpico This month and next, the Cleveland Museum of Art pays tribute to the late, great writer-director Sidney Lumet by showing many of his films. At 6:45 p.m. today and Friday, it shows 1973’s Serpico, a film about a New York City cop (Al Pacino) who turns whistleblower. Tickets cost $11, or $9 for CMA members, seniors and students. (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.

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Happy Hour Classic Film Series The Capitol Theatre’s popular Happy Hour Classics series returns tonight with a screening of the comedy 9 to 5. The film, which stars Dolly Parton, Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, centers on three coworkers who are so fed up with their sexist boss that they kidnap him and run the office themselves. Given the results of the recent presidential election, the storyline suddenly sounds timely.

Admission to the film includes a complimentary mini-cocktail (or soft drink), appetizers and music at the Happy Hour cocktail party. The reception starts at 6 p.m., and the movie starts at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10.

(Niesel) 1390 West 65th St., 216-651-7295, clevelandcinemas.com.

The Peanuts All-Star Jam 2016 Since 1975, Peanuts, the selfproclaimed Host of the Northcoast, has hosted a musicians’ jam on the night before Thanksgiving. Over the years, the event has moved from venue to venue throughout Northeast Ohio. This year, it’s being held at Ace’s Grille in North Ridgeville; this marks the jam’s Lorain County debut. All guitarists and bassists are asked to bring their own instruments and drummers their own sticks. Amps, keyboards and drum kit will be provided.

Once again, the host band will be the Peanuts All-Star Jam Band, led by keyboardist Debbie Z. The event takes place at 9 p.m. Admission is free.

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Bullshit Night Records Release Party Most bars and concert clubs are closed for Thanksgiving. Now That’s Class is not. The place opens today at 5 p.m. and encourages patrons to “get twisted.” At 9, the club hosts a cassette release party for local DJ Bang Messiah, who’s issuing his new cassette on Bullshit Night Records, the label run by former Clevelander Chad Bilyeu, a guy who moved to Amsterdam where he now works as a freelance photographer and writer.

Admission to the release party is $5 and includes a copy of the cassette.

Locals Jetse216, Vigatron, and DJ Ceven share the bill. (Niesel) 11213 Detroit Ave., 216-221-8576, nowthatsclass.net.

Turkey Trot Some 9,000 runners, walkers and spectators will take to the downtown streets this morning for the 35th annual Turkey Trot. It features a 1-mile fun run and a 5-K walk and run. Local singers Nicky Jenny, Jessie Cope Miller and Angelina Fiorini will perform patriotic songs before the 5-K. Registration begins at 7 a.m. at Public Hall. The fun run starts at 8:45 and the 5-K at 9:30.

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Free Thanksgiving Buffet Back in 1992, the original House of Blues in Cambridge, Massachusetts, began a tradition of serving the homeless and needy on Thanksgiving. The House of Blues here in Cleveland has carried on that tradition for the past decade.

Once again this year, it will offer a full Thanksgiving buffet dinner to those in need on Thanksgiving Day. House of Blues employees, friends, family and vendors will provide the food at the event, which runs from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. In the past, the venue has served an average of 300 people in the restaurant and bar on East Fourth Street. This year, the venue will aim to feed even more people in the Music Hall. In addition, the 4 Amigos will perform on the main stage where the O’Jays’ Eric Nolan Grant and The Alan Cox Show’s Erika Lauren will join them. Note that you must be in need (homeless, low income, alone, etc.) to receive the free meal. (Niesel) 308 Euclid Ave., 216-523-2583, houseofblues.com.

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Mike Polk If you’ve seen local comedian Mike Polk Jr., the man behind the Hastily Made Cleveland Tourism Video, the Factory of Sadness video (Parts 1 and 2), Last Call Cleveland comedy troupe and his very own show on

MUSIC

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GET OUT The piece remains one of classical music’s most iconic compositions.

Tonight at 8 at Severance Hall, the Cleveland Orchestra performs the piece. Jaap van Zweden conducts.

Pianist Daniil Trifonov, a graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music who won first prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 2011, will be soloist in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23. An hour before the concert, guest speaker David J. Rothenberg, chair of the department of music at Case Western Reserve University, gives a pre-concert talk, “The Legacy of Beethoven’s Fifth.” Performances repeat at 8 p.m. tomorrow and at 3 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets start at $49.

(Niesel) 11001 Euclid Ave., 216-231-1111, clevelandorchestra.com.

is so period-perfect and charming that the squishy sentimentality (of which there is plenty) never leads to saccharine reflux. Philip Grecian is listed as the playwright, but everyone understands that the bulk of insights and telling detail comes from the mind of Jean Shepherd, who wrote the original story, co-authored the

through Dec. 23. Tickets are $25 to $110. (Christine Howey) 1407 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

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MUSIC

Holiday Show Here’s another chance to shop local and support local artists this holiday

Rockabilly Holiday Local hero Johnny Fay brings his band, the Bel-Aires, to Wilbert’s for his annual Rockabilly Holiday show. Fay and friends formed the band while they were students at Bedford High School in the late 1950s. According to legend, Fay was inspired by a Cleveland Arena concert featuring Elvis, Scotty and Bill. Johnny and the Bel-Aires played local dances and record hops and never stopped — eventually going on to become heroes to France’s modern rockabilly group, the Megatons.

David Loy & the Ramrods open tonight’s show, which takes place at 8:30 at Wilbert’s. (Niesel) 812 Huron Rd. E., 216-902-4663, wilbertsmusic.com.

SHOPPING

Black Friday Shopping Event If you’re looking to shop local this Black Friday, the artist studios and galleries of 78th Street Studios have you covered with their second annual Black Friday shopping event from 3 to 7 tonight. Participants include Tregoning & Co., Eileen Dorsey Studio, Hedge Gallery, Kokoon Arts Gallery and many more. Additionally, several Gordon Square businesses will be offering a 10-percent discount for anyone who shows proof of purchase from a 78th Street Studios tenant. These cross-promotions are available at Graffiti Social Kitchen, L’ Amour du Noir and Toast Wine Bar. The following day, Gordon Square businesses participate in a special Small Business Saturday event.

Admission is free. (Josh Usmani) 1300 West 78th St., 78thstreetstudios.com.

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EXhiBit cLosEs NOv. 27 This special exhibit at the Rock Hall looks at some of the most important debates in our country through the lens of rock music, such as civil rights, LGBT issues, war & peace, censorship and more. Featuring exclusive video interviews with Bono, David Byrne, Dee Snider, Tom Morello, Lars Ulrich and more.

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SPORTS

Cavaliers vs. Dallas Mavericks The Dallas Mavericks had a great run during the early 2000s when star forward Dirk Nowitzki was simply unstoppable. Nowitzki isn’t the force he once was and the team hasn’t picked up much talent in the draft, so the Mavs don’t look to be a playoff bound team. They take on the Cavs tonight at 7:30 at the Q. Tickets start at $43. (Niesel) 1 Center Court, 216-420-2000, theqarena.com.

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Participating creatives include Rami Daud, Billy Delfs, Brooke Figer, Erin Guido, Brian Jasinski, Margaret Kimball, Peter Larson, Bob Pabst, Clarissa Westmeyer, Brian Willse and Michele Zychowski. Artwork will be sold directly off the walls, so it is recommended you arrive early for

A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens was a hell of a writer, but he could be a tad verbose.

So it’s convenient that there have been so many great stage and screen versions of his classic ghost story, A Christmas Carol. One of them — required viewing for anyone with a Netflix membership — is the 1951 version starring Alastair Sim as a Scrooge for all eternity. And the other is this Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival production, which never fails to engage and delight. Framed cozily as a story within a story in this Gerald Freedman adaptation, the production really comes alive once the ghost of Jacob Marley appears, dragging his chains and creaking eerily with every movement. This annual tribute to knee-jerk liberal sentiments like compassion for the downtrodden is always a must-see, whether you’ve seen it before or not.

It opens tonight at 7:30 at the Ohio Theatre. Tickets are $28 to $75.

Performances continue through Dec. 23. (Howey) 1511 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

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Create-A-Craft Create unique, handmade gifts for your wish list this holiday season.

Euclid’s Create-A-Craft is offering a Holiday Pottery Party from noon to 5 p.m. today. Crafty options include ornaments, mugs, plates, trees and more, and Create-A-Craft has all the

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GET OUT supplies you need to customize your gift. After you paint your ceramic piece, it will be glazed and fired in their kiln for pickup the following week. Baby and kid handprints and footprints can also be turned into fun designs like hearts, trees, wreaths, angel wings and more. Large groups are encouraged to call ahead and reserve a table. Admission is free, and craft items are available in a range of prices. (Usmani) 291 East 222nd St., Euclid, 216-505-0684, create-a-craft.com.

HOLIDAY FUN

Holidazzle 2016 Playhouse Square gets into the holiday spirit today with Holidazzle, an event that features tours and special seasonal activities. From 1:30 to 4:30 p.m., you can take a tour of Connor Palace, watch cartoons in the Westfield Insurance Studio Theatre, shop with local vendors at the Cleveland Bazaar Holiday Market, check out the Festival of Trees in the Allen Theatre Lobby, and see the outdoor holiday decorations on Playhouse Square. All activities are free. Details are on the website.

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SPORTS

Monsters vs. Grand Rapids Griffins The Cavs NBA title undoubtedly overshadowed the Cleveland Monsters’ Calder Cup win, but the AHL team won the hearts of local hockey fans with its lengthy playoff run that culminated in a championship win. Tonight at 7, the team battles the Grand Rapids Griffins in the second of three straight games against the team.

Donate to the Monsters Movember team and receive a pair of Mullet Brother GlassStaches. Tickets start at $10. (Niesel) 1 Center Court, 216-420-2000, theqarena.com.

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The Nutcracker In years past, Akron Beacon Journal readers have voted the Ballet Theatre of Ohio’s production of The Nutcracker as Akron’s No. 1 holiday show. Set on Christmas Eve, the ballet — as you undoubtedly know — centers on a young heroine and her doll. As the clock strikes midnight, magical things begin to happen. The ballet’s performances of the Christmas classic take place today at 2 and 7 p.m. at the Akron

Civic Theatre, where additional performances are set for tomorrow at 2 p.m. Tickets are $34 to $46. (Niesel) 182 South Main St., Akron, 330-253-2488, akroncivic.com.

MUSIC

Thanksgiving Soul Jam Motown/soul favs Dennis Edwards & the Temptations Review, the Manhattans featuring Gerald Alston, the Dramatics featuring Willie Ford, Enchantment & Lenny Williams share the bill tonight for the Thanksgiving Soul Jam that takes place at 7 p.m. at the State Theatre.

The groups promise to “perform their most memorable hits and re-live the decade of disco and dance.” Tickets are $49 to $85. (Niesel) 1519 Euclid Ave., 216-241-6000, playhousesquare.org.

HOLIDAY FUN

Winterfest Downtown’s free, ever-popular holiday celebration, Winterfest features activities for the entire family. Beginning at 10 a.m., you’ll find horse-drawn carriage rides around Public Square, and a variety of attractions, shopping and entertainment opportunities at venues throughout downtown, including Tower City, the Old Stone Church, and the Arcade. The day culminates with the ceremonial lighting of downtown, which starts at 6 p.m. in Public Square and includes the lighting of the holiday tree, musical performances, fireworks and an appearance from Santa. There will be a Cleveland Bazaar Holiday PopUp Shop on Public Square, along with food trucks and a Winterfest Children’s Stage. A free public afterparty takes place from 7 to 8 p.m. at 200 Public Square, at the Euclid Avenue entrance, where there will be free cookies and hot cocoa. Find a full schedule of events online. (Niesel) DowntownCleveland.com.

SPORTS

OSU vs. Michigan Watch Party One of the year’s biggest college football rivalries features the Ohio State University going up against the University of Michigan. This year’s game promise to be particularly good as each team is highly ranked. The watch party that takes place from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. today at PJ McIntyre’s has reportedly been voted one of the best watch parties in Cleveland.

Tickets are $40 at the door or $35 in advance. The ticket price includes fire roasted pork, chargrilled chicken, picnic style sides and all you can (responsibly) drink draft beer. (Niesel) 17119 Lorain Ave., 216- 941-9311.

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Browns vs. New York Giants Few pundits expected the Cleveland Browns to play competitive football this season, but the team has performed below even the lowest expectations. Today at 1 p.m. at First Energy Stadium, it goes up against another solid New York Giants team. Led by the always reliable Eli Manning, the team has played well this season. If the Browns win, it will be a major upset. Tickets start at $68.

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COMEDY

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Cleveland Improv Jam The Angry Ladies of Improv has hosted the Cleveland Improv Jam for four years now. A few years back, Scene described the show as “fierce, formidable and very funny.” The women have some serious experience too. Katie White-Sonby is an actress who’s performed at Clague Playhouse, Karamu and Kennedy’s Cabaret.

Marjorie Preston is an alumna of Something Dada and Rockwell 9 improvisational comedy troupes.

Dionne Atchison is a theater artist with Cleveland Public Theatre, and Brenna “MC” Connor is an actress and improviser. The event begins with a short-form set of improv games, followed by a longform improv set. It begins at 5 p.m. at Coffee Phix. Arrive early if you want to sign up and perform. Admission is free. (Niesel) 4485 Mayfield Rd., South Euclid, 216-381-5706, coffeephixcafe.com.

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Cleveland Pops Holiday Concert Each year, the Cleveland Pops Orchestra puts on a special holiday concert that doubles as a fundraiser.

For this year’s concert, dubbed Let the Merry Bells Keep Ringing, the orchestra will “prepare your hearts and minds for the most joyous and wonderful season of all.” In the Connor Palace Lobby, you’ll find adorable, adoptable pets from local rescue shelters along with a visit from jolly old Saint Nick. The City Mission will be in the lobby to accept new, unopened toys and games to be distributed to underprivileged children in the Cleveland community.

The concert begins at 2 p.m. Tickets

The Magic Flute Writer-director Kenneth Branagh takes on the Mozart opera The Magic Flute with this 2006 adaptation. The film represents the first version of the opera that was made specifically for the cinema. It makes its Cleveland premiere today at 1:30 p.m. at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tickets are $9, or $7 for CMA members, students and seniors. (Niesel) 11150 East Blvd., 216-421-7350, clevelandart.org.

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Genghis Con Small Press & Comic Convention Genghis Con, a small press and comic convention, prides itself on being “the best opportunity for fans of small press and independent comics, artwork, ’zines and literature to find those hidden gems being cultivated right here in the region.” This year, attendees can expect to see, visit and purchase work from long-standing Genghis Con regulars like Derf, Gary and Laura Dumm, John G and Jake Kelly, as well as Genghis Con first-timers like Noah Van Sciver, a guy whose work has been published

by Fantagraphics, and Ivan Brandon, who most recently wrote the Image Comics release Drifter. Hours are 2 to 7 p.m. in the Lake Erie Building in Lakewood; admission is free. (Niesel) 13000 Athens Ave., Lakewood, 216-570-7626, GenghisConCleveland.com.

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Industry Brunch Brunch isn’t just a Saturday/Sunday thing. Over at Mahall’s, you can grab a great brunch on Mondays as the club caters to industry folks who have the day off. Not that you have to work in the restaurant industry to indulge. The menu features items such as Chicken and Donuts, a dish that features three pieces of fried chicken along with two Old Hushers doughnuts. Other staples include the Everything Pretzel and the Creamy Egg Sandwich. A live DJ from WCSB will be on hand to spin cool tunes too.

It runs from noon to 4. (Niesel) 13200 Madison Ave., Lakewood, 216-521-3280, mahalls20lanes.com.

NIGHTLIFE

Monday Night Trivia Do you have tons of obscure music

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FLAVOR FLAVOR celebrates the local culinary scene by bringing together leading Cleveland restaurants. Select beer, wine and cocktails add to the VIP-style soiree that is, FLAVOR. Food and drink lovers enjoy the top, most highly regarded restaurants and bars in Cleveland. Back by popular demand, the “Culinary Showdown” returns to FLAVOR this year. Top chefs from Cleveland will create a unique, mouth-watering dish. Each chef will have 30 minutes to stir up a winning quick-fire dish to impress our judges! Tickets are $40 in advance and include unlimited food and drink tastings and live entertainment.

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UNITED WE BRUNCH There’s no better way to chase away a hangover than brunch with friends. And SCENE is once again bringing together the best restaurants in town with one mission: unite to cure Cleveland’s hangover. Brunch tastings, Bloody Mary’s, mimosas, beer, wine and champagne - all in the historic, newly-renovated Galleria & Tower. It’s the ultimate cure for a Friday night party — and a great start to another night on the town! General Admission tickets are $40 in advance and include 5 drink tickets, unlimited brunch tastings and commemorative glass.

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GET OUT knowledge? Are you a student of fast food menus and their nuanced histories? What say you about the geographic evolution of Scotch whisky? Tonight’s your chance to wow your friends, make yourself instantly more desirable to someone you’re newly dating, and hang with Cleveland’s headiest hipsters and hot dog lovers. It’s the Happy Dog Monday Night Trivia. Starting at 8 p.m., expect themed rounds — it’s a crapshoot — and general knowledge questions that seem considerably trickier than some of the other live trivia locales in town. Obviously, have a hot dog and a craft brew while you’re at it. And arrive early. The tables fill up quickly. (Sam Allard) 5801 Detroit Ave., 216-651-9474, happydogcleveland.com.

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Movie Mondays Every Monday, Cleveland Cinemas hosts $6 Movie Mondays, where film fans can catch up on the latest Hollywood flicks for significantly reduced prices. Bring your friends and family and make Movie Mondays a weekly tradition — many theaters even offer discounted concession stand items. Participating theaters include Apollo Theatre, Capitol Theatre, Cedar Lee Theatre, Chagrin Cinemas, Shaker Square Cinemas and Tower City Cinemas.

Unfortunately, additional charges apply for 3D movies. (Alaina Nutile) clevelandcinemas.com.

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No Pay, Nudity Famous for his roles in the original off-Broadway production of Little Shop of Horrors and in the Broadway revival of Kiss Me Kate, Cantonborn actor Lee Wilkof makes his directorial debut with No Pay, Nudity.

The film centers on an aging actor (Gabriel Byrne) who struggles as his career stalls. Nathan Lane, Frances Conroy and Donna Murphy costar. The movie makes its Cleveland premiere tonight at 7 at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque. Wilkof will be on hand for the screening.

Tickets are $12, or $9 for members and students. (Niesel) 11610 Euclid Ave., 216-421-7450, cia.edu.

FOOD

Wing Ding Doodle Blues icon Howlin’ Wolf famously covered “Wang Dang Doodle,” the old blues tune penned by Willie Dixon.

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Prosperity Social Club in Tremont has adopted that slogan, calling its wing night Wing Ding Doodle.

The weekly event features specials on Buffalo wings and cold brews.

Prosperity will not only serve up substantial, $1 whole wings, but it’ll also offering meatless Monday “wing” baskets for vegans. Discounted drafts and a playlist of vintage-electric blues and soulful R&B curated by local musician Clint Holley will be on tap as well. Wing Ding Doodle takes place every Monday from 6 p.m. to midnight. (Niesel) 1109 Starkweather Ave., 216-937-1938, prosperitysocialclub.com.

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Book Discussion Buying holiday gifts can be difficult. To help alleviate your anxiety, the Happy Dog tonight hosts some of Cleveland’s “best literary minds” who’ll lead a discussion on notable 2016 books.

The night will end with a book giveaway and a traditional Q & A with panelists Karen R. Long, Valentino Zullo and Cal Zunt. City Club marketing and outreach coordinator Fay Walker will moderate the discussion. It begins at 7:30 and admission is free. (Niesel) 5801 Detroit Ave., 216-651-9474, happydogcleveland.com.

MUSIC

Vinyl Night While sales of CDs continue to decline, vinyl has seen a resurgence.

In fact, the recent Jack White album became the fastest-selling vinyl album since Nielsen Soundscan began compiling vinyl sales figures in 1991. Jukebox owner Alex Budin has described his 1,350-squarefoot 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, the club hosts a vinyl night every Tuesday at 7 p.m. 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. (Niesel) 1404 West 29th St., 216-206-7699, jukeboxcle.com.

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NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND Genghis Con connects comic fans with indie artists and writers

By Josh Usmani FROM MAINSTREAM ICONS like Joe Siegel and Joe Shuster (Superman), Marvel’s Brian Michael Bendis, and Bill Waterson (Calvin and Hobbes) to independent legends like Derf, R. Crumb, Gary Dumm and Harvey Pekar (American Splendor), Northeast Ohio has been home to some of the biggest names in comics and cartooning. Less familiar are the countless artists and writers currently living and working in the region This new generation of independent creators inspired local artist John Greiner (better known as John G., creator of the Lake Erie Monster comic, star of the Draw Hard documentary and genius behind the Melt Bar & Grilled posters) to found an annual convention showcasing the region’s best emerging and established creators. For the past 7 years, the region’s top independent and small print comics artists and writers have been celebrated at Genghis Con, held on the weekend after Thanksgiving.

This year’s Genghis Con takes place from 2 to 7 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 27, at the Lake Erie Building (13000 Athens Ave., Lakewood).

“Genghis Con is the best opportunity for fans of small press and independent comics, artwork, ’zines and literature to find those hidden gems being cultivated right here in the region,” says convention founder and main organizer John G. “Attendees can expect to see, and visit with,

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long-standing Genghis Con regulars like Derf, Gary and Laura Dumm, and Jake Kelly, as well as Genghis Con first-timers like Noah Van Sciver, whose work has been published by Fantagraphics, and Ivan Brandon, most recently the writer of Image Comics’ Drifter.”

Early events took place at the Beachland Ballroom & Tavern, but the regional convention quickly outgrew its initial location. In 2014, Genghis Con moved to the Lake Erie Building, perhaps better known as the Screw Factory, home of many local artist studios. Each year since, the event’s attendance has roughly doubled in size. Now in its eighth year, the event includes more than 70 participants.

“What started small, as a haphazard, informal gathering of less than 40 exhibitors in 2009 on the floorspace at the Beachland Ballroom, has grown to one of the most

More than just comics, the event celebrates independent, DIY and small press creators of all types. This year’s event includes cartoonists, comics creators, illustrators, authors, printmakers and ’zinesters from Detroit to Pittsburgh and Columbus and everyplace in between. “Cleveland is uniquely situated at the center of a cultural DIY ‘Punk Triangle’ and the perfect place to hold such an event,” says John G. Participating artists and writers include Derf, Gary & Laura Dumm, Ivan Brandon, Sophie Goldstein, Czap Books, John G., Jake Kelly, Nathan Ward, the Comics Workbook, Bryn Adams, Matt Chojnacki, Faces of Cleveland, Belt Publishing, Angela Oster, Vagabond Comics Collective, Justin Michael Will, Mallow, Cowboy House, Black Hole Press, Ted Sikora, Nix Comics, Royal Oak Comix Party, Cartoon Crossroads Columbus,

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anticipated events of the year in the hangar-like event space of the Lake Erie Building,” says Greiner. “It truly is the convergence and celebration of the best of regional small press, independent comics and ’zines. This year’s show promises to be another stellar year!”

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Pink & Nanook Ink, Cool School Rap Comics, Narrier Publishing, Amalgamated Hoverchair, Kris & Kit Illustration, Marcus Calvert, Clare Kolat, Comics Are Go!, Calvert Comics, Kris Lachowski, Bob Corby, Kevin Fagan, Sam Izdat, Robert Puzzitiello, Peregrine Angthius, Hometown Media

Productions, 80 Proof Comix, Mallory Hodgkin Art, In a Rut Comics, Stu Rase, Benjamin Anthony, Will Napoli, Steven Myers, Melissa Mary and more.

A full list is on the website.

If you’re familiar with their work, Genghis Con is an opportunity to meet or catch up with your favorite independent artists and writers and support their work. However, if you’re new to underground comics, you’ll experience the thrill of wandering from booth to booth and discovering an overwhelming variety of new artists, with dynamic stories and intriguing characters.

The night before Genghis Con, organizers host a free kick-off party at Mahall’s 20 Lanes (13200 Madison Ave., Lakewood). Beginning at 8 p.m., guests can participate in a Drink & Draw in the bar area with supplies provided by Blick Art Materials, as well as attending panel discussions with several Genghis Con exhibitors in the show room. A live performance from agleammusic, performing music from the new comic Reach (debuting at Genghis Con), will cap off the night.

Genghis Con is free and family friendly. The Barrio taco truck will be back again this year. Visit genghisconcleveland.com for details.

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A THOREAU PORTRAIT You get a good sense of the philosopher and man in The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail at Ensemble Theatre

by Christine Howey “I WOULDN’T MIND YOUR BEING peculiar. But do you have to work at it so hard?” When Henry David Thoreau’s mother says that to him, early in The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, we aren’t yet aware that it will serve as an excellent summary of this script by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. Thoreau famously wrote Walden, that enduring paean to the natural life, independence and self reliance. This play is set in pre-Walden times, when Thoreau is sent to the local slammer for a night due to his refusal to pay taxes. He made this Trumpian anti-tax gesture to register his opposition to the Mexican-American war (shh, don’t tell the president-elect we’ve already waged war on Mexicans, he might get ideas).

The well-performed and slickly directed work frequently feels like a collection of extended Thoreau quotes has been staged, rather than a play with a coherent dramatic arc. As a result, we are left with many monologs delivered with verve and passion by Geoff Knox as Thoreau. Some of these are witty, as when he says, “Anytime you hear a man called ‘loony,’ just remember that’s a great compliment to the man and a great disrespect to the loon. A loon doesn’t wage war and his government is perfect, being nonexistent.”

The play slides in and out of various

scenes as quickly as Knox steps off the small jail cell platform, which he shares with a vagrant named Bailey (an amusing Allen Branstein). In those non-incarcerated moments, Henry David banters with his muse Ralph Waldo Emerson, his brother John (a sometimes overly intense Joe Pine) and several others. These include the nasty Deacon Ball (Scott C. Hare) who advocates for corporal punishment of young students, and an AfricanAmerican man named Williams (crisply rendered by Davion Brown) who finds kindness and a refuge on Thoreau’s little plot of land, which was loaned to Mr. T by Emerson.

There are certainly some interesting philosophical tidbits served up in this script. When Bailey muses

bell, it’s because they wrote a much better work titled Inherit the Wind, the play about the Scopes “monkey” trial and the debate between creationism and evolution. In that play, fictionalized versions of Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan go at each other hammer and tong in the courtroom, speaking not just to the Scopes case at hand but also to the larger issue of the time, the rancid Joseph McCarthy trials in the 1950s.

The devoted transcendentalist Thoreau is as interesting a character as Darrow and Bryan, but Henry David’s issues don’t resonate as powerfully. For instance, he was convinced that if a man relies on his instincts, he can’t go wrong. That might have made more sense in a

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on the curiosity of time zones (“… how could it be one time here and another time somewhere else? Isn’t it now all over?”), Thoreau responds with, “You’re wiser than most men who wear watches. I don’t know what good it does to hang numbers on the hours.

You can’t count a river when it moves by you.” Then again, it’s hard to figure out what time you need to get to the airport by gazing at a river.

If the playwrights’ names ring a

simpler world but carries inherent problems when the globe is bristling with nuclear armaments and volatile confrontations on a daily basis. For that reason, Thoreau feels rather more dated than Inherit the Wind. It also lacks the dramatic tension provided by two immense intellects arguing vociferously with each other.

In Thoreau, the authors struggle to find that kind of tension and relevance. When Thoreau goes on

his anti-tax rant declaring, “I will not pay one copper penny to an unjust government!” it’s hard not to roll your eyes. Most of us have been disappointed by governments that we considered “unjust” in one way or another, yet we “little people” still pay taxes because we know there’s a common good that must be funded.

Idealists such as Thoreau didn’t have to consider those nasty little niceties, as Emerson tells him in the second act: “You pull the woods up over your head. You resign from the human race. Are your fish going to build roads, teach schools, put out fires?” As Emerson, Terry Burgler strikes a balance between idealism and rationality, and the play would be stronger if the script had allowed these two men to engage with each other even more. Still, director Celeste Cosentino paces the show as well as possible, even though the first act still feels excessively long and a bit scattered.

Thoreau had plenty of ideas, some of them very appealing in light of the election — living alone, in the silent woods, in seclusion. However, for good or ill, we are stuck with each other in this crowded, cacophonous world.

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AS A LOOK DEVELOPMENT ARTIST for the new Disney animated flick Moana, Rich Fallat painted textures and added hair and physical properties to animated characters. In addition, he brought to life character designs by the film’s art director.

In a recent phone interview, Fallat was not exactly sure how growing up in Northeast Ohio contributed to his artistic abilities, but he says that living here during his formative years contributed to his work ethic “I’m a humble, hard-working guy from a blue-collar city,” he says. “Some of my best friends in the world still live in Cleveland. I try to make them proud with my work.”

Initially, Fallat worked at Disney as an intern. The internship eventually led to a full-time gig.

“The best way to describe what I do it is that I work on animated characters and I picture them as a gray sculpture made out of clay,” he explains when asked about his position with the studio. “I paint and put the texture and color and detail onto that model. It looks realistic. I make skin look like skin and cloth like cloth and the metal like metal. If the characters need hair or body fuzz, I provide that.”

The film, which opens today areawide, centers on a certain Moana Waialiki (Auli’i Cravalho), the 16-yearold daughter of Chief Tui Waialiki (Temuera Morrison). Overprotective to a fault, the Chief constantly warns Moana about venturing past the reef that surrounds their island home because of unspecific dangers. Fearless to a fault, Moana, whose name means “ocean,” predictably doesn’t heed her father’s warning.

When she learns that she comes from a long line of navigators, that realization only confirms her gut

feeling that she was born to sail and embrace the water despite its potential for danger. After all, her name means “ocean.” At one point, the ocean even speaks to her and tells her she must correct an ancient wrong and reunite the Heart of Te Fiti if she wants the island to avoid destruction. In order to accomplish the task, she sets sail in search of Maui (Dwayne Johnson), a legendary demigod who’s essentially settled into retirement.

“When I first saw the project, I was excited because it’s this movie about this new kind of heroine,” says Fallat.

“It’s this new kind of heroine who goes on a hero’s journey. I wasn’t involved with animating water, but it was a huge challenge to make it look real. It looks unbelievable.”

Fallat worked on coloring the coconut pirates who try to obstruct Moana. Thousands of the creatures appear in the movie, and Fallat says that “it was really fun to make the different types of face paint and figure out the technical challenges of scaling them up.” He also worked on the ancestors and villagers on the Polynesian island. Like most Disney movies, the film has a strong message for its young audience.

“I love the theme about being who you are,” says Fallat. “Watching the movie, it has a strong heroine and I love to see that sort of thing, and I think it’s great that everyone gets to see that sort of thing. The music is incredible too. I’ve heard it on replay and never gotten sick of it. I hope it ends up as a Disney classic that kids have on replay for years to come.

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LOVERS IN A DANGEROUS TIME Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard star in World War II drama Allied

By Jeff Niesel WRITER-DIRECTOR ROBERT Zemeckis delivered blockbuster films in the ’90s, including Back to the Future, Forrest Gump and Cast Away. His track record hasn’t been as strong recently, though that’s not to say his films haven’t been as good. But it does suggest that his movies might not connect with audiences in the same way that they once did. While his latest venture, Allied, has aspirations of becoming an epic, it ultimately comes off as a conventional romance. The movie opens area wide today.

The film centers on Canadian intelligence officer Max Vatan (Brad Pitt), a guy who parachutes into the North African desert during the height of World War II. There, he meets French Resistance fighter Marianne Beausejour (Marion Cotillard), and the two embark on a secret mission to assassinate a highranking German officer. A couple of pros, they’re experts at the art of deception and pretend to be a

married French couple. Max even does his best to adopt a Parisian accent that will hide the fact that he’s Canadian.

After their mission concludes, they move to London where Max continues to work for the Allied forces trying to stop Hitler’s advances in Europe. They marry and have a child; all seems as peachy keen as can be despite the frequent bombings that send everyone in London scurrying to shelters.

When Max’s boss tells him there’s a chance his wife is a German spy, he freaks and scurries to prove him wrong even though an internal investigation has launched and he only has a matter of hours to prove them wrong. As can be expected given the casualties of war, many of the people who knew Marianne are dead, so Max has to fly into France to interrogate a prisoner there who knew her before he did. His venture there involves eluding a vigilant group of Nazis and leads to some

of the film’s most suspenseful moments.

But even if the film’s last half delivers some bona fide thrills, Allied fails to add anything new to the war drama genre.

Pitt and Cotillard deliver solid performances, but the chemistry between them just isn’t there.

And while the storyline, which screenwriter Steven Knight

( Eastern Promises) says is based on a true story he heard when he was in his 20s, has a ring of authenticity to it, it doesn’t transcend into an epic movie and isn’t likely to resonate with audiences.

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MUSIC TO OUR MOUTHS Eastern European food, beer and cheer make Hansa a hit

By Douglas Trattner “MY CUSTOMERS WERE TELLING me, ‘Why don’t you move? Go to Parma, go to Seven Hills,’” Boris Music says of his pioneering days in Ohio City. “Even with a fire, being robbed, being beaten, something told me that the neighborhood was improving. Looking at the trends in America, you have these 40-, 50-year cycles. I said, maybe in my lifetime this neighborhood will come back. I guess I was right.”

That’s keen foresight given that Music was making those prognostications way back in the early 1980s, soon after he relocated his Hansa Import Haus to the corner of Lorain Avenue and West 28th Street.

That was a good five years before an unknown brewpub called Great Lakes Brewing would open its doors less than 500 feet away, thus commencing Ohio City’s long and winding journey to becoming the craft beer capital of Ohio.

It’s hard to imagine a better bookend for the neighborhood than Music’s recent opening of Hansa Brewery, which was built from the ground up next to his decades-old specialty foods store. Long before anybody was brewing great beer in the neighborhood, Music was importing and selling it to homesick immigrants from Germany, Hungary and his native Slovenia. Waiting for those brave enough to visit the Bavarian-style fortress happened to be

the richest cache of European beer in the region, alongside the dense breads, stinky cheeses, smoked tinned fish and cured meats.

Revealing yet again his keen approach to business, Music made the decision three years ago to complement his beer-brewing neighbors by investing in a splashy brewery of his own.

“Rather than import beer, we can make it right here,” he explained. “The water is good, the rent is cheap, and there’s lots of thirsty people to sell it to.”

Though it took a handful of years to get here, the resulting brewery and restaurant feels like an organic extension of both Hansa Import Haus and the surrounding community. The tall-ceilinged barroom is trimmed in blonde wood and decorated with colorful flags from around the world, a nod to the travel agency that Music and his wife had run for years out of the very same building. Attractive live-edge wood tables and bartops are

From those stainless tanks, visible through wide panes of glass to guests in the dining room, flow German-style beers ($5) like light and crisp kölsch, wheaty weissbier, malty Oktoberfest, rich and sweet dopplebock, and dark-as-coffee schwarzbier, which is surprisingly light and smooth on the palate. Special beers like the sturdy Cuyahoga Common, a collaboration between Hansa brewer Corey Miller and his colleagues at Great Lakes and Brick and Barrel, join brews from other producers like Seventh Son and Market Garden Brewery.

“If you don’t like my beer, you can try something else,” Music says matter of factly. “I have great neighbors.”

Nothing pairs better with German beer than hearty Eastern European fare, and that’s the route Hansa wisely follows. The menu is short and sweet, with just a handful of starters and a half-dozen entrees that make diners feel like they’re fueling up in a Munich pub. Hot, crispy-bottomed pretzels ($6) are paired with beer

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cheese and mustard. A charcuterie plate ($13) takes advantage of all those imported meats and cheeses in the shop next door, while crispy fried potato pancakes ($5) are served

by the trio alongside sour cream and homemade applesauce.

If you don’t happen to have German relatives or friends, you might never have had the pleasure of eating knödel ($5), round potato dumplings that typically are served as a starchy side dish. Like mashed potatoes, they are best as vehicles for gravy, a component we wish there was more of in our appetizer portion.

Though it’s listed as a main course, the grilled sausage platter ($14) works great as a sharable starter for the table. We loved the variety of juicy grilled sausages like frankfurter, bratwurst and kiełbasa served with mustard, kraut and fries. Hansa’s schnitzel ($14) is superb, a thinly pounded piece of pork or turkey that is breaded and fried until golden brown. It has the perfect combination of hot, crisp and crunchy breading concealing moist and tender meat. It would work just as well in a sandwich (hint-hint, Boris) as it does atop the homemade spaetzle.

Though it has been located one block away from the West Side Market for four decades, Hansa has remained a mystery for most Clevelanders.

The new brewery and restaurant is destined to remedy that, shining a light on a wonderful ethnic asset that’s been overlooked for too long

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by Rachel Hunt OLD CITY LIBATIONS (6706 Detroit Ave., oldcitysoda.com), the brand new cocktail and soda bar from â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cleveland Hustlesâ&#x20AC;? winners Mike Gulley and Sean Adkins, has expanded its menu to go well beyond those popular sodas. The new menu is a checklist for build-your-own pierogi stacked high with toppings, and pretzels complemented by an assortment of dips. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had a crash course over the past three months with the TV show and opening this place,â&#x20AC;? says Andy Dubyoski, formerly of Nano Brew and Market Garden Brewery, about designing the menu. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The timeline was so tight; I was only brought in 10 days before the ofďŹ cial opening.â&#x20AC;?

Details surrounding the newly remodeled space and its food offerings remained vague prior to the ďŹ nale of the locally produced show. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The conversation always started with the pretzels ďŹ rst,â&#x20AC;? he adds. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We needed to get something in here. A week before we opened, there was nothing in that kitchen. It was a big empty room.â&#x20AC;?

Gulley and Adkins spent many hours with contractors getting the building ready to serve its ďŹ rst customers. However, with limited equipment in the kitchen, Dubyoski wanted to remain realistic about how far he could push the menu.

Inspiration came not only from mentor and judge Jonathon Sawyer, but also from the ethnic heritage of the owners and chef. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had just accepted the job and three different people said thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no place in Gordon Square to get a pierogi,â&#x20AC;? Dubyoski recalls. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With Dyngus Day down here and the population of Cleveland in general, why is there nowhere in Gordon Square to get a pierogi?â&#x20AC;?

Old City Libations ultimately chose Perla Pierogies, a Parma-based threetime â&#x20AC;&#x153;Best Pierogiâ&#x20AC;? winner, to supply the restaurant while making most of the toppings in house from scratch.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;That was a big thing for the owners, using as much local stuff as we can, supporting other local businesses,â&#x20AC;? the chef notes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Anything that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not making in house weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re getting from right here in Cleveland (including) the Cleveland Kraut, and the Red Lotus vegan sour creams.â&#x20AC;?

Instead of focusing on the ďŹ lling, these are all about whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on top: homemade chicken paprikash, smoked kielbasa, fried eggs and corned beef. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You go to the Old World places and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re very plain, maybe some butter and onions, some sour cream. And anyone else that seems to be doing pierogi, like Jukebox, it seems theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re focusing on the ďŹ lling,â&#x20AC;? says Dubyoski.

When it comes to the pretzels, the chef says that the name of the game is customization. Currently, there are nine basic and three signature dips for guests to dip and dunk into. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plenty of room here for variation,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That was one of the reasons I set this up, so that we can change some of these dipping sauces, whether some of these arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t selling, or we come up with a great idea, or have something seasonal.â&#x20AC;?

Also on the roster are marinated olives, chicken liver mousse, meat and cheese boards, and the Cow in a Blanket, an all-beef hotdog wrapped in pretzel dough and served with a choice of mustard.

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IT’S BEEN A YEAR AND A HALF since we first reported that Chicago’s Home of Chicken & Waffles, a popular soul food restaurant with two locations in Chicago, was planning to open its next location in downtown Cleveland.

Since that time the location, the former Rathskeller bar (1144 Prospect Ave.) near East Ninth Street, has undergone significant improvements both inside and out.

The good news, says owner Darnell Johnson, is that opening day is just around the bend.

“We’re almost there,” he reports.

“Everything is ready inside, we’re just waiting for the final connections from the city. It’s beautiful in here, very contemporary.”

He added that they are hoping to be open by the first of December.

Wife and founder Tonya Johnson, Chicago born and bred, describes her restaurant’s food as “good, Southernstyle down-home cooking — basically like your grandmother did,” she says.

The all-day menu features breakfast, lunch and dinner items. The heart of the offerings is built around waffles, which are available in nearly two dozen iterations. In addition to the classic fried chicken-topped waffles, there’s a version with fried chicken livers, gravy and onions. Other options include fried catfish, omelets stuffed with fried chicken, or plain-old fried breasts.

Entree options include chicken wings with fries and barbecue sauce, fried fish dinners and grilled salmon.

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In the dessert category, there is peach cobbler, sweet potato pie, and funnel cake-style waffles topped with whipped cream and caramel pecan.

The 4,000-square-foot space will accommodate approximately 120 guests in the dining room and at the bar.

“It’s been a challenge, but we believe that Cleveland is a great market for us,” Darnell says. “We think we’re in a great area, and the concept, I feel, is a great niche for the city. It will be the only restaurant where you can get breakfast, lunch and dinner all day long. If you want to come in after the theater and have breakfast in a nice atmosphere, you can have it.”

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“It lasted almost two years,” says Karakostas, who also operates the popular Greek Village eateries. “I take a lot of pride and responsibility

cost me a lot of money so I’m going to use it,” he joked — a GreekAmerican style diner that will run 24 hours on the weekends.

“I always wanted to do a latenight classic American diner, which is something I started off my Cleveland career with,” he adds.

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what happened,” says the intrepid entrepreneur. “You just keep moving forward, try something new and see what works. I still really believe in the space, in the building, in the neighborhood and city, so I’m not giving up.”

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By Emanuel Wallace LOCAL DJ AND PRODUCER Bang Messiah has been a fixture on the local hip-hop scene for quite awhile. To put things in a better perspective, he has credits that go all the way back to the early ’90s, when he worked with Bone ThugsN-Harmony when they were still known as Bone Enterprises.

On a chilly Wednesday night, Bang Messiah posts up in the Coventry neighborhood outside the Grog Shop and chronicles his history and ascension to becoming one of the city’s most respected beatmakers.

“I basically made the ranks through deejaying,” Messiah says.

“I was making beats. I didn’t have any equipment, but I was always collecting records. I became an avid digger and, in 1995, I went from two crates to 30 crates. I got my first set of turntables with my real first job out of high school. I got my 1200s and started battling. As far as production, I used to roll with a beat crew in the ’90s called Infared Beat Seekers. We were underground

but we had a cool little following.

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Bang Messiah’s production draws influence from sources that touch multiple regions of the country from the East Coast and the Midwest

and DJ Paul from Three 6 Mafia are some of my favorite producers,” he says. “So, I pretty much run the gamut. I don’t subscribe to the Pete Rock, Large Professor, J Dilla, DJ Premier family tree exclusively. I’m not just big on West Coast guys and I’m not so big on down South guys.

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“My influences vary, be it Larry Smith, who did Run DMC, to Pete Rock, to Marley Marl and Dr. Dre. There’s lesser known guys like King of Chill, Paul C. and even Juicy J

was probably one of my favorites because his beats were so textured.

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major influences because they made nothing sound like the biggest shit in the world. I love them dudes.”

There’s another moniker that Bang Messiah goes by, MFKNRMX. The name isn’t necessarily indicative of anything different, but more so a marketing decision.

“I wrote a bunch of names down and then went with Another Dope Remix, but that was way too fucking big, so I cut it down to Remix and then I played with the spelling,” Messiah says. “I had it spelled one way and I wanted something bigger sounding. I’m a vulgar motherfucker if you know me. I wanted something big like Mantronix, so that’s when I changed it to MFKNRMX. Then, I realized I can only get so far with that name and being a brand and trying to get into places. So then I branded myself as Bang Messiah. The thing with Bang Messiah was that I would hear people call other people ‘beat gods,’ and I’d be like, ‘I ain’t no beat god, I’m better than them. I’m the motherfucking Bang Messiah, | clevescene.com | November 23 - 29, 2016

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MUSIC and it just stuck. People don’t necessarily call me that, but it’s what I’m building my brand under.

If you know me, you call me Remix.

The only difference is that Bang Messiah can get me into places that MFKNRMX cannot.”

On Thursday, Bang Messiah will release his latest project, The Ghost of ’89, and celebrate with a party at Now That’s Class. The premise of the project is to capture the feel of the era and limiting the elements to keep things authentic. “ The Ghost of ’89 is retrofuturistic,” Messiah says. “I started making beats using elements that no one uses anymore and I only used those elements. I wanted to see if I could make a beat that sounded like it belonged on (Ice Cube’s) Amerikkka’s Most Wanted.

I made two or three of those and Chad was like, ‘That’s dope, we should do a whole project,” and I agreed. So the whole point of me doing the project was to revisit that sound with today’s polish. I wanted something that could stand out in 1989 or 2016. I used some of the same samples and drum patterns and if they weren’t using them past the certain time, then I didn’t use it. I tried to stay as close to that as possible but still gave myself some lead way to make things as modernized as possible. Basically I took my favorite car and put new rims on it, new paint job, updated the dashboard and everything else.

It’s the same car, it’s just fly as fuck now.”

Joining Bang Messiah at the release party will be JetSet216 from Moriarty, Vigatron TripleNine and DJ Ceven will be performing a scratch set. Admission is $5 and the first 25 people will receive a copy of The Ghost of ’89. Messiah doesn’t have any projects planned, but he believes that whenever he chooses to do his next one, it will be different.

“I’ve noticed that generally my ear changes every six to nine months,” Messiah says. “So I’ve got all this Ghost of ’89 shit out of my system. I’m on that Rick Rubin sound now. I can make 20 of those beats and end up waking up and making some trap shit. I’m never quite sure. I don’t want to say something like the Ghost of ’85 is next or something. I just don’t want to get too locked into anything too ahead of time. I do think that my next project will have less samples,

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a lot more drums and more digital sounding — more contemporary, if you will.”

When asked about his preference when it comes to production, he says he leans towards sampling but sees other methods as a challenge.

“I think I prefer sampling because I’m sample based, and it’s a lot less work for me,” he says. “I’m not classically trained so anytime I’m not using samples, I have to fall into something until it feels right. I already have a lot of music chopped and ready to go. So I just basically smoke something, turn my brain off, push buttons and go.

Without the samples, it’s a slightly different skill set and I prefer it as a challenge but not as a production style. Sampling is easy, I can get high, chop up a sample and make a beat from top to bottom in 10 to 15 minutes. Is it gonna be dope? I don’t know, but I can do it.”

Bang Messiah differs from his peers when it comes to embracing the new generation of hip-hop.

Where many are dismissive and resistant to change, he welcomes the opportunity to teach and work with the up-and-coming artists.

“The way older dudes look at the young dudes now is the way our parents looked at the shit,” Messiah says. “I think the older dudes need to understand that things evolve and change, or at least understand why. I also feel the older dudes need to pass down knowledge without being judgemental because the younger dudes need to be imputed with the history and understanding that this didn’t come out of nowhere.”

He says that hip-hop needs to evolve.

“It’s been 40 years and we’re still clinging to the same elements done the same way,” he explains. “Those elements came out of necessity.

People had an energy they needed to get out. They didn’t have money for the tools they needed. Just a bunch of dirty project kids making some shit happen. Now the shit’s been around the world a million times and was still clinging on to the same ways. The Ghost of ’89 is about closing the gap between multiple schools of thought. It’s not just about the old shit or the new shit, it’s about being true to the essence and also pushing the culture forward. Fuck the status quo. You’ve got to break some eggs to make an omelet.”

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MUSIC CAMPAIGN CRITIC Joseph Arthur reflects on his anti-Trump song in the wake of the election EARLIER THIS YEAR, AKRON native Joseph Arthur took Donald Trump, who was not yet the president-elect, to task with “The Campaign Song,” a rousing number typified by droning guitars and sneering vocals. The track includes snippets of Trump speeches as Arthur sings, “Trump is a chump.”

“My first version of the campaign song was nuts,” says Arthur via phone as he walks the streets of Brooklyn, where he says he’s preparing to play some shows and trying to overcome jetlag after returning from a European tour.

“Once I got the 1930s lingo idea, it was pretty cool. I went on tour with RNDM, and I had been on a news hiatus. I got off the road and checked in on the news. I remember writing the song when I was on the road. I saw the rallies and crazy weird shit I’ve never seen in America before. I thought it was nuts, and I wrote the lyrics and then wrote the song. He hadn’t even been elected as the Republican choice yet. To me, [the song] was pro-Bernie in my little sphere, but I guess it’s mainly antiTrump more than pro anyone.”

Created by Ehud Lazin, the accompanying music video features footage from artist Spencer Tunick’s large-scale anti-Trump installation, “Everything She Says Means Everything.”

Both outsider artists, Arthur and Tunick have known each other for years and have collaborated in the past. When Tunick heard Arthur’s tune, he told Arthur that he wanted to contribute to the video.

“We finally got it all together and got it out, and it seemed like okay timing,” says Arthur. “Eminem released a song the day after mine called ‘Campaign Speech.’ That was kind of cool. I like what he did. It’s a totally different thing, but it was dope. I love it. I think it’s cool the title is almost exactly the same as my song.”

Arthur says he thinks people “weren’t that worried” about the possibility of a Trump presidency and seemed “bored” by the Clinton and Trump presidential campaigns, but he says he always felt “the amount of danger” that Trump

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represented was something that required more action. When he performed at a David Bowie tribute in New York in April, where he covered the Bowie track “The Man Who Sold the World,” he waved an American flag that read “Fuck Trump” on it.

“I caught some flack for that, and that was before he became the Republican nominee,” he says in reference to the flag-waving incident. “I don’t know what I’m talking about with politics, but I did sense the danger. The wild thing is that I’ve been in kind of

and the ‘build the wall’ stuff. As soon as I come out against him, then people start telling me that Hillary Clinton is a criminal and all that stuff. I’m not an expert. I’m just going from my gut.

Normally, I would go for the outsider.

My knee-jerk position was to go for Bernie [Sanders].”

Arthur played a show in Manchester, England, the night after the election and read a poem with the repeated line, “countries like junkies.”

In it, he referred to Trump as “a clown with no brain in a red-button war.” He says it felt “therapeutic” to read the poem.

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“Manchester is the Akron/ Cleveland of the U.K.,” he says. “Both have put out great music. Manchester is huge. You should do a comparison between the two. I wonder who would come out on top? Any U.K. person would say, ‘Are you kidding, mate?

Manchester, easy.’ But we have some high rollers [in Ohio] too. That would be an interesting subject for an article.

It could even be a whole book.”

He says he won’t let the results of the election put a damper on his annual appearance at the Tangier, where he’ll undoubtedly have some friends and family members in the audience.

Additionally, Arthur says he currently has a “loose concept” for his next album but says it won’t be a concept album per se. Real World, Peter Gabriel’s boutique record label, has plans to reissue his 2002 album, Redemption’s Son, so he says he doesn’t want a new studio album to interfere with its reissue along with the reissue of the Junkyard Hearts EPs. “I feel like I need to have some reason to put out an album other than it’s just 10 songs,” he says. “I could cobble something together but we want to do this reissue because I’m engaging again with Real World Records. We want to do a reissue of that along with Junkyard Hearts I, II, III and IV. It’s okay to shine a light on the past work. When you’ve been around as long as I have, you have to remind the kids of who you are. It’s like, ‘Hey kids, this happened before you were born.’”

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MUSIC FIGHT SONGS Whiskey Daredevils continue to go against the grain

By Jeff Niesel WHEN THE COWSLINGERS, a terrific local cowpunk act that picked up a bit of a national following during its decade-plus run, called it quits, singer Greg Miller assumed he was done with music. But when drummer Leo P. Love and Miller’s bass-playing brother Ken came to him four months later and wanted to start a new band with guitarists Bobby Lanphier and David Bowling, he was into it.

Though Lanphier, Bowling, and Miller’s brother have since left the group, the Whiskey Daredevils, which formed in 2004, is still active and has just issued its latest studio album, The Good Fight. Miller tells us the album title is “meant to convey that despite the random winds of fashion blowing away momentarily from American roots rock and our particular subgenre, we are doing what we do against that tide.”

“We’ve seen it before,” he says. “It all rolls back around. Still, it’s not always easy to be one of the only ones doing what we do. When is the country punk renaissance coming anyhow?” Miller tells us a bit about each of the album’s tracks.

“Open the Door” This is a little rockabilly thing that the band really swings pretty well on. The abusive boyfriend gets his comeuppance. I totally swiped an R.L. Burnside lyric on part of the verse just to see if anyone would notice. I guess this isn’t helping in that little experiment.

“Mojo Twist” I misread a sign on one of those ice cream hut places and thought it said “Mojo Twist,” which would be perhaps the greatest ice cream hut business name of all time. It wasn’t, though, on second glance. This song did come from it however, loosely based on when I was 15 and a girl we knew held down the very high-profile gig at the local Dairy Twist. She always smelled like fryer grease and sugar. When a song has the word “mojo” in it, it’s almost

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impossible not to make it an homage to Southern Culture on the Skids, which we did here. When you get down to it, I think it’s us doing a version of SCOTS doing their version of CCR. “It’s Just Jail” Leo had a girlfriend that he had to drive to county lockup to do a 10-day jail term. When she was upset about this stark reality of going into the facility, he comforted her by saying, “Baby, it’s not prison; it’s just jail.” I think that’s what any lady wants to hear in a moment of personal crisis.

This song has it all: ukulele and kazoo!

“3 o’clock in the Morning” This is a killer Gary [Siperko] riff that we built into a song about insomnia. If you have ever lived part of your life between 2 and 6 a.m., you realize that it becomes a different

shop employee and truck driver is more talented than I am. This is a song written from one of their points of view. Gary has a monster solo on this one that reminds me of Jimmy Page.

“Me and Hank and Joe” I talked to a guy once who preferred being in jail as to opposed to being outside, in that he felt secure there.

He liked the routine and his friends.

This is a Johnny Cash-type thing about three guys who get paroled, get sent back, and find the silver lining of being back in their real home.

“Red Dress” I can’t remember what small time rock star said that there are only two real subjects of rock songs: cars and girls. You can’t go wrong writing about either. Gary had this really off kilter rockabilly garage rock riff and

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reality than everyone else. I worked a job unloading trucks once where they would have me work Monday, Tuesday and Thursday one week and then Tuesday, Friday and Saturday the next. I was always in this overtired dream state. [Bassist] Sugar always rocks out when we play this. She must like this one. I should ask her.

“Half Can of Pabst” We travel to Nashville often and have plenty of friends from the area.

At this point in time no one “from” Nashville is actually from Nashville.

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I couldn’t think about a car to write about, so it became about a particular dress on a girl.

“I Don’t Love Your Sister” I was in a grocery store with my girlfriend once and came up behind her to playfully grab her ass. The problem was that I grabbed some lady who looked like my girlfriend from behind. That was what I and store security would call “a situation.” This is a shaggy dog country song that came from that.

“Phil Spector Says” This is a love song from a Brooklyn hipster guy that just can’t seem to meet his true hipster gal. This is one of those 1962 pop songs that we write that by the time we are done with it

sounds like something the Cynics would give to the the Stents as a B-side.

“The Wheels Go Round” For some reason that Bon Jovi video of “Wanted Dead or Alive” has stuck in my memory from my formidable teenage years. Even as a kid I laughed at how they were trying to portray the hardship of the road going from the tour bus to the sports arena to the Ritz like it was real toil. This is our country take on low-budget touring in Europe.

You haven’t lived until you’ve slept in a bunk bed that a member of Crass slept in the night before.

“Sunshine Girls” When we started messing around with this in the basement someone noted that it has a real “Cotton Candy sound” in reference to a horrible Ron Howard-directed teen exploitation movie from the 1978. Then Leo said “Man, a cowbell would be great on this!” It all sort of unraveled from there. [Guitarist] Bobby Latina told me this is his favorite one on the record.

Let it be noted I have absolutely no idea what anyone likes when it comes to music.

“Cosmic Cowboy” A number of years back in Buffalo, an urban cowboy with a chemical sparkle in his eye offered the band some pot butter he had brewed up.

That incident reminded me of all the guys out there who share an equal love of Gram Parsons, Workingman’s Dead, 1970s cowboy clothes, psychedelics and enormous Cadillacs with steer horns as hood ornaments. It contains my favorite guitar solo on the record, that sick phased-out sound in the middle of the song. We get totally psyched on this, man.

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MUSIC THE NASHVILLE SESSIONS Chrissie Hynde talks about the all-star ensemble that contributes to the Pretenders’ new album

By Jeff Niesel INITIALLY, THE PRETENDERS singer Chrissie Hynde says she admired Black Keys/Arcs singerguitarist Dan Auerbach “from afar.”

When she made a list of people she’d like to produce a new Pretenders’ album, he was at the top. They both hail from Akron.

“I’ve seen his band over the years a couple of times,” she says in a recent phone interview. “I was a fan of his music. I didn’t research him as a producer so much. I just like his vibe.

That’s all I go by when I work with people initially. I told my manager that he was No. 1 on my wish list. He got in touch with his manager and we agreed to go in.”

As the process began, she started sending Auerbach some songs she had written.

“He would say ‘yeah’ or ‘nay,’” she says. “There was no game plan. You just start recording and see what happens.”

The new album’s title track celebrates being alone. It stemmed from a conversation that Hynde and Auerbach had during the initial recording sessions.

“When I first met [Auerbach] and the guys, they were talking about stuff they did over the weekend with their wives and kids,” she says. “I live alone and go to movies alone. A lot of my time is spent alone. I don’t necessarily like that all the time.

When I was talking about it, Dan pointed at me and told me to write a song about it.”

As she was waiting for a cab to leave on the last day of the session, she barked out the lyrics. The resulting song comes off as a defiant rock tune that features snarling guitars and spoken word segments.

“We’ve heard thousands of songs about the trials of being lonely,” Hynde explains. “I haven’t heard any songs about being alone in a positive way. A lot of people who are married have told me they wished they had more time alone. I would add that I’m not talking about the epidemic of loneliness or people who have no one. I have a band, so I’m pretty happy. I can afford to have some fun with the concept. Some people can’t afford that. I don’t mind doing things on my own. I would rather have someone to do most things

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with. If I don’t, that’s the way it is.”

The Pretenders’ first new album since 2008’s Break Up the Concrete, Alone features a top-notch studio band that includes bassist Dave Roe (Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, Sturgill Simpson), pedal steel guitarist Russ Pahl (Blake Shelton), guitarist Kenny Vaughan (Lana Del Rey), keyboardist Leon Michels and drummer Richard Swift (the Arcs). “Gotta Wait” has a Black Keys-like garage blues vibe to it, and the single “Holy Commotion” even sounds like Hynde singing one of the Arcs’ dreamy tunes. “[Auerbach] lives in Nashville, and that’s a team of musicians he works with a lot,” says Hynde. “The bass player had been Johnny Cash’s bass player, and the guitar player Kenny Vaughan goes out with Marty Stuart a lot. They’re in Nashville, so that

similar,” she says. “It had ballads and quiet moments and a lot of rockers and punky things. I haven’t been able to get it as right as I would like to every time. No one can. I feel great about this album, I must say. It’s not a formula, but I haven’t changed. I still like the same things and this form of expression. You just move on with your life and talk about what’s going on at the time, but the band formula hasn’t changed very much for me.”

She also thinks the time is right for a rock ’n’ roll renaissance.

“I think bands will come back,” she says. “I think we have a nice climate for bands to come back, though I wouldn’t have said that a few years ago. I think we skipped a few generations that were wasted on reality television, which they watched with their parents. They have a lot

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makes sense. But every musician I ever met really wants to play in a rock band, so they were all really excited to do this.”

Atmospheric tunes like “Never Be Together” and “Let’s Get Lost” show off the band’s softer side. While the album suggests the band’s sound has shifted, Hynde says the new album doesn’t depart from previous efforts.

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to rebel against. I sense that 16-yearolds will start picking up guitars again and getting in bands because it’s still the best thing. It’s not as fun to sit on the internet as it is to get into someone’s basement and make a noise. There’s a form of self-expression there that’s extremely attractive to any teenager. I’ve never met a teenager who didn’t want to be in a rock band.”

Hynde caught a bit of flack for

a segment in her recent memoir, Reckless: My Life as a Pretender.

Some critics of the book have said that she suggests women are sometimes to blame for being sexually assaulted.

She brushes off the criticism.

“I don’t read any of my press or look through anything ever,” she says.

“It didn’t bother me at all. I had some alarmed emails from friends asking if I was alright. The woman who wrote the article that some of these misquotes were taken from wrote to me and said, ‘Oh my God.’ I told her not to worry because I don’t read anything about me. She was upset about it. These things were taken out of context, and that’s what people latch onto. I’m aware of what went on now, but at the time I just didn’t care. It wasn’t in my consciousness. I would add that the book I wrote was the light version of my story. I didn’t get dark.

I didn’t go into any real madness. I didn’t want to hurt anyone’s families or address anything that was really painful. I kept it the light version of my story. I don’t think it hurt anyone.”

Hynde says she doesn’t necessarily get a thrill out of playing to a hometown crowd in Akron, but she’s excited generally at how the current tour, which finds her playing arenas with Stevie Nicks and then headlining smaller theaters on her own, has worked out.

“You know, I feel the same wherever I play,” she says. “We’re on stage and in the band doing what we do. I get off within the band experience and hope everyone else likes it. In the past, I felt like hometown gigs are ones where you’re observed by people who know you.

That makes it feel like more pressure.

I don’t feel that anymore. I do the show and hope we do a good show. It’s good to see friends, but we have to drive to the next gig. Stevie takes time off, but we do our own shows on the days off, and it’s fantastic. With her, it’s a different experience. I don’t like being in big places, but the arenas are very personable. I really enjoy those shows.

And we can do our own shows. It’s the perfect tour.”

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

Joseph Arthur: 8:30 p.m., $25-$35.

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Carcass/Deafheaven/Inter Arma: 7 p.m., $25 ADV, $30 DOS. Agora Ballroom.

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Hey Monea!/Acid Cats/Dean James Band: 9 p.m., $10. Musica.

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Ten (Tribute to Pearl Jam): 8 p.m., $12 ADV, $15 DOS. House of Blues.

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Tricky Dick & the Cover Ups: 10 p.m., $5. Vosh Club.

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They caught the electronic jam wave pretty early — in Athens, Ohio, no less — and they’ve become shepherds of the scene. Based now in Asheville, North Carolina, Papadosio have dropped several fine albums since sort of revitalizing themselves on 2012’s double-disc T.E.T.I.O.S. This year’s release, Pattern Integrities, strips things down to eight tracks, but each of them packs a polyrhythmic punch. Opener “Each and Every Wave” courses through a variety of moods and atmospheres — with wobbly bass lines keeping things fun — while tunes like “Mr.

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Turtle’s Cloud Kingdom” and “Drift” evoke chilled-out summer days (and, not for nothing, the trippy sonic landscapes of classic video games).

(Eric Sandy) 8 p.m., $18 ADV, $20 DOS. House of Blues.

Jerome Jennings All-Star Quintet: Born and raised in Cleveland, drummer Jerome Jennings, who currently lives in New York, has built a fantastic resume over the past decade. He studied at Ohio State and Rutgers, and earned his master’s degree at Juilliard. Currently, he’s working with the Christian McBride Trio as well as groups led by Craig Handy, vocalist Paula West, and trumpeter Bria Skonberg. He’s just released a vibrant new album, The Beast, and comes to town tonight to play a release party. (Jeff Niesel) 8:30 p.m., $25. Nighttown.

Morrissey: When singer extraordinaire Morrissey first arrived on the scene back in the ’80s with the post-punk band the Smiths, he came off as a throwback. With his crooning vocals, his James Deaninspired haircut and his contrarian opinions, the dapper frontman was the anti-rock star. He was simply too articulate and too well-kept.

Flash-forward to the present day and Morrissey seems even more out of sync. While many pop stars sing to backing tracks, Morrissey simply sings. And he shows little emotional restraint, gesturing dramatically during live performances with no regard for the fact that those gestures might be better suited to the opera. And yet, that’s what makes him even more of a singularity in the pop world. Last year in front of a capacity crowd at the Akron Civic Theatre, he lived up to the billing as a pop/rock icon in a league of his own. (Niesel) 8 p.m., $29.50-$89.50.

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Annual Holiday Stomp with the Walking Clampetts and the Numbers Band: 8 p.m., $30. The Tangier.

Brave Girls: 9 p.m., free. Happy Dog. Mary Bridget Davies/Ryan Sudick: 8 p.m., $20 ADV, $22 DOS. Music Box Supper Club.

Ekoostik Hookah/Rumpke Mountain Boys: 8 p.m., $19. Odeon.

God Save the Kinks (in the Supper Club): 8 p.m., $10. Music Box Supper Club.

Magic City Tape Release/Straight Arrows/Obnox/Shagg: 9 p.m., $5.

Now That’s Class.

Mushroomhead — Annual Black Friday Show: 6 p.m., $20. The Outpost.

Myth & Company Album Release/ Mason District/Altered Generation: 9 p.m., $5. Beachland Tavern.

Nostalgia Cleveland: 9:30 p.m., $5.

Brothers Lounge.

Shout! Motown and More!: 8:30 p.m., $5. Vosh Club.

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

Nighttown.

Thanksgiving Hangover with the Village Bicycle/Extra Medium Pony/Forager: 9 p.m., $5 ADV, $10 DOS. Beachland Ballroom.

Throw Shade EP Release/The Del Rios/Brain Wave/The Beyonders: 9 p.m., $8. Grog Shop.

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Jerome Jennings All-Star Quintet: 8:30 p.m., $25. Nighttown.

Reverend Horton Heat/Unknown Hinson/Nashville Pussy/Lucky Tubb: Always a fun and energetic show, Reverend Horton Heat continues to spread the good word of psychedelic surf-rockabilly madness.

The band — fronted by the Reverend

himself, Jim Heath — hasn’t dropped a new full-length since 2014’s REV, but no matter: That album and the rest of the band’s catalog represents a timeless sound on the fringes of rock ’n’ roll.

And with respect to that catalog, it’s a deep trip. The Reverend’s 1990s output remains some of the finest and most fun rock in a decade mostly known otherwise for crestfallen grunge and indie rock. This stuff’s in a class of its own (dig early tunes like the rough-and-tumble “Wiggle Stick” and “Psychobilly Freakout”). Bring your dancing shoes. (Sandy) 8 p.m., $26. Beachland Ballroom.

Allman Brothers Tribute by Revival: 8:30 p.m., $15 ADV, $17 DOS. Music Box Supper Club.

Autumn Encore 2 with the Moxies/ New Moon Rising/Window Dogs/ High Class Criminals/Theta Waves/Steadyfire/White Buffalo/ Sun Met the Moon/Bad Wolfe/ Bull Fighter/Johnny in the Grave: 5:30 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. The Agora Theatre.

Bottom Line Motown and More!: 9 p.m., $5. Vosh Club.

Disco Paradiso Vol. 3 (in Club Atlantis): 8 p.m., $7. Now That’s Class.

Fayrewether: 9:30 p.m., $15.

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Ital/Cindy Mackay: 9 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Grog Shop.

The Modern Day Rat Pack Starring Dom and Russ: 8 p.m., $25. The Tangier.

Moxie Collect: 9 p.m., $5. Happy Dog. Pretenders/Time Cat: 8 p.m., $37.50$75. E.J. Thomas Hall.

Slaughter Beach Dog/Abi Reimold/ Meridian/Ulysses (in the Locker Room): 7 p.m., $10 ADV, $12 DOS. Mahall’s 20 Lanes.

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By Jeff Niesel MEET THE BAND: Terry Campbell (guitar, harmonica, lead vocals, songwriter), Evan Stone (lead guitar, backup vocals), Justin Chambers (bass, backup vocals) and Steve Deurlein (drums) A GLIMMER OF SUCCESS: The band began recording back in 2012 as Campbell, who was playing solo, recorded one album by himself and self-released it. In the wake of its release, he put a band together with a little help from Stone. Prior to forming New Moon Rising, the two had gone to the same high school together and jammed on occasion. Stone helped him put a band together and then Stone ofďŹ cially joined the band. After a â&#x20AC;&#x153;great summerâ&#x20AC;? of playing Cleveland bars, the group started writing new music and released its second full-length, 2014â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bohemian Nervosa. It recorded that album at Suma Recording in Painesville with engineer Paul Hamann and mixer Jim Stewart. To support the release, the band played acoustic shows as a duo before expanding to a quartet.

The group had what it refers to as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;glimmer of successâ&#x20AC;? in 2015 when one of its songs was played in the background of American Idol.

WHY YOU SHOULD HEAR THEM: The band intentionally deďŹ es categorization and draws equally from the reggae-tinged rock of Jack Johnson and from indie rock acts such as My Morning Jacket.

Its latest effort, Surreal, represents the second in a series of three EPs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We knew we had some good songs and we went into the studio and it was fun, but there was pressure and a lot of work as well,â&#x20AC;? Campbell

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says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We wanted to get the songs to sound like we wanted them to sound. It took us two months and sometimes one or two of us would go in and record. It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like the ďŹ rst EP when all four of us were in the studio. Working in the studio isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t my favorite thing in the world to do because youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re on a crunch for time. We captured the songs the way we wanted them to do. A lot of our songs sound very different from each other. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re very eclectic and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just what comes out.â&#x20AC;? The songs on this EP tend to be on the â&#x20AC;&#x153;slower side.â&#x20AC;? The title track features falsetto vocals and a jazzy guitar riff. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just want to write something that feels good and sounds good,â&#x20AC;? says Stone. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll bring rhythm guitar and melody to the band and they help me see the songs in a different light. The title track was actually written over the past couple of years. Some of the songs are acoustic demos that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had for two years.â&#x20AC;? Attending a Pigeons Playing Ping Pong and Vibe & Direct concert earlier this year helped give the album some direction. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We jammed on â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Surrealâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; to warm up and what you heard on the album came out organically,â&#x20AC;? says Stone. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We just wanted to have fun with it.â&#x20AC;?

WHERE YOU CAN HEAR THEM: facebook.com/newmoonrisingmusic WHERE YOU CAN SEE THEM: New Moon Rising performs as part of Autumn Encore, which takes place at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 26, at the Agora Ballroom and Theatre.

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Well, it turns out he’s into soft vore.

I’m not gonna lie, I was a bit put off, but of course I didn’t tell him. I started looking for information about his fetish, and it’s not as uncommon as I thought. I stumbled upon many websites for like-minded people, and my understanding of it is that vores really long for intimacy and protection. Is my interpretation correct? Also, after learning about it, I realized it’s less extreme than some of the stuff we usually engage in, like heavy BDSM, so I want him to feel fulfilled. Is there any way I can help him “act out” his fetish? He would like to be the eatee.

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Company (where they can sneak in after hours and repurpose vore-scale Muppets) in order to get off.

Before you can determine which way to go — assuming your boyfriend wants to “act out” his fantasies in the first place — you’ll have to get more details. Is he into the intimacy and protection aspects of vore? Is it an extension of a mouth and/or pregnancy fetish? Does an interest in bondage factor in? Learning more about what gets him going — besides the whole being eaten alive thing — is the first step.

Once you know exactly what turns him on, begin your explorations with role-play and dirty talk. Ramping things up slowly is always a good idea with varsitylevel kinks, so try sexting each other and/or creating dirty vore stories together over email. If your boyfriend wants to get physical, start with mouthy things like biting, licking, sucking, etc., combined with dirty talk about digesty things like chewing, swallowing, gastric juicing, etc. If everything goes well, you try to bring his fantasies to life using props, costumes, and stage blood.

Try zipping him up in a sleeping bag to simulate being in a stomach — filling it with a gooey liquid will make it feel more like the inside of some fantastical beast — but be careful not to smother him if you do “full enclosure.” (Smothering someone to death, intentionally or unintentionally, is bad. #TheMoreYouKnow) Finally, I want to commend you for not freaking out when your boyfriend shared his kink. You listened calmly, you did research, and you gave it some thought. For that, I’m upgrading your GGG card to platinum.

“Does an interest in bondage factor in? Learning more about what gets him going besides the whole being eaten alive thing — is the first step.”

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